Mark Chao

Mark Chao was a young Chinese college student who was killed by a gangster leader named Tony Wong on his 23rd birthday who used him to fake his own death. Afterwards, his spirit went to find someone who can see him and evetually found Piper and Phoebe at the Hotel Neptune.

He took Piper to his body while trying to avoid getting captured by a guardian of the gate of hell, known as Yama, facing additional complications with the discovery that his body had been mistaken for Wong's.

During his stay with the sisters, he befriended Piper and asked for her help to bury his body before Yama captures him so that he could move on, also sharing some of his family's old recipes with her.

When they finally succeed in confirming his body's identity, his spirit moved on peacefully, Yama taking Wong's spirit in his place. Before he moved on, he fell in love with Piper, and she fell for him.

Trivia

 * Mark is the first ghost, and the first good magical being, to encounter the Halliwell sisters.
 * Like so many ghosts in a wide variety of movies, ghost Mark also only passes through convenient objects (bikers, doors, TV sets, but not floors, car seats, etc.). It should be noted to the creators' defense though, that it would be very hard to compose scenes with ghosts that pass through everything.

Appearances
Mark Chao appeared in a total of 1 episode throughout the course of the series.


 * Season 1 -
 * Dead Man Dating