小倩 (Nie Xiao Qian)

The film is adapted from “Nie Xiaoqian” from Pu Songling’s “Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio”. Xiaoqian was betrayed and hated by others during her lifetime. After her death, she turned into a female ghost and was imprisoned in Lanruo Temple by her grandmother. It happened that scholar Ning Sheng came to Beijing to take the exam and stayed here, accidentally saving Xiaoqian. On the way to escape, the two continued to encounter obstacles from the forces of the world and the underworld, but their relationship also grew stronger during this experience. Ning Sheng took Xiaoqian to experience the beauty of the world. Xiaoqian was determined to return to the world, but after arriving at the ghost market, she discovered that things were far from that simple…