The Price of Greed

Released: 2008-01-04

Runtime: 44 minutes

Episode Overview

In 1935, YAN YUET-MUI arrives in Shanghai to visit LAM PING, who is believed to have fallen sick. Though MUI cannot speak, she nonetheless cheers PING up and lets her know that LUI TO and his mother LO SEI LEUNG have arrived in Shanghai too, that everything will turn out fine.… MUI turns back the clock, remembering when she was only six. It was 1919. She was waiting for a train with her family at the train station, when she was abducted by SEI LEUNG, who was then a member of a con gang. TO came across them and tried to stop SEI LEUNG. He was also being abducted. The two kids were brought to Guangzhou. They were nearly made dumb to become beggars. Fortunately, SEI LEUNG saved them and from then on they lived as a family. Time flies, and, in 1932, TO becomes a police officernd MUI graduates from the school for the deaf and dumb. She plays the violin very well and is well known for her good performances.… ...

Series Overview

Police Constable LUI TO (WONG CHUNG CHAK, BOSCO) is shocked to discover that TSU FUNG (CHAN KIN FUNG, SAMMUL), who has reportedly gone missing for a year, is already dead and that his body has been claimed by his girlfriend LAM PING (TSUI KATE TSZ SHAN). Then, suddenly and mysteriously, FUNG, who is believed to be dead, turns up again, which makes the enigma even more intriguing. The relationship between PING and FUNG is also put to the test amidst such confusion. It is in fact a conspiracy by PING’s stepmother and a conman. TO begins to investigate the mystery, which nonetheless places him in great danger and causes him to lose his job. Fortunately, he has YAN YUET-MUI (YEUNG SZE-KI, SHIRLEY), his childhood friend, by his side to help him through his darkest days. PING’s family have become entangled in a series of mishaps ever since her marriage to FUNG. What she doesn’t know is that eight members of MAO TAI’s (CHAN HUNG LIT) con gang have already infiltrated the LAM family…