Liu Bian at the start, so you’re called Dong Zhuo, right?

He transmigrated into the body of Liu Bian, and on his first day back in the palace, he was subjected to an oral examination and had his name recorded by the Ten Attendants. Liu Bian knew in his heart: to survive in this palace, he first had to be a good actor. Instead of rushing to overturn the throne, he first nailed down the “foundation of the state”—establishing legitimacy, winning hearts and minds, and recruiting talented individuals; once the position of crown prince was secure, he would then gather the future generals and scholars of the Three Kingdoms under his command. But the real chaos wasn’t in the Deyang Palace, but in Liangzhou. There, a man named Dong Zhuo, wielding the iron cavalry of Xiliang, was slowly pushing military power towards Luoyang. When Dong Zhuo led his army to the walls of Luoyang, he didn’t see the young emperor’s panicked expression, but rather a single sentence: “So, your name is Dong Zhuo, is that it?”