The Embers of the Ming: Supporting Shi Dakai in Resisting the Qing from the Start

The Yangtze River runs red with blood, and corpses litter the battlefield. Wing King Shi Dakai’s western expeditionary army is on the brink of annihilation, while I, a modern office worker who has just transmigrated here, am being swept along with the fleeing remnants.

Then the tattered family genealogy bearing the character “Zhu” slips from my chest

“He’s descended from the Ming imperial family?!”

In this desperate moment, Shi Dakai grips me tightly, a frightening light blazing in his eyes. “The Heavenly Kingdom’s fate is sealed, but the Han realm must not fall! Brother Zhu, you carry this banner of ‘Overthrow the Qing and Restore the Ming.’ Shi Dakai and my countless brothers will carve out a path in blood for you!”

From that moment on, history veers completely off course.

While Hong Xiuquan is still indulging in drunken revelry in Tianjing and Zeng Guofan is sharpening his blades, we have raised the Ming banner in the Great Southwest!

Rally the scattered troops, forge firearms, reclaim wasteland. I use modern knowledge to transform the army, while Shi Dakai sweeps across the land with his peerless military genius.

The Qing court is enraged, the Heavenly Kingdom watches warily, and all under heaven are stunned: what kind of monster is this new power, flying the Ming banner yet pulsing with the blood of the Taiping Army?

And I, the “Third Crown Prince Zhu,” elevated to the altar, can only smile wryly.

From the start, it’s hell difficulty. Can this mission to restore the Ming really succeed?