Virtues Of Harmony II
2003The Virtues of Harmony II is a long-running TVB television series, which follows its first series, Virtues of Harmony, a series set in Ancient China. This new, second series of the Virtues of Harmony is set in Modern Hong Kong.
Seasons & Episode
TODAY reveals that KELLY is the person who threw away SARAH’s shoebox. KELLY pleads for pardon but SARAH is unforgiving. She dashes to the kitchen to grab a kitchen knife. When things cool down, they learn the secret held between GUCCI and the shoebox.
ROGER urges his daughter YEE to return to England and finish her studies in fashion design. YEE refuses as she has landed a job at V&C as a fashion designer, but ROGER opposes vehemently as he knows that her boss is a lascivious man. He talks her into working at Ka Yan and promises that he will keep their relationship a secret.
The following day, GEORGE goes to work with a swollen face. He loses his role and starts acting strangely, even barking like a dog. The KIMs and SHEKs are concerned, believing that SARAH has a role to play in his weird behavior. KAM volunteers to investigate into the matter and learns his lesson the hard way.
GEORGE tries to organize his own fan club, and designates KAM as the president. KAM seizes the chance to swindle GEOGRE. The entire SHEK family is mobilized to track down a JOE, a longtime GEORGE fan, to replace KAM, and finds out that JOE is none other than SARAH.
MARCO falls ill. KELLY tries to help by offering him a secret concoction, which further worsens his condition. The KIMs are displeased with MARCO’s subservience but he doesn’t seem to mind. He accompanies KELLY to KITTY’s home and labors for her with no complaints. The KIMs decide to boycott him.
GUCCI comes upon a picture of TSUI, TODAY’s producer, and photos in which TODAY strikes sexy pose. KAM mentions that TSUI has a liking for taking nudity. Dumbfounded, GUCCI storms the studio and puts the session to a halt. CHRIS beats up TSUI in a fit of anger. But things turn out to be a big misunderstanding.
MARCO and KELLY visit the “Love Bell” and find TODAY and FRANCIS paying obeisance before it. The news reaches a worrying GUCCI. But the truth is finally revealed — she only gets close to FRANCIS to prepare for her homosexual part in her next film.
CHRIS and MARCO return home and realize that TODAY has failed to show up at the outing. The four hear laughter coming out from GUCCI’s room and are stunned when GUCCI and KAM walk out together. The siblings plan to take GUCCI out but GUCCI has set a date with KAM for having Big Bowl Feast in Yuen Long. The siblings are stunned.
TODAY seeks to verify her assumption with MAY, while encouraging her to show her true feelings. Solemnly, MAY makes her seal her lips. MARCO carelessly steps on MAY’s lunchbox. MAY’s mind travels way back to three years ago, when KELLY first entered Ka Yan. KELLY presents her well-mannered and gentle demeanor in front of MARCO.
MARCO summons the nerve to tell GUCCI their plan to move out. To MARCO’s relief, GUCCI is supportive of their decision. Rather unexpectedly, SARAH is very reluctant to see them go. She is so upset that she breaks into tears and cry and goes on to announce her intention to move out with the couple. KELLY and MARCO are jolted.
SISTER SEVEN can hardly bear to hear KAM calling SHEUNG dad. She faints at the scene. Regaining her consciousness, she explains to KAM that he is only an adopted son and is not in any way related to SHEUNG. SARAH tidies up KAM’s room and declares the rebirth of the place. The KIMs amuse themselves by addressing KAM as the boss’ son while waiting for the most opportune moment to play trick upon him.
CHRIS plans to take YEE out for celebration, but while shopping for a present, he sees YEE buying a men’s watch which later appears on SHEUNG’s wrist. While all female colleagues have voted CHRIS as the “Sexist Man of Ka Yan’, YEE casts her vote for SHEUNG. She even kisses SHEUNG as he gives her a necklace as present. CHRIS is astounded by their intimacy.
MAY hesitates to find a scapegoat to drink a concocter made with ashes of a charm, AH KONG gravely downs the potion by mistake. MAY asks SIN for an antidote. SIN instructs her to keep pestering KONG, but KONG mistakes her to have a crush on him.
GUCCI misconceives AH WONG’s help rendered to a friend as his scheme to smuggle illegal goods and fires him. But she takes pity of WONG and rehires him after seeing him feeding on leftover French fries in the streets. KONG thinks that MAY takes him fancy as she takes surreptitious glances of him in a diner, offers him an umbrella in the rain, and rolls about in his bed.
SIN, SHUM and KELLY go to a teahouse. SIN tries to reason with the manager as they spot a fly in their tea but gets beaten up as a result. As SHUM is denouncing SIN’s meekness, a $1,000 note slips out of her pocket. SIN picks up the note. KELLY and MARCO pity his dire circumstances and give him several thousand dollars respectively. SIN’s heart goes astray.
SIN gets in his car in chase of SHUM. His eyes rest on a picture taken thirty years ago which captured a glimpse of his glorious days as a top racer. Charged with the boldness he once had, he speeds up the chase but a traffic car reaches him first. A former secret admirer bails him out. This arouses SHUM’s jealousy and ironically hastens their reconciliation.
Instead of giving YEE the watch as a gift, CHRIS offers it as a prize for Ka Yan’s anniversary lucky draw. CHRIS is at once surprised and thrilled that YEE becomes the watch’s lucky winner. It also becomes clear to SHEUNG that YEE fancies CHRIS.
SHEUNG sets up blind dates for YEE. Much to her annoyance, the men all resemble a puritanical scholar. YEE seeks to learn CHRIS’ feelings for her from SHEUNG, who frankly tells her to get CHRIS out of her mind and meets someone else.
SHEUNG applauses KELLY’s performance and entrusts her with the order from MRS MA. This jars on ATHENA, who tries to dampen her spirit by calling MARCO and FRANCIS useless. MR MA aspires KELLY to think big and introduces her to FRANCO, a well-mannered, easy-going young man who easily makes MARCO pale before him.
KAM has purchased a lot of tonics, hoping to make a good profit from reselling the goods. But his face pales at the news which reports the seizure of fake tonics. KAM gnashes his teeth with hatred after learning that he is left out by CHRIS and family from their sumptuous abalone and shark fin feast.
When she finds out FRANCIS has orchestrated the plan, she breaks up with him. During the shooting, the director criticizes TODAY for failing to carry her role as an old prostitute. TODAY ventures to Temple Street to study under SISTER HA, a veteran of the profession. Her acting at last wins the director’s applause.
KAM each writes an apology card to CHRIS and MARCO assuming to be the other brother. He pretends to suffer from cancer but his masquerade is soon exposed. SHEUNG has high hopes for the Industry Soccer Challenge Cup, but with the Ka Yan dream team comprising CHRIS and MARCO falling out, they suffer heavy defeat.
YEE is touched by the KIMs’ hospitality. But SHEUNG stays up all night worrying sick about her. CHRIS asks her to leave SHEUNG, but YEE tells him that she doesn’t have the heart to. CHRIS is tormented by her devotion to SHEUNG. GUCCI decides to play the matchmaker for CHRIS and YEE. A cleaner’s lucky charm for romance lands in YEE’s bag by accident. CHRIS sees it as a sign.
TODAY brings a frog to the SHEK’s and asks FRANCIS to take care of it. HELENA is in a state of undresses when she sees the frog hopping around the bathroom. Scared, she runs out of the house naked, and accidentally locks herself out. FRANCIS and the KIMs come home to see a naked HELENA. She is completely humiliated and swears to break up FRANCIS and TODAY.
SARAH’s entertainment life ends. LAU KAM is back to normal. SARAH passes a tennis court and sees two girls playing tennis, reminding her of her relationship with KITTY twenty years ago. She weeps at the thought. She learns that KITTY has given all her savings to LAU KAM to dabble in the stock market.
MARCO wants KELLY to get pregnant, so he prepares a sexy bath for them, which shocks her. While they are fighting, the water tap breaks and sprays cold water over MARCO, as a result of which he falls sick. MAY tells KELLY she will have a big surprise if she takes care of LILY’s crying daughter OI for a day while they are on holiday.
MAY wants to make up with KELLY, but she refuses. Then KELLY overhears LILY and some other female colleagues gossiping about her in the toilet, with only MAY speaking up for her. KELLY then forgives MAY. KELLY has a business trip, and asks MAY to keep an eye on MARCO. MAY takes good care of him. He praises her as a very fine woman, which delights her.
MARCO tries to find MAY a boyfriend, but she turns him down saying she only likes pilots. Suddenly, MAI KWAI appears in a pilot’s suit. Apparently, he is trying to get a pilot license in order to win her. She then tells him that she is in love with someone. KWAI is furious and rips off his pilot suit in a rage, which scares MAY.
KWAI and LAU KAM stalk after MAY to find out who her lover is. ROGER appears holding MAY’s hand, so they think that he is her lover. MARCO is surprised to learn that ROGER is MAY’s boyfriend. KWAI uses tricks to torture MAY. When MARCO is sick, MAY takes good care of him and KWAI realises who she really loves.
KELLY monitors MARCO secretly and finds something suspicious about him. When she interrogates MAY about it, she firmly denies it. Meanwhile, MARCO pays more attention to KELLY, which eases her worries. ATHENA thinks that KELLY is having an affair with her boyfriend, which bothers KELLY. She is furious when she overhears MARCO’s conversation with MAY.
They lose SING SIR eventually. When ATHENA is worrying about her future, a man claiming to be SING SIR suddenly appears. She drags him to sign a contract immediately. He invites everyone for a meal. They worry that something might go wrong, so they do not dare to eat too much. ATHENA finds out later that the man is not SING SIR, and foresees big trouble ahead.
They hate KAM after SING tells them the reason. KAM treats SING like his enemy after everyone turns their backs on him. He follows SING to a room called the “Luck Charm”, but regrets going in there.
Meanwhile, SING reappears, to everyone’s relief. TODAY loses her necklace in the TV studio. GUCCI promises to find it for her, but turns the whole thing into a joke. TODAY lies to GUCCI, saying that she has found her necklace back. But she cries after turning her back. The KIMs try to comfort her and GUCCI hears everything.
SING sees someone following GUCCI, so he follows behind. The man tries to mob GUCCI but luckily SING scares him off, although GUCCI is hurt. SING carries her to the hospital. He is stunned when she reports her name to the receptionist. Afterward, SING tries to find out more about GUCCI from KELLY. He thinks that he is GUCCI’s son.
GEORGE thanks SAU for helping him out and agrees to be his matchmaker. He thinks that SARAH is in love with SAU, so he deliberately shows her how to perform a “Love Curse” to test if SAU is her target. When he checks out the “Love Tree”, he is shocked by what he sees.
When GEORGE shows up at Honey Cave with all fingers injured, she knows that the injury must be from digging up the clothes, which she had buried under the “Love Tree”. She is heartbroken thinking that he has rejected her. GUCCI objects to SAU going out with SARAH. Annoyed, he invites SARAH to a candle-lit dinner. She accepts his invitation when she sees GEORGE.
GUCCI queues up in a restaurant early in the morning to get a table. The KIMs arrive late and complain about the location of the table, which enrages GUCCI. She leaves her keys, bankbooks, and some other things behind. Everyone thinks that she is angry and has decided to go back to the home village for good. They rush to the outward-bound pier.
LAM gives everyone a document which is full of mistakes. They then find out that the document was issued by them. She insists that everyone has to take a “Work Proficiency Test” in two weeks time, which worries them immensely. MARCO and the others are laughed at that their ability is below primary four, so they decide to study hard.
LAU KAM advises MARCO and the others to lie to GUCCI so that she can dress up as a beggar to beg LAM not to fire them. TAI TSUN and his wife show up unexpectedly and ruin the plan.
The KIMs are discussing WONG’s falling in love with LAM. WONG has an interview at the Ka Yan Company. SING advises him to quit pursuing LAM. LAU KAM receives a warning letter from LAM. When he leaves, he swears to take revenge. He tries to help WONG to pursue LAM and teaches him a plot – “Hero saves the Beauty”. SING warns LAM not to fool WONG.
TODAY later finds out from GEORGE that FRANCIS was not like that when he was little. She goes to Sai Kung with GEORGE to simulate the scenes. Then they decide to hypnotize FRANCIS to ease his psychological fear. They take him to Sai Kung and repeat the scenes.
LAU KAM cannot shed his feminine inclination. Everyone tries hard to help him, but in no avail. LAU KAM asks KITTY to marry him. She refuses at first but agrees eventually. When they go to a restaurant, he is harassed by a gay man in the toilet. He throws the man out of the toilet. Then he comes out with machismo which pleases KITTY.
KITTY and LAM SIN are looking for LAU KAM and KEI SUM at the Honey Cave. GUCCI tells them to stop being paranoid. She accidentally pours some sweet soup on LAU KAM. When she goes to the kitchen, LAU KAM takes the ticket out nervously and dries it with newspaper. Later he finds that the ticket has gone missing. He and KEI SUM suspect that GUCCI has stolen it.
NAM suggests becoming KELLY’s sworn sister, which surprises KELLY. MARCO reminds KELLY that NAM and her are very different in many ways, so she should avoid her. NAM buys KELLY some breakfast. KELLY rejects her kindness and spills some coffee on her shirt. KELLY accidentally drops her wedding ring into a ditch. While she is panicking, NAM shows up.
The KIMs learn that NAM is planning to move into their building and worry that she will be watching them constantly. The KIMs and the SHEKs are shocked to see NAM and NG SAU moving in.
MARCO and KELLY take a bath with some pomelo leaves in order to get rid of their bad luck. SARAH asks everyone to give her household money. KELLY wonders why LAU KAM takes no action. She then finds out that he has not been paying household money for a year. She blames GUCCI for keeping him in the flat for nothing.
GUCCI cannot stand SHAN’s spending anymore. She plots some tricks to make him lose everything. MO witnesses it and laughs at him. The KIMs show up to support SHAN, which moves him. He finally has a mental breakthrough and decides to be realistic. GUCCI is delighted and begs ROGER to re-hire him. ROGER agrees to her request, but only on condition that SHAN apologizes to him in public.
The Virtues of Harmony II is a long-running TVB television series, which follows its first series, Virtues of Harmony, a series set in Ancient China. This new, second series of the Virtues of Harmony is set in Modern Hong Kong.