Cao Cao, Bei Liu, and Quan Sun are emerging as the three most powerful men in China. Each man has traveled a unique path to get to where he is, with different lessons learned along the way. Now, as boundaries and battle lines are being drawn, they must learn how to survive in a world where fortune does not always smile on the strong, and where a cruel fate can be handed down through the generations.

Original story, 'The romance of the Three Kingdoms' by Luo, GuanZhong.