[Dream of the Red Chamber] A Dream of the Land of Hua Xu

Lin Jing transmigrated into a book, and not just any book: the famous bottomless pit of a classic, Dream of the Red Chamber.

But that was fine. She wasn't worried at all, because the Great Yong was a matriarchal society.

Even if she had a cousin who was sickly from childhood, and even if a bald monk had come to her door saying, "She must see no relatives or friends from outside the family, and only then will she enjoy a lifetime of peace," it still didn't matter.

The reason Dream of the Red Chamber ended in "a thousand beauties mourning, ten thousand lovelies weeping" was that it was a story set in a patriarchal society.

But what if you changed the setting and took another look?

Sister Lin was the only son in four generations of the Lin family, a child prodigy who had mastered the Four Books at seven. Mother and son had both placed third in the imperial examinations, making them the talk of the town.

Sister Bao still had no mother to manage the household, but her biased father favored her, her troublemaking brother never left the inner quarters, and her domineering sister-in-law was a caring older cousin who made savvy investments.

Sister Yun had inherited a noble title as an infant. When the young Marquis of Baoling pulled an all-nighter to lead a surprise raid, it was a case of a tiger mother having no pups that were dogs. But staying up all night to do needlework? That would mean every last member of the Shi family was dead...

When Wang Xifeng could take her rightful place in court as a heroine, who would want to be a hero among the powder and rouge?

Theme: Everyone says the Grand View Garden is a worldly kingdom of women, but how could an ivory tower compare to a real land of women?