Wing Sau Fung
Since Sau Fung was young, she has vowed to become successful. She is tough, assertive on love and hate, highly intelligent, skillful in manipulating emotions. Having a stubborn personality, Sau Fung has a strong sense of self protection, will not reveal her emotions easily. Filial to her mother, she will not hesitate to sacrifice her most loved for revenge.
Background
Sau Fung was born in Canada; Cheung Ping was her mother while her father was a Canadian born Chinese. During her childhood, her father's business failed and as a result, he became an alcoholic. While he was drunk, he beat Chueng Ping mercilessly. Through the years, Sau Fung saw with her own eyes how her mother bore the abuse. To safeguard Sau Fung, her mother withstood the abuse silently. Sau Fung promised to take her mother away from the hell of her marriage. In addition of being filial, Sau Fung strived to improve and worked part time to support her studies, finally earning a scholarship to continue her studies at Harvard Business School. During her university years, Sau Fung learned that her father died in an accident. Little did she know her mother eventually killed her father out of self defense. This important secret becomes the starting point of Sau Fung's feud with Wah Man Hang's family in the future.
Character development
Sau Fung vowed to become successful: Firstly to allow Cheung Ping to peacefully enjoy her old age, second is to separate her life from poverty. In her fight to climb upwards, she enters the dicey world of business, using her brilliant and competent personality to earn big business. Sau Fung's career was successful, soon she fetches Cheung Ping to Hong Kong and they lived supporting each other.
At this time, Sau Fung met Wah Man Hang's son Wah Zhen Bong. Zhen Bong is a wealthy heir who looks down on the world. The two contested in business, acknowledge each other and also test each other wits. Because of this, they grew impressed of each other, growing a subtle feeling...
After the economic crisis in 1997, Sau Fung almost went bankrupted due to Zhen Bong, thus straining their relationship. Seeing that Zhen Bong was able to stand up after being dejected, using an unbreakable spirit to manage the car factory in Mainland, Sau Fung began to change her views and started to stand up again, starting from a low position in a bedding store. Both of them got a new start and reconcile soon after. Unfortunately, heaven played a trick on them when Cheung Ping was accused of murdering her husband and she committed [...] in jail, leaving Sau Fung was grief stricken. Zhen Bong was always by her side, taking care of her. Acknowledging each other, they decided to get married.
When Sau Fung thought she could forget the grief and preparing her wedding with Zhen Bong, she was shocked to learn that Cheung Ping's death was related to Man Hang and Zhan Yan. Sau Fung feels that both of them caused Cheung Ping's death, and swore to revenge on Wah family…
Before the wedding, Sau Fung doesn't hesitate to sacrifice Zhen Pong and used her pregnancy to extort and cheats Man Hang's money. She also exposed Man Hang's one night stand with Cheung Ping. Sau Fung received a huge amount of money from Man Hang, but had a miscarriage in an accident. Sau Fung loses everything, and is feeling hurt and embittered; she used risky tactics to earn profits in Mainland, drinking alcohol to numb her grief. This time, Sau Fung's ruthlessness receives Tin Hang's recognition. They understand each other and Tin Hang provoked Sau Fung's hatred toward Wah family. Sau Fung decided to collaborate with Tin Hang and return to Hong Kong to exact her revenge on Wah family.
However, Sau Fung never forgot her feelings for Zhen Bong, and felt guilty for hurting Zhen Bong. In between commercial wars with Wah family, Sau Fung and Zhen Bong rekindle their love, throwing everything away and got back together again. However, Sau Fung and Wah family feud is too deep; they were unable to accept her. Sau Fung decide to leave with Zhen Bong to a far away place to restart a new life.
At this time, Tin Hang became seriously ill and in the end willed his estate to Sau Fung, hoping that she would fulfill his wishes. (When Sau Fung and Tin Hang worked together to fight the Wah family, they had built a deep mentor-student relationship.) At his deathbed, Tin Hang had a change of heart and wished to invest in Wah family business, completing the dream of Mainland automobile and leaving a good name in the world. He also hopes Sau Fung will take this advantage to resolve her dispute with Wah family. Sau Fung was grateful of Tin Hang's wish, plus seeing Zhen Bong's passion for his dream, decided to stay behind with Zhen Pong and fulfill Tin Hang's wishes. Unfortunately, though Tin Hang used every trick, he still cannot get rid of the evil spy in Wah family: Wing Piew. As soon as Tin Hang passed away, Wing Piew and Sau Fung launched a legal battle on Tin Hang's estate…
In court, the Wah family did not bother to hide their distrust of Sau Fung and did not fail to exhibit hostility towards her which placed Zhen Bong in an awkward position. However, Zhen Bong kept supporting Sau Fung and officially married Sau Fung to affirm his trust. For the sake of Zhen Bong and her own future, also for Wah family, Sau Fung persevered in the court battle with Wing Piew and intended to expose Wing Piew's evil. Unexpectedly, in her collection of Wing Piew's incriminating evidence, Sau Fung accidentally injured Man Hang who was then paralyzed from the waist down. Sau Fung felt very guilty for this but Man Hang was forgiving and did not expose Sau Fung's mistake which made her feel even more ashamed and eventually lead her to give up on the court case with Wing Piew.
Throwing the conflicts away, Sau Fung planned to spend her life with Zhen Pong yet at the same time was unable to bury the deep guilt she felt in her heart over Man Hang's injury. Her guilt drove her to confess to Zhen Pong that she was responsible for mistakenly injuring Zhen Pong's father but despite her honest confession Zhen Pong was unable to accept this. His heart now filled with hatred for Sau Fung, Zhen Bong angrily left his former lover.
Though Sau Fung was abandoned by Zhen Bong, she has not given up on him. She silently waits for the day Zhen Pong forgives her…
After Wing Piew confessed all the things he done, Zhen Bong finally forgives Sau Fung and they reunite.
Bibliography
See also
- The Drive of Life
- Charmaine Sheh