The Dream of the Red Chamber Book II by Xueqin Cao ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

The Dream of the Red Chamber Book II by Xueqin Cao audiobook.

Genre: drama

The Dream of the Red Chamber Book II continues Cao Xueqin's monumental portrait of the Jia clan at the height of its splendor, even as quiet signs of strain begin to show beneath the lacquered surface. At the center is Jia Baoyu, a sensitive heir who chafes against the rigid expectations of scholarship, status, and marriage that define elite life. Within the women-filled world of the Grand View Garden, Baoyu's closest bonds deepen and fray as he is drawn between the fragile, poetic Lin Daiyu and the steady, capable Xue Baochai, while a brilliant circle of cousins, maids, and matrons navigate jealousy, loyalty, ambition, and love. As household rituals, festivals, lessons, and performances unfold in rich detail, the novel reveals how power operates through etiquette and gossip as much as through official rank. Beyond the garden walls, debts, rivalries, and bureaucratic pressures threaten the family's security, forcing its members to make choices that test their values and relationships. By turns comic and heartbreaking, Book II expands the cast and raises the stakes in a story about desire, duty, and the cost of living inside a beautiful, vanishing world.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:27:57) Chapter 02

(00:50:22) Chapter 03

(01:14:24) Chapter 04

(01:39:47) Chapter 05

(02:01:55) Chapter 06

(02:27:24) Chapter 07

(03:06:27) Chapter 08

(03:37:51) Chapter 09

(04:11:09) Chapter 10

(04:43:36) Chapter 11

(05:01:36) Chapter 12

(05:26:39) Chapter 13

(05:54:53) Chapter 14

(06:17:24) Chapter 15

(06:35:49) Chapter 16

(06:57:48) Chapter 17

(07:34:02) Chapter 18

(07:58:37) Chapter 19

(08:24:09) Chapter 20

(08:52:01) Chapter 21

(09:21:56) Chapter 22

(09:47:58) Chapter 23

(10:17:05) Chapter 24

(10:55:04) Chapter 25

(11:33:35) Chapter 26

(12:00:29) Chapter 27

(12:25:03) Chapter 28

(12:52:46) Chapter 29

(13:17:36) Chapter 30

(13:52:37) Chapter 31

(14:25:40) Chapter 32

(14:48:35) Chapter 33

(15:10:44) Chapter 34

(15:39:42) Chapter 35

(16:09:03) Chapter 36

(16:36:20) Chapter 37

(17:04:23) Chapter 38

(17:29:20) Chapter 39

(17:56:17) Chapter 40

(18:27:25) Chapter 41

(18:57:11) Chapter 42

(19:30:46) Chapter 43

(19:59:27) Chapter 44

(20:20:42) Chapter 45

(20:48:17) Chapter 46

(21:12:09) Chapter 47

(21:38:26) Chapter 48

(22:05:51) Chapter 49

(22:32:57) Chapter 50

(22:56:47) Chapter 51

(23:26:09) Chapter 52

(23:47:59) Chapter 53

(24:15:32) Chapter 54

(24:45:12) Chapter 55

(25:12:04) Chapter 56

(25:42:27) Chapter 57

(26:14:23) Chapter 58

(26:42:31) Chapter 59

(27:15:54) Chapter 60

(27:46:33) Chapter 61

(28:17:03) Chapter 62

(28:50:59) Chapter 63

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