Great Ming: The Immortal Crown Prince's Companion, Driving the Chongzhen Emperor Mad from the Start

[Historical What-If + Immortality + Cunning + Face-Slapping]

Good news: I'm immortal. Bad news: It's the seventeenth year of the Chongzhen era, and Li Zicheng is at the gates. Even worse, after publicly predicting the fall of the Ming, I've been thrown into the death row by the Chongzhen Emperor!

As a seventh-rank study companion, Chen Huaian watches the officials of the entire court plead poverty and play dead, sneering again and again.

"Your Majesty, do you believe the officials can't even scrape together ten thousand taels?"

"Crown Prince, do you believe Cao Huachun will shut down the cannons tonight?"

When his predictions come true one after another, the Chongzhen Emperor breaks down and spits blood in his study, while the Crown Prince kneels at the prison gate, kowtowing and begging for help!

The entire court is full of cowardly turtles, but I, Chen Huaian, lead the Crown Prince out of the Imperial Prison, step on the Grand Secretary's secret gold vault, and seize power over all under heaven!

This bankrupt Ming Dynasty? I'll take it over!