Very few ghostesses have, like Nie Xiaoqian, regained human form and remained at their lover's side for life. A way out of the spirit world Another reason why there are so many female ghosts in the Chinese literary tradition is that women had so few choices in real life, and ghosts could remedy that.
像聶小倩這樣能夠起死回生、重新為人的女鬼則少之又少，更遑論共組家庭、恩愛一生了。