This book is a brand new sequel to "A Dream of Red Mansions", which directly faces the core of the sadness of Cao Xueqin's original intention, completely abandons the compromised ending of "Lan Gui Qi Fang", and resolutely returns to the ultimate prophecy of "like a bird that has eaten all its food and throws itself into the forest, leaving a vast white land and it is really clean". The sequel is strictly based on the previous eighty chapters of Fu Mai and Zhi Yanzhai's commentaries to explore lost clues and judgments on the fate of the characters. It uses rigorous logic and deep compassion to deduce the irreversible downturn of the Jia family.
The story follows the 80th chapter. The Jia family is experiencing both internal and external troubles, and the disaster of confiscating the house finally comes. Daiyu died in tears amid rumors of Baoyu's death and the sudden change in her family. She married in a distant place in Tanchun, tortured her to death in Yingchun, took refuge in Xichun, and her family was scattered. Baoyu and Baochai got married in the predicament of the end of the world, but the "empty pair" never forgot the "fairy lady in the world", and finally broke through the world of mortals and gave up on the cliff. Sister Feng's traps were exhausted and her soul returned to hell; Sister Qiao was fortunately rescued by Grandma Liu and fell into the countryside.
The whole book strives to inherit Cao Gong's writing style and use meticulous daily narratives to show the eternal tragedy of a beautiful life being crushed by the torrent of the times, completing a painful and thorough literary mourning of the end of feudalism.
