A central female character is sold into the house of Commissioner Wang and Lady Lin after her father dies, and learns to play musical instruments there, before she's given as a bride to the dwarf Wu Chih, who is murdered by the protagonist of this work.
Minor characters in this work include Shih En, the son of a prison camp warden at Meng-chou who battles Chiang Men-shen for control of the Happy Forest Tavern and makes a gift out of a hundred taels of silver. A central female character is sold into the house of Commissioner Wang and Lady Lin after her father dies, and learns to play musical instruments there, before she's given as a bride to the dwarf Wu Chih, who is murdered by the protagonist of this work. That protagonist visits an Indian monk at the Temple of Eternal Felicity to obtain pills which lead to his eventual death by overdose. Before that, Ximen Qing takes P'an Chin-lien as his Fifth Lady and he has a maid named Pang Chunmei whose rise is reflected in the title of this work. It borrows several themes from The Water Margin, and was written under the pseudonym Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng. FTP, name this work sometimes called The Golden Lotus which is famous for being chock full of sexual fetishism.
Minor characters in this work include Shih En, the son of a prison camp warden at Meng-chou who battles Chiang Men-shen for control of the Happy Forest Tavern and makes a gift out of a hundred taels of silver.
The {Plum in the Golden Vase} (or The Golden Lotus before mentioned or