11 Wildest Assassinations During Total War: Three Kingdoms' Historical Setting
6. Fei Yi
After Liu Bei founded the new Han faction in the land of Shu, one of the ministers to rise to prominence was the unusually humble man, Fei Yi. Minister Fei was known to force his family to dress in very modest clothing and forbade them from traveling with excess baggage or carriages, and they were made to eat very plain food. It was said that Fei Yi and his family lived just like peasants.
The irony of that factoid is that during the year 251, when he was one of the most powerful and influential men in the Shu-Han Empire, he decided to throw an opulent New Year's party. During said party he got quite intoxicated and was approached by a certain Guo Xun, who had recently defected from Shu's primary enemy: Wei. Rumors were that Guo Xun desired to assassinate the Shu Emperor, but could not get close enough to him. Fei Yi opted not to believe the rumors and invited him anyway.
Turns out folks were right about Guo Xun. The defector walked up to the drunk Fei Yi, arguably the number-two man of Shu, and just stabbed him to death at the man's own party.