Among these stories in which emotion so far outstrips reason--including The Peony Pavilion, in which the living die and the dead come to life--the denouement never goes beyond the formula of success in the examinations.
包括像《牡丹亭》那樣生者死、死者生；情比理超出那麼多的文本，結局還是逃不出狀元結局。