The author Cao Xueqin pulled out all of the most flowery phrases to describe the incomparable Jia Baoyu and Qin Zhong, but raised them up high only then to let them fall hard. The Chinese expression that "beauties are often ill-fated" also appears to be borne out in the lives of these handsome men.
曹雪芹雖用盡所有最美的文字描述天下無雙的寶玉、秦鐘，可惜他目的是要他們摔的也越沈重，紅顏多薄命的說法遂也驗證在美男子身上。