The Female Ghost and the Male Ghost

I want to write about a melancholic couple. The woman is a female ghost, the man is a male ghost, and both look like they're barely alive. Whenever they show themselves together in front of people, everyone finds them unpleasant.

The man is plagued by illness, and the woman is addicted to gambling. In the eyes of others, they're both "cancers," and they marry, loving and hating each other.

On the surface, the man is beautiful and delicate, while the woman is beautiful and fragile. In reality, the man is cruel, and the woman is as domineering as a madwoman.

She will protect him from being bullied.

He will make sure she never suffers the slightest indignity.

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The man comes from a wealthy, prosperous merchant family, while the female lead's family is an official household that has fallen on hard times.

Because he has been ill for so long, everyone thinks the male lead is close to death. While he's still alive at fifteen or sixteen, his family wants to arrange a marriage for him. The female lead's family happens to need money, so they marry off their daughter, who has just come of age, for a generous bride price.

The male lead doesn't want to marry, and the female lead doesn't want to wed.

On their wedding night, the male lead plans to show off his illness to scare her, while the female lead plans to lay down the law with this consumptive so he'll obey her from then on.

But when the veil is lifted, it's the first time they see each other, and they rather like what they see.

The male lead stops trying to scare her, and the female lead sees how pale he is and gives up on laying down the law.

They pretend to be deeply in love, coax each other, then put out the lights and go to bed together on their wedding night.

After they marry, they become a pair of "cancers."

The male lead is a little crazy, and the female lead is a little obsessive.

While the male lead is still alive, the female lead even tries to find a Taoist priest to tie their marriage threads together more tightly.

"In life, you're mine. In death, you're mine. You can't escape. You'll always be mine."

While he is alive, the male lead watches her do all this with a smile. If his family dares criticize her, he goes berserk and makes a scene, sparing no one.

Theme: When love takes hold, the living can die, and the dead can live.