In the first year of Zhongping, the Yellow Turbans broke out, and I was just a scout struggling to survive among the dead.
Ten years later, when Cao Cao came to the city with his troops, what he saw was a majestic city far beyond Luoyang, an elite division equipped with thousands of powerful crossbows, and behind me, a row of top civil servants and generals who should have belonged to him.
He asked me: "Why are you just a scout?"
I answered with a smile: "Because in this troubled chess game, I am the only chess player!"
