I Spoiled the News of Chongzhen's Suicide, and Zhu Yuanzhang Drew His Blade in Fury

After living for five thousand years, Gu Chang'an, an immortal court historian, thought the course of Chinese history was already set in stone. Then, by chance, he opened a Heavenly Secrets Pavilion in the river of time.

He had only meant to make a little money selling unofficial histories. He never expected the emperors of every dynasty to be dragged through the mists and forced to share his table!

He spoiled the news that Chongzhen would hang himself at Coal Hill. Protective of his descendants, Zhu Yuanzhang was so furious that he bought an army of Han cavalry on the spot, ready to cross time and wipe out the Manchu invaders.

He told Li Shimin that the Tang Dynasty would fall to the regional military governors. The haughty Emperor Taizong then spent the entire night frantically trading Tang warhorses for modern red-coated cannons.

As the history of a thousand dynasties was twisted beyond recognition, tyrants from every era crowded outside the little shop, eyes red as they pleaded, “Sir, whose death will the next volume of history record?”