Quan Ji 全紀

In Chapter 113 of the Romance, Sun Chen, Grand General of Eastern Wu, hearing that Quan Duan, Tang Zi and others have surrendered to Wei, beheads every member of their families. Sun Liang, the Lord of Wu, only sixteen years old at the time, deeply disapproves in his heart of Sun Chen's excessive killing. Sun Liang was clever enough to expose a eunuch's deceit by means of the rat droppings in the honey, but he is held in Sun Chen's grip and cannot make decisions for himself, and Sun Chen places his younger brother Sun Ju in the Canglong Gate to guard the palace and stations his other younger brothers in the various camps. Romance, Ch. 113 §2–4

One day Sun Liang, sitting in low spirits, weeps and tells Quan Ji, the Gentleman of the Yellow Gate at his side, that Sun Chen wields power as he pleases, kills men recklessly and treats him with utter contempt, and that if they do not plot against him now he will surely become a worry later. When Quan Ji says that if His Majesty has any use for him he will not refuse even ten thousand deaths, Sun Liang says that if Quan Ji will muster the imperial guards right away and each hold a city gate together with the general Liu Cheng, he himself will go out and kill Sun Chen. But he charges him that Quan Ji's mother is Sun Chen's elder sister, so she must on no account learn of the matter, and that if it leaks, the harm done to him will be no small thing. Romance, Ch. 113 §5–6

Quan Ji asks for an edict, saying that if he shows it to the troops when the deed is carried out, Sun Chen's men will not dare act rashly, and Sun Liang writes a secret edict and gives it to him. Quan Ji takes the edict, returns home and secretly informs his father Quan Shang, and Quan Shang tells his wife that Sun Chen will be killed within three days. His wife answers aloud that killing him is right, but secretly sends someone with a letter to inform Sun Chen, and Sun Chen, enraged, summons his four younger brothers that night, first surrounds the palace with crack troops, and at the same time seizes Quan Shang and Liu Cheng together with their households. Romance, Ch. 113 §6–7

At daybreak Sun Liang, hearing that Sun Chen has surrounded the inner palace, is enraged; pointing at the empress, he rebukes her: 'Your father and brother have ruined my great undertaking!' He draws his sword and tries to go out, but is held back by the empress and his close ministers. Sun Chen first kills Quan Shang, Liu Cheng and the others, then summons the civil and military officials and announces that he will depose the sovereign, and with his own hand he beheads the Master of Writing Huan Yi, who rebukes and defies him. Sun Liang is deposed as Prince of Kuaiji, and the Gentleman of the Secretariat Li Chong takes away his seal and ribbon; then Sun Xiu ascends the throne and changes the era name to the 1st year of Yong'an. Quan Ji's name does not appear again after the passage in which he receives the secret edict and informs his father. Romance, Ch. 113 §7–10 · 12–13