Qin Keqing's identity is very mysterious. In her dream, she encouraged Jia Baoyu to have an affair, and when she died, she told Wang Xifeng that the future Jia family feast was coming to an end. Qin Keqing's birth is also very strange. She was adopted by Yang Sheng as an abandoned baby. Her family only has Qin Ye and Qin Zhong, a father and a brother, and there is no other explanation. The death of Qin Keqing has always been an unsolved case in A Dream of Red Mansions. Her supremacy in the Jia family and unspeakable scandals made her the most secret of the twelve women. However, the strangest thing is that shortly after Qin Keqing's death, her parents' father and brother died one after another, and all the clues about Qin Keqing's birth were broken.

Zuo Zongtang is good at suggesting Qin Ye with his name, which, as the name implies, is the evil of Qin. He is the beginning of all ill feelings, while Qin Zhong means love bell, that is, the end of all ill feelings. Qin Ye explained it clearly in the book. He is a shy official. He sent Qin Zhong to Jia's school, but he cobbled together 24 gifts. It is conceivable that his usual life is not affluent.

However, all the decorations in the family are unique treasures, which are collected by some royal families, but none of them are Jia's. So these things are definitely not bought for her by Qin Ye, and there is no reason for Jia Jia to buy such treasures for Qin Keqing alone. Therefore, the origin of abandoned baby Qin Keqing may be a cover. She knows who she is and lives the life she should have lived.

Qin Ye is a man who knows all the secrets of Qin Keqing. He nicknamed Qin Keqing "Kerr". No one in Jia's family knows this name, which shows that he has kept this secret well and is enjoying the love of Qin Keqing's real family. As can be seen from these antique treasures in Qin Keqing House, the real background of Qin Keqing is very noble, even worse than that of Jia House, otherwise Jia House could not hold Qin Keqing so high. Qin Ye didn't earn much money, and even made a gift for Qin Zhong to attend a private school. However, when he died, he left three or four thousand taels of silver. The book says:

Qin Zhong's soul refused to go there, and he remembered that no one was in charge of housework at home. His father still had three or four thousand taels of silver to pay back, and his intelligence had not fallen, and he begged the ghost for a verdict in every way.