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Kate Tsui (Ko Ching Man 高青雯) emerges as Hong Kong beauty pageant and joins the entertainment circle. In the beginning, she was a fan of Christine Ng (Keung Chin Fung 姜展鳳), a famous actress and constantly praises her acting skills. However, both Kate and Christine showed distaste towards each other as Christine found out that Kate was the daughter of Kingdom Yuen (Cheung Lai Hung 張麗虹) who was her bitter rival in the entertainment circle before Kingdom met with an "accident" that caused her to leave the entertainment circle.

It was later found out by Kate and Kingdom that Christine actually caused the accident and caused Kingdom's partial handicapped. The case was sent to court, however Christine was not implicated as her accomplice, Joey Mak (To Dung 杜登) covered up for her and said that he was the mastermind of this incident. In the end, he was sent to jail and Christine was scot-free. Meanwhile, Kate realised that Kingdom's intolerable treatment towards Christine was the root of the accident and was starting to reduce her resentment towards her.

The only best friend that Kate had in the entertainment circle is Sharon Chan (Tang Ho Yee 唐可兒 Cally). However, their friendship was brought to the test when both get a part in a movie that has 2 female lead. Cally wanted to eliminate Kate's part so that she will be the main star.

Christine exposed the truth to Kate who refused to believe her initially until Sharon slapped Kate when she mistakenly thought Kate revealed her secret of pretending to be rich in front of the media and leaving her parents in a low-down house.

It was actually Christine who expose the truth to the media as she wanted to highlight to Kate that Sharon did not value their friendship anymore and the best option is to completely lose this friend. Sharon's boyfriend also Director of the TV station, Chris Lai (Chong Dik Kun 莊迪勤 Deacon) left her as he could not tolerate the change in Sharon too.

Kate was utterly heartbroken and Christine constantly comforted her. Mutual trust and bond between them became strong. Through this incident, Christine sees it as an opportunity to eliminate two rising stars and she began to take Kate under her wing, slowly planning to bring her into a moral downfall. Christine pretends to be kind and even offered to regard Kate as her god-sister. As they grow closer, she begins tempting Kate with drugs and money.

Under Christine influence, Kingdom begins to see a dramatic change in her daughter's character. Kate began using dirty tactics to hurt Sharon, such as stealing Chris away from her. Eventually, Kate realizes Christine is just pretending to be her friend, just like Sharon was.

As Kate becomes more and more scheming, she no longer trusts anyone and thinks everyone had betrayed her. In order to bring Christine to her downfall, she collaborated with Wong Cho Lam (Yuen Kwok Fun 袁國勳) and exposed Christine's relationship with Chris's father who is the CEO of an Advertising Company.

What Kate did not expected was Chris's mother was also caught cheating on Chris's father. The pictures and videos were taken. Kate struggled to expose the news to the media as she knew that Chris would broke up with her if he knew it was she who broke her family up. In the end, Kate selfishly handed the pictures to the media.

Christine's image and reputation was utterly ruined as the audience viewed her as a mistress who teared the family apart. Her parts in the series was reduced by a lot and replaced by Kate's parts. As Kate's acting career takes off, Christine became desperate for everlasting beauty and injects her face with botox in an attempt to slow the aging process. However, Christine's face begins changing shape and her cosmetic endorsements with many companies are cut and being replaced by Kate. Even the best actress award, that she has won for 3 years in a row, are slipping out of Christine's hands.

To vent her anger, Christine vowed to plunge Kate into a pit of despair and pain. She got someone to disfigured Kate which affected her emotionally as she could not continue acting as appearance is very important in the entertainment circle.

Kate was in despair and left home. Meanwhile, Sharon was highly addicted to drugs and roams the street. She began to lost her senses and climbs up to the building due to the effect of the drug. Luckily, Kate saved her life and pulled her out of the danger zone.

In the end, both Kate and Sharon learnt their lesson and Kate continued acting with the support of her mother who also returned back to the TV station while Sharon went to the drug rehabilitation centre and she successfully overcome the influence of drugs.

At the last few episodes, Christine returned with her regained look and endorsement backing from Korea's cosmetic company. She challenged both Kate and Kingdom and made sarcastic remarks on their series. At the award ceremony, Christine was very keen to get the best actress award again but was worried about the remark made by Chris's father that Kate would claim the award. Out of impulse, she dragged Kate with a knife to the rooftop. She revealed her schemes of straining the relationship between Kate and Sharon, pretending to be nice to Kate and getting someone to disfigure Kate. She even go to the extent of dragging Kate to the side of the rooftop and wanted her dead.

In the end, Christine accidentally fell from the building and cause her to become handicapped for life. The winner of the best actress was actually Christine and if she had not believe what other people says and doubt her acting skills, she would have claim the award and not lying in the hospital bed. A very costly lesson taught to her that scheming your way through and not believe in the skills you possessed will suffer a very heavy penalty. Just be yourself is the way.

My thoughts
I felt very touched at the last few episodes when both Kate and Sharon are left with nothing but their families who had given them all the emotional support during their hard times. The so call "Good" friends left them as soon as they are in trouble. Life is realistic. Quite a good story about how drugs tear a person apart and its effects. Oh, if any of you wonder who Chris end up with, it's Sharon.