Traveled across the river to become Wei Zhongdao - the short-lived talented man who only lived a few lines in the history books and made Cai Wenji newly married and widowed.
He refused to accept his fate. He sharpened his muscles since childhood, apprenticed to the spear prodigy Tong Yuan, and became Zhao Yun's senior brother; at the age of fifteen, he fought against the peak Lu Bu for fifty rounds.
He originally wanted to be a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty. He sent troops to join the states and defended the Xiongnu in the north; he defeated Dong Zhuo, pacified Xiliang, and established Guanzhong - all the way to help danger and quell chaos, just to help the Han Dynasty, which was in ruins.
But when the Han emperor was exiled and he was pinned to the northern frontier by foreigners, Cao Cao rushed to welcome the emperor. "Hold the emperor to order the princes."
From that moment on, the word "helping Han" cracked open in his heart.
When all the heroes were wiped out and the world returned home, the Han Emperor held the jade seal and handed it to him tremblingly - he remembered what he said to Cai Yan on the snowy plains of Bingzhou when he was eighteen years old: "In this life, I just want to be a Han minister."
——Did he do it? The history books won't tell, but he will.