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A reference is fine, even a bonus if it's well done. It's not like I dislike the work as a whole, but there's references and there straight up plagiarism. I hope you recognize the issue here because the basic idea of your story is otherwise very cool 👍
The last three chapters are basically a carbon copy of a scene from Romance of the Three Kingdoms, specifically when Cao Cao's subordinate Xu Chu kills Xu You. I don't mind taking inspiration from other sources, but even most of the dialogue is taken almost 1:1 from the 2010 show. If this was a free fan-fic that's one thing, but I just paid actual money to unlock three chapters that were 90% xeroxed from another piece of media. Not cool 😐
Without a doubt one of the best novels I've read on WN. I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the writing but the real highlight is the consistently excellent worldbuilding. It wouldn't surprise me if this story, eith some refinement, was transformed into other media someday. Highly immersive and entertaining work!