Lone Ruler in Troubled Times: The Defective Emperor of Great Ming Fights to Survive

Before he transmigrated, Shen Du was a ruthless player in the business world, with no bottom line and plenty of tricks, fighting his way to the top.

After transmigrating, he became the Chongzhen Emperor. He had the Forbidden City at his command, but only two days left to live.

“Heavens, are you messing with me?”

“If I’d come a decade earlier, maybe the Ming dynasty could still have been saved.”

“But now? You’re sending me straight to Coal Hill?”

Looking at the eunuchs and palace maids trembling throughout the palace, Wang Cheng’en worrying himself sick, and the court officials all harboring their own schemes, Shen Du finally accepts reality.

He has transmigrated, and into the most miserable person of all.

Since Heaven won’t let him go back, he can only focus on staying alive first.

As for imperial dignity, ancestral rules, and the fate of the realm...

He can worry about those once he’s safe.

And so the Ming dynasty gains a deranged emperor who never plays by the rules, yet somehow keeps escaping death in the most desperate situations.