Liu-Tsai is not a great literary classic, but it is nevertheless famous for being a collection of ghost stories, all slightly different and nearly all involving female ghosts. I suppose the huge proportion of beautiful female ghosts to all other types of supernatural beings is because people who could read in Ancient China were usually scholars or nobles, who are predominantly male. You can imagine the majority reaction to a male ghost: "A male ghost? .... I'll skip this story." Siu-Sen is only one of many ghost stories in Liu-Tsai, but it's undoubtedly the most famous one. It has many variations, but the basic premise is this:

A travelling male Scholar / Warrior / Rent-Collector / Just-Plain-Loser meets a Beautiful Female Ghost whom he Falls-in-Love-With / Gets-Seduced-By / Falls-in-Lust-With / The-Usual-Thing but cannot be together with. The reason, (apart from one of them being dead) is that the female ghost is being horribly oppressed by a Human-Eating-Tree-Demon / Human-Eating-Mountain-Monster / Human-Eating-Lord-of-the-Underworld who forces her to do it's will. Being helpless in the face of this supernatural menace, the male lead will then encounter a weird Sage / Wise-Man / Ghost-Busting-Taoist who will then either tell him how to do the demon in or if the male lead is too helpless, do the demon in himself. Once the threat is over, the male lead and female ghost will then Live-Happily-Ever-After / Go-Their-Separate-Ways, depending on whether the story thinks humans and ghosts can live together or not.

CHAPTER 1	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
CHAPTER 2	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40
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CHAPTER 3	45	46	47	48

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