After a torrential rain in Hetan Village, an ancient coffin is washed out, holding a well-preserved thousand-year-old female corpse in a wedding dress. Several male villagers, including farmer Duan Dagui, sneak into the ancestral hall at night to touch the corpse drawn by her beauty, and Duan Dagui’s daughter Duan Jin senses something wrong.
Village head Luo Zhang invites Taoist Zhang, who says the body is Princess Zhaoyang who died with bitter resentment. She must be reburied in her tomb on Fengling Mountain, and anyone who touched her will bring great misfortune. Greedy for tomb treasures, villagers volunteer to carry the coffin. Duan Dagui takes Duan Jin with him and denies having touched the corpse.
Weird disasters strike the procession. A villager who stole the princess’s necklace falls off a cliff in panic. The corpse’s belly swells strangely, and Duan Jin is forced to deliver the baby. With her late mother’s county annals, Duan Jin reveals the princess’s wrongful death by imperial order and calms her
