Discarded After the Job Is Done? I'll Join Cao Cao Instead, and Liu Bei Is Panicking

After transmigrating to the end of the Eastern Han dynasty, Chen Yuan had hoped to assist Liu Bei, the benevolent and righteous imperial uncle. He never expected that after his ruthless schemes won Qingzhou for Liu Bei, he'd be cast aside once he was no longer useful! To protect his reputation, Liu Bei drove Chen Yuan away, then used ten thousand taels of gold as bait to lure bandits from across the land into killing him. Fortunately, Chen Yuan wasn't destined to die. He ran into Dian Wei and talked the legendary Ancient Evil backer into joining him with a single remark! Then he met Cao Cao, who immediately asked him to become sworn brothers! People called Chen Yuan vicious and wanted nothing to do with him, but Cao Cao laughed and said: "What my camp needs is exactly this kind of strategist, someone capable of bringing the land under one rule! Unlike Jia Xu, who just coasts along." From then on, Chen Yuan took charge of both covert and open stratagems in Cao Cao's camp. At Hulao Pass, he had Dong Zhuo so rattled he couldn't sleep at night! At the warlords' alliance, he made Yuan Shu lose his composure in front of everyone! On the battlefield in Qingzhou, he forced Liu Bei into a corner with nowhere left to retreat! Years later, after Cao Cao had conquered the realm, he looked back at the corpses of the rival warlords and sighed: "Without Chen Yuan, how could I have come this far?" Liu Bei, meanwhile, regretted it so deeply he nearly spat blood: "The man I drove away was someone who could have changed the fate of the realm! What a mistake!"