Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: couple of elderly missionaries welcomes guests to home for wedding of Dr. Robert Strike fellow missionary and Megan Davis, Fact2: group of orphans are in danger from spreading civil war, Fact3: Bob pleads with general for safe passage pass, Fact4: Megan regains consciousness in private troop train of Yen attended by concubine, Fact5: general Fascinated and attracted by has men young beautiful missionary
Output (English): In the late 1920s in Shanghai during the Chinese Civil War, as throngs of refugees flee the rainswept city, a couple of elderly missionaries welcomes guests to their home for the wedding of Dr. Robert Strike, a fellow missionary, and Megan Davis, his childhood sweetheart whom he has not seen in three years. Some of the missionaries have a cynical view of the Chinese people they have come to save. Shortly after Megan arrives, her fiance Bob rushes in and postpones the wedding so he can rescue a group of orphans who are in danger from the spreading civil war. Megan insists on accompanying him on his mission. On the way they stop at the headquarters of General Yen, a powerful Chinese warlord who controls the Shanghai region. While Megan waits in the car, Bob pleads with the general for a safe passage pass so he can save the orphans. Contemptuous of Bobs missionary zeal, General Yen gives him a worthless paper that describes Bobs foolishness. Bob and Megan reach St. Andrews orphanage safely, but the pass only makes the soldiers laugh and steal their car when they try to leave with the children. The missionaries and children eventually reach the train station, but in the chaos, Bob and Megan are both knocked unconscious and are separated. Sometime later, Megan regains consciousness in the private troop train of General Yen, attended by his concubine, MahLi. When they arrive at the generals summer palace, they are greeted by a man, Jones, Yens American financial advisor, who tells him that he has succeeded in raising six million dollars, hidden in a nearby boxcar, for General Yens war chest. Megan is shocked by the brutality of the executions conducted outside her window. Fascinated and attracted by the young beautiful missionary, the general has his men move the executions out of earshot and assures her that he will send her back to Shanghai as soon as it is safe. One evening, Megan drifts off to sleep and has an unsettling erotic dream about the general who comes to her rescue and kisses her passionately. Soon after, she accepts the generals invitation to dinner. While they are dining, the general learns that his concubine MahLi has betrayed him with Captain Li, one of his soldiers. Later, after General Yen arrests MahLi for being a spy, Megan tries to intervene, appealing to his better nature. The general challenges her to prove her Christian ideals by forfeiting her own life if MahLi proves unfaithful again. Megan naively accepts and ends up unwittingly helping MahLi betray the general by passing information to his enemies about the location of his hidden fortune. With the information provided by MahLi, the generals enemies steal his fortune, leaving him financially ruined and deserted by his soldiers and servants. General Yen is unable to take Megans life—it is too precious to him. When she leaves his room in tears, he prepares a cup of poisoned tea for himself. Megan returns, dressed in the fine Chinese garments he gave her. She waits on him in the gentle manner of a concubine. When she says she could never leave him, he only smiles, then drinks the poisoned tea. Sometime later, Megan and Jones are on a boat headed back to Shanghai. While discussing the beauty and tragedy of the generals life, Jones comforts Megan by saying that one day she will be with him again in another life.