This sequel follows the first eighty chapters of "A Dream of Red Mansions", with the core of "Sadness hidden in the declining world, and the return of fantasy dreams to emptiness", focusing on the Jia family's "hundred-footed insect, dead but not stiff" The whole process of complete decline: Yingchun married into the Sun family and was tortured to death, Daiyu burst into tears in the Xiaoxiang Pavilion, Baoyu broke through the world after experiencing home confiscation and bereavement; Wang Xifeng's corruption was exposed, and everyone She rebelled against her relatives and left, and finally her soul returned to Jinling; Tan Chun married far away and could not return home; The whole book takes "Penci, Quci" as the anchor of fate and restores the tragic core of the original work. It not only writes about the institutional collapse of the feudal family, but also writes about the struggle and detachment of individuals in the apocalypse. It ends with Baoyu cliff letting go and the ruins of Jia's mansion reflected in the setting sun, echoing the opening intention of "a paper full of absurd words and a handful of bitter tears".
