She Came from a Book

A thousand years ago, the poor scholar Bai Qingxu failed the imperial exams three years in a row. In a fit of anger, he gave up on his dream of becoming the top scholar, withdrew from the world, and hid deep in the mountains. Inspired by the strange birds and beasts, curious tales, and bizarre happenings he encountered there, he devoted himself to writing The Record of Strange Tales. To his surprise, the Meng Po in his book became a spirit and transmigrated out of the book. Calling herself Lord Meng, she fell in love with him at first sight, and the two embarked on a tragic romance despite belonging to different worlds. But the scholar was frail and short-lived. Knowing that humans and ghosts could never be together, he made plans before his death to send Meng Po back into the book, where she drank the Forgetfulness Soup.

A thousand years later, when the sole surviving copy of The Record of Strange Tales was unearthed, Meng Po, who had long since drunk the Forgetfulness Soup, transmigrated out of the book once more. She encountered the scholar, now reincarnated as a modern university student, and the two began another ridiculous romantic comedy, with the woman pursuing the man.

All things have a spirit, but spirits can be good or evil. Book spirits all depend on books to exist: when a book is destroyed, its spirit disperses.