The Human Emperor at the End of the Ming: Defying Heaven and Uniting All Clans

Zhu Di, a prodigy at the National University of Defense Technology, was orphaned and inherited a fortune worth tens of millions. His girlfriend of two years, Han Yu, tried to kill him with a bowl of poisoned soup and seize everything he owned. The only person who broke through the rain to rush in and save him was Su Tang, his deskmate of seven years, who had secretly loved him but never even dared to confess. Thunder roared. White light swallowed the world, and all three fell into the chaotic final years of the Ming dynasty, when the sky seemed to collapse in 1644. The Chongzhen Emperor hanged himself on Coal Hill, and the Ming dynasty crumbled into rubble. He became Zhu Cilang, the powerless crown prince imprisoned in a separate residence by corrupt Southern Ming ministers and fed slow-acting poison day after day. Han Yu became the most favored adopted daughter in the Qing regent's household. Armed with modern strategies, she vowed to seize the empire's vast lands for herself. Su Tang became a destitute orphan amid the waves of refugees in Jiangnan, with no one to rely on and nothing left but her determination to protect him, a devotion that had endured across two lifetimes. Beginning with faking his death in a coffin and crawling across Jinling's mass graves, he gathered refugees, built fortified settlements, and trained an iron army. Trapped in a hopeless situation, with Qing cavalry bearing down and Southern Ming factionalism sabotaging the country, he fought tooth and nail to kindle the first flame of the Northern Ming. First he purged the traitors hollowing out Han lands from within, then drove out the northern invaders slaughtering the people, forging the foundations of a unified realm from the ashes. But on the day he unified the realm, he stepped into a true death trap: Defeated, Han Yu was taken away by remnants of the Immortal Realm. She slew the Immortal Venerable, destroyed the Immortal Court, and rose to rule the Immortal Realm, determined to refine every race of the mortal world into sacrificial fuel for the heavens. At death's door, he inherited the Human Emperor's Dao of Di Xin and mastered the Supreme Dragon Emperor Art. Su Tang, who had followed him at the cost of her life, awakened the ancient Nine Phoenix bloodline and stood with him as the heavens crumbled around them. With the Immortal Sovereign bearing down and the mortal world about to become scorched earth, he had only one path left: the two of them would offer themselves up and merge, cultivating the Nine-Turn Chaos before the world was formed