周瑜设计，让刘备和孙权的妹妹孙尚香成亲。婚后，刘备一直住在东吴。越云按临行前诸葛亮设的计策：假称曹操攻打荆州，催刘备回去。
believing it was true, liu bei discussed the matter with his wife and decided that they would pretend to offer sacrifice to the ancestors at the river and would leave the southland under the escort（护送） of zhao yun without announcing it.the day came and liu bei and his wife headed to the river. suddenly, generals and soldiers sent by zhou yun arrived. liu bei was frightened. he rushed to the front of lady sun's carriage and appealed tearfully to her: "when your elder brother and zhou yu conspired to call me to the southland to marry you, they did not do so for your sake. all they wanted was to confine（限制） me so that they could retake jingzhou, and after that to kill me. but i came, because i admire you. today, no one but you can save me. if you are not willing, i prefer to die here before your eyes."