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[Thorns and Finery]
After transmigrating into a book as an inconspicuous illegitimate daughter of the Rongguo Mansion, Jia Yue awakens with the family’s destruction looming over her.
Madam Wang withholds her monthly allowance? She uses modern accounting methods to put her private assets to work.
Wang Xifeng schemes to ruin her reputation? Jia Yue turns the tables and slips an aphrodisiac into Second Master Lian’s teacup.
Baoyu throws his jade and falls into a fit of madness? She stays up all night embroidering a fake Soul-Tampering Jade to keep things under control.
While everyone thinks the frail Fifth Miss is easy to manipulate, she already holds Yuanyang’s deed of sale, controls Ping’er’s tally tokens and keys, and has planted a secret move to save lives in Old Madam Jia’s medicine bowl.
Then one day, while climbing over a wall to dispose of stolen goods, she runs into the refined and noble Young Master Shen, who is hiding a bloodstained dagger in his sleeve. So his gentle, jade-like nature is a false front: beneath it is a ruthless powerbroker.
The two-faced couple exchange a smile. This Grand View Garden that devours people is ready for us to take the reins.
The writing is quite antique, but the plot jumps too fast and doesn't flow smoothly.
In fact, the writing was pretty good, but I felt it had little to do with Red Mansion, so I gave it up.