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The novel successfully portrays a large number of common people, including knights and scholars, servants and maids, singers and actors, tyrants and corrupt merchants, villains and hooligans—encompassing all walks of life, with a total of 320 characters throughout the book. Several main characters have distinctive personalities, such as Yan Mengqing''''s submissiveness, Geng Lang''''s baseness, Ren Xiang''''er''''s jealousy, and Ren Zili''''s greed. The work emphasizes detailed description, with concise and flowing language, lively dialogue that mostly fits the characters'''' status, position, and personality, with many ingenious touches. Particularly notable is the novel''''s ending, where Yan Mengqing''''s belongings are completely burned in a fire, breaking away from the conventional happy ending of scholar-beauty novels and showing remarkable originality and craftsmanship.