Ximen Qing, the amorous overlord of Qinghe County, wakes from a dream to find he has become Jia Rong, the foremost “coward” in Dream of the Red Chamber!
The great master looks at his beautiful wife, Qin Keqing, then at his quick-witted “father,” Jia Zhen, and “brother,” Jia Qiang, and can’t help but smile.
You want to play at “incest with your son’s wife”? What a fool, asking for death!
You’ve even set your sights on your own ancestors’ women!
In the Ningguo Mansion’s Huifang Garden, the great master slaps Jia Zhen to the ground. In front of all the servants, he “disciplines his son” on his father’s behalf:
“Father, Grandpa asked me to ask you: How did the Jia family, with its century of glory, end up with a useless brute like you, who only knows how to crawl into women’s beds?”
The trouble in the inner quarters has barely settled when Feng Laizi arrives from the outer quarters.
Wang Xifeng pretends to be ill and makes things difficult for him, refusing to lend him the glass screen. She says:
“I need a three-legged golden toad as an ingredient for my medicine, or my headaches will never get better.”
The great master leans close and replies sarcastically in a low voice:
“A three-legged golden toad is hard to find. But a three-legged man, might he… catch Auntie’s eye?”
Is that scoundrel Jia Baoyu getting in my way of approaching Sister Lin?
Ximen Qing turns around and hands Duo Gu a packet of potent aphrodisiac:
“Ruin his reputation, and I’ll give you a hundred taels!”
When the wanton woman comes eagerly toward him, the great master lifts her chin:
“Before Baoyu gets his turn, I’ll cut in line.”
In this life, besides having gold and silver in hand and beauties in his arms, he wants to savor the feeling of holding all the power under heaven and turning it over carefully in his hands.
“Yesterday, white bones lay buried beneath the yellow earth; tonight, mandarin ducks nest beneath red silk curtains.”
“When it comes to the affairs inside the Jia mansion, the great master knows them better than anyone!”
The relationship between Ximen Qing's ruthless, lustful, and scheming description of the three-part shareholding and the characters in The Red Mansion is better handled.
The author's writing is really awesome. I haven't seen such a cool novel in a long time. As the comment above said, the flaws do not hide the flaws. Although there are some flaws in the ages of the characters in The Red Mansion, it is so exciting that it can be treated as a parallel universe. The author may not understand Dream of Red Mansions, but he must especially understand Jin Ping Mei👍🏻
It's a masterpiece that does not hide its faults. The issue of seniority is too abstract. The senior official himself raised his seniority by one generation. But other than that, it's so beautiful. Ximen Senior Official is well-deserved.
It is true that there is no female mysophobia in the book, but I myself have it. In reality, not messing around is not essentially a lack of lust or high morals. It is simply that I do find it dirty, and it is extremely troublesome to have multiple sexual relationships outside of a relationship. It is very troublesome and not as simple as sleeping. Therefore, I am not a good person, but I am indeed very single-minded on the surface.
Very good but short
It's been a long time since I've seen such a clean and refreshing writing, especially the way the female characters are written without the need for emotional cleanliness.
It's well written, especially Duo Niunian. It's really a good interpretation of the original work: Bones of Yesterday, Mandarin Ducks of Today.
It's really well written. You must have done some research on Red Mansions.
Support me, it was fun to write.
Well written, good luck to the author