The Price of Greed — Season 1, Episode 5: Episode 5
Drama • 44 min • 1 season, 20 episodes
Episode synopsis
Due to a change in the schedule for departure, MUI has to leave right after the competition. TO and LEUNG encourage MUI to do her best during the competition and conceal their sadness so that MUI can give her best performance. TSE WAN hides MUI’s violin, but is later touched by MUI’s sincerity and returns it to MUI. Professor SZETO informs TO that MUI has suddenly disappeared. LEUNG and TO try to find her. TO finds her at the church. MUI does not want to leave her family and decides to give up her chance to go to Vienna. Her decision is supported by her family and the other villagers. TSE WAN eventually wins the competition. PING has no more money. In order to keep advertising in the newspapers, she sells her expensive coats. She has no more clothes to keep her warm and falls sick as a result. Her old servant gives her a train ticket to go back to Shanghai, but she refuses to return home.… ...
About The Price of Greed
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…