White Horse Neighing in the West Wind by Jin Yong was first serialized in the newspapers in 1961Li Wenxiu, a young Han Chinesefro labyrinth Placed on a white steed, she flees to Kazakh territory and is taken into the care of Old Man Ji, an elderly Han Chineseup, she meets Supu, a Kazakh boy, and starts a romance with him However, Supu’s father disapproves of the relationshi p between his son and a Han Chinese girl, so they are forced to separateSeveral years later, Li Wenxiu meets Hua Hui, a hermit, in an oasis in the Gobi Desert, and helps hirateful to her and accepts her as his apprentice and teaches her martial arts She returns home in the midst of heavy snowfall and sees Supu, his father, and his new lover taking shelter in her house Chen Dahai, the leader of the group of bandits who killed Li Wenxiu’s parents, arrives at Li’s ho for is inside the house He ransacks the house for the map and eventually finds it The secret of the map is revealed when blood is spilled onto the cloth Chen wants to silence Supu and the others but is stopped and defeated by Li, who has disguised herself as an old manChen Dahai flees with the map and finds his way to the labyrinth, while Li Wenxiu and Supu gather five others to join the Chen and the bandits The seven of them make their way to the labyrinth, where they are surprised to find ordinary items associated with Han Chinese culture instead of treasure and riches as they expected To their horror, they encounter a “ghost” who haunts the any traces Just as they are about to flee, Supu learns that his lover has been kidnapped by the “ghost” and he tracks the “ghost” to its lair in the labyrinth, where he discovers that the “ghost” is actually a host” tells his story and reveals that he was forced into exile because he was betrayed by his apprentice, who is actually Old Man Ji The “ghost” is the hermit Hua Hui, whom Li Wenxiu saved earlier To everyone’s surprise, Old Man Ji is revealed to be actually a uise as an oldwith each other Li is shocked to realise that the tho are close to her, are actually enemies Hua Hui eventually dies in his futile atte the labyrinth, Li Wenxiu hears the true story behind the iteins She decides to leave the land for central China as she feels miserable after the loss of two of her loved ones and the e of her lover to another woman