After hearing the news of Baoyu's marriage, Daiyu became more and more ill. She expected that she had no physiology at all, so she burned the old handkerchief and poem as a witness of her love with Baoyu. Jia Fu was too busy getting married to consider Daiyu and told the maids to leave. Daiyu shouted, "Baoyu! Baoyu! Hello-"and then died. At this time, the sound of wedding music was faintly heard in the distance. The bamboo shoots outside Xiaoxiang Pavilion were moving, and the moon shadow moved to the wall. It was so bleak and cold!

The fifth episode of A Dream of Red Mansions hints at the death of Lin Daiyu. "I saw two dead trees painted on the first page with a jade belt hanging on them ... and four poems: It's a pity to stop the machine, but it's a pity to praise it. The jade belt hangs in the forest and is buried in the snow. " The "jade belt hanging in the forest" here probably implies that Lin Daiyu died of hanging beam and committed suicide. Later, with the development of the story, Lin Daiyu's condition was aggravated step by step, pushing her to death. From this point of view, Cao Xueqin seems to have personally "murdered" a character with distinctive personality that he painstakingly created. ?

Although it was a well-planned "murder", this kind of "murder" was more out of kindness, which gave Lin Daiyu a chance to keep a good appearance and let her "lead a clean life" and not "sink into the ditch". But after all, Lin Daiyu is one of the characters he created and loved, and Cao Xueqin felt helpless and unbearable about her death. At the sixty-third party, Lin Daiyu drew a sign that read "Don't blame Dongfeng for shame". The subtext buried here is: "Don't blame me for letting you die early, I am helpless. Who makes your personality so unpopular? "