Chen Gong and Cao Cao

Author: Lu Shida
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: This book is adapted from the stories of Chen Gong, Cao Cao, and Lü Bu in Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Dong Zhuo's tyrannical rule and oppression of the people led Cao Cao to take action and attempt an assassination. However, due to his paranoia, he mistakenly killed the entire family of Lü Boshe. Although he knew he was wrong, he kept making mistakes and later killed the kind and honest Lü Boshe. Chen Gong was originally an upright county magistrate who admired Cao Cao's act of assassination and resigned from his position to follow him in escape. When he saw Cao Cao's true nature, he feared the stigma of being labeled "unjust" and refused to kill Cao Cao. Later, he helped Lü Bu conquer the world but eventually saw through Lü Bu as well. However, he always felt reluctant to abandon Lü Bu due to a sense of loyalty, ultimately leading to his own demise. As for Lü Bu, he was always known as "profit-driven, untrustworthy, and fickle." Such people, no matter how skilled in martial arts, cannot gain others' trust and inevitably face ruin and disgrace.