Series synopsis
Wars of In-laws, also known as 我的野蠻奶奶 is a comedy drama television series that premiered on TVB Jade on July 18, 2005. It ended on August 12, 2005. It was created by Kwan Wing Chung. It stars Myolie Wu Hang-Yee, Liza Wong Ming-Chuen, Bosco Wong Chung-Chak and Shek Sau.
HEI TAP LAP SEUK LAN (WANG MING CHUN, LIZA) was born into royalty. Being a princess, she has had the privilege of being tyrannical and unreasonable for more than 40 years. Her son NING MAU CHUN (WONG CHUNG CHAK, BOSCO) reaches the age of marriage. She kidnaps the best girl she can find in the capital for him. Unfortunately, CHUN eventually gets married to a mountain tyrant’s daughter TIN LIK (WU, MYOLIE).
LAN constantly tries to pick bones with LIK. However, LIK is not exactly gentle and obedie ...
Premise
HEI TAP LAP SEUK LAN (WANG MING CHUN, LIZA) was born into royalty. Being a princess, she has had the privilege of being tyrannical and unreasonable for more than 40 years. Her son NING MAU CHUN (WONG CHUNG CHAK, BOSCO) reaches the age of marriage. She kidnaps the best girl she can find in the capital for him. Unfortunately, CHUN eventually gets married to a mountain tyrant’s daughter TIN LIK (WU, MYOLIE).
LAN constantly tries to pick bones with LIK. However, LIK is not exactly gentle and obedient. They are reluctant to adjust to each other. CHUN, who is weak and indecisive, is caught in the middle.
Everything is just pretence. CHUN is in reality very good at martial arts. He keeps his prowess a secret for an important mission.
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Myolie Wu Hang-Yee
- Liza Wong Ming-Chuen
- Bosco Wong Chung-Chak
- Shek Sau
- Christine Ng Wing-mei
- Gordon Liu Chia-Hui
- Suet Nei
- Eileen Yeow
Supporting cast
Episodes
This series spans 1 season with 20 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 20 | July 18, 2005 | August 12, 2005 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Episode 1 Master HUNG openly recruits his son-in-law by setting up a contest where young men fight for the privilege to marry his daughter WING NGA. Princess HEI TAP LAP SEUK LAN brings her son NING MAU CHUN to join the contest but SHI MA MAN finally won the championship. LAN is upset and defames MAN for breaking the rules. CHUN gets engaged with NGA eventually. LAN’s husband NING FUNG TAK opens an embroidery shop “Fung Chiu Wong” and he feels helpless with LAN’s tyrannical character. LAN learns that the palace lady MA KAI YIN HAN is very talented and requests the queen HEI TAP LAP HAU SHUK, who is her cousin, to affiance HAN to CHUN. LAN fights with Master HUNG on court and defames that NGA has got an incurable disease. LAN successfully breaks off the engagement between CHUN and NGA. TIN MOON, the master of a mountain stronghold called “Pik Lik” tries to help her daughter TIN LIK to look for a husband but LIK ruins everything…… |
July 18, 2005 |
| 2 |
Episode 2 In the bridal chamber, LIK tries to make CHUN drunk in order to escape. She meets NIN while trying to sneak away from a dog hole. NIN tells LIK that her aunt LUNG HAU HAU has disappeared. He asks LIK to stay in NING's family so as to find a way to rescue MOON and the other two leaders. LAN brings LIK to “Fung Chiu Wong” and asks her to draw pictures of flowers. LIK plays tricks to elude from the task. LAN discovers that LIK and CHUN sleep separately. She calls for family meeting in the late evening and everyone is speechless. LAN tries to bring LIK and CHUN together by telling LIK her past romance with TAK. She also asks CHUN to show his masculine self when doing the embroidery work. LIK feels sick with it. LAN releases her mother-in-law LAW WAI HING’s parrot deliberately. HING cries and screams madly for this. LIK and CHUN try to look for the parrot in every place…… |
July 19, 2005 |
| 3 |
Episode 3 LAN eventually discovers that LIK is illiterate and she wants to kick her out of the house. LIK fights back by saying that LAN relies on her royal status to domineer and tyrannize all the time. Everybody cannot help but smile on LIK’s comment and LAN is very upset. HING is happy for LIK could restrain LAN while TAK worries that there will be lots of family disputes in the future. LAN deliberately makes LIK hungry by giving her very little food in every meal. CHUN and HING secretly save some food for LIK. LAN requests all government officials to donate 500 dollars to the fund-raising event for relieving disasters and most of the officials feel that they have no choice but to follow her request. The ninth prince MIN LUN voluntarily donates 1500 dollars to the event. CHUN visits the carpenter KWAN SING. He secretly learns martial arts from SING. LAN locks LIK in her room in order to prevent her from joining the fund-raising event…… |
July 20, 2005 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | TVB Jade |
|---|---|
| First aired | July 18, 2005 |
| Last aired | August 12, 2005 |
| Runtime | 42 minutes |
| Status | Ended |