Review:
Chow Yun Fat plays Lao K, a small time triad type who earns his living as a collection man for a loan shark. His cousin, Chin Hua (played by Deannie Yip), an aspiring "ghostbuster", pines after him, using her divination skills to chart her cousin's romantic future, hoping to see her name revealed. Lao K is oblivious to her infatuation, caught up with his collection activities and the romantic charms of May (Pauline Wong), a self involved maneater who treats him badly, and soon forsakes him for a richer, more successful man.

One day, while trying to collect a debt for his boss in the company of his constant companion, 6'3" a deaf mute(a fellow petty criminal who was deafened and forced to drink acid by the triad bosses and whom Lao K has "adopted"), Lao K is captivated by an antique Chinese desk. Buying it and taking to the home he shares with his cousin he discovers a letter in a drawer that tells the sad story of a young woman, sick from birth, who posthumously was wed to an "ugly ghost" by her family. The young woman has not been reincarnated and has little hope of ever being, until