Biography of Jia Min

She is the only legitimate daughter whom Mother Jia holds dear, the mother who died young but is engraved in her bones and blood, and the "invisible soul" who never appears but is everywhere in "A Dream of Red Mansions". "The Biography of Jia Min" reveals for the first time the secret life of the most dazzling woman in the Rongguo Mansion - from the girlhood of fine clothes and fine food, to the infatuation and determination to marry Lin Ruhai; from the husband and wife staying together in the storm of the Yangzhou salt policy, to the last words of Yu Daiyu on the sickbed. This novel is not only a prequel to Lin Daiyu, but also a panoramic ukiyo-e of the Jia family in its heyday. Jia Mu's iron-fisted tenderness when she was young, Mrs. Wang's hidden jealousy, and Wang Xifeng's emerging edge are all in it. Only by understanding Jia Min can you know for whom Concubine Xiaoxiang sheds her tears.