Hiya! I thought I'd try to write a new story. Dunno how it'll turn out. Anyway, this is a fictional story about the life of Yue Ying. I'm not sure how long it'll go on because I doubt I'll keep it going till she dies, unless I kill her in a battle or something. We'll see what happens. I'm not to sure where this is going myself at the moment, heh.

Note: This is totally fictional, of course. So what happens in my story definitely never happened in history and most parts probably didn't happen in the game.

Disclaimer: I do not own Koei or their characters.

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PROLOGUE START

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Yue Ying had been born on a small farm in southern China. Her father was Huang Chen Yan and her mother was Li Mei (made-up name). Unfortunately, her mother had died when she was still an infant, so she had no recollection of her. She was an only child and had to help her father on the farm, seeing as he had no one else to help him. She also had no female relatives nearby and because of this, she had no one to teach her how a lady should act. Her father did teach her a bit, of course, but not as much as a woman would have taught her.

Though Ying was a farmer's child, she had grown to love knowledge and often dreamed of one day becoming a great hero remembered through the ages. After finishing her chores on the farm, she would often go out into a field and swing around a scythe she had made improvements on. If she was able to get her hands on a book, she would study it as thoroughly as possible.

Most people in the nearby village began to think of Ying as strange. She was of marrying age, but was not married and as far as they knew, no one had even asked. She wasn't exactly beautiful, but she was still attractive. Even the ugliest girl in the village had found a husband, why had Ying not? Because of the things she did. It was pretty common for women to study astronomy and history, uncommon for them to study magic, and very uncommon to study war. Not to mention the fact that she liked to practice martial arts and her skills with the scythe. Despite this, she was still well-behaved, polite, and could act like a lady when she wanted.

A few people in the village supported her and encouraged her. They could see that she was very talented and could become someone great one day. These people began to spread word of her to other villages, and those to other villages, and so forth. As strange as it may a seem, a few men heard of her intelligence and decided to investigate. They had heard of how intelligent she was, it seemed like she was much more intelligent then them, and she was still quite beautiful. They could use this to their advantage. They began to visit the farm her father owned and ask for her hand in marriage. However, she saw through them and refused. Her father wanted only the best for her, so he allowed her to make her own decisions about these things.

Ying didn't want to marry someone who would take advantage of her capabilities, so she began to spread rumors about herself. She would disguise herself and converse with the villagers, telling them that Yue Ying, Huang Chen Yan's daughter, was hideous, but she was very intelligent and knew much about astronomy, magic, and war. She was pure hearted and only wanted to use her skills for good. It was a bit hard for her to say this about herself, but she only wanted to marry someone who respected her intelligence and not take her ideas as their own. Someone who would use her skills for good and not care about beauty.

And so this spread even further then the first round had. Many heard of Yue Ying, and many of the men who had tried to ask for her hand had stopped coming due to the fact that she was said to be ugly. But there was one man who had heard of her. In fact, this man had grown up in the same village as her, until his parent's died and he moved to live with his uncle. He knew that these rumors being spread were only partly true. She was indeed very skilled, but far from being hideous. And even if she was, why would he care? He was searching for a woman who would appreciate his intelligence and have some of her own. He didn't want some air head who knew nothing and that he would probably waste all his money on to satisfy her wants. Who was this man? The Sleeping Dragon, Zhuge Liang.

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PROLOGUE END

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I know it's short, and probably totally boring and confusing. But this is just the prologue, know? Hopefully I can make the chapters longer and not as boring later on. Cause in the other chapters it won't be explaining as much and people will actually be talking! Yeah! Okay, I gotta go take a shower, do all my homework, and study for three tests in like 2 hours, so I gots to go.