The female protagonist Lin Tai-yu is capping the lines of an impromptu poem and inadvertently lets slip the titles of two books considered risque at the time, The Peony Pavilion and Romance of the Western Chamber. The next day she is called over and scolded by her cousin Hsueh Pao-chai.
女主角林黛玉有一次吟詩作對，不小心順口露出兩句當時被視為閨閣禁書「牡丹亭」、「西廂記」的詞句，第二天就被薛寶釵叫了去訓斥一頓。