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- 1 A Fierce Wife in the Dream of the Red Chamber 红楼之家有悍妇 Jia She died, then came back to life. Looking at the situation he was in, Jia She suddenly thought that maybe he should have stayed dead. Scene one: Can I put this son back where he came from? Giving birth to a little bastard would be better than having a son. Scene two: Brother-in-law, listen to me. I really am not my sister! Scene three: Jia Zhen, go ahead and lay a hand on me. I dare you. 58Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 2 Jia Ying of the Dream of the Red Chamber 红楼贾瑛 In a dream of the Red Chamber, who remembers Rongguo House's other son? What if Jia Zheng and the quiet Concubine Zhou had a son? What if the Jia family had one more clearheaded, pragmatic person... When the disaster of the family's confiscation comes, will he go with the flow, or turn the tide? 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 Dream of the Red Chamber: After Becoming Tanchun's Older Brother 红楼：成了探春兄长之后 Jia Pu dreams his way into Dream of the Red Chamber, where he becomes a pair of dragon-and-phoenix twins with Tanchun. He had thought he might enjoy a romantic, enchanting romance, but having read the history books, he quickly realizes that the dynasty is in its final days. Peasant uprisings and bandit invasions are frequent, the imperial family is greedy for wealth, powerful clans manipulate the government, and while music and dancing fill the grand mansions, piles of bones lie by the roadside. 62Reads—Score11314d adds
- 4 Dream of the Red Chamber: The Lin Family's Eldest Daughter Is Outrageous 红楼之林家长姐太嚣张 Regular updates, so feel free to bookmark and read. Tease my little sister? I’ll slap you! Give my little sister a courtesy name? I’ll slap you! Try to hold my little sister’s hand? I’ll slap you three times! I don’t care! You’re getting beaten up! With a magical artifact in hand, I can run wild and do as I please! 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 Dream of the Red Chamber: I Am Wang Wen of the Wang Family 红楼：吾乃王家王文 [Earn a royal title through military merit] + [Win over the Beauties] + [Multiple heroines] + (A touch of a System) + (Invincible) Wang Wen unexpectedly arrives in the world of Dream of the Red Chamber. Fortunately, he gains the help of a System. When war breaks out on the frontier, Wang Ziteng sends him there with Wang Zishan to gain experience. After the fighting ends, Wang Teng is rewarded for his service and secures a post in the capital. But then Jia Mu schemes to bring him together with th 23Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 Reborn in Dream of the Red Chamber: I Conquer the World with Unlimited Medicine 重生红楼：我靠无限药品一统天下 [Intricate plotting + slow burn + business warfare + political schemes + polished writing + veteran-reader approved, not a mindless power fantasy] I ask the Buddha: I have a System golden finger and have transmigrated into the world of Dream of the Red Chamber as Jia Cong. Is this a blessing or a curse? The Buddha says: When you see a three-year-old child carrying a gold brick through a busy marketplace, everyone around him is a devil. I ask again: What if the Four Great Families, Jia, Wang, Xue 357Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 Dream of the Red Chamber: Taking Charge of the Ningguo Mansion from the Start 红楼梦：开局执掌宁国府 (Dream of the Red Chamber + male-oriented + ancient historical setting + alternate Qing dynasty + imperial court and nobility + transmigrate into a book + transmigrate + political intrigue + wish fulfillment + household conflict + classical spin-off + intelligent protagonist + decisive and ruthless) I transmigrated into Dream of the Red Chamber and became Jia Rong, the weak and useless young master of the Ningguo Mansion! It starts on my wedding night!!! 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 I Transmigrated into Dream of the Red Chamber, but I’m a Different Lin Daiyu 穿越红楼，我是不一样的林妹妹 Lin Yu, a modern master of medicine, poison, and martial arts, dies while carrying out a mission and inexplicably transmigrates into Dream of the Red Chamber, becoming the talented Lin Daiyu. “Father, you’re still so young. Why can’t you take another wife?” “The Jia family? When my mother was ill, did they ever send anyone to visit?” “Have I ever even met Old Lady Jia?” In short, going to the Jia family’s estate is out of the question. It will never happen, not in this lifetime. 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 Dream of the Red Chamber: Livestreaming the Rise of the Twelve Beauties 红楼直播带飞十二钗 After transmigrating into Jia Baoyu, he binds himself to a livestream System and gains rewards from streaming to improve his cultivation. He has fun interacting with viewers in the chat, with humorous and witty writing. He also takes the Twelve Beauties as his disciples and changes their tragic fates from the original story. Along the way, he earns an official title through the imperial examinations, changes the Jia family’s fate, and ultimately breaks free from control by the two Zhen families. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 Dream of the Red Chamber: What Should I Do After Becoming Daiyu's Birth Mother?! 红楼：穿成黛玉亲妈怎么办？！ Dream of the Red Chamber: What Am I Supposed to Do After Becoming Daiyu’s Biological Mother?! 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 The Princess Who Rules Dream of the Red Chamber 红楼掌公主 I'm currently revising the earlier chapters, so there won't be any updates for now. To save Lin Daiyu from being slighted and neglected in the Jia household, the Grand Princess arrives with a System and gives the whole family a taste of face-slapping! Xue Baochai, whose schemes run deep and who mocks Daiyu for having neither father nor mother? Slap! Madam Wang, who wants to arrange a match for her foolish son by putting Daiyu down? Slap! And Zhou Rui's wife, who delivered the palace flowers? She 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 Transmigrate into a Book: A Concubine-Born Daughter's Household Battles in Dream of the Red Chamber 穿书红楼之宅斗小庶女 Recommended [Thorns and Finery] After transmigrating into a book as an inconspicuous illegitimate daughter of the Rongguo Mansion, Jia Yue awakens with the family’s destruction looming over her. Madam Wang withholds her monthly allowance? She uses modern accounting methods to put her private assets to work. Wang Xifeng schemes to ruin her reputation? Jia Yue turns the tables and slips an aphrodisiac into Second Master Lian’s teacup. Baoyu throws his jade and falls into a fit of madness? She stay 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 Dream of the Red Chamber: The Pearl of Jiangzhu Meets the Spirit Stone 红楼梦之降株遇灵石 It was the heart of winter when Lin Daiyu’s mother, Jia Min, passed away. A strange encounter brought Sun Wukong across time and space. Born a wild-haired monkey, he longed to learn the art of immortality. She gave him clothes, taught him manners and etiquette, and helped him seek out a master. She was frail and had suffered from a terrible illness since childhood. He caused havoc in Heaven and stole miraculous pills to help her recover. As the pages of the book turned, the two transmigrated thr 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 Dream of the Red Chamber: The Lin Family's Beloved Concubine 红楼之林家良妾 [Lin Ruhai has prophetic dreams and knows how the story will unfold] Qiao Feiwan was born into an ordinary family, but her father's gambling addiction plunged them into debt. With the crushing weight of daily life never far behind, the Lin family offered a timely helping hand, proposing that she become Lin Ruhai's concubine to ease her family's troubles. Faced with this choice, she agreed without hesitation and set out on an unfamiliar, challenging path. 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 A New Chronicle of the Dream of the Red Chamber 红楼梦新记 It was an ordinary weekend. As I sorted through my grandfather’s belongings, an ancient copy of The Story of the Stone gave off a strange light and swept me into an unknown world. When I awoke, I had become Jia Baoyu! Looking at the Rongguo Mansion, so familiar yet so strange, I knew the wheels of fate had begun to turn. The story of saving the Jia family and staying by Lin Daiyu’s side for life began at that very moment… 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 Yingchun: I Gamble with Fate in the Mortal World 迎春：我于红尘弈天命 As the great mansion crumbles, can any egg remain whole beneath a fallen nest? Jia Yingchun died amid bitter winds and rain, but in her final moments between life and death, she glimpsed the truth of the past: it was not fate, but a carefully crafted lie. When she opened her eyes again, she was still the timid, dull-witted second young lady of the Rongguo House, but a quiet understanding of a different past now lay in her eyes. A System called “Watching the Game” appeared in her mind. It did not —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 New Documents from the Vermilion Tower 朱楼新牍 “Seeing that spring will not last, she casts off her old finery and dons a nun’s robes.” This was the fate already written for her. As both the Rongguo and Ningguo mansions teeter under old debts and new troubles, with everyone living in fear, Xichun spreads out a sheet of raw paper. The green-stamen plum she paints, aloof and proud, unknowingly becomes the first knock at the gates of the Zichen Palace. This is not a love story. It is a cold legend about clear-eyed resolve and choice, about ho —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 Rising to the Top in the Red Chamber 红楼问鼎 When Jia Heng woke up, he was in a shabby gray carriage. Rough hemp curtains, faded cushions, two bundles in the corner: this was what you got as a member of a collateral branch. Not poor, exactly. Gray. Neither here nor there. In his previous life, he had spent thirty-five years rising to become a corporate vice president. He had seen the fiercest business wars and the deepest schemes. Now all that experience was packed into the body of a twelve-year-old boy, whose identity was this: a member 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 Reborn in Lin Daiyu's Body, My Might Shakes the World 魂穿林黛玉，力拔山兮气盖世 A famous Redology expert transmigrates into Lin Daiyu, only to open her eyes and find herself lying in a coffin. Bound to the Shattered Jade Fist System, she smashes the coffin with a single punch. The sickly girl becomes the “Jade Rakshasa,” able to crush a teacup in her bare hand and snap a tree as thick as a bowl with one kick. Is there something wrong with the medicine Madam Wang sent? Is the Jia family trying to bury her in secret? Does Lin Ruhai’s death conceal a shocking secret? The newly —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 Transmigrating into Dream of the Red Chamber: I Became Jia Ning, Jia Zhen’s Younger Brother 穿越红楼，我成贾珍胞弟贾宁 The Jia family is no fraud: their hall is built of white jade, their horses adorned with gold. Afang Palace stretches three hundred miles, yet cannot house a single Shi from Jinling. The East Sea lacks a white-jade bed, so the Dragon King comes to invite the Prince of Jinling. In years of plenty, snow falls in great heaps; pearls are as common as dirt, gold and iron alike. When falsehood becomes truth, truth too becomes false; where nothing becomes something, something returns to nothing. Spring 46Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 The Deer and the Cauldron in the Dream of the Red Chamber: From the Start, I Quit the Jia Family Registry 红楼之鹿鼎：开局退出贾家族谱 [Dream of the Red Chamber + Alternate History + Political Scheming + Passionate Action, Female Leads Tentatively Include Lin Daiyu, the Empress, and Jing Huan] Mei Yue was an acrobat before transmigrating into the world of Dream of the Red Chamber. He discovered that he had landed in the Ningguo Mansion. As it turned out, his predecessor was handsome, and the clan leader, Jia Zhen, had taken a fancy to him! Mei Yue: Every transmigrator in the world of Dream of the Red Chamber seems to want to be 235Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 The Dream of the Red Chamber’s Adopted Heir 红楼继子 Lin Song accidentally transmigrated into the world of Dream of the Red Chamber. He has no System, but unexpectedly acquires a library. He sets out on the path of the imperial examinations and is later adopted as Lin Ruhai’s stepson. Watch how he saves Sister Lin! 34Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 You Squeezed Me Dry and Now Want to Toss Me Aside? The Villainess Returns, and the Scoundrels Beg 榨干价值就想丢？恶女归来极品哭 After waking up, Xu Sui, who had struggled for years in the apocalypse, finds herself as a pitiful girl whose cruel grandmother has schemed to send her off to bring good fortune to a sick man. Her family has decided her future without her consent. Did anyone bother to ask what she wanted? The family is full of pitiful souls. Her father is injured, her mother is frail, and her siblings have been driven away from home. The whole extended family leeches off them. They only know how to endure, neve 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 Dream of the Red Chamber: A Journey up the Jade Steps 【红楼】玉阶行 [Female-to-Male Transmigration + Imperial Examinations] [The first few chapters focus on the imperial examinations. The protagonist transmigrates to a point before Lin Daiyu enters the Jia household.] [None of the members of the Jia household are outright villains, but every one of them has their flaws.] A modern medical doctorate wakes up in the world of The Dream of the Red Chamber as Jia Yan, a marginally placed son of the Rongguo Mansion born to a concubine. Using his astonishing medical ski 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 Reborn in the Story of the Stone, I Never Forget Anything I See 重生红楼后过目不忘 A modern college student transmigrates to the world of Dream of the Red Chamber in a car accident, and Jiang Huan becomes Jia Huan, the most hated member of the Jia family. But Jia Huan also gains the golden finger of “perfect recall.” Watch him beat up vicious servants, stand up to his stepmother, take the imperial exams, save the Jia family from disaster, and eventually marry a lovely wife, rise through the ranks, and make a fortune. 956Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 26 The Ordinary Years of the Red Chamber 平凡的红楼岁月 Jia Ju transmigrated into Dream of the Red Chamber. After years of hard work, he rose to become a powerful minister and Minister of War. But when the Fairy Disenchantment received help from an outside force and set the world of Dream of the Red Chamber back on its original course, all of Jia Ju's efforts seemed to burst like a bubble. See how Jia Ju breaks through the deadlock once more, and whether he can escape the illusion and return to the Dream of the Red Chamber he changed. 187Reads5.3Score—14d adds
- 27 Dream of the Red Chamber: If I Can't Stand You, I'll Take You Down 红楼：看不顺眼就干 The Lin family has two daughters. The elder is named Wanyu, and the younger is called Daiyu. The elder loves swords, spears, and staffs, while the younger prefers poetry and music. Lin Ruhai watched the utterly contrasting scene in the courtyard and let out a silent sigh. He had meant to comfort his wife and tell her not to worry, but then Wanyu waved her new whip and chirped, “Don’t worry, Father. Once my sister is feeling stronger, I’ll teach her a few self-defense moves. If anyone bullies her 105Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 A Dream of the Red Chamber: The Cousin Is the Crimson Pearl Immortal 红楼一梦，表姑娘是绛珠仙子 When Baoyu and Fengjie were struck by the Five Ghosts, a monk and a Daoist revealed Lin Daiyu’s true identity: she was the Crimson Pearl Fairy who had descended to the mortal realm. Faced with this tremendous blessing, what will the Jia family choose? How will the emperor regard a celestial maiden? And after the Fairy of Illusion shows Daiyu the future of the women of the Dream of the Red Chamber, what will Daiyu do? Opinions differ on the fate of Baoyu and Daiyu in the Dream of the Red Chamber. 13Reads—Score114d adds
- 29 Reborn as Daiyu 重生之黛玉新生 Reborn as Daiyu tells the extraordinary story of Lin Daiyu and Zhang Hongyu. After being reborn, Lin Daiyu meets, understands, and falls in love with Zhang Hongyu, but their relationship faces one trial after another. Their love is opposed by everyone in the Jia household and subjected to all kinds of slander and sabotage from the outside world. Yet the two remain true to each other. Zhang Hongyu places first in the imperial examinations and takes up a post in Yangzhou, where he and his wife fac 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 Dream of the Red Chamber: From Top Scholar to Emperor 红楼：从状元到皇帝 Sixteen years later, I awoke from a dream and learned I was in Dream of the Red Chamber. A soul from the future mistakenly enters the world of Dream of the Red Chamber and becomes a member of a collateral branch of the Jia clan. Let’s start with a modest goal: I’m going to become the top scholar! (Slow start) (Rebellion!) (Major character changes! A complete overhaul of the original!) (Bringing the clan together) (With a golden finger) (Rebellion) (If you don’t like it, don’t read it!) I won’t w 1.8kReads7.0Score10314d adds
- 31 An Official's Tale in Dream of the Red Chamber 红楼之为官记 By chance, he ends up in the world of Dream of the Red Chamber as Jia Huan, the despised bastard son whom everyone loathes. His situation is dire, and there's no way out, so he must find a way to turn things around. Watch as the lowly young bastard Jia Huan wins high office, great wealth, and beautiful women. 382Reads6.8Score10014d adds
- 32 I Reincarnated into Dream of the Red Chamber as a Villain, and Daiyu's Death Is No Simple Matter 魂穿红楼成反派，黛玉之死不简单 Historical romance + scheming + play the pig to eat the tiger + Dream of the Red Chamber spin-off + new couple On the day she goes to register her marriage, she is framed because of her research into “Lin Daiyu's Death in the novel Dream of the Red Chamber.” She unexpectedly transmigrates into the world of Dream of the Red Chamber and is reborn as Lin Daiyu. Knowing how the story ends, she resolves to live well this time around. She will protect her maiden family's property for Daiyu and keep he 47Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 Dream of the Red Chamber: Rising Through Martial Arts 红楼：以武起家 (You can enjoy this even if you haven't read Dream of the Red Chamber.) The pages are filled with absurdity, each line with a bitter tear! They say the author is a fool, but who understands the meaning within? In the third year of the Chong'an era, modern-day special forces soldier Jia Huan transmigrates into the world of Dream of the Red Chamber and becomes the real Jia Huan. At court, twin dragons hang in the sky. Beyond the court, foreign enemies invade. Watch Jia Huan earn his merits on hors 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 Dream of the Red Chamber: Making a Name for Myself from the Start 红楼之开局就扬名 A freshman transmigrates into the world of Dream of the Red Chamber and becomes Jia Rong, the eldest legitimate son of the Ningguo Mansion. To protect Qin Keqing, and himself, he makes a little money and earns a few military merits. Don't think you can control my life, Jia Zhen. Not even the emperor can. I decide my own fate, not Heaven. He uses the Heart-Fluttering System to bind Xue Baochai. Let's see if you can resist falling for me. He uses the Lie Detector System to bind Lin Daiyu. Baoyu, o 113Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 35 Dream of the Red Chamber: Jia He's Concubine 红楼之贾赫贵妾 An ordinary person transmigrates into Dream of the Red Chamber. The female lead’s grandmother was the head maid to Jia He’s grandmother. Though she was called a head maid, she had no indenture contract. She was a child from the family of a distant relative of Jia He’s grandmother. Dissatisfied with the second wife chosen by Lady Jia, Jia He remembered that one of his grandmother’s distant relatives had a great many children, namely the female lead’s family. And so Xing Lian, the female lead, ent 136Reads—Score—14d adds
- 36 Reborn as a Short-Lived Woman in Dream of the Red Chamber, I Became Lin Daiyu’s Cousin 穿成红楼短命女，我成了林黛玉的堂姐 Transmigrating into a short-lived girl from Dream of the Red Chamber, Lin Qingwen trembled with fear. Luckily, an immortal gifted her a new skill, and she embarked on a long journey of saving others and herself. She grew flowers and herbs, inspired dreams and wove them, helping lovesick men and women find the love they longed for. She opened restaurants, grew golden beans, and set up workshops, seizing every chance to earn silver. In the midst of all her busy work, a man shamelessly sidled up to 74Reads—Score—14d adds
- 37 Dream of the Red Chamber: A Commoner's Son Joins the Army and Rises Through the Martial Arts System 红楼：庶子从军，我靠武学系统封 At the end of the Red Chamber era, Jia Heng, an illegitimate son from a collateral branch of the Jia clan, has suffered cruelty and contempt from his relatives ever since his mother died young. Even a filling meal is beyond his reach, and he seems destined to become another casualty of the Jia family's rise and fall. At the brink of despair, he is bound to the Iron-Blooded Martial Arts System! He trains in the Iron Shirt technique, masters the Overlord Spear, and learns battlefield skills for co 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 38 A Doctor Transmigrates into Dream of the Red Chamber 医穿红楼 [Sweet and doting, no angst | Pure love and healing | No political scheming or infighting | No struggle for dynastic supremacy | A happy ending for the Dream of the Red Chamber] A modern medical doctor unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of Beijng Prince Shui Rong from the Dream of the Red Chamber. Faced with the tragic fates of the novel's women, he resolves to rewrite their endings with a compassionate heart and remarkable medical skills. He uses modern medicine to save Daiyu from an ea 7Reads—Score314d adds
- 39 I Am Daiyu of the Lin Family 吾乃林氏黛玉也 She accidentally transmigrates into the body of Lin Daiyu from Dream of the Red Chamber! Getting caught up in the Jia family's power struggles would be bad enough, but now she has to fight in the imperial harem too? Lin Daiyu sighs. “I escaped the wolf's den only to stumble into the tiger's lair...” 35Reads—Score—14d adds
- 40 Transmigrating into Dream of the Red Chamber: A Side Character's Rise 穿越红楼，配角的逆袭人生 Modern-day special agent Xing Lu accidentally set off a land mine while carrying out a mission... When she woke up, she had become Lady Xing in Dream of the Red Chamber. Let’s see how she changes the fates of the Jia family, one step at a time, and turns the tide as their house teeters on the brink of collapse... In the original story, Wang Xifeng lends money at exorbitant interest, meddles in lawsuits, and treats human life as worthless... But now Xing Lu is here, and she firmly refuses to let 18Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 41 Dream of the Red Chamber: After Beating Jia Zhen, I Save the Dynasty from Collapse 红楼：暴打贾珍后我挽社稷于将倾 Multiple heroines | Alternate late Ming dynasty | Tender romance | Epic warfare | Transmigrate into Jia Qiang, the male favorite of the Jia family in Dream of the Red Chamber? From the start, Jia Zhen is about to violate him! How could a modern military academy instructor endure such a disgrace? One swing of a candelabrum carves a bloody path. Watch me use modern knowledge to amass a fortune and modern tactics to train an iron-blooded new army. Jia Zhen and Jia She? They’re nothing but barnyard —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 I Transmigrated into Dream of the Red Chamber and Nurtured a Literary Star Through the Imperial Exams 穿越红楼，科举养成文曲星 The story opens in the world of Dream of the Red Chamber, a place rife with family strife, tangled emotions, and sweeping social upheaval. Against all odds, the protagonist transmigrates there by accident and becomes Lin Daiyu’s younger brother. Brilliant and quick-witted, he harbors grand ambitions and does everything he can to adapt to this utterly unfamiliar world. With a prodigious memory that lets him never forget what he has seen and relentless hard work, he begins to make his mark on the 24Reads—Score—14d adds
- 43 I Serve as a Capable Minister in Dream of the Red Chamber 我在红楼做能臣 This novel has received too many negative reviews, so I’ve decided to rewrite it. The new novel is called A Farmer’s Son in Dream of the Red Chamber!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 Dream of the Red Chamber: Daiyu Is Reborn and Pummels the Scumbag and the Fake Innocent 红楼：黛玉重生，爆锤渣男白莲花 The Three-Life Stone still bears the stains of blood and tears, while the crimson pearl fairy grass has forged an immortal body veined with icy cracks in the dew of the Land of Regret. On the day Daiyu returns to the mortal world, a rouge-colored fissure splits the star chart in the Illusory Realm of Great Void. This time, as she undergoes her tribulation, she will tear the words “repay the tears” from the Book of Fate. [Highlights] ▼ Immortal Grass Powers Defy Fate Her gentle hand brushes the —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 Dream of the Red Chamber: The Jade-Like Young Master 红楼之公子如玉 Jia Yu transmigrates into Dream of the Red Chamber, becoming an illegitimate son of the Jia family. Rumors say the Jia family has two jades: one is a treasure, the other a mere tile... His elders may dislike him, but that doesn't matter. Watch me rise to the pinnacle of power. A gentleman like jade, peerless beneath the heavens! This fan fiction is entirely fictional. 182Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 46 Quick Transmigration: A Dream of Red Mansions, Where I Defy the System at Every Turn 快穿红楼之就是要跟系统对着干 (A place to park your brain. This story has tons of original worldbuilding. It's not set in the Qing Dynasty, and the history is fictional. It only follows the first eighty chapters of the Dream of the Red Chamber as annotated by Zhi Yanzhai for its plot setup. If that's not your thing, please move along. The author is a true beginner with limited writing skills, so please just enjoy the ride. Thank you.) I was only praising the 1987 TV adaptation of Dream of the Red Chamber as the best, so why 359Reads—Score—14d adds
- 47 Dream of the Red Chamber: The Carefree Old Madam Lin 红楼之潇洒林老夫人 Shen Jiaoyue had planned for every possibility, but never imagined she would become a widow with two burdensome children in tow. After struggling to raise them, she finally became a gorgeous widow, only to nearly faint at the sight of what lay before her: her whole family were cannon fodder. Her family were relatives of Lin Daiyu. She was Lin Ruhai’s mother, and the thought of the Lin family’s fate made anger flare in her heart. She couldn’t believe she was in Dream of the Red Chamber! This woul 85Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 48 The Concubine's Rise in Dream of the Red Chamber 红楼小妾翻身记 Su Yating, the head of a modern hospital of traditional Chinese medicine, is mistakenly taken by Black Impermanence into Dream of the Red Chamber. She is a scholar's daughter, and her wealthy mother is as fierce as they come. As soon as she arrives, she is framed and made Lin Ruhai's concubine, then given a drug to make her barren. With a magical treasure at her side, she escapes her predicament, amasses a fortune, and marries into the Lin family. The Lianghuai salt case draws her in, and Su Yat 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 49 Dream of the Red Chamber: The Unruly Guest Before the Golden Maidens 红楼：金钗前的不羁客 (A slow-burn Dream of the Red Chamber story + garden intrigue + multiple heroines + transmigration to another world) Jiangzhu weeps blood, Shenying sheds tears, and a dream in vermilion towers locks away all its splendor. Fragrant bones lie buried amid a thousand beauties, while jade blossoms fall among ten thousand charms. The sigh, “They all say the author was a fool, but who understands the meaning within?” pierces a century of dust and still echoes through the pages of history. When the soul 23Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 Dream of the Red Chamber: Ride for a Marquisate, Bathe the Rongguo Mansion in Blood! 红楼：策马望封侯，血洗荣国府！ Jia Yuan, a young man from the twenty-first century, transmigrates into the world of the Dream of the Red Chamber. He becomes a concubine's son in the Jia household, but after being framed by treacherous villains, he has no choice but to fake his death and flee. He heads to the frontier to join the army. Three years later, he has swept across the northern deserts and earned glorious military honors. Granted a marquisate, adorned with honors, he returns in triumph to Ruidao. His hatred remains, a —Reads—Score—14d adds
