Last One Standing

CHEUNG SHING-HEI is extremely enraged when he finds that his little sister CHEUNG SHING-SZE is molested by their stepfather TSANG SHU-LEUNG. HEI beats LEUNG badly. LEUNG is later found dead, and HEI becomes a suspect in LEUNG’s murder. HEI’s cousin TONG LAP-YIN testifies in a court hearing that HEI was present at the murder scene. HEI ends up in prison. YIN and his little sister TONG HOI-MAN send their father TONG HOK-YAN and mother SO LAI-FAN home from the hospital. Grandmother LEE SO-NGO reminds them HEI is discharged from the jail the same day. In fact, they think HEI is a well-behaved boy who became disobedient only after his mother’s second marriage. YEUNG KIN-YIP, HEI’s brother-in-law, hopes that HEI will work in Dongguan as he does not want him to stay too long at his home. YIN receives a threatening letter sent to his office followed by an arson attack at his home.… ...

HEI takes YIN to a cliff by force. He demands YIN’s explanation for the false imputation YIN made against him. They become entangled and fall into water. Later, police finds YIN unconscious on a beach. Luckily, no serious injuries are found after YIN is hospitalized. YIN?gets?the file of LEUNG's murder case?through a friend,?and?starts?searching for clues to find out?who is the true murderer. HEI becomes a suspect in a car?attack and an arson attack?on YIN's office.?Soon, YIN realizes that HEI is not the one who has caused the damage when he discovered a lighter dropped at the scene. YIN recalls that Steel Teeth, LI TSAU-SHUI's?subordinate, has a similar lighter. The criminal arrest finally proves that HEI has no connections with the incidents. It is believed that HEI is still alive. YIN begins to suspect YIP is the murderer after?he has learnt from?SZE?that YIP knew LEUNG before.… ...

YIN is hit by a high-speed car driven by HEI. They get entangled. YIN tells HEI that he believes he did not kill anyone. Further, he shows him some photos he took from the police file to support his sayings, that he found in the photo an object bearing YIP’s company logo. YIN is asked to go to the police department for suspect identification. HEI is released from custody after YIN has made clear that HEI did not kidnap him. SZE believes YIP is the murderer, nevertheless, she asks HEI not to reveal it as she does not want her family be ruined. HEI and YIN finally reconcile and forgive each other after YIN has found out the truth. YEE worries so much after she has encountered a downhearted HEI underneath a flyover. She asks YIN for help. YIN finds HEI on a rooftop, a place HEI used to go where he watches flying planes. He encourages HEI and lets him know his mother still cares about him.

HEI finally accepts to live together with his family. However, he and his mother do not seem to understand each other well. HEI wants to find a job, but he dares not reveal that he has been in jail for ten years. One day, he meets CARMEN on the street. She?had been?a volunteer who visited HEI regularly in prison and later?became a famous TV news anchor. HEI soon perks up when he has known that CARMEN does not look down on him. At home, HEI is astonished to find a logo which is the same as the logo of YIP's company. He immediately realizes that YIP may not be the murderer. After talking to SIU HUNG, the prostitute YIP hired long time ago, HEI discovers YIP did not tell him the fact that he had hired a prostitute. Further, SIU HUNG tells him that YIN has asked her the same thing before. HEI asks YIP to keep the matter hidden from SZE for fear that YIN will know it and plot against him.… ...

One day, YIN and CARMEN go visit HEI. CARMEN hopes to find him a job.?NGO reminds FAN that she should keep a watchful eye on YIN when she has realized that they opened a joint account. She worries that YIN will one day take away all the money. Due to bank relocation, YEE takes LEUNG's things back home from the safe box. The belongings suggest a possible connection between LEUNG and a leather factory. After investigation, HEI finds that the owner of the factory received a large compensation after a factory fire. And, he learns further from POON CHI-KAN that YIN is the one who approved the indemnification payment. So, he needs YIP’s help to trace the owner immediately. HEI accepts the interview by Carmen once he knows she has to conduct an interview with a discharged prisoner. As soon as YEE realizes HEI has developed special feeling towards CARMEN, she reminds him that he should stop himself from loving CARMEN.… ...

HEI and YIP head to Dongguan to search for CHAN KUI-WING, the owner of the leather factory, to investigate further about the fire accident. After finding seriously ill WING, HEI promises to bring him to Hong Kong for better medical treatment. YIN helps YEE to examine a water leak in LEUNG’s old house. HEI accompanies YIN to the house. To HEI’s surprise, YIN deduces LEUNG’s murder in an unusually coherent way. On returning home, YIN tells HEI that CARMEN has accepted his proposal and they will get marry soon. HEI picks up WING. WING refuses to give HEI the evidence he holds until his surgery is finished. YIN tells his family that he is going to marry CARMEN. However, NGO does not approve their marriage because of traditional taboo. NGO tells CARMEN frankly that she dislikes YIN. She even urges CARMEN to find another man. Nevertheless, YIN and CARMEN remain firm in their decision to get married regardless NGO’s resistance.… ...

Outside YIP’s office, YIN overhears HEI is scolding YIP for assigning him a harsh job. For fear that HEI will blurt out that he thinks YIP is the murderer, YIN interrupts them and takes HEI away. HEI meets CARMEN after receiving her call. He cannot help confessing his love to her. CARMEN does not know what to do but leaves. YIN receives a complaint from a client. Soon after, he fortuitously finds the client’s doctor is working in the same hospital where WING stays. YIN demands to meet the doctor to check if WING is undergoing treatment at hospital. WING does not give HEI the evidence as agreed, but flees after HEI has settled the hospital bill for him. In a pub, HEI drowns his sorrows. After receiving a call from HEI, CARMEN anxiously searches for him. As soon as she finds him, he holds her tight and asks her not to marry YIN. YAN suggests that YIN and CARMEN can have a betrothal before consummating marriage.

YEE becomes anxious when she sees HEI in the betrothal party. HEI shoves YIN into a swimming pool in a drunken rage. HEI drowns his sorrows in a pub. Words from someone unwittingly awaken him, and he is getting clear about how to deal with YIN. YIN receives a call from HEI. He attempts to persuade HEI not to kill himself. Eventually, HEI does not kill himself; instead, he admits he has been wrong in the past. YIN gives him encouraging words and promises to hire him as a kind of support. On returning home, HEI tells his mother that he wants to pay his respect to LEUNG. YEE feels delighted and encouraged as she believes HEI has repented. HEI starts working in YIN’s company. He apologizes to CARMEN. HEI and MAN visit a village house to investigate a roof leak claim. MAN is attracted to HEI after she is saved by him when she nearly fell off from a tree.

MAN heap praises on HEI in front of her family. NGO realizes MAN has developed special feelings towards HEI. CARMEN goes to meet YIN in office. She loses her footing and falls to the floor. To avoid trouble, HEI keeps away from her intentionally. HEI begins to get close to MA OI-LAM, a staff whom he discovers she is very familiar with the company. YIN and CARMEN go to Cheung Chau to follow an injury claim. However, YIN has to leave the job to CARMEN because he has got other matter to handle. HEI meets CARMEN in Cheung Chau after KIT has assigned the job to him. They need to stay there overnight as they fail to catch the last ferry home. HEI prefers to stay on a beach alone until the next morning to avoid any embarrassment. YIN meets Mr. CHOW, a man from a property company who wants to buy the whole building where his family is living in. Mr. CHOW asks YIN to persuade his family into selling the flat.… ...

As persuaded by YIN, YAN sells the flat regardless NGO’s resistance and uses the money to make investment. HEI learns from his colleagues that LAM put the confidential document and the key of the company safe separately. He sneaks into LAM’s room and attempts to open the file cabinet. LAM discovers it, nevertheless, she mistakenly thinks HEI is loving her from afar. Rumor of their love affair spread around the office. Enraged, MAN asks HEI if he really in love with LAM. She is so disappointed when HEI admits it. SHAN, CARMEN’s sister who lives abroad, comes to visit her and brings her good wedding wishes. She and her husband are now separate. She tells CARMEN that she has to take the relationship serious as she thinks YIN is a good man. CARMEN encourages HEI to develop a serious relationship with LAM. HEI feels heartbreak to know CARMEN does not mind he loves another woman. After work, HEI and LAM leave together.… ...

HEI takes a peep at confidential document and discovers that the company holds one million dollars in current capital. SHAN persuades CARMEN into opening an investment account. On the other hand, YIN reminds CARMEN that she should not invest too much. LAM wants to take HEI to an Italian restaurant for dinner, but HEI prefers open-air food stall. Although LAM is not used to going to food stall, she panders to HEI. HEI meets FA, he recognizes her by her necklace. HEI suspects there is a connection between LEUNG and FA as he can identify the necklace is the same one that LEUNG had once asked him to send repairing. CARMEN questions SHAN for what has happened after a red paint attack on her home. It turns out that SHAN has run into debt in Canada. She asks CARMEN to help repay her debt. Soon after, YIN promises CARMEN to get it resolved. HEI encounters FA again and quietly follows her to her home.… ...

HEI cannot stop himself from telling YIP immediately when he has found new evidence. Unfortunately, YIP accidentally causes the cassette tape jammed. Without telling his family, YAN gives his retirement pension as well as the flat selling money to YIN for investment upon retirement. FA visits HEI’s office as she needs money urgently to treat TAK’s asthma. FAN and YAN are both hospitalized after injury. YIN meets FA in the hospital. He realizes she is LEUNG’s mistress after he discovers an odd response from SZE when she encounters FA. YIN settles the hospital bill for TAK and accompanies him and FA back to their home. Soon after, he finds LEUNG’s recording tapes are still being kept. Later, YEE finds out the fact that FA is LEUNG’s mistress. HEI rushes to FA’s home as soon as he knows YIN has visited her. Meanwhile, he rescues YEE from a house fire happens in FA’s home.… ...

In his response to YIN, HEI says YEE wanted to punish FA and thus got hurt at FA’s home. FA and TAK have avoided the accident as they went to the Ocean Park. FA believes that the arson attack was done by moneylender. YIP sends?FA and TAK to Dongguan?where TAK can receive?better?medical treatment; more importantly, to keep?them?away from YIN and YEE. YAN?is hospitalized after sudden heart attack. YIN tells FAN frankly that he cannot afford to pay for YAN's expensive?medical bills. On the other hand, NGO strongly believes YIN is reluctant to pay out of his apparent selfishness. KIT arranges a meeting for YIN with the owner of Kam Tat Company. YIN declines?to receive a bribe in return for getting the claim approved. Without informing YIN, KIT?handles the case by himself. HEI takes pictures of the transaction when KIT is receiving bribes. YAN dies.… ...