Seeking an ancient romance novel

The female protagonist's family background is not good, and her father is a prison guard (?) He liked to drink and was not good to his mother. His father planned to buy the female protagonist to a rich family in exchange for money to buy wine. Unfortunately, on the wedding night, the female protagonist was told to enter the palace with the people in the county to select talents.

Answer 1

There were many romance novels in ancient times, and one of the more famous ones was Dream of the Red Chamber. This novel was a long story about China's feudal society. It told the love story of Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu and others. The novel takes Jia Baoyu being expelled from the Jia family as the background, and through the emotional entanglements between Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu, Xue Baochai and others, it shows the various drawbacks of feudal society and the complexity of human nature. The plot of the novel was full of ups and downs, and the writing style was beautiful. It was a classic work in ancient Chinese novels.