Perhaps they, too, are ghosts! Wang explains the fact that ghost stories invariably involve ghost females encountering young male scholars to this biological difference between men and women. He strengthens his argument by drawing attention to the Chinese faith in "using yang [which represents both the masculine and mundane] to compensate for weaknesses in yin [which represents both the feminine and the otherworldly]."
王溢嘉以男女生理反應不同來解釋女鬼愛書生的道理，並補充以中國人「採陽補陰」的觀念，來加強他的論點。