A Million Treasures
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A Million Treasures is a Singaporean Chinese drama currently being telecast on Singapore's free-to-air channel, MediaCorp TV Channel 8. This show made its debut on 4 December 2006 and made ended its run on 5 December 2007. The show consists of a total of 25 episodes. The theme song of the show is sung by Milu Bing, though many thought that Li Nanxing sung the theme song as the voice sounded like the latter's voice. This show is produced by Li Ning Qiang.
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[edit] Cast
[edit] Main Cast
- Li Nanxing as Ma Da
- Zoe Tay as Bai Xing Xing
- Felicia Chin as Lin Xiao Bao
- Kang Cheng Xi as Ma Lu
- Pan Ling Ling as Zhi Zhi
- Zhang Wen Xiang as Tang Xi Yao
[edit] Supporting Cast
- Priscelia Chan as Bai Liang Liang
- Rayson Tan as Hong De Hua
- Michelle Chong as Li Shu Xian
- Candyce Toh as Ah Jin
- Brandon Wong as Ah Qing
- Liang Tian as Steven
- Ye Shi Pin as Li Shu Xian's father
- Zhang Wei as Xing Xing and Liang Liang's father
[edit] Synopsis
Bai Xing Xing (Zoe Tay) is smart and has always done well in her studies. She is steady, driven and dares to take up any challenge. When all her peers are busy with romantic pursuits, Xingxing and her boyfriend Tang Xi Yao (Zhang Wenxiang) devote their time and efforts to prepare for their careers. At the age of 26, Xingxing makes her first one million dollars.
However, she owes a large part of her success to Xiyao. Although Xingxing has the drive and guts, she is too quick-tempered and detailed-orientated. Xiyao on the other hand is meticulous and frugal. This makes up for Xingxing's shortcomings.
After a while, Xingxing increasingly finds that Xiyao lacks the drive and ambition to become successful in life. Thinking that Xingxing has found a new love interest, Xiyao leaves Xingxing without informing her. Without Xiyao, Xingxing makes a rash decision. This leads to all her shops being closed down and she herself being bankrupt.
The other person who finds himself in the same situation as Xingxing is Ma Da (Li Nanxing). Ma Da originally worked as a head chef in a five star hotel. He has a brash and arrogant character, who loves to call people names such as Da Fan Shu (Blur potato) or Da Mu Tou (Big blockhead). He is always unable to accept criticism and bears a grudge against Xingxing because she spoke nadly of his chicken rice. Ma Da was later sacked, and he blames Xingxing for this. In return, Xingxing also looks upon Ma Da as her nemesis.
With financial help from Liang Liang (Priscelia Chan), who is Xingxing's younger sister and De Hua (Rayson Tan), who is Liang Liang's boyfriend, Xingxing sets up a mobile fast food wagon business. Unfortunately, she is met with strong competition as there is also another operator at the same location.
The other food wagon is managed by Ma Da's younger brother Ma Lu (Kang Cheng Xi), Xiao Bao (Felicia Chin) and Xiao Bao's grandfather Steven (Liang Tian).
Although Ma Lu and Xiao Bao like each other, they don't dare to tell their feelings for each other because of their own personal problems that others do not know. Ma Lu suffers from a sleeping disorder since young, while Xiao Bao was badly scalded by hot oil which leaves an extremely ugly scar on her leg.
While Xingxing and Ma Da carry on saying that the opposite is their jinx, they are become good friends as a result of their lottery ticket being misplaced. They won the first prize and it was worth two million! In the process of searching for the ticket, they began to become friends, and later fall in love with each other.
Ma Lu later learns about Xiao Bao's disfigured leg and leaves her. Xiao Bao was heart broken, while Ma Lu was unhappy because Xiao Bao had also left.
Xiyao, who is nursing a broken heart, binges and travels around the whole world. But he still loves Xingxing. Later, when he found out that his love was actually not betrayed in the past, he decides to lose weight and go back to Singapore to find Xingxing. He then realised that he has a love rival, Ma Da.
There are many questions left unsolved. Will Xi Yao win Xingxing's heart again? Or will Xingxing marry Ma Da? How can Ma Lu convince Xiao Bao to return to him? Will the search for the $2 million lottery ticket be successful?
[edit] Viewership
With a strong cast of Singapore's most popular actors and actresses Li Nanxing, Zoe Tay and Felicia Chin, this show received high viewership ratings, ranking 3rd for Year 2006. An average of 800,000 people watched this show, which not many shows had received such high viewership. The highest recorded viewership was around 860,000, recorded on this show's last episode.
