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"The Joy of the World" is a long vernacular novel about talented people and beauties. Its full name is "The Joy of the World" written in the early Qing Dynasty. Readers who like novels about talented men and beautiful women, this book is worth reading. Ju Zhangzhu has been dressing up as a man since he was a child, and has impressed the capital with his talent and beauty. His father resigned and returned to Songjiang in order to refuse to come to Zhongzai to discuss marriage. Lai Zhongzai wanted to betroth his daughter to Xu Xiuhu, a talented scholar from Jiaxing, but Xu ran away. Xu Xiuhu met Ju Zhangzhu, a menswear brand in Suzhou, and the two became close friends. The palm bead pretends to promise the embroidered tiger with his sister, but actually promises himself. The son came to the house to arrest Xu Xiuhu for his sister's marriage. Ju Zhangzhu persuaded his father and took the initiative to hire a daughter for the "zi". Later Xu Zhongtanhua, Zhangzhu men's clothing first married a girl, and then they married Xu together. The work is similar to other works about talented scholars and beauties, both of which describe independent marriages between young men and women, with talent and beauty as the criterion for union. The heroine in the book sometimes dresses up as a man, which is confusing and interspersed with other women, making the plot quite tortuous.