Prince Min Zhu Pian, the eighteenth son of Zhu Yuanzhang.
His soul accidentally enters the future, where he spends eighty years amid the ups and downs of life, reading extensively through the history books and seeing through the rise and fall of the Ming dynasty over the next three hundred years.
He returns to the twenty-eighth year of the Hongwu reign, just as he is about to take up his post in Yunnan.
The Mu clan controls Yunnan, keeping a wary eye on everything; chieftains are scattered throughout the mountains, supplies are scarce along the border, and danger lurks everywhere.
He knows what lies ahead: Hongwu will soon die, Jianwen will ascend the throne, and a storm of princely suppression will sweep across the realm. Most of the imperial princes will end up imprisoned, exiled, or even dead, while Zhu Pian himself will spend half his life in exile.
In this life, Zhu Pian refuses to sit back and await his fate.
He establishes himself in the southwest, clearing land and establishing farms, training his guards, and pacifying the local peoples as he quietly builds his strength.
Once his foundations are secure, he leaves Yunnan and returns to the capital, stepping into the treacherous imperial court.
The struggle to suppress the princes, the undercurrents of the succession battle, and the fate of the realm all converge in the imperial capital.
The Ming dynasty's eighteenth prince, backed by the strength of the southwest, enters the game and contends amid the court's power struggles, seeking a new path forward for himself and for the Ming dynasty.
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