Snow Falls on Coal Hill, but the Ming Dynasty Lives On

Three hundred years later, Lin Shen, a history graduate student, dies of illness in the ICU, but just before his consciousness fades, he has a strange encounter with the Chongzhen Emperor before Coal Hill.

When he wakes again, he has become Zhu Youjian.

It is the eleventh year of Chongzhen's reign. Lu Xiangsheng is besieged at Julu, Sun Chuanting is trapped in Shaanxi, the Qing army watches the capital region hungrily, and Li Zicheng lurks in the mountains. The Ming treasury is empty, factional strife knots the court like a web, and the empire stands on the brink of collapse.