In the turbulent final years of the Eastern Han dynasty, Liu Qi, eldest son of Jingzhou governor Liu Biao, found himself trapped in a deadly succession struggle orchestrated by his stepmother’s powerful clan.
Liu Bei is not the most brilliant strategist, nor the fiercest warrior, nor the most cunning politician of the Three Kingdoms. Yet across centuries – through both historical records like Chen Shou’s Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi) and the romanticized drama of Luo Guanzhong’s Romance of the Three Kingdoms – he remains the…