Let It Be Love S1:E2

Episode 1

International-acclaimed artist TUNG OI-YIU admits at a press conference that she did go out with a best actor but their relationship was already history. The press conference is being shown at a video shop. YU CHUN-TUNG, who is a typical Otaku who lives in Mong Kok, stops at the shop, just as he does every time YIU’s movies or news are being played. Meanwhile he sees his boss, FUNG CHI-MING, being fined by a tobacco control officer for smoking in a non-smoking area. YEUNG CHI-WAH and his wife FUNG YIU-DAN work at the same TV station as news anchors. They are good friends with sports commentator POON CHUN-HIM. In a football match kicked off by YIU and presented by HIM, a footballer picks up a fight with HO CHIU-WING the referee after being given a red card. HIM and his girlfriend, TONG HAU-NING, who is a nurse, eat on the bus. A passenger goes up to interfere in them.… ...

Episode 3

The media presumes that TUNG is YIU’s new boyfriend. MEI arranges an overseas commercial shooting for YIU at once so as to safeguarding her image. YIU has gone disappeared. It turns out that she has gone out to look for TUNG, who shows her around Mong Kok and takes her to the cinema. As they leave, they find themselves in front of cameras. TUNG has no choice but to take YIU to the electrical appliance shop he works for. HIM is attending his good friend ANDY’s wedding. He sees the name of his first girl friend, LAW WING-CHI, in the seating plan. An old man smokes in the hospital. LEUNG goes up to CHING’s help when he sees the old man making things difficult for her. YIU’s assistant invites TUNG to dine with YIU. As he is on his way to their appointment, someone starts a fire on him. He is forced to take off his trousers. The video of the incident is being circulated in the Internet like mad.

Episode 4

DAN presents the news of how TUNG, YIU’s rumored boyfriend, made a spectacle of himself, adding that it has been widely reported worldwide. When asked about her relationship with TUNG, YIU announces that she is withdrawing from the showbiz. CHING and LEUNG run into each other at the hospital canteen. They are surprised to find that they have similar eating habits. Venerable WING-HUNG patronizes Almond Cake Girl, a popular cake shop in Mong Kok. When COCO, the salesperson, knows that he is sharing the cakes with TUNG, she decides not to charge him. MEI is rather put out at YIU’s retirement announcement that she decides to move out of her flat. YIU plans to enroll in an archeology course after she has stepped down. NING is taken aback when HIM suggests that they get married. HO has lost a great deal of money in the stock market. MEI intends to stage a comeback for YIU.

Episode 5

YIU shares her opinions on aliens with her professor in a field trip. HANG starts to lose hair recently. WAI, who now works for YIU, asks his hairstyling assistant to do something about HANG’s hair. HANG and CHEUNG HEI-YIN bump into each other again. He wants to share with her his story, but she cares about something else. YIN is taking care of her mother’s legal battle for her late father’s money and assets. To her surprise, her mother decides to give up her father’s legacy, which is worth over a hundred million dollars, and wants only the restaurant he has left behind. HO CHUN-KIU runs into MING in a back alley. Their encounter reminds her of how she got to know her late husband. LEUNG did not know until he meets CHING again that she is at least a few inches taller than him. HIM has failed to register for NING and his marriage. NING knows that he does not really want to marry her. YIU invites TUNG to go on a field trip with her.… ...

Episode 6

TUNG wakes up to find COCO lying beside him. He makes her change before she goes out of the door but LAW SAU-YUE and the others still recognize her. TUNG goes to see YIU, who in fact is on her way to get even with him. MEI and her team are busy working out a master plan for YIU’s comeback. YIU opens MEI’s safe in secret with an aim to prove that she has embezzled money from the company. Instead of finding any money she finds MEI’s medical report. CHING runs into LEUNG after exercising. She tells him frankly that the fact that they get along very well does not mean they can be lovers. He agrees so. HANG’s hair loss problem is not any better. He decides to go for the secret concoction of an unorthodox doctor. The paparazzi have been following TUNG. As a result, he has to put up at a hotel for the time being.… ...

Episode 7

YIU cannot find TUNG anywhere. It turns out that MEI, worried that he would harm YIU, has had him taken away by a bodyguard. YIU wants to give her a good telling-off but changes her mind when she sees MEI start to throw up. YIU announces her comeback plan at a press conference. When asked about her views on love, she replies that an ordinary relationship is still what she is after. DAN has arranged a blind date for HIM. He is taken aback by his date. CHING has uploaded a piece of love poem to the Internet using YIU’s blog account. As a result, the media is under the false impression that YIU is still going out with TUNG. DAN sees ANNIE fighting with ANDY when she is picking HIM up. After listening to ANNIE’s explanation, she gets so worked up that she demands ANNIE to break up with ANDY. LEUNG has decided to express his love for his goddess. CHING worries that her goddess is no one else but her.

Episode 8

HO strikes up a conversation with YIN at a nightclub. As he chats, he makes fun of HANG by mocking his hair. Thanks to YIN’s help HANG manages to save his face, though he is curious to know her intention. DAN is disappointed that she is still not pregnant. HIM cannot understand why she does not tell WAH what she really thinks. DAN has arranged another blind date for HIM. He is astonished to find that his date this time is TONG-TONG. WAH almost gets killed when he is covering stories from a war zone. COCO’s blog becomes the attention of the media soon after she has expressed her appreciation for YIU in her blog. She is so popular now even MEI wants to invites her to join her entertainment company. HIM invites TONG to join him in a charity walk. She twists her feet in the middle of the walk and so he carries her on his back. Having had enough nuisance calls, CHING decides to change her cell phone number.… ...

Episode 9

NING returns a book to HIM, which according to him, belongs to his former girlfriend, EMILY. TONG has left her keys at home. While she is waiting for her younger brother to bring her the keys, HIM plucks up his courage to express his love for her. It seems that HANG is not as popular amongst women as he used to be ever since he started to lose hair. When stock market drops sharply all of a sudden, even himself has to admit that luck is no longer with him. WAI comes to know a lesser known side of MEI when he visits an old people’s home with her. YIU has returned from an overseas job. On her way home she sees something she thinks is an UFO. The good time she spent with TUNG comes back to her when she looks at the broken bowl they found in their last field trip. TSAT and TUNG’s other friends bet that TUNG will just be some nobody if he walks out of Mong Kok. Refusing to be looked down upon, TUNG is determined to conquer Yau Ma Tei.

Episode 10

MEI asks YIU where she was in the past few hours as she is home. She also forbids her to see TUNG again. MING plans to sell his shop so as to help TUNG get out of Mong Kok. LEUNG talks nothing else but his girlfriend. CHING is disappointed to find he has become a different person. WAI pours out to HANG. HANG believes MEI has fallen in love with WAI. On the other hand, for fear that YIN will come to his office to demand him to go for a medical check-up, HANG decides to fly to New York. YIU is attending a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Mong Kok when she sees TUNG, who is making a delivery. Distracted, she cuts her client. Taking the advice of DAN, HIM looks for TONG in a yoga camp. She twists herself when she sees him. Unwilling to see LEUNG forcing himself to please his girlfriend, CHING decides to give him a piece of advise.

Episode 11

TSAT, TUNG and the others dine at Kiu’s Cafe. A middle-aged woman walks over to TUNG, reminding him about an appointment. His friends recognize that she is a hawker. TUNG tells them one should go out with someone who is of the same social class as himself. Later, he is attacked when he is making a delivery. He climbs into a van in the middle of the chaos in ignorance of the fact that it is YIU’s van. As a result, he is taken to KIU’s cafe. YIU has learnt about MEI’s ploy. Worried about TUNG, she calls to see how he is doing. HIM substitutes for a colleague in a typhoon. Out of his expectation, he sees CHI, his first girlfriend, in a video clip. CHING and LEUNG run into each other at a grocery store, both are looking for a particular brand of canned fish. DAN burns her hand. HIM bumps into CHI when he is taking DAN to the hospital. YIN discovers about HANG’s problem when she meets him at a bar.… ...

Episode 12

TUNG is walking on the street. He stops when he sees the live broadcast of YIU’s press conference. He cannot believe his ears when she announces that she is getting married with him. Before he knows it, he is taken to a hotel to see her. According to her bodyguard, MEI is on the way, too. YIU and TUNG are trapped in the elevator, where they negotiate with MEI via the CCTV. CHI joins HIM and WAH at a basketball match. DAN is amazed at how well CHI and HIM team up with each other. YIN is representing HANG in a compensation lawsuit against a traditional Chinese medicine physician. YIU’s popularity has dropped. YIU decides it is time for her to make COCO a star. TSUI-YUK meets up with TONG, who did not know until now that LEUNG is hiding something from her. YIU has won an award in Cannes. TUNG makes a laughing stock of himself when a TV station interviews him.

Episode 13

WAI and CHING chance on LEUNG and TONG at a restaurant. While TONG honestly thinks that CHING and WAI make a perfect match, LEUNG bears a burning animosity towards WAI. YIN makes it clear to HANG over a shark fin meal that they are, and will be, no more than friends. YIU and TUNG wait for the alien on a mountain. They promise each other that they will come here again whenever either of them is unhappy. DAN finds a condom in the drawer of WAH’s desk. LEUNG meets CHING by chance when he is at work. He intends to invite her to go to a traditional Chinese medicine physician together but WAI is already waiting for her at the clinic. YIN wants to cut off with HANG. WAI encourages HANG to try his best to start over with her. DAN is very pleased that HIM and CHI have fallen in love with each other again. She, together with WAH, joins HIM and CHI for dinner.

Episode 14

DAN tells HIM about WAH’s recent unusual behavior and how she has been stalking his husband. CHI is preparing a big meal for HIM. She leaves suddenly with a make-up excuse when the weather turns bad. TONG hopes that LEUNG will have the courage to be faithful to his feelings, instead of forcing himself to please her. Despite their cover-up, MEI can see that CHING and WAI are going out with each other. She tells her to take charge of YIU’s memoir deliberately. TUNG has opened a shop in Mong Kok with YIU’s financial support. They have a private talk on the rooftop of the building where the shop is located. YIU and TUNG fall out with each other over MING and KIU. In view of this, he sets out a few simple rules that he hopes they will both observe. HANG has sent a lot of souvenirs from Taiwan to KIU’s cafe. Once again, YIN claims she and HANG are not lovers.… ...

Episode 15

COCO is shooting in a studio. MEI is confident she will shoot to stardom soon. On the other hand, she tells WAI to stay, as she has heard that he has broken up with CHING. TUNG attends a cocktail party with YIU but he sneaks into a room on his own as soon as they have arrived. In fact, he is mad at her for not talking to him before she made up her mind to go to the Hollywood for a movie, which will have nude scenes. HIM snoops into CHI’s phone when she is away. He is stunned to find WAH’s text message inviting CHI to meet up in an hourly hotel. MEI takes COCO home for rehearsal. The latter finds YIU’s demonstration a real eye-opener. CHING gives YIU a copy of her first draft, believing she should see for herself MEI’s intention. After learning about the wish of a little fan of hers at a charitable visit, YIU makes up her mind to go to Hollywood. TUNG is upset by her decision.

Episode 16

TUNG hits the ceiling when he has failed to contact YIU. He throws his phone out of the window in a rage. As a result, he is caught for throwing objects from a height. YIN promises to bail him out as soon as possible. LEUNG sees WAI cuddling JESSICA, who is YIN’s assistant. YUK encourages him to jump at the opportunity to run after CHING. CHING learns that TONG has broken up with LEUNG as she runs into TONG at a clinic. Despite this, CHING speaks well about LEUNG. YIU is shooting for a nudity scene. She is not happy about the figure of her body double. She makes up her mind when she learns that her little fan’s condition has deteriorated. TUNG waits for YIU at her place, where he has an argument with MEI. He gets so furious that he exposes her ploy. CHING plucks up courage to express her love for LEUNG as they wait at the airport for a photograph with their pop idol.

Episode 17

The news of TUNG and YIU’s breaking up causes a sensation in the showbiz. DAN opens up to HIM in his flat and then falls into sleep, leaning against him. She almost runs into CHI as she leaves the next morning. A client throws a tantrum at HANG’s office. HANG takes off his wig all of a sudden with a view to putting the farce to a stop. CHI would like to go on a vacation with HIM. He wants to know what has happened to her after they had broken up but she turns down his request. YIU has returned to Hong Kong. She looks miserable, and cannot help thinking of TUNG when she sees the clothes he left. COCO, backed up by a new entertainment firm, wants to terminate her contract. While FRANKIE strongly opposes the idea, MEI thinks the opposite. CHING introduces her brother, SZE-HANG, to LEUNG. SZE-HANG drops several hints to CHING that LEUNG is too short for her. She blames him for his disrespectful remarks.… ...

Episode 18

SZE-HANG and LEUNG take care of CHING together. She is very pleased to hear her brother praise LEUNG. But when she is not around, SZE-HANG tells LEUNG… HANG decides not to lodge an appeal. He and YIN both think they should remain friend. DAN asks WAH out. To his amazement, she returns his album, his most cherished possession. DAN informs HIM as soon as she has learned that CHI is moving out. CHI happens to watch a TV interview of HANG, who talks about his theory of love. DAN and HIM present together. As she reads out breaking news that a murderer has turned herself in, she cannot believe it that the murderer is no one else but… Disgruntled with TUNG’s recent attitude, MING decides to help him return to the correct path. MEI gives TUNG the disc of YIU’s nudity scene, wishing that he will then understand YIU after watching the video.

Episode 19

YIN is so drunk that she falls asleep on HANG’s thigh. MING finds it odd that TUNG has gone disappeared and that the disc MEI gave him the other day has broken. CHING discovers LEUNG’s injury when he visits her. TUNG knew nothing about YIU’s memoir until he sees the book by chance. In her book, titled Chloe’s Stories, she mentions the cancellation of their wedding. CHING’s former boyfriend apologizes to her for what his wife’s has done. He also believes her foot injury is more psychological than physical. The Hollywood film YIU is taking part in is filming in Mong Kok. A certain area in the district will be cordoned off during the shooting. MEI tells TUNG if he visits YIU during that time, she will make sure they can sit down and talk. TUNG, HIM, HANG and LEUNG are being kept in the same detention center for different reasons, all try hard to explain for themselves.

Episode 20

The appearance of an UFO during the filming of YIU’s movie astonishes the film maker from Hollywood. HIM, TUNG, HANG and LEUNG are not allowed to bail themselves out. TONG goes to the police station to bail LEUNG out. HIM did not know until then that he and TONG are common friends of LEUNG’s. YIU and the staff of her entertainment company are trapped in an elevator. On the other hand, WAH, who has already resigned, agrees to anchor for HIM so that he can look for DAN. The media, local and international alike, gather in Mong Kok, where a UFO sighting has been reported. As a result, the number of visitors to Hong Kong has surged. It is believed that the UFO has interfered with the instruments. As a result, YIU’s nudity scene needs to be retaken. MEI seeks YIU’s opinion on the matter. YIN learns by chance that HANG was caught fighting and that she was the reason of the fight. She decides to go and sees him.… ...