College student Fang Xu got a game on his computer. It let him control the bodies of his ancestors and change the course of history.
During the Yongle era, Fang Xu saved Fang Xiaoru. When he returned to the modern day, he found Fang Xiaoru's name in his family tree.
"Fang Xiaoru became my ancestor?"
During the Yongle era, Fang Xu drove the family of counterfeiters to Nanyang. When he returned to the modern day, he discovered that a new country had appeared in Nanyang.
"The Ming Kingdom?"
From then on, thanks to Fang Xu's changes, a family spanning six hundred years emerged out of nowhere.
Before the Tumu Crisis, he killed Wang Zhen, changing the fate of Zhu Qizhen, the Ming emperor who would become a captive of the Oirat.
When Liu Daxia tried to destroy records of the voyages to the Western Ocean, Fang Xu had him executed, preserving the Ming Dynasty's hope of sailing west again.
He was the hidden hand behind the Ming Dynasty, using his royal status to promote science and sow the seeds of new ideas.
Those seeds finally blossomed, and the emperor was no longer the highest symbol of authority. The people believed in science.
Then, one day many years later, before the Meridian Gate of the Ming Palace, the Ming emperor Zhu Youjian declared...
"I hereby abdicate!"
From that day on, the Ming was no longer ruled by emperors and scholar-officials. It belonged to all the Han people...
