Dream of the Red Chamber
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Your mother is dead, and the journey north ends at gates where rank decides which door you enter. You play Lin Daiyu, arriving to live in your grandmother's house and determined to ask less and notice everything — cousins to be named, a cousin's wife who arrives laughing before a servant can announce her, a warning about the boy the old lady spoils. Then Baoyu stops in the doorway, says your face is not new to him, and reaches for the jade at his neck.
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- Daiyu Enters the Rong MansionRongguo House