Zhu Di Prayed for Rain, and a Little Toddler Crawled Out of the Cauldron

[Alternate Ming dynasty + everyone’s favorite + adorable divine girl + lucky-star fortune + hardcore infrastructure development + wish fulfillment + no romance]

A top agricultural and forestry academy’s female academician opened her eyes to find herself sucking on a pacifier, floating in the bronze ceremonial vessel at the Yongle Emperor’s Heaven-worshipping ceremony.

There had been a drought for three years, locusts darkened the sky, the Mongols threatened from the north, and three princes were locked in a bloody struggle for the throne.

She let out a tiny burp, and rain instantly poured down on Beiping, which had been suffering from drought for half a year!

The usually ruthless and decisive Yongle Emperor’s eyes reddened on the spot. “This is an auspicious blessing from Heaven! My daughter! Whoever so much as touches a hair on her head, I’ll wipe out their entire clan!”

From then on, life in the Ming imperial palace took a dramatic turn.

Prince Han, Zhu Gaoxu, who had been fighting tooth and nail for the throne, gave up and competed to lift his little sister high in the air every day. “What throne? Is anything more important than my sister’s giggles?”

The beloved grandson Zhu Zhanji became his little aunt’s personal pony and errand boy.

Zhu Nuan only wanted to quietly live like a nursing baby with no ambition.

But a few casual scrapes in the flowerbed made sweet potatoes grow with yields of eight thousand jin per mu.

Playing with a few stones produced the Ming dynasty’s first batch of cement and glass.

And stroking a piece of iron while playing with a cat somehow led her to make high-carbon steel.

Zhu Nuan, in her baby voice: “Nuan Nuan was really just playing with mud...”

Zhu Di held his daughter and laughed up at the sky. “Issue the decree! Grant my state-protecting divine girl, the eldest princess, another thirty thousand households! Then have Zheng He make another voyage and bring back everything good in the world for my daughter!”

The whole world: “...Ming, you’ve changed.”

The Ming dynasty: “No, my daughter is just incredible.”