Dream of Red Mansions

"A Dream of Red Mansions" tells the story of Lu Mengshi, a Chinese graduate student who dropped out of school. At the lowest point in his life, he accidentally used an ancient inkstone to awaken an amnesiac soul who called himself "Qin Xi". He discovered that this was actually Cao Xueqin, the author of "A Dream of Red Mansions" - a blank soul who had forgotten all the deeds in his previous life, leaving only a keen aesthetic instinct and a few words of memory. Faced with this discovery that shocked the history of literature, Lu Mengshi made a bold decision: not to take Cao Xueqin to retrieve his dusty memory, but to take him deep into the weirdness of the 21st century. They walked through the subway crowds in Beijing, observed love performances in the Internet age, witnessed the modern bankruptcy of family businesses, and experienced the strife of academic authority and the temptation of commercial capital. Every modern event is like a key, unexpectedly opening the door of inspiration for Cao Xueqin to reconstruct the final chapter of "Dream of Red Mansions". Therefore, Daiyu's death reappeared in the "social death" of the social media era, the confiscation of Jia's house turned into a cold liquidation of capital games, Wang Xifeng went to the rooftops amidst the betrayal and separation of relatives in the workplace struggle, and Tanchun's distant marriage became cultural loneliness under globalization... This is not a simple continuation, but a soul resonance and critical dialogue that spans two hundred years. The amnesiac Cao Xueqin used classical brushstrokes to diagnose the lesions of modern human nature; and the contemporary absurdity, in turn, illuminated the eternal spiritual dilemma in the classical red building.