 Liu Yao is a minor character in the 14th-century historical novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", which romanticises the events in the late Eastern Han dynasty and Three Kingdoms period.He appears in Chapter 15 and is depicted as an incompetent warlord in the Jiangdong region.He forms an alliance with two other Jiangdong warlords, Wang Lang and Yan Baihu, to counter an invasion by the warlord Sun Ce.