Shisun Rui 士孫瑞

On reaching the western capital, Dong Zhuo became Grand Preceptor and styled himself Shangfu, and he summoned the officials of the Three Terraces, from the Masters of Writing down, to come in person to his residence to report on affairs. His laws were harsh, he abused punishments according to his likes and dislikes, and those who died unjustly numbered in the thousands. Records, Wei 6 §12 · 14

In the 4th month of the 3rd year of Chuping (192), the Minister over the Masses Wang Yun, the Supervisor of the Imperial Secretariat Shisun Rui and Dong Zhuo's general Lü Bu plotted together to execute Dong Zhuo. At this time the Son of Heaven had just recovered from an illness, and a great assembly was held at the Weiyang Hall. Lü Bu had the Cavalry Commandant Li Su, a man of his own commandery, and others lead some ten of his personal guards, disguised in the uniforms of palace guards, to hold the side gate, while he himself carried the edict. When Dong Zhuo arrived, Li Su and the others struck at him; Dong Zhuo, startled, cried out for Lü Bu, and Lü Bu said, 'There is an edict,' then killed Dong Zhuo and exterminated his three sets of kin. The gentry and commoners of Chang'an all congratulated one another. Records, Wei 6 §16–17

The biography of Lü Bu records the same affair as follows. Dong Zhuo had once hurled a hand halberd at Lü Bu when slightly displeased, and Lü Bu, having had an affair with one of Dong Zhuo's maidservants, was uneasy lest it come to light. The Minister over the Masses Wang Yun had treated Lü Bu generously as a strong, sturdy man from his own province and home region, and Lü Bu came to him and told how he had nearly been killed by Dong Zhuo. Since Wang Yun was at that time secretly plotting with the Supervisor Shisun Rui to kill Dong Zhuo, he told Lü Bu of it and had him act as an inside agent. Lü Bu asked what of their being father and son, but at Wang Yun's words that they were not flesh and blood to begin with, he agreed and stabbed Dong Zhuo with a blade in his own hand. Records, Wei 7 §4–5

Wang Yun made Lü Bu General of Vehement Might, and the two held the government of the court together. But when Dong Zhuo's former followers Li Jue and the others besieged the city of Chang'an and took it in ten days, Lü Bu was defeated and fled, and Li Jue and the others executed those who had killed Dong Zhuo and exposed Wang Yun's corpse in the marketplace. Chen Shou's main text does not record what became of Shisun Rui at this time or afterwards. Records, Wei 7 §6Records, Wei 6 §20–21

In his assessment in Records of Wei 6, Chen Shou said that Dong Zhuo was wolfish, cruel, tyrannical and inhumane, such that there had probably been no one like him since writing began. Shisun Rui's name does not appear in the assessment. Records, Wei 6 §96