This book includes four tales of frustrated love, colored with an underlying violence and latent eroticism. Four seductive and passionate women are the saviours of the poor souls who succumb to their charms. Through the portrayal of the life and experience of the bandits in the mountain areas, Tianjian the county magistrate, Liu Ziyan the geomancer, Wukui the bride carrier and Bai Lan the bandit chieftain, stand out as images of those who have chosen a destiny born of the folly of love.