Xin Xianying 辛憲英

In Chapter 107 of the Romance, when an upheaval breaks out in the city, Lu Zhi, a Major under Cao Shuang, consults the Army Adviser Xin Chang, and Xin Chang proposes leading their own troops out of the city to go to the emperor. When Xin Chang rushes into the rear hall, his elder sister Xin Xianying asks what has made him so flustered, and Xin Chang tells her that with the emperor outside the city the Grand Tutor has shut the gates, so he must surely be plotting rebellion. Romance, Ch. 107 §5

Xin Xianying says that Lord Sima is not necessarily plotting rebellion but only means to kill General Cao, and that General Cao is no match for Lord Sima and will surely be defeated. When he asks whether he may go, since Major Lu is asking him to go along, she answers: 'Keeping to one's duty is a person's great righteousness. When others are in difficulty, people may still take pity on them; for one who has held the whip in another's service to abandon that service, nothing could be more ill-omened.' Xin Chang follows her words and, together with Lu Zhi, leads several dozen horsemen to cut through the barrier, seize the gate and get out, and reaching Cao Shuang he reports the situation in the city. Romance, Ch. 107 §6–7 · 14

After Sima Yi has beheaded Cao Shuang, the Grand Commandant Jiang Ji says that Lu Zhi and Xin Chang, who cut through the barrier and seized the gate to get out, and Yang Zong, who seized the seal and would not hand it over, must not be let go, but Sima Yi, saying they are men of righteousness who each served their own master, restores each of them to his former post. Xin Chang sighs, 'Had I not asked my sister, I would nearly have lost my great righteousness!' The Romance praises Xin Xianying with a poem by a later writer: 'Xin Xianying once counseled her brother; for a thousand years, from past to present, her lofty spirit is praised.' Romance, Ch. 107 §27–28