If Cao Cao could be given one chance at rebirth, he would certainly never have let Qin Tian go. At the very least, he would not have allowed Qin Tian to leave his ranks alive.
Unfortunately, there was already one lucky traveler through time, and it was clearly not Old Cao's turn in this world.
All he could do was accept the grim reality that Liu Bei had already seized half the realm.
The two surviving warlords, Yuan Shao and Liu Zhang, likewise had to accept this reality.
Yet compared with Old Cao, neither of them had nearly so many troubles concerning Qin Tian.
The moment Yuan Shao heard that Liu Bei had taken Jing Province, he sighed to those around him:
"I fought Cao Mengde tooth and nail, only to let Liu Xuande reap the profit. Now that Liu Bei's power has grown so great, I fear he will be hard to restrain in the future!"
Hearing Yuan Shao's words, everyone could only sigh as well, their faces grim.
For Yuan Shao's circumstances were now far better than in the original history. Tian Feng and Ju Shou remained under his command, and Zhang He and Gao Lan had not defected to the enemy.
Yet after the battle of Guandu, Yuan Shao had worried himself into illness. His health worsened by the day, each day worse than the last.
Seeing this, his wife Lady Liu repeatedly urged him to name an heir, but Yuan Shao gave her no answer.
His civil and military officials, realizing that Yuan Shao likely did not have long to live, also urged him one after another to establish an heir.
Left with no alternative, Yuan Shao gathered Tian Feng, Ju Shou, Shen Pei, Feng Ji, Guo Tu, and the others to deliberate.
Yuan Shao himself