Poet's Soul in the Cold Moonlight

The story follows Zhao Dexin, a cloth merchant who encounters scholar Qin Qiufan and the girl Hua Hongyu in the underworld. The narrative unfolds as Qiufan is killed by robbers, and his body is discarded in Hongyu's cemetery, setting the stage for a haunting tale of love and loss.

Hongyu faces her own tragic fate when her stepmother's nephew, Wang Jinqing, attempts to force her into marriage. Unable to endure the coercion, she takes her own life, leading to a series of events that intertwines their fates in the underworld. The film explores their unfulfilled love and the barriers they face in the afterlife, particularly the absence of evidence for their marriage from the living world.