The Lotus in the Linghua Mirror

You think Daiyu has the saddest fate in Dream of the Red Chamber? Wrong.

There was a girl who was kidnapped at four. At twelve, she watched her betrothed beaten to death, then became the plaything of Xue Pan, the Foolish Tyrant. In the end, Xue Pan's lawful wife, Xia Jingui, tortured her to death. She never knew who she really was. Her name changed three times, her face shattered in the mirror seven times, and she completely forgot what her mother looked like.

Cao Xueqin passed judgment on her in three words: Truly to be pitied.

But this time, she will use a shattered mirror to look back over her life and see it anew. The mirror holds not only her blood and tears, but also a Grand View Garden you have never seen before. In the bamboo shadows of the Xiaoxiang Lodge lie Daiyu's drafts of poetry; beneath the pomegranate-red skirts of the Pear Fragrance Court, a trace of lantern-red from the Lantern Festival glimmers; in a shadowed corner of the Hengwu Garden, Baochai watches it all with cool eyes.

The novel runs 80 chapters and 600,000 words. A shattered diamond-patterned mirror serves as its