Great Ming's Legitimate Eldest Grandson: Grandpa Emperor Makes Me Hunt Down Corrupt Officials

[No mindless plot]+ [Character growth]+ [Court intrigue]+ [Family and country]

In the fifteenth year of Hongwu, Zhu Xiongying, eldest legitimate grandson of the emperor, was supposed to die young.

But this time, he survives.

A night of high fever throws half the Eastern Palace into chaos.

Zhu Yuanzhang stands guard by his bed, murderous intent in his eyes. Zhu Biao stays at his side, eyes red, while the Imperial Medical Academy kneels in rows as if attending an ancestral sacrifice.

Everyone thinks they’ve simply dragged the imperial eldest grandson back from death’s door.

Only Zhu Xiongying knows

His survival has changed more than one life.

It has changed the future of the entire Ming Dynasty.

He is Zhu Biao’s eldest legitimate son, and Zhu Yuanzhang’s most cherished legitimate grandson.

As long as he lives, the Eastern Palace is secure.

As long as he doesn’t die, the princes will have to reconsider where they stand.

And as he grows up, the late Hongwu era, which was supposed to spiral out of control, will take a different path.

But Zhu Xiongying soon discovers that ideals are lofty, while reality can be deadly.

His grandfather is too formidable, his father too steady, and his uncles are each more capable of stirring up trouble than the last.

The civil officials keep an eye on him, the nobility watch him, and while some people in the palace want to protect him, others would be delighted if he followed the original script and died.

And as a young imperial grandson who has only just recovered from an illness, his greatest wish is actually quite simple

Survive first.

Then figure out how to live steadily among the Ming Dynasty’s most fearsome people and grow up to become emperor.

This is the story of the Ming Dynasty’s eldest legitimate grandson escaping death,

being taught by his entire family, one after another, how to be an emperor,

and then turning the tables and dragging the whole Zhu family into a new script.