[Dream of the Red Chamber] A Match Made in Deception

She was punished not for doing something so outrageous that it defied reason and human decency,

but for hiding her heart away,

for suppressing her feelings so deeply.

At last, Lady Wang said with barely restrained emotion, "Just look at your cousin Lin's mother. Before she was married, how pampered and indulged she was, how noble and precious. That was how a young lady of a great family ought to be.

These girls now are barely better than other people's maids."

[Reading notes]

1. Couple: Jia Min x Lady Wang

2. Based on Cao Xueqin's Dream of the Red Chamber

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