Rear Mirror

Rear Mirror
載得有情人

Rear Mirror official poster
Also known as Time for Marriage 男大當婚
Genre Modern, Romance
Created by Hong Kong Television Broadcasts Limited
Written by Ko Wai Man 高慧敏
Tan Chui Shan 譚翠珊
Teng Si Ting 鄧斯婷
Leung Kin Heng 梁健恒
Siew Kok Wah 蕭國華
Cheung Ki Rong 張啟榮
Chan Siu Cheung 陳兆祥
Directed by Ng Siu Rong 伍兆榮
Zheng Yong Chiu 鄭永潮
Kwok Kar Hee 郭家禧
Chan Xiang Qun 陳湘娟
Lam Wai Cheng 林瑋澄
Leung Yiu Kin 梁耀堅
Starring Wayne Lai
Louisa So
Tony Hung
Natalie Tong
Benjamin Yuen
Chung King-fai
Lau Kong
Susan Tse
Mary Hon
Opening theme Out of My League (高攀) by Hubert Wu
Country of origin Hong Kong
Original language(s) Cantonese
No. of episodes 20
Production
Producer(s) Fong Chun-Chiu 方駿釗
Location(s) Hong Kong
Editor(s) Wong Yuk-Dek 黃育德
Camera setup Multi camera
Running time 45 minutes
Production company(s) TVB
Release
Original network Jade
HD Jade
Picture format 1080i (HDTV)
Original release 11 August (2014-08-11) – 5 September 2014 (2014-09-05)
Chronology
Preceded by Ghost Dragon of Cold Mountain
Followed by All That Is Bitter Is Sweet
External links
Website
Rear Mirror:
Traditional Chinese 載得有情人
Simplified Chinese 载得有情人
Literal meaning "Have a Transportation Lover"

Rear Mirror (Traditional Chinese: 載得有情人; literally "Have a Transportation Lover") was a 2014 Hong Kong modern romance serial drama produced by TVB which starred Wayne Lai and Louisa So as the main leads with Tony Hung and Natalie Tong as 2nd leads. The series aired from Monday to Friday and started on August 11, 2014 on TVB's Jade channel during its 8:30 - 9:30 p.m. timeslot ending September 5, 2014 after 20 episodes total.

Rear Mirror is Wayne Lai and Louisa So's first collaboration in over 10 years.[1]

Synopsis

A single father who works as a mini bus driver that struggles to raise his young son with a severe food allergy problem alone, meets a female CEO of a huge corporation who seems to have it all on the outside but has struggles of her own due to her father's illness and family members fighting with each other for the CEO position.

Storylines

Rear Mirror focuses on Anson Yiu Ngai Yan, appointed acting CEO of Yiu Gong after her father (Yiu Siu Bong) was taken ill, consolidating her position as CEO and winning over her family. Her increasingly perilous driving soon forces her to search for a driver, and Sunday Kei Yat Sing is soon appointed as her driver, being headhunted by Anson, with a promise of a place at a good school for his son, Kei Mong, who has numerous allergies and whom Sunday as raised alone for six years after his wife, Miu Man Yee, left him due to the difficulty of raising Mong. Anson soon restructures the company, but is at loggerheads with her fiance, Bevis Fong Tin Hang, who wants her to leave Hong Kong and start a new life with him in New Zealand. She initially postpones the wedding for six months, but after that, Bevis gives her an ultimatum- it's work or him. Anson realises that she has no choice but to leave Bevis. Just weeks later, she bumps into Bevis and his new girlfriend, causing much stress. She becomes much more attached both to Sunday, her driver, and her pet dog MoMo, who Elaine Fong Yi Lin, her step-mother, uses to challenge Anson. Anson soon realises her step-brother, Jason Yiu Ngai Chung's potential and sends him off on projects across the country, which Elaine mistakenly believes to be a sign that Anson is trying to get rid of him, as he was one of the other contenders to be CEO. However, when Elaine decides to finally challenge Anson at a board meeting, she is soon shocked as that very meeting, Anson soon declares her stepbrother Jason as full of potential and sends him off on Yiu Gong's biggest project, much to Gu Suk Yin, her other step-mother's annoyance as she wanted her son, Ryan Yiu Ngai Suan, the playboy of the company to take that project. Sunday and Anson soon bond and they decide to make a picture book together, with all profits going to a charity supporting those with allergies, taking into use Sunday's photography hobby and Anson's memory of bedtime stories she was told of as a young child. Within Yiu Gong, however, Yiu Siu Wing, Bong's brother repeatedly challenges Bong's investment in the Clean Water Project, calling it a scam, but Anson continues the investment, as it is what Bong wanted her to do. This eventually leads up to Yiu Siu Wing refusing to allow any more investment in the project through his financial department. This makes Bong leave the hospital just to force a vote which results in Yiu Siu Wing leaving the company.

Later, Miu Man Yee, Sunday's ex-wife returns and takes Kei Mong, wins custody in a court battle, but Kei Mong has to be forced to go leaving Miu Man Yee guilty over her actions. She reveals where Ben Shum Bok Man is heading to Anson, who speaks to Ben and Sunday wins back custody of Kei Mong. Ben asks Anson in return to lend him 5% of her shares in Yiu Gong as his company Bitin is undergoing some troubles.

Soon after, Ben buys shares from the other members of the Yiu family, until he has enough, along with the borrowed shares from Anson, to stage a hostile takeover of Yiu Gong. Anson tries to stop this, but it is too late, and Ben becomes the CEO of Yiu Gong. He asks Anson to streamline the company, which in the process will leave many employees jobless, resulting in Sunday punching him. Sunday and Anson meet at a cafe and Sunday resigns, leaving for England, as they have a possible new treatment for Kei Mong's many allergies (but not before a remark from Anson that they are no longer employer and employee and so can date), and Ben goes and taunts Bong as he is released from hospital. Then, the Clean Water Project, which Yiu Gong has invested heavily in, is revealed to be a scam, making Yiu Gong, a heavy investor and Bitin's (the now parent company of Yiu Gong) stock to rapidly nosedive, shocking the whole family. An immediate board meeting is called, in which Anson advocates a cash injection, but Ben, having spent most of his cash on his hostile takeover of Yiu Gong calls for streamlining. Suddenly, Bong walks in, and tells Ben to get out of the CEO's seat in the middle of the meeting, shocking everyone. Ben laughs, calling him an delusional old man, but Bong explains that he knew that Ben was planning to takeover Yiu Gong, and that he knew that the Clean Water Project was a scam, and so he let Ben takeover Yiu Gong, knowing that he did not have enough money to do so, and would have to sell large amounts of his stock in Bitin. Bong then remained in hospital long after he recovered to let the Clean Water Project explode, and then immediately bought all the cheap Bitin stock on the market meaning that he staged a hostile takeover of Bitin, Yiu Gong's parent company so in the end, he had taken over both Bitin and Yiu Gong again, shocking his entire family and most of all Ben.

Anson leaves Hong Kong, after the shock of how her father masterminded such a cruel plan (as it resulted in many innocent investors in both the Clean Water Project and Yiu Gong and Bitin losing their money, and Yiu Siu Wing, her uncle being innocently kicked out by his fellow family members), but as she leaves realises that her father is showing the first signs of dementia. Ivan Yiu Chi Hau romantically asks Mui Man Kwan out, after dating throughout the series, gaining the confidence to do so from Anson's reign as CEO.

Three years later, she returns to Hong Kong after going around the world photographing butterflies, and after visiting her father, whose dementia has got to the point that he can only remember the past, goes to one of her favourite cafés that she used to visit with Sunday when she was the CEO of Yiu Gong. She discovers that it has come under new ownership and has turned into a photography themed café, and that the new owner is none other than Sunday himself, who had started a photography themed café whilst he was in England and is now expanding his business worldwide, in Beijing and Hong Kong. Having improved her driving skills, she drives Sunday off into the sunset.

Cast

Main Cast

Anson (Louisa So) and Sunday (Wayne Lai)
A single father who works as a mini bus driver. He lives with his grandmother and struggles to raise a young son with a severe food allergy problem. He strikes up a friendship with Anson the female CEO of a huge construction corporations after many encounters with each other. He is eventually asked by Anson to become her personal driver. When not working he enjoys his hobby in photography. His grandmother Pauline, hoping he can find a significant other to help him raise his son constantly sets him up on blind dates.
Eldest and only daughter of Yiu Siu Bong who is the CEO of Yiu Gong Corp. She originally worked in the company's legal department but is force to take on as acting CEO when her father is terminally ill and her uncle tries to take the company from her father. Due to her family issues she constantly delays her wedding with her longtime fiancee Bevis. Her step-mothers and younger half-brothers scheme against her when she is chosen as acting CEO of the family corporation.
Anson's younger cousin and Yiu Siu Wing's son. He works in Yiu Gong's IT department. He has a obsessive compulsive disorder and a social phobia. He also has self-esteem and confidence issues because his father has never praised him. He is the only one in the Yiu family that supports Anson when she becomes the acting CEO. He meets Mui Man Kwan when his cousin Ryan brings him to a nightclub party as a joke to be made fun of.
Sunday's ex-wife's younger sister. She has commitment issues and always runs back to live at Sunday's home when she breaks up with a boyfriend. She works all kinds of odd jobs such as bar girl, pseudo model and electronic store retailer before landing a job at Yiu Gong's IT department. She meets a drunk Ivan at a party dress as a computer game character while trying to escape from a playboy who is harassing her.

Supporting Cast

Yiu family

From left to right: Ben Shum Bok Man, Gu Suk Yin, Anson Yiu Ngai Yan, Yiu Siu Bong, Jason Yiu Ngai Chung, Yue Dai Chi, Elaine Fong Yi Ling and behind her Ivan Yiu Chi Hau.
Anson, Jason and Ryan's father who is also the CEO of Yiu Gong Corp. Due to his terminal illness he is in need of a bone marrow transplant which his younger brother Siu Wing is the only match. Knowing his younger brother wants to take over his company he names his daughter Anson who is the least ambitious in his family as acting CEO.
Yiu Siu Bong's younger brother and Ivan's father. Once he finds out he is the only one in the family that is a bone marrow match for his older brother he makes an offer that he will only donate his bone marrow in exchange for Yiu Gong Corp.'s CEO position and be the majority share holder of the company.
Second wife of Yiu Siu Bong, Anson's step mother and Ryan's mother. Even though she helped raised Anson when she was younger she does not love her like she was her own. She does not feel like she has any real authority in the Yiu family due to her son is the youngest and known for his hard partying life style. Her selfishness in wanting to be Yiu Siu Bong's wife resulted to Anson's mother's death.
Third wife of Yiu Siu Bong, Anson's step mother, Jason's mother and Bevis's aunt. She truly believes her son Jason will become the new CEO of Yiu Gong Corp because he is the oldest son in the family and she tries to get in good relations with her brother in-law hoping he will help her son become the next CEO. Once she understands Anson's fairness in dealing with business she starts to respect her.
Yiu Siu Bong's oldest son with his third wife Elaine. He is not happy when his older half sister Anson is chosen as acting CEO of Yiu Gong Corp during their father's illness since he feels being the eldest son of the family and a productive worker at Yiu Corp it should be him that is the acting CEO. He starts to respect Anson when she sees potential in him and starts to give him important projects at Yiu Gong.
Yiu Siu Bong's youngest son with his second wife Suk Yin. He is known for his hard partying life style but pretends to be a productive worker at Yiu Corp when his father becomes ill hoping he will be chosen as the new CEO. His laziness and disrespect for others shows at work. When Anson starts to give major projects to Jason he becomes jealous and later sides with his uncle Yiu Siu Wing to try to oust Anson as the acting CEO of Yiu Gong.

Kei family

Sunday's grandmother who he lives with together with his son. Hoping Sunday can find a significant other to help him raise Mong she constantly sets him up on blind dates.
Sunday's ex-wife and Mong's mother. She ran out on Sunday and Mong because she wanted to be free of any burden and see what else is out in the world to offer her. After many years she comes back to re-claim Mong in order to exchange him for a large sum of money with his biological father.
Sunday and Man Yee's young son. He has a severe dairy allergy that prevents him from eating a lot of foods. Ben Shum Bok Man's biological son.

Hung family

Sunday's next door neighbor who has a crush on him. She is in the midst of divorcing her current husband but dreams of becoming Sunday's wife one day. Marries Po Yung Jun.
Lai Sa's younger brother and Sunday's friend. He is a police officer.

Yiu Gong Building Materials Corp.

A former driver for Yiu Siu Bong who later became his trusted personal assistant. He is helps Anson become the CEO of Yiu Gong Corp. He is overly protective of Anson and hires a private investigator to investigate Sunday's background.
Sunday's friend and fellow driver at Yiu Gong Corp.
Owner of Bitin, his company. A share holder at Yiu Gong Corp. With his help and vote Anson becomes the CEO of Yiu Gong Corp. Had a one night stand with Miu Man Yee Kei which resulted to a son. Mong's biological father. He later stages a hostile takeover of Yiu Gong, selling some of his stocks in Bitin to do so, which are in turn bought by Bong and so gets his own company taken over by Bong, who gets Yiu Gong back in the process.
A fellow driver at Yiu Gong Corp who works for the third madam Elaine. He is blackmailed by Elaine into installing secret hearing devices in Sunday's vehicle in order to know Anson's every movement.
Works in the IT department at Yiu Gong Corp.

Other Cast

Anson's longtime fiancee and Elaine's nephew. He is a veterinarian. Anson's breaks off their engagement in order to remain as CEO of Yiu Gong because of her bickering family.
A small time triad boss that runs a mechanic garage. Sunday's saves his life from a kidnapper during a traffic accident.
Gu Suk Yin's cousin. He owns the trucking company that Yiu Gong uses to deliver their goods. He decides to butt heads with Anson when his cousin Suk Yin gossips to him about Anson being a bad step daughter which resulted to Yiu Gong no longer working with them. He spills to Anson how her mother truly died when Suk Yin refuses to give him money.
A small time triad member who works for Ha San Fu. He bullies Kei Mong at the local park when Mong accidentally causes him embarrassment.
A private detective that Yue Dai Chi hires to investigate Sunday's background.
Mui Man Kwan's Taiwanese boyfriend that she broke up with. He follows her all the way to Hong Kong to look for her.

Development

Viewership Ratings

WeekEpisodesDateAverage PointsPeaking Points
101－05Aug 11-15, 20142629
206－10Aug 18-22, 20142731
311－15Aug 25-29, 20142530
416－20Sept 1-5, 20142832

References

  1. ↑ "新劇《男大當婚》造型 黎耀祥蘇玉華談情". ihktv. 12 September 2013.
  2. ↑ Synopsis for Wayne Lai and Louisa So’s “Rear Mirror”. Retrieved 8-9-2014
  3. ↑ More than 1,100 Hong Kong viewers complain to TVB over mainland's 'Journey to the West'. Retrieved 8-9-2014
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