Yi Zhongtian, a Xiamen University professor, speculated that Cao Cao was probably trying to console himself after mistakenly killing Lü Boshe's family by speaking in a regretful tone ("heartrendingly remarked").
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Lü Boshe (birth and death dates unknown) was an old acquaintance of Cao Cao, a prominent warlord who rose to power towards the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty and established the foundation of the state of Cao Wei in the Three Kingdoms period.
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The incident was dramatised in Chapter 4 of the historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong.
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This event was dramatised in the historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, in which Lü Boshe himself also died at the hands of Cao Cao.