She killed a powerful man. Her own mother took the bribe to bury her.
Season 1 • Episode 30
LatestTV reporter Wei Haiyi (Played by Maggie Shao) interviews the cage house where the urban poor live, and meets the young Ma Zhongbao (Wen Zhaolun). Zhongbao grew up in a cage house since childhood, indulged in reading all day long, and his personality was extremely closed. After the interview, Haiyi inadvertently took away Zhongbao's novel "Frog and Scorpion", and was deeply impressed by Zhongbao's bitter pursuit. The highly reputable lawyer and lawmaker Cham Yourong (Luo Yingjun) is the underground lover of Haiyi's mother, Wei Jinling (Miao Jinfeng), but intends to invade Haiyi, and Haiyi kills him in a hurry. The mercenary Jin Ling accepted a huge bribe from Rong's wife and even testified against her daughter in court.
Acting
Maggie Shiu's devastating stillness
Writing
The novel-within-a-show metaphor
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Cage houses were real Hong Kong poverty — 1994 was peak awareness era for this housing crisis.
The parallel between Zhongbao's fictional 'Frog and Scorpion' and Haiyi/Jinling's toxic bond suggests the show knows exactly what it's doing.
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