The Ming Dynasty Hasn't Fallen Yet, So What Is This Nonsense About Restoring the Ming and Overthrowing the Qing?

[In the fifteenth year of the Yongli era, your last forty-two followers are killed, leaving you utterly alone... The System to Restore the Ming and Overthrow the Qing awakens. Reward: Vigorous in Old Age (Talent): For every year you survive, your lifespan increases by half a year, and your stamina and energy each increase by 1.]

[Main Quest: Return to the land of the Ming within ten days. Reward: 10 Imperial Guards.]

Listening to the System's introduction, Zhu Ming, who has just transmigrated into the body of “the fugitive emperor Zhu Youlang,” stares blankly at his young face in the bronze mirror.

“Damn it! Isn't this the seventh year of Chongzhen?”

“The Ming hasn't even fallen yet. What do you mean, restore the Ming and overthrow the Qing!”

Many years later, inside the capital.

Zhu Ming sits on the Dragon Throne, looking down at the young commander kneeling before him. One eyebrow arches.

“So you're the kid they call Wu Sangui?”