Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong 罗贯中 , one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature; a fictional account of the Three Kingdoms at the break-up of the Han around 200 AD, consistently portraying Liu Bei's Shu Han 刘备 , 蜀汉 as virtuous heroes and Cao Cao's Wei 曹操 , 魏 as tyrannical villains