The Ming Crown Prince Runs Away from the Start

(Signed with a publisher, so read with confidence)

He woke up as Zhu Cilang, the eldest legitimate son of the Chongzhen Emperor and Crown Prince of the Ming dynasty.

The good news: He was in the Forbidden City, second only to one and above countless others, The Outcast.

The bad news: The Ming dynasty would fall in two months.

At court, his father wanted to move the capital south but feared being condemned for it, so he staged a farce in which the ministers supposedly begged him to leave the capital. The whole thing was derailed on the spot by a “loyal minister” who would later be the first to kneel.

He couldn't count on anyone else.

Looking at his fifteen-year-old face in the mirror, Zhu Cilang took a deep breath.

If being crown prince couldn't save the Ming, then he would stop being crown prince.

First, persuade his mother to send him out of the capital.

Second, carve out a way to survive for himself in the south.

Third... To hell with being the ruler of a fallen dynasty. He was going to be the founder of a new one.