"Father, I wanted to help you restore the Ming, but alas, my life was cut short!"
Zhu Biao looked at the battered bowl a refugee woman had given him, then was taken up the mountain by Chu Feiyan.
"We started with a single bowl. Then I'll retrace the founding road and become an emperor who founds a dynasty!"
"Don't be ridiculous!" said Chu Feiyan.
"Anything is possible in a time of chaos!" said Zhu Biao.
A few days later, Zhang Jiao raised the banner of rebellion: "The Blue Heaven is dead, the Yellow Heaven shall rise!"
Everyone wrapped their heads in yellow scarves, and Zhu Biao trod on thin ice.
"Can't you see that enormous sky screen? We need red scarves!"
Sky screen: [A Ranking of the Five Elements of Founding Emperors Throughout History: Red Ranks First!]
Chu Feiyan: "I see it! Long live the Little Sage Teacher!"
Sky screen: [Long live the common people!]
Zhu Biao's expression darkened. "I was just about to retrace the founding road, and now you've gone and told the people of the late Han to shout 'Long live'!"
Zhu Biao: Old Zhu, I'm sorry! Little Zhu is going to found the Great Harmony Dynasty before you do. Don't be jealous. It's not my fault I ended up in the late Han...
In another timeline.
Zhu Yuanzhang: "That's my good son, all right!"
Zhan Hui: "Y-y-y-your Majesty, the history books have changed!"
Zhu Yuanzhang: "Changed into what?"
Zhan Hui: "The late Eastern Han split into four states, and the four houses united under Great Harmony..."
