YuLiang

YuLiang is the slash ship between Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms fandom.

Zhuge Liang's arrival at Eastern Wu
When Zhuge Liang first arrives at Eastern Wu, he advises Sun Quan to order Zhou Yu back to help Eastern Wu. Sun Quan agrees, and Zhou Yu arrives later the next day.

The first time they meet, Zhou Yu is impressed by Zhuge Liang's talent and wishes that someone like him would be able to help the Eastern Wu to fight Cao Cao. However, he first feigns that he doesn't want to fight Cao Cao, so Zhuge Liang suggests that he sens his wife, Younger Lady Qiao, over to Cao Cao in order to stop his attacks. Zhou Yu is enraged and advises Sun Quan to no surrender to the enemy.

Later, Zhou Yu talks to Zhuge Jin, Zhuge Liang's older brother. He asks Zhuge Jin to go over and convince his younger brother to work for Eastern Wu. However, Zhuge Jin returns empty handed, and Zhou Yu starts to hate Zhuge Liang.

Zhou Yu sends Zhuge Liang on a dangerous mission- go to burn Cao Cao's stockpile of food. Zhuge Liang knows that Zhou Yu is trying to harm him and does not refuse the offer. However, Zhuge Liang does mention to Lu Su that Zhou Yu only knows how to battle on the water, further enraging Zhou Yu. This makes Zhou Yu want to go and burn Cao Cao's stockpile, but Sun Quan prevents hi from doing so.

Borrowing arrows with straw boats
One day, Zhuge Liang mentions to Lu Su that Zhou Yu should be happy, because he killed the most skilled fighters that specialize in water battle. Lu Su reports this to Zhou Yu, who has already vowed to kill Zhuge Liang.

Fanon
YuLiang is not a popular ship, mainly because they are portrayed as enemies and have mentioned on multiple occasions how much they want to kill each other. XuanLiang and YunLiang are the main rivals of this ship.

The two are known for being enemies, with Zhou Yu even commenting, "If you had me, then why did you choose Zhuge Liang!" Many fans like this ship because they like rivals to lovers or because they think that Zhuge Liang is playing hard to get with Zhou Yu.

The ship currently has 41 fanfictions on AO3.

Fandom
FAN FICTION

Trivia

 * Zhuge Liang referred to Zhou Yu as one of the only people who understood him when he attended Zhou Yu's funeral.