Life Made Simple

Looking at the gold coins, FUNG makes up her mind to go abroad. WONG comes on a bike to wave goodbye to FUNG and gives her some mangoes, her favorite. She is touched. FUNG arrives in New York. She has rent a room, the condition of which is far beyond acceptable. FUNG comes across some rascals on the way home. It is lucky that her cousin, ANGEL, comes to her rescue just in time. It turns out that the two cousins go to the same university. FUNG encourages WONG to learn some skill. WONG remembers that FUNG loves sweet dumplings, so he would like to learn from LIN. When WONG is delivering some sweet soup to Flat No. 606 of Cheung Wo House, the Three Bastards show up and tell him that there is a female ghost in the flat. WONG is scared away by a pair of ghostly eyes. WONG is overjoyed when LIN promises to teach him how to make sweet dumplings. WONG sees the Three Bastards humiliating a woman and he goes to her rescue……

FUNG has received some sweet dumplings, which have all molded, that WONG sent her. FUNG finds this funny though she is touched by what WONG did. ANGEL advises FUNG getting acquainted with those well-off schoolmates so that she could leave the lower reaches of society. FUNG does not agree with her at all. WONG keeps saying good things about FUNG. HO, who is jealous, points out that he and FUNG belong to two entire worlds. Unfortunately, he does not understand what it means. WONG, by invitation, goes to HO’s place for a meal; LIN goes with him. LIN praises HO for her being frugal and her cookery. She even introduces HO to work in Shui Kee. FUNG has won a scholarship. She is now even more convinced that knowledge can really change her fate. Four years have passed; WONG has eventually learnt how to make sweet dumplings. When he is cooking sweet dumplings, WONG nearly causes a fire. LIN, who is shocked, is hospitalized……

WONG rushes to the airport. He hides himself in an equipment box which belongs to a filming team, thinking that he can go to the States this way. FUNG has returned to Hong Kong. When SA and her husband, WONG SIU LUNG, hear from the news that WONG has been arrested, they tell FUNG to stay in a hotel for the time being. WONG is given a telling-off by LIN for demanding to go to the States. Just then, LIN discovers by chance that the gold coins at home are fake ones. WONG does not say a word. LIN, who is in anger, hits and drives him out of the house. LIN and her boss, TONG FOOK SHUI, guess that FUNG has cheated away the gold coins. They look around everywhere and find later that WONG, who has a high fever, is crouching in a park. After knowing that WONG is sick, FUNG stealthily goes to his place, but she leaves immediately as soon as she sees LIN. WONG meets FUNG again……

WONG has always thought that his father is an astronaut. He demands to ask astronaut YEUNG LI WAI about his father’s news. LIN, who knows the truth, feels sad. FUNG is worrying about the 3G plan but she gets some inspirations from WONG’s words later. During the interview, FUNG is shocked to learn that ANGEL has stolen her idea. Knowing that FUNG has failed the interview, WONG makes a wish for her using balloons. The balloons have been blown away by the wind and get entangled with WING’s car. WONG runs to catch the balloons, accidentally saves WING’s life and helps FUNG – FUNG is hired by WING. The excited FUNG goes to work, only to find that ANGEL is the manager while she is only the chief of a creative team. FUNG takes WONG to visit the Space Museum. FUNG needs to attend a meeting in her office urgently. As WONG is in the heat of his enjoyment, he refuses to leave……

CHUNG’s is giving a reception, called “The Sky of Dragons”, for YEUNG LI WAI and his delegates at a TV station. WING has given FUNG some tickets; WONG is so excited that he hurries to the TV station as soon as he knows. However, LIN goes straight to stop him. She also pretends to be sick. WONG can do nothing but to go home with her. WING sees LIN and recalls that LIN and WONG are nobody but the mother and son he abandoned years ago. WING goes to Cheung Wong Estate by himself. When he sees LIN and SHUI together, he leaves stealthily. WONG is unhappy that he cannot see YEUNG LI WAI in person. Meanwhile, WING shows up and asks WONG about LIN and SHUI’s relationship. CHUNG throws a celebration party for “The Sky of Dragons”. To revenge FUNG, RICHARD assigns her some extra jobs so that she will not be able to make it to the party. FUNG, who will not give in to RICHARD, takes the work to the hotel and has won CHUNG’s appreciation……

Jone’s Telecom, a subsidiary of CHUNG’s, is organizing a marketing promotion in Cheung Wong Estate. YEUNG YUEN KWAN, whose nickname is Babe and who was in the same class of WONG’s at primary school, works at Jone’s Telecom. For this reason, WONG is invited to take part in the promotion and his task is to dress up as a globe. LIN and SHUI bump into WING at a temple. SHUI warns WING not to disturb LIN’s life. The appearance of WING makes LIN sleepless. LIN wants to move houses; she goes to seek advice from SHUI. SA sees them together and mistakes that they have an affair. She also tells everybody in the neighborhood about this. Before Jone’s Telecom registers their global trademark, someone else has done so before them. The one who has registered the trademark offers to sell the trademark to CHUNG’s at the cost of 10 million dollars. WING gives CHUNG a good telling-off. CHUNG is furious that the trademark he designed has been stolen……

LIN has won a luxurious apartment in a lucky draw at a supermarket. LIN later finds out that WING was the mastermind of her wining prizes recently. Furious, she chucks away all the prizes. LIN asks WING out, reprimanding him for finding WONG a burden when he was young, forcing her to leave. LIN demands WING to tell everyone that WONG is his son, or else she will never forgive him. In order not to hurt his wife, SUNG MEI LUN, and his son, CHUNG, WING refuses. LIN leaves in anger. LIN locks WONG up so that he cannot go to work at CHUNG’s. SHUI tells LIN that she should let WONG learn to cope with the world outside. WONG is excited that he can go to work together with FUNG. He works hard to play his role of the globe. It is hot. The globe uniform which WONG has been wearing the whole day makes him itch. Seeing this, FUNG asks CHUNG to transfer WONG to the general affair department to work as an office assistant……

WONG is delivering some documents when CHUNG pulls him into his office. CHUNG tells him to select the 3G phone that he likes most. WONG points out that the games in the phones are not fun. Hearing this, CHUNG has come up with a new idea. ANGEL learns that RICHARD is selling FUNG’s proposal, which is for buying the Japanese electronic games company Just For Fun. She informs FUNG about this. She also tells FUNG how to gather the evidence of RICHARD’s deeds and kick him out of CHUNG’s. CHUNG has fired RICHARD. CHUNG promotes FUNG to manager and assigns her to be in charge of the proposal. ANGEL is a bit upset about this. The members of the management of Just for Fun are coming to Hong Kong for one day. CHUNG tells FUNG to grab the opportunity to win a contract. ANGEL suggests FUNG to bring WONG along. WONG gets along very well with the three Japanese. He even goes to the nightclub with them and ends up drunken……

LUNG and SA want to renovate their house. The couple has a dispute with LOK TAT TUNG, owner of a decoration company, and his son, LOK KUI SHING, over the decoration cost. FUNG can do nothing but to use her bonus to pay the father and son. KWAN has accidentally dropped WONG’s pet tortoise into the toilet bowl. She has lost her control; WONG and FUNG go and give her some comfort. The three go to have lunch together. CHUNG and ANGEL, who are nearby, talk about tortoises. When KWAN hears this, she loses control again and discloses that CHUNG is the father of her unborn baby. CHUNG is shocked. FUNG despises CHUNG for being playful and irresponsible. CHUNG complains to SHING, a good friend who went to the same school with CHUNG. SHING points out that CHUNG has had a crush on FUNG. LAM BEN, a waiter at Shui Kee, is greatly disappointed to know that Beauty, whom he loves, is none other than HO……

Seeing that KWAN lacks confidence in taking care of the baby, FUNG asks LIN, who was also a single mom when she was young, to give KWAN some words of comforts. LIN comforts KWAN and suggests her to learn how to be a good mother from taking care of WONG. WING’s birthday is around the corner. A fortuneteller predicts that WING will bring bad luck to his sons. WING has bought some jade pendants for CHUNG and WONG respectively so as to prevent this from happening. WING asks LIN out to give her the pendant. Meanwhile, WONG shows up. After learning from the two that it is WING’s birthday next month, WONG gives him some buns as present. WING is touched. LUN finds WING’s recent behavior rather strange; she suspects WING and LIN have an unusual relationship. KWAN helps change a diaper for a baby and is much more confident that she will make a good mother. WONG regards himself to be the father of KWAN’s baby……

ANGEL accuses KWAN of being casual in relationship, making her very upset. When WONG looks everywhere for KWAN, he finds that his little tortoise is still alive. What is more, there are many tortoise eggs around it! WONG has found KWAN, who is crying, at last. He uses the tortoise as an example to encourage her. On the other hand, CHUNG also makes it clear that he will take care of KWAN and the baby. KWAN confesses that the person she loves most is a man called CHEUNG TAI WAI, who has gone missing. She also says that she will leave her job to look for him. WONG uploads KWAN’s photo and her declaration of love onto the Internet. When KWAN sees this, she is so excited that her baby is affected. The baby is born prematurely. In the midst of confusion, WONG helps KWAN give birth to her child. CHUNG hurries to hospital. When CHUNG is telling KWAN that he will take care of the mother and the baby, TAI WAI turns up……

FUNG is robbed. Fortunately, SHING comes to her rescue in time. FUNG knows only then that SHING is an architect and that he lives in a luxurious apartment. FUNG and ANGEL act as models for C & H and they have got very good response from the market. CHUNG suggests throwing a party at FUNG’s place, which he believes is grand and luxurious. FUNG regrets that she has made CHUNG misunderstand that she lives in a luxurious apartment. She asks SHING for help. FUNG goes playing tennis with CHUNG at a club. There they bump into SHING. FUNG is shocked to know that the two men are good friends. CHUNG is hit by FUNG’s racket. FUNG rubs some medical oil on CHUNG, who seizes the opportunity to confess his love for FUNG. ANGEL finds it strange that FUNG gives CHUNG the cold shoulder. FUNG explains that she does not want to get involved in a love game. SHING is responsible for the stage design of the C & H fashion show……

LUN goes to Cheung Wong Estate to check out more about LIN. SHUI and LIN are acting rather intimately. LUN worries that the two will work hand in hand to cheat WING. FUNG has been paying no attention to CHUNG. CHUNG turns to WONG for help. WONG and FUNG go cycling. FUNG is unhappy to see CHUNG show up. CHUNG invites the two to go fishing with him on his boat. When she learns that FUNG and WONG are not going to join CHUNG in fishing, ANGEL goes to the yacht club, pretending to have met CHUNG by chance. Meanwhile, CHUNG gets FUNG’s call. He hangs up and invites ANGEL to go fishing with him. ANGEL is very pleased. Mr. Brown proposes FUNG and ANGEL modeling for his fashion show. CHUNG makes FUNG agree by derision. The company is organizing a Best Employee Competition. WONG wishes that he could win, and that both LIN and his father would be proud of him. He works even harder, hoping that his colleagues in the department will nominate him……

ANGEL learns that CHUNG and FUNG are reconciled with each other again. She deliberately goes to where CHUNG usually jogs to get close to him. ANGEL has twisted her ankle, yet she insists on modeling in the fashion show. As a result, she makes a fool of herself. ANGEL is sour to see Mr. Brown and FUNG respond to a curtain call. WONG has delivered all the letters. He asks his colleagues to support him in the competition. To his disappointment, they just ignore him. WONG is in the middle of the interview for the competition when a man, who has been earlier fired, enters the company by force. When WONG is trying to calm down the man, who has a bomb tied to his body, he has accidentally activated the bomb. Everybody flees the company at once, while WONG stays behind with the man and dismantles the bomb with him. When WONG attends the interview again, he expresses his opinion towards the company’ lay-off scheme……

ANGEL is shocked when FUNG tells her how she felt when CHUNG held her and skied with her the other day. WONG chases after WING’s car, trying to hand him an urgent document. WONG arrives at WING’s home. WING’s heart aches when he sees WONG dripping with sweat. He takes WONG in for a wash and washes his hair. WONG and a colleague of his get the same votes in the Best Employee Competition. WING decides that both of them will win. In the presentation ceremony, WONG, who is holding the prize very tight, attributes his achievement to his mother. He also expresses how he misses his father. WONG gives WING a hug for his encouragement. WING is both happy and sad. LUN has found a female pant, which she believes belongs to LING, at home. She rushes to LIN’s place in anger. Refusing to bear the insult, LIN discloses her relationship with WING, which comes as a blow to LUN. CHUNG uses WONG to date FUNG; she sees through him though……

WING asks WONG what kind of a person SHUI is and learns that he has quite a lot bad habits. WING later sees a prostitute pulling and dragging SHUI. WING advises LIN not to go out with SHUI, only to be told off by her for being nosy. WOON, who has overheard their conversation, has come up with an idea. WOON makes an appointment with SHUI. He gives SHUI a check and tells him to marry LIN as soon as possible. SHUI finds the check very attractive. SHUI, who is mean all his life, sells his sweet soup for free. On the other hand, he also tells WONG that he has leukemia. To fulfill his last will, LIN promises to marry him, to which SHUI is overjoyed. WOON orders WONG to send sandwiches to WING, who is having a meeting with a big client of his, so as to do harm to the relationship between the father and son. WING shows WONG the door when he finds a tortoise in the sandwiches……

CHUNG invites FUNG and ANGEL to a piano performance. FUNG turns him down, saying that her work is up to her neck. CHUNG takes some food to FUNG’s office and sweetens her up. He also kisses her when she is unnoticed. ANGEL, who sees this from a distance, leaves with a broken heart. ANGEL is reluctant to let FUNG take away CHUNG and swears to get him back. SHING comforts her. CHUNG drives FUNG home and confesses his love for her. SA and LUNG are thrilled to see CHUNG courting FUNG. LUNG advises her to think seriously about the hindrance that WONG may pose to her marriage. FUNG is annoyed. SHUI learns by chance that LING has agreed to marry him just because she wants to repay his kindness. SHUI returns the check to WOON. LIN, who has been following SHUI, witnesses everything. LIN goes to LUN’s house to tell her not to do anything again. Their conversation is overheard by WING……

WONG does not want FUNG to go out with CHUNG. He catches on the door of CHUNG’s car and does not let go. WONG gets hurt as a result. WING gives CHUNG a severe reprimand for injuring WONG and damaging the relationship between WONG and FUNG. CHUNG talks back, stating that FUNG will never marry WONG, and that he will never give FUNG up. Furious, WING reveals to him his relationship with WONG. CHUNG cannot accept the fact that WONG is his brother. He refuses to concede his love for the wrong that WING has done. CHUNG asks FUNG out to the sea and to Lamma Island for seafood as a celebration of her birthday which has already past. ANGEL tells WONG about this and he hurries to the Island to look for FUNG. FUNG can feel that WONG is getting more and more dependant on her. She decides to move to somewhere else……

FUNG stays in SHING’s house. FUNG knows that SHING is secretly in love with ANGEL and so encourages him to date her. WONG is unhappy to see CHUNG driving FUNG to work. FUNG, though reluctant, lies to him that she has twisted her leg and so CHUNG gave her a lift. WONG takes some sweet dumplings to SHING’s place to FUNG. She does not want to see him though. Seeing this, SHING teaches FUNG how to make WONG hate her; FUNG hesitates whether she should do as he said. WONG wishes to drive FUNG to work. He asks LUNG to teach him how to drive. FUNG feels guilty when she learns that WONG has an accident when he was learning to drive. WONG insists in taking some sweet dumplings to FUNG even though the typhoon signal has been hoisted. In order to make WONG give up on her, FUNG calls him a fool and says how much she hates always having him around. WONG breaks down and cries. WONG has handed in his resignation to WING……

CHUNG and WONG have an accident when CHUNG is driving WONG home. CHUNG tells WONG to take up the responsibility, fearing that he himself will be prosecuted for drink-driving. WONG is taken to the police station. WONG, who is scared to death, does not say a word but cries. WING is burning with anger and gives CHUNG a good dressing-down. Although CHUNG retorts and complains that WING cares only about WONG, he turns himself in finally. WONG remembers FUNG has once expressed that his sweet dumplings are far from delicious. So he asks LIN to help him improve. Nevertheless, LIN coaxes him into learning from WAI at his hair salon. The new design of C & H has been revealed to P & P Company. ANGEL points the finger at FUNG; FUNG is dismissed from her work. Later, she comes to know that ANGEL set her up because she wanted to marry into a rich family, and that WING wanted to drive her out because he did not want CHUNG going out with her……

WING sends CHUNG to Singapore on a business trip. CHUNG is happy to get away from the media. LUN gives FUNG three million dollars and asks her to leave CHUNG alone; FUNG refuses. To her huge surprise, SA has received a diamond necklace and a yacht from LUN, which worth three million dollars together. FUNG calls CHUNG for help, yet he muddles through, lying that he is busy at work. There are press reports saying that LUNG and SA are selling their daughter for money. The people in the estate jeer at the couple. LUN invites FUNG and her parents to their family gathering. As LUNG and SA cannot make it, FUNG has to go alone. LUN and others jeer at FUNG when they are playing mahjong. Unable to bear the insult, FUNG leaves earlier. As soon as she has stepped out of CHUNG’s house she is surrounded by the reporters who have been waiting outside. FUNG sees on the TV an interview of CHUNG, who is now in Singapore……

FUNG has learnt that WONG goes to a farm every day to buy her mangoes. She tells him frankly that she will not marry him. She also advises him to concentrate more on his career instead. WONG mistakes that if he has become a sweet dumplings master FUNG will marry him. An ICAC (an independent body dedicated to investigation cases of corruption) investigator comes to WING’s place to look into whether WING has been involved in a false accounting when his company was listed in the stock market. FUNG cannot find a job anywhere. She is telling SHING her situation when they bump into CHUNG and ANGEL, who are followed by some paparazzi. Everything just does not go well for FUNG recently. She therefore decides go traveling. SHUI’s two-in-one shampoo has provided some inspiration for WONG, who wants to make some two-in-one sweet dumplings, too. HO goes for an arranged marriage meeting again. BEN goes and spoils the party……

WING follows WONG to an elderly centre and spends a happy afternoon there. SA and the others have heard that WING suffers from senile dementia. They deliberately invite WING to play mahjong with them to cheat him out of his money. They end up eating their own bitter fruit. To SHING’s surprise, he meets FUNG, who is on a vacation, in Shanghai. He invites her to join him in turning a 3-star hotel, which belongs to his client, Mr. LUK, into a 4-star one. FUNG agrees without hesitation. WING and WONG have bought some mango saplings from Uncle YUEN, owner of YUEN KEE Fruit Farm. The two go planting the saplings together. BEN goes out with HO again. Believing that BEN has epilepsy, HO decides to accept his love. The CHUNG’s is cutting down some hundred-year-old trees for its building project in a village. The villagers protest against their cutting of the trees. WING has agreed to build two less buildings in order to keep the trees……

SHING and FUNG have been drafting a proposal all night long at a hotel in Shanghai, the electric power of which has been cut. YUEN uses a wireless set to talk to his friend. WING’s eyes fill with tears when he hears WONG asking YUEN let him talk to his father in the space. WING, WONG and three other girls are playing when LIN is shocked to hear WONG call WING papa. CHUNG is very upset that WING has been paying so much attention to WONG. He insists on setting up his own business. WONG has got the news from the wireless set that a spaceship will be landing at the Pak Tau Shan beach. He hurries to see his father, not knowing that WING is following close. The two are in a bush when the police are running after some smugglers. WONG is shot by a stray bullet when he is trying to save WING’s life. WONG is taken to hospital, where WING tells the reporters that WONG is his son and that he does not have senile dementia at all……

As the debris of the bullet is very close to WONG’s cranial nerve, the doctor suggests having another surgery to take the debris out. However, there is only 50 percent that WONG will survive. WONG refuses to have the second surgery as he does not want to suffer the pain. WING, who has had a heart operation, comforts him by using his own experience. Michael Power (MP), CHUNG’s own company, is opening soon. Meanwhile, WING hopes that CHUNG could help him again. WING tells CHUNG that if he does return, he will be taking charge of two titles. Yet, CHUNG turns him down with no hesitation. ANGEL shows her willingness to follow CHUNG to wherever he goes; CHUNG is pleased. WONG writes down his wish before the operation. He has also made a family picture for CHUNG. WONG is very sad that CHUNG does not want his picture……

SHING points out angrily that FUNG’s decision to marry WONG is made under a sway of emotions. FUNG does not think so. CHUNG is in a very bad mood when he hears about FUNG’s wedding. ANGEL is hurt that he still has not got over FUNG yet. CHUNG can see that ANGEL is down, and so he shows his love for her at once. ANGEL is happy again. On their wedding day, both SHING and SHUI are filled with different feelings though they both put on a smiling face. WONG is the only groom of the three who is excited. SA and LUNG remind FUNG that this is only a fake marriage, and that she should not have sex with WONG; FUNG does not know whether to laugh or to cry. SHUI teaches WONG how to sleep with a woman; WONG seems to have half understanding about the matter. WONG wants to sleep with FUNG, whom is a bit shocked. The next morning, LIN is both happy and surprised when she mistakes that WONG has been in bed with FUNG……

FUNG has bought many electrical appliances with the supplementary credit card. LIN tells her not to use WING’s money. LIN’s legs are itchy over because of ringworm. WONG applies some ointment on her legs with his hand. FUNG shouts and stops him; LIN is annoyed. The share price of MP, which has just been listed in the stock market, is soaring. CHUNG therefore has become even more daring and energetic. He even plans to build a hotel and run a casino in Macau. He tells ANGEL to go borrowing money from a banker called JASON. ANGEL is reluctant to do so. After he has signed an agreement with ANGEL, JASON takes the liberty of his hands on her. ANGEL, who is scared, runs away in no time. CHUNG believes that JASON has sexually molested ANGEL. He is so angry that he tears up the agreement and goes reasoning with JASON. ANGEL is sweetened. LIN is always tired from household chores……

CHUNG discloses to reporters that he is going to build an entertainment center in Macau. On the other hand, WING does not agree to his plan. He even tells the press that the plan has nothing to do with CHUNG’s Company. The father and son relationship gets worse. LUNG blames WONG for not ambitious enough but being playful all the time. WONG determines to become a sweet dumplings master. LUNG tells SA to go to a betting branch to place a bet for him and his friends. LUNG has won 70,000 dollars. He goes to SA for the raffle ticket, but she cannot find it everywhere. LUNG accuses her of swallowing the money and spending it on an expensive handbag. SA cries she has been wronged. Mr. LUK, who is from Shanghai, has come to Hong Kong. He invites SHING and FUNG to go to the USA for better development. SHING is tempted; while FUNG turns him down, saying that family is her priority. FUNG takes SHING, who is drunk, home……

The bubble of casino concept stocks bursts. The share price of MP has dropped drastically. The bank refuses to lend money to MP for its entertainment centre. WOON and ANGEL advice CHUNG turning to WING for help but he does not listen. WOON asks WING to give a helping hand himself instead. However, WING accuses him of embezzlement of company money, which he has used on buying the shares of MP. WING demands him to resign. WING advises CHUNG going to liquidation and returning to CHUNG’s. CHUNG is disappointed that WING did not help him out. ANGEL has left CHUNG for JASON, giving CHUNG another blow. To avoid the reporters, CHUNG stays at SHING’s for the time being. The residents of Cheung Wong Estate besiege CHUNG. They have lost money from buying the stock of MP and demand to have their money back. CHUNG is injured in the middle of the chaos. WONG piggybacks him to the doctor’s……

WONG has modified the mango filling of the sweet dumplings. He is afraid of fire and so does not dare to turn on the stove. FUNG helps him overcome his fear with some candlelit cakes. WONG has made a new kind of dumplings and has won many compliments. WONG names them the “Sweetie Pie Sweet Dumplings”. CHUNG is removing the plaster off his foot when WING shows up and hands him a pair of artificial intelligence air shoes, which he has ordered specially for CHUNG. The father and son are reconciled again. WONG is holding a “Sweetie Pie Sweet Dumplings” tasting in Cheung Wong Estate. He also takes some to CHUNG as he knows CHUNG dares not show up in Cheung Wong Estate again. WONG is kidnapped on the way. CHUNG sees this when he is on his way to the tasting. As a result, both of them are kidnapped. The kidnappers demand 2,000 million dollars ransom. CHUNG and WONG are beaten up for trying to escape……