The Legendary Four Aces

The four aces investigate the whole Moon Temple and find nothing. Then they surprisingly find some hints on FUNG’s body. KUN meets KIN and tells him that the emperor has found out a way to prove who the murderer is and they decide to destroy the body at night. They then find out it is just a trap. While the three geniuses are celebrating regaining their freedom, BUN tells them that the Mongolian prince has come to win HEUNG. He raises up two questions, ‘writing in water’ and ‘painting with nothing’ and give the geniuses seven days to solve them. FU and HEUNG go to find the Holy Mount while the other three are busy figuring out the answers. Ink will diffuse into water, so SHUM suggests them to practice fast writing but it still does not work. Suddenly, MING gets inspiration from TING’s pig feet in sweet and sour sauce.… ...

FU calls for a beauty selection to further prove his molesting habit. MING tells SHAN off and asks him to admit his crime to the emperor himself. SHAN pretends that he will do it but flees with LAU to another province. MING is outraged. HEUNG is heartbroken seeing FU picking wives. Among the eight girls lined up in front of him, FU is stunned to find HEUNG is one of them. She slaps him on the face and runs away. He chases after her and sings the song about how he met her the first time. She shows up and delights him. The emperor realizes that SHAN is the adulterer. He calls for FU and uses him to find SHAN. LAN and SHAN arrive in Shandong. She sees him running away after cutting off someone else’s kite line and blames him being irresponsible and living like a turtle all the time including his one night stand with FUNG. He is speechless.

HEUNG, who is dressed up with Mongolian dress, wakes up from a nightmare. Apparently, the Mongolian prince has saved her from a slave trader and started loving her. BUN goes to Mongolia for work. KIN uses FUNG to remove the four geniuses by starting quarrels between them. On his wedding day, SHAN accuses FU of drinking all his wine, leaving him no excuse to refuse going to bed with LAU, so he can only get her drunk and sneaks out of the room. He drinks at a restaurant and finds FUNG there. They decide to get drunk together. FU tries to commit suicide a few times but fails. He sees SHAN walking by holding FUNG. SHAN wakes up finding himself in the armoury and panics thinking he might have done something with FUNG who has disappeared leaving a letter for the emperor. He suspects that she is having an affair with one of the three geniuses, so he asks them to find out who is the adulterer.… ...

SHAN takes her to KUK’s restaurant. He plans to use the gold from the emperor to buy her the restaurant and then he will go back to Suchou alone with half of the left over gold. LAU is shocked. FU and the others blame SHAN for being so cruel to LAU. SHAN realizes how much LAU loves him and decides to marry her eventually. FU writes his story with HEUNG into a Chinese opera script to memorize her. The emperor cannot forget FUNG and sends BUN to settle her in the armoury. LIN notices BUN acting strangely and suspects him of having an affair, so she rushes to the hotel and starts a fight with FUNG. BUN manages to stop them in time. They are all feeling insecure secretly hiding FUNG in the armoury behind the queen’s back for the emperor. FU is frustrated when he cannot recall HEUNG’s face for a drawing. Suddenly, he sees a painting of HEUNG wearing Mongolian dress on the street. LAU is too busy preparing for her wedding.… ...

WAH and WONG gather an army outside the palace gate and want to forge a royal order to save the emperor. Unfortunately, a tip of the emperor’s chop is broken, so the three geniuses get into the WAH’s House secretly hoping to find a piece of jade to forge the chop. While they are leaving town with the jade piece, BUN and his soldiers catch them. They all accuse him of being a traitor. BUN holds MING to make a forge chop. When it is done, he cuts MING’s arm abruptly to get more of LING’s trust. LING announces fake news that the emperor has died suddenly and he is going to be the new emperor when BUN tries to kill the emperor in the armoury. WONG receives a death order from the emperor when the real emperor suddenly appears. LING is informed that the emperor has escaped and WONG’s army is getting through the palace gate, so he sends his army to defend, but it fails. After that, he sends KIN to carry on the defence again.… ...

LING’s wife is pregnant and he takes it as a good sign for his usurping the throne plan. His wife does not see it that way. He implicitly tells the officials his plan on the day of finishing construction on the armoury and forces them to submit under him. BUN can only obey him. FUNG discovers that the emperor is the man behind the doping trick and punishes him with kneeling and kowtow, but the emperor follows her instruction surprisingly. FU looks down on him from then on. WAH notices that YU is pretending to be HEUNG and tries to tell FU with a secret slip. HEUNG manages to untie the ropes and flees away from the hut but finally gets caught again. FU finds it hard to believe what WAH has said in the slip and sounds YU out. YU passes his tests and FU is relieved. WAH waits for FU in the mayor house and tells him that he is pretending to be sicker only because he knows that something is wrong about HEUNG.… ...

FUNG finds the emperor in his bathroom. He beats FUNG with his ‘Up-dices’ trick and she slaps him on the face. This gets him interested in her and he swears to win her heart. FU feels insecure working for the emperor when SHAN finds it as a quick way to make money. LING is informed by BUN that the emperor is in the Cheung Lok Fon, so he plans to kidnap the emperor and usurp the throne. MING is bothered about solving LIK and LUNG’s fight. Eventually, he convinces them by his bravery and love. The emperor and the geniuses arrive at the Cheung Lok Fon and find that it is LIK and SO’s wedding. The emperor insists to stay because he has not been to a civilian wedding. Suddenly LUNG appears to challenge LIK. With the emperors stirring, LIK has to accept the challenge and ends up getting hurt. LUNG decides to open a restaurant called ‘LUNG and FUNG’ in the Cheung Lok Fon and secretly use it as a triad house for gambling and prostitution.… ...

MING suggests to change the armoury into a royal temple on the very first day of his duty. Although the other officials outwardly agree, they all laugh at him deep down. LING is mad about MING’s suggestion and thinks how to convince the emperor again. Suddenly, BUN thinks of building a beauties home for royal visits and the emperor is pleased with the idea. BUN tells the emperor this idea is from LING to please him. MING understands that his royal temple idea has caused him a lot of humiliation, so he plans to return to Suchou and take up a local official post. SHAN is also depressed by owning a lot of money, so both him and MING come to get FU’s help. The emperor promises to grant both MING and SHAN’s requests on condition that SHAN and FU will accompany him to Tai Shan for a prayer. LING is planning to usurp the throne and use the armoury for storing his own weapons.… ...

The emperor orders the four geniuses make a forgery of the Buddha painting one hour before the ceremony for sending the Buddha away. Unfortunately, MING and SHAN are both confused by love and leave BUN and FU feeling helpless. SHAN messes up a restaurant after getting drunk. He wakes up in the court and admits all charges. He even suggests that the judge give him life sentence and outrages the other three geniuses. LING finds TING is pregnant. He has to let TING marry MING for her sake and the forging plan. SHAN wakes up from his hangover and finds everyone’s hair has turned grey. He realizes that he has been in a coma for 20 years. LAU, who is in her middle age, has bought the restaurant that he was last at to memorize him. SHAN feels terribly sorry for getting his friends into trouble. Suddenly, he realizes that the whole story is just a lie and rushes away angrily.

The four geniuses are waiting for the examination result in the Scholar Hall while SHUM and TAK are finding out the name list for the selected five scholars. LING decides to play a trick when he knows that their names are all on the name list and MING is one of the candidates for the best scholars selection. The names of the fourth and third runner-ups are announced, but do not include any of the four geniuses. MING and SHAN are extremely nervous. Finally, BUN wins second runner-up and proposes a marriage to LIN immediately. None of the other three geniuses, however, are selected. MING collapses and promises that he will come first in the next examination after being comforted by TING. SHAN wonders how he can gather money now to pay off KUK’s debt. Meanwhile, he finds KUK has already found another man and tells him that he is no use to her anymore. SHAN is hurt. He gets drunk and starts a fight with some rough men.… ...

Outside the examination hall, SHUM is selling snacks while TING, KUK, HEUNG and LIN are cheering for the four geniuses. They walk into the hall with full confidence. A few candidates including one of the Six Art club members, CHEUNG who is carrying a pawnshop receipt with him, are discovered cheating. SHUM reveals that LIN helps him selling snacks in order to cheer for BUN. This makes her embarrassed. She returns to the clubhouse and find BUN has done the shopping, gathered firewood and bought her firecrackers. The queen begs the emperor to forgive WAH and is revolted by him. LING persuades the emperor to build an armoury. WAH finds out and rushes into the royal study to scold the emperor. He is then sacked. The four geniuses walk out of the examination hall and find only HEUNG is missing, so FU dashes to the WAH’s House and finds WAH is mentally disordered and blinded.… ...

HEUNG answers ‘I don’t know’ and says the whole event has been turned into a country issue, so all the citizens should make the decision. The emperor says FU wins if he can get one hundred thousand families to support him. LIN writes a divorce letter to FU and BUN is very happy about this. YU is sorrowful knowing that FU loves HEUNG now. FU and the others try to get support from the citizens but are not very successful. HEUNG tells the queen that FU is only taking her as the replacement for YU and worries that he is not truthful to her when they are on the way to the Water Temple. FU and the others make silly faces to get the citizens’ support in another temple. Suddenly, YU appears and says that FU is a liar and she will kill HEUNG. FU chases after YU to the Water Temple and finds that HEUNG’s face is severely hurt.… ...

LIN returns the crystal to BUN immediately when she sees FU’s return to show there is nothing between them. On the other hand, she is scared to stay alone with FU. BUN is heartbroken. He gets drunk and meets the dressed-up emperor again in the casino, but he does not want to pay him any attention. HEUNG denies that she likes FU but she does not convince the others. The four geniuses attend the examination and find FU’s name is not there. Apparently, WAH has cancelled his candidateship. They all get very upset and file a court case. Unfortunately, the judge decides to beat them up and kick them out of the courtroom after learning they are suing WAH. But they do not give up and try every other department to sue WAH. HEUNG meets FU in the market and all the other people treat them as adulterer and adulteress, so FU admits that he loves her. She is shocked and says that she is just someone who looks like YU to him.… ...

SHAN fails to borrow more money for KUK from the other members. LAU is willing to help. HEUNG and FU find that MO is sleepwalking and it might be related to subjugation under WAH all the time. WAH does not find the emperor in the morning meeting and checks him out in the palace study. He sees him playing dice with the eunuchs and guesses it might be something important about the empire. WAH and YUK are informed that MO is sleepwalking but they are not convinced. WAH promises that if FU can play ‘Up-dices’, he will let him leave. All servants gather together to practice ‘Up-dices’. One of the gardeners, SHUI molests HEUNG. FU points him out immediately but HEUNG does not believe what he has said and leaves FU to get beaten up by the others. LAU manages to borrow money from the other servants at a 10 % interest rate. CHUN, HA and DUNG all tell HEUNG that they have been molested by SHUI before.… ...

LAU bruises SHAN all over for revenge, but finally lets him go because of his loyalty to his friends and forces him to be her sworn brother. FU fails to leave the WAH’s House, so he decides to mess the house up. He teaches MO to write some words and draw with blood. Although WAH is mad, he is not tricked. He tries to beat up every servant to find out who caused the mess and makes FU shameful in front of everyone. LING knows that KIN has found the treasure, so he sends jackets to all the candidates in order to strengthen his power. WAH sees his trick and claims that scholars should not be frightened by cold winds. The emperor asks both LING and WAH to have a competition on a mountain and WAH is nearly frozen by the wind. WAH orders MO to work as a servant to train him up. HEUNG and the other servant maids have joined a talent competition. FU is compelled to be in the cheering team.… ...

TING is heartbroken. She sends ON to get some insecticide claiming she wants to kill some bugs, but in fact she wants to kill herself. SHAN meets ON and mistakes MING as a love cheater after listening to ON. MING tells him that TING will only live a very poor life if she marries him. SHAN, however, scolds him for causing TING to attempt suicide. MING is shocked and rushes to catch up her cart. The Mongolian prince does not let TING go. SHAN suggests MING takes poison to show his love, and he takes it without thinking. The prince agrees to cancel the marriage with TING and lend out the money as scheduled. LING says he will only let MING marry TING if he comes first in the examination. WAH is sarcastic to LING about his daughter’s cancelled marriage in front of the emperor. So LING decides to take his revenge at his birthday banquet. WAH beats MO up for not making any progress either in studying literature or Kungfu.… ...

FU goes to an interview for a job in the WAH House. HEUNG thinks he is chasing after her and deliberately makes things difficult for him. Suddenly, there are riots in the house and MO is kidnapped. FU leads the others to rescue MO and soon finds this is all HEUNG’s plan to test the interviewees’ loyalty. HEUNG fails FU because he has not shown any concern for MO’s safety. Meanwhile, HA is committing suicide by swallowing a hair clip. FU gets her to spit the clip out with a smart idea. So after all, FU and two other members from the Six Art Clubs, CHONG and CHI are hired. FU has also signed a lifetime contract. BUN worries about MING seeing him acting strangely lately. TING does not show any interest in meeting the prince and he thinks she is sounding him out. She has not yet had any reply from MING after sending him many letters and starts to worry, so she begs FA to set up a meeting with him.

FU follows HEUNG to the temple. She takes him as a dirty old man but FU mistakes her not wanting to recognize him. He even rents a boat to chase after her. LING dresses up like a farmer to test MING. He finds him not greedy, very smart but ignoring the reality. So he refuses to help BUN because MING does not match with TING. She makes an ambroidery purse for MING to show her love. SHAN and the others plan to beg WAH to help BUN but fail. WAH’s cook, LAU discovers some valuable dry seafood is missing, so she sends out all the guards to search for the thief. Finally they find out that HA has stolen it to please the other male servants. HEUNG and LAU are having girls’ talk. LAU tells her that she has met someone unkind to her and lost her sense of taste. Now, luckily, she has HEUNG to help her regain it. TING sounds MING out for his love.… ...

FU refuses to let LIN go with him. Finally, LIN persuades FU with the excuse of taking care of BUN’s injured arm on the way. On the day of departure, everyone comes and sends them away and the four geniuses march their way towards the capital. FU and the others eventually arrive at the capital after a tough journey. However, they are not welcomed by the waiting crowds. Apparently the Six Art Club in the capital is very poor because all the club members are too busy studying and do not earn much money. So the Clubhouse is ragged and the members can hardly feed themselves. The club master,SHUM even warns the four geniuses that none of the members has ever been selected in the examinations in the past decades. SHAN and MING queue up for the charity rice and find that the donor is TING. BUN’s candidateship for the examination is cancelled because of KIN’s dirty trick. MING can only get help from TING for BUN.… ...

The news that the Six Art Club is on fire stops YU from drinking the third bowl of wine and saves her life. She knows she is poisoned, so she leaves FU a letter explaining she is not able to share a husband with another woman and goes back to Tungchon. BUN is falsely accused of murdering SUN and setting the Six Art Club on fire for various reasons. Although he pleads innocent, lack of a witness brings him a death sentence. At last, the three geniuses realize that BUN is really innocent when they see SUN’s last piece of work. So they appeal to the court for BUN. WAH blames LING overstepping his authority in order to help KIN’s old staff. LING is demoted and decides to overthrow the existing emperor. And finding the treasure with the Tungchon is the first step to achieve his ambition. KIN promises TING that he will come first in the scholar selection examination to please her.

FU suddenly proposes a marriage to YU with a jade hair clip and stops YU from killing SUN. She is totally impressed after seeing FU being bullied and humiliated by prostitutes when he gets her favorite ball back. She decides to leave the Tungchon. Her master, LAU KUN will only let her go if she can handle his ten whips. Eventually KUN softens and only asks her to finish off finding the human skin. YUNG knows that LIN is kidnapped because of FU and gives her the jade hair clip to solve the problem. She also promises to set up her marriage with FU. So FU ends up going to marry two more wives. YU realizes that her dream marriage is not coming true, but she is still calm. LIN however becomes hysterical after knowing that FU has never considered marrying her. DIP and TAK are also arguing a lot about this. SHAN meets his former lover, KUK and feels hurt that she has already married.… ...

MING is absolutely depressed from being late to the exam. He eventually cheers up under FU and the others’ encouragement. TING keeps sending him presents and money but only gets his scolding in return. She is attracted to him after knowing he is indifferent to fame and material pursuits, and a filial son to his mother. She even sends ON ON to buy all his paintings. TAK understands how much FU wants to take the exam with the others, but is willing to let FU go only if he gets married again. FU tries to find another wife with his drawings. LIN misinterprets him and tries her hardest to find all he needs for this ritual drawing. Finally, she finds the paints from BUN who is working as a portrait painter now. LIN finds someone to forge FU’s drawings and humiliates him in front of every woman in the town after she realizes that FU has never considered her as his wife. This also ruins his marriage plan.

FU manages to get away from the agents during the tattoo matching competition but ends up falling off a cliff with YU. YU discovers that it is only a fake tattoo on FU’s back and is totally disappointed. She is injured and FU does not want to leave her alone although he has to rush to join the competition with BUN. So he carries her on his back and this changes her feelings about him. During the competition, BUN beats SHAN and MING with his dirty tricks and even seriously injures MING. When BUN and FU are competing, FU is stimulated after hearing that MING is dead and beats BUN with his magic pen. BUN wants to override the results with his trap but FU accuses him of using unauthorized drugs and finds a doctor to prove it. Eventually KIN gives BUN up and leaves him facing all the consequences alone.

The three geniuses are competing with BUN on a randomly drawn topic after seven days. They have all signed a will although they do not have any confidence in winning because they are all weak at their respective topics in the competition. A very famous prostitute, SO always reminds YU to find a good man. However, YU is already very occupied in finding the four men who have been tattooed. LIK guesses that FU might be his nephew from the jade that he wears. So he goes to FU’s home looking for his sister, DIP. He tells everyone the history between his father and sister. TAK stops DIP from meeting LIK and even kicks him out. FU plays tricks on LIK and gets sued. So DIP finally meets LIK and asks him to take the three geniuses to Cheung Lok Fon for training before the competition. LIK pinpoints their shortcomings. FU’s weakness is insensitivity to love, so LIK sends YU to make FU understands what love is.

FU takes his mother’s charm to break into the Cheung Lok Fon with MING and SHAN. The Unbeatable Knife owner, WONG KU LIK sets up four obstacles for them. FU drops the charm during the challenge. BUN arrives and pretends to rescue the three geniuses while they are trying to overcome the obstacles. KIN pays a prostitute to drug the three geniuses. LIN suddenly appears when they wake up. The three geniuses are accused of using the excuse of rescuing LIN as a pretext to visit prostitutes. They have no way to explain the misunderstanding, which was created by KIN and BUN in order to humiliate the three geniuses. TAK and his wife go to visit their ancestors’ graves and find strange things around the Chow ancestors’ graves. BUN in fact is the Chow’s descendent. The reason that he is in China is to take revenge on FU’s family.

The ‘Suchou’s Three Geniuses’, TONG PAK FU (CHEUNG KA FAI), MAN CHING MING (LAM KA TUNG) and JOR CHI SHAN (AU YEUNG CHUN WAH), represent the Six Art Club and compete with the Seven Stars Club for the championship of the annual National Talent Competition. Although SHAN deliberately loses two games to increase the betting rates, FU manages to score the third triumph for the Six Art Club. The adopted son of Prince LING, KIN, wants to recruit these three geniuses, but fails. So he tries to humiliate them with some difficult questions, however fails again allowing them to win the big prize of a hundred gold bars. From then, KIN hates them. Meanwhile, CHOW MAN BUN (NGAI CHUN KIT) who has come to China with the Persian business delegation, proposes himself to work for KIN based on his ability in memorizing and forging paintings. BUN passes KIN’s tests and is hired to gain revenge on the three geniuses.… ...