Ordinary office worker Xia Tian dreams of becoming a star. With her boyfriend Feng Yu, she stages a publicity stunt about “a palm-reader's beauty encountering a hanging ghost.” Eerie photos make her an online sensation, and a culture company offers her a book deal and a photo shoot. Just as she seems one step away from the entertainment industry, a figure wearing red leather boots appears in her latest photos: a hanged woman, growing clearer with every shot. It is her friend Jiang Pan, who supposedly went abroad to study. Xia Tian later learns that Jiang Pan rejected Feng Yu's advances, so he disfigured and assaulted her, driving her to hang herself. He then faked the story that she had gone abroad. In the end, Xia Tian tricks Feng Yu into thinking Jiang Pan has been exorcised. In reality, either disguised as Jiang Pan or possessed by her, Xia Tian takes Feng Yu's life with her own hands. The bald master who helped Feng Yu “drive out the ghost” also dies unexpectedly.
