When Rules Turn Loose

The famous barrister SUEN MAN YEE suddenly quits her job at the court at career submit. YEE wants to pass her experience to her daughters and live a peaceful life with her husband SHUM YAT ON. She sets up a law firm with her mentor YUEN KWOK CHU's son YUEN SAI HEI and works as a solicitor. HO KWAN and YEUNG MEI KING are the old servants at YEE's house and they live together harmoniously. ON is a very knowledgeable and optimistic person. He always plays Q&A games with his eldest daughter YAT SUM, his son-in-law HUNG CHI TAT and his youngest daughter YAT YIN. ON always wins the game. SUM and TAT works as a solicitor while YEE works a legal administrator in YEE’s law firm. YIN’s good friend CHEUNG LAI KEI loves solicitor CHING HOK KAN secretly. KEI treats YIN as her love consultant and always asks her for advice on love affairs……

YEE devotes herself on work wholeheartedly and never get a chance to actualize her travel plan with ON. ON doesn’t complain at all and he always shows his understandings towards YEE. KAN joins YEE’s law firm by chance. YEE appreciates KAN’s passion on work and believes that he will perform brilliantly in the future. CHU visits YEE and plays the Q&A game with ON. ON deliberately loses the game and YEE understands his good intention. While working on a trademark infringement case, KAN has conflicts with HEI while trying to make himself outstanding. YEE mediates between them. CHU is the judge of this trademark infringement case. In order to act impartially, CHU tries to keep a distance from YEE while meeting her. YEE turns down KAN’s idea and KAN is upset about this. KAN shares his troubles with a net friend SIU YUEN CHI. TAT is not ambitious at work at all, which is the opposite of SUM’s career attitude……

KEI is very nervous to learn that KAN is seeing his net friend. She later discovers that KAN’s net friend is actually his half-brother CHENG WAI MING and she feels relieved. KAN brings YIN and KEI to his stepmother’s soup shop and they meet KAN’s younger sister CHENG BIK SHAN there. ON treasures each day of his life and his mood is not affected by the forthcoming heart operation. KAN and HEI have conflicts again while discussing a shoplifting case. HEI dismisses KAN out of anger and YEE persuades KAN to stay. ON’s operation is successful and YEE is relieved. YEE asks KAN to take care of the shoplifting case and she assigns YIN to work as his assistance. KAN and YIN work hard to find related evidence but YEE turns down their idea. YIN is worried about the case and ON helps her to analyze the case. KAN wins the case after taking YEE’s advice. KEI comes to hear the case on her day-off……

TAT takes care of divorce action in the law firm. He explains that Mrs. LEE doesn’t fit the requirements of a separation and refuses to handle her divorce case. SUM scolds him for letting go of potential business opportunities but TAT doesn’t share the same attitude with her. SUM is upset and she tells all these to HEI. HEI takes the chance to express his love towards SUM. SUM and HEI used to be lovers but SUM eventually chose TAT to be her husband. In order to please KAN, KEI voluntarily asks to be MING’s tutor. TAT knows that Mrs. LEE doesn’t want a divorce and Mr LEE also want to reunite with her. However, SUM fans the flame between them and they fall out again. KEI is indecently assaulted by somebody and KAN is very nervous about this. KEI misconceives that KAN loves her. YEE is exhausted at work and ON persuades her to take a rest and pass the works to their daughter……

YEE discovers that there is problem in SUM and TAT’s relationship. She is worried. SUM quarrels with TAT again and she turns to HEI for help. HEI grasps the chance to express his love to her. SUM vents her anger on KWAN and KWAN cries that she want to leave. ON persuades KWAN to stay. LING’s friend CHEUNG POR’s flat owner Mr LAM is a very mean person. He tries to force all occupants to leave the house by putting a coffin in one of the empty rooms. In order to help her friend, LING seeks advice from KAN. KEI finds that KAN no longer cares about her as before so she asks YIN to find out the reason. After learning about LING’s friend’s case, KAN issues a letter to Mr LAM and indicts him for nuisance. ON hosts a radio talk show and gives people hints on maintaining a harmonious relationship with their family members. TAT is inspired by him. He apologizes to SUM and they reconcile with each other……

KEI finds that KAN and YIN always stay together and she feels jealous. KEI asks if YIN likes KAN. YIN denies but KEI doesn’t believe in her. YEE misconceives that YIN and KAN fall in love with each other and she is worried. YIN has been seriously hurt in a love relationship. She suffered from anorexia afterwards and wasn’t able to complete her law studies. YEE doesn’t want YIN to get hurt again so she tries to stop her from dating with KAN. SUM’s assistant is on leave and YIN takes up the job temporarily. After crying seriously, KEI decides to let go of her love and start a new life in another country. Before departure, KEI persuades YIN to face her feelings bravely. SUM is very determined and demanding at work and YIN feels great pressure. YEE realizes this and she rearrange the job for YIN. A foreign passenger accuses the minibus driver Mr WONG for defamation……