The Record of the Strange Encounter in the Western Camp is the fifth story of Nguyễn Dữ's Truyền kỳ mạn lục collection,[1] published in the first volume.

[2] Hà Nhân from Thiên Trương comes to the capital in the era of Thiệu Bình to study with master Ức Trai.

Hà Nhân comes back to the Western Camp and reunites with the duo, but his association with them causes him to neglect studying.

As time passes and winter comes, Liễu and Đào one day tell Hà Nhân that they have contracted an incurable disease and will die that night before giving him their shoes as keepsakes.

The fifth story in Nguyễn Dư's collection is notably one of the rare and daring examples of Vietnamese pre-modern erotic literature, moreover when it depicts a threesome relationship,[3] although its sexuality is still covered up by the author using supernatural elements.