List of Rosy Business characters

Rosy Business is an award-winning costume television drama produced by TVB. The story follows the lives of the Chiang family in mid-19th century Eastern China. The plot largely focuses on the characters of Hong Po-kei and Chai Kau, and how their lives become intertwined upon the struggle of keeping the family rice shop, Hing Fung Nin under safe hands. The first episode was broadcast on April 27, 2009 and the last on May 29, 2009, which peaked to 47 rating points.

Many of the characters of Rosy Business, notably Chai Kau (Wayne Lai), earned critical praise for being well-written and pivoted the actors to fame for their acclaimed portrayal. The cast of Rosy Business swept a total of six big awards at the TVB Anniversary Awards in 2009, including Lai with three awards (Best Actor, My Favourite Male Character, and tvb.com's Popular Artist), Sheren Tang with Best Actress, Susan Tse with Best Supporting Actress, and Ngo Ka-nin with Most Improved Actor.

Chiang Kiu (Elliot Ngok) is the patriarch of the Chiang family. He is commonly referred to by his friends as the "Great Giver" due to his benevolent actions and care for the civilians of Wuxi. Known as "Rice King" by fellow business associates, he is the chairman of the city's food committee and is widely respected by other colleagues for his professionalism and wisdom.

Kiu spent much of his childhood witnessing his father's struggle to build Hing Fung Nin (慶豐年). Due to his father's failing healthy, Kiu takes over Hing Fung Nin at a young age and turns it into the most influential and prosperous rice shop of Wuxi, having it become the city's largest rice business. At this time, he was engaged to his childhood friend Hong Po-kei. A few months before their marriage, a terrible natural disaster devastates the crops of Nantong and leaves many civilians starving. To prevent aggression and starvation, Po-kei's father, the mayor of Nantong, decides to open the military food trailer to feed the people despite its violation of the martial law. Po-kei goes to Kiu for help, wanting to borrow Hing Fung Nin's trailer of rice to temporarily fill up the military trailer until the annual imperial inspector leaves for Beijing. Kiu immediately agrees to help, but while bringing the rice, he is stopped by his father. Upon seeing an empty trailer, the inspector sentences everyone involved and their families to death.

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