Qin Zhong (character)

He is Qin Keqing's younger brother and Jia Baoyu's handsome best friend and schoolmate.

The two boys get along marvelously well and decide to enroll in the Jia clan's school together and become study-mates.

[2] Qin Zhong and the little novice bhikkhuni Zhineng (智能, "Intelligent", called "Sapientia" in the Hawkes translation), who grew up visiting the Jia household, eventually fall in love.

Zhineng absconds from the Water-Moon Priory and makes her way into the city to find Qin Zhong, but is chased away at the door by his father.

Qin Zhong, already just recovering from illness, dies from a combination of the severe beating, and overwhelming grief and remorse.