No Good Either Way

LING-CHING knows very well that ALEX can end up in prison for selling the information of ES. On the other hand, it is against her principles if she keeps the matter in the dark. VIOLET has learnt about the matter. She demands that STEVE shift the blame onto ALEX. LING-CHING decides to resign and then hide away. ALEX did not realize until then that how much she cares about him and what a difficult position she has been in. Unexpectedly, he sees her in the street. After telling her how difficult days have been without her, he comes up with a solution for ES. CHING-CHIK has found a new job. He employs KIN as his assistant. ALEX’s project is almost complete when he finds to his horror that ES’s programme has been destroyed. He blames AARON for doing it, but the latter points the accusing finger at ELAINE. Finding AARON’s behavior unusual, ALEX decides to follow him. JOHNNY is in VIOLET’s place when PO-PING calls in suddenly……

KIN feels that AARON’s quality of life has been affected because of her apartment. As such, she plans to sell it but CHING-CHIK thinks the otherwise. RAJA has booked INDERPAL’s mother a ticket to Hong Kong, leaving INDERPAL with no choice but to continue to work for him. INDERPAL and his friends put their heads together to see how to get rid of RAJA. KIN is afraid of ghosts. CHING-CHIK offers to buy her flat at the price of $800,000 even though she is only asking for $500,000. She thanks him for his generosity. ALEX blames LING-CHING for telling SAM ES’s problems, believing this is the reason why SAM has lost his confidence in him. She feels that the gap between them is getting wider and wider. The business of the restaurant has improved. TSUN-TUNG appears out of nowhere, telling LAI she can have the restaurant to her own if she agrees to go for divorce and give him $500,000. Or else, he says, the restaurant will have to fold……

VIOLET tells PO-PING in her flat that A4 have decided to join Up Technology. As Goaltech is short of flowing capital, SAM needs to take out a $10,000,000 mortgage to pay for IRENE’s medical fee. At a director’s meeting, PO-PING suggests retaining A4 with money, adding that he will inject $50,000,000 to Goaltech at one go. SAM turns down his suggestion though. ALEX has been making things difficult for A4. LING-CHING helps them out by teaching them how to get out of their plight. STEVE and RYAN joke about a client’s peeing difficulty in the washroom. GILBERT happens to be in the washroom and so believes they are teasing him. Everybody but STEVE in the Marketing Department gets a good pay rise. INDERPAL introduces MR. GILL, who used to work at a high-end hotel as chief chef, to LAI. SAM announces at a meeting that their German client is coming to Hong Kong soon……

KIN learns by chance that AARON has cheated her for many times. She suspects it was a pack of lies that he borrowed money with a view to helping his family members. STEVE has bought GILBERT a pot of orchid the first day he reports duties, only to be told that he is toadying the wrong person. LAI discovers that the bills have not been settled, neither have the staff been paid. In a letter TSUN-TUNG has left, he tells her she can do whatever she likes with the restaurant. SHUI-SHUI informs VIOLET that WILLIAM wants IRENE to go for a brain surgery. As such, he would like her to continue taking care of his wife. KIN hopes that AARON can help her out with the decoration of her new house. She leaves in anger when he turns her down with another make-up excuse. ALEX can see that KIN is upset about AARON. Pouring her heart out, she insists that it is not her fault but AARON’s. VIOLET tries to access to the company’s confidential date……

The babies on the TV catch LING-CHING’s eyeballs. ALEX takes the opportunity to ask whether she would like to have a baby of her own. He is thrilled to bits to see her typing a resignation letter. But when she tells him what will come with the birth of a baby, he decides to give up the idea. LING-CHING tells RYAN to stalk STEVE. It takes STEVE quite an effort to get rid of him. When he finally arrives at the juice shop, he discovers that SIS FONG has stolen many fruits from the shop. KIN learns by chance that GRANNY WONG is CHUN’s auntie and that they have conspired together to coax her into buying the haunted apartment. SHUI-SHUI sees VIOLET, who has just resumed work, typing a resignation letter. VIOLET explains that is because she does not see any prospect in the company. She drops the idea of quitting the next day when KAR PO-PING, one of the shareholders of Goaltech, shows up……

ALEX receives a call from STEVE at 6 o’clock in the morning telling him to go to Shum Shui Po, where he and INDERPAL have recently opened a juice shop. KIN dashes out to the road again to try to get a business but CHING-CHIK stops her. Quoting sources as saying that major developers in town are going to acquire dilapidated premises in To Kwan Wan, CHUN, who is the boss of KIN and CHING-CHIK, requests his agents to try to acquire as many flats in To Kwan Wan as possible. SAM is out of town. ALEX plans to apply for a few days’ leave but LING-CHING hands him an ES project progress form, telling him to speed up the research and develop progress. An old woman is selling her flat at a very low price. CHING-CHIK finds that it is indeed a haunted apartment, but KIN believes it is now or never. AARON is interested in KIN’s investment plan. He borrows money from a finance company so as to take part in the plan……

HEI-MAN’s appearance at ALEX’s wedding makes STEVE believe he will become her boyfriend. To his disappointment, she is only attending the wedding on behalf of her boyfriend, DR. SHING KA-YAN. SAM announces that a Germany is interested in Goaltech’s products and that its owner will be coming to Hong Kong. LING-CHING decides to postpone their honeymoon so that ALEX will be able to meet the German client. ALEX appreciates her thoughtfulness. VIOLET has returned from overseas. SAM gives her a ride to the office. Everybody in the company jumps to the conclusion that she is SAM’s mistress. STEVE’s car is missing. He suspects that it must have been stolen. It turns out that INDERPAL is using it for his illegal car hire business. VIOLET is unfamiliar with ES products. SAM therefore decides she needs not meet the German client. She, however, decides to turn up at the meeting anyway……

ALEX and STEVE have both received a warning letter. If VIOLET ever picks at him again, ALEX declares, he will quit for sure. STEVE believes VIOLET has planted a mole in the company. STEVE’s flat is stuffed with used electrical appliances which INDERPAL took home. INDERPAL nearly sets the house on fire as he is fixing an oven. DIU has a heart attack because of the false alarm, and he decides to move out as soon as he has been discharged. KIN and her friend CHOW LEI-LEI go to a job fair together. She is hugely dejected that she does not get an offer. VIOLET suggests reducing staff but SAM does not find it a good idea. She wants to express her love for him but the sudden appearance of IRENE’s younger brother, CHAN SHUN-MO, ruins her plan. SAM is going to Germany on a business trip. He decides not to take ALEX along this time. SHUM HEI-MAN takes INDERPAL for STEVE’s driver……

VIOLET, after being informed by her mole, sneaks into SAM’s study to seduce him. ALEX is taken in instantly. SAM plans to invite GILBERT CHAN, a well-known marketing people, to be the Marketing Director of Goaltech. VIOLET, who is assigned to take care of the invitation, turns to FRANCIS, Manager of the Finance Department, for advice of how to ruin the plan. CHAN CHING-LOY, IRENE’s father who lives in Thailand, has come to see IRENE. He treats SAM very badly and even hits him. No matter how badly he is treated, SAM dares not say a word. His father-in-law’s attitude towards him reminds him of how IRENE used to treat him. The idea of becoming MRS. KO comes to VIOLET’s mind when SHUI-SHUI tells her SAM does not want to see her wife wake up. INDERPAL sees through DICKSON’s crafty scheme and decides to expose his mask. NING-CHING sees DICKSON bribing INDERPAL.

VIOLET calls her secretary, HOI-KEI, telling her to tell STEVE to come to see her. He does not know until he runs into ALEX that VIOLET wants to see both of them. According to her, their promotion proposals have been shelved. ALEX, STEVE and A4 plan to complain to SAM. ELAINE, the departmental secretary, has managed to find out about which hospital SAM’s wife, CHAN OI-LIN, IRENE, is staying. Taking her advice, ALEX and STEVE make a dash for the hospital but they do not see SAM. VIOLET has hired a private nurse for IRENE. It turns out that the nurse, whose name is WONG SHUI-SHUI, is not only her cousin but also her mole. VIOLET is not happy that STEVE’s new car is more expensive than hers. DICKSON requests that KIN ask NING-CHING to work for him after learning that the latter is a friend of socialite MRS. SZEMA’s. If KIN fails to do so, he threatens, she will be given the axe……