In the first year of the Jianning era of the Eastern Han, the disaster of the partisan prohibitions began. Eunuchs and scholar-officials slaughtered each other in the imperial palace, and the newborn prince Liu Yu met an untimely death.
On the day of his burial, the prince's body mysteriously vanished from its coffin, enraging Emperor Liu Hong!
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Ten years later, in the first year of the Zhongping era.
Ten years after transmigrating to the end of the Han dynasty, Liu Yu was living at a Taoist temple outside Luoyang!
At that moment, he was recounting the events of years past to a “middle-aged man.”
“Uncle Liu, I was just a baby back then. How would I know what happened?”
“The only thing I know is that my master rescued me from the coffin!”
“I heard the emperor's son died. I was probably buried alive as a companion for that little prince, right?”
The middle-aged man stared blankly at Liu Yu, then asked a question that shocked the world:
“Do you want to be emperor?”
Cao Cao and Liu Bei, standing nearby, exclaimed, “You want Brother Liu to rebel?”
The middle-aged man smiled and said:
“Why rebel to become emperor?”
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Also known as Three Kingdoms: Buried Alive from the Start, the Emperor Helps Me Ascend the Throne
