An unnamed Qingzhou businessman often travels abroad for extended periods, leaving his wife alone at home with their pet canid, a white dog.

[1][a] Observing that "this woman is certainly not the only creature with a human visage to have coupled with an animal",[1] Pu Songling writes in an "Appended Judgement", "(The wife) was a yaksha-demon in bed, a bitch on heat".

[2] Originally titled "Quan jian" (犬奸), the story first appeared in Pu Songling's Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (also known as Liaozhai).

[5] A Ming dynasty circular lists a few recorded cases of bestiality with animals like snakes, horses, sheep, donkeys, even tigers, and dogs.

[6] Frances Weightman, in her 2008 book The Quest for the Childlike in Seventeenth-century Chinese Fiction, calls the story, which she cites as "Adultery with a dog", one of the "most shocking tales in the collection".