Red Chamber: The Laid-Back Marquis and His Flourishing Descendants

A broken boat, empty sleeves, and a vast expanse of white snow—truly a clean slate. The family's literary legacy is shattered, its martial lineage severed, leaving behind only the regrets of worthless descendants. Amid laughter, rage, and tangled romances, the entire household drowns in filth and tear-stained sorrow. No matter how meticulously one schemes, the tide cannot be turned—a hundred-year-old noble house crumbles into nothing. This is a clan doomed to fall, a pack of vampiric beasts that only know how to drain the lifeblood of others. How can such a family be saved? Is there even anything worth saving? Far better to conceal one's edge, play the fool, and walk a quiet path—sipping tea, savoring fine wine, acquiring estates, taking a handful of beautiful consorts, and watching the farce unfold from the sidelines. Watch them raise their lofty towers, watch them feast their guests, and watch those towers collapse into dust. Yet, before anyone realizes it, this overlooked, unremarkable bastard son has risen to command the realm and stir the very winds of heaven and earth.