Surviving the Hongwu Era: A Rebel's Rise from Zero

Reborn into the brutal Hongwu dynasty, our protagonist discovers he's spectacularly average—every modern invention fails, his father beats him for being an idiot, and his only talent seems to be surviving another day. But when conscription drags him into the military, this self-proclaimed failure stumbles into unexpected genius on the battlefield. Now a rising soldier in General Lan Yu's army, he faces a deadly problem: his mother's family are Jingnan rebels, his father studied under the executed Liu Sanwu, and Emperor Hongwu's purges are just beginning. In an era where one wrong word means ni…