Romance of the White Haired Maiden is a 1999 Taiwanese television series adapted from the wuxia novel Baifa Monü Zhuan by Liang Yusheng.

In order to achieve his ambition of dominating the wulin (martial artists' community), he uses a trick to turn Lian and Zhuo Yihang against each other.

Lian falsely believes that Zhuo has betrayed her love and her hair turns white overnight.

Chongzhen believes slanderous rumours and puts the patriotic general Yuan Chonghuan to death.

Without Yuan to defend Shanhai Pass, Zhuo and Lian foresee that Ming China will eventually fall to the Manchus.