On the first day after transmigrating, Zhao Long was rescued by Liu Bei.
His transmigration perk was a bottle of cola and a copy of Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
He wanted to treat everyone to cola, but happened to run into the drunk, argumentative Zhang Fei.
He wanted to come clean about Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but everyone said it was a military manual.
With no other choice, Zhao Long read Romance of the Three Kingdoms whenever he had time.
He could copy the answers from the book, and life was pretty comfortable.
But soon, he realized that changing one thing affected everything else. Once the historical events changed, he could no longer copy things wholesale.
One day, he was surprised to find a copy of Records of the Three Kingdoms. Later, there was The Essential Techniques for the Welfare of the People...
But what made things awkward was this:
He could neither command an army nor govern a country, and he couldn’t even understand all the books.
His only contribution was bringing a few people over to Liu Bei’s side:
Lu Su, Zhao Yun (who would have joined Liu Bei anyway, he just made it happen sooner), Xu Chu, and Tian Yu.
Surely he couldn’t be as useless as that blond kid from some O, could he?
Whenever trouble arose, he’d just lie down and sleep. He couldn’t even beat a band of bandits, and had to be rescued by Diao Chan.
Alas, what a disgrace to transmigrators!
All he could do was read every day and build up his knowledge.
Only later did he realize:
As long as he kept his head down, he would keep receiving more books.
Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Records of the Three Kingdoms could no longer provide answers to copy,
but old habits die hard. He could read people’s personalities perfectly!
