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Plum Grove of e Cloud Forest.
Cloud forest.
From e guy who split into five.

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It's nt jt hw loyal to each other e 3 brothers of e peach blossoms garden are, nt jt hw charismatic a leader Cao Cao's, and nt jt hw greedy e tyrannic Dong Zhuo's. And of cuz, it's nt onli e Showdown at e Tiger Prison Gate or e Siege of e Red Wall tt matters.

It's a saga telling of human beings' ugliest facade.

It's abt hw Dong Zhuo was chased by Ma Teng from his hm in e west, and was forced to fight back. And hw he decided to start unifying China, seeing hw desperate its situation's.

It's abt hw Cao Cao heard Dong's true intentions in his final moments, reflected, and saw it for himself hw peasants're suffering under e current Han rule tt he decided tt mabbe Dong was right, and took things into his own hands by 1st killing his best ally Yuan Shao.

It's also abt hw Liu Bei, to bring himself to power, overturned his relative Liu Zhang who unconditionally took him in when Cao Cao became fearful abt Guan Yu's abilities and started hunting them down. And such shows hw insecure and wary Cao's for a commander of an army 1 million strong.

Barely's dere any talk abt Sun Jian, or the Little Conquerer Sun Ce (whom I personally admire for being able to defeat all his former enemies and set e foundations for e Kingdom of Wu with an army of jt 3,000) in comparison to e 1st Emperor of Wu, Sun Quan, though all Sun Quan did was stay on e throne, and ltr, married his sister Sun Shang Xiang off to Liu Bei as a "treaty" of peace with Shu. No, in contrary to hw romantic their meeting seemed to be in Dynasty Warriors, it was in reality a blind political marriage, even if it was true tt Sun did develop feelings for Liu ltr and commited suicide when she believed e rumours tt Liu was killed.

Of course, e story turns even more real and less appealing to most as sucessors of Wei and Shu turns out to be cowards in a chaotic era as theirs. Hw Liu Biao conceded his entire kingdom to Wei as its army marched through its capital's main gate without unsheathing a sword. Hw Cao Pi was nvr a warrior so he decided to turn to petty politics instead. And last but nt least, hw Sima Yi cheated e entire China out of e Cao family's hands and set up his own empire. All e while with "heroes" such as e 3 brothers and Cao Cao turning in their graves.

And e ugliest of it all's tt all these beautifying's making pple starting to admire Lu Bu for how this strongest warrior single-handedly took on all e 3 brothers at a go and fought as equals for 300 rounds b4 e brothers retreated cuz their horses were too tired to keep up with e Red Hare. Lookey here, Lu's 1st recognised in history as a proud, greedy, jealous, power-hungry, unloyal skirt-chaser above all else. He's e epitome of Pride, Greed, Lust, Envy, and Wrath.