Zhu Yuanzhang Reborn at Eighteen to Give the Great Ming Another Century

I, Zhu Yuanzhang, founding emperor of the Ming!

Three hundred years after my death, the wailing of my unworthy descendants actually woke me by sheer force!

I open my eyes and find myself back at eighteen, only to see that fool Chongzhen preparing to hang himself from a crooked tree on Coal Hill.

Behind him, the rebels have breached the palace. The realm lies in ruins, and the officials kneel to welcome Li Zicheng...

Good! Very good!

This is what has become of the realm of the Zhu family!

I kick away the stool beneath Chongzhen and grab the collar of my worthless descendant, roaring:

"You want to kill yourself? You think you're worthy of the name Zhu?!"

"I went from beggar to emperor, and you managed to put the throne in a tree!"

With the sobbing Chongzhen in tow, I fight my way back to the Hall of Heavenly Veneration.

Li Zicheng has surrounded the palace with a hundred thousand rebel troops?

I ride out alone and knock down the rebel army's banner with a single spear thrust:

"I hear you want to sit on my throne? Come on, ask the blade in my hand first!"

On the journey south, the officials harbor secret schemes, while the vassal princes grow restless.

I sneer: kill them!

The Donglin faction's empty rhetoric ruins the country? Kill them!

The warlords hoard their troops and defy the throne? Kill them!

I will kill my way to a spotless court and cut a bloody path straight to Nanjing!

In this life, I will not only teach Chongzhen how to be an emperor,

I will also make the whole realm understand:

Zhu Yuanzhang has returned,

and the Ming will endure for another hundred years!