Dream of the Red Chamber: I Am Jia Huan, Destined to Conquer the Xiongnu

In the autumn of the third year of the Yuan Shun era of the Great Qi, the northern Xiongnu and Mongols joined forces to attack Yanmen Pass. The Great Qi’s hundred-thousand-strong border army was wiped out to the last man. Yuan Shun Emperor flew into a rage in the capital, Shenjing. Just then, Jia Baoyu and Xue Pan of the Rongguo Mansion, one of the Four Princes, Eight Dukes, and Twelve Marquises, got into a brawl with the sons of other noble families over a famous courtesan. When the emperor heard of it, he was incensed. He immediately decreed that every family among the Four Princes, Eight Dukes, and Twelve Marquises must send a descendant to enlist and defend the Great Qi. Yanmen Pass was practically a deathtrap, and Jia Baoyu of the Rongguo Mansion was the apple of Old Madam Shi’s eye, so naturally she would never let him go. But the imperial decree could not be defied, so they had no choice but to force Jia Huan to take the Rongguo Mansion’s place and go to his death.