queen-of-hell

Updated: July 26, 2025

Lending an ear to what was going on inside, she heard some one in the room laughingly observe: "When that queen-of-hell sort of wife of yours dies, it will be a good riddance!" "When she's gone," Chia Lien rejoined, "and I marry another, the like of her, what will I again do?" "When she's dead and gone," the woman resumed, "just raise P'ing Erh to the rank of primary wife.

Xueqin Cao - Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book II