Dream of the Red Chamber: Daiyu and Baochai Switch Bodies

[1. A Moonlit Mirage]

The dawn mist lay softly over the Grand View Garden, and birdsong rang out, as though everything were just as it had always been. Yet an unusual stillness filled the Hall of All Fragrances. Xue Baochai slowly opened her eyes. Before her were the familiar bed curtains and familiar furnishings, but an indescribable sense of strangeness rose in her heart. She tried to sit up, only to find her movements sluggish and weak, as if bound by some invisible force. This body was too light, as fragile as glass that might shatter at a touch, nothing like her formerly plump and healthy self. Baochai instinctively raised a hand to rub her brow, but...