My Lord, I Bore You a Little Strategist [Three Kingdoms]

Cao Cao has a useless old adviser on his payroll,

a constant drag on the famous advisers of the Cao camp.

His talented colleagues look down on him,

and his wise and mighty lord can only sigh whenever he sees him.

The old adviser has been at the bottom of the KPI rankings for years, hovering on the brink of unemployment or playing the chicken sacrificed to scare the monkeys.

Then disaster strikes back in his hometown. His old wife can’t make ends meet and brings the whole family to seek refuge with him.

Everything changes.

Jin Miao transmigrates to ancient times. There’s a drafty house, a weathered mother, a simple-minded older brother, and a sharp-tongued second brother.

She thinks she’s got a farming story on her hands.

Until her mother carries her and drags both brothers along, begging their way across the land to find their father.

Turns out she has a father...

And her father is a genuine scholar with a real job!

And his lord is none other than Cao Cao!

Well, Miao Bao just wants to lie flat.

But her father is a fraud, and Boss Cao has more important matters to attend to. To keep her father’s job and the whole family fed, she has no choice but to lend a little help.

Later...

She accidentally becomes the youngest adviser in history.

The Cao camp’s precious little treasure!

Well, all right...

Miao: Damn... Boss, don’t look at me like that. You’re scaring me!

I have a dad! He may be a little dumb and a little poor, but he’s my real dad!

Cao Cao: Failed to forcefully adopt a daughter.jpg

Plan B: How about arranging a betrothal for them while they’re still kids?

Extra Scene:

After the useless old adviser’s little daughter shows her talent...

Cao Cao: You’re very good.

Go home and work hard with your wife. Have children, keep having children! I’ll give you a hundred taels of gold for every one!

Members of the adviser corps, weeping in the wind: Being an adviser is about brains, not babies! Can we please not start some weird new trend?

[Collection of Goofy Characters]:

[Jin Tiechui: Sure, I’m useless, but my kid is amazing!]

[Adviser Corps Members: We’re going down in history for being advisers like this!]

[Jin Miao: I’m just an utterly ordinary child laborer working for my dad.]

[Jin Daniang: Don’t call me Mrs. Jin! Call me Miao’er’s mom!]

[Big Brother and Second Brother: Our little sister is so amazing! Life is full of hope! Love for all!]

[Cao Cao: To rule the realm... an adviser must have babies! ^~^]

Cute Extra Scene:

Legend has it that there was a child in Cao Cao’s camp who followed him around every day, calling him “Lord” in a babyish voice.

“Lord, I have a plan. Tomorrow, let’s go beat up that Liu Bei fellow!”

Cao Cao picked up the little tyke and flashed the same crafty, vicious smile. “Come on. Tell me all about it!”

The advisers: Could you not say such sinister, terrifying things with that cute little face and baby voice?

We could watch this for a hundred years and still never get used to it!

This is a fictional setting. No need to fact-check.

Don’t let the title fool you. This is actually a story about strategy!

Also known as The Youngest Adviser in the Three Kingdoms and The Second-Generation Adviser: I Work for My Dad

Theme: Peace is justice.