Chinese title: 蒲松龄
English title: Ghost Writer
Producer: Leung Choi Yuen (梁材遠)
Genre: Period & Romance
Number of episodes: 25
Starring:
Steven Ma / 马浚伟
Linda Chung / 钟嘉欣
Fala Chen / 陈法拉
Sunny Chan / 陈锦鸿


Synopsis:
Po Chung Ling (Steven Ma) was born in Jinan to a family who runs a printing business. His father, Po Poon has high hopes for Po Chung Ling as he is smart and bright. Po Poon hopes that Po Chung Ling can carry on the family business.
Due to some misunderstanding, Po Chung Ling thinks that Po Poon is in a bad collaboration with some corrupt officials. As such, he refuses to listen to his father and totally disregard his advises.
Po Chung Ling's good friend, Ko Jit (Sunny Chan) is a police constable. Both good friends share the same hatred for corrupt officials. There's a rumour that a fox spirit is stirring troubles in Jinan. Po Chung Ling and Ko Jit decide to investigate the matter. Unfortunately, Po Chung Ling was almost killed during the investigation.
Luckily for Po Chung Ling, a mysterious lady, Ling Wu Siu-Chui (Fala Chen), comes to his rescue in time. However, it was later revealled that Ling Wu Siu-Chui is indeed the fox spirit. She decides to save Po Chung Ling to pay back a past favour from him. As the two spend more time together, Ling Wu Siu-Chui begin to develop feelings for Po Chung Ling.
The Po family managed to secure a large order of printing for New Year. They need many workers and Lau Sam Yu (Linda Chung) is one of those who applied for job with the Po family. Lau Sam Yu has an ulterior motive, which is to hunt for the man who was unfaithful to her sister. What she isn't prepared for is to be caught in a love triangle with Po Chung Ling and Ling Wu Siu-Chui.


Summary:
Pu Song Ling/蒲松齡 (Steven Ma) and Gao Zhe/高喆 or Shuang Ji/双吉 (Sunny Chan) are good friends, a Young Master of a printing business which is in charge of the whole of China, which includes Capital Palace, and a righteous town-hero police constable respectively.
Song Ling's dad, Pu Pan is a businessman, therefore he always 'bribe' capital officials, so as to get things done easier. Song Ling is aware of it, and on an occasion, he misunderstood his dad for being the mastermind of some crime. A high-rank official ordered his dad to get rid of villagers from Niu village, as the land is to be rebuilt into a prosperous port, but Head of Magistrate's police force, Wei Chong hired a man to act as the fox demon to scare off the villagers even before Pu Pan has the chance to persuade. Things gotten worst and someone is scared to death.
Song Ling and Shuang Ji set an ambush and went to pursue the 'fox demon' as soon as they found out that it is human's act. During the pursuit, Song Ling was almost killed but luckily Linghu Xiao Cui/令狐小翠 (Fala Chen) comes to his rescue in the nick of time.
Xiao Cui happens to be the fox that Pu Pan had set free many years ago, when he were facing a major problem in business. He mentioned this: 'I set this fox free today, but who would free me from all these?' To repay his benefactor, Xiao Cui did the Pu Family a great favour. When Song Ling was born, he couldn't cry, it was all thanks to Xiao Cui's doing by smashing the roof clays to create a sharp noise that causes this baby to be 'normal'. It is fate, that Xiao Cui actually get to meet Song Ling again after so many years. Xiao Cui just attained human form after 500 years of cultivation. She couldn't speak proper language and on the first meet-up with Song Ling, she actually fell for him. Xiao Cui's grandfather soon came to bring her back to their home, knowing that the Human's world is too tough for the naive-her.
The Po family has secured a large order of New Year printing, to ensure work to be done and submitted on time, they have to hire a large number of workers. Liu Xin Ru/柳心如 (Linda Chung) applies for the job, with a real intention of finding out the whereabouts of her sister, Liu Xin Yan/柳心妍 (Elaine Yiu). It is later found out that her sister is dead, and the murderer is actually a high rank official, father of her lover. Xin Yan, actually appeared in ghost form due to heavy grievance to point out her 'murderer', accusing Song Ling's cousin, as she thought that the real murderer is her lover, not knowing that that accident actually didn't killed her, but the official suffocated her after she passed out.
Xin Ru went through hard & toughs with both Song Ling & Shuang Ji, and eventually they fell into a love triangle. Shuang Ji fell for Xin Ru and he made it clear to people, not wanting to hurt their good friend, Xin Ru & Song Ling kept their relationship underground.
Shuang Ji asked for marriage from Xin Ru, and not wanting to disappoint him, Xin Ru accepted it. However, just 1 day before the day of marriage, Shuang Ji found out about the relationships between Song Ling & Xin Ru, and from then on, he seems to suffered from a split personality disorder. Shuang Ji behaved strangely as he turned into a villain of the show. He got rid of all the corrupted officials & gained high authority. He was eventually killed by the 'good self' in the last episode.
Xin Ru was killed by Shuang Ji in Episode 24, whereby she appeared in ghost form.
Song Ling couldn't see her as they were separated, so Xiao Cui helped them by lending her body to Xin Ru. Xiao Cui initially didn't want to help Xin Ru, but knowing how much their love really is, she chose to give them their blessings. All she wanted was to stay by the side of Song Ling.
As Song Ling was also killed in the last episode, Xiao Cui gave up her 500 years of immortality to keep him alive. Xiao Cui, after saying her last words, was turned back into a fox.
Xin Ru gave up the chance to reincarnate, willingly stayed by the side of Pu Song Ling, who still is a human. Years passed after years, Pu Song Ling aged while Xin Ru the ghost and Xiao Cui the fox remained the same, stayed by his side as he writes 《聊斋》.


History:
The series is inspired by the famous cycle of Chinese love folktales "聊斋" (Ghost Story), with the protagonist in the series being the author of the stories, who would be later inspired to write them based on his own encounters with the supernatural. There is plenty of '聊斋' drama series made, revolving around a love triangle of a human, ghost & fox spirit.


Review:

The third time Linda Chung & Steven Ma collaborated in a drama series as a couple!
Those I could remember is Watchdog's Tales/老友狗狗 & A Journey Called Life/金石良缘.
Also, it's one of the 5 collaborations of Linda Chung & Fala Chen!
1st being Heart of Greed/溏心风暴
2nd is A Journey Called Life/金石良缘
3rd is Moonlight Resonance/溏心风暴之家好月园
4th is Ghost Writer/蒲松龄
& the most recent; Can't Buy Me Love/公主嫁到
Okay, that's cool, eh?
Well, Fala Chen's cast as the cute lil fox spirit is really awesome!
I'm now trying to catch all those nice shows I'd both watched & missed.
Some of them are Heart Of Greed & Rosy Business.
Mainly due to the reason that Fala Chen is in the cast.
If you're wondering why Rosy Business when Fala Chen isn't in it, then I would tell you this:
'Fala Chen will be acting as supporting role in No Regrets; the sequel of Rosy Business'
Meanwhile, I'm catching Can't Buy Me Love daily as it's uploaded.
Can't Buy Me Love review will be up soon.
恋爱通告 / Love In Disguise will be followed behind.
Heart of Greed & Moonlight Resonance should be after the above.
Well, stay tune, peeps!