Heart of Greed II - Moonlight Resonance

After the success of "Heart of Greed" (2007), TVB brought back the same cast for another round of family drama. This time, instead of abalone, the story is about a family enterprise business of mooncakes. Michelle Mai Shuet takes the role of villainess this time around to stir up the melodramatic action.

Casts:


Ha Yu - Gam Tai Jo


Characteristics: He is easy-going, indecisive, and has his own opinions. He often receives troubles instigated by others. By nature he is filial; he has upmost respect for his mother Lai (Lee Heung Kam). With his wife Hung (Michelle Yim), he is also obedient. His life is controlled by these two women; he doesn’t dare to rebel. With his former wife Hor (Lee See Kei), he forgets their love and is ungrateful. To outsiders, he is someone who is thick-skinned and shameless, a declining “man” who has abandoned his wife and children. In truth, he feels sorry for Hor and doesn’t know where to begin to compensate for her woes. He cares a great deal for his sons and daughters, but doesn’t know how to raise them. He will only put on the appearance of a father.

Lee See Kei - Chung Siu Hor

Characteristics: Her manner is to endure hardships. She deeply loves her family and is affectionate and righteous. After divorcing from Jo (Ha Yu), as a single mother, she had to raise three children and also fill in the role of a “father”. She single-handedly opens up “Ga Ho Yuet Yuen Classic Bakery”, managing everything well and supporting her family. She whole-heartedly wants to maintain a neat and harmonious family. Hor can be seen as a strong and resolute model female.

Michelle Yim - Yan Hung


Characteristics: On the outside she seems gentle and beautiful; in fact, she is a venomous beautiful woman. Her methods are cruel and biting. In the business world she is an out-and-out capable woman. She’s good at concealing her evil thoughts. On the surface she is a good wife and loving mother, but her personality is sinister. Everything is inside of her calculating hands. She’s good at winning people with her deception. Her manner is ungrateful and selfish. For her own benefits she will repay good with evil. She always hates Jo’s (Ha Yu) former wife Hor (Lee See Kei) the most, hating her to the bones.

Susanna Kwan - Chung Siu Sa

Characteristics: Her personality is straight-forward, liking to gossip; she is the classic “evil character”. Her heart is wicked. She especially likes to expose people’s scars. She hates the filthy rich and dislikes the impoverished. Her manner is calculating. She forgets righteousness at the sight of benefits. For the sake of her own benefits, she can betray the most intimate relative beside her. She was born selfish and all of her troubles are caused by her own selfishness. Thick-skinned and shameless, she’s accustomed to displacing her wrongs on others.

Louis Yuen - Yuen Yan Chi

Characteristics: He idles about, eating well and being lazy. He loves to gamble, is greedy for money, greedy for small gains, and greedy to accept undeserved credit. However, he has a sweet tongue and speaks exquisitely and is able to make people happy. He does not have a proper career and fantasizes all day long about being rich.

Moses Chan - Gam Wing Ga

Characteristics: On the surface he is frivolous, boastful, eloquent, business-oriented, always fixated on the stock market, has the countenance of a stock broker, and is careless towards family affairs. In truth, his character is cold on the outside, hot on the inside. He cares deeply about love and has clear distinction between love and hate. He’s full of pride and doesn’t want to depend on Jo (Ha Yu) and Hung’s (Michelle Yim) help. He wants to be self-reliant. His life is heavy on love, but he loves blindly, so he was used by Mei (Kate Tsui). Luckily, in the end he can leave this relationship.

Raymond Lam - Gam Wing Ho

Characteristics: Naturally bright, he is smart and clever. He is deeply loved by Jo (Ha Yu), Hor (Lee See Kei), Lai (Lee Heung Kam), and so on. After Jo and Hor divorced, he became the family’s “Manager Boy”. He dares to undertake burdens and is hot on the outside and inside. He understands that he is the only male in the family and has the responsibility to maintain the family’s integrity.

Tavia Yeung - Suen Ho Yuet

Characteristics: On the outside she is strong, but her heart is actually quite frail; she is a girl who is hard on the outside and soft inside. Hor (Lee See Kei) isn’t Yuet’s birth mother, but the mother who nurtured is bigger than the biological mother. Therefore Yuet is especially grateful to Hor for taking care of her. However, in Yuet’s heart, she cannot bury her “Not a Gam family member” inferior thinking. That is why Yuet whole-heartedly looks for someone who can bring her happiness. She wants to build a true two people world with her boyfriend.

Lai Lok Yi - Gam Wing Yuen

Characteristics: He is competitive, egotistic, and was spoiled since he was little. He is the family’s most educated person. In his family member’s eyes, he is a capable youth. He is dedicated to work. Hung (Michelle Yim) has great aspirations towards him. He helps Hung handle business affairs and is her primary assistant. He is preparing to take over the “Ga Ho Yuet Yuen Bakery” business in the future. He hopes to have big achievements.

Fala Chen - Gam Wing Hing

Characteristics: Kind-hearted, glad to help people, and treats people truthfully. Because she has to use sign language to speak, it’s inconvenient for her to communicate with others. Therefore, she’s introverted and feels inferior. Because she has this disability, Hing is the subject of her family’s loving affections, growing up in a very warm house.

Vincent Wan - Gam Wing Chung

Characteristics: He was spoiled since he was little. He is representative of today’s youth; he has a life goal. He’s afraid of getting into trouble. He’s often unhappy and constantly lives life under Yuen’s (Lai Lok Yi) shadow. He fears being compared with him and this causes him great stress. He’s desolate towards family affairs and his love for his family is weak.

Linda Chung - Yu So Chau

Characteristics: Kind-hearted and treats people genuinely. Since she was young, her feelings with Ho (Raymond Lam) have been good. However, her mother Hung (Michelle) enters into Jo (Ha Yu) and Hor’s (Lee See Kei) marriage, causing them to divorce. Consequently, she was forced to part with Ho. Nevertheless, the two still hold very important positions in each other’s hearts.

Kate Tsui - Lo Ka Mei

Characteristics: She appears gentle, honest, and innocent. Her true character is sinister. She has a scheming heart and is skilled at calculating everything she does and everyone she loves. Every step she takes has passed through careful consideration and planning. In order to meet her goals, she will resort to any measure. She is someone who can even be surpass Hung (Michelle Yim) as a manipulative and conniving woman.

Bosco Wong - Ling Chi Shun

Characteristics: Filled with vitality, has great working manner, and doesn’t adhere to small matters. He is heavy on feelings and righteousness. In love he is single-minded. He is happy to help people. In the hospital he is a model doctor loved by patients and welcomed by colleagues.

Wayne Lai - Nin Tsz Yung

Characteristics: On the surface he is someone who doesn’t have a mind of his own. He is snobby. For money he can be ungrateful. He even ignores the boss/worker feelings he built with Hor (Lee See Kei) for many years and changes his “nest”, going to help Jo (Ha Yu). However, it turns out that the reason Yung does all of this is to provide for his younger sister, who is studying abroad in Britain.

Lee Heung Kam - Sheh Kwan Lai

Characteristics: As the Gam family’s oldest elder, she is subject to respect. She often takes advantage of her seniority. Jo (Ha Yu) doesn’t dare to disobey Lai’s wishes. She doesn’t pay attention to right and wrong, black and white. She holds strong resentments and is petty. She bears a grudge against Hor (Lee See Kei). Towards her grandchildren, she has a gentle side.

Synopsis:

CHUNG SIU HO (Lee Sze Kei, Louise) and her husband KAM TAI CHO (Ha Yu) have been working hard for many years to establish a famous reputation for their Moonlight Cake Shop. However, HO discovers that CHO commits adultery with her best friend YAN HUNG (Yim, Michelle) and she breaks up with him miserably. HO brings along her children KAM WING HO (Lam, Raymond), KAM WING HING (Chen Fala) and her adopted daughter SUEN HO YUET (Yeung Yi) to set up another cake shop for a living.

HUNG moves in to live with CHO and she starts playing tricks in the family. She tries pleasing her mother-in-law SHEH KWAN LAI (Lee Heung Kam) in every ways while disuniting her stepson and CHO. Outside the family, HUNG starts expanding their business rapidly and HO's younger sister CHUNG SIU SA (Kwan Kuk Ying, Susanna) is displeased. SA decides to fight for the ownership of their cake shop's brand name in court with HUNG and their relationship with HUNG further deteriorates.

Apart from the cake shop business, HO also spends a lot of efforts on her children. Her oldest son KAM WING KA (Chan Ho, Moses) is not interested in managing the cake shop at all and he indulges himself on stock trading. He also develops an entangling relationship with his cousin LO KA MEI (Tsui Tsz Shan, Kate) and YUET at the same time. On the other hand, HO's younger son WING HO takes up the role of a father in the family and he works hard all the time to earn a living. WING HO loves his childhood friend CHAU (Chung Ka Yan) whole-heartedly but CHAU is in love with the doctor LING CHI SHUN (Wong Chung Chak).

HO works hard unconditionally to strive for the well being of her family members. HUNG, on the other hand, is a very mean person who values her own benefits only. CHO is caught between the two women all the time and he feels helpless. One day, a disaster happens at the cake shop. Here comes a time when human nature, family bonds and love are brought to a trail.