Three Kingdoms: Drop the Act, Liu Bei, You're One Bad Man!

Reborn as Liu Bei, he looks at his honest, kindly face in the mirror and smiles. Cry? Keep crying! Benevolence? Absolutely! But this time, everything is part of my script!

At the Battle of Guandu, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao fight to the death, both thinking Liu Bei is an insignificant nobody. Little do they know that Liu Bei “casually” leaked the information about the attack on Wuchao to Cao Cao, and that the discord within Yuan Shao’s ranks is also the result of Liu Bei’s secret machinations.

“My lord, why are we helping Cao Cao?” Zhang Fei asks, baffled.

Liu Bei looks compassionately at the world. “Yide, when the lips are gone, the teeth grow cold! I’m doing this for all the people under heaven. I can’t bear to see war break out again.” (Inner monologue: Cao, just hold on for now. Once you’re both battered, I’ll swoop in and claim the kill!)

The three visits to the thatched cottage? That was all for show! I’d already talked Zhuge Liang into joining me with my knowledge of the future. He’d rather serve me than anyone else!

When the flames rise at Red Cliffs, Liu Bei stands on the southern bank and watches Cao Cao flee in disarray, a barely perceptible smile tugging at his lips. “Kongming, what do you think of this fire?” In truth, every step of his alliance with Sun Quan against Cao Cao is part of his “script.”

Cao Cao: “Liu Bei, you hypocrite!” Sun Quan: “Liu Xuande, I never knew you were so devious!” The warlords of the land: “Liu Bei fooled us all!”

Liu Bei spreads his hands, looking utterly innocent. “I, Liu Xuande, am the very soul of benevolence. Don’t slander me!”

See how the greatest actor in history, Liu Bei, uses a thousand years of cunning to toy with the entire Three Kingdoms, before finally revealing his true ambitions and unifying the land!