A broke bus driver meets a power-hungry CEO — they're both drowning, just in different pools.
Season 1 • Episode 20
LatestWhen SHIU-BONG is discharged from the hospital, POK-MAN informs him that the Yiu Kong Group is under his control. During the meeting, POK-MAN wantonly provokes NGAI-YAN and tramples upon her feelings, but is beaten up by YAT-SING as a result. In the wake of this, POK-MAN threatens to file a lawsuit, swearing to put YAT-SING in jail. Having decided to tender his resignation, YAT-SING instead tries to comfort NGAI-YAN; whereas NGAI-YAN not only forgives NGAI-SHUN, but also re-builds their sibling relationship. After the chairman of Lap Ming Group is arrested on suspicion of fraud, trading in Lap Ming's shares is halted on the stock market, and subsequently implicates the investors of the Ching Lam Project. Owing to capital scarcity, POK-MAN has to sell his shares in the Bitin International Limited. NGAI-YAN proposes a capital injection but is turned down by POK-MAN.… ...
A single father who works as a mini bus driver that struggles to raise his young son with a severe food allergy problem alone, meets a female CEO of a huge corporation who seems to have it all on the outside but has struggles of her own due to her father's illness and family members fighting with each other for the CEO position.
Acting
Wayne Lai's exhausted single dad energy hits different.
Writing
Two families, zero functional relationships, maximum tension.
Wayne Lai Yiu-Cheung
Kei Yat Sing / "Sunday"
Louisa So Yuk-Wah
Yiu Ngai Yat / "Anson"
Tony Hung
Yiu Chi Hau / "Ivan"
Natalie Tong
Mui Man Gwan
Ram Chiang Chi-Kwong
Yue Tai Chi
Amy Fan
Hung Lai Sa / "Vanessa"
Elaine Yiu
Miu Man Yee
Ali Lee
Yuen Ka Bo
Lee Shing-Cheong
Chung King-Fai
饶兆邦
Susan Tse Suet-Sum
顾淑贤
Mary Hon Ma-Lee
Benjamin Yuen Wai-Ho
Stanley Cheung
You Ngan Suan / “Ryan"
Lau Kong
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The minibus setting was chosen to ground the wealthy-CEO fantasy in gritty, recognizable Hong Kong working-class reality.
The title refers literally to bus mirrors and metaphorically to characters constantly looking backward at family damage they can't escape.
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