The Season of Fate (五味人生)

English Title: The Season of Fate
Previous Title: Five Flavors of Life
Chinese Title: 五味人生
Cantonese Title: Ng Mei Yan Saang
Producer: Cheung Kin Man
Screenwriters: Wong Kwok Fai, Yip Sai Hong
Cast: Roger Kwok, Esther Kwan, Michelle Yim, Ng Wai Kwok, Derek Kwok, Vivien Yeo, Oscar Leung, Aloys Chen, Mimi Lo, Pierre Ngo, Regen Cheung, Elena Kong, Ha Ping, Felix Lok, Yvonne Lam, Irene Wong, etc.
Length: 25 Episodes
Broadcast: January 11, 2010 to February 12, 2010
Genre: Period, Romance, Drama, Food
Official Site: Link
Opening Theme: Savor (細味) by Michael Tse

• Roger Kwok will have relationships with Michelle Yim, Esther Kwan, and Regen Cheung.
• Roger will be acting two roles, both the father and son.
• As the father, Roger will be the husband of Michelle.
• As the son, he will play a bickering couple with Esther.
• The story will basically talk about how the older Roger was killed in the past.
• Michelle will play the role of a twenty year old girl to her late fifties.
• Michelle will also be in a love triangle with Roger and Ng Wai Kwok.
• Roger and Vivien Yeo will play brother and sister.
• Vivien will be a gold digger and although Aloys Chen has a crush on her, she will like the rich Oscar Leung.
• Ng Wai Kwok and Elena Kong will be husband and wife, but Ng Wai Kwok only loves Michelle.
• Derek Kwok will play a eunuch from the last Qing dynasty who loves Esther.
• Filming wrapped up in August of 2009.

Poor Lin Sheung Chun (Esther Kwan) is sold to the Kwan’s family as a concubine but her husband accidentally passes away. The husband’s death causes the first wife Wong Yeuk Lam (Michelle Yim) to behave erratically. Chun has no choice but to take up all family responsibilities including operation of the family’s bistro. During the time, Ma Wing Ching (Roger Kwok) and Lei Shi Mui (Regen Cheung) are swindling around,and their schemes get unveiled by Chun. However, Lam mistakenly recognizes Ching as her senior apprentice and she runs after him all the time. Ching seizes the chance to swindle money by working at the bistro. After a series of incidents, Chun and Ching unexpectedly falls for one another. Chun feels caught in between Ching and her childhood friend Leung Gau Mui (Derek Kwok). All of a sudden, Lam’s second senior apprentice Yam Fei Yeung (Ng Wai Kwok) returns home with his foster son Yam Shing Tin (Oscar Leung). Yeung hopes to get Lam’s heart back to him but Chun believes that he has other intentions behind it. Coming as a surprise, she discovers the secret of Ching …

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