该片主要讲述的是宁采臣和聂小倩在800年前的一段恋爱往事，为了太玄经封印多年的黑山能够复活，灵蛇姥姥派聂小倩前往兰若寺，在人与灵两界的交接处寻找刚刚转世的宁采臣，并杀死他抢回失去的太玄经，从而引发了一系列的人间灾难，宁采臣为了保护百姓不受牵连，依然决定前往，在众人的合力帮助下，将黑暗势力通通消灭，但却是用自己的生命做了交换。

"A Chinese Romance" is a love fantasy movie. Compared with the presentation of the previous classic version, this time the film is more about the "past life and present life". There are also great innovations in the plot and content. Starting from the theme of redemption, it shows the yearning of contemporary women for beautiful love.

The film mainly tells about the relationship between Ning Caichen and Nie Xiaoqian 800 years ago A love story, in order to revive Black Mountain, which has been sealed for many years by the Taixuan Sutra, Grandma Spirit Snake sent Nie Xiaoqian to Lanruo Temple to find the newly reincarnated Ning Caichen at the junction of the human and spiritual worlds, and kill him to get back the lost Taixuan. Xuanjing, thus triggering a series of human disasters, Ning Caichen still decided to go in order to protect the people from being implicated, and with the joint help of everyone, he wiped out all the dark forces, but he exchanged his own life.