After Red Mansion Is Searched and Confiscated, I Became the New Master of the Jia Family!

In 1690, Zhu Ci transmigrates to the foreign northeastern frontier settlement of Haishenwai and becomes a deposed prince exiled to the borderlands.

In this alternate world, the Ming Dynasty has risen from the ashes and adopted constitutional monarchy; the Jianzhou Jurchens have only just unified and have not yet formally created the Eight Banners system; and Russia is advancing east earlier than in history, eyeing the foreign northeast.

Before Zhu Ci can even sort out the historical background, his body is overwhelmed by an overpowered cheat skill, leaving his whole body burning hot. He can only lock himself in an ice chamber. At the same time, he uses his advantage as a transmigrator to develop quietly and keep himself alive.

Ten years later, eighteen-year-old Zhu Ci finally emerges after achieving success.

Then he meets two women: one claims to be from the Borjigin clan of Mongolia and asks Zhu Ci to call her "Dayuer," saying that her husband, Hong Taiji, is a great hero.

The other is a European beauty, who only reveals her new name before leaving: Ekaterina!

Zhu Ci thinks he must have transmigrated into a mash-up of the late Ming and early Qing periods, but this is destined to be an era of great change.

Steam roars, artillery rules, and battleships dominate the seas; this is the age of giant cannons and ironclads.

Before he can even look north again, an imperial decree arrives from the capital: the thirteenth prince is to come to the capital immediately!

Should he obey the decree?

If he goes to the capital in obedience, he may be trapped there forever, and ten years of secret planning in the northeastern frontier will come to nothing.

If he does not obey, he will be branded a traitor, lacking both legitimacy and righteousness...

In the end, Zhu Ci still decides to obey the decree and go to the capital, because he needs a rightful identity through which to officially take control of the foreign northeast.

In 1700, on the seventieth birthday of the empress dowager, the eighteen-year-old Zhu Ci receives an order to go south.

Only then does he realize that this is still the world of Hong Lou Meng, just after the Jia family has been searched and stripped of their property...