The Ming Dynasty Reborn: At Three Years Old, I Ascend the Throne and Become Emperor

The heavens collapse and the earth splits, while fate is turned upside down. Can a modern soul save the empire as the fires of late Ming China rage?

In the sixth year of the Tianqi era, the Wang Gongchang explosion tears open the sky, and history takes a new turn.

Zhu Guangming's soul transmigrates into Zhu Cijiong, the infant son of the Tianqi Emperor, only to discover that he is standing on the Ming dynasty's last drifting piece of ice...

At seven months, he speaks to his father. At one, he writes his name. At two, he debates the affairs of state.

The court and the people are in an uproar: Is the crown prince an auspicious omen or a monster?

Is the eighth year of the Tianqi era, a year absent from the history books, proof that the golden finger has worked?

When the bells of the Fengtian Hall ring in the middle of the night, the force of history's correction shatters every illusion.

The three-year-old crown prince stands in court with a sword in hand, defiantly shouting:

“I bear the name Chong, inherited from the Founding Emperor, and carry on the legacy of my father, the Emperor Qi!”

On the eighteenth day of the ninth month in the eighth year of Tianqi, a grand sacrifice is held at the Xiaoling Mausoleum in Nanjing, and Emperor Chongqi brings the vassal princes back to the capital.

Is this Jianwen reborn, or the Founding Emperor returned to life?

“Who in this realm will follow when I ask?”

This is the most outrageous journey into the Ming dynasty. When a kindergarten-age emperor collides with an empire's intractable, graduate-level problems, can diapers and baby bottles contain the boundless stars and seas of all China?