Literary tanci, a form of narrative in verse originated from the tanci performance, was well received among literate women from the Jiangnan area in the Qing. Many so-called "talented women" dedicated many years of their life to writing long tanci narratives, symbolically turning the genre into a "female form." The present paper deals with four such examples of tanci narratives by women-Yuchuan yuan, Zaisheng yuan, Zaizao tian and Bi sheng hua. These four works are interactive and therefore form an internal network from the perspective of reading. Yuehuan yuan swears to be its sequel while creating a totally different world-view. Zaizao tian takes Zaisheng yuan up only to argue with it in both form and content, whereas sensitive eye on human relationship. The heritage of the four works indicates the close relationship between reading and writing. Literary women developed a psychological sense of community through reading the same texts, which further encouraged their desire to write. Tracing the dialogue relation between reading and writing helps us not only grasp important glimpses of the women�s tradition of narrative, but closely examine the subtle transformation of literary tanci from individual text to text.