Wang Zi Yu comes from a wealthy family and lives with his mother and brother. He is married, but they have no children. Zi Yu's mother worries about the absence of an heir and agrees to a second daughter-in-law. Zi Yu, after meeting with friends, wanders into a strange house, where he meets the beautiful Xi Meng Yang. She is so beautiful and charming that the young man immediately offers her his hand and heart. Immediately after the wedding, strange events began to occur in the mansion, every night someone killed the inhabitants of the mansion, it all comes down to the fact that this is done by the first wife of Zi Yu. Beauty Xi Meng Yang is insidious, she is an evil spirit, she rips out hearts, kills people and paints portraits of the dead. Only a young servant girl believes in her mistress Chen Ying's innocence and is willing to help expose the ghost. Finding a monk in the mountains and asking him for help, Chen Ying is ready to burn in the fire and become an eternal candle in order to save her husband, because he should become the next victim.
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~~ Adapted from the story “Painted Skin” (画皮) of the collection “Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio” (聊斋志异) by Pu Song Ling (蒲松齡).
