Great Ming: I’m Slacking Off and Cultivating, What Are You All Grinding For?

Zhu Heng, a history graduate student, transmigrates into Zhu Yuanzhang just as he begins his rebellion. Knowing that being emperor is a high-risk, around-the-clock job, and that old age means even more backbreaking work, he throws in the towel on the spot. Whoever wants to be emperor can have the job. He wants to cultivate immortality! As soon as he takes Yingtian, he claims he needs to “seclude himself to comprehend the Dao” and dumps the entire mess of military and government affairs on Xu Da and Li Shanchang. But who could have guessed that the cheap street-stall copy of The Basic Breathing Art he carries around would be mistaken by his generals for an unparalleled immortal technique? Xu Da: “Our lord is defying Heaven to change our fate. I will win him an empire that lasts ten thousand generations!” Liu Bowen: “Our lord casually sketches a capital that will stand for a thousand years. A divine being has descended among us!” So every day, Zhu Heng wakes from his “cultivation” completely baffled. Yesterday they wiped out Chen Youliang, today they pacified Zhang Shicheng, and tomorrow Xu Da's fleet is already attacking Europe? Even more absurdly, Empress Ma gets hold of his middle-school notes on math, physics, and chemistry, and somehow kicks off a magical-energy technological revolution in the Great Ming! Zhu Heng breaks down: “Please, stop trying so hard! I just want to ascend to immortality! At this rate, you'll unite all three realms!”