1960s

Kin (Gregory Lee) was born into a poor family. Kin's father, Ting Wing Cheung (also played by Felix Wong) is a gambling addict much to the displeasure of his wife, Mui Fan Fong (Yammie Nam).

Fong is wrongfully accused of murder and sentenced to death. Cheung goes insane after his wife’s death.

Lee Ho Cheun (Bowie Wu) and his wife, Yip Sau Wan (So Hang Suen) adopts Kin and Hong.

Cheun suffers a fatal stroke soon after, leaving a financially destitute Wan to bring up the children.

1980s

Kin (Felix Wong) works multiple jobs to help Wan support the family. Wan takes in her brother-in-law’s daughter, Lee Wah (Kathy Chow).

In university, Hong befriends Sam Fung (Ng Kai Ming), the youngest son of Fung Sai Bong (Elliot Ngok), the prosecutor who convicted his mother. Kin meets heiress Ngai Chor Gwan (Carina Lau) on a tv show.

Hong manipulates Wah to do his assignments and starts pursuing Chiu Kar Mun (Maggie Shiu). Wah discovers Hong’s deception and stops helping him. Hong drops out of university to work for Bong. Kin and Wah become a couple.

Hong and Bong’s eldest son, Michael (Lee Seng Cheong), caused the death of Gwan’s brother, Kit (Canti Lau) over a business dispute. Hong manipulates Kin into taking the rap for him.

Kar Mun uses her uncle (Chu Tit Wo) in Malaysia to pressure Hong into marriage. Hong kills her and marries Bong’s daughter, Cindy (Kiki Sheung).

Kin is released from prison and starts a successful restaurant chain with his inmate friends. After breaking up with Wah, Kin and Gwan became a couple.

Wan finds incriminating evidence during her trip to Malaysia, forcing Hong to kill her. Kin manages to recover Wan’s body but Hong avoids extradition due to a legal loophole.

Cindy files for divorce and Hong loses his position in Bong’s company. Cindy resorts to drinking due to Hong’s constant harassment and dies before the divorce is finalized. Hong inherits her wealth.

Wah is paralyzed in a plane crash and commits suicide on the night of Kin and Gwan’s wedding.

Hong suffers major financial losses and becomes a fugitive. When attempting to rob his own family, Hong fell down an elevator shaft after a fight with Kin.

1990s

Kin spots an impoverished and crippled Hong on the streets, and gives him a lowly job at his restaurant.

Hong poisons Kin and his family during a company dinner. Kin and Gwan survived, but their son did not. Kin deduces that Hong is the culprit.

Kin sets a trap for Hong and have him arrested in Malaysia. Hong is sentenced to death. Kin persuades Bong to allow Hong's son to visit him one final time.

After Hong is executed, Gwan separates from Kin and leaves for Ethiopia. Kin says he will wait for her at the church where they got married exactly ten years to the day.

Before the ten year deadline, Kin appears on a retrospective of the tv show where he first met Gwan. Kin makes a touching plea for Gwan to return.

Present

The story comes out of flashback to the present.

Gwan calls to tell Kin she is coming home. While rushing to the airport, Kin gets into a car crash. Later, news reports indicate that Ethiopia has suffered a massive earthquake and Gwan is amongst the missing. Kin clings to the hope that Gwan will return on their ten year deadline.

On the ten year deadline, Kin heads to the church and waits for Gwan. After midnight, a disappointed Kin falls asleep on a pew. A lady in red, visible only from the waist down appears. She approaches the sleeping Kin and leaves him a note.

Kin wakes up and finds the note which implores him to forget Gwan and move on. Kin desperately calls out Gwan’s name.

Ending

There were many speculations as to the identity of the lady in red, from Kin’s sister to Gwan herself, and even her dead spirit.

25 years after the series finale aired, lead actor Felix Wong confirmed that the lady in red was Kin's adopted sister Ling, and that Gwan had already died in Ethiopia.