The Great Revival of Southern Ming with a Queen of Science and Engineering

In 2026, Lai Chengen, a graduate student at a history institute researching the history of the Southern Ming, and Zhang Xiyu, who has a background in science, unexpectedly transmigrate to the thirteenth year of the Yongli reign, on the eve of the decisive battle at Mount Mopan.

He knows Li Dingguo will be defeated, that the Yongli court will flee to Burma, and how the people whose endings have long been written in the history books will die, one by one. She knows better than anyone that so-called modern knowledge cannot conjure miracle cures, firearms, or industry out of thin air.

All they have is history from more than three centuries in the future, and one question:

If you know the ending in advance, can you really change history?

Beginning with a battle that should never have been changed, Li Dingguo, Zhu Chenggong, Bai Wenxuan, Mu Tianbo, Zhang Huangyan, Li Laiheng, and others set out once more along diverging paths of fate. Yet with every change to history, more of the future Lai Chengen knows becomes unreliable.

Beyond the battlefield lie the court, warlords, intelligence, medicine, and the human heart.

This is not a story about using modern technology to crush the ancients.

It is about two ordinary people from the modern world, in a dynasty already at the end of its road, trying to answer this question:

If the Southern Ming had one more chance, how could it survive?