The Rebellious Emperor of the Ming Dynasty

This novel is complete. The author's column, "A Restaurant Has Gained Sentience! [The Seven Heroes + Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio]," is updating. "The Unfilial Emperor (Quick Transmigration)" starts in August. Please add "Help, Math and Science Have Gained Sentience!" to your reading list!

The Zhengde Emperor, Zhu Houzhao, "died suddenly" in the Leopard House and ended up in an infinite-flow world.

Years later, he retired to enjoy life in the 21st century, when he suddenly saw himself trending online.

"Let's talk about that tyrant Zhu Houzhao, who abducted women to keep as concubines and male lovers, then died horribly in the Leopard House."

He clicked in and found people saying he had three thousand women in his harem and was attracted to both men and women.

They said he let the Eight Tigers build the Leopard House, where he spent his days indulging in pleasure and debauchery.

They said he ruined the imperial examination career of the great Tang Bohu and even tried to steal the military achievements of Wang Yangming, the sage of the ages.

They said he made himself General Who Guards the Nation, changed his name to Zhu Shou, and went on secret tours to chase women.

They said his Imperial Guards selected people by their looks rather than their character, keeping pretty boys like Qian Ning and Jiang Bin around...

Flip the table!

The soda in his mouth had turned to a bellyful of rage, and his game was no fun anymore. He could no longer keep the lid on his coffin!

So what if they were bullying me because I had no son to inherit the throne, and because I offended those scholars... Wait, the History of the Ming was compiled by the Qing's queue-wearing faction!

They stole my realm, slaughtered my people, and still called me a tyrant. This is simply intolerable!

I'm going back right now to show you what a tyrant really is!

Reborn as a six-and-a-half-year-old, little Zhu...

While other princes plotted and schemed for the throne, he just played around and somehow became an unruly emperor.

Little Crown Prince: Father, I'll help you stay healthy and live longer. If you rule for a few more years, I can spend a few more years taking it easy. Riding horses and fighting battles as a great general sounds so impressive. Being emperor is exhausting, and one little mistake could get me cursed as a tyrant for the ages...

Emperor Hongzhi: Son, seeing how clever (fierce), capable (cruel), and effective (violent) you are puts my mind at ease. To stop your troublesome, brother-obsessed mother from dragging the whole family into chaos, I'll abdicate and go live as an ordinary couple with her. The throne is yours!

Other families have fathers and sons turn against each other over the throne. In ours, father and son are fighting to run away with it

Reading note: Alternate history, a carefree wish-fulfillment power fantasy. Everything is arranged to serve the plot. This is not official history, so please don't nitpick the historical details. Thank you.

Upcoming 1: "The Unfilial Emperor (Quick Transmigration)"

Confucius said: "If, for three years, a son does not alter his father's ways, he may be called filial."

"Of the three forms of unfilial conduct, having no heirs is the worst..."

Since you've transmigrated and become an emperor, why keep making yourself miserable?

A bold life begins with becoming an unfilial emperor:

Reform as soon as you take the throne. Making the country rich, strengthening the military, and developing infrastructure are the right way forward.

No sons? You still have daughters. Wouldn't it be great to establish an empress?

[Emperor Xiaozong of Song] You be your Wanyan Gou, and I'll be my Zhao Buxiao. First, clear Yue Fei's name and launch a northern campaign.

[Emperor Xiaozong of Ming] You love your Consort Wan, and I'll stand by my Empress Zhang. First, establish monogamy.

[Emperor Hui of Han] You be your great hooligan, and I'll be my little literary youth. First, appease Mother Empress and protect my younger brothers.

[Emperor Xiaowen of Wei] You build your ten-thousand-Buddha sect, and I'll change into Han Chinese clothes. First, move the capital.

[King Xiaocheng of Zhao] You give away your He Shi Bi, and I'll take my seventeen cities. First, teach Zhao Kuo to turn paper cutouts into soldiers.

More to come...

Currently updating: "A Restaurant Has Gained Sentience! [The Seven Heroes + Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio]"

Bai Xiaofan transmigrates and becomes the greatest restaurant in the Song Empire... and a spirit!

As a spirit, all he has to do is lie flat to get food and drink, admire beauties, and listen to music every day. What could be better?

I could live like this for ten thousand years!

Until one day, a carrier pigeon delivered a letter:

SOS! Help, Second Sister! An old monster kidnapped me!

From: My little sister, Lan Ruo Temple

o(╯□╰)o Surely the old monster who kidnapped you isn't called Granny?

And if I'm the second sister, who's the eldest? Don't tell me her surname is Xuan Yuan and her given name is Tomb?

His peaceful, carefree days were gone for good, and the sweet, food-and-drink slice-of-life story took a sharp turn.

The beauty in the painting on the wall sobbed in the middle of the night, and the water flooded three floors.

A dead duck in the kitchen sprang to life and tore the place apart with its claws.

A mouse under the floorboards suddenly turned into a handsome man. What happened next is indescribable.

An old locust tree in the courtyard split open and gave birth to nine babies, insisting they were mine...

Pah! I'm just an ordinary little restaurant. How could I make people... or trees get pregnant and give birth?

I won't listen, I won't listen. All ghosts, begone!

But then the legendary Bao Qingtian, who judged people by day and ghosts by night, sent Guard Zhan with a summons...

Bai Xiaofan, do you know what crime you've committed?

Having children and failing to raise them is abandonment, a crime punishable by death!

The miraculous paternity test by Zhan Meow Meow revealed that all nine sons were mine!

Even seeing that Zhan the Cat was a real cat, and the Five Rats were real rats, couldn't make up for the damage to my wallet!

And so, nine monster sons chased after me, calling me Mom.

Each one ate more than the last, and every one of them wrecked the house.

I can't afford to raise you! Go find your real dad!

The little ones said, "Dad isn't in your fish tank?"

Bai Xiaofan: (⊙o⊙)... Y-you don't mean the arowana in the tank?!

Some Dragon: I'm a dragon, not a fish.

Theme: A prosperous nation and a strong country built through infrastructure