Fan Li
In traditional stories, Xi Shi was named Shi Yiguang (施夷光). She was discovered by the Yue minister Fan Li and given to King Fuchai of Wu by King Goujian of Yue in a sexpionage operation which successfully brought down the State of Wu in 473 BC. This account first appeared in "Spring and Autumn Annals of Wu and Yue" published five centuries after the conquest, and is completely absent in earlier works such as "Guoyu", "Zuo zhuan", and "Records of the Grand Historian".