Scavengers' Paradise

tv show

poster for Scavengers' Paradise

20 total episodes

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1 seasons

First Aired April 11, 2005

Overview

Mainland youngster TANG WAI CHEUNG (KWOK CHUN ON) looks for his future father-in-law LING SING PO (CHUN WONG) with an old Hong Kong address passed on by his late mother. Unfortunately, PO moved a long time ago. With nowhere else to stay, CHEUNG lives with his young uncle TANG KING CHAN (MA KWOK MING). CHAN bluffs to his relatives about his wealth, but in fact, he is seriously in debt. In order to pay off CHAN’s debt, CHEUNG takes any jobs that he can find, and experiences the real world. CHEUNG and his flatmate CHENG PIK WAN (WU, MYOLIE) encourage each other to work hard and slowly fall in love. Meanwhile, a rich man’s daughter LING FUNG (KONG CHERIE, CHERRY) dislikes the arranged marriage her parents set up for her and runs away from home. She somehow ends up settling down in the flat where CHEUNG and CHAN live. FUNG complains about everything in the flat. CHEUNG cannot stand her and fights with her all the time. On the other hand, CHAN is attracted by FUNG’s beauty…

Episode 16 poster unavailable

Episode 16

Season 1 - Episode 16 - 1h 45m

Air Date

May 02, 2005

Overview

CHEUNG denotes that he and WAN truly love each other, but CHEE refuses to accept WAN and even asks WAN to return the ancestral jade. CHAN is expelled from LING’s house after his true identity exposes. After heart searching, CHEUNG decides to go and see PO with CHEE; CHEUNG apologizes to PO, saying that he only treats FUNG as sister, to which FUNG feels like heart broken. CHEUNG takes up his old profession as rickshaw boy. CHEE pretends to commit suicide to force CHEUNG to marry FUNG, but LUNG exposes the plot. In the record press conference, WAN introduces CHEUNG to everyone, where the reporters make a huge implication that the status of the two is a world apart, but this does not shake their relationship. CHAN goes and drinks his sorrow away and comes to know that CHUEN and MIN conspire together to cheat the money of PO. At this moment, PO is also aware that he has been cheated and he collapses in the street……