Olga and Maks are 15 years away. She is a successful woman with an established position, the mother of an adult daughter, he is a handsome young man who enjoys his life in a handful and lives only in the moment. It might seem that these two different worlds will never meet, and yet fate put them in the way.
书生宁采臣（张国荣饰）收账不成，无处可归，遂夜宿鬼寺兰若寺，遇上侠士燕赤霞（午马饰），二人成为邻居。一日偶遇艳女小倩（王祖贤饰），二人两情相悦，但小倩乃是被树妖姥姥控制的鬼魂，专门迷惑精壮男子代姥姥吸取阳气。小倩见宁采臣心地善良不忍加害，并与他感情逐渐加深。宁采臣欲救小倩脱离姥姥魔掌，但苦于姥姥功力深厚，小倩无法脱离其魔掌。二人遂向燕赤霞求救......
明朝安化郡王的嫡孙朱鼎才，为替祖父和父亲伸冤，不惜冒着生命危险去京城告御状。怎知一路之上危机重重，斗智斗勇，降服掌柜驼九，连派来追杀他的武林三姝和内厂百户长，最终都被他的仁德感化。
