Life Made Simple

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Life Made Simple (阿旺新傳)
Genre	Modern Comedy
Starring	Roger Kwok Jessica Hsuan Angela Tong Bosco Wong Leila Tong
Opening theme	"十萬個為什麼" by Roger Kwok & Jessica Hsuan
Ending theme	"軟糖" by Roger Kwok & Jessica Hsuan
Country of origin	Hong Kong
Language(s)	Cantonese
No. of episodes	32
Production
Running time	approx. 45 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	Television Broadcasts Limited
Original run	October 24, 2005 – December 6, 2005
Chronology
Related shows	Square Pegs
External links
Official website

Life Made Simple (阿旺新傳) is a 32-episode modernized version of the hit TVB series "Square Pegs" (2002-2003),^{[citation needed]} which broke TVB's record for highest rated television drama of all time in 2003.^{[citation needed]} It started airing from October 24, 2005 on Hong Kong's TVB Jade Channel. The show won Roger Kwok the Best Actor award and Angela Tong the Best Supporting Actress Award in the TVB Anniversary Awards in 2005. At the end of its run this series broke TVB's rating record for a TVB series in 2005 with highest single night rating of 43pts.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Plot

The series is about Ding Changwang (Roger Kwok Zeon-On), a man in his mid-thirties with an IQ of a boy of about seven. He is best friends with a woman called Catherine whom he calls his wife (小媳妇) since childhood because both of them were playing "House", a little kid's game, in which they pretend that they are husband and wife and have a family. He is also looked after by his mother after she took him and ran away from home when his father discriminated him as being mentally challenged. He also has a younger half-brother whom he did not know had a crush on Catherine. As best friends with an ugly star and living as an innocent being in his corrupted company, the man proposed to marry Catherine but out of drunkenness. Catherine's friend and she moved to the United States but later went back to Hong Kong to fulfill the promise that the mentally challenged man and Catherine made to be together.