Dream of the Red Chamber: A Journey up the Jade Steps

[Female-to-Male Transmigration + Imperial Examinations]

[The first few chapters focus on the imperial examinations. The protagonist transmigrates to a point before Lin Daiyu enters the Jia household.]

[None of the members of the Jia household are outright villains, but every one of them has their flaws.]

A modern medical doctorate wakes up in the world of The Dream of the Red Chamber as Jia Yan, a marginally placed son of the Rongguo Mansion born to a concubine. Using his astonishing medical skills to save Qiaojie, Fengjie’s beloved daughter, he escapes his leaky, crumbling shack and wins a place for himself. He then resolves to change his fate as a son of a concubine through the imperial examinations.

In this life, he refuses to be a spectator to the tragedy of The Dream of the Red Chamber:

With the examinations in one hand: from the family school to becoming the third-place graduate at the palace examinations, he studies under the great scholar Gu Shouzheng and builds a ladder to success with his writing.

With a hand to support the women of the Spring: in the hidden corners of the mansion, he carves out a place for the four Jia sisters, so they will never be forced into political marriages or entrust themselves to the wrong people again.

As the fate of Lin Daiyu’s death by grief draws near, and the threat of the Jia family’s confiscation looms over the city,

Jia Yan steps into the fray:

“I will hold up this collapsing house of jade for another hundred years for the people I care about!”

[Please read without overthinking. Thank you so much!]