Married Woman and Cao Cao 10

No matter how much Kim Yul, by expertly weaving together the worldviews of Luo Guanzhong and Chen Shou while serializing the Cao Cao and Liu Bei arcs at the same time, performed such a feat, he still couldn't always keep the timelines synchronized.

Naturally.

The gruesome stories that couldn't be included in the official histories were dumped onto the Liu Bei arc, while the Cao Cao arc kept on unfolding political-engineering stories.

Thus, the time periods began to drift apart in a strange way.

As Kim Yul, unable to get his head straight, kept writing in a stream-of-consciousness haze, that gap began to widen little by little.

For example, in the Liu Bei arc, things had already progressed to Liu Bei being badly struck from behind by Lü Bu and turning into a whimpering mess in Xiaopei, relying on the original historical drama.

Meanwhile, in the Cao Cao arc, the part where he "protected the emperor"—that is, picked up Emperor Xian, who had escaped from the arms of the infamous killing machines Li Jue and Guo Si, and began securing legitimacy in earnest—was only now able to appear in the episode.

That was exactly when the emperor of the empire began paying serious attention to Kim Yul.

After all, how could one treat the emperor of a country as nothing more than a puppet useful for brandishing as a source of legitimacy?

At that grisly idea...