The Season of Fate

Ruffian TING TAI-LIK is gambling with a Manchu Gege on the train. MA WING-CHING as a side watcher keeps reminding LIK that Gege has some rare and valuable objects from Qing Dynasty that can be used for mortgage. Finally when LIK is defeated, he realizes that it is a fraud. Gege and CHING dash off during the messy situation. In fact, Gege named LEI SHI-MUI and together with CHING, they are both con artists. LIN SHEUNG-CHUN gets her best friend LEUNG GAU-MUI, who is a chief cook, goes with her to offer first incense at the temple. Hoping the business of HEI SHEUNG FUNG that belongs to her deceased husband can turn better. When CHUN gets home and has breakfast with her mother-in-law MADAM KWAN, WONG YEUK-LAM appears. Actually LAM has got some mental problems and she turns up in splendid attire just to give her “Mother” CHUN a shock.… ...

GAU feels sorry for CHUN when she was being attacked by LAM. It reminds CHUN about her marriage and how she ends up at the KWAN family… The wholesale seafood suppliers want CHUN to settle the arrears and CHUN has to beg for an extension. The inn owner is suspicious about the identity of CHING. While figuring out somewhere else to stay, CHING notices that the rich man MASTER YAM will be back to town for offering sacrifices and visiting his relatives. CHING therefore assumes a false identity as the representative of MASTER YAM in front of the mayor. The relatives of the KWAN family, KWAN CHIU-YAN and KWAN CHIU-YI also run a restaurant. They want to go through the wholesale seafood suppliers and make CHUN sell the restaurant. While LAM is doing the housework, she accidentally finds the gold jewelry that CHUNG has hidden… GAU volunteers to take out his savings as to help CHUN pay off her debts.… ...

CHUN brings LAM home and keeps questioning her, yet LAM defends CHING by saying that everything comes of her own accord. CHUN offers to help YUN-YUET while knowing that he is very fond of KAM-FUNG. CHUN wants to set up a trap as to crash the conspiracy of CHING but he sees through her tricks. The mayor brings along the other people to the big house and tries to fawn on CHING. CHING indicates that the welcome banquet for MASTER YAM must have some foreign wine. He visits CHUN at the restaurant and sells her some pills that can turn the Chinese wine into brandy. Yet he does not expect CHUN to turn him down. For the sake of making CHUN to fall into his trap, CHING reveals to YAN and YI about CHUN owning a large number of foreign wine. As to beg CHING for selling his magic pills, CHUN acts as a servant and gets fool around by CHING. When CHING and MUI try to leave the town, they meet their enemy LIK.… ...

While driving into town, TIN suffers from a diarrhea and asks CHI-FO to pull the car aside. After escaped from the chase, CHING takes away the wallet that TIN has left in the car… CHUN and the other people catch CHING and want him to return the money that he has cheated. When GAU searches CHING, he finds the name card of YAM FEI-YEUNG inside the stolen wallet. The vehicle is unable to start and TIN has to walk to town alone. Since TIN has no money, he snatches a pudding cake from a village kid because of hunger. While evading capture from the villagers, TIN gets to see KAM-FUNG taking a bath by mistake. After being beaten mercilessly, TIN is kept in prison. CHING tries to leave while GAU is sleeping but falls into the trap that GAU has set… CHUN wants CHING to work and when he delivers some takeaway food to the police station, he finds TIN is caught and being put into prison again.… ...

CHING brings TIN and the mayor to the restaurant and TIN proves that CHING does work for the YAM family. TIN wants the mayor to catch those people that have beaten him up. The news worries the entire LIN family and GAU volunteers to be the scapegoat for YUN-YUET as a reward to the LIN family. As to save GAU, CHUN turns to CHING for help and signs on an IOU that contains no figures to him. CHING finds TIN very depressed after the matter is settled. TIN is worried that his father will discover his scandals since YEUNG will be in town soon. On the day when YEUNG arrives, apart from receiving a grand welcome, he finds that all villagers are full of praise for TIN… YEUNG talks to CHING privately and asks him to leave quickly. YAN and YI show CHUN the IOU that CHING has sold them and want CHUNG to pass the restaurant to them. YEUNG meets LAM and realizes that she is his junior apprentice.

LAM breaks into the YAM family and after recognizing YEUNG as her SENIOR BROTHER YAM, LAM faints on the spot. YEUNG verifies that CHING is the son of his SENIOR BROTHER MA ON-SHAN. While CHUN is talking to GAU about LAM, old UNCLE HEI voluntarily tells them the relationship between LAM and the other apprentices… YUENG gives CHING some money but he refuses to accept; moreover, CHING declares that he wants to turn over a new leaf. CHING proposes to CHUN to work at HEI SHEUNG FUNG. As to keep the business run, he plays a small trick and gets back the IOU that is held by YAN. CHUN arranges MUI to stay with the KWAN family and CHING shares the same room with GAU at the LIN family. TIN finally finds out that FUNG is one of those people that has gone against him. He purposely goes with some girls to her shop and fools FUNG around. CHING offers to help FUNG and capture the heart of TIN.… ...