Is “Acting on his father's orders, informed Liu Bei” true?
In Chapter 21 of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao secretly ordered Che Zhou to kill Liu Bei. Chen Deng learned of this and 'returned to see his father Chen Gui, and told him everything. Gui ordered Deng to go first to inform Xuande.' This incident is a fabrication of the novel; the official history Records of the Three Kingdoms has no record of Chen Gui ordering his son to secretly inform Liu Bei.
A famous scholar at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, father of Chen Deng. The official history does record the matter of dissuading the marriage alliance between Lü Bu and Yuan Shu, but the praise of Lü Bu arousing suspicion and sending his son to inform Liu Bei are both fictional.
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