That author's false diagnosis of lung cancer inspired him to write a novel whose main characters are called "I" and "You," the latter of whom searches for a place called Lingshan.
A character with this surname is too busy editing a political newspaper to pay attention to Ming Feng when she shows up in his bedroom the night before she is to be married off to an older man, leading to Ming Feng's suicide. This is the surname of the title family of Ba Jin's The Family. A scholar with this surname may have written the last forty chapters of the Dream of the Red Chamber, included in the two editions he published with (*) Cheng Weiyuan in the 1790s. An author with this surname wrote about a man who is disappointed to learn that nobody noticed when he nearly drowned in the story "Cramp." That author's false diagnosis of lung cancer inspired him to write a novel whose main characters are called "I" and "You," the latter of whom searches for a place called Lingshan. For 10 points, identify this surname of the author of Soul Mountain.
A character with this surname is too busy editing a political newspaper to pay attention to Ming Feng when she shows up in his bedroom the night before she is to be married off to an older man, leading to Ming Feng's suicide.
Gao [or Kao]