Before transmigrating, Zhu Yu was an office worker who put in overtime until nine-thirty every night.
After transmigrating, he became a penniless university student in the Great Ming Empire.
History had taken a different turn here: Emperor Chongzhen had escaped death at Coal Hill and prolonged the Ming dynasty by three hundred years. The empire survived into the modern era. The emperor wielded real power, the cabinet managed the administration, and global powers watched hungrily from the sidelines. As for Zhu Yu, his true identity was the crown prince, secretly hidden among the common people by the late emperor for twenty years.
All he wanted was to coast through graduation and find an easy job.
Until one day, a group of men in black dragged him out of the university cafeteria. The late emperor had been assassinated, and Zhu Yu was the sole heir.
On the day of his enthronement, his uncle tried to seize the throne in the Hall of Supreme Harmony. Western reporters broadcast the scene around the world, and everyone thought the young man, who could barely recite the morning court proceedings, was just a puppet emperor meant to tide them over.
Then Zhu Yu quietly opened the exclusive “Hongwu Mandate System” for transmigrators.
Electromagnetic cannon technology? Unlocked with his first sign-in after ascending the throne.
Stealth fighter blueprints? Earned by completing an anti-corruption mission.
Phased-array radar? Unlocked by completing a national destiny mission.
Quantum-encrypted communications? Won by taking down a traitor in the court.
The prime minister of the cabinet stood three meters away, blocking his path with the constitution: “Your Majesty, royal expenditures must be subject to congressional oversight.”
Zhu Yu slapped the test report for the Tiangong-1 radar on the desk. “This thing lets our aircraft lock onto enemies beyond visual range. Tell me, which article of the constitution can shield a pilot from a missile?”
A story about a modern office worker who transmigrates into the role of the last emperor and uses his System’s technology tree to take on foreign powers’ blockades, court intrigue, and secret royal struggles.
