Li Mubai, a rough-around-the-edges goofball, sets up candles beneath the women’s dormitory to declare his love for the campus belle, Pan Xiaolian. Unexpectedly, he “sees” the ghost of Liu Ruyu, a girl who jumped to her death three years earlier. Liu Ruyu asks Li Mubai to find her former lover, Liu Yuandong, and the two grow closer as they spend time together. Liu Ruyu helps Li Mubai pass his exams, while he takes her on the unfinished trip to Meihua Mountain. Later, Li Mubai breaks up with Pan Xiaolian for Liu Ruyu, but Pan Xiaolian’s attempted suicide puts him in danger. In the end, Liu Ruyu sacrifices her soul to possess Pan Xiaolian and bring her back to life, giving Li Mubai the miraculous chance to “stay together despite belonging to different worlds, the living and the dead.”
