Cold Fragrance, Warm Jade [Honglou: Chai and Dai]

What are you talking about, a match made in heaven? I only believe in the bond between wood and stone. But Baoyu never imagined that neither the golden match nor the bond between wood and stone would be his. Leng Xiang has already been paired with Nuan Yu. Lin Daiyu only knows that her younger brother was gravely ill at the age of three and nearly died. After recovering, he became even cleverer and more quick-witted. She doesn't know that her brother transmigrated here. Lin Chongyu only knows that he transmigrated into Dream of the Red Chamber. It isn't until Jia Min dies that he realizes this version of the story is somewhat different from the one he knows by heart. Content warnings: 1. Xue Baochai is older than usual in this story. 2. Baochai and Daiyu start out hostile to each other, then fall in love. 3. In this story, Baochai is the Divine Attendant of the Crimson Pearl, while Baoyu is merely a stubborn stone. --- Upcoming story --- Title: My Big Brother Is a Ship Fan [Dream of the Red Chamber: Chai-Dai] Blurb: Everyone praises Xue Pan, the Xue family's eldest son, for turning over a new leaf overnight. Only Baochai is alarmed. She feels that the person in front of her is no longer the brother she knows. Later, after she goes to the capital, she meets a young girl who is adored and cherished by the Jia family's Old Madam. The girl is charming and lovely, sharp-tongued, and even the way she gets sulky with Baochai is so adorable that Baochai's heart melts like the pear blossoms blooming densely in the courtyard. The only problem is that the girl seems to have someone she loves, and that person doesn't seem to have the courage a man ought to have. Before she knows it, Baochai wants to keep the girl by her side for the rest of her life. He opens his eyes to find himself transmigrated into Dream of the Red Chamber as the notorious playboy Xue Pan. He's just relieved that the original Xue Pan hadn't yet beaten Feng Yuan to death or gotten himself involved in a murder case. But he still has to go to the capital and enter the Jia household, and everyone praising his reform can't change the elders' decision. He works hard to change his life, and tries to pick up hints of a Chai-Dai romance from the bits and pieces his sister tells him when she comes home. But... could it be that the couple he shipped in the book is actually a real couple in real life? Theme: Break free from convention and bravely pursue love.