Dream of the Red Chamber: Brush and Ink
红楼翰墨
- Status
- Completed
- Length
- 944k Words
- Genre
- Historical
- Subgenre
- Alternate History
- Updated
- 6mo ago
- English
- Request a translation
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In booklists 6
Historical Gardens
The more I read, the more I enjoy historical fiction. There’s something really satisfying about it.
Just Browsing
I can read any of them, but I do not have the patience to finish them
Sugar Sugar's Book Nook
This list is eclectic, with many genres: historical fiction, fantasy, crime investigation, stories about authors copying works, emperor stories, scholar stories, Three Kingdoms stories, Dream of the Red Chamber stories, music stories, Water Margin stories, celebrity stories, and System stories. I've read every book here and think they're pretty good. There are also lots of new authors and new books!
Great Reads About Dream of the Red Chamber
I don't read Dream of the Red Chamber, only fan fiction based on it
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Mainly warm, funny, sunny stories that help you unwind
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Reader comments 22
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The author should please not let Lin Daiyu marry Jia Baoyu, who is utterly incompetent.
The author's writing is quite good; the blend of classical and vernacular Chinese is very natural.
This was a perfectly good book, but it shouldn't have included a harem. After reading 200 chapters, I basically gave up. The author's writing was good, and the story was decent in the beginning, but it fell apart later. Adding a harem element completely blew the 80-point web novel down to a 20!
Well, how should I put it! So many editions of Dream of the Red Chamber keep talking about lending money at exorbitant interest rates, but in reality, before the Jia family collapsed, lending money at exorbitant interest rates was a trivial matter. I don't know why modern authors think that it could be a matter of life and death for the other party.
The protagonist made a tremendous contribution to the Lin family, risking his life to steal a ledger detailing how salt merchants bribed powerful officials and personally deliver it to the government office. However, the emperor rewarded the Jia family with a palace maid as a concubine. This is utterly absurd and far-fetched.
What disgusts me about this book is that the author clearly had the intention of creating a harem. In the early part, the relationship between the author and Daiyu was written as if they were a couple destined to be together forever, but later on, the earlier poems and lyrics became a joke.
Everything else about this book is great, but why did the female lead choose Lin Daiyu? I skipped every scene with her. Doesn't the author feel frustrated? It's not that I hate her, it's that the author made her unlikeable. Judging from her situation in the story, no man would want her. Maybe the author likes it that way. If it were me, I would rather marry someone of equal social standing, someone I neither like nor hate.
Poisoned
This book is basically about a brainless, obsessive character who's obsessed with Lin Daiyu. It's full of illogical arguments. Take Lin Ruhai, for example. His mother's family all showed him kindness, yet he completely ignored it (don't say the protagonist is too young; he has an uncle).
Jia Baoyu is not a good match, and Lin Daiyu is even less of a virtuous wife. To pair the protagonist with Lin Daiyu would be an insult to the protagonist.
Hurry up and update! Author, say something! So many people are waiting to read this!