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The Silver Chambers of Sorrow- 銀樓金粉

No. of Episodes: 21

Main Casts

Nancy Sit - Big Wife (大奶奶)
Christine Ng - Ching Sau Wu (程秀杏) / 3rd Wife
Shirley Yeung - Chau Kuk (秋菊) / Maid
Paul Chun - Sheung Kwan (尚錕) / Husband
Nancy Wu - Ha Fei Fei (夏霏霏) / 4th Wife
Ng Wai Kwok
Matt Yeung
Rebecca Chan - 2nd Wife

Synopsis

A Rich Family is Ruled by Lust
A Hymn is Mourned Over by Feuds

"Sheung's Silver Chamber", the largest jewel company in Foshan, Guangdong Province China, is facing serious financial difficulties. In order to obtain a loan from SHUM's family, SHEUNG HANG (Paul Chun), owner of the Chamber, together with his primary wife, CHOI SIU-DIP (Nancy Sit), plot to arrange marriage between SHEUNG WAN (Ng Wai Kwok), HANG's younger brother, and SHUM WING-TUNG (Winnie Young), daughter of SHUM's family. Fueled by hatred, CHING SAU-HANG (Christine Ng), WAN's lover, marries HANG and ironically becomes WAN's sister-in-law. WAN falls out with HANG, and opts to live abroad and disconnects from his family. After leaving home for years, WAN does not return home until the occasion to celebrate his father's birthday. Tension between the two brothers comes to a head when HANG is reluctant to pay ransom to save the youngest son of WAN. WAN is determined to disconnect completely from his family ever since.Since WAN's return, SAU-HANG suffers from her husband's neglect and gets framed for causing the fourth concubine FEI FEI's (Nancy Wu) miscarriage. Hatred leads her to commit act that revenge. She seeks to subvert SHEUNG's family by luring KWAN. Intentionally, she unveils TSAU GUK (Shirley Yeung), the maid in the family, is HANG's illegitimate daughter. The dark age of a once-prominent family begins.

Credits: Astro on Demand

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Byn's thoughts

It's been a long time since I've watched an ancient series with such a heavy tone of sadness and anger in all of the characters. The moment you lay eyes on the poster, you know the show is not going to be a happy one. The previews of this series also show a bird cage at the end. I think it meant that all of the members of the family were trapped like birds and couldn't fly out of it to claim their own happiness.

The veteran actors and actresses would be the ones leading in this series meaning I would be expecting excellent acting and portrayal of their roles. It'll be quite interesting to see a series without any Raymond, Ron, Bosco, Kevin, Sammul etc ppl for once.

Overall, I would be catching this series and hopefully I'll get hooked on it.. =)