Chapter 299 - This World’s Misconception of Dream of the Red Chamber! (1/2)

At home.

It was 10 something in the morning.

Zhang Ye was alone at home. His father and mother had already left for work.

After Zhang Ye opened the door and went into his house, other than taking a sip of tea that was left on the table. He did not do anything else and just went straight to his room and switched on the computer. He searched the topic of “Dream of the Red Chamber” and found many results. There were also a lot of ma.n.u.scripts and there was also the 120 circulated chapters that had been collated and sorted out.

It’s correct!

This was the one!

Zhang Ye couldn’t help but find the most published version of the novel that he found online. He then browsed through it generally from the front to the back to get the general idea. After over an hour, Zhang Ye had confirmed that this was the one. This was the same “Dream of the Red Chamber” novel that existed in his previous world as well. Even the words used did not differ too much. Although a lot of things had changed in this world, the Four Great Cla.s.sical Novels were too influential and had stayed the same. Zhang Ye had verified this once again, there was definitely no problem!

But then why?

Why did Professor Zeng say such words?

Zhang Ye continued researching the “Dream of the Red Chamber” related lectures and found out that as Professor Zeng had said, there really weren’t many detailed lectures regarding this novel. There were some lectures available, but they mainly touched on only the first 10 chapters of the novel and did a simple a.n.a.lysis before ending it on that note!

That can’t be right?

What were you all trying to prove!

What about those Redologists? Those experts who specialized in studying “Dream of the Red Chamber”? Where did they disappear to! Did you guys all end up researching “Golden Lotus“?

Zhang Ye couldn’t wrap his head around this fact!

“Dream of the Red Chamber” being the greatest of the Four Great Cla.s.sical Novels, how did it ever fall into the state it was in now?

Suddenly, Zhang Ye saw a related headline concerning “Dream of the Red Chamber”. Then he was stunned for a few seconds and became confused. It wrote there—As the greatest of the Four Great Cla.s.sical Novels, the influence and achievements of “Romance of the Three Kingdoms” domestically……what came after no longer mattered. Zhang Ye was stunned at the first half of the headline. F**k your sister, when did Romance of the Three Kingdoms become the greatest of the Four Great Cla.s.sical Novels? “Dream of the Red Chamber” was publicly acknowledged as the top in the literary field in his previous world. It was irrefutably the top, how could it become “Romance of the Three Kingdoms”!?

No!

Surely, there must be a story behind it!

The cultural works between his previous world and this world were a little different, the appreciation levels were still similar. They couldn’t have come to such a low level conclusion. Even those scholars and researchers who had spent their lives understanding the Three Kingdoms would not dare to say that “Romance of the Three Kingdoms” was better than “Dream of the Red Chamber” in the field of literature!

Where did it go wrong?

What was the problem?

To Zhang Ye, this was not a matter that could be blamed on supernatural events. He could not come to an understanding even when he kept thinking with all his might. So he quickly went online to research more deeply, the deeper he went, the more he became speechless. He found out that “Dream of the Red Chamber” was not only not the top novel of the Four Great Cla.s.sical Novels, it was in fact the last of the Four Great Cla.s.sical Novels! Even “Water Margin” and “Journey to the West” were ahead of it!

An authoritative comment put it like that: