Dream of the Red Chamber: The Bastard Son's Journey to Power

Those who held office saw their families fall into decline. Those who were wealthy saw their gold and silver vanish.

Those who had shown kindness escaped death. The heartless received their just punishment.

Those who owed a life repaid it with their own. Those who owed tears shed them all.

Revenge upon revenge is no small matter; every parting and reunion was destined.

Ask about a short life, and you must ask about a past life. To grow old in wealth is fortune indeed.

Those who saw through it all retreated into the monastery. Those who remained obsessed threw their lives away.

Just like birds that fly off when all the food is gone, leaving behind a vast, empty wilderness, clean and bare!

But in Jia Ying's eyes, this was the unworthy descendants disgracing their ancestors' glory.

Every one of them was content to idle away their lives, making no effort to improve.

What gave them the right to think themselves superior, entitled to enjoy wealth without lifting a finger?

Jia Ying had made up his mind: he would take his fate into his own hands.

This novel and its characters are purely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.