Perish In The Name Of Love

 

Its been 12 years since this drama has broadcasted. How much has time flies. I miss old TVB dramas where they put so much effort into their story and war scenes.

 

Since re-watching this drama, it makes me realize how strong love can be. Like if you were meant to be, you will be together.

 

Steven and Charmaine were childhood sweethearts in the palace, but because of jealousy and the thirst to be Empress, an evil concubine blames Maggie, (who plays as Charmaine's mother) that she was the one that poison her causing her to lose her son at birth. Moses and his mother were furious and banished Maggie. Being a loving daughter, Charmaine pleaded to Moses to let her go with her mother.

Because of it, Steven and Charmaine were separated at 11 years old.

 

Time flies, and Charmaine, Maggie, Sonja and her grandpa lived in a small village where Charmaine buy fish and deliver it to the soldiers. Whereas Steven's family were living in a horrible condition making Steven work in a canon company. His friend, Michael Tong, met Charmaine and fancy her.

 

Anyways, Charmaine left her village to work in a canon company owes by Michael Tong's father. It also happens to be where Steven works too.

You could imagine how frustrated I was when every times Charmaine and Steven inopportunity to see each other. And when they did, I was hoping that they would recognize each other. At some point Charmaine realize that Steven was her childhood sweetheart, but because she promise her mother that she would not expose her identity in fear that people will assassin them, so she didn't tell him.

Eventually Steven realize that Charmaine was his sweetheart. At the same time Charmaine and her family returned to the palace.

Things happen and Steven were in the palace with Michael. We later found out that Steven was engaged to Annie Man.

 

And Maggie found out that the evil concubine framed her. In order to protect her children, Sonja and Charmaine, she seek elsewhere to find evidence. Annie's dad had a letter that has the detailed of what happened. Annie was going to give the letter to Charmaine, but the evil concubine found out and they fought. Annie died. Sonja put her body in the lake, and frame Charmaine.

 

Charmaine is a prisoner, and Moses were frustrated as his people could not help him defeated his enemy. To solve the problem he made an official date where Charmaine will find her prince. The thing is, everyone knows that Charmaine has to married this greedy man who has power. Steven enter the competition. PLOT TWIST. Steven won the competition. Charmaine and Steven are engaged!!!! SO HAPPY!!!

Sonja was forced to married the greedy man. She was supposed to married him from the start but she realize that he wasn't charming and force Charmaine to married him, but karma fight back and that's her ending. *Life lesson in TVB dramas: Do good deed, and good deed will be receive, do bad deed, karma will get you back in the worse way. So do good deed guys*

 

Steven were sent to war, and Charmaine is in the palace waiting for his news.

 

To find out what happened next, give this drama a try. It is worth a watch.

 

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I LOVE this theme song! Wish Steven and Charmaine could collide again!

Feels like this couple is so underrated.



Storm In A Cocoon Review

Credit of the poster should goes to TVB.

This is the BEST drama of 2014 by far! Love the storyline, cast and the scenery!

This story start with Steven as the third child from the famous silk factory, he is a military doctor who escape the military force to return back home since leaving home for five years.

Steven's sister commit suicide but Steven believe that she is murder and he with Tavia, who is a silk worker both believe that she didn't commit suicide but is murder. They decide to solve the crime together.

As I am watching this drama, I'm thinking it must be Steven's sister lover, Stephen Wong or it could be the uncle, Joseph Lee or it could her brother Evergreen Mak because I'm thinking it has to be one of them because its TVB, its typical. This drama prove me wrong all the way from the start til the end. It is none of these people, in fact it is the youngest brother, Yeung Chiu Hoi who accidentally kill his sister. He regrets it a lot and Evergreen know that it was him but choose to help him by creating a scene that seem like she commit suicide.

Just when I thought it couldn't get any more complicated, Tavia's fiancée Raymond Cho return from two years, just when Tavia and Steven had feeling towards one another. My biggest fear is that this would be another replay of "Sweetness In The Salt" or "Cupide Stupid" where Tavia fall for the wrong guy and end up with him. Again, this drama prove me wrong, Raymond turns out to be a thief and he was killed by Steven as self defense to save Tavia.

Finally after all the ups and downs, Steven and Tavia got married. I'm so happy that I couldn't believe what I was watching. Did I mention that this couple is the couple that I really want them to have a happy ending? Just when I thought this couldn't get any better than this, Steven were taken away by the military for escaping the military and he was sentence to seven years in jail. My heart sank. Why TVB? Why do you have to do this to me? I thought.

Tavia were in charge of the factory while Evegreen turn evil because he thought that KK Cheung was actually his father not Steven's father. Evergreen plot revenge against his own family but later found out that he is being used by KK Cheung.

It turn out Tavia was KK Cheung's biological daughter. Steven lied to Tavia that she isn't the daughter to plot revenge against KK Cheung who killed his uncle, Joseph Lee, Mat Yeung, Steven's dad and other people.

I think the hardest episode to watch is  episode 29. Mat Yeung's character died because he know the truth. He overheard KK Cheung said that Evergreen is not his son and that he was using him. Maggie Sui died for Evergreen to be good again and that he would stop being evil. TWO  good characters died in one episodes. WHY TVB? WHY?
Natalie and Mat were happily in love but why did they have to kill him? Why?

Anyway, Tavia found out that Steven lie to her and left him. He tried to look for her but he couldn't find her anywhere. There is a flood from where Steven were living, and Tavia's brother told Steven that Tavia have return. Running in the flood while searching for Tavia, he finally found her. She forgive him.

Tavia were floating on the Silk Factory sign while Steven hold onto the sign to paddle it to the land, one of the tree trunk hit his head and he drown while there were flashback of him and Tavia  then he woke up and he was ok again. Another tree trunk hit his head  and he drifted away from Tavia.

FOUR YEARS LATER, there were no news of Steven. However the silk factory were running really well, and we know that Tavia had a son with Steven. While sailing on the river, she saw Steven, she and her son quickly run after Steven, shouting out his name.
Tavia run to him and hug him, but he didn't remember her. My heart sank again.
The son start to sing a song and Tavia sing along, it is Steven and Tavia's love song. He takes out his flute and play the melody to it. He turn to look at her. THE END.

Umm.. Is this a happy ending? Does this mean he remembers her? Does it? 

I really love this drama. Love Stevia!
By the way, love the sub-theme Thinking of You by Jinny Ng as it play in Steven and Tavia's scenes! 

Steven Ma

Steven is an amazing actor. He is also my childhood star. Currently watching 'Storm in Cocoon' and all I could think is will Tavia and Steven have a happy ending? And who is the murderer that kill Steven's sister? I don't know yet and please don't spoil to me.

It was so good to see Steven on-screen again.
Have you guys purchase Steven's Cherish album. I heard his preview on Youtube and it my favourite track is track 6. I haven't purchase one myself yet mainly because it is temporally out of stock.

If your a huge fan of Fala Chen and Steven Ma, You should listen to their duet. I can't stop listening to it.

Credit of the video should go to the Uploader and Steven himself.
I really like the melody to it and the way their voices harmonise together is nice. Listen to it once and you would definitely listen to it twice or more.

Tavia's partners

As you all know that I am a big fan of Tavia since The Hippocratic Crush. Here I would like to list Tavia's co-stars and you can comment below which is your favourite co-star/s that you think Tavia is best with. The one in bold would be my choices.

Tavia Yeung and Bosco Wong
Heart of Greed and Dicey Business

This is an old picture. Tavia's character in Heart of Greed as a divorcee who everyone disapprove of her and Bosco together. She play as a model in dicey business and while Bosco play as a shy guy who later build his confidence. I think they are really cute together, I would love to see these two as a couple in another TVB drama.

Tavia Yeung and Ron Ng
The Academy and On the First Beat

They start as foe when Ron arrest Tavia's brother play by Deep Ng and eventually they fell in love but 'On the first beat' she broke up with him because she found someone better, which Ron eventually date Joey Yung's character. I think they make a great couple, again I would love to see this couple on screen again.

 

Tavia Yeung and Raymond Lam

Twins of Brother, Mystery of Love,



In real life they are classmates and good friends. I really like Tavia and Raymond's scenes in MOL. I think they were so cute and I would love to see them together in another drama. Even though they were in Men of Shadows, Tavia wasn't pair with Raymond but with Bobby. I thought the storyline of MOL where rich and poor have to face a lot of obstacles to be together, the scene where Raymond ask Tavia out and she laugh it off thinking that it is a joke, and the scene where Raymond broke her heart because he couldn't face the pressure from his family and her together at once. She even try to commit suicide because of the pain is too much for her, in the end after the ups and down, Raymond's parents accepted her and Raymond realize that he love her very much, and so he proposes to her and she said yes.

 

I would love to watch a sequel to Mystery of Love if there ever will be one because I would love to see their marriage life just like The Hippocratic Crush 2 where I can watch Tavia and Kenneth's marriage life.

 

Tavia Yeung and Ruco Chan

The Other Truth

They have so much chemistry together in this drama. I think they were so cute to the point that I was disappointed that Mavis couldn't choose between Keith and Wallace. I wish she would choose Keith mainly because he is so good for her, they were meant to be. Maybe because Wallace save her life and she feels that she owe him. I thought they make quite a dashing couple. I know there is a drama this year where Ruco and Tavia will be in it, I don't know if they will be a couple in it or not though.

 

Tavia Yeung and Moses Chan

Land Of Wealth, Beyond the Conscience of Realm, Yes Sir, Sorry Sir, Moonlight Resonance

 

They have the cutes chemistry in Moonlight Resonance, I thought Moses and Tavia were so cute but Kate have to be in the way and ruin everything, eventually Moses and Tavia were happily married after the ups and down.

In Yes Sir, Sorry Sir, Tavia has feeling for the undercover policeman Moses. They begin to date but in order to have the case solve, Moses have to date Linda which causes things to be complicated where Ron begin to like Tavia too.

 

Tavia Yeung and Steven Ma

Land of Wealth, Cupid Stupid, Sweetness in the Salt

Can I just start off that this couple never have a happy ending. In every drama where they play as a couple where they each have feelings for each other, never once did they have a happy ending. I was really disappointed.

In Cupid Stupid, Tavia have date Michael Tse before but the relationship didn't work out, it is Steven that has been her childhood friend and so supportive of her, then Michael change and want Tavia back. Torn between two amazing guys, she decide to run away and let fate decide. Steven found her at Disneyland and call her but she didn't hear, and Michael call her because he heard the ringtone that the three of them sang and she heard him. Tavia heard Michael shout out her name but not Steven.

It is Steven that call Tavia so that Michael could find Tavia. He let her go just like that and he hope that Michael could be a great boyfriend for Tavia. Steven why are so nice for.

 

In Sweetness in the Salt, Tavia and Steven love each other but she have to married Raymond Wong to save his family salt business. Again, not a happy ending for them.

 

In land of wealth, they both love each other but Tavia end up marrying Moses because of a misunderstanding.

 

They have a new drama coming out soon, hopefully they will have a happy ending this time.

 

Tavia Yeung and Michael Tse

Cupid Stupid, The Rippling Blossom, Friendly Fire

I didn't like them in The Rippling Blossom as a couple, maybe because they were so much better in Friendly Fire. They were so cute in it. Again, a misunderstanding have cause them to break up but eventually they have a happy ending.

 

 

 

Kenneth and Tavia

I don't think I need to say much of this couple. My blog pretty much say it all. Especially with my 'Kenneth and Tavia' page.

 

 

And last but not least Tavia's real life partner, Him Law.

I'm happy that Tavia found someone that she can be with. I think they are cute but I would so love it if she could with Kenneth or Ruco. I would say Raymond too but he already have a girlfriend. I would say Bosco too but for some reason I think Ruco and Kenneth make a great partner for her. Anyway, as long as Tavia is happy then I'm happy for her.

 

I think Tavia has a really friendly personality base on the interview and friendship she has with her friends.

 

I may have miss some of her co-stars such as Frankie Lam and Tavia Yeung in Face to Fate but I would like to list the one that I think she is cute with.