Three Kingdoms: If I Can’t Be a Strategist, I’ll Be a Ruler Instead
三国：当不成谋士，当主公行了吧
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- Three Kingdoms: When I Couldn't Become a Strategist, I Had No Choice but to Divide the Realm in Four三国：当不成谋士我只好四分天下Alternate title on Fanqie
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Could the next step be to seize Jingnan, forcing Liu Bei to Xiangyang, and then march south to Jiaozhou? This way, they could barely manage to play both sides between Sun Quan and Liu Bei, before entering Sichuan? Or perhaps attacking Wu? Attacking Wu is the most likely option. Cao Cao is powerless to advance south, and Liu Bei must enter Sichuan.
It's a great show! There's no mindless power-ups or messy systems. The characters are intelligent, their logic is clear, and they use their transmigratory advantages to gain advantages and improve their strength step by step. Superb! 👍👍
It's very well written. I hope the author can keep it up. I really enjoy reading it. It describes things from a different perspective, unlike other Three Kingdoms novels that are all the same. P. S. Xiao Qiao has already been recruited, when will Da Qiao be introduced? And Cai Wenji too? 🤭 The more I read, the better it gets.
It's actually not bad. Without a cheat code, even someone with some technical skills won't instantly become a top performer; there will always be people who dislike you. Even if you're capable, good things might happen, but then there are those like Zhuge Liang and Sun Quan who will want to sabotage you for no reason.
The process has progressed one ten-thousandth of the way, through all the dialogue along the way. Did the main character die and log off? Did Dong Bai become the main character?
Hello author, I copied your book and published it on other platforms. The feedback from readers has been very good, and the revenue is good, with many payments! I'm planning to buy a new car in the next few months, so I hope you can update more chapters so as not to affect my income. Thank you for your understanding!
Five stars all around! My child loved it and urged the author to update faster. There are four questions: 1. Can the protagonist really divide the world into four parts? 2. Are these characters the female leads: Xu Shi, Bu Lianshi, Xiao Cao, and the Qiao sisters? 3. Will the author heal Xiao Cao's eyes? 4. Even the donkeys in the production team don't get this much rest!
Having read so many Romance of the Three Kingdoms novels, this one is quite good. I finished the whole book. I'm deducting one star because the plot hole about Dong Bai and Lady Mi's child isn't filled in. Mainly, Dong Bai was just too disgusting. Even at the end, you were still hoping to kill her, but then there was no dialogue. Even a brief explanation at the end would have been better.
Come on, author, read after me. I solemnly swear: From this day forward, I will never stop updating. I will not watch dramas, travel, or get sick. I will not play games or write filler articles. I will be strictly self-disciplined, cherish time like gold, be indomitable, strive hard, pursue excellence, strive for brilliance, find joy in writing, be tempered by fire, and live up to my readers, my…
He just has to keep writing this book, he has to get people to read it, you just keep reading, it's so well written! It's fucking amazing, so good that I finished over 10,000 pages in half a day, I'm a prodigy, I didn't miss a single plot point! Great!