« Several months went by till one night by lamplight, Lian Suo smiled at Yang as though wanting to say something, then, blushing, stopped short, repeating the action several times. He hugged her and asked her what was on her mind. "For a long time," she replied, "you've treated me with love, bearing my ghostly presence and making me part of the human world, till now my dead bones suddenly have a little vitality. I only need some semen and blood from a living person and I can return to life."

Laughing, Yang said, "I wasn't the one who resisted sex—wasn't I keen on it?" »