Til Love Do Us Lie

KAN YIK-PO is the manager of the Training & Development Department of an airline. Her husband, SUEN KA-ON, works at a health food company as sales manager. Being a career woman, she has no choice but to leave the chores to her domestic helper. ON is under a lot of stress at work. From time to time, he fantasizes about counterattacking against his supervisor KEUNG YUNG-YUNG. But in reality, of course, he can only put up with whatever that comes to him in silence. The head-teacher of PO’s son, SUEN YEUNG, calls and tells PO that YEUNG has been absent the last few days, and that he had earlier presented a leave application letter with his forged signature. PO checks out with her domestic helper, only to learn that she is returning to her native country. PO and ON are considering reporting to the police. In the meantime, ON’s parents, i.e. SUEN FUNG-KEI and LEE KAI-FONG, have brought them some home made soup……

ON and YEUNG have had enough of PO’s take-away breakfast. PO has told ON to ask YEUNG why he skipped school and cosplayed but it seems that he is not doing anything. PO is startled to find guns and bullets in her bedroom. She is relieved when she realizes they are in fact airsoft guns. There have been news reports of people shooting cats with airsoft guns. So she tries to sound ON out to see if he has anything to do with the shootings. She does not know until then that he has been playing war games for nearly one year. ON and PO go to an employment service center to look for a new domestic helper. She tells ON she will quit whether they have a helper or not. A staff dies suddenly, yet nobody knows who the person is. PO finds this very sad. PO has a talk with ON when she is home. He says candidly that he will find it very stressful if he has to support the family on his own.

PO’s younger sister, YIK-TAN, is senior manager of an insurance company. She is not happy with the way her mother, LAW SIU-HUNG, spoils her younger brother, YIK-KUEN. PO gives HUNG housekeeping money for the next six months. HUNG blames her for not consulting her before handing in her resignation. TAN is getting married soon. PO asks HUNG to check out for her what TAN wants for her wedding gift, only to be told to ask TAN direct. TAN tells NING-ON, ON’s younger sister, she would like PO sing her the theme song of her favorite cartoon at her wedding. But then again, she is not sure whether PO still remembers the song. NING-ON asks PO whether she remembers the promise she made to PO when they are buying a wedding present for TAN. In return, PO tells her how she and TAN fell out with each other. YEUNG has made a weapon for a friend using a mop. His innovation inspires PO. She calls NING-ON for help.

PO would like YEUNG to share the housework. He threatens to upload the clip of her singing for TAN on to the Internet if she insists. SIMON, TAN’s boyfriend, has invited her family to yum cha but he is late. SIMON is a vet. Sometimes, he provides service free of charge for customers with financial difficulty. ON therefore concludes that his house must be very tidy. ON feels inferior after meeting with his school friends, all of whom have a successful career. ON has bought some sweet soup to his parents. KO CHING-WAN, KEI’s godson who works as a senior manager at an insurance company, has bought KEI some cakes from an expensive cake shop. He and his family are enjoying the cakes when ON arrives. There is a power cut followed by a loud noise. ON and PO rush to the roof at once, where they see YEUNG lying on the floor, injured. Carrying YEUNG on his back, ON rushes to the hospital immediately. PO calls him superman.

PO’s friend MO TAI FUN-PING has bought some sexy lingerie. She explains that is because it has been a long time since she last slept with her husband. ON does nothing but watch the TV all the time. PO therefore believes he does not appreciate her as much as he did in the past. YEUNG tells ON to do something to make PO give up her idea of quitting. ON lies to PO that he has taken out a loan and that it is due now. By saying this, he believes she will then carry on working. PO tells ON she has won free accommodation at an economical hotel. ON is not a bit interested. But when she says it is in fact a six star hotel, he changes his mind. PO tries her best to create a romantic atmosphere in the hotel room. To her disappointment, he is drunk by the time she is ready to go to bed. YEUNG and PO have returned from the market. They are astonished to see the note written in paint on the door, demanding ON to repay his debt.

It has only been three days since PO moved into her mother’s home but ON and YEUNG have already turned the house upside down. PO wants to go home to see how the father and son are doing but HUNG stops her. YEUNG is starving. ON stops him from eating fish food. KEI visits them with loads of food. It seems that KEI has no intention to leave. ON finds it odd that his mother did not call at all the past few days. He knows something must have happened between his parents. PO has thrown away HUNG’s moon-cake can. TAN complaints that PO has mussed up her client information, while KUEN is not happy that PO has changed the desktop theme of his computer. TAN is giving her sister a lesson when YEUNG calls to tell PO he is sick. PO rushes home at once. Later, she blames ON for failing to take care of their son.