Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao are well known beauties of the Three Kingdoms period. The two sisters very rarely showed their faces in public, but it was rumored that those who had seen them were shocked, saying that they had seen fairies. Even Cao Cao in far away Luoyang had heard of the beauty of the two Qiaos, showing how famous the two sisters were at the time.
Sun Ce led an army to capture Wancheng, and happened to hear that the Qiao sisters lived in the suburbs of Wancheng. He and Zhou Yu went to pay a visit to the famous sisters, and he joked to Zhou Yu, saying although Duke Qiao’s daughters are both great beauties, I’ll marry the elder sister and you marry the younger sister, they’re lucky to get two such talented and handsome men as ourselves as husbands!
Later, Sun Ce really married Da Qiao and Zhou Yu married Xiao Qiao.
Both couples had deep feelings between husband and wife, but unfortunately these two couples’ love could not last for a long time.
Da Qiao and Sun Ce had been married for a year when Sun Ce was injured by an assassin. She cared for him throughout the night, but Sun Ce finally was unable to recover and died at the age of 26. Da Qiao was heartbroken with grief and nearly threw herself into the river, but was stopped. She recalled that as he was dying, Sun Ce asked her to look after his younger brother Sun Quan. This dispelled her thoughts of following her beloved to the grave, and she did her best to support Sun Quan until he became emperor and found a suitable empress, thereupon retreating to live in seclusion.
Xiao Qiao was a little bit better compared to her elder sister. She was happily married to Zhou Yu for eleven years, but Zhou Yu’s lifespan was also short, dying at the age of 36. Xiao Qiao at the time was a little past 30, and did not follow her elder sister’s thought of dying for love, but she was certainly also very sad in her heart.
Although the two sisters were great beauties, they both became young widows. To marry great heroes like Sun Ce and Zhou Yu, it’s difficult to say if they were lucky or unlucky.
Xie Mingzhe’s impression of Da Qiao was of a dignified and gentle lady who handles matters relatively prudently. Because she is Sun Ce’s widow, Wu State’s generals treated her with respect. Sun Quan, the Lord of Wu State, also deferentially called her “elder sister-in-law” when he saw her. Xiao Qiao is more lively and cute, her eyes revealing the cleverness of an old ghost.
For the images on the cards, Xie Mingzhe intends to draw Da Qiao as a dignified beauty, and Xiao Qiao as a quick-witted little sister. Both sisters have high appearance value, but their temperaments are clearly different.
Xie Mingzhe had a beautiful image of the day Sun Ce, Zhou Yu, Da Qiao, and Xiao Qiao first met from a TV drama of the Three Kingdoms. The two sisters sat in a mountain forest, playing the qin together. The sound of the qin, like running water, spread to Sun Ce and Zhou Yu’s ears, as if it were the voice of the forest.
Both Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao are very proficient in music.
That being the case, the two sister’s weapons can be set as guqin, and their support skills will use the sound of the guqin as a medium.
He wants to make Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao paired support cards. The sisters will have one single healing skill and one group healing skill, and one single control skill and one group control skill, and then add a linkage skill. Then, not only does the Eastern Wu Arson Group have Da and Xiao Qiao to assist, if he later makes Wei State and Shu State card groups, when they lack healing, he can directly transfer Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao over.
This type of sisters support combination can be said to be versatile, and can be used alongside any deck.
Zhou Yu is a group attack card, so Xie Mingzhe intends to make Xiao Qiao a group healing card.
The skills are launched via the qin. The first skill is a qin music buff effect. Allies within range will recover health, an instant group healing skill that can stabilize the whole group’s health at a crucial moment. The second skill is an offensive qin song, causing hostile targets to be caught up in a controlled state.
Which song does Xiao Qiao play? Naturally it is the song personally composed by her husband Zhou Yu, 'Song of the Long River'.
Aside from being a general, Zhou Yu was also a musician.
It is said that he was proficient in music from a young age. Even when he is drunk, when other people play a wrong note, he will turn his head to glance at the other. His meaning is, “You played wrong”. Thus, there were tales of “the music has a mistake Zhou Lang Gu”.
The songs he composed ought to have been many, but the only one remaining to be handed down to later generations is 'Song of the Long River'. Because Xie Mingzhe quite liked the character Zhou Yu, at that time he went online to search for relevant information. It is said that after Zhou Yu and Xiao Qiao married, they often went to the river bank together and sang “Song of the Long River”. The theme of the song is lamenting a short life and failed ambitions. It is a sad and poignant song.
In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang also played this song, mainly in order to anger Zhou Yu.
Unfortunately, it’s impossible for Zhou Yu’s song to appear in the system of the Star Card world, and Xie Mingzhe also does not have the ability to give Zhou Yu’s composition. When Xiao Qiao’s skills are released, the system will definitely produce random qin music, but more work can be put into the skill description.
After thinking about everything, Xie Mingzhe connected to the card making system to make a Xiao Qiao card.
After pouring in his mental power, a young beauty with a graceful figure and a clever look in her eyes slowly appeared on the card. She had long hair, held a guqin in both hands, and when she bent her lips into a smile, cute dimples appeared on her cheeks.
Xiao Qiao (gold)
Level: Level 1
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Evolution Star Rating: ★
Number of Uses: 1/1
Basic Attributes: Health 700, Attack 400, Defense 200, Agility 20, Critical Chance 30%
Additional Skill: Beginning Marriage (Xiao Qiao plays the guqin to let out a joyous melody. All allies within a 23 meter radius receive a morale boost from the guqin music. The group restores life according to 100% of Xiao Qiao’s attack power, and receives a 200% boost to critical attack, cooldown 30 seconds.)
Additional Skill: Song of the Long River (Xiao Qiao laments that her husband is short lived, failing to achieve his great aspirations. The sound of the qin is sorrowful and heartbreaking. After hearing the sound of the qin, all enemy targets within 23 meters will sink into silence, unable to release skills for 3 seconds, cooldown 30 seconds.)
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Two skills, two different tones of the qin music, reflect Xiao Qiao’s mentality at different periods.
'I imagine the year when Gongjin had just married Xiao Qiao, His bearing radiating a gallant spirit' – this is a poem written by Su Shi to commemorate the Battle of Chibi. The just married Xiao Qiao’s heart is full of joy, and she plays the qin to heal all of her teammates. After Xiao Qiao’s husband’s death, her mood is inconsolably sorrowful. She recalls Zhou Yu’s Song of the Long River and plays a tragic song on the qin, causing the enemy to fall silent in memory of Gongjin’s untimely death.
Xiao Qiao is a typical group healing+group control support card which can be placed in any card group.
Next there is only Da Qiao remaining.
The younger sister is a group healing+group control card, and the elder sister will be a single healing+single control card.
Powerful single healing cards can save injured teammates in critical situations. When the healing skill is well designed, it can heal a designated target right away. Metal system healing is calculated according to attack power and critical hit bonus. After stacking crits, practically every heal can trigger a crit, so you still have to clearly write “crit bonus” in the skill description.
The main question is, how should he write a single control skill?
Lü Meng causes group blindness and reduced defense, and Xiao Qiao causes group silence. These two large group control skills can give him enough time to let Zhou Yu, Lu Xun, and Sun Shangxiang join hands.
For Da Qiao to repeat the single silence, dizziness, or other single control, is totally redundant.
It would be better to come up with a new scheme.
He thought of a rumor; Because Sun Ce asked Da Qiao “Take care of my younger brother” before he died, she always did her best to assist Sun Quan. After seeing Sun Quan ascend the throne as emperor, she believed she had fulfilled Sun Ce’s last will. Sun Quan had many talented people by his side, and he didn’t need her to continue to help, so she departed alone to live in seclusion. It was said that for the rest of her days, she took only oil lamps and statues of Buddha as her companions.
Causing a card to leave the battlefield, this kind of skill, which resembles “Cao Chong Weighing the Elephant” which he made before, is a type of banishment skill.
However, a single banishment skill is just like a single instant death skill. It is classified into the category of “tactical card”, and you are restricted to carrying one into each match. If Da Qiao uses the single healing, then she can’t reuse the banishment skill. It’s necessary to change the setup.
Making the opponent’s card live in seclusion is equivalent to banishing the other side’s card. Then why not change his way of thinking, and let his own side’s card live in seclusion?
Does recalling one’s own cards not count as banishment?
Thinking of this, Xie Mingzhe’s eyes suddenly brightened. If this skill can pass the audit, then when our side’s cards are injured and about to die, Da Qiao will come to take them into seclusion, and the card will return to his hand. The opponent injured the card with great difficulty, only to find that the card disappeared, won’t they die from anger?
He excitedly linked to the card making system to draw Da Qiao.
Gradually, a dignified and gentle woman appeared on the nebula paper. She wore clothes like her sister Xiao Qiao’s and held the same guqin in her arms as a weapon.
Da Qiao (metal)
Level: Level 1
Evolution Star Rating: ★
Number of Uses: 1/1
Basic Attributes: Health 700, Attack 400, Defense 200, Agility 20, Critical Chance 30%
Additional Skill: Helping a Virtuous Person (Da Qiao followed her husband’s final wish to assist his younger brother. She plays the guqin to send out a gentle melody, allowing a designated target to recover health based on 150% of Da Qiao’s attack, critical hit bonus 200%; cooldown 15 seconds.)
Additional Skill: Living in Seclusion (Da Qiao is weary of conflict, any designated friendly card can retire from the battlefield and be returned to the operator’s hand; cooldown 30 seconds.)
After completing his design, Xie Mingzhe nervously linked Da Qiao to the database to perform the audit.
A moment ago Xiao Qiao completed the audit in three minutes, but Da Qiao’s audit took a very long time, a whole ten minutes.
Xie Mingzhe thought the system would have to apologize, but at that moment, he heard a sudden system beep at his ear. “Dear Uncle Chubby, your card design 【Da Qiao】has passed the audit. The skill【Living in Seclusion】is similar to a card resurrection skill. Resurrection skills in the game must have a cooldown of at least 600 seconds, and the system has already amended the cooldown time for you.
Xie Mingzhe was stunned, then took a closer look. Sure enough, the cooldown time of Da Qiao’s second skill had been changed to 600 seconds by the system. This was the longest cooldown he had ever seen. It can be used once in ten minutes, equivalent to once per match at most.
Chen Qianlin stood nearby, and when he heard the system notification, he somewhat doubtfully walked over to see the cards Xie Mingzhe had made.
Xiao Qiao can be considered a relatively conventional support card, group healing+group control.
Da Qiao’s skill is very strange, “Living in Seclusion” targets one’s own cards, returning one’s own cards to the hand……this is a little shameless. For example, the opponent with great difficulty beats Zhou Yu until his life is hanging by a thread, and he can soon be eliminated. Then Da Qiao uses “Living in Seclusion” and the brutally injured Zhou Yu is whisked away from the battlefield and returned to the operator’s hand. After a while, he is summoned again to be the hero.
This is considered a resurrection skill, and is not counted towards the number of cards used.
Generally in the arena resurrection skills bring cards back to life after they have died, but Da Qiao’s “Living in Seclusion” skill can be launched when cards that have yet died, but have only a thread of health remaining. Recovering the card and then summoning it again after a while without dying the first time can save a lot on repair costs.
Chen Qianlin was very appreciative of this new design, and with a voice that was rare and gentle, he asked, “Xiao Xie, are your seven cards ready now?”
Xie Mingzhe said excitedly, “Yeah! There’s still one final step, Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao’s linkage skills!”
Zhou Yu and Sun Ce’s linkage skill is called “Twin Jades of Jiangdong”, and the two ladies’ linkage skill will be called “Divine Beauties”. After all, the two sisters are Wu State’s great beauties.
It’s not at all difficult to design linkage skills. Xie Mingzhe quickly added the linkage skills to the already approved cards.
Da Qiao, Divine Beauty (linkage skill) (When her younger sister Xiao Qiao is on the field, the two sisters play a song together on the qin, boosting all allies attack power by 20% for 10 seconds, cooldown 60 seconds)
Xiao Qiao, Divine Beauty (linkage skill) (When her elder sister Da Qiao is present on the field, the two sisters play a song together on the qin, boosting all allies defense by 20% for 10 seconds, cooldown 60 seconds.)
The two sisters perform together, boosting attack and defense for all allies, it’s like having an extra support card.
Xie Mingzhe actually really wanted to link Xiao Qiao with Zhou Yu and Da Qiao with Sun Ce, but unfortunately the cards have different attributes. Sun Ce and Zhou Yu are both fire cards, and because of the strings on the qin the two Qiaos are both metal cards. Cards from different systems can’t be linked.
After he made Sun Ce and Zhou Yu’s linkage skills, he specially went to check the rules on linkage skills. Of the seven cards in the arena, up to five can have linkage skills. If there are too many linkage skills, the data can get messy.
In his card set, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu are linked and the two Qiaos are linked, this is already effective enough. It’s not necessary to add more. When his mind gets confused, he might not be able to handle the operation of so many skills.
Xie Mingzhe took a satisfied breath, then handed the seven cards that had passed the audit to his master. He excitedly said, “Master, can I use these seven cards as my first card set? Do you see anything else that I need to alter?”
Chen Qianlin looked at the neat set of cards in his hand.
All are character cards with special clothing, a very bright set of cards. Zhou Yu, Sun Ce, Lu Xun, and Lü Meng are all handsome young men with different looks; Sun Shangxiang, Da Qiao, and Xiao Qiao are all beautiful women of varying temperament.
It is a set of very high face value character cards.
Sun Ce is a taunt card that doesn’t fall short in the entire league. He rides a horse to move quickly, running especially fast. In the shortest time, he can taunt all enemies within range to focus their damage on him, soaking up all their firepower at a crucial point in order to protect his allies behind his back.
Zhou Yu and Lu Xun’s two large scale fire group attacks when used together can substantially lower the enemy’s health.
Sun Shangxiang, a single attack harvesting card, has extremely high single crit damage. By shooting at enemies with low health, she can shoot one arrow after another – kill one, add an attack, kill another one, continue to add attacks, building up a terrifying continuous fire harvesting effect!
Lü Meng has group blindness and a group defense debuff, Xiao Qiao has group healing and a group silence debuff, and Da Qiao has single healing and allied card revival.
Chen Qianlin totally did not expect that Xie Mingzhe could surprisingly make such a comprehensive card group!
This set of cards, not to mention ranked matches in the low-end arena, even if he took it to the National Grandmasters Invitational Tournament it would make the audience’s eyes shine.
The lineup has both attack and defense, whatever card group it ran into, the odds of success were not small.
The key now is to adjust the data of the card group, allowing Xie Mingzhe to familiarize himself with all the skills, cooldown times, and attack tempos as soon as possible.
Making a good set of cards doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll definitely be able to reach a high level. Players still need to be very familiar with the card operation sequence. If they can’t keep up with the reaction speed, it’s all for naught. If they run into a master, they might be unable to even release a skill.
Chen Qianlin picked up the seven cards in his slender fingers and, laying them out side by side on the console, said, “This set of cards, do you want to play with quick on the draw rapid attacks, destroying the enemy in a single wave, or hold back and slowly wear them down?”
Xie Mingzhe said, “Of course I want to play quickly!” Doesn’t it feel way cooler to slay the opponent in a single wave?
Chen Qianlin nodded and said, “Then you need to readjust the card agility values according to my direction. From high to low, in order it is Lü Meng, Sun Ce, Zhou Yu, Lu Xun, Xiao Qiao, Sun Shangxiang, and Da Qiao.”
Xie Mingzhe carefully mulled over the card arrangement his master laid out. Lü Meng first immediately used Crossing the River in White Clothes and Bloodless Victory so that the opposing group would be blinded and weakened. Then Sun Ce is waiting in the wings, ready to pull aggro at any time. Zhou Yu and Lu Xun join hands and unleash a fire attack. When the attack goes out, before the enemy regains their sight they are already bloodied. In order to avoid the other side using strong healing, Xiao Qiao would immediately use her group control, playing Song of the Long River on her Qin to cause group silence. Sun Shangxiang follows after to pick off enemies with low health, and finally Da Qiao can improve the tolerance for bad commands and protect allies from injury.
It’s a perfectly controlled output chain!
His master’s awareness is really outstanding. With such an arrangement, Xie Mingzhe’s mind immediately became clear. If seven cards are controlled well, the output chain can be easily connected and the opposite chance has almost no chance to fight, being directly wiped into the floor.
However, Xie Mingzhe still wasn’t happy as he listened to Chen Qianlin calmly speak. “For this sort of concentrated linked operation, the operator’s mental strength and combat awareness both need to be very high. Your senior brother can do it, but for you at the moment it’s still impossible.”
Xie Mingzhe: “………”
Knowing that your big apprentice is awesome, can’t you encourage your small apprentice?
Chen Qianlin followed up with an encouragement. “It’s fine, tomorrow, start challenging the arena, and practice slowly. After that, try fine tuning the attack and defense data of the new cards according to what I said. You can take this card group to challenge the rankings.”
Xie Mingzhe laughed. “Alright, Master!”
He really can’t wait, he wants to go to the arena at once and try out the power of the Eastern Wu Strong Control and Arson Single Wave Card Group!
The author has something to say:
Regarding the question of the protagonist making cards too fast, because this book is going to be a hot blooded competition of skill in the later stage, so many clubs are waiting for the protagonist to challenge. If I go according to a certain lengthy style of writing, making one card in several chapters, gathering inspiration, challenging dungeons, gathering up strangers to get in on the action, just writing the Eastern Wu card group will take a month, even in three years I can’t finish writing the book!
At present the pacing is like this, in the early stage the protagonist will quickly make cards and accumulate experience in the arena, and later on will go to challenge the experts of all the big clubs.
The king of Wu State Sun Quan will appear later. I hope everyone likes this Eastern Wu card group, mwah! : )
Translator’s Note
Hello everyone! I hope you are enjoying my translation so far! Just popping in to let you know that from the next chapter on, this novel will be behind a password, which can be found on the CG discord. I want to acknowledge that the novel at this point is in V on jjwxc (and encourage everyone to support the author there if able!), but I also wanted a few chapters to appear on NU to let users there know that this novel had been picked up. Now that Xie Mingzhe has finished his first card group, it seemed like a good point to make the transition 
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