Great Ming: From Cold Palace Princess to Mother of Technology

In the first year of Hongxi, the Yongle Women's Academy opens in the suburbs of the capital.

The first class consists of thirty girls: daughters of palace maids, daughters of officials, and daughters of commoners.

Zhu Yunhua sits beneath a great locust tree, listening as a group of children recite their lessons aloud.

A little girl asks, "Teacher, what good is it for girls to study?"

Zhu Yunhua thinks for a moment. "It's not about being useful. It's so that when someone tells you, 'You don't deserve this,' you'll have the confidence to say, 'I'll do it anyway.'"

The System's final prompt reads: "Knowledge transmission task completion: 99%. The remaining 1% requires... everyone who has read this story to open the next book."