a fictional account of the Three Kingdoms at the break-up of the Han around 200 AD, consistently portraying Liu Bei's Shu Han 劉備, 刘备, 蜀汉 as virtuous heroes and Cao Cao's Wei 曹操, 魏 as tyrannical villains
Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong 罗贯中, one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature