King of Glory can help promote China's soft power

Mike, a US video game fan, and I got to know each other playing computer games together online. We have known each other for years and played Warcraft, Red Alert, Starcraft, FIFA, NBA, all versions of Super Mario Bros, as well as DOTA, DOTA II.

Everything was okay until we started playing King of Glory.

He kept asking questions which appeared quite silly to me: Who is Zhao Yun? Wasn't Li Bai a poet? If so, why does he carry a sword in the game? My friends say in history textbooks Jing Ke is a man. Are they joking, because she is a sexy girl in the game?