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Episode 178
Virtues Of Harmony II - S1 - E178
Inside Honey Cave, GEORGE gives SARAH a hard time for inviting the stay of an ominous guest. SARAH feels wronged. Everyone sighs over CHRIS’ single status. YEE learns from FRANCIS that CHRIS has driven all the way to North Point to buy her favorite snacks and even travels to Shenzhen to get hold of concert tickets. SHEUNG invites her new girlfriend GO GO home for dinner. When Yee learns that GO GO will be her new mother, she storms out. SHEUNG goes after YEE to a park, where CHRIS happens to walk by. He mistakes their argument as lovers’ fight and invites her to stay over at the KIMs. Just as the KIMs wonder about the extra set of toothbrush and slippers, someone is pounding on the door.
Virtues Of Harmony II: Season 1 - 101 Episode s
1x128 - Episode 128
October 29, 2003
KELLY and MARCO return from a business trip. The office folk find fault with the stingy couple, who hasn’t brought them any souvenirs. A gorgeous PAULINE offers CHRIS a generous contract. YEE pleads with SHEUNG to retain CHRIS, but with no success. To remedy the impacts of CHRIS’ departure, SHEUNG hires DICKSON to serve as CHRIS’ assistant. YEE makes her fondness for the new guy known, much to CHRIS’ disappointment.
1x129 - Episode 129
October 30, 2003
DICKSON each gives MARCO, KELLY and others a gift. His generosity wins the colleagues’ unanimous praise. This fills CHRIS’ heart with distaste. YEE asks CHRIS if he is to join PAULINE’s company. Instead of answering her question, CHRIS asks her if she is leaving. Their dialogues are ended abruptly by FRANCIS’ sudden appearance. YEE bitterly announces her plan to organize CHRIS’ farewell party after overhearing his conversations with PAULINE. However, CHRIS indicates his staying at Ka Yan for a special person. The following day, CHRIS discovers that DICKSON is sneaking sketches out from Ka Yan. SHEUNG fires DICKSON and reinstates CHRIS.
1x130 - Episode 130
October 31, 2003
CHRIS plans to take YEE out for celebration, but while shopping for a present, he sees YEE buying a men’s watch which later appears on SHEUNG’s wrist. While all female colleagues have voted CHRIS as the “Sexist Man of Ka Yan’, YEE casts her vote for SHEUNG. She even kisses SHEUNG as he gives her a necklace as present. CHRIS is astounded by their intimacy.
1x131 - Episode 131
November 3, 2003
CHRIS is heartbroken to see YEE kissing SHEUNG. YEE waits eagerly for CHRIS in the restaurant, only to realize that he will not show up after reading a cell message he sent out. Feeling numb and rejected, YEE stands in the streets in the pouring rain. When SHEUNG seeks to learn a trick or two from CHRIS on how to dump a young woman, he receives a good scolding. However, as CHRIS tries to verify if the young woman is in fact YEE, SHEUNG is visibly offended by his suggestion and warns him to guard his tongue. MAY is going through a spell of bad luck. BOON YAT SIN asks her to find a ringer before calamity strikes.
1x132 - Episode 132
November 4, 2003
MAY hesitates to find a scapegoat to drink a concocter made with ashes of a charm, AH KONG gravely downs the potion by mistake. MAY asks SIN for an antidote. SIN instructs her to keep pestering KONG, but KONG mistakes her to have a crush on him.
1x133 - Episode 133
November 5, 2003
GUCCI misconceives AH WONG’s help rendered to a friend as his scheme to smuggle illegal goods and fires him. But she takes pity of WONG and rehires him after seeing him feeding on leftover French fries in the streets. KONG thinks that MAY takes him fancy as she takes surreptitious glances of him in a diner, offers him an umbrella in the rain, and rolls about in his bed.
1x134 - Episode 134
November 6, 2003
When KONG shows up to pick her up from the night school, MAY is so shocked that she nearly faints. She finds out that CHRIS has sold her out and makes him treat her to dinner as compensation. Upset that MAY would rather have dinner with CHRIS than with himself, KONG vents his anger on CHRIS by punching him to the ground. MAY has no choice but to spill the beans to KONG about the potion and her backfired plan.
1x135 - Episode 135
November 7, 2003
Business at Honey Cave is bogged down by overstaffing and skyrocketing costs due to AH KONG and AH WONG’s repeated mistakes. GUCCI decides that Honey Cave will be split into two zones and designates KONG and WONG to each oversee a section. SHUM asks leniency from GUCCI on KONG’s behalf and urges her to give him an important position. But when KONG offers help to a passer-by at the expense of losing the company’s money, the KIMs’ unanimously agree to sack him. This decision seems to agree with KONG’s determination to leave and to work for a “Big Brother”.
1x136 - Episode 136
November 10, 2003
SIN, SHUM and KELLY go to a teahouse. SIN tries to reason with the manager as they spot a fly in their tea but gets beaten up as a result. As SHUM is denouncing SIN’s meekness, a ,000 note slips out of her pocket. SIN picks up the note. KELLY and MARCO pity his dire circumstances and give him several thousand dollars respectively. SIN’s heart goes astray.
1x137 - Episode 137
November 11, 2003
SHUM gets wind of KAM’s taking SIN to a mahjong game. Irrespective of the right or wrong, she rains blows on KAM and starts a feud with him. SHUM deliberately chooses to lodge with the KIMs to contend with KAM for the family’s favor. SEVEN SISTER arranges to take KAM to meet with their benefactor, who is none other than SHUM. SHUM exploits their meeting to poke fun at him, but KAM tolerates it.
1x138 - Episode 138
November 12, 2003
SHUM boldly criticizes the diet and the decor of the KIMs. The family is compelled to stomach her insults. KELLY and MAY split the cost to buy a training cycle, which is later installed at MAY’s home. SHUM has reservation over KELLY’s friendship with MAY and questions MAY’s motives. When she learns from a neighbor that the training cycle bought with KELLY’s money is now placed in MAY’s flat, she sneaks into the house and intends to take it away. HELENA gets wind of SHUM’s moves and dashes home, only to discover that the training equipment has been dismantled. She wrestles with SHUM.
1x139 - Episode 139
November 13, 2003
KELLY and MAY rush to hospital and see SHUM and HELENA ignoring the wounds they received in their censures of each other. A jade Buddha in a department store catches both the eyes of SARAH and GUCCI. The two treat each other courteously over a meal but are mistaken as lesbians. Their muddling explanation only confuses the matter further. SHUM makes the Buddha over to sow discords between SARAH and GUCCI.
1x140 - Episode 140
November 14, 2003
SARAH strikes against GUCCI’s unfair treatment and threatens to migrate to Canada. GUCCI fears that SARAH will find it incredibly hard to adapt to the new environment and mobilizes the entire family to assist in her emigration. SARAH learns from SIXTH AUNT that she has wrongly blamed GUCCI. With SARAH gone, the family take out the money collected for SARAH and starts counting, only to be interfered by the sound of weeping coming out from a room.
1x141 - Episode 141
November 17, 2003
SHUM has outstayed her welcome at the KIMs. To get rid of the loathsome guest, the family throws a sumptuous dinner at Green Light Restaurant for SHUM and SIN, hoping that they will reconcile over dinner. MARCO tracks SIN down and urges him to make up with SHUM. Instead of joining SHUM for the dinner, he is competing in a Mahjong King Contest the very same night. In his winning speech, SIN thanks his wife for leaving him and the family and thus giving him the chance for making a successful comeback. Enraged by his speech, SHUM decides to file a divorce.
1x142 - Episode 142
November 18, 2003
SIN takes the mahjong table in a mahjong establishment and wins game after game. A fire breaks out at the premises. While crawling along a drainage pipe to escape from the fire scene, SIN is stepped on the head by a woman. The two fall down the ground and land with the woman’s skirt wrapping his head. KAM happens to walk past the scene and foretells that SIN will be plagued by three years of ill luck.
1x143 - Episode 143
November 19, 2003
SIN gets in his car in chase of SHUM. His eyes rest on a picture taken thirty years ago which captured a glimpse of his glorious days as a top racer. Charged with the boldness he once had, he speeds up the chase but a traffic car reaches him first. A former secret admirer bails him out. This arouses SHUM’s jealousy and ironically hastens their reconciliation.
1x144 - Episode 144
November 20, 2003
TODAY and GEORGE are assigned to co-star in a new filming project. Their intimacy makes SARAH green with jealousy. TODAY has picked up a computer-generated photo of a couple’s future child. Finding the idea exciting TODAY brings FRANCIS to take one for themselves. SARAH chances on them and learns of their secret affair. That night, TODAY takes the photo she picked up the other day to a specialists for reverting. Rather shockingly, the “parents” are revealed to be SARAH and GEORGE. Just then, SARAH stands in front of her holding a fruit knife in her hand…
1x145 - Episode 145
November 21, 2003
SARAH coerces TODAY into arranging a romantic rendezvous for her and GEORGE. To make sure TODAY comply, she threatens to concoct a folk potion cooked with toads and makes FRANCIS drink so as to mess up with his male hormones. She even makes her change GEORGE’s sheet and pillowcase. GEORGE’s sudden appearance throws TODAY in panic. She takes his yellow sweater in a flurry. Just as a terrified TODAY is expecting SARAH’s punishment, the sweater brings SARAH a surge of joy.
1x146 - Episode 146
November 24, 2003
MRS HO and her daughter are negotiating business deals with SHEUNG. The daughter thinks that the samples SHEUNG has put on are outdated but gives compliments to CHRIS’ smart outfit. She signs the contract with CHRIS without hesitation. KAM warns CHRIS against stealing the boss’ thunder. In the restroom, CHRIS has just applied facial mask on his face when MAY rushes about to evacuate the office after noticing a gas leakage. He refuses to leave.
1x147 - Episode 147
November 25, 2003
CHRIS and YEE are waiting for their client MR LEE to show up at a restaurant, but LEE fails to show up for the meeting. Afraid to let past events get to them, they immediately check the bill and leave, only to bump into each other in a different restaurant. Not much later, CHRIS again chances on YEE in a shop where he rents an umbrella. The two end up walking in the rain under one umbrella. YEE finds CHRIS’ gesture very moving. The news that YEE’s taking a few days off leaves CHRIS in a disturbed state of mind. He drives home en route Crouching Dragon Villas where he catches glimpses of YEE standing on the balcony of SHEUNG’s flat. The sight shatters his heart.
1x148 - Episode 148
November 26, 2003
Instead of giving YEE the watch as a gift, CHRIS offers it as a prize for Ka Yan’s anniversary lucky draw. CHRIS is at once surprised and thrilled that YEE becomes the watch’s lucky winner. It also becomes clear to SHEUNG that YEE fancies CHRIS.
1x149 - Episode 149
November 27, 2003
YEE admits to SHEUNG her love for CHRIS but urges him not to interfere with their relationship. SHEUNG is impressed by CHRIS’ meticulous care in picking out the shredded chili from YEE’s takeaway. He tries to find out more about the young man’s character. When CHRIS and others go to a restaurant for lunch, a waiter who used to be a fashion designer tells CHRIS his plight for falling in love with the boss’ mistress. SHEUNG inquires of CHRIS about his feelings towards YEE but CHRIS admits to loving FRANCIS to avoid getting others implicated.
1x150 - Episode 150
November 28, 2003
SHEUNG sets up blind dates for YEE. Much to her annoyance, the men all resemble a puritanical scholar. YEE seeks to learn CHRIS’ feelings for her from SHEUNG, who frankly tells her to get CHRIS out of her mind and meets someone else.
1x151 - Episode 151
December 1, 2003
SHEUNG applauses KELLY’s performance and entrusts her with the order from MRS MA. This jars on ATHENA, who tries to dampen her spirit by calling MARCO and FRANCIS useless. MR MA aspires KELLY to think big and introduces her to FRANCO, a well-mannered, easy-going young man who easily makes MARCO pale before him.
1x152 - Episode 152
December 2, 2003
KELLY’s daring attitude to voice her protest at ATHENA’s overbearing attitude wins the admiration of her colleagues. To show gratitude for FRANCO’s assistance, KELLY treats him to dinner when a fire breaks out at the restaurant. FRANCO steers her out of the scene. KELLY is deeply impressed by his extraordinary calmness. HELENA tells the KIMs about a rapist dressed in a raincoat on the loose. KELLY represents the family to attend a meeting held by the incorporated owners. She returns and announces that one hundred dollars will be deducted from the management fee. But the good news comes at an expensive price — a security guard, cleaning persons and repairmen — their work is to be borne by all the flat owners.
1x153 - Episode 153
December 3, 2003
TODAY meets the alleged rapist at the staircase. CHRIS and MARCO dash to her rescue and each passes a jolt at the black-garbed man, who turns out to be KAM. GUCCI and SARAH get tripped over by the garbage accumulated along the staircases. KELLY asks MARCO to accompany her to a cocktail party at the launch of the company’s new yacht and reminds him to dress smartly. MARCO shows up in a tuxedo but is mistaken by the master of ceremony to be the magician invited to give a performance. It hugely embarrasses KELLY in the presence of FRANCO.
1x154 - Episode 154
December 4, 2003
KELLY returns home, evidently having had a glass or two as the odor of alcohol suggests. MARCO retrieves a message that reads “Missing You” on her cell phone and suspects FRANCO to be the sender. He sinks into grief…. MARCO and CHRIS chance on KELLY and FRANCO in a restaurant. He notices that FRANCO’s wallet is the twin half of KELLY’s coupling wallets; KELLY carries home a bagful of seductive lingerie but leaves home hurriedly. Believing that she is joining FRANCO for a rendezvous, a furious MARCO gives chase…
1x155 - Episode 155
December 5, 2003
MARCO hails a taxi to follow hot on KELLY’s heels as she has gotten on FRANCO’s car but soon loses track of them. Later FRANCO, rather improperly dressed in his nightshirt, drives KELLY home. MARCO chastises her for meeting with a guy bringing along her nightdresses…. FRANCO takes KELLY to the CEO room and asks if she is happy with the decor. It occurs to her that FRANCO is raiding KA Yan on its staff. LILY, GIGI and SUGAR beg to leave with her but an arrogant KELLY belittles them as minor staff and refuses. MARCO accompanies KELLY to Mo’s Company to sign her contract. A sign “Filial Piety Charity Foundation Chairman” posted outside the CEO office startles them.
1x156 - Episode 156
December 8, 2003
An important Japanese client MR KIMURA takes his family along during his visit to Ka Yan. But he is appalled at KAM’s selfish acts and thus forms a negative view on KAM’s family members. To prevent further conflicts, SHEUNG demands CHRIS and others to surrender their holidays in lieu of KAM’s suspension from work. KIMURA brings his wife to Honey Cave and indicates his interest to pay a visit to the KIMs. CHRIS urges KELLY to leave home with KAM. CHRIS takes the KIMURAs home. A blast shocks everyone. They turn around and see a bound KAM falling out of the closet.
1x157 - Episode 157
December 9, 2003
KAM has purchased a lot of tonics, hoping to make a good profit from reselling the goods. But his face pales at the news which reports the seizure of fake tonics. KAM gnashes his teeth with hatred after learning that he is left out by CHRIS and family from their sumptuous abalone and shark fin feast.
1x158 - Episode 158
December 10, 2003
KAM walks past Lo Lam Restaurant and storms into the reserved VIP room where he devours the dinner before the KIMs arrive. KAM entices his colleagues to bet on horse races by setting up a fung shui formation in the company. ATHENA’s excruciating screams echo through the company: the formation throws her off her balance and she trips over it. KAM slips a silk scarf he has found under his sweaty shirt. Walking past an off-course betting branch, he places a bet and gains a windfall of nearly ,000. He recalls that luck has been on his side ever since finding the scarf. As he sees others searching for their client MADAM PUI’s missing scarf, he resolves not to yield his lucky charm. Just now, ATHENA shouts command at KAM to surrender the scarf.
1x159 - Episode 159
December 11, 2003
KAM puts the scarf on a table. A thrilled ATHENA loses no time to put it. KAM vows to retrieve it from her. As ATHENA is hassled by a man, she asks KAM to pose as her boyfriend to chase the man away. KITTY follows them to a restaurant and pleads with ATHENA to surrender KAM to her. KAM seizes the chance to snatch the scarf as the two women wrestle with each other. At the same time, a dark secret long kept by ATHENA is revealed.
1x160 - Episode 160
December 12, 2003
KAM’s eyes meet the malignant gaze of an old lady while taking the same lift with her. ATHENA tells KAM that the scarf was her late grandmother’s love keepsake and warns him of upsetting the soul of the dead. The old lady asks to meet KAM the very same night. KITTY believes that his gesture has infuriated ATHENA’s dead grandmother and volunteers to disguise as him to attend the meeting. As the old lady angrily threatens to “drag him down,” KITTY gets down to her feet and pleads to suffer the consequences in KAM’s place. KAM turns up just then, revealing to the old lady a brief pasted with a charm.
1x161 - Episode 161
December 15, 2003
HELENA and TAI CHUEN ask TODAY for tickets to a music variety show. KAM gives the sarcastic comment that friendship is meant to be abused. MAY cries a scream of dismay when she bumps into a voyeur in the restroom. SAM Jr., who happens to be fixing water pipes nearby, charges the restroom for MAY’s rescue. MAY learns that his real name is MAI KWAI. She treats him to dinner for coming to her aid. KELLY looks down on KWAI for his lowly status as a plumber, but all female colleagues rebuke her jeer. Later, MAY meets KWAI at the engineering department. KWAI aspires to become an inventor and when he asks MAY what aspirations she has, MAY shakes her head, though she does say she has a dream to fly. KWAI promises to make her dream come true.
1x162 - Episode 162
December 16, 2003
HELENA and TAI CHUEN treat KWAI much friendlier, only because they want him to fix some electrical appliances. MAY suspects she has arthritis. KWAI immediately gives her a newspaper clipping that contains information on the illness. Fearing MAY will become an old maiden, the couple sets up a blind date for her. But MAY is scared by the keen suitor, who fires at her questions regarding her hobbies and preference for the gender of her child. KITTY, TODAY and KELLY again set up a blind date for her. MAY agrees to attend the meeting.
1x163 - Episode 163
December 17, 2003
MAY’s blind date turns out to be AH CHEONG. Yet he swears that he would rather die than marry her. MAY feels blessed being treated with exceptional courtesy by the guys she has met during the day. She is devastated to learn that KITTY and KAM have bribed them all. KITTY, TODAY and KELLY resort to drawing lots to decide who will keep MAY company at the weekend. MAY shows up in a sexy dress. Before she turns around and leaves, she indicates she has a date. MAY sits alone in a park. KWAI turns up, having seen through that she is not meeting anyone. A man named SUN FU carrying a child on his back approaches MAY and asks her for cab money.
1x164 - Episode 164
December 18, 2003
The following day, SUN FU shows up at MAY’s office to return the money and has brought her a bouquet of flowers. He even asks her out for dinner. KWAI has scepticism over SUN’s claim of work in a garage. When SUN’s wooden hut is ruined in a fire, MAY offers him money. SUN asks MAY to stay over in his temporary apartment. Again, KWAI comes to her rescue in the nick of time. The meager TODAY takes home displeases KELLY and triggers a confrontation between two women.
1x165 - Episode 165
December 19, 2003
TODAY has rashes caused by the dodgy sanitary products used at home. KELLY taunts her with stinginess. GEORGE slips up in the street and falls down a gutter. While recovering in hospital, he is outraged by the headline on a magazine cover. PRODUDER TSUI pays him a visit and offers him the role of the “Gutter Man” in a newly launched children show. TODAY cries her eyes out in front of FRANCIS after learning that the director has removed her role from the cast list. FRANCIS pulls a publicity stunt for her but his plan backfires. TODAY is suspended from work.
1x166 - Episode 166
December 22, 2003
When she finds out FRANCIS has orchestrated the plan, she breaks up with him. During the shooting, the director criticizes TODAY for failing to carry her role as an old prostitute. TODAY ventures to Temple Street to study under SISTER HA, a veteran of the profession. Her acting at last wins the director’s applause.
1x167 - Episode 167
December 23, 2003
TODAY brings SISTER HA a cake as a token of appreciation. From her, TODAY learns that FRANCIS has conducted a research in the area, and immediately she regrets failing his kind intention. KELLY has been collecting ring-pulls to redeem prizes. Much to her delight, UNCLE CHAN and the water delivery boy FAI give her the ring-pulls they have saved up. KELLY is indignant that SUGAR earns the reputation of a “dream woman.” KAM sums up the three qualities of a dream woman: tenderness, stupidity and a great body. CHRIS and MARCO couldn’t have agreed more. KELLY’s gaze rakes MARCO and silences the trio.
1x168 - Episode 168
December 24, 2003
WING has returned from Australia and asks to meet MARCO. She tells him that she is getting married and asks to take the jade butterfly pendant back. MARCO seizes his intimate moment with KELLY to take off her necklace, only to realize that the pendant is not fastened to it. MARCO racks his wits to come up with a way. KAM takes out a pouch of “itchy powder.” When KELLY switches on the fan, the wind raises a powder dust all over on the KIMS, causing everyone to itch like mad.
1x169 - Episode 169
December 25, 2003
The KIMs have exhausted every means to make KELLY take off the jade butterfly necklace. WING goes to Ka Yan with the purpose of getting the jade pendant back from MARCO. When KELLY, MARCO and KAM return home, they are confronted by a robber who has broken into their flat. KELLY gives up all her valuables to the robber. WING sees her beloved jade butterfly in the robber’s possession and knocks him down. She also reveals dating with MARCO once. MARCO meets VICENT on a business deal. CHRIS warns him against pushing down the prices. WING tells KELLY that she has a crush on CHRIS; but all along, MARCO believes that WING likes him.
1x170 - Episode 170
December 26, 2003
CHRIS still nursing a grudge against CHRIS over WING, he spurns at the warning. CHRIS hurries to the airport to sign a deal with MR LEE, but his car breaks down and he can’t find a taxi. MARCO also hangs up on him. MARCO returns to Ka Yan and only then he realizes that his act costs CHRIS a big business. MARCO receives a good scolding from CHRIS for his immaturity and partiality. He returns home in a lousy mood. The falling out of the brothers throws the KIMs into a panic. SARAH regards it as unfilial behavior towards GUCCI.
1x171 - Episode 171
December 29, 2003
KAM each writes an apology card to CHRIS and MARCO assuming to be the other brother. He pretends to suffer from cancer but his masquerade is soon exposed. SHEUNG has high hopes for the Industry Soccer Challenge Cup, but with the Ka Yan dream team comprising CHRIS and MARCO falling out, they suffer heavy defeat.
1x172 - Episode 172
December 30, 2003
Back at Honey Cave, CHRIS and MARCO are sitting in their respective enclave. SARAH heaves a deep sigh. GUCCI calls SARAH, saying that she will bring home an aunt. GUCCI, the aunt and her two grandsons arrive. GUCCI hopes that CHRIS and MARCO will join hands to punish the two mischievous kids. Rumor has it that Honey Cave is closing down due to the rivalry between the brothers. At last, they seek out the gossipmonger, VINCENT, and teach him a hard lesson. GEORGE is troubled by his acne-scarred face. KAM believes that it is caused by hormone imbalance. When CHRIS flashes a coupon for free tonic offered by a Shenzhen dispensary, GEORGE loses no time to snatch it.
1x173 - Episode 173
December 31, 2003
FRANCIS and TODAY enjoy their rare private moment while the family is away. The couple discovers that GEORGE has purchased some potency drugs, but he defends by saying that the drugs are for his acne and are supplements to the treatment he receives from an herbal doctor across the border. GUCCI introduces GEORGE to a girl called JULIE, but he is apparently put off by her large breasts. On her way home, SARAH chances on a middle-aged woman called KO PING, who claims that she has not eaten for three days. SARAH pities her and takes her to Honey Cave for a meal. When HELENA’s hand gets burnt by boiling water, SARAH recommends PING to cover her.
1x174 - Episode 174
January 1, 2004
PING is in fact FRANCIS’ birth mother AI NA, who seizes the chance to find out her son’s reaction of their union. FRANCIS gets very emotional and blames her for walking out on her husband and son. He refuses to recognize her. AI NA goes to FRANCIS’ office and especially invites him home for dinner. GEORGE follows FRANCIS to AI NA’s home and tactfully arranges for FRANCIS to leave. GEORGE refuses to let AI NA reunite with her son. The old couple gets into a fistfight. FRANCIS returns midway and is stunned by the scene.
1x175 - Episode 175
January 2, 2004
GEORGE asks FRANCIS to get down on his kneels and announces the news of AI NA’s presumed death three years ago. On the other hand, GEORGE presses AI NA to leave, but she begs to see FRANCIS for three more days. FRANCIS takes one look of an old photo taken with his mother and recognizes AI NA in the picture. No sooner AI NA’s departure sets GEORGE at ease than her reappearance with FRANCIS. GEORGE chastises her for failing to keep her promise. FRANCIS jumps at her defense and is slapped across the face by GEORGE.
1x176 - Episode 176
January 5, 2004
GUCCI agrees to take NA in. FRANCIS is provoked by two players into competing with them on the soccer field. GEORGE shows up and takes the challenge. The father and son receive some rough tackles. AI NA schemes to hoax FRANCIS by taking him to meet some relatives. An idea springs to her mind as she sees newlyweds unwrapping wedding gifts and money packets at a banquet. AI NA claims suffering from a terminal illness that leaves her with only a month. SARAH accompanies her to visit a qi gong master and is told to keep it from FRANCIS. SARAH even pledges to fulfill her last wish. She breaks the news to GEORGE and tells him AI NA’s last wish to become his lawful wife.
1x177 - Episode 177
January 6, 2004
FRANCIS happily sends out the wedding invitations to everyone. An exhilarated SARAH feels no pain of her cut finger. A snapshot is taken for SARAH, dressed in a sexy wedding gown, and GEORGE, who happens to stand next to her. Inside the bridal room, AI NA cannot get her eyes off the wedding gifts and cash certificates. She urges GEORGE to take out all the money they have received. GUCCI shows up late. She has taken the time to interrogate the qi gong masters who turn out to be swindlers. Changed into a black costume, AI NA sneaks out the restaurant taking away with her all the money and jewelry. SARAH bumps into her while dumping a sack of GEORGE’s mementos….
1x178 - Episode 178
January 7, 2004
Inside Honey Cave, GEORGE gives SARAH a hard time for inviting the stay of an ominous guest. SARAH feels wronged. Everyone sighs over CHRIS’ single status. YEE learns from FRANCIS that CHRIS has driven all the way to North Point to buy her favorite snacks and even travels to Shenzhen to get hold of concert tickets. SHEUNG invites her new girlfriend GO GO home for dinner. When Yee learns that GO GO will be her new mother, she storms out. SHEUNG goes after YEE to a park, where CHRIS happens to walk by. He mistakes their argument as lovers’ fight and invites her to stay over at the KIMs. Just as the KIMs wonder about the extra set of toothbrush and slippers, someone is pounding on the door.
1x179 - Episode 179
January 8, 2004
YEE is touched by the KIMs’ hospitality. But SHEUNG stays up all night worrying sick about her. CHRIS asks her to leave SHEUNG, but YEE tells him that she doesn’t have the heart to. CHRIS is tormented by her devotion to SHEUNG. GUCCI decides to play the matchmaker for CHRIS and YEE. A cleaner’s lucky charm for romance lands in YEE’s bag by accident. CHRIS sees it as a sign.
1x180 - Episode 180
January 9, 2004
Getting wind that YEE is staying at the KIMs, SHEUNG goes to Honey Cave to find her. CHRIS and YEE are meeting a client on Lamma Island. By sheer luck, they have found a familiar big tree and realize they had already met when small. Both see their encounter as a work of fate. SHEUNG presses the KIMs to expel YEE by implying the big trouble they will meet for taking her in. As CHRIS and YEE miss the last ferry, they have to stay the night on the island. CHRIS wakes up in the middle of the night and sees YEE sleeping beside him and treating him like a puppy. He at once realizes that YEE is sleepwalking.
1x181 - Episode 181
January 12, 2004
SHEUNG brings with him lavish gifts to the KIMs. Mistaking GUCCI’s room for YEE’s, he sends over home furnishing gifts. SARAH believes it to be SHEUNG’s gesture to woo GUCCI. YEE’s background intrigues the KIMs, as they only know that she has yet to finish her degree. CHRIS fears that her identity as a mistress will be exposed. SHEUNG has torn YEE’s bracelet by accident. SHEUNG sends GUCCI peach-blossom flowers to ask for her favour to act as their mediator. But it gives GUCCI a fright as she misconceives it as a marriage proposal….
1x182 - Episode 182
January 13, 2004
CHRIS beats up SHEUNG in rescuing YEE and finally learns about their relationship as father and daughter. While all fawn upon YEE, CHRIS still keeps his distance. Having found out that CHRIS is “gay,” YEE resolves to return to her studies in England. She gives everyone a farewell present. FRANCIS and CHRIS receive a couplet of kissing man figures. Only then it strikes CHRIS that YEE has misunderstood his sexual orientation. CHRIS dashes to the airport but arrives minutes too late. Dejected, he sees a person…
1x183 - Episode 183
January 14, 2004
As CHRIS and YEE embrace each other in a taxi, the vehicle hits on a lamppost. YEE wakes up and can no longer remember CHRIS. CHRIS is undaunted by the numerous failed attempts and tries every means to bring her memory back. SAM has been hailed a crocodile hero. He seeks to collaborate with CHRIS in the fashion business, and takes him and YEE to a chili hotpot dinner. The spicy food gives CHRIS a stomach upset. When he asks to leave early, SAM vows to find out everything about YEE over the meal….
1x184 - Episode 184
January 15, 2004
CHRIS’ dire attempts only serve to incur her displeasure. CHRIS confides in SAM. KAM falls under the suspicion of seizing a winning lottery ticket from the KIMs. As two men sharing the same plight, KAM is grateful for CHRIS’ understanding. SAM sends YEE an email to ensnare her to the airport. He even deceives her into believing that he is her lover. SAM deals CHRIS a preemptive strike by accusing CHRIS for disguising as him in order to beguile YEE. It strikes CHRIS that SAM has betrayed him.
1x185 - Episode 185
January 16, 2004
As no one bears witness to the love between CHRIS and YEE, SAM goes as far to smear CHRIS’ reputation to prove himself as YEE’s lover. YEE is thrown into disarray. CHRIS seeks to take YEE to Lamma Island, but she takes his act as bribery of the witness. CHRIS can offer no explanation in defense. KAM instructs CHRIS to find the taxi-driver AH SHUI to give his testimony. Withstanding the chilling wind, CHRIS waits outside the refreshment kiosk for his key witness to show up after work at midnight. The KIMs appear to cheer him on….
1x186 - Episode 186
January 19, 2004
KAM brings forth a fake witness, not knowing that CHRIS and the taxi-driver are on the way. YEE slaps CHRIS on his cheek as she finds out that she has been fooled. CHRIS loiters about dejectedly. He seems to have been enlightened by BOON YAT SIN’s words and the phrase “give way”. Though YEE is evidently moved by his gestures, SAM is also jealous that CHRIS and YEE make a perfect couple both at work and in private. SAM twists his ankle while racing against CHRIS in chasing a thief. YEE carries SAM home, where he gets down on his kneels…
1x187 - Episode 187
January 20, 2004
CHRIS hands in his resignation to pursue a career in Shanghai. GUCCI and others urge him not to give up on YEE or he will experience regret. SHEUNG is surprised by YEE’s indifference toward her own wedding. YEE doubts if SAM is her true love. When she meets CHRIS again, CRHIS reenacts events on Lamma. A deeply confused YEE asks someone to decline SAM while planning her return to England. CHRIS picks up the romance charm at the airport and calls YEE at once, yet….
1x188 - Episode 188
January 21, 2004
KAM’s sister LAW BING was GUCCI’s best friend and classmate. From a photo GUCCI took with her boyfriend KAM WAH, KAM deduces that GUCCI was the mistress of his brother-in-law and the very murderer of her sister. When KAM finds out that GUCCI, a pro who rids of a person without a trace, hatches a murder plan that targets at him, he tells KITTY. A series of events seem to confirm his suspicion that GUCCI has killed BING: she enters his room stealthily, seeks advice from BOON YAT SIN, and makes a confession of guilt.
1x189 - Episode 189
January 22, 2004
MARCO et al. refuse to believe that GUCCI is BING’s murderer. They are tied up by KAM, who tries to extort confession from GUCCI by forcing her to watch his own adaptation of the Japanese horror film The Ring. It scares the wits out of GUCCI and she passes out. SARAH angrily reveals that BING was the person who snatched WAH from GUCCI and that she died from a heart attack after losing her winning lottery ticket. As GUCCI was about to marry her childhood sweetheart KAM WAH, BING seduced WAH and drugged him. When he woke up, she lied about being raped by him, thus forcing GUCCI to withdraw from the relationship.
1x190 - Episode 190
January 23, 2004
Having proven her innocence, GUCCI also reconciles with KAM. GUCCI speeds to redeem an old cash register kept as a memento of WAH, which SARAH has dumped by mistake. GUCCI thereby meets a dead ringer for WAH called SHUM HO who comes to her aid. SHUM HO works at Honey Cave to cover AH WONG during his leave. He is asked by the family to pose as WAH to test GUCCI, but to no avail. SHUM HO excels in both literary and martial arts and he gets along well with the family. KAM urges GUCCI to consider getting married, but she is not thrilled by the idea. Yet when she sees the way SHUM HO carries his slippers…
1x191 - Episode 191
January 26, 2004
GUCCI stalks SHUM HO and rather shyly asks him to pose for an old damaged wedding picture of WAH and herself. GUCCI notices his bizarre behavior of stealing the garbage of Honey Cave. The family takes her questioning as affection shown for SHUM HO and arranges a date for them. It turns out that SHUM HO was trying to steal the secret formula for making Honey Cave’s famous tea. SHUM HO’s craftsmanship of making cane baskets reminds GUCCI of prison inmates. An anxious GUCCI tries to find out more from Sergeant HO….
1x192 - Episode 192
January 27, 2004
SHUM HO is a man of brutal and revengeful nature. Apparently, he also wields the “Invincible Wind and Fire White Slippers” technique made famous by the notorious convict MAD KWAN who was arrested by GUCCI twenty years ago. GUCCI suspects that he is really KWAN, who is recently released from jail and now seeks revenge after having a plastic surgery to transform his face. When GUCCI learns that SHUM HO has taken MARCO and others to Dark Wind Range for a holiday, she and KAM give chase but the duo loses chase of MARCO because of the poor cell phone signal. GUCCI and KAM continue the search on separate paths. She sees to her horror SHUM HO standing in front of a stone house with a blood-stained knife in his hand…
1x193 - Episode 193
January 28, 2004
GUCCI fails to reach KAM as he has left his cell phone inside the stone house. Fearing that he has fallen victim to SHUM HO, she faints. At last, she wakes up to the pleadings of MARCO and others. Just as she launches an attack against SHUM HO, she is told that it has been a misunderstanding. SHUM HO in fact harbors a different intent. Though KAM is spoilt by KITTY, he is discriminated against by a gorgeous woman, chased by a ferocious dog, and body-searched by the police who take him as a thief. A Taoist says that there is a jinx on his life.
1x194 - Episode 194
January 29, 2004
When KAM learns that the object of his constant bullying MAI KWAI has the same jinxed destiny, he swears brotherhood with him and promises to stand up for him when KELLY and others try to fool him. KAM kills the fish in ATHENA’s fung shui water tank by accident, but ATHENA blames it on KWAI and threatens to fire him and file a lawsuit against him. KAM suffers a guilty conscience. In his nightmare, KITTY becomes a prostitute and gives birth to a deformed child. Waking up in a cold sweat, he hurries to the office and turns himself in, but…
1x195 - Episode 195
January 30, 2004
KAM wants to completely transform KWAI, but KWAI rationalizes his ways and points out KAM’s mistakes instead. SHEUNG has given his staff a bottle of cologne each as a gift. Opinions are divided as to whether they should give the cologne to FRANCIS or KWAI. But they end up being tricked by both men. FRANCIS gives TODAY a large teddy bear. TODAY finds out that FRANCIS has given the same gift to every woman in the office and treats KWAI affectionately so as to infuriate FRANCIS. Indeed, KWAI is instigated by KAM to woo TODAY.
1x196 - Episode 196
February 2, 2004
In order to decline KWAI’s courtship, TODAY claims that she indulges herself in delights of leisure. But KAM presses FRANCIS and MARCO to lend KWAI money in order to please TODAY. TODAY is stunned. Yet when KWAI learns that TODAY loves to have a big family of her own, he backs off instantly. FRANCIS misconceives his eagerness to end the courtship as a marriage proposal and declares to everyone that he has been dating TODAY for a long time. KWAI regards MAY as his ideal partner upon learning that she loves pets rather than kids.
1x197 - Episode 197
February 3, 2004
MAY promises to take care of the lizard “DICE” for KWAI who has been evicted by his landlord. But MAY’s three suitors who send her lavish gifts come to him as a setback. In fact, the three men only use MAY to please their respective girlfriend and their gossips behind her back sadden her. Fearing that she will grow old alone and lonely, MAY plans to buy a flat. Short of money, she takes KELLY’s advice to enter a lucky draw that offers a flat as the grand prize. She asks KWAI to send out the ticket but KWAI has another idea….
1x198 - Episode 198
February 4, 2004
With DICE gone missing and the lucky draw fantasy shattered, MAY is later inspired to study Chinese medicine. KELLY and others find the idea hilarious. In aiding MAY through the examination, KWAI hurts his angle but doesn’t voice any complaints. MAY suspects that ATHENA has killed DICE and prepared a soup of the creature. Not wanting to hurt her feelings, KWAI confesses that he has set the creature free to nature. When KAM tells MAY that KWAI has a crush on her, she is determined to reject his love…
1x199 - Episode 199
February 5, 2004
Rumor has it that a mistress has come to Honey Cave from the mainland to look for her husband in Hong Kong. HELENA chances on TAI CHUEN together with a mainland woman and a child and suspects that he has a second wife across the border. She seizes TAI CHUEN’s savings and interrogates him. GUCCI offers to find the woman for HELENA. Yet the woman has qualities that outshine HELENA in every way. In her desperate moment, HELENA snatches ,000 from GUCCI to send the woman away. HELENA returns to Honey Cave and realizes her grave mistake….
1x200 - Episode 200
February 6, 2004
TODAY is found out to be the person to blame for the SEKs’ skyrocketing expenditures. HELENA seeks compensation from GEORGE. Someone has offered three million to buy HELENA’s flat, but the property is jointly owned by TAI CHUEN and GEORGE. Much to her disappointment, GEORGE refuses to sell the flat because of fung shui. Though according to fung shui, it is also HELENA’s auspicious year: she gets robbed and beaten by a robber. As she investigates into the matter, she finds out that TODAY is her unlucky star. GEORGE suspects that the flat is haunted. The idea of selling the place again comes to HELENA’s mind. However…
1x201 - Episode 201
February 9, 2004
No one in the KIMs believes that the SHEKs’ house is haunted. In the middle of the night there comes a crying which sounds like a ghost’s. Everybody is scared to death and uses all kinds of holy items to exorcize the ghost. HELENA uses an old trick to scare GEORGE and it works like it did last time. GEORGE blacks out. Meanwhile, TAI TSUN returns home. Seeing what is happening, TAI TSUN follows the instructions in the “Exorcist Handbook” to exorcise the ghost. HELENA’s mask comes off. She has no choice but to claim that she is possessed. TAI TSUN does what the book teaches and forces HELENA to drink some “Holy water” – burnt paper water. As a result, HELENA suffers from an attack of diarrhoea.
1x202 - Episode 202
February 10, 2004
TODAY brings a frog to the SHEK’s and asks FRANCIS to take care of it. HELENA is in a state of undresses when she sees the frog hopping around the bathroom. Scared, she runs out of the house naked, and accidentally locks herself out. FRANCIS and the KIMs come home to see a naked HELENA. She is completely humiliated and swears to break up FRANCIS and TODAY.
1x203 - Episode 203
February 11, 2004
BOON YAT SIN has helped HELENA lie to FRANCIS. He asks HELENA to pay him, but she refuses. Furious, SIN curses that she will have to pay for what she has done. CHOI TING TING points out that people who are born in the Yang month of the Yang year will bring luck to people who are over 40 and born in the Yin month of the Yin year. And that whoever forces them away will have bad things happen to him. HELENA is shocked to hear this.
1x204 - Episode 204
February 12, 2004
LAU KAM drops his Mark Six ticket into a gutter. KITTY goes into the gutter to pick it up for him. Everyone praises her for her bravery. KITTY is elected to be the “Best Girlfriend”. She shows off in front of SARAH and grabs the chance to humiliate her. Both KITTY and LAU KAM have heard staff from another company gossiping in the toilet, saying that KITTY is an old maid. On the other hand, SARAH is also looked down upon in the wet market and is given the name “ill-fated woman”. When KITTY and SARAH meet each other in the Honey Cave, a battle begins.
1x205 - Episode 205
February 13, 2004
Anything related to the word “bitter” has been wiped out from the menus and newspapers at the Honey Cave. When SARAH appears at the Honey Cave with a big smile, everyone knows at once that SARAH wiped out every word that implies the meaning of bitterness in order to get rid of her ill-fated life. GEORGE is outraged when his scenes are cut from the show. GUCCI laughs at him and tells him to find a girlfriend. SARAH is upset by what GUCCI said. She decides to express her love for GEORGE by writing him a note. Poor her, it does not turn out as she has expected.
1x206 - Episode 206
February 16, 2004
To help KAU KAM pay off his debt, KITTY takes a part-time job as a wine promoter. Ashamed, LAU KAM decides to turn a new leaf. KAM learns that a dirty-minded director is looking for some extras. SARAH makes an excuse to deliver some soup to TODAY at the TV station so that she can see GEORGE. In her haste to sneak out, she puts on a Mushroom Monster costume by accident and is dragged to play in a show. In the show, GEORGE will fall down a cliff and be poisoned. The Mushroom Monster is supposed to suck out the poison. GEORGE is shocked to see that SARAH is the Monster.
1x207 - Episode 207
February 17, 2004
At the Honey Cave, everyone laughs hilariously at the scene of SARAH dressed up as a Mushroom Monster and sucking out GEORGE’s poison. When she shops in the market, all the hawkers scream. She is embarrassed and leaves, but a group of children and their mothers ask for her autograph and to take pictures with her. She is flattered. LAU KAM fawns upon her because he wants to be her manager. She is willing to sign the contract only if KITTY will be at her service. KITTY agrees to work for her which delights her. She calls her CHUN MUI. At the studio, she shouts at KITTY a lot.
1x208 - Episode 208
February 18, 2004
GEORGE is depressed about SARAH being popular. He wants to retire from the entertainment business and open a restaurant. LO MONG feels it is a shame for him to give up and tries to convince him not to. He regains confidence after talking to MONG. He makes an enthusiastic appearance at the studio, which comforts SARAH. Unfortunately, the producer informs her that the senior staff’s wife has complained about her show and they have decided to drop it completely. SARAH goes to the market and finds herself no longer popular. GEORGE takes the chance to humiliate her. She does not mind his attitude and looks at his back with love.
1x209 - Episode 209
February 19, 2004
SARAH’s entertainment life ends. LAU KAM is back to normal. SARAH passes a tennis court and sees two girls playing tennis, reminding her of her relationship with KITTY twenty years ago. She weeps at the thought. She learns that KITTY has given all her savings to LAU KAM to dabble in the stock market.
1x210 - Episode 210
February 20, 2004
SARAH scolds LAU KAM for being secretive. GUCCI intercedes to point out that she should be celebrating that she is close to KITTY again rather than scolding LAU KAM. KITTY drops hints to let LAU KAM know that it is her birthday. When she gets home and sees the table is full of dishes, she thinks that they are from him and waits for him. Midnight arrives and she is so hungry she has stomach ache. She slips when trying to get some medicine and loses consciousness. SARAH takes KITTY to the emergency room. KITTY finds out that the food was a birthday present from SARAH. Three days later, LAU KAM shouts at KITTY when he sees her. All the colleagues scold LAU KAM for his misbehaviour. He is shocked and stunned.
1x211 - Episode 211
February 23, 2004
MARCO and KELLY return from a business trip, and cannot believe it when they see SARAH and KITTY are good friends again. When they see LAU KAM treating KITTY like a queen, they think that he must be possessed. GUCCI sighs that nothing is impossible. LAU KAM accompanies KITTY to buy some underwear, which embarrasses her girlfriends. HELENA and her husband are uncomfortable with LAU KAM changing from a pest to a good person, which worries the others.
1x212 - Episode 212
February 24, 2004
MARCO and KELLY are interviewed on the street for a magazine. The conclusion is that they form a perfect couple with beauty and wisdom. When her female colleagues discover that KELLY wants to get pregnant, they don’t hesitate to provide her with opinions. MAY reminds her that educating a child is a difficult task, which shakes her confidence. She uses the excuse of further studying to postpone having a baby. The KIMs points out that they have already invested a huge fund for the baby and try to convince her to have one. They also order MARCO to drag KELLY into the bedroom.
1x213 - Episode 213
February 25, 2004
MARCO wants KELLY to get pregnant, so he prepares a sexy bath for them, which shocks her. While they are fighting, the water tap breaks and sprays cold water over MARCO, as a result of which he falls sick. MAY tells KELLY she will have a big surprise if she takes care of LILY’s crying daughter OI for a day while they are on holiday.
1x214 - Episode 214
February 26, 2004
KEI SUM tries to find out more about KELLY’s birth plan at the Honey Cave. MARCO dishes out a bowl of medicinal soup with a grin and says it will help her to get pregnant. He scares KELLY who swaps the soup with LAM SIN’s Chinese soup from SUM. SIN and SUM come for dinner at the KIMs. She announces that she won’t cook again and will join the KIMs for meals in future. KAM deliberately says how tiring it will be for them to come over all the time and forces KELLY to go home and take care of SUM. She is shocked to see how messy SUM’s home is. While she is busy tidying up the house, the KIMs are having a barbeque on the roof.
1x215 - Episode 215
February 27, 2004
The KIMs are surprised to see SUM when they come home with lots of hotpot ingredients. KELLY announces that SUM has pre-natal depression and decides to move in. KELLY rushes to see KONG when he calls for help. All of KONG’s belongings have been thrown out to the sitting room. He complains that SIN has kicked him out in order to use his room for the new baby. KELLY is supposed to pay for all the renovation costs.
1x216 - Episode 216
March 1, 2004
SUM moans suddenly in the middle of the night. Everyone is scared and they take her to the hospital. When they arrive, SUM complains about what everyone has done wrong. Apparently, she has faked the incident to rehearse for the actual labor. GUCCI takes SUM to buy some dried plums. Suddenly, all the illegal hawkers start running, and GUCCI throws herself on the floor to protect SUM from getting hurt. SUM feels stomach ache and GUCCI sends her to the hospital. The doctor explains that SUM has no more baby because she is not really pregnant. She only has gastroenteritis, and is already in her menopause, which shocks everyone.
1x217 - Episode 217
March 2, 2004
GUCCI walks in with a friend CHAN. He is surprised that the power bill at the Honey Cave is over thirty thousand dollars a month. He suggests that she checks the meter. That night, SARAH drops her clothes at the back of the Honey Cave, so she goes to the restaurant with GUCCI and they find lots of electrical appliances at work. TAI TSUN and his wife are having a bath and washing a pig’s lung at the back. They are scared when they see GUCCI and SARAH.
1x218 - Episode 218
March 3, 2004
AUNTIE LAU comes to the Honey Cave to thank GUCCI for telling her to give her staff shares in the company to keep them working hard. HELENA overhears GUCCI saying she is going to give her staff a pay rise and some shares. GUCCI has decided on the matter even though SARAH strongly opposes it. The staff is puzzled when GUCCI explains that the shares are in bags and have an expiry date. They end up disappointed when SARAH takes out bags of flour and explains those are their shares.
1x219 - Episode 219
March 4, 2004
TAI TSUN and his wife pretend to be ill, and take sick leave. They like to imagine how chaotic the Honey Cave will become without them. They are ecstatic when they hear that the Honey Cave is closed for a day for the first time, and celebrate with a shark fin dish. They meet PING who has just retired and wants to open a restaurant. He invites them to work for him with 20% extra pay. They hand in their resignation letters and warn that if GUCCI wants to keep them, she has to give them 50% pay rise plus bonus. KAM scolds them for losing their minds. SARAH is delighted to eliminate these two pests.
1x220 - Episode 220
March 5, 2004
The KIMs celebrate the fact that TAI TSUN and his wife will be leaving in 12 days. They ask PING how his restaurant is getting on. He points out that they have to bring AH WONG with them. When they all meet up, PING reveals that he only plans to pay AH WONG monthly. Even with a pay rise, it will only be . The whole transfer is called off. TAI TSUN has no option but to beg GUCCI to take them on again. However, she has already hired CHUEN, and makes them feel completely hopeless.
1x221 - Episode 221
March 8, 2004
TAI TSUN and HELENA try to make money from cheating after they leave the Honey Cave. AH WONG witnesses their behavior and they try to shut him up by bribery. MAY comes home and reminds herself that she is not suitable to be a boss. TAI TSUN and HELENA try to read MAY’s future and learn that they cannot rely on her for retirement. Luckily SIN applies some tricks to save them from disaster.
1x222 - Episode 222
March 9, 2004
KELLY’s friend invites her to a business meeting and proposes bringing their partners to join an archery competition. KELLY wants MARCO to do well in the competition and forces him to practise day and night. MAY cannot tolerate it and helps MARCO secretly. KELLY tells MARCO to bark like a dog in front of everyone, which upsets him. MAY argues with KELLY because of it.
1x223 - Episode 223
March 10, 2004
MAY wants to make up with KELLY, but she refuses. Then KELLY overhears LILY and some other female colleagues gossiping about her in the toilet, with only MAY speaking up for her. KELLY then forgives MAY. KELLY has a business trip, and asks MAY to keep an eye on MARCO. MAY takes good care of him. He praises her as a very fine woman, which delights her.
1x224 - Episode 224
March 11, 2004
MARCO tries to find MAY a boyfriend, but she turns him down saying she only likes pilots. Suddenly, MAI KWAI appears in a pilot’s suit. Apparently, he is trying to get a pilot license in order to win her. She then tells him that she is in love with someone. KWAI is furious and rips off his pilot suit in a rage, which scares MAY.
1x225 - Episode 225
March 12, 2004
KWAI and LAU KAM stalk after MAY to find out who her lover is. ROGER appears holding MAY’s hand, so they think that he is her lover. MARCO is surprised to learn that ROGER is MAY’s boyfriend. KWAI uses tricks to torture MAY. When MARCO is sick, MAY takes good care of him and KWAI realises who she really loves.
1x226 - Episode 226
March 15, 2004
KWAI disappears. MAY and MARCO look everywhere for him. MARCO finds him sitting on the stairs and reprimands him for making everyone worried. KWAI tells him that MAY is in love with him and blames him for ruining MAY’s life. MARCO tests MAY’s feeling and finds out that KWAI did not lie. He becomes irrational and says that he does not deserve her love, which hurts MAY’s feelings.
1x227 - Episode 227
March 16, 2004
MAY avoids MARCO at work. He hides from her by leaving home early and coming back late. MAY takes her annual leave. MARCO senses that something is wrong from her expression and follows her to Lamma Island in case something bad happens. When he hears that someone is trying to commit suicide by burning charcoal, he rushes up to stop her, but passes out during the struggle. When he regains consciousness, MAY tells him that she does not love him anymore. She used the excuse of a boyfriend to stop KWAI from hassling her. They have a barbeque at a beach and are seen by ATHENA. KELLY cannot believe it when ATHENA tells her about MARCO and MAY.
1x228 - Episode 228
March 17, 2004
KELLY monitors MARCO secretly and finds something suspicious about him. When she interrogates MAY about it, she firmly denies it. Meanwhile, MARCO pays more attention to KELLY, which eases her worries. ATHENA thinks that KELLY is having an affair with her boyfriend, which bothers KELLY. She is furious when she overhears MARCO’s conversation with MAY.