Not accurate. The characters and storylines in A Dream of Red Mansions are fictional and cannot be compared with the real events and characters in real life, so Hou Baoyu of Helan is inaccurate in the tone of men and women. A Dream of Red Mansions is a novel written by Cao Xueqin, a writer in Qing Dynasty, which tells the love, family and social tragedies of Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai. Hou Baoyu of Helan in the novel is a talented and complicated character.