In 196 AD, Cao Cao had not yet been able to pacify the Central Plains, Liu Bei was still struggling in Xuzhou, and fifteen-year-old Sun Quan had just taken office in Yangxian. No one could predict where the crumbling Eastern Han Dynasty would go.
Xuzhou, a prosperous land north of the Huaihe River, south of Mount Tai, and west of the Yellow Sea, inevitably became the place where the princes from all sides pointed their troops. War after war swept across the land of Qilu.
And behind these wars, who will quietly influence or even determine the outcome, and what little people will rise up in the war?
