The Young Phoenix falls. Xuande and Cao Cao become harder and harder to tell apart, as Xuande rages and Cao Cao flounders. The South forms a stupid scheme that still sort of works. A baby is rescued, assassination is attempted, it's honestly just another ordinary day in the three kingdoms.

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