The opening sequence of The House That Never Dies uses aerial shots of buildings in Beijing at night and a forest with leafless trees and thick fog. The camera enters an old, foggy house with lightning and creepy music. It then descends into an old prison-like building where a woman in red turns into pink butterflies. One butterfly flies to a cemetery where the leading woman stands by her father's tomb with her mother. Her mother later gives her keys to their old family house called "The House That Never Dies".