The original text of "Smart and Tired" from the 12 songs of "Dream of Red Mansions" in Chapter 5 of Cao Xueqin's "Dream of Red Mansions" [Wandering in the Fantasy Land refers to the enchantment of twelve hairpins drinking fairy wine and performing a dream of Red Mansions] is as follows:
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[Smart and Tired]
The agency was too clever in calculating, and it cost Qingqing her life. The heart was broken during life, and the nature is ethereal after death. A rich man would rather live in a rich family, but eventually a family will die and everyone will go their separate ways. It's all in vain, my thoughts have been hanging in my heart for half a lifetime, as if I was dreaming about it in the middle of the night. Suddenly, it sounded like a building falling down, and it was so dark and miserable that it felt like a light was about to burn out. Ah! A happy moment suddenly sad. Sigh, the end of the world is hard to determine!