Yan Poxi is an adulteress who marries the bandit-hero Song Jiang in the novel, Water Margin, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature.
Song Jiang treated her well when he was still in office as an official, by giving her money to give her dead father a proper funeral. Yan was not faithful to her husband and had an affair with Zhang Wenyuan. Yan found out Song Jiang's relationship with the Liangshan bandits and threatened to expose him. Song Jiang accidentally killed her in an attempt to get his letter.
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