In Fiction
In Luo Guanzhong's historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Gongsun Yue was sent as a messenger to demand that Yuan Shao split Ji Province (冀州) with Gongsun Zan, but was killed on his way home by Yuan Shao's army pretending to be Dong Zhuo's men.
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