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Brief summary:

The relationship between the father (Sunny Chan) and son (Ron Ng) had always been distant. The son felt that the father's set of principles were too outdated. The father always mentioned that he had a strange encounter in his younger days, but the son was certain that it was just his excuse to cover up his failure. During the period when their relationship was the most strained, the father met an accident and went into a coma, with his life hanging on a thread. The son was remorseful, and while feeling lost and helpless, he accidentally traveled back in time - returning to the younger days of his father... The father and son actually became good friends. In this simple generation-period, the son learned how to get along with others again, and experienced how valuable relationships with his closed ones are. He even witnessed the strange encounter during his father's younger days - which was actually that the father had met up with the son, whom wasn't supposed to be born yet at that time...

Alternative summary:

Chor Ci (Ron Ng) and his father, Chor Fun (Sunny Chan), depended on each other for a living. After graduating from the university, he became a public relations officer in a tobacco company. He repeatedly completed his tasks well, and got promoted rapidly, becoming part of the young professionals group. Chor Ci depended on the tobacco to get fame and wealth, but Chor Fun felt that his son was promoting smoking as ‘helping a villain to do evil’, thus Chor Ci had long ago moved out from the house so that he would not have any conflicts with his elderly father. It was until Chor Fun contracted the Alzheimer’s disease that Chor Ci could only move back home to take care of him. However, Chor Fun’s old style of doing things was both annoying and laughable to Chor Ci. Once, a wealthy businessman from the city tried to poach Chor Ci over using a high pay and post, but unexpectedly, a freak accident happened along the way, causing Chor Ci to travel back in time to the 1960s era. When Chor Ci first stepped into this old era, he was accidentally hurt by the young Chor Fun. Chor Fun took him home, but he came into clashes with the landlady’s, Tam Lan Ching (Nancy Wu), daughter, Ching Lan Fun (Shirley Yeung). Seeing that he was unable to return to 2008, Chor Ci could only find a job to support himself. However, in this place, connections were needed everywhere, and Chor Ci’s education qualifications were useless back then. Fortunately, with Chor Fun’s help, he became a salesman in the departmental store. Unexpectedly, he found out that the city’s wealthy businessman in the modern era was actually the manager of this departmental store, thus he went all out to cling onto this wealthy man. Chor Ci was being picked on by Lan Fun, thus he could only pretend that he was wooing after her, in order to let his days become better. However, after both of them got along over the days, Chor Ci truly fell in love with Lan Fun. Chor Fun accidentally discovered that Chor Ci came from the future, and he’s his son, thus he allowed his son to control his love life. Chor Ci witnessed his father doing such a sacrifice for him, thus he decided to repent his ways and give up on relying the wealthy businessman. However, the wealthy businessman unexpectedly clinched the 2008’s own historical writing award, and he devised an evil plan to buy over Lan Ching’s building, chasing all the tenants out. He wanted to use it to develop his property kingdom. Chor Ci was filled with regrets and decided to salvage the situation. However, he accidentally returned to 2008……

Credits: Wikipedia

My thoughts:

Initially I thought this show was ridiculous to have arranged Sunny and Myolie to be Ron's parents. But then, notice that Ron actually travelled back in time and became good friends with Sunny makes the plot interesting and mysterious.

Ratings:

Themesong: "掩飾" by Patrick Tang & Roger Kwok

*Contains spoiler*

Episode 1 to 27:

Roger Kwok (Fong Tsun-Kit 方浚杰) an immigration officer was married with mainland immigrant, Claire Yiu (Cheung Si-Man 張思敏). When Claire moves in to live with Roger's family, there was a lot of unhappiness and misunderstandings aroses and Claire's secret was revealed which broke their marriage. In the end, under the persuation of Roger's mother, Claire decided to leave the family. During this time, Roger was very upset and his relationship with his son has strained due to Claire's departure. Roger then focused on his job and got a transfer to the immigration department where he is under the supervision of John Chiang (Mak Kai-Ming 麥啟銘). Roger used to thought John was a hindrance to his promotion and his impression of John was bad but it gradually improved as he finally learnt that John was trying to train him. Roger's best friend, Yoyo Mung (Yip On-Kei 葉安琪) kept encouraging Roger whether in his work or not to give up on Claire and look for her.

In later episodes, Claire returned to Hong Kong and Roger then tried to pursuade her to return to his side. Claire was touched finally by Roger's sincerity and believed that the lost wedding ring that was found again was a sign that fate has brought them together. Yoyo has grown a feeling for Roger at that time but decided to keep it to herself. Roger was devastated as a result of Claire's tragic death. She has been pushed down the building by Raymond Cho (Cheng Pak-Yu 鄭柏宇), a police officer and also Roger's best friend whose video of been bribed by the mafia was been discovered by Claire. In the end, he was being jailed with the help of Roger who wanted to take revenge for Claire.

My thoughts:

Completely missed out Patrick Tang (Au Shun-Fung 歐順風) [Roger's friend], Natalie Tong (Yip On-Yee 葉安兒) [Yoyo's sister], and Toby Leung (Chung Chi-Yan 鍾志欣) [Roger's sister] love triangle part in the summary, but it is rather interesting to watch.

What I like about this series is the immigration cases that they deals with. One particular case is couples who do not love each other get into "fake" marriages so that the party with mainland ID can convert to a Hong Kong ID so that they are allowed to live in Hong Kong which is said to have better prospects. The Hong Kong party on the other hand, will receives a sum of money. I find it amusing that such cases actually occured in Hong Kong (real cases). Overall, the series is ok to watch and if you are interested in how immigration department functions. ^_^

Ratings:

Themesong: "愛怎麼說" by Steven Ma & Tavia Yeung

*Contains spoiler*

Episode 1 to 25:

Steven Ma (Nip Ji-Yuen 聶致遠) and Tavia Yeung (Dau Sing-Suet 竇勝雪) were once a couple but because of Tavia's family selling illegal salt and Steven, being a government official, was forced to capture their family. In the end, both Tavia's parents died and she put the blame on steven and seek revenge from him. Tavia was saved by Raymond Wong (Wu Ting-Hin 胡亭軒) when she was on the run from the government official. Raymond was undergoing a long-term illness that is said not to be recovered. To repay the Wu family for saving her, Tavia decided to help the family with the salt trading business.

A lot of events happened in the salt trading business. There was a critical event which forced the Wu family to give up the rights to sell salt. Since Raymond was very ill at that time and his father was jailed as he was being wrongly accused of murder. There is no one in the Wu family to support the salt business. In the end, Tavia and Raymond got into a "fake marriage" to save the family from the crisis.

After a long time, Tavia found out that Steven was under the influence of his godfather, Felix Lok (To Ying-Lung 屠應龍) which cause him to carry out the government official duties to capture her parents. Meanwhile, they also found out that Felix was engaged in illegal salt business. Steven, Tavia and Raymond gathered evidence against Felix. Unfortunately, Raymond was killed by Felix. In the end, Felix was captured and killed by government official with the help of Tavia and Steven. Steven and Tavia then got married but during the wedding day, Steven could not bear to hide from Tavia the truth that it was him who killed her parents indirectly. Tavia ran away and lived in some mountain tops where it was snowing heavily. She come across Steven in a mountain cave and the series ended there.

My thoughts:

The storyline was quite good but it is quite sad that Steven and Tavia did not get married in the end. It is very similar to Rosy business 巾幗梟雄. One is about rice business and the other about salt business. For those who watch Rosy business, you may want to watch Sweetness in the Salt, but don't expect it to be the same standard as Rosy business.

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