I Just Finished Insulting Old Cao, and Now Cao Cao Is Here with an Army of 100,000

Li Ping'an transmigrated to the end of the Eastern Han dynasty and opened a tavern while pretending to be blind. A regular named “Old Cao” always tries to get free drinks and asks all sorts of strange questions. “Shopkeeper, can Cao Cao win at Wancheng?” Li Ping'an rolls his eyes. “Win, my foot! He'll lose a great general and even his eldest son! He can't keep his eyes off widows, so he deserves what's coming!” Old Cao breaks out in a cold sweat and flees overnight. A few days later, Cao Cao wins a great victory at Wancheng, and Cao Ang and Dian Wei emerge completely unharmed. Old Cao comes back. “What about the Battle of Guandu?” Li Ping'an says, “Burn Wuchao! But why are you worrying about this, Old Cao? You're not Cao Cao.” Then one day, Old Cao arrives in a dragon robe, leading all the officials in court as they kneel outside the tavern. “The realm is in chaos. I beg you, sir, to tell me how I can become its ruler!” Li Ping'an is dumbfounded. “I've been cursing Cao the Villain every day, and you turn out to be Cao the Villain?!”