Back to the Late Ming Dynasty as a Tyrant [Book Transmigration]

A little plug for my upcoming novels, "I Became Emperor Wu of Han’s Chancellor with a Dancing Girl System" and "Hey, Don’t Be Afraid, I’m Here to Help!" Their blurbs are at the very bottom. You can also go straight to the author’s announcement.

Zhu Cixing transmigrated into a book called "The Turmoil of the Late Ming". The male lead was still just a low-ranking soldier, while Zhu Cixing was the male lead’s first major achievement: Zhu Cixing, the third son of the Hongguang Emperor.

On the very first day after Zhu Cixing transmigrated, he was facing an imminent ceremony to appoint him crown prince. The emperor was doing everything in his power to kill him, and the court was rife with factional strife.

After he had finally been crown prince for barely two months, his father was beheaded by the Qing army. Qing troops pressed in from the front, Zhu Yujian pursued him relentlessly from behind, the people had lost faith in him, and factional infighting raged within his own ranks.

The “crown prince of a fallen dynasty,” Zhu Cixing, rolled up his sleeves and decided to become a tyrant.

Corrupt officials? Kill them!

Selling offices and titles? Kill them!

Fighting factional rivals? Kill them!

Eunuchs abusing their power? Kill them!

Corrupt officials called him a cruel ruler. The literati called him a tyrant. The eunuchs spread rumors far and wide that he, a crown prince, had humbled himself before the wealthy merchant Fu Xuan just to secure provisions.

Later, the common people praised him as a gifted young ruler, the literati hailed him as a wise sovereign, and the eunuchs said he and Fu Xuan were as close as pines and cypresses on the same mountain, a ruler and his minister perfectly in harmony.

Zhu Cixing smiled at Fu Xuan. “See? The great scholars will make my case for me.”

PS: The love interest is a devoted, fatherly type, ten years older than the protagonist.

[Please note] This is a transmigrate-into-a-book story. The plot of the “original book” differs from the plot of this novel. The main story here is about resisting the Qing. It neither glorifies nor praises the Qing dynasty. Comments using this as a reason to criticize the book will be deleted. Thank you for understanding.

A little plug for my upcoming novel "Hey, Don’t Be Afraid, I’m Here to Help!" Blurb below:

When the little cat demon Tang Qiurong, who has yet to take human form, hears that Wei Yanshuo, the man who once saved him, is in danger, he promptly decides to leave the mountain and rescue him.

He easily breaks the feng shui formations meant to harm people.

He subdues ferocious evil spirits until they fall to their knees and beg for mercy.

When Wei Yanshuo’s fortune is stolen, he summons auspicious omens to turn disaster into good luck for him.

But why doesn’t Wei Yanshuo look happy?

Ah, raising a human is so hard.

Wei Yanshuo runs into danger on a mountain. At the critical moment, a little golden cat drops from the sky.

The cat saves him, but also knocks him hard enough to fracture a bone, sending him to the hospital.

From then on, he is doomed to spend every day on edge:

A first-class protected black leaf monkey appears on his terrace, tied up in an inexplicable knot;

A second-class protected red panda kneels at the entrance to his company, begging him for mercy;

And when a first-class protected baiji dolphin shows up sunbathing on the lawn in his backyard,

Wei Yanshuo decides the world has finally gone so crazy he no longer recognizes it.

Blurb for "I Became Emperor Wu of Han’s Chancellor with a Dancing Girl System":

He was the longest-serving chancellor of Emperor Wu of Han’s reign, the only non-Liu prince of that era, a pillar of the state and a model for the realm whom Emperor Wu Liu Che himself praised. He was a sage in the eyes of the people and a Han general whose name struck fear into the Xiongnu…

And it all began with an unexpected transmigration.

System: You may already be twelve, a little on the old side, and you’re clumsy and stiff, but don’t worry. With my help, you’ll become a peerless dancing girl who dazzles the world!

Zhongli Yan: Could you start by curing Huo Shan? If you don’t fix him soon, Emperor Wu of Han is going to exile me!

…

When Huo Shan was ten, he fell gravely ill on the journey with Liu Che to perform the feng and shan sacrifices. As he hovered at death’s door, he glimpsed an immortal dancing lightly.

It was the most beautiful dance he had ever seen.

CP: Huo Shan. Younger love interest. A once-cheerful, later domineering general as the pursuer, and a versatile chancellor as the pursued.

Theme: Act decisively and boldly, with swift and resolute action.