TVB's Cold Blood Warm Heart: Intro (continuation)

The first time we get to know the bad side of Lap (Gallen Lo) was when he used and betrayed a police informer (Cheong Siu Fai), which led to his (CSF's) imprisonment. Anyhow, he (CSF) tried very hard to turn over a new leaf, with encouragement from Yi. Despite Lap's sidekick, Weng's several attempts at preventing the relationship, he (CSF) even managed to convince Yi's father of his sincerity and eventually married Yi.

Lap was later to display a split personality of someone who is cold-blooded, yet could be warm-hearted at times, like when he managed to display how convincing he could be, in showing to Pong that what he did (killed their corrupt police chief) was to save him because the chief had wanted to kill him; like when he convinced Grace that he had bought a house in Switzerland because she likes it there and managed a reconciliation with her, to serve his further plans to take over her grandfather's bank. Lap's mother (naturally) could not see him having done any wrong (only accusations by people who were out to put him away) and she would always give him another chance because 'he would get round to his senses'. However, Lap's father was different (and I feel there is indeed a major difference between mother and father towards a child when it comes to guilt) in that he can differentiate between right or wrong regardless of who, even his own son. He even told his old friend, Yip Seng, that he is free to do whatever necessary to Lap.

It gets confusing as we go along, so it helps by knowing who is who in the Yip's family (which I tried clumsily in my intro). Pong is recognized as the eldest in Yip Seng's family, though he lives with Tsui's family in an ordinary household, and works as a police constable with no future prospects because of his low level of education. He refused his father's offer to live with him because he bore a grudge against him for having left them to fend for themselves which he thinks led to his mother's early demise.

Kei (Poon Chi Man) is Yip Seng's second son by his second wife, but is eldest in the banker's family household. He looks up to Pong as his elder brother despite his lack of status and ordinary lifestyle and used to invite him to have chats with him over meals or drinks.

At the extended family breakfast or dinner, we get to know who is who from the way each wife speaks for her own son or daughter, or against another wife's son or daughter.

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