The soul of a modern Chinese student passed through Baoyu, and as soon as he opened his eyes, he discovered the Tianxiang Tower scandal, and witnessed Qin Keqing's desperate scream on his deathbed. The premonition of fate follows him like a shadow. He is well aware of the truth of Jia's "hundred-legged insect, dead but not stiff" - the crisis is never the external enemy, but the rot in the house and the discord of the people.
In order to turn the tide, he tried to reveal the truth to Jia's mother, but was suppressed by Jia Zhen; he used Keqing's dream to warn Sister Feng, but was regarded as a pawn to seize power; he formed an alliance with Daiyu to fight against corruption, but cracks arose repeatedly due to the Lin family's old grudges and identity doubts. The reform of the small kitchen touched the vested interests and was poisoned and assassinated; he made friends with Liu Xianglian and Feng Ziying, and was involved in the political whirlpool of the Prince of Beijing and the Prince of Zhongshun. Baochai's gentle offensive hides a conspiracy, and the informant becomes an accomplice. Jia Zheng's harshness, Jia She's greed, and Jia Huan's frame-up push him step by step into isolation.
The family-provincing feast exhausted all financial resources, Yuanchun's loss of power became the trigger, and the imperial edict of confiscating the family finally came. The Ning Mansion overthrew, the Rong Mansion collapsed, Jia Zhen was imprisoned, Jia Zheng was exiled, Sister Feng hanged herself, Xiangyun wandered, Miao Yu disappeared, Tan Chun married far away, and the once beautiful and prosperous property turned into ruins. Daiyu died in tears, Baochai died after childbirth, and the two marriages ended in tragedy, leaving only the youngest son Jia Zhi to continue the bloodline.
This is a redemption that travels through time and space, and is also an elegy for a feudal family. When the modern soul collides with classical tragedy, when personal friendship confronts the tide of the times, can Baoyu break the fate of "falling into a vast white land and the earth is really clean"?