My Father's Son (TV series)

Tang Yan Wai (Ha Yu) is a poultry shop owner and seller. He's a widow with two grown sons. He falls in love with his customer Lee Siu Kiu (Angelina Lo) and finds excuses to see her. One day while making a delivery to her home he sees her crying outside saying she has lost everything in the stock market. He proposes to her and tells her he will take care of her. Thinking marrying Siu Kiu will be good for his family since his sons have never had a mother figure in the lives before, however his sons Tang Ka Fat (Stephen Chow) and Tang Yuk Hin (Dickson Lee) feel uneasy suddenly having a new member in their family. Yuk Hin puts his feelings aside since he is happy for his father while Ka Fat finds ways to expose Siu Kiu as a lazy freeloader who just wants to mooch off of his father.

Yuk Hin, unlike his brother is better educated and strives for a better life. When he fails his university entrance exam his gets a job as a salesman, but also still helps out at the family poultry shop whenever he is free. Ka Fat on the other hand is lazy and without ambition. He works full-time at the poultry shop and likes to play the lotto when he feels lucky, because he plays the lotto often it leads to his encounter with the convenience store girl Wong Chor Yat (Sandra Ng), who he does not get along with. Also since he runs home often during the day he is aware of Siu Kiu's laziness and tries to expose her to other family remembers.

One day Yan Wai's older half brother Tang Yan Kit returns from the US with his family because both brothers are to inherit their father's properties. One of the properties they inherit is a duplex that was originally two separate apartments. Yan Wai has always resented Yan Kit since he had the better life growing up and had their father with him while Yan Wai had to learn to be independent growing up. He blames his hardship on Yan Kit since yan Kit's mother forbid their father from provided for him and his mother. Not wanting Yan Kit to have the duplex all to himself and because his home is scheduled to be demolished Yan Wai and his family moves into the upstairs unit. Yan Kit lets Yan Wai have his ways since he feels guilty for how his mother treated Yan Wai and his mother.

Yan Kit lives a complicated life as he has his wife Ellen, and a kept family no one knows of. His other wife Chung Han also has been living in Hong Kong with their daughter Chung Yee. The two wives meet when Ellen saves Chung Han and Siu Kiu from a mugging. The three later becomes friends and opens a beauty treatment spa together. Yan Kit finds it really hard having to divide time between Ellen and Han and scared that one day Ellen will know of his other family.

Their family is further complicated when Yuk Hin develops a crush on Yee and doesn't know that she is Yan Kit's daughter. The two become close when they work for the same company and later friends. She later develops feelings for Yuk Hin also but suppresses her feelings for him since she believes that it is incest because they are both blood cousins. After meeting Ellen and becoming close to her, Yee learns that Ellen is her father's legal wife. She soon gets entangled in her parents lies to cover up their complicated relationship. She conveys her built up stress to Yuk Hin one night, the two get drunk and accidentally spends the night together. Ashamed of what they have done, Yee becomes suicidal.

Ellen who thinks Han is single introduces her to a man. Yan Kit finds out about it and exposes his relationship with Han to Yan Wai and his family. All agree not to let Ellen know since they do not want to hurt her feelings. During an argument about selling one of their father's other properties, Yan Wai exposes Yan Kit and Han's relations in a fit of rage. After one of her daughters suicide attempts Han confesses to Yee that she is not really Yan Kit's daughter but her former boyfriend's who died in a car accident before she was born. Relieved that she is not really related to Yuk Hin, Yee and him no longer hold back their feelings for each other and start dating. Han however accepts her new boyfriends marriage proposal and leaves for the US.

During this time Yan Kit, who is trying to win Ellen back is overwhelmed and gets tricked by a worker at his company into signing a bad business deal. Soon triads come looking for him to repay their money. Yan Wai who has never liked Yan Kit comes to his rescue when Yan Kit gets beaten by triads who have invaded their home. Yan Wai realizes how much he cares for his brother and helps him clear his name. The two form a friendly relationship. Ellen also comes back to Yan Kit and announce that she is pregnant.[1][2]

• Official website (in Chinese)