ContentsCHAPTER 1Jia Yucun finds that poverty is not incompatible with romanceCHAPTER 2The bottle-gourd girl meets an unfortunate young manCHAPTER 3Jia Baoyu conducts his first experiment in the Art of LoveCHAPTER 4Jia Baoyu visits the Ningguo Mansion and has an agreeable meeting with Qinshi’s brotherCHAPTER 5Jia Rui conceives an illicit passion for his attractive cousinCHAPTER 6Jia Baoyu is presented to the Prince of Beijing during a roadside haltCHAPTER 7Qin Zhong is summoned for a premature departure on the journey into NightCHAPTER 8Rongguo Mansion readies itself for an important visitorCHAPTER 9A very earnest young woman offers counsel by nightCHAPTER 10Baoyu finds Zen enlightenment in an operatic ariaCHAPTER 11The Quiet-voiced Girl provides fantastical material by losing her handkerchiefCHAPTER 12A beauty perspires after some sport with butterflies by the Raindrop PavilionCHAPTER 13Baoyu demonstrates confusion of mind by making his declaration to the wrong personCHAPTER 14A wordless message meets with silent understandingCHAPTER 15Baoyu tastes some superior tea at Green Bower HermitageCHAPTER 16Xifeng’s jealousy is the cause of an unexpected provocationCHAPTER 17The One deluded in love turns his thoughts to trade and travelCHAPTER 18Ningguo Mansion makes sacrifice to their ancestors on New Year’s EveCHAPTER 19Nightingale tests Jade Boy with a startling messageCHAPTER 20Baoyu owns up to a crime he did not commitCHAPTER 21Jia Lian’s second marriage is celebrated in secretCHAPTER 22A scheming woman kills with a borrowed knifeCHAPTER 23Midnight revelers are startled by a sound of evil omenCHAPTER 24Yingchun’s parents betroth her to a Zhongshan wolfCHAPTER 25Baoyu’s betrothal is discussed for the first timeCHAPTER 26Pursuing lust, Moonbeam evolves an artful stratagemCHAPTER 27Lin Daiyu burns her poems to signal the end of her heart’s follyCHAPTER 28Jingui dies by her own hand, caught in a web of her own constructionCHAPTER 29Ghostly weeping heard at the Naiad’s House provokes a fresh outburst of griefCHAPTER 30Human destinies are revealed in a fairy realm, and the Stone is restored to its rightful ownerCHAPTER 31Baoyu becomes a Provincial Graduate and severs worldly ties