Historical biographies seem to be an a-personal, past-tense narrative except the introduction, the citations, and the comment at the end. I used Benveniste's concepts of discourse and story to analyze the texts of Shi-ji, Han-shu, San-guo zhi, and Hou-han shu, and discovered that there were different discourse narratives among the story narratives. Some discourses told the reader to refer to anohter biography if they want to know more about the thing mentioned. Some discourses explained the citation of a character's words. Some discourses told the reader why the writer recorded or didn't record a certain thing. Some discourses used “I” as a character in the event narrated. Some discourses made comments directly. All of them were written in personal, present-tense narrative. In other words, there was a speaker who wants to persuade the listeners in the text. The discourse appeared in story narratives dividing the text into two different levels. Perhaps we should reconsider wheather a historical narrative is indeed a story without discourse.