In the book "The Dream of the Red Chamber" (Also known as The Story of the Stone), author Cao Xue Qin wanted to "disenchant" or warn the world as to the different kinds of love. He implied there is only one kind which should be considered as True Love. In a dream, and under mythical circumstances, the main character of the novel, teen-age boy Jia Bao Yu, met the Fairy Disenchantment in the Land of Illusions. She showed him three "registers" each containing the names and "the happenings in life" of 12 girls in his family. Each girl represents a kind of love: True Love, Conscientious Love, ... etc. From the stories which are unfolding in the novel, the reader should know the characteristics of the different kinds of love, and should be able to distinguish True Love from the other kinds.
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