Lin er bao

Lin er bao or Lin'er bao^[1] (traditional Chinese: 麟兒報; simplified Chinese: 麟儿报), also translated into English as Son of Good Fortune,^[2] is a Chinese romantic novel of the 17th-century written by an anonymous writer.^[3] The novel is often categorized as one of the caizi jiaren novels that were massively popular during the late Ming and early Qing eras.^[2]

Chapter one of the novel Lin er bao

The earliest extant edition of the novel is a 1672 printed edition from the early Qing period that is now located in the Dalian Library.