Dream of the Red Chamber in the Jiajing Era

Reborn into the world of Dream of the Red Chamber during the Jiajing era, Zhang Yuan originally planned to study for the civil service and figured he’d have nothing to do with the Twelve Beauties of Jinling. But when did they all start clinging to me, and why? First, Lin Daiyu seemed to fall from the sky. She never entered the Jia household and had yet to become entangled with the Jia family, but somehow she was pushed to Zhang Yuan’s side and stayed with him from then on. Then Xue Baochai gave up the beauty pageant and the golden-and-jade match, and instead started pestering him every single day. But most importantly, why are you clinging to me too, Baoyu? If things followed the original story, once the Jia family fell, they might fade into obscurity, go astray, or still meet the same tragic ends as beautiful women of old. But Zhang Yuan wasn’t worried at all. After all, he had a great big brother named Zhang Juzheng. That all made sense in theory, but there was one problem: Zhang Juzheng was going to have his household confiscated too?!