The scholar Wang Qihou, while taking his afternoon nap at home one day, was suddenly intruded upon by an unattractive, dark-skinned, and ugly woman.

She approached his bedside with a simpering smile and began to sit down, attempting every manner of shameless seduction.

The scholar was deeply disgusted and quickly tried to drive the woman out, but to his dismay, she stubbornly refused to leave.

From that moment on, whether the scholar was sitting or lying down, the woman perpetually hovered nearby.

He resolved firmly that no matter how persistently she pestered him, he would never yield to temptation.

Enraged by his steadfastness, the woman slapped the scholar several times in a fury, and then hung a rope from the beam, forcing the scholar to hang himself.

Scholar Wang, against his will, actually ran to hang himself.

His neck slipped into the noose, and his body stiffened, dangling mid-air, yet he could not die.

Shortly thereafter, he fell into a state of madness.

One day, he suddenly shouted wildly, "No! She's forcing me to jump into the river!" Before the words were finished, his body inevitably moved uncontrollably, lunging straight toward the riverbank, saved only by the frantic pulling and dragging of concerned neighbors.

In the days that followed, the scholar suffered bouts of insanity daily, enduring relentless torment from the female ghost.

His family, unaware of the truth, called in doctors to prescribe medicine, but there was not the slightest improvement.

One day, as the scholar was again having an episode, a warrior suddenly strode in, gripping an iron chain, his face contorted with anger, and roared, "You vile spirit! How dare you bully an honest man! Come back with me now!" Without another word, he looped the iron chain around the woman's neck and forcibly dragged her out through the window lattice.

Once outside the window, the woman transformed in a shimmer, becoming a monstrous creature with lightning-quick eyes and a gaping, bloody maw.

Someone cried out, "In the City God Temple outside the suburbs, there are four clay demons.

Isn't that clay demon before us precisely this female monster?" The female ghost was captured, and a few days later, Scholar Wang's illness was completely cured.