Ji Lin and Ren’s increasingly dangerous paths crisscross through lush plantations, hospital storage rooms, and ghostly dreamscapes. Ren has 49 days to do so, or his master’s soul will wander the earth forever.Īs the days tick relentlessly by, a series of unexplained deaths racks the district, along with whispers of men who turn into tigers. But when one of her dance partners accidentally leaves behind a gruesome souvenir, Ji Lin may finally get the adventure she has been longing for.Įleven-year-old houseboy Ren is also on a mission, racing to fulfill his former master’s dying wish: that Ren find the man’s finger, lost years ago in an accident, and bury it with his body.

The fiance in question, Tian Bai (Ludi Lin), belongs to the richest family in Malaca and that is the Lim family.Summary: Quick-witted, ambitious Ji Lin is stuck as an apprentice dressmaker, moonlighting as a dancehall girl to help pay off her mother’s Mahjong debts. Many a time, it feels as if this character of Isabel (Teresa Daley) is acting out of jealousy spurned off by her fiance paying too much attention to his childhood sweetheart than her. The villain or more accurately, the mastermind of a crime in the show, for example, comes across as a meek woman whose intentions are not pure. The adaptation pays too much attention to the main plot and doesn't etch out the characters very well. The worldbuilding in the book makes it an engrossing read, but the show misses out on it completely. The show and the book are influenced by the second practice and has a supernatural twist which is compelling. There is another practice where a girl, usually from a family that is poor receives the offer of becoming the bride of a dead man in return for their family being well cared for. Usually, a dead man's match is made with a dead woman of an appropriate family, and a ceremony is held by the family members.

It was believed that by getting a Ghost Bride, the dead person wouldn't be lonely in their afterlife. This was, to be asked to be the bride of an individual who has died recently. It is a compelling story of a 20-year-old girl in Malacca in the 19th century and centered on an ancient Chinese ritual that was commonly followed. 'The Ghost Bride', a new Netflix show is adapted from Yangsze Choo's book of the same name.

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