The Honglou Concubine’s Son: Ruling the World with Poems and the System

Li Wei, a modern expert in classical Chinese culture, transmigrates in a dream and becomes Jia Huan, the despised illegitimate son of the Jia family in Dream of the Red Chamber. He’s doomed from the start. His mother, Aunt Zhao, is foolish and shortsighted; his father, Jia Zheng, treats him like dirt; his stepmother, Madam Wang, is cold as ice. And then there’s Baoyu, the reincarnation of the Divine Attendant of the Crimson Pearl, a gem who makes Jia Huan look like mud. Fortunately, the deeply bound Original Poetry System activates, letting him astonish everyone with his verse and make a name for himself in the capital. But empty fame is far from all he wants. “I’m no saint. In this life, I only want to live freely and repay kindness and vengeance alike.” Facing the Jia family, a resplendent prison on the verge of collapse, he calmly lays his plans. He uses poetry as a way in, leveraging his reputation to build up his resources. When the Ningguo Mansion’s treason case breaks and the great edifice is about to fall, everyone is thrown into panic. But he already commands a powerful army, and under the banner of “cleansing the court of corrupt ministers,” he enters the Rongguo and Ningguo Mansions. This time, he will trample underfoot everyone who looked down on him, despised him, and mistreated him. An illegitimate son is simply a hidden dragon in the deep. Once the winds of change rise, he will shake the entire realm!