The departure of Xu Shu from Liu Bei remains one of the most emotionally charged and widely misunderstood episodes in the lore of the Three Kingdoms.
In 193 AD, though the main wave of the Yellow Turban Rebellion had been suppressed, scattered remnants continued to wreak havoc across the Han Empire. Kong Rong, serving as the Chancellor of Beihai Commandery (in modern-day Shandong), found himself at the center of a dire crisis.