Presented to Duan He, Woman in a Tenant-Farmer Village

In 834, Advanced Scholar Duan He rented a room in a tenant-farmer village while he was bedridden, and he improved a little. A beauty arrived in his chamber assisted by two servants, all of them stunning in appearance, and repeatedly told him that she longed for him. In the end He did not comply with her wishes, and she thereupon inscribed a poem on red note-paper, put it on the table, and departed. Her handwriting was gentle and charming, and at the end of the paper all that was written was one character (of her name?). After this, He’s sickness retreated.

My joy spread wide, you’re clearly weak, enduring several years—
A beautiful woman would support you, without regard to money.
Both lithe and graceful, clever too, returning from He’s place,
Melancholy, to an emerald tower inlaid with red jade.

赠段何
作者：客户里女子
〈进士段何，太和八年，赁居客户里，卧疾，小愈。有美人径至閤中，从二青衣，皆绝色，说谕再三。何终不应，乃以红笺题诗一篇，置案上而去。书迹柔媚，纸末惟书一我字，何自此疾日退。〉
乐广清羸经几年，
姹娘相托不论钱。
轻盈妙质归何处，
惆怅碧楼红玉钿。

So … he turned down an affair with a ghost, and not only didn’t she punish him, but she may even have helped heal him? Tho’ that last is ambiguous, given he was already improving somewhat. Given that emerald tower, I’d take her for a Daoist immortal aka “fairy,” but apparently that’s not what the editors understood. (There are 8 whole chapters of CTP devoted to poems of 仙, immortals, which until I read them I’m going to assume that’s where poems by immortals such as fairies would go.)

Also, why don’t we get the character she wrote at the end?

—L.