Zhu Zhanji died, but not entirely.
After passing away at the age of thirty-eight, his soul drifted through the world for more than two hundred years for reasons unknown. He watched helplessly as the Ming fell beneath the crooked tree on Coal Hill where Chongzhen died. He watched the Qing army enter the passes, witnessed the Ten Days of Yangzhou and the Three Massacres of Jiading, and saw the people of the land forced to shave their heads: keep your hair, lose your head; keep your head, lose your hair.
A mouthful of old blood lodged in his heart, impossible to spit out.
He had once regretted killing his second uncle, Zhu Gaoxu, and betraying his grandfather's dying wish that uncle and nephew never turn against each other again. He had also regretted fathering Zhu Qizhen, that wastrel who sacrificed the Ming's entire elite force at the Tumu Crisis. If his second uncle had still been alive, how could things have come to this?
But after seeing the purgatory of the late Ming and early Qing, he realized that the regrets of his previous life were nothing compared to this.
Then he was reborn.
When he opened his eyes, he was back at the moment his grandfather Zhu Di was forcing Fang Xiaoru to write the edict proclaiming his accession. Fang Xiaoru refused, choosing death, and was about to have his entire clan executed to the tenth degree.
Looking at the unyielding man, Zhu Zhanji sneered inwardly. Whether you die or not doesn't matter, but I won't let you ruin my grandfather's reputation.
Anyway, let's review it first and support it. The introduction is worthy of five stars, because in Tomato, Zhu Zhanji is reborn, and there seems to be relatively few books that are not from outsiders and time travel. I haven't found a few, eh I'll review it after I finish it