Ravages of Time - 572/573
"Uncle Yun" is in the same frame with a sea shell 貝 (a word for "precious") Sun Shu left her "precious" behind I think Liu Bei never slept with Sun Shu Liu Shan would have no longer been the heir apparent if Sun Shu had bore a son 子以母貴 (a son is noble because his mother is noble, from Confucius) Liu Shan's mom was a nobody that's expected because Liu Bei was also a person with little to no real power but Sun Shu was the elder sister of Sun Quan, a warlord recognized by Cao Cao post-Red Cliff battle a product of the union between Liu Bei and Sun Shu would have had enough legitimacy to challenge Liu Shan and thus Liu Bei's court would be directly controlled by Sun Quan just like Treaty of Troyes during the Hundred Years' War, Henry V forced the King of France to marry off his daughter to Henry only reversed in Three Kingdoms Sun Quan forced Liu Bei to marry Sun Shu in order to exert control on Liu's court basically what was alluded in th
