在南唐寒阳公主亡后，她化身为骷髅女妖，借着江南第一美人西门燕皮的容颜，幻化成妙龄女子，迷惑了世间的男子。一位书生王子玉遇到这个变身的骷髅女妖，见面就被所感，开始共享秦晋之爱。可是，没有人意识到新娘实际上是一个藏身在人皮下的妖魔。 Chen Eng, 王子玉的妻子，看到王家遭受了妖魔之灾，请来了驱魔道长成瓮和其弟子小包子。这场历史上的人与妖魔之争，在情愿交战的舞台上展开。该电影基于中国古典名著《聊斋志异》进行改编。
In the aftermath of South Tang's cold Yang princess, she transformed into a skeleton spirit, assuming the visage of the most beautiful woman in the South, West Mansion's Peach Blossom, to deceive mortal men. A scholar-turned-prince named Yao met this shape-shifting skeleton spirit and was instantly smitten. Little did he know, this new bride was actually a demon hiding under human skin. Chen Eng, his wife, saw the chaos brought upon the Wang family by the demon, and summoned Daoist Master Zhen Ren and his disciple Xiao Baozi to exorcise it. This epic battle between man and demon unfolds on the stage of unrequited love. The film is based on the Chinese classic "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio".
