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Man In Charge

English Title: Man In Charge
Chinese Title: 幕後大老爺
Genre: Costume Comedy/Drama
Length: 20 episodes
Broadcast Period: April 6, 2009 – May 1, 2009
Producer: Lee Tim Shing
Scriptwriter: Sit Ka Wah
Starring: Kenneth Ma (馬國明), Kate Tsui (徐子珊), Leila Tong (唐 寧), Matthew Ko (高鈞賢), Gordon Lau (劉家輝), Ben Wong (黄智賢), Cheung Chi Kwong (蔣志光), Lau Kong (劉 江), etc.
Official Website: TVB

Synopsis:
Sometimes kind, sometimes sassy
Stay away from my spy woman

Master TAI YAU KUNG (Lau Ka Fai) is skilled in training official advisor for government. He helps his foster son CHOW PING (Kenneth Ma) obtain a job in officialdom. PING is a resourceful young man but he holds fast to his own beliefs. He finds all the rules and practices of the officials intolerable so he stays idle all the time. Sometimes he goes tavern to have fun and he falls into the adorable owner CHONG SIU HAN (Leila Tong). His wife CHIU YUK HING (Kate Tsui) becomes green-eyed monster and never stays in settlement with him.

KUNG recommends PING to work as an advisor to the new government official SHUM KWAN POK (Matthew Ko). PING and POK become good friends as time goes by. However, PING accidentally discovers that his respectful master KUNG is actually the father of POK. In order to protect himself, POK starts making use of HING to eliminate PING. PING is shocked to realize that his wife is in fact a spy dispatched by Imperial.

Credits: Astro On Demand