[Liaozhai + Dream of the Red Chamber] Leading Literary Characters in Service of the People

New novel: "The Female Lead Transmigrates, Daiyu as a Man." Blurb at the very bottom.

The women of Liaozhai have many tragic fates; the girls of Dream of the Red Chamber are always so sentimental.

Jiang Tingyun, who firmly believed in science, never expected that after transmigrating, he would end up in a world combining these two unscientific settings.

Here, there is Lin Daiyu, who dies young after shedding all her tears; a fox immortal tricked by her cousin into becoming his beard wife; and an eight-year-old child bride forced to become pregnant...

Jiang Tingyun, who originally only wanted to spread the word about science: I can't watch this anymore. Destroy them, scum!

At the very beginning:

Madam Jia: Son, you must study hard under the master's guidance. One day, kill the tiger demon of Qingmang Mountain and avenge your father!

Jiang Tingyun: Mother, of course we have to avenge Father, but we should also believe in science and oppose superstition.

Later on:

He encountered an evil spirit who didn't deserve to be called a father and slew him in a fit of rage;

He came across a fox who had harmed his cousin and beat it up with a cold laugh;

He dealt with the shameless mother and son bullying an eight-year-old child bride by joining forces with relatives to trap them;

He encountered a judge who had violated the laws of the underworld and harmed the spirits of the dead, and helped Lord Guan slay him;

As he rescued more and more unfortunate women, he unknowingly became the luckiest person in the world, with people helping him wherever he went.

So he decided to go all in, organizing people to start by liberating the minds of women among ghosts and fox spirits, all in the service of the people.

Lin Daiyu: Cousin is the absolute best!

Jiang Tingyun: Flattery won't help. Revise this report again.

PS: Lin Daiyu is his cousin. All the other female characters are the male lead's friends or relatives. The male lead is a Quanzhen Taoist. No CP, no romance whatsoever.

Blurb for "The Female Lead Transmigrates, Daiyu as a Man":

After finishing another Dream of the Red Chamber fanfic about the Lin family, An Ruosu couldn't help complaining about the ending, where Lin Daiyu married into a powerful family and had a house full of children and grandchildren: "Rather than giving Lin Daiyu brothers, why not just make Daiyu male?"

With brothers, Daiyu would be a married-out daughter, and no matter how generous her dowry was, it would still be limited. Wouldn't the Lin family's vast fortune end up in someone else's hands?

An Ruosu woke up one morning to find she'd transmigrated and become a young lady from a scholarly family. She even had a fiance named Lin Daiyu...

PS: Of all the Dream of the Red Chamber characters, only Lin Daiyu has been gender-swapped. The female lead is a modern college student and a true Lin Daiyu fan.

Theme: To forge iron, you must be strong yourself.