Dream of the Red Chamber: The Unexpected Stranger

It's a very good read. There are no plot devices or special abilities; the writing is very realistic. From the beginning, when the female lead and her husband are forced to seek help from Lin Ruhai, to the series of arrangements Lin Ruhai makes after learning about Daiyu's experiences in the Jia family, you can see a father's deep love for his daughter.

The new book has few chapters so far, but it's quite enjoyable to read. It doesn't embellish Xue Baochai like the TV series "Dream of the Red Chamber," which is rare for a spin-off. Mo Wan, the modern time traveler, doesn't have much screen time; more scenes depicting her mother-daughter relationship and interactions, along with more nuanced family life, would make it more interesting and fill the gaps left by Daiyu's absence in the original book. I'm really looking forward to the new chapters…

This is beautifully written. The author truly examines the story from an outsider's perspective. Writing about *Dream of the Red Chamber* is difficult, but writing it well is even harder. Many authors who write time-travel stories like to portray their protagonists as rivals to Bao and Dai. But this article is different. It's clear the author deeply loves Daiyu.

It's great! It's a very standard fanfiction, giving Daiyu a happy ending. Some people say Xue Baochai is slick and calculating. Don't tarnish that word. Slick people steal other people's boyfriends, embroider bellybands (underwear) for them, expose their clothes to men to reveal their locks, label their friends, spread rumors and slander them, flaunt their motherly love in front of orphans, stab…

This is a great book! Why is the rating so low? Thank you to the author for changing those regrettable people and events in *Dream of the Red Chamber*; thank you to the author for not making the time traveler the protagonist, but instead quietly guiding Daiyu from the sidelines, and the butterfly effect changing the fates of many more people.

This perspective is novel and engaging. I first read *Dream of the Red Chamber* when I was in junior high school. Back then, I was too young to appreciate the poetry or understand the characters' intrigues and backstabbing. I only grasped the most superficial aspects of Bao-yu and Dai-yu's tragic love story.

I think this book deserves a score of nine or higher. Having read so many Dream of the Red Chamber fanfictions, with different protagonists and correspondingly different stances, the ending of this one is just right. There are no regrets, and while not everyone has a perfectly happy ending, each character has their own destiny, as if their fates were meant to be this way.

I'm giving the author ten stars! Thank you for giving my favorite characters, Wang Xifeng and Lin Daiyu, a perfect ending! When I first read *Dream of the Red Chamber*, I wondered why Lin Daiyu would fall for such a promiscuous and irresponsible Jia Baoyu, and even lose her life for him? He was simply unworthy!

It's well-written. At least it's not like those time-traveler stories with all sorts of boastful talk, nor is it like those in *Dream of the Red Chamber* where the protagonist claims to save Daiyu but ends up turning her into a useless ornament. This kind of writing feels more like a time-traveling woman, and it's more of a rescue story. It also doesn't forget that Daiyu is the protagonist who changes her fate.

Personally, I think this book, compared to other fanfictions, does a great job of depicting the scenes in Dream of the Red Chamber that target Daiyu in great detail. Moreover, Daiyu's character also changes from "relying" on the Jia family to seeing through the true colors of everyone in the Jia family and realizing that Jia Baoyu can love anyone. Daiyu's character is not drastically altered.