Dicey Business

In 1996 in the Philippines, Hong Konger CHAI FOON-CHONG is leading a down and out life. He meets CHOW FOOK-WING, who is also from Hong Kong and who is also alone here, by chance. The kindhearted WING puts him up in his place. He even pays …

WING asks CHONG to return to Hong Kong to see his parents. CHO knows that CHONG is ashamed to see his parents because he had lost his younger brother twenty years ago. CHO comes up with the idea of betting on WAN with CHONG to motivate him…

CHONG is saved by some police officers. CHONG buys WAN’s mobile phone so that she has the money to gamble again. CHONG decides to return to Hong Kong. WAN is in a blackout at the casino. WING takes her to the treatment room. As a matter of…

According to his neighbor, his parents had found out that their youngest son had returned to Hong Kong from the States with someone. CHONG stumbles over the bottle FU uses to store his urine. CHONG flies into a rage while FU seems to be pa…

WING has also arrived in Hong Kong. He wants CHONG to stop CHO from a gambling duel with SUNG CHING, who has once killed his opponent. The first thing CHO does when he arrives in Hong Kong is to visit his mother, who has gone insane due to…

WAN has found FU a job at a restaurant. The captain of the restaurant does not value FU. FU uncovers the captain’s cheating in a card game. The captain complains to WAN. WAN, who does not know the whole story, gives FU a good dressing-down…

CHONG confides in WAN that he does not know how to reveal the truth to FU. He requests WAN and CHO to keep his relationship with FU a secret. CHONG prepares a big meal to celebrate his reunion with FU. To his huge disappointment, FU brings…

CHO asks FU to memorize cards. FU is so nervous that he fails. WAN, FU and YING are released and are allowed to take back their money. CHONG scolds WAN for taking FU to Macau again. WAN is very guilty. CHONG wants FU to go back to school. …

In order to stop FU from playing cards again, CHONG challenges FU to a duel. WING is the witness. With the help of high-tech glasses, CHONG beats FU. FU cannot accept the fact that he has lost. He is very upset. He believes he suffers from…

FU goes to the Philippines with CHO. WING shows him around. They meet TAM CHU-MEI, one of the contestants of the beauty pageant held by the casino. FU falls for her beauty in a big way. MEI is tricked by other contestants, making her chest…

CHONG persuades WAN to leave the casino. He teaches her to divert her attention to other things. So WAN tells him that she would like to fly in a light aircraft. However, CHONG turns down her request for he is afraid of height. Alternative…

WAN cannot controls herself anymore and sleeps with CHO. WAN cooks a dish of pomegranate chicken for CHO to eat at the casino. WAI disguises himself and sneaks into the casino. CHEONG did not know until then that his son has been messing a…

WAI is late the first day of the course. CHO, CEO of the casino, demands him to leave immediately. CHO is brooding over CHONG when WAN calls. WAN tells him her childhood story to cheer him up. The two spend the whole night talking on the p…

CHO wins. MING plays the disk that records his cheating. CHO realizes then that he has been set up. CHO breaks up with WAN. This comes as a bolt from the blue to WAN. CHO tells her about his betting on her with CHONG. WAN goes to CHONG for…

WAI and other classmates who skipped class the other day receive letters of warning. They believe that FU was the informer. MEI mistakenly thinks that WAI has feelings for her but WAI only gets close to her to ask her to put some sleeping …

WAN loses her interest in gambling because of CHO’s words. CHONG manages to persuade her to return to Hong Kong at last. PANG fires all the trainee dealers. FU cannot take this and becomes a recluse again. CHONG gives WAI a good dressing d…

WAN borrows money from CHONG to pay for a photography course. CHONG feels that she has finally got over CHO. Feeling relieved, he returns to the Philippines. MEI sees FU and CHONG using a pair of “Lovers’ mugs” and deduces that they are lo…

CHONG discovers that there is something unusual about the behavior of a certain few customers and dealers. He reports to CHO that there are cardsharps. MING has suffered a great loss in investment. He asks CHO to break into the vault of th…

CHUNG fears that CHONG has already got the evidence of his guilt. He requests MING to kill CHONG. MING sends his men to give CHONG a severe beating then take him to the high seas. CHO volunteers to do the beating up. He throws CHONG into t…

FU goes to MEI’s house to play with her younger siblings to practice how to hide his feelings and thoughts. However, even kids are able to see through his mind. MEI mistakenly thinks that WAI is going out with her alone. His course mates f…

The seasickness pills WAN gives CHONG are in fact sleeping pills. The next thing he knows, he is in Hong Kong. WAN picks CHONG up, only to be scolded at. WAN cannot control herself anymore and breaks down. CHONG makes self-examination. CHO…

WAN forbids her family members lending money to CHONG, who plans to stow away on a ship bound for the Philippines. They, nevertheless, give CHONG money with various excuses. FU is late for the tournament and misses the bit of how the deale…

At the hospital, CHO asks WAN if she is supporting CHONG. WAN retorts sarcastically. CHO feels hurt. YAN bails CHONG out. CHO is taking FU back to Hong Kong for treatment. CHONG wants to ask WAN to stop CHO from doing so but it is already …

CHONG retorts that CHO was in fact the man behind the robbery. The court is swarming with reporters. Outside the court, WING scolds CHONG for returning evil for good. The casino has lost a large number of customers because of the robbery. …

CHONG finally accepts the fact the FU is going back to the Philippines to work. FU visits MEI. He is surprised that MEI does not look like lovesick at all. MEI comes to the conclusion that her breaking up with WAI was because she is not ba…

CHO goes to the old people’s home to visit his mother and meets WAN there. CHO leaves in despair when he knows that WAN and CHO are now a pair. CHAN, CHO and FU play golf together. MEI, gorgeously dressed, shows up. FU realizes then that C…

The first runner-up of the first round has a heart attack, making CHONG able to enter the second round of competition. YAN gives WAI a disk and says that it will be of great help to them. CHONG overcomes his nervousness with the encouragem…

CHONG wins the tournament and becomes the Honorary CEO of the new casino. CHO drowns his sorrows in liquor. CHONG rushes to the hospital to see FU, only to find that he has been discharged already. CHONG texts FU and asks him out in CHO’s …

CHO goes to find FU at Onisac. WAI ridicules him. FU determines to return to Hong Kong to work with CHO at CHAN’s private club. The two become even closer. CHEONG’s health condition has gone from bad to worse. He meets up with CHONG, durin…

CHONG puts on a disguise and visits the illegal casino FU works for with YAT-FU. CHONG confirms that FU is the new gamble king. CHONG demands FU to leave, but FU retorts that CHONG no longer had the authority to mind his business the day C…

MEI is going back to the Philippines. FU proposes to her. CHAN has opened up another illegal casino. CHONG and a number of tycoons go to CHAN’s casino to play with FU. CHONG is in the lead at the beginning. But then he deliberately lets FU…

CHO shows up at the shareholders’ meeting of Onisac, claming that he is now a shareholder. What’s more, he brings with him FU, who is going to work at Onisac. KIKI reports to WAI that she heard from the grapevine that there is a piece of l…

CHO thinks that WAN will go back to him, but thing does not happen as he wishes. WAN is watching others gambling at the casino when it strikes her that if she keeps on like this, she will end up ruining her future. KIKI tricks WAI into exc…

As told by CHO, KIKI informs WAI that the owner of the land would like to seal the contract at an earlier time. CHONG suggests thinking it over as he finds it unusual. WAI, however, believes that opportunity like this may not come again. Y…

FU visits MEI every day to beg for her forgiveness but without any result. CHO’s dream of becoming a casino tycoon almost comes true when he hears the news of his mother’s death. CHAN knows that people in the underworld want CHO to launder…