147 ChRising in Rank, Making Fortune, and Marrying Daiyu
[紅樓]升官發財娶黛玉
It was only after returning to the capital with meritorious service that Mu Chuan realized he had穿越 into the world of Dream of the Red Chamber.
Of course, he wasn't an unnamed nobody in the original work either.
He had connections with Granny Liu's family and also with Zhou Rui's family. The original text mentioned that 'Zhou Rui's fight to buy land was largely due to the efforts of Dog,' but the land they were fighting over belonged to the Mu family.
Thirty-five mu of top-quality paddy fields were 'voluntarily' sold to Zhou Rui for thirty taels of silver. The originally small landlord family, the Mus, fell into poverty overnight.
The grandfather died happily due to 'excessive joy,' the second uncle broke his leg from 'excessive joy,' and the original owner, because the family had no money to pay for the corvée labor, was dragged to the border as a soldier at the age of fourteen and died young.
Now that he has returned to the capital, this matter must be settled properly.
For instance, by marrying Lin Daiyu, emptying the Lin family's assets embezzled by the Rongguo Mansion, and delivering a vicious kick to the precarious foundation of the Jia family.
He also needs to show the Jia family how well he is living, and how well Lin Daiyu, whom they despised for her poor health, petty nature, and tendency to be sarcastic, is living—she who was described as 'three hundred and sixty days a year, oppressed by wind and frost.'
Notes:
1. Male-oriented romance, female lead is Lin Daiyu, a sweet and pampering story.
2. The male lead is double-standard and biased, never self-consuming, only torturing others.
3. The early part involves some elements of snatching love and 'homewrecking,' but overall it is a healing story about eating, drinking, and daily life.
4. The Jia family will not be saved.
Content tags: Dream of the Red Chamber, time travel, farming story, sweet story, book transmigration, slice of life.
Mu Chuan, Lin Daiyu.
Others: Warm and healing.
One-sentence introduction: The happy life between me and Lin Daiyu.
Moral: Love is the source of courage and the beginning of a happy life.
