Zhou Sanyou

Times of Republican China. Master Ho and his two quick-witted disciples travel the provincial cities. exposing fraudsters who exploit feudal superstition and religious cults.

In 1932, a series of strange murders occurred in the city of Beihai. During the investigation by police detective Long Cong, he found that the murderer used illusions to kill people disguised as ghosts and monsters. Finally, with the help of the female reporter Hua Ling, Long Cong brought the murderer to trial, but the truth hidden behind it was too much for him to accept...

During the period of the Republic of China, a heavy rain trapped the opera troupe who was going to cross the river to sing a famous event in Laogou. On a night of thunderstorms, there were murderous bandits and unidentified patrols who were sheltering from the rain with the troupe... A group of people with their own ghosts were all closely related to the fox wife incident fifteen years ago...

After the bandits murdered his native tribe, young Shankui began to live in the forest on the Tianmu mountain as a savage hermit, who lost his human form. The wild orangutan was Shankui's only friend, until one day a little girl Kong'er came to the woods in search of weapon for revenge. Savage and girl became friends but bandits's boss hired best chivalrous swordswoman to kill The Mountain King.

During the Republican China, a series of murders happened in Beihai City. Finding that all the victims were professional magicians, the police detective Long Cong turns to the real magician for help.

In Taiping Town, a frail young girl named Liu Yuenu makes a living by crafting paper figures. Disdained by her brother, Yuenu lives alone in the mountains. Unexpectedly, within half a month, the siblings suffer tragic fates. One commits suicide in her bedroom, her blood staining the ground; the other is found hanged by a woman's long hair in a theater. Detective Zhang Yiren, invited by the town's old headman, arrives to investigate. On his arrival night, he encounters strange events, but is fortunately helped by a beggar girl named Gouzi. However, a series of bizarre murders occur in the town, and rumors of paper figures possessing souls and vengeful spirits begin to circulate…

This story is adapted from real people and true stories. With the background of remote mountainous countryside, it shows the simple folk customs of the 1990s and some local customs, as well as the love stories of young people at that time. The reason indicated that a pair of young people in love became strangers. Wang Shunfei, a young man from a poor family in the mountain village, met his brother Wang Shunsong ’s classmate Cao Yajuan on his 27th birthday.