I Came for the Red Chamber

After reading Zhang Jie's commentary on Dream of the Red Chamber, I realized how fierce the power struggles between Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai over inheriting the family line were, making it impossible to look at the harmonious relationship among the various factions within Dream of the Red Chamber.

I've read 250 chapters, and there's something truly toxic about this that I just have to get off my chest. This isn't just liking Lin Daiyu; it's obsessive licking! I have no problem with Daiyu being the main wife, but why should all the other women have to wait for her? She's asleep and can't even enter the room. Everyone has to wait for Daiyu. This is just too much of a simp!

I just don't understand why you'd transmigrate into the Jia family now? What is there about this family that's worth saving? It can't be the Feng family. Liu Xianglian is exceptionally skilled in martial arts; give him a power boost, he's handsome, and even if he doesn't join the army and achieve merit, he's still part of the lineage of the Four Kings and Eight Dukes.

I'm not targeting this book specifically, but I find reading Dream of the Red Chamber novels really boring these days. Even The Book of Saving the World is not worth reading; they all seem the same. I have many Dream of the Red Chamber novels on my bookshelf; I read a few chapters, glanced at the table of contents, and then deleted them.

To write a novel like *Dream of the Red Chamber*, one must include all the female characters. Qin Keqing would be perfect as a wife, and Daiyu and Baochai would be perfect as concubines.

Let's put it this way: authors who abandon their books rarely gain support. Be prepared for your next book to remain untouched on your bookshelf. My years of reading experience tell me that as consumers, we shouldn't indulge authors. Why follow a book that doesn't have at least 500 chapters of quality? Authors can abandon their books without any constraints. So, as readers, it's best to face reality.

I'm increasingly disliking the main characters' personalities; they just keep fixating on Grandmother Jia and Jia Baoyu! They're quick to berate and threaten to kill over the smallest things.

In ancient times, lineage was highly valued. Given Lin Daiyu's infertility, was she really suitable to be a principal wife? Modern men wouldn't marry a woman who's constantly ill, unless they're shameless.

The main characters of the Jia family cannot join the army! The emperor confiscated the property of the four princes and eight dukes in order to consolidate military power. Xue Pan's hidden intention was to weaken the power of the princes. The Jia family had been trying to switch from military to civil service in order to avoid having their property confiscated.

If Tan Chun feels constrained by social norms and cannot be openly married off, then simply don't marry her off. Don't be bound by so-called mental shackles. Even if it's Platonic love, just have the protagonist's daughter recognize Tan Chun as her godmother, and the protagonist can take care of her for life.