You may have read "A Dream of Red Mansions", or you may not.
If you have read it, you probably remember Qin Keqing - the woman who didn't appear much and died the earliest, but turned the whole book upside down. She is the young mistress of Ningguo Mansion, Jia Rong's wife, Jia Zhen's... I'm sorry, I can't write this word.
Zhi Yanzhai said that it was originally called "Qin Keqing's obscene mourning in Tianxiang Tower", but it was later deleted. Deleted, but traces remain. It's like a wall that has been painted with fresh plaster. If you look closer, the old words are still seeping out from underneath.
She died young. Before his death, he entrusted a dream to Wang Xifeng and said something shocking to the world - offering sacrifices to the ancestors' tombs and studying in private schools was the only way for the entire Jia family to survive.
Then she died. No one listened.
When I first read this I thought: What if she hadn't died? What if she survives and does what she said in her dream?
This book started with this idea.
Intention: How does a mortal man live?