
Ghost Writer
- 2010
- Ended
- Drama
- ~1h / ep
- 1 season
Ghost Writer is a 2010 Hong Kong television series produced by TVB. The protagonist of the series, Po Chung-ling, is based on the author of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, a collection of Chinese tales on the supernatural. The series tells how he was inspired to write those stories based on his personal encounters with the supernatural.
Latest: Season 1 · 2010
View all seasonsE1. Episode 1
Jun 7, 2010 · 45m
PO CHUNG-LING was born in a family of New Year print. In order to maintain the printing house’s business, his father PO POON is having dealings with the officials regularly. LING was not able to cry after birth. At that critical moment, a fox kicks down a tile on the roof. This scared LING to tears and thus saved his life. The fox actually came to return a favor to POON because POON had rescued it before. Twenty-five years later, LING is grown up. The top-quality cinnabar that POON uses for New Year print is monopolized by YEUNG’s family. Shandong Commissioner CHENG CHUNG-PONG knows POON for many years and he helps to seal up YEUNG’s family. LING misconceives that POON fawns on PONG to fight against his competitor. POON investigates the rumor about a fox spirit with his good friend KO JIT who works as a constable. Through this LING meets the fox spirit LING WU SIU-TSUI.… ...
E2. Episode 2
Jun 8, 2010 · 45m
TSUI is actually the little fox released by POON long time ago. After becoming a fox spirit, TSUI follows her grandfather LING WU GUT-CHEUNG back to visit her benefactor. The government officers set a fire at Kiu Village and all villagers are forced to move away. JIT believes that POON knows the reason behind and he carries out investigation with LING. LING misconceives that POON is working in collusion with PONG to harm the villagers. He draws a painting at a printing house’s celebration to satirize them. PONG is irritated but POON solves the problem tactfully. JIT tries to chase after GLIDER. TSUI dislikes GLIDER for pretending to be a fox spirit so she gives him a lesson. GLIDER is frightened and he speaks nonsense in front of CHUNG. JIT arrives at the scene but CHUNG kills GLIDER immediately. JIT doesn’t have any evidence to sue CHUNG so he resigns from the job angrily. TSUI meets LING again and they get to know each other’s name.… ...
E3. Episode 3
Jun 9, 2010 · 45m
Encouraged by everybody, JIT decides to resume his work and CHUNG is upset. Female worker CHUN TO tries hard to please LING’s cousin PO PAK-LING and PAK asks LING for help. YU and POON respectively discover that LING is talking with TO secretly. They misconceive that LING is flirting with TO but this is actually PAK’s trick. YU’s elder sister LAU SUM-YIN is missing and she come to Jinan for investigation. YU believes that LING is the unfaithful man who hurt her sister so she tries to question him. LING tries to avoid answering her. POON asks YU to reveal everything to him. He then questions LING and PAK about the case. PAK finally reveals the story between him and YIN. POON promises YU to help finding her sister. A dead woman’s body is discovered at an abandoned salt warehouse and JIT goes to carry out investigation. LING wants to play tricks on YU so he sends her to the salt warehouse.… ...
E4. Episode 4
Jun 10, 2010 · 45m
YU recognizes that the dead woman is her sister. She is heart-broken and she believes that PAK is the one who killed her. JIT questions PAK but he finds no evidence. YU believes that YIN’s spirit is staying inside the bamboo flute. LING therefore brings YU and JIT to look for reference books at the Chit-Chat Studio. They finally find the way to release the spirit of YIN. YIN reveals to them the bad things PAK had done to her. She regrets a lot and she asks them not to accuse PAK. In the morning, YIN hides herself in YU’s jar pipe for the bamboo flute is broken. LING remembers that PAK was quarreling with his wife LEUNG PIK-YUK about a missing black pearl on the day YIN died. JIT set up a scene to lure PAK and he finally arrests him. At the court, PAK admits that he had betrayed YIN but he reveals that he didn’t kill her. POON believes in PAK and he helps to justify his statement.… ...
E5. Episode 5
Jun 11, 2010 · 45m
YU insists to fight for YIN. YIN tries to stop her and JIT finds it suspicious. JIT tells LING that YIN used to work in the brothel and he believes that there is something else had happened. They thus carry out investigation on YIN’s customers but they discover nothing. Later, they are inspired by a holy turtle and they discover something important. JIT goes to Qufu to carry out investigation on the new Magistrate TSUI CHONG-MAN. LING sees through his heart from his handwriting. He tries to test him by sending him a drawing with the word “heart” on it and he has new discovery. They therefore return to Jinan to question YIN. YIN requests them to stop disturbing MAN before she reveals everything to them and they agree reluctantly. CHUNG suddenly comes to arrest PAK for he wants to investigate YIN’s case again. In order to save PAK, POON tries to seek PONG’s help by sending him a famous painting.
E6. Episode 6
Jun 14, 2010 · 45m
PONG learns that the Governor of Shandong, MA YUK-SING, tries to intervene in PAK’s case and he is upset. He later meets MAN’s father TSUI WING-TAI and he changes his mind. PAK is sentenced to death and he will be executed after autumn. LING tries every means to bring YIN to the court but he fails and is being punished. LING is upset for YIN fails to appear at the court. YIN reveals the reasons to them and they finally realize what had happened. POON wants to go to the capital to seek for help but his residence is surrounded by many government officers already. PONG persuades POON to give up. On the other hand, somebody slanders JIT and he is suspended from his duties temporarily. Then, the mortuary is on fire and YIN’s dead body is burnt. JIT believes that everything was arranged by TAI in an attempt to save MAN. He goes to Qufu again with LING to look for MAN. MAN is very depressed and they agree to bring YIN to him.… ...
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