
Seed Of Hope ·俗世情真
Two people from totally different backgrounds meet in the ‘Children’s Home’. MAN (KWOK HO YING, KENIX) is an orphan and grows up in the ‘Children’s Home’. She understands, from very young age, that future is in her own hands. She works hard to complete her university study and becomes a social worker. On the contrary, NICK (TAM YIU MAN, PATRICK), having a rich father, has everything he wants. He studied abroad and has a high paid job. However, he is unhappy. There is always a gap between him and his father. No matter how hard he works, his father is still not pleased. Under enormous pressure, he takes soft drugs and is arrested and sentenced to offer public services. He is assigned to work in the ‘Children’s Home’.
- Created By
Chui Jing-Hong
- First Aired on
Sep 15, 2003
- Popularity: 8.542
- 0 votes
- Networks
- (HK)
- Production
TVB (HK)
- Status: Ended
Show Ended
1 seaons till Oct 24, 2003
Last episode: Episode 30
Seasons & episodes
Total 1 seasons, 30 episodes

Season 1
Aired
Episode 1Episode 145 min
NICK WU, vice-president of Tung Chuen Company, is arrested for taking and processing illegal substances. With his girlfriend ALLY acting as his defense attorney, NICK recounts how it all happened…. NICK and his assistant LIU CHI KAN inspected business at his buddy CHENG KA CHEONG’s publishing house, where he met CHEONG’s wife OI CHUN and daughter LOK TUNG. Learning that the wife suffered a depression, NICK agreed to offer CHEONG a loan against the opposition of his father WU KOON TING and his staff KAU WING HANG, who brought the bailiff to seal up the company. CHEONG tried to kill himself by burning charcoal at home which left him in a coma. MAN, a social worker from the Children’s Home, brought TUNG to visit her father in hospital. NICK kept an eye on the meeting. CHUN arrived shortly, wailing while holding CHEONG in her arms. She disappeared shortly, and was later saved from jumping off the building by MAN and NICK……
Episode 2Episode 245 min
NICK is sentenced to perform 240 hours of community service. KAN throws him a celebration party. Though in ALLY’s company, NICK’s mind is preoccupied with something else. The father and son meet again in the company, TING expresses his wishes for NICK to sort out his life. He brings NICK to meet the new owner of the publishing house MRS CHU. From her, NICK learns that his father has taken advantage of his friendship with CHEONG to line his own pocket from the takeover. NICK resolves quit, despite KAN’s and ALLY’s persuasion. NICK’s car hits a taxi on his way to find the Children’s Home. He is made to pay the taxi-driver $4,000 as compensation. Mistaking a parent MA TSUI FA for MAN, NICK is made to paint a children’s room. MA scolds his clumsiness. MAN takes TUNG to see a psychologist. TUNG is diagnosed as suffering from post-traumatic syndrome. TUNG is comforted by NICK’s friendliness……
Episode 3Episode 346 min
NICK keeps TUNG’s wetting the bed from others. MAN is aware of the lie but doesn’t say a word, though she secretly blames NICK for covering the lie for the girl. NICK and TUNG go to the courtyard to pick up a sheet blown away by a gust of wind. TUNG insists to play on the swing and gets injured. MAN and NICK rush her to hospital. The little girl also gets to see her father, CHEONG. Just as he wakes up from his coma, KAN loses no time to bring him the takeover contracts. MAN reproves his insensitivity. MAN asks NICK to give her and TUNG a lift back to CHEONG’s company to retrieve some photos. NICK meets KAN and they quarrel over the takeover. Their conversation is overheard by MAN, who threatens to transfer NICK away. NICK pays CHEONG a visit. CHEONG understands his difficulties and signs the liquidation papers. With great enthusiasm, KAN explains details of the takeover to an uninterested CHU……
Episode 4Episode 446 min
CHEONG returns to the publishing house. TUNG and MAN play a practical joke on KAN at the grand opening party. MAN invites NICK back to the Home, NICK agrees. NICK resumes his post at Tung Chuen. TING accepts all suggestions he makes. A spoilt child called FONG SUET FUNG is sent to the Home after his mother has gone missing. His ill temper makes him at odds with other children and causes a scene at the welcoming party. When FUNG complains about FA’s ironing skills, MAN decides to make FUNG learn his trade. Though unwilling, he accepts her teaching. MAN puts FUNG on a minicab to school, and learns that his is in fact Professor FONG HONG TUNG’s grandchild. Despite telling MAN that he wouldn’t shoulder any responsibilities of the child, he shows up at the Home and takes FUNG away, saying that he would apply for the child’s custody……
Episode 5Episode 546 min
FUNG makes TUNG take him to the fun park. There, FUNG forces the old man to go on a plunging down game and plays hide-and-seek with him. TUNG can’t find FUNG and alerts MAN and NICK. Exhausted, TUNG faints. MAN and NICK arrive shortly to find TUNG catching his breath. Undaunted, TUNG files for FUNG’s custody. At FUNG’s farewell party, the mother FONG FEI shows up unexpectedly to take her son away. TUNG intercepts. The father and daughter have a row, resulting in FUNG leaving with FEI. TUNG tells MAN that FEI used to be a pornography star. But later FEI is expelled by her landlord and has to send FUNG back to the Home. To make ends meet, FEI decides to sell her expensive watch and finds an interested buyer in KAN. As they can’t agree on the price, KAN leaves FEI his business card. FEI drops by at Tung Chuen to find KAN and chances on NICK. She wants to borrow money from him but he tactfully declines……
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