Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: procession is attacked by sword-wielding bandits in desert first time, Fact2: servant recklessly takes off after bandits, Fact3: bandits have kidnapped young mistress, Fact4: chief of bandits allows Kui to take Young Mistress back, Fact5: word has reached Young Mistress 's fiance of capture
Output (English): Set in the 1920s during Chinas Warlord Era, The Wooden Mans Bride is a romance film between two unlikely people from different classes. A young woman, known only as Young Mistress Wang Lan, is on her way to meet her future husband for the first time when her procession is attacked by swordwielding bandits in the desert. A servant, Kui Chang Shih recklessly takes off after the bandits who have kidnapped the young mistress and taken her back to their lair. When he arrives, Kui impresses the chief of the bandits Kao Mingjun, who allows Kui to take the Young Mistress back. Meanwhile, word has reached the Young Mistresss fiance of her capture. Preparing to engage in a thrilling rescue, the hapless young man accidentally sets off an explosion, killing him. When Young Mistress finally arrives, she faces her fiances imperious mother Wang Yumei, who forces the young woman to undergo arcane tests of purity to determine whether she is worthy to marry the now dead bridegroom. When Young Mistress passes these tests, she is forced to marry the titular wooden man, a woodcarved statue of her late fiance. Forced into a life she does not want, Young Mistress tries and fails to escape from her new home. She finds solace in her growing friendship with her onetime hero, Kui, a friendship that soon blossoms into an illicit love affair. When the affair is discovered, Kui is banished from the mill, and Madame Liu has the Young Mistresss legs broken to prevent escape. Kui, however, is determined to rescue his love once more. He returns to the bandits lair to find the chief dead, and becomes the bandits new leader. A year after he leaves, Kui returns with the bandits to claim Young Mistress. He allows Madame Liu to commit suicide by hanging herself, then burns the house down, taking Young Mistress away with him.