Brick Slaves

Hong Kong is known worldwide for its sky-high property prices, and it took LAU YIU-MING, a 32-year-old employee, ten years to save up enough money for a deposit on a home. His secret to success is that he found himself a partner, TONG ON-NI, whom he has been dating for fourteen years. One day, while taking ON-NI to visit his new home, YIU-MING seizes the opportunity to propose marriage to her, yet her answer is greatly beyond his expectation...... In order to support his best friend AU MEI-NAM, YIU-MING goes to attend a speed dating event, during which all the ladies there immediately start flirting with him as soon as they hear that YIU-MING owns a property. MEI-NAM frankly discloses that the reason why he held the speed dating event is to help YIU-MING get over being dumped. When CHU MA-LEI and three of her former classmates have a get-together, they keep bragging about their homes……

YIU-MING returns home and is about to take a shower only to find out that a young lady, a total stranger, is washing the toilet. The young lady turns out to be CHOI KIN-CHING, who reveals to YIU-MING that her best friend ON-NI leased half of the unit to her, leaving YIU-MING with no other choice but to accept it. Later, PIK-KEI calls YIU-MING, saying that she mistakenly took his phone. She then requests YIU-MING to meet up with her at the pier so as to swap their phones, and the two soon become acquainted with each other. With PIT-TAT finding out that the newly appointed property officer is YIU-MING, the hostility between the two immediately rises. As for OI-WAH, she is very satisfied with YIU-MING's self-recommendation, deciding to promote YIU-MING from his current position of the property officer to the manager……

YIU-MING asks PIT-TAT to escort him on his inspection tours in each district, during which PIT-TAT even actively introduces the residents to YIU-MING, but YIU-MING senses that PIT-TAT is up to something. OI-WAH tells YIU-MING and PIT-TAT to take PIK-KEI and PIK-KEI's classmate WING-KEI on a tour to the rental unit. At school, DOR-LOK and his classmate KWONG are canvassing other classmates to join the Protect Hong Kong’s Heritage Society, and they even try to persuade WING-KEI to join them. Seizing the opportunity, WING-KEI asks them a favor which is to help her move. Once again, YIU-MING runs into PIK-KEI at work, and it turns out that PIK-KEI works at the company as a trainee. After BONG receives a theft complaint from a resident, YIU-MING goes together with PIT-TAT and PIK-KEI to check it out, and finally uncovers all sorts of problems regarding the subdivided flats……