Three Kingdoms: An Eighty-Year-Old Elder Takes Charge of Liu Bei from the Start

A lighthearted, age-defying twist on the Three Kingdoms era—where the revival of Han falls to an unlikely duo: a teenage Liu Bei and his eighty-year-old granduncle. Liu Bei’s lineage is well known: his grandfather Liu Xiong, his father Liu Hong, and then himself. He grows up in the mulberry-shaded village of Zhuozhou, with little taste for books but a passion for horses, music, fine clothes, and the life of a ranger. By trade, he weaves mats and sells straw sandals—but none of that matters when the Yellow Turban rebellion erupts. “Xuande, watch your granduncle revive the Han!” Liu Bei has his sworn brothers Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, each worth ten thousand men—and yet, battle after battle, defeat after defeat, he drifts through half his life without a single true strategist at his side. Until now. Now he has one. “Leave the hot-blooded charging to the youngsters. Scheming and outmaneuvering? That’s an old man’s game.” “Yes, Second Uncle.” With an eighty-year-old elder leaning on his staff and directing the war from the rear, Liu Bei learns to build his cause in ways he never imagined. Watch this grandfather-and-grandson pair take on all the warlords of the age—and turn the tide of history. Also known as: “Eighty Is Just the Right Age to Restore the Han,” “Don’t Call Me Adviser—Call Me Second Uncle!,” and “Liu Bei: My Granduncle Makes Zhuge Liang Look Tame…”