Dream of the Red Chamber: The Rise of Lord Zheng

A passionate young police officer is transported into Dream of the Red Chamber and becomes Jia Zheng, the second master of the Jia family and the most hated character in the whole book. At twenty, the young master who pretends to be proper is still a handsome young man in his prime. His father, Jia Daishan, Duke of Rongguo, is still alive, and his mother, Grandmother Jia, is not yet the old matriarch who rules the household with an iron hand. His younger sister, Jia Min, is still unmarried, and his son, Jia Zhu, is only a little bundle of joy. The Divine Vermilion Pearl Immortal Grass, who descended to the mortal world to undergo tribulation, and the bewitching ghosts have yet to appear. Even Prince Zhongshun, the lecherous old libertine, is still a dashing young gentleman. Before Dream of the Red Chamber begins, the world is so lovely it feels unreal. Jia Zheng counts on his fingers and reckons that, according to the events in the book, he will be over fifty when the Rongguo Mansion is confiscated. After the whole ordeal of imprisonment and exile, he is sure to meet a miserable end. To die in peace, Young Master Zheng rolls up his sleeves and decides to begin by cultivating himself and putting his family in order. He will discipline the wicked servants, resist the succession struggle started by his mother, and get along with his siblings. He will find a way to secure an official post, then do his best to keep his cheap old dad alive for a few more years. As for Prince Zhongshun, who keeps tagging along behind him, ahem, he may as well keep him around. You never know when he might come in handy. New serial! Baoyu was left out of this one, so he's back in the new book ^_^ Dream of the Red Chamber: A Guide to Baoyu Bao Yu, a hot-tempered young man, wakes up to find himself in the body of Jia Baoyu, the greatest good-for-nothing male protagonist in the literary world. The world of Dream of the Red Chamber has no peaceful songs and dances. The Southern Ming is in turmoil, beset by storms, and compared with the barbarians watching from north of the Yellow River, the mansion's confiscation a decade from now is nothing. At home, his grandmother is muddleheaded, his parents are cold and indifferent, his elder cousins are incompetent and corrupt, and his uncle, relying on his high rank and power, jumps back and forth between factions without caring whether the younger generation lives or dies. Bao Yu swallows back a mouthful of blood, crosses out the plans to enjoy life, hide silver, and wait for the mansion to be confiscated, and puts martial arts training and making a comeback at the top of the list! First, he'll smash the Illusory Realm of Great Void, then burn down the Jinling Register of the Unfortunate. He'll ensure his sisters live in peace, and join his senior fellow disciple Wei Ruolan in serving their country, striving to carve out a little world of their own amid the chaos. Wei Ruolan's great-grandmother was the Southern Ming's Third Princess. By his generation, however, he has become a pitiful boy whose mother died young and whose father neglects him, leaving him worse off than an orphan. Then he gets a junior fellow disciple, and his whole life goes off the rails. Every day is filled with chaos and cleaning up one mess after another, and he no longer knows what it means to be lonely. Strong, hot-tempered younger gong × gentle, wise older shou, both pure, building a career Theme: Your fate can only be in your own hands.