The Empress
A lot of chapter 14 is going to feel boring and unimportant if you don’t know what Cao Xueqin is actually telling us.
The focus here isn’t on whether Jia Baoyu is going to have his study built on time, or on whether Wang Xifeng was justified in punishing a maid for showing up a minute late to a morning meeting.
Rather, the focus here is on the incredible amount of power and authority that Wang Xifeng wields.
