Examples are Jiao Zhongqing and Liu Lanzhi in the Han dynasty story The Peacocks Fly South-east; the Song dynasty patriotic poet Lu You and Tang Wan; or Shen Sanbai and Yunniang in the Qing-dynasty Six Chapters of a Floating Life.
如漢朝「孔雀東南飛」的焦仲卿與劉蘭芝；如宋朝愛國詩人陸游與唐琬；如清朝《浮生六記》的沈三白、芸娘。