This film tells the story of scholar Fang Dong who endangers his life because of his greed for beauty, and his kind-hearted Ya who loves Fang Dong deeply and chooses to sacrifice herself in exchange for Fang Dong. The prodigal son Fang Dong embarks on a journey to find his true love, and encounters and rescues an oppressed kind-hearted banshee on the road. With the help of the demon catcher and others, the lovers finally get married, a poignant love story.

This film tells the story of Hu Guohua, who falls victim to a plot, framed in a rigged gambling scheme that leads to the loss of his family fortune. Despite his wayward behavior, he reaches a low point by desecrating his family's ancestral grave. In a desperate attempt to deceive for money, he even stages the absurd event of marrying a paper bride. At the brink of hopelessness in life, he unexpectedly encounters Sun Guofu, a master in tomb-robbing, who guides him to self-realization. Although fate plays its tricks and eternal love is elusive, Hu Guohua undergoes a profound transformation from a reckless scion to a wandering adventurer in the world of tomb-robbing.

In a remote mountainous area at the end of the Ming Dynasty, several villagers secretly raided a tomb late at night and were killed by a Gu curse. Lu Wen Liang and Zhang Chi Yi noticed the strange aspects of the corpses and decided to venture into the "Village of Short Lives" to uncover the truth. However, it was widely rumored in the village that the curse of a Gu witch from 20 years ago caused the deaths. The two men were also blamed for breaking a Gu-exorcising ritual, making them the harbingers of disaster. Just a step away from the truth, they were unaware that they had already ventured deep into danger...