When your hacker crush is also your suspect, and your half-sister's the delivery girl? Messy.
Season 1 • Episode 20
LatestTIN is sentenced to fourteen years imprisonment. MING offers YEE his sincere apologies but an indifferent YEE tells him about her move to Australia with LAN. HA encourages MING to bring YEE back. MING prepares lunch and brews coffee for YEE but she won’t even answer his call. MUI tells CHUNG frankly that she will not go to Malaysia with him. MING hurries to the airport too late. YEE’s flight has already taken off. Four years pass. MING has been promoted to inspector, while PANG has become a superintendent. MING is in charge of a money laundering case and meets a new district attorney called DAVID. To his surprise, YEE has become the attorney’s assistant. SIN YEE indicates her wish to tie the knot with TIN, who gives his consent without any hesitation. MING and YEE visit TIN in the prison for his insight into the money laundering case. They succeed to convict a suspect with the leads that TIN has provided……
Rao Chengtian (played by Wang Xi) is a genius computer crime expert who likes to challenge crime. Recently, Senior Inspector Zhuang Zhanpeng (Guan Lijie) of the Commercial Crimes Division of the Hong Kong Police has spotted him and vowed to convict him. Once, Zhan Peng arranged everything for committing a crime, and thought that he would be able to catch him in a seamless manner. Unexpectedly, there was an accidental shooting case, and all efforts were in vain. Zhan Peng was even more unconvinced. On the other hand, Jia Ming, a police academy graduate, met the courier Jianer (played by Myolie Wu), and Jianer is Chengtian’s half-sister, but they still don’t know. Later, Jia Ming was found when he kindly helped his classmates enter the police school database to falsify their grades and was dismissed.
Acting
Wang Xi's smug genius energy vs Guan Lijie's wounded pride perfection.
Writing
The accidental shooting that ruins EVERYTHING—delicious narrative spite.
Production
Peak TVB glossy melodrama aesthetics, computers that go bleep-boop.
Creator
Wing-Chung Kwan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Net Deception aired during TVB's golden-era crime wave, when hacking plots felt cutting-edge rather than quaint—Myolie Wu was still early in her rise to household-name status.
Wong Hei and Guan Lijie's antagonistic chemistry spawned fan theories about secret collaboration; they later reunited in 2010's Gun Metal Grey. The obsession was mutual.
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