Seasons & episodes

MUI is taken to the concentration camp. She meets a few old friends there, and they try their best to protect her from the torture of the Japanese soldiers. TATSUYA goes to Chu Lung Lane. He is leaving for Hong Kong tomorrow and he hopes that CHING could see him off at the pier. CHING, YEUNG and KAT pay a secret visit to MUI. Her health is getting worse, but she is more worried about KWAN than herself. HEI tells TETSUYA she will serve the Imperial Army as MUI used to do. Later when she visits KWAN at the hospital, she suggests resuming their opium business with the Japanese. HEI has a meeting with the disciples to keep them up to date with Tung Tai’s business. KWAN appoints WAH to be his representative. HEI takes credit for saving the orphanages and tries her best to draw WAH to her side. MUI suspects that she has caught malaria. Believing that she will not make it, she writes a letter to SING……

The guerillas give MUI an injection to help her get better. CAPTAIN MIYAZAKI’s subordinates have all been killed by the guerillas. He demands to have a fight with their person-of-charge. It is SING as it turns out. SING tells his friends at Chu Lung Lane that he has saved MUI, requesting them to pretend she has been killed in a bombing. Later, he sends MUI to Chongqing for treatment. Before she goes, he gives her a modified hand grenade just in case she needs to protect herself. HEI and FUNG tell KWAN the concentration camp has been bombed. She then meets HONG, advising him to get back what he has lost before it is too late. Dressed up in a formal kimono, TATSUYA proposes to CHING. He invites SIM to be their witness. It hurts YEUNG to know how much CHING has suffered for him. He has a clash with the Japanese soldiers. KWAN and WAH are listening to the radio broadcast when HEI and HONG suddenly burst in.

Now that she has recovered, MUI is going to return to Guangzhou. She tells TEAK she is ready to get even with HEI. As soon as he has returned to Guangzhou from a mission, SING learns that TATSUYA has forced CHING to marry him. She had a recurrence after that, and their fellow boarders have gone disappeared since. FAN is shot when he is trying to kill TETSUYA. The Japanese announce an unconditional surrender. CHING’s fellow boarders, who have been hiding in “Ching’s Abode”, rush her to the hospital. FAN apologizes to SING after he has returned to the police station, begging him to take care of his eldest son. SING visits CHING. She demands to leave with him. WAH and KWAN run into MUI and TEAK. KWAN is thrilled. HEI fears that MUI will take away HONG’s business, but MUI makes it clear that she is not a bit interested in Tung Tai anymore. KWAN tells MUI he is going to marry WAH.

MUI keeps her promise by throwing a banquet for the people at Chu Lung Lane. When SING asks her about her next plan, she tells him she found HONG and HEI’s relationship suspicious. The Chief wants to promote SING as Assistant Chief in Nanjing. HUNG has returned to Guangzhou to show his support for MUI. HEI calls for another meeting with the disciples. As KWAN is out of tune, he sends WAH. MUI does not want to engage in sinister business again. HEI and HONG are even angrier when she proposes to open up a cotton factory. When she and WAH are alone, MUI asks her if she really loves KWAN. WAH concludes that MUI is meant to counter her. KWAN is sick of HEI and HUNG for their constant arguments over Tung Tai. HUNG is shocked by what MUI tells him.

MUI tells HUNG what the disciples have seen after HONG was sent to Shenyang. HUNG is determined to have it checked out. MUI talks with WAH again about her relationship with KWAN. SING and YEUNG go to get CHING’s medical report. Their hearts sink when they know that her condition has worsened. MUI cheers SING him, telling him not to give up hope. They both cry when she has finished. YEUNG takes a day-off to take CHING out. She gets to know the report at last. YEUNG announces that he is marrying CHING when he is home, telling his flat mates CHING’s days are numbered. YIM confesses reading CHING’s diary in order to prevent her from getting close to YEUNG. HUNG has not found anything unusual about HONG and HEI. MUI turns to SING for help.

SING, who is half drunk, and MUI, force HEI to reveal her true relationship with HONG. HEI ignores them. MUI takes out a hand grenade. FUNG betrays HEI and reveals her secret. Trembling with fear, HEI goes see KWAN. To her surprise, MUI helps her keep the secret of who is HONG’s biological father. HEI cannot get it why she has to do. MUI explains she has come to realize nothing is as important as one’s family members after the eight-year war against the Japanese. It is CHING and YEUNG’s wedding day. Everybody at Chu Lung Lane has come. CHING invites MUI to act as their witness, the other being SING. The bride and groom offer a cup of tea to their witnesses. WAH follows KWAN to a gathering. She is pleased that his disciples welcome her. KWAN has a stroke as he is making a speech. CHING passes out as she is writing in her diary what will happen on her last day in this world.

CHING insists on going home, where she later dies peacefully in YEUNG’s arms. MUI visits KWAN. She hears WAH and KWAN quarreling as she is walking towards his room. MUI checks out with SING about the internal war that is soon to break out. MUI plans to open a bank named the Farmers Bank with MR WU. Reminding him to keep his words “to see each other again, alive or dead”, she invites SING to join the venture. HEI has returned to Guangzhou. According to her, HONG’s opium dens were ordered to close after the liberation. A subordinate of SING’s has given him an assassination list of the new government. SING rushes to protect MUI. SING has received an order that all police officers have to leave for Taiwan at once. Pointing his gun at KWAN, HONG orders MUI to lend him money. The people of Guangzhou break into KWAN’s place. MUI is beaten up.

SING tries to talk the people into putting down their weapons but fail. When they refuse to leave, he has no choice but fire. KWAN makes up his mind not to follow MUI to the US, unwilling to be her burden. SING volunteers to escort him to Guangxi, after which he will join MUI, then they will go to the US via Hong Kong together. Four days later, YEUNG bumps into KAT when he is going out to buy food. KAT tells MUI they were attacked, KWAN was killed while he himself has passed out. MUI waits for SING at the church but there is no sight of him. TEAK urges her to leave Guangzhou as soon as possible. SING has come round. The doctor at the hospital tells him he has been hit by a bomb. As he has lost his memory, he has to stay for observation. MUI places an ad at the papers looking for SING everyday ever since she has arrived at the States.