Liu Chen (fictional), courtesy name Zixin, was the seventeenth-generation descendant of Liu Sheng, Prince Jing of Zhongshan, and shared the same clan as Liu Bei, though he was more closely related by blood. Before he transmigrated, he was a history graduate student in the twenty-first century, well versed in the political and military landscape at the end of the Han dynasty and the history of later institutions. He took over the body of the original owner in Caiyang County, Nanyang Commandery, in 186, the third year of Emperor Ling's Zhongping era. The original owner had been poisoned by his half-brother after becoming entangled in a dispute over the clan's inheritance. When Liu Chen returned to life in the body, he was just twenty years old.
