Is “After death, transformed into a vengeful ghost to demand Cao Cao's life” true?

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Chapter 078 of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms describes that when Cao Cao was seriously ill, in the palace he 'suddenly saw Empress Fu, Consort Dong, the two princes, and Fu Wan, Dong Cheng, and more than twenty others, covered in blood, standing in a cloud of sorrow, faintly hearing the sound of demanding his life.' This is the supernatural color added by the novelist to highlight retribution; the Records of the Three Kingdoms has no such record.

Empress Fu

Empress Fu of Emperor Xian of Han. The Romance fictionalizes her involvement in the Edict in the Girdle and her transformation into a vengeful ghost after death, while her deposition and execution for conspiring with her father is historical fact.

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