Season 1
20 listed episodes · First aired May 6, 2013
Episodes
In spite of the continuous upheaval in China during the 1930s, Guangzhou is still under the facade of peace and prosperity. Running the business of Hip Wo Hong, the TONG's family is one of the four big firms in Guangzh…
E2Episode 2Finally, the problem is solved, but NGA-WUN misconstrues that SO FEI and the others are the masterminds behind the whole plot. Worrying that his life is under threat due to the tax arrears and his assistance to TONG's …
E3Episode 3YUK-TAK is so outraged that he leads everyone to the Mayor’s residence to meet KAI-YIU. He not only emphasizes his position as the Central Government Commissioner, but also as the son of the Assistant Secretary of the …
E4Episode 4When her conversation with PAK-NIN and the others gets disagreeable, NGA-MAN goes to Huadi Pier to visit LAI-WO. During the journey, she gets besieged by some coolies. Grasping at the chance to flatter her, SO FEI hel…
E5Episode 5After being arrested, SO FEI takes full responsibility, so TAI-CHING and the others go to seek help from LAI-WO. Having gone through the whole story, LAI-WO learns that it is PAK-NIN who reported SO FEI to the municipa…
E6Episode 6Having arranged NGA-MAN and CHI-HIM to practice fencing, NGA-WUN leaves early by using an excuse of having a business appointment, with which NGA-MAN is so dissatisfied that she angrily returns home. In view of this, Y…
E7Episode 7Master SHUM from one of the four big firms bribes WONG MEI-LIN to make a dinner appointment with CHUN-BONG and YIU-CHO, who are both military rulers. Master SHUM raises the issue that a new shipping line should be exte…
E8Episode 8PO-PO makes friends with celebrities as PAK-NIN's confidant, and the May-December Romance between the two has become the talk of the town. PAK-NIN cannot bear to see PO-PO being wronged, so he decides to marry her, yet…
E9Episode 9Under KAI-YIU's order, CHUN-BONG and YIU-CHO go to meet up with SIU-WU, who provided the information about WAN-KIT. The two follow SIU-WU to a mountain in search of WAN-KIT, where they get attacked by someone unexpecte…
E10Episode 10CHUN-BONG and CHEUNG YUE go to Huadi Pier to conduct an on-site survey, thinking that it is an ideal place to smuggle the imperial treasures out of the country. On the other hand, led by PING-CHOI, some loyal die-hard …
E11Episode 11While CHUN-BONG leads troops to check the goods, he discovers that the most precious Jade Seal of Emperor Qianlong is missing. So he immediately coerces all people there, asking anyone who took it to give himself up, o…
E12Episode 12Ever since he took over management of the Pier, SIU-YIP wantonly dismisses the employees there, leaving everyone being on tenterhooks. SO FEI intends to find PO-PO, asking her as SIU-YIP's step-mother to persuade him t…
E13Episode 13On the day of the Joint Management Committee Chairmanship Election, HAU-YUNG proposes adopting a secret ballot as a voting method. Though the suggestion is met with CHUN-BONG’s objection, CHUN-BONG still wins the Elect…
E14Episode 14Being a subject to a tax inspection as per the Taxation Master, TING-KWOK, everyone in the TONG's family falls into a flutter. YUK-HING suggests splitting the family fortune with the purpose of diminishing the damage d…
E15Episode 15With Hip Wo Hong being found guilty over alleged tax evasion worth around three hundred and seventy thousand dollars, NGA-WUN is remanded in custody awaiting sentencing later. While the TONG's family falls into a flutt…
E16Episode 16LAI-WO's mind is in turmoil when KAI-YIU asks him to be the Acting Mayor; whereas NGA-MAN is faced with the objection from the TONG's family for the performance of her duty as Chairwoman on behalf of NGA-WUN. Knowing t…
E17Episode 17In order to perform his duty in the think tank better, SO FEI is willing to pay by himself, hiring someone as his private tutor. Having heard of this, poet CHI-MOR, who has hidden in Guangzhou, decides to apply for the…
E18Episode 18Before he is sent to the hospital, KAI-YIU has agreed to an interview with a foreign radio station, so LAI-WO cannot equivocate. LAI-WO reviews KAI-YIU's previously recorded radio interview to help learn about public a…
E19Episode 19CHUN-BONG tracks CHI-MOR down to the Poetry Club, where he discovers CHI-MOR’s real identity. On the Winter Solstice, LAI-WO returns to the TONG’s residence to have dinner with the TONG’s family members. They know tha…
E20Episode 20While Wing Cheong Shing has a big surge in business, the TONG's family also has a significant change in a short period of time with everyone making great progress. For the first time, LAI-WO spends time with the WONG'…