A Survival Guide to Dream of the Red Chamber: Secretly Making Money at the Rong Mansion

[A Red Mansion Survival Story + Mutual Healing + Building Wealth and Making a Comeback + Happy Ending]

Sold into the Rongguo Mansion at twelve, Xing Mian clutches her family’s secret rouge recipe and wants only to save enough silver to buy her freedom and escape.

But she faces torment in the tea room, false accusations from the servants, and rumors that cling to her. In the depths of the mansion, every step is a thorny one.

Everyone in the household watches coldly from the sidelines, muddying the waters with vague words,

but he alone openly stands up for her, shielding her from every overt and covert attack amid the muck. He becomes the only person she can rely on.

All she wanted was to secretly make cosmetics, build her savings, and carefully plan her escape,

but when You Erjie dies tragically and Wang Xifeng drains every last bit of his private savings, she puts everything she has earned over the years on the line to help him through the crisis.

She only offers a mild excuse aloud, saying she wants others to know she has someone backing her. But in her eyes lies a wholehearted desire to protect him.

The great mansion crumbles. The Jia family is stripped of its possessions, and when the tree falls, the monkeys scatter. Everyone thinks only of fleeing to save their own lives.

Only she stands at the desolate city gate, unafraid of the hardship ahead, and accompanies him to the borderlands, facing poverty and displacement together.

He gives her a steady place to stand in the mire,

and she gives him her wholehearted devotion after all the splendor has faded.

Once, all I wanted was a safe and peaceful life. Now, with a lifetime stretching ahead, all I want is to have you by my side.

[Content Warning]

The male lead is not a virgin! Not a virgin! Not a virgin!

His characterization follows the original Jia Lian, so readers who require a chaste male lead should steer clear!