The Cat Family's Transmigration Notebook: Three Kingdoms Arc, Youth at the Academy

In the Third Year of Jian'an

This is a gossip magazine about the Three Kingdoms era dressed up as a novel.

Was the woman Cao Cao kept thinking about on his deathbed not Bian Shi, but Lady Ding, the woman he had married as a young man?

Was Sun Ce's hobby not only hunting but also Go, and was he actually a master at it?

Was Liu Bei not really the imperial uncle, but someone who should instead have called Emperor Xian of Han his grandfather?

Did Emperor Xian plot dozens of assassinations against Cao Cao right up until Cao Cao's death?

Was Xun Yu actually the inspiration for Chu Liuxiang?

Was Kong Rong, whose pear-sharing story generations of children are taught, really a braggart and a coward who could only abandon his wife when it mattered?

The truth is enough to make your eyes pop. Real history is even more colorful and full of twists and turns than fiction.

In early winter of the Third Year of Jian'an, two cats from the twenty-first century arrived at Yingchuan Academy.

What was supposed to be a chaotic youth romance about a girl disguising herself as a boy at an all-boys boarding school gradually turned into a documentary-style historical drama set in the turbulent Jian'an era, a time teeming with remarkable people.

The flames of a hundred schools of thought had yet to die out, but the conflict between poor families and aristocratic clans was steadily intensifying. The upheaval of the Five Barbarians was only a century away.

In a time of chaos, should they simply go with the flow, lose themselves in the crowd, find a respectable meal ticket, and act out the intrigues of the household or even the imperial palace?

Or should they pit their wit and knowledge against the heroes and wise minds who would leave their mark on history?

There are no romantic fairy tales, no kingdom and beauty, no ruler and loyal subject who love or destroy one another, with one person beneath them and ten thousand above.

Matching social rank, forging alliances, and keeping one another in check: that is the reality of this age.

If Cao Cao ever roared, “I want a beauty, not the realm,” what awaited him would certainly not be a chorus of swooning girls saying, “I'm so moved.”

His advisers would set him straight, and his generals would beat him up.

I'm busy with real life, so the next volume, Twin Dragons of the Late Han, will update monthly. The thoroughly revamped first volume, Winds of Jian'an, will be posted irregularly. Thank you, everyone.

Volume One is being completely rewritten because it became a source of embarrassment.

Volume Three has begun serialization: the story of the Dragon Cat and Zhao Yun changing each other's outlook on the world.

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