I succeeded in reading the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, only after listening to a podcast on it, and also putting over 400 hours into Total War: Three Kingdoms.

That said, I could barely tell you any specific thing that happens in it other than an extremely funny sequence early on where a farmer serves his lord (And I think it is either Liu Bea or Cao Cao) his (the farmer's) wife (maybe just her hand, I can't remember) for supper because he does not have any other meat, and the Lord eats it, until he finds out that it is the farmer's wife, in which he then graciously forgives the farmer and thanks him for the meal, which according to the author demonstrates his magnanimous relationship with the common people, and I am like "This sounds like he told the guy to serve him whatever meat he had on pain of death, and then he had to save face from being huge sack of shit."

And this guy is supposed to be one of the good lords.

It's an absolutely insane story though, with so many cool battle sequences.