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I watched the Three Kingdoms TV series from China. The first time I thought Zhuge Liang actually fooled Sima Yi. The second time I watched the show I noticed that he didn't fool Sima Yi with it. What actually happened was Sima Yi knew that if he captured/killed Zhuge Liang he would no longer be useful. So he pretended to be fooled by it, so he wouldn't become useless and be removed from his position of power.
Clever, I like it.
Sima Yi was ridiculously on top of shit, and ultimately, the Sima family ended up taking control of China after taking power from the Cao family decades after the death of Cao Cao. So the novelist makes him extremely brilliant, because his family ends up winning in the end.
Yeah, but putting in the code to fight him was hard, especially without any hints as to what was happening! (It's been 15 years since I read Ro3K and I rushed through it
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