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The Virtues of Harmony II is a long-running TVB television series, which follows its first series, Virtues of Harmony, a series set in Ancient China. This new, second series of the Virtues of Harmony is set in Modern Hong Kong.
MRS CHAN gets robbed. Her screaming wakes up GUCCI, who is taking a nap at Honey Cave. GUCCI speeds to her help. Exercising her “hand-seizing lock”, she captures the robber before the police arrive. The police are impressed by her martial artistry. HELENA reveals that GUCCI used to be a cop. Each morning, GUCCI burns incense as offerings to the gods, praying that she will one day reunite with her brother FU who has gone missing for over twenty years. Just when the KIMs are having dinner together, LAU KAM arrives with a handful of luggage, claiming that he has rented a flat.
SARAH and GUCCI blame each other for the mistakes they made when signing the contract with KAM. KAM insists he will not leave the premises, praising the hospitality of the KIM family and putting the place on par with a five-star hotel. Just as others rake their brain to find a solution, they overhear KAM’s mentioning of a revenge scheme on the phone. GUCCI alert the police. KAM casts a hostile gaze on the family with his hand sliding down the pocket…
GUCCI gabs KAM’s hand and pushes him down before he can reach his gun. All pile up on KAM and get hurt in the process of what turns out to be a misunderstanding. Displeasure with KAM fills the heart of all. KAM proves to be an out-and-out destructive force in the family: he mistakes SARAH’s ginseng for rubbish and throws it away and messes up with MARCO’s DVD player.
KAM claims he works as an extra in the television station, but in fact, he plays a corpse. TODAY tells him that she is a promising talent of the TV station’s actors’ training school, but KAM holds her up to ridicule, calling her a professional extra. An over-the-hill movie star GEORGE MAN, affectionately known as Brother Eleven, is cast in a minor role but manages to steal the limelight from the lead actor. His arrogance angers the director and the cast, who decide to get back at him. KAM misses his bus home, and hatches a plan when he sees GEORGE. KAM sings out GEORGE’s famous tune “Brother Eleven” loud and makes a compliment on his car. His sweet-talking indeed works. GEORGE lets KAM sit behind the wheel. Agonizing on an empty stomach, GEORGE sees KAM preparing noodles next door and decides to pay him a visit. The KIMs frown at the uninvited visitor……
CHRIS helps out at Honey Cave as both HELENA and AH WONG are taking a day off. CHRIS chances on ATHENA during an errand. ATHENA mocks him for working as a humble delivery boy, but he is not prepared to stomach her insult. Back at Ka Yan Company, ATHENA treats everyone to tea after receiving a call. The person at the other end has just brought her the news of the closing down of CHRIS’s ballet company. Eavesdropping on CHRIS’s telephone conversations, GUCCI mistakes that he is willing to take up a job that offers a meager $6,000 monthly salary. ATHENA returns to the office but her colleagues act strangely. Dumbfounded, she learns that CHRIS is to join Ka Yan.
On his first day at work, CHRIS treats everyone to Honey Cave egg tarts. SUGAR embarrasses MARCO by asking why he never offers his co-workers the sweet treat. KELLY comes to his defense, to his comfort. The KIMs gather around the dining table, awaiting CHRIS’s return from the mainland. KELLY questions ATHENA’s real intention of posting CHRIS to the mainland, accusing her of depriving him from contacts with his clients. ROGER inquires about CHRIS’s performance and asks ATHENA to offer more chances to the newcomer. But ATHENA has a tough task installed for CHRIS…
GEORGE unwittingly learns of HELENA’s doubts over FRANCIS’s sexual orientation. HELENA even harbors the suspicion that GEORGE has been raising his son as a girl. Troubled, GEORGE turns to TAI TSUN for advise. TAI TSUN believes FRANCIS might have adopted an alternative lifestyle during his studies in England. FRANCIS meets KELLY when she is trying on some clothes. His hands are roaming freely on KELLY’s body. TODAY accuses him of taking liberties with KELLY under the phony license of homosexuality. But the three women present are unconvinced. KITTY walks past a bridal shop and fantasizes about her future husband…KITTY and KAM walk side by side on the street. KITTY cries out loud at KAM and accuses him of theft.
TODAY is displeased with KELLY that she goes on a shopping spree and spends a fortune with her credit card but bars MARCO from owing one. Angered by the comment, KELLY throws away the shoebox that keeps MARCO’s favorite robot. The shoebox turns out to the one that houses SARAH’s dearest possession — a puppet given to her by her late brother KAM WAH!
TODAY reveals that KELLY is the person who threw away SARAH’s shoebox. KELLY pleads for pardon but SARAH is unforgiving. She dashes to the kitchen to grab a kitchen knife. When things cool down, they learn the secret held between GUCCI and the shoebox.
SARAH and GUCCI are busy preparing their diet meals. But GUCCI’s determination is shaken by TSUN and HELENA’s sumptuous feast. She pours her tasteless porridge away. TODAY is drilling on her two-line dialogue, while GUCCI is happy announcing a five-pound weight loss. To help TODAY with her rehearsal, GUCCI volunteers to play a gunshot victim. Everyone praises her fine performance but she fails to get up…. In front of the women, KITTY expresses her eagerness to get married, even if it means becoming a stepmother. GUCCI asks KAM why he doesn’t have a girlfriend. He believes that women are born to control men and the consequences of approaching one are disastrous. KITTY and KAM meet again in a department store. The encounter costs KAM a fortune!
ROGER urges his daughter YEE to return to England and finish her studies in fashion design. YEE refuses as she has landed a job at V&C as a fashion designer, but ROGER opposes vehemently as he knows that her boss is a lascivious man. He talks her into working at Ka Yan and promises that he will keep their relationship a secret.
MARCO has received several wedding invitations. KELLY suggests that he wraps credit card gifts nicely and gives them as presents to the newly-weds. MARCO feels it is not right. TODAY says sarcastically that MARCO will leave an impression so deep that the couples will remember his stinginess till the day of their divorce. GUCCI suspects that a cheery SARAH is dating someone, but others are not so convinced. Outside a bank, GUCCI sees to her horror that SARAH, holding a passbook in her hands, is getting on a taxi with a man heading to a “love motel” in Kowloon Tong. GUCCI tells her three children and KELLY of her shocking encounter. News on the television tells of a swindler who targets housewives as his victims. The suspect is none other than the man in SARAH’s company. Just now, SARAH returns home with tears filling her eyes.
TODAY attributes her new radiant look to a certain whitening cream she bought from a non-authorized dealer sale. She tells a disappointed KELLY that the store is now closed down. KELLY gets wind that a certain whitening cream is sold at a cut-rate price and takes MAY along. TODAY joins the bargain hunt. KELLY jeers at TODAY and tugs with her for the face cream. The two women make a scene. YEE is folding paper planes of her design sketches on the rooftop. CHRIS unfolds the planes and praises her sketches. But a dejected YEE thinks otherwise.
Without wearing any makeup, KITTY takes the trash out. She bumps against KAM and loses her keys. KAM thinks she is an old lady and apologizes like mad to a not-so-amused KITTY. She confesses to a chance encounter with her ex-boyfriend. The KIMs can hardly believe their eyes when a handsome and rich ALEX drives a flashy car to pick her up.
KELLY finds out that ALEX is in fact a married man. She cannot bear to hide it from KITTY. But KITTY acknowledges the news matter-of-factually and says that she already knows it. Saddened by her desolation, KELLY and the other two women seek to settle scores with ALEX and threaten to make his life miserable if he ever cheats KITTY of money and love. Just then, KITTY shows up. ALEX takes out a ring and gives it to KITTY. She is overjoyed while the two women are shocked. KELLY scolds her for taking the insult but KITTY explains that ALEX’s wife has passed away. SEVENTH SISTER learns of an office assistant opening at her boss ROGER’s company and recommends KAM to him.
On his first day of work, KAM munches on his colleagues’ snacks, breaks down the copier and air-conditioner, covers up his negligence and shows no shame. Upon learning that the company upstairs has laid off almost half of their staff and finding that KAM has been looking over their belongings, they suspect that KAM is in fact spying for the boss.
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