未朝某年，山东李弥将军因对朝廷成迹彪炳，获封她赠金告老归田，安享天年。 　　其子李玉乃饱学之士，书画琴棋无所不精，其妻阮氏亦十分贤淑。但不久李玉夜里常作恶梦，梦中皆是些战乱中惨死之亡魂不断缠扰，而在夜里李竟将妻和她表兄二人残暴杀死，自此後李玉变得神态失常。

Jade seems happily married but he starts having nightmares about hopping corpses, followed by psychotic episodes, which cause him to kill his wife and then any romantic interests that follow. He's then hounded by the ghosts of his victims.