Sun Fin wrote:OK... (this is a RoTK VIII story but o well...) So its the Yellow Turban campaign and Sun Fin has signed up to fight the evils of the YT. He fights well and get promoted and he ends up a prefect of a large city. And then He Jin dies. To his horror who should succeed him but the old enemy Zhang Liang. Seeing all his hard work going to waste Sun Fin rebels but after being beaten 3 times he decides to retire in disgust at the rest of China's hypocricy...

This exact same thing happened to me in VIII as well, only with my own protagonist. I had originally been apart of the coalition against YT though, as my own sovereign with my own protagonist (Xia Tzu), and watched as our coalition fell apart, as one faction after another fell victim to YT. Finally, He Jin and my own faction were the last two left, and we threw in everything just to conquer YT, though He Jin got most of the land, while as I built up from Shu. He ended up dying once being crowned king, and yes, astonishingly enough, Zhang Liang was crowned next. It was astonishing well because..it was just ironic how everyone who had fought against YT now served him (Zhang Liang's new faction had over 150 officers). I was done for, with almost every single hero available at the time from 3K fighting against me.
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster.. and if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Nietzsche