The Winter Melon Tale ·大冬瓜

Fan Tung (Liu Kai Chi) is one of the four deities under the Stove God. He has offended the Queen Mother of the West of being ravenous and gets imprisoned for 500 years in the winter melon. By chance Tin Dai Kwai (Sunny Chan) and his wife Chung Bik Yuk (Louisa So) free him from constraint. Tung gets flattened by Kwai's older brother Tin Tai Fu (also played by Liu Kai Chi) accidentally and his spirit enters Fu's body inexplicably while losing all his instincts. Tung starts living in Kwai's house and getting closer to the family. Yuk finds Tung suspicious and she tries to unmask him by all means. Having failed in his attempt to return to Heaven, Tung becomes reliant on the help of six little deities who assimilated his instincts released from the melon, and since then Tung is aware of the fickleness of human nature.

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First Aired on

Sep 07, 2009

1 seaons till Oct 02, 2009

Popularity: 7.1637
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Networks
(HK)
Production

TVB (HK)

Status: Ended

Show Ended

Last episode: Episode 20

Seasons & episodes

Total 1 seasons, 20 episodes

Season 1

Aired

20 Episodes
  • Episode 1Episode 144 min

    FAN TUNG is a deity. He pleases WUN SA with a necklace for being late, so she asks TUNG to go and eat in the Celestial Kitchen. TUNG has taken some winter melon soup which is supposed to be the birthday present for QUEEN MOTHER. As to make him reflect on his mistake, TUNG is locked inside a winter melon for five hundred years. Five hundred years later in Moody Town, the villagers try to take advantage of TIN TAI-KWAI while his wife CHUNG PIK-YUK is not around. His elder brother TIN TAI-FU is a gambler, he uses up his son’s red packet money and the trousseau of his wife is in pawn to pay his debt. LING FUNG fights with him and elopes with her lover. It makes HONG very upset with his father and KWAI tries to comfort him. FU has offended FOK SZ-SZ who was once a fox and turned into a prostitute. With her magic she makes FU lose his grocery shop. YUK and KWAI are left stranded inside a cave and find a big winter melon.

  • Episode 2Episode 244 min

    TUNG is freed again with the help from YUK and KWAI but he scares them away instead. YUK wants to redeem the shop but the creditor YAU-FOOK raises the price and wants to have fun with her while drinking. YAU has to agree for the sake of the TIN family. KWAI picks up two small winter melons from the cave and plants them at home. KWAI wants to offer a job to an old man CHOI whom he meet with KWAI in the street. FU wants to make soup with the winter melons, yet he is fastened tight by the magic melons. FU finds a gold lock in KWAI’s room. With the luck that it brings, FU gambles again in the hope of getting back the shop. Due to his greediness, he uses up all the power from the gold lock and loses all his money. He wants to sell his own son HONG as to pay his debts; KWAI and YUK try to stop him.

  • Episode 3Episode 344 min

    TUNG falls from a cliff and crashes with FU, accidentally his spirit flings into FU’s body. When TUNG awakes, everybody finds him speaking incoherently that he must be under some mental aberration. TUNG tries to play his magic in front of everybody but then he has lost his valuable bag and all magic power. When knowing from KWAI that FU used to be a bad and nasty guy, with his identity TUNG decides to help FU turn over a new leaf. FOOK wants to gamble with FU, with his magic power he wins tremendously. FU gives YUK all the money and reveals that he owns a pair of perspective eyes. YUK wants to make use of his special power and get the grocery shop back but KWAI objects. YUK wants KWAI to collect all the loans that the villagers once owed him. Yet YUK is mad to see what KWAI has collected from KWAN YAN is only a piece of uncultivated land.

  • Episode 4Episode 444 min

    FU is scared to death when he sees two little water melon deities. They play magic to help TUNG retrieve his memory and realize that he is a deity himself. FU claims that the deities are his relatives so KWAI let them stay. KWAI gives all the money to YAN to treat his illness while he is on his way to pay the money to FOOK as an interest. YUK gets mad and goes back to live with her family. With the help from the little water melon deities, FU gets back the loan contract. By the time KWAI wants them to return the contact, the officers and soldiers are there to apprehend KWAI. YUK knows that KWAI suffers in place of his brother, she persuades him to tell the truth but KWAI refuses. YUK has to beg FOOK for his mercy but he just fools her around. Having no way out, YUK wants to break into the jail and free KWAI.

  • Episode 5Episode 544 min

    Although CHUNG convinces YUK to go back to the TIN family, she does not want to lose her face by doing it. KWAI works overnight to make a movable TIN HING LUNG wooden cart as to please YUK and finally she agrees to go home with him. FOOK shortens the due date of the loan payment up to ten days and YUK wants to pawn the gold chain which KWAI has given her as a love token. Acting together with the two little water melon deities, FU cheats FOOK and the officer with a hoax to exchange a piece of rare and valuable land with the loan contract. FU assumes that he has repaid his debt of gratitude and can be a deity again in heaven. Yet his hope fails. When FU finds that YUK keeps taunting him while he does all her bidding, he wants to burn himself up.