Novels of Talented Scholars and Beauties: Fate in Dreams (part 2)

About This Novel

"Five Beautiful Destinies in Dreams" is a vernacular novel about talented people and beauties written by Li Xiuxing in the Qing Dynasty. It is also known as "Five Beautiful Destinies in Dreams" and was written during the Yongzheng and Qianlong years of the Qing Dynasty. This book is worth reading for readers who are interested in ancient novels about talented men and beauties. The father of the protagonist Wu Ruisheng, a talented man, dreamed that an old man gave him a poem, saying that Wang Ruisheng's marriage was contained in the poem. The poem goes: "The fairy was born in the southern country, and the plum blossom girl is a relative; there are three lights and two darkness, and they all belong to the five-person line." Ruisheng followed his father's order and traveled south, where he met Duiqiong, Cuijuan, Lanying, and Suyan. After becoming a Jinshi, he got Shunhua, who had three wives and two concubines, and they met in a dream. The novel is set against the backdrop of Yan Song's political chaos during the Zhengde and Jiajing years of the Ming Dynasty. Four of the five women were exiled and suffered hardships, and after going through twists and turns, they were reunited. "Destiny in a Dream" is cleverly conceived, using a dream to lead the whole story. The four lines of poetry in the dream also become hints and predictions for the development of the plot. This point even had a positive impact on later generations of novels about gifted men and beautiful women, and was borrowed from "A Dream of Red Mansions". The structure of the book is rigorous and dense; the events and characters written are as if they were there and the images are vivid. The writing is simple and interesting, with endless aftertaste, making it hard to put down after reading it. The stories in the book are vivid and the language is concise and popular. The structural arrangement, character creation, and expression of thoughts and plots are all unique and unique. They are highly readable and suitable for recreational reading.

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