Wu Mei Yuan

Wu Mei Yuan or Wumei yuan, translated into English as the Destinies of Five Beauties, is a Chinese romantic novel of the early 19th-century during the Qing dynasty. The novel is usually categorized as one of the caizi jiaren novels. Its authorship is ascribed to a writer named Jisheng Shi (寄生氏), which is a pseudonym, however, this is also disputed. It consists of 80 chapters. An early printed edition of the novel dating to 1822 is located in the National Library of China.