Rosy Business
Rosy Business
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Rosy Business

8.4 / 10
2009
1 season
25 episodes
Drama

Set in Eastern China in the mid-19th century Qing Dynasty, the mercantile Chiang family and the ambition and jealousy surrounding the issue of who will inherit the family business when Chiang Kiu dies. Hong Po-kei marries into the Chiang family as Chiang Kiu's fourth wife. She gains ownership of Hing Fung Nin, the family rice shop, and guides the ambitious coolie Chai Kau to rise in the social status ladder.

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Rosy Business (巾帼枭雄) DVD Trailer (2009)

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Seasons

  • Episode 1

    1.Episode 1

    7.0
    27-04-200945m

    Accompanied by his female chef HONG PO-KEI, the Prince is delivering a batch of royal rice to the city of Wuxi. On the way, they are under siege by a group of famine victims but K...

  • Episode 2

    2.Episode 2

    28-04-200945m

    YEE and PANG KIU ask MAN to call the police without causing any disturbance to the Prince and the feast. KEI gets caught and is brought to the front of the Prince. The Prince sta...

  • Episode 3

    3.Episode 3

    29-04-200945m

    The Yellow-breasted Buntings have posed a threat to the grain harvest. For this reason, MAN has launched a “Kill the Birds” Campaign and asks all the Wuxi citizens to join it. KE...

  • Episode 4

    4.Episode 4

    30-04-200945m

    Members of the TSEUNGs are debating whether or not to pay the ransom. As everyone is at a loss of what to do, HANG tells the TSEUNGs not to worry and that he will get all his foll...

  • Episode 5

    5.Episode 5

    01-05-200945m

    KIU returns to Wuxi and decides to pay the ransom. KEI tries to stop him but in vain. KEI bribes HANG’s mistress HOI-TONG and finally manages to save KAU. KAU returns to the war...

  • Episode 6

    6.Episode 6

    04-05-200945m

    MAN makes a formal apology to KIU but KIU is still very angry and refuses to forgive him. During the breakfast, MAN discloses his plan to start a new business in Beijing, which, t...

  • Episode 7

    7.Episode 7

    05-05-200945m

    Not wanting to be oppressed by HANG, KIU takes KAU’s advice and decides to go for land transport as an alternative means. As instructed by KIU, CHING is to manage and oversee the...

  • Episode 8

    8.Episode 8

    06-05-200945m

    KAU has finally convinced TIN to send the rice back to Wuxi. KAU who has done a real good job comes back to Hing Fung Lin in great honour. KEI announces his promotion to the post...

  • Episode 9

    9.Episode 9

    07-05-200945m

    YEE reveals to PANG KIU that KIU did not marry her for love, but PANG KIU does not believe her at all. YEE and PANG KIU bring FONG to the front of the Guanyin statue and make her...

  • Episode 10

    10.Episode 10

    08-05-200945m

    KEI is grateful to YUE for her timely support. YUE says she understands that taking care of the whole family is too big a burden to be borne by KEI. TONG appreciates KAU’s courag...

  • Episode 11

    11.Episode 11

    11-05-200945m

    While KAU is besieged by HANG’s followers, KEI gets into the hut where KAU has been hiding himself. She makes it clear that no one can harm KAU and that she will try her very best...

  • Episode 12

    12.Episode 12

    12-05-200945m

    CHING gives in to FONG’s request and agrees to accompany her back to her hometown. To protect YAU MAN and her mother from further harm, CHING asks them to go with him as well. It...

  • Episode 13

    13.Episode 13

    13-05-200945m

    While MAN and KAU are quarrelling, millions of locusts have arrived, thus throwing the city of Wuxi into complete confusion. KEI asks the workers to go back home and stay with the...

  • Episode 14

    14.Episode 14

    14-05-200945m

    MAN has got all the credit for leading the city out of the locust crisis. Thinking that it is too unfair to KEI and CHING, YAU MAN would like to tell KIU the truth but is stopped...

  • Episode 15

    15.Episode 15

    15-05-200945m

    To prevent MAN from being expelled from the family, YEE offers to give him a lecture by beating him repeatedly with a thick stick and finally manages to make KIU change his mind....

  • Episode 16

    16.Episode 16

    18-05-200945m

    MAN hates KAU so much that he is resolved to seek revenge. TONG goes to see KAU again revealing how she is kicked out of her family home. KAU sympathizes with her and offers her...

  • Episode 17

    17.Episode 17

    19-05-200945m

    KIU learns from Magistrate LAM that the Taiping troops have been attacking Hangzhou. He gets so worried when he knows that MO and PANG KIU have lost contact with the family. KEI...

  • Episode 18

    18.Episode 18

    20-05-200945m

    MAN blames HING for spreading the rumor that he has murdered KAU, thus causing a great hubbub in the TSEUNG’s Mansion. To everyone’s surprise, KEI defends MAN and forbids anyone i...

  • Episode 19

    19.Episode 19

    21-05-200945m

    KEI does a check on the family’s assets. She locks everything inside the audit room and passes the key to MAN. The following morning MAN discovers that all the assets and relativ...

  • Episode 20

    20.Episode 20

    22-05-200945m

    KEI reveals to MAN that KAU is still alive and that she has a feeling that the family is being watched. Knowing that KAU is going to take revenge on MAN, YEE forbids her son to ge...

  • Episode 21

    21.Episode 21

    25-05-200945m

    KAU is going to take revenge on MAN. KEI and CHING have noticed that and do their best to stop him at once. YEE who is desperate to save her son takes KEI hostage with a gun. Ge...

  • Episode 22

    22.Episode 22

    26-05-200945m

    CHING has finally decided to take over the family business. The TSEUNGs are very happy about this and hold a celebration party for him later on. YEE sneaks into KEI’s bedroom and...

  • Episode 23

    23.Episode 23

    27-05-200945m

    KAU reveals the truth to everyone. Having realized how well-liked and respected KEI is, General CHIU finally decides to release her. Upon the instruction of General CHIU, KAU hea...

  • Episode 24

    24.Episode 24

    28-05-200945m

    KAU runs into HANG who has just crawled out from the wreckage. He asks HANG about KEI’s whereabouts and HANG means to mislead him by advising him to go find KEI at the hut where t...

  • Episode 25

    25.Episode 25

    29-05-200945m

    The Prince is amazed at how united Wuxi citizens are in supporting KEI. He is deeply touched by their sincerity and finally agrees to their request. Knowing that the Prince has l...

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