Baoyu of Dream of the Red Chamber: A New Chapter

(The opening follows the timeline of the Ji Mao edition, with Lin Daiyu arriving in the capital at age thirteen.) Jia Zhang, a veteran actor from the future, transmigrates into the Red Chamber world and becomes Jia Baoyu, the Second Young Master. It turns out Jia Baoyu's full name was Jia Zhang. It turns out Jia Baoyu disliked studying and hated the pursuit of official rank and wealth because becoming an official meant shaving his head and changing his clothes. In little more than ten years, the Jia family will be reduced to a vast, barren emptiness! Should he spend the next decade as a wealthy idler, surrounded by his sisters and cousins, or rise up and fight to reverse two centuries of decline for China? Rain falls on white bones, blood stains the grass; the moon chills the yellow sands, where ghosts guard the corpses. His heart cannot accept this fate. His grief will not fade! Jia Zhang decides to defy fate and continue the saga! Suddenly, the Spiritual Jade shines with seven-colored light. Chosen by Heaven, may its reign endure forever. Once a stone that mended the sky, now rouge smeared across the world. Born with the will to soar, now is the time to transform.