Wang Xifeng dislikes her husband's concubines and one of them, Second Sister You commits suicide by consuming gold.

Xue Baochai is Baoyu and Daiyu's fellow playmate and her brother is known for being a corrupt villain around town.

Her brother Xue Pan even kills a man to buy a slave girl named Xiangling.

Wang Xifeng miserably dies, and her young daughter Jia Qiaojie is arranged to be sold as a concubine to an old man.

[4][5] The 2010 TV series faced controversy over its cast, the stylized, kunqu-inspired hairdo, as well as a generally negative press after its July 6 debut.

Following a highly publicized casting call, director Hu Mei was replaced by Li Shaohong in 2007.

Li courted more controversy by adopting a stylized kunqu-inspired hairstyle (dubbed "coined heads" 铜钱头/銅錢頭 (Tóngqián tóu) by netizens) for her female cast members, as advised by Hong Kong art director Ye Jintian.

[10] It was panned by some newspapers,[11][12] with one referring to it as a pre-modern version of the pop idol drama Meteor Garden.

[14] Director Li was under enormous pressure owing to the negative feedback and broke down during a Beijing press conference held on 7 July 2010, her birthday.