[Hong Kong Drama 2015] Master of Destiny 風雲天地

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Details:

Chinese title: 風雲天地 / Feng Wan Tin Dai
English title: Master of Destiny

Genre: Modern, Revenge, Romance

Episodes: 32

Screenwriters: Wáng jīng, Liú Zhènmíng, Zhèng wěiwén

Director: Wáng jīng

Broadcast Period: June 22, 2015 - August 7, 2015

Replacing: Wu Tang Rules 朝拜武

Cast:

Liza Wang as Kwan Yeuk-nam (關若男)
Hawick Lau as Cho Chi-yuen (曹志遠)
Edwin Siu as Cho Chi-ko (曹志高)
Kenny Wong as Cho Chi-wan (曹志宏)
Kimmy Tong as Hau Yee (巧兒)
Monica Mok as Sung Chi-wah (宋子樺)
Angie Chiu as Mok Nga-man (莫雅文)
Tiffany Tang guest stars as Tong Yat-yat (唐一一)
Wayne Lai guest stars as Cho Wan-hon (曹雲漢)
Selena Li guest stars as young Kwan Yeuk-nam
Kate Tsui guest stars as young Mok Nga-man
Natalie Meng as Yiu Lai-fa (姚麗花)
Sun Xing as Yiu Dai-ming (姚大明)
Shi Yu as Kwong Kwan-ho (鄺君豪)
Michelle Hu as Poon Siu-kei (潘笑琪)
Zhao Xiaolu as Kwong Shuk-han (鄺淑嫻)
Mou Fengbin as Hon Tung (韓東)
Ben Cheung as Siu Chau (小周)
Tony Ho as To Kit (屠傑)
Zhang Tong as Lee Choi-kit (李彩潔)
Wang Zhifei as Wong Ka-ming (黄家明)

Synopsis:

Kwan Yeuk-nam (Liza Wang) is a legendary woman. After her husband committed suicide due to a business failure, she single-handedly raised her three sons to adulthood, also establishing her own business empire, Sun Hon Lik, in the process. Now ready to retire, she is prepared to pass down her empire to her three sons.

Eldest son Cho Chi-wang (Kenny Wong) is quietly pursuing Nam's adoptive daughter, Hau Yee (Tong Fei), but Yee is truly in love with Wang's younger brother, Cho Chi-yuen (Hawick Lau). When Yuen's girlfriend passes away, Yuen devotes his life and energy to his career, and Wang's position as heir to the empire is threatened. Sung Chi-wah (Monica Mok), a new employee at Sun Hon Lik, seduces Wang and nearly tears his family apart. With her family and business at the brink of breaking down, Nam has no choice but to step up and formally pass down the business to Yuen.

Wah tells Wang that he is not the birth son of Nam. Disheartened at his family, the two team up to incarcerate Yuen. Just when Wang and Wah are about to overthrown Nam's reign, Yee returns just in time to save Yuen.

Watch it here with English subs when it comes out!

Raw Preview (Cantonese):

https://youtu.be/JXhRK1RwW-w

OSTs:

Edwin Siu - Lehtal Earth

https://youtu.be/oEg0OsMsNog

Additional Links:

Master of Destiny 風雲天地 Weibo Page

Master of Destiny 風雲天地 Viki English Subbed Episodes

Master of Destiny 風雲天地 Raw Episodes

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Hottest topic among netizens: What is your comments about Master of Destiny series?

 

 

 

The new series, Master of Destiny (風雲天地) was broadcasted at 8.30pm after the finale of Wudang Rules (潮拜武當) series. Master of Destiny series was a collaboration between TVB and Mainland China company and the cast members included Liza Wang (汪明荃), Wayne Lai (黎耀祥), Hawick Lau (劉愷威), Kenny Wong (黃德斌), Angie Chiu (趙雅芝), Edwin Siu (蕭正楠) and other Hong Kong and Mainland artistes. For example: Tiffany Tang who was the bridesmaid during Hawick Lau's and his wife, Yang Mi's (楊冪) wedding ceremony and other female cast members such as Kimmy Tong (童菲), Natalie Meng (孟瑤) and others. The plot involved rise and fall of family business and love and hate relationship.

However, many netizens were unaccustomed to the cast members of the series as it was airing at 8.30pm and they also analysed the glamorous faces of the artistes. First, the netizens praised 68 years old Liza Wang had beautiful and smooth skin and her make-up was not bad. She had little wrinkles when frowning and looked like Liza had taken some preservatives though. Next, Hawick Lau is Hong Kong artiste and went to develop his career in Mainland China long ago. He married Mainland China artiste, Yang Mi and had a baby daughter together. It broadcasted 5 series starring Hawick in different television stations last month. After filming Mainland series, Hawick returned to Hong Kong and his dashing looks became the hottest topic instantly. Compared to the old series, A Kindred Spirit (真情) and as the son of 'Lee Biu Bing 叉燒炳', Hawick's looks grew up differently and transformed into a mature man with dashing appearance.

When mentioned about the representatives from Mainland China, many netizens found it hard to differentiate between Kimmy Tong and Tiffany Tang (唐嫣) who acted as Hawick Lau's younger sister and girlfriend. Both had big eyes, small noses and mouths and sharp chins. Hence, the netizens did some research on their old photos and commented: "Hawick Lau's girlfriends had extremely sharp chins!" Though it was normal to become beautiful when growing up and the make-up technology was getting advanced, but many netizens felt that the plot of Master of Destiny was too ordinary and did not know how to appreciate: "As an ordinary human being, we do not really know how to appreciate and watching old series, The Justice of Life' on the Internet is better."

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Source: Wacow @ Blog163 
Translated by: Chloe.C

TVB Ratings Report (06/22/2015 - 06/28/2015)

Dramas
The Empress of China - 武則天 (EPS 56-60) - 27 PTS (Peaking at 32 PTS) *MONDAY TO FRIDAY EPISODES

Master of Destiny - 風雲天地 (EPS 1-5) - 24 PTS (Peaking at 29 PTS)

Come Home Love - 愛.回家 (EPS 795-799) - 22 PTS

Weekend Episodes
The Empress of China - 武則天 (EP 61) - 27 PTS *AIRED ON SUNDAY

*No Saturday Episode due to charity show

Variety Shows
Sunday Songbird - SUNDAY靚聲王 - 22 PTS

Hungry for Health - 食得健康嗎? - 22 PTS

Neighbourhood Gourmet 3 - 街坊廚神舌戰新台韓 - 21 PTS

Scoop - 東張西望 - 18 PTS

Sze You Tonight - 今晚睇李 - 17 PTS

World's Great Parties: Thailand - 過節 濱松祭 - 15 PTS

Caritas Charity Show - 明愛暖萬心 - 15 PTS

Fun Relax Carnival - 大愛共融齊分享 - 9 PTS

(Nielsen TAM: 1 point represents 64,920 viewers)

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Liza Wang praises Selena Li three times in Master of Destiny

 

Selena Li (李施嬅) plays the younger version of Liza Wang's (汪明荃) character in the currently airing TVB series Master of Destiny (風雲天地). She plays a heavy role as she lives through a rough life, experiences the pain of losing her husband, experiences almost being raped and reaches the stage of facing poverty. Describing her character's life story as the condensed version of The Greed of Man, Selena said: "I practically had to cry for 16 hours each day, cry until my eyes were swollen. Each morning, I had to use ice cold tea bags to reduce the swelling. When we were filming, the temperature was close to forty degrees celsius, causing us to use up lots of energy."

 

Although the filming schedule was tight and extremely stressful, it was worth it since her acting was greatly praised by Liza Wang. Selena said: "What I'm most happy about is that Liza praised me three times, saying that I was able to bring out the 'flavors' of the role. At that time, I was really emotional that I wanted to cry, all the hard work was worth it. Liza's praise was a huge surprise so I felt really happy as if I've won the lottery." Selena hopes that in the future she will be able to collaborate with Liza again having scenes together and she said: "After being praised by her, I actually feel more stressful. If we are going to collaborate, I would have to stay alert and be ready."

Source: ON.CC (HK)

Translated by: chaierie @ Asian E-News Portal

 

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Source: Wacow 
Translated by: Chloe.C

TVB Ratings Report (06/29/2015 - 07/05/2015)

Dramas
The Empress of China - 武則天 (EPS 62-66) - 28 PTS (Peaking at 32 PTS) *MONDAY TO FRIDAY EPISODES

Come Home Love - 愛.回家 (EPS 800-804) - 24 PTS (Peaking at 27 PTS)

Master of Destiny - 風雲天地 (EPS 6-10) - 22 PTS (Peaking at 26 PTS)

Weekend Episodes
The Empress of China - 武則天 (EP 67) - 28 PTS *AIRED ON SUNDAY

*No Saturday Episode due to Commercial Awards Ceremony

Specials
TVB Most Popular TV Commercial Awards - TVB最受歡迎廣告頒獎典禮 - 16 PTS

Variety Shows
Hungry for Health - 食得健康嗎? - 23 PTS (Peaking at 26 PTS)

Sunday Songbird - SUNDAY靚聲王 - 23 PTS

Neighbourhood Gourmet 3 - 街坊廚神舌戰新台韓 - 19 PTS

Scoop - 東張西望 - 18 PTS (Peaking at 21 PTS)

Sze You Tonight - 今晚睇李 - 18 PTS

Travel in Shikoku Japan - 滾動四國 - 17 PTS

(Nielsen TAM: 1 point represents 64,920 viewers)

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I really tried to watch this drama because of the strong cast but even excellent acting can't save this drama for me. The storyline is weak and predictable. Also the cinematography and lighting is really bad. Too much over dramatic in this drama which makes it look stupid. 

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Source: Wacow
Translated by: Chloe.C

TVB Ratings Report (07/06/2015 - 07/12/2015)

Dramas
The Empress of China - 武則天 (EPS 68-72) - 28 PTS *MONDAY TO FRIDAY EPISODES

Come Home Love - 愛.回家 (EPS 805-809) - 25 PTS 

Master of Destiny - 風雲天地 (EPS 11-15) - 23 PTS

Weekend Episodes
The Empress of China FINALE - 武則天 結局篇 (EP 74 END) - 33 PTS (Peaking at 37 PTS) *AIRED ON SUNDAY

The Empress of China - 武則天 (EP 73) - 26 PTS *AIRED ON SATURDAY

Variety Shows
Neighbourhood Gourmet 3 - 街坊廚神舌戰新台韓 - 22 PTS

Helen Tokyo - 東京攻略 - 21 PTS

Scoop - 東張西望 - 20 PTS

Sze You Tonight - 今晚睇李 - 19 PTS

Travel in Shikoku Japan - 滾動四國 - 16 PTS

JSG Selections Round 1 - 勁歌金曲優秀選第一回 - 15 PTS

(Nielsen TAM: 1 point represents 64,920 viewers)

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I was looking forward to this because I haven't seen Hawick in a cantonese show since I was like 7 years old, in 創世紀 with Gallen Lo. Except this is basically 創世紀 with Hawick as Gallen Lo's character. In other words, this plot has been recycled and tweaked by TVB in the last 15 years way way way too many times for 'TVB grand productions'（流金歲月，酒店風雲，賭場風雲，歲月風雲，溏心風暴，家好月圓，珠光寶氣，富貴們 etc.) with quality decreasing as the list goes on. 

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Source: Wacow 
Translated by: Chloe.C

TVB Ratings Report (07/13/2015 - 07/19/2015)

Dramas
Ghost of Relativity - 鬼同你OT (EPS 1-5) - 26 PTS (Peaking at 28 PTS) *MONDAY TO FRIDAY EPISODES

Master of Destiny - 風雲天地 (EPS 16-20) - 21 PTS (Peaking at 23 PTS)

Come Home Love - 愛.回家 (EPS 810-814) - 21 PTS 

Weekend Episodes
Ghost of Relativity - 鬼同你OT (EP 7) - 24 PTS *AIRED ON SUNDAY

Ghost of Relativity - 鬼同你OT (EP 6) - 20 PTS *AIRED ON SATURDAY

Specials
FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix - Hong Kong - 18 PTS (Peaking at 23 PTS)

Variety Shows
Helen Tokyo - 東京攻略 - 22 PTS

Sunday Songbird - SUNDAY靚聲王 - 21 PTS

Neighbourhood Gourmet 3 - 街坊廚神舌戰新台韓 - 20 PTS

Scoop - 東張西望 - 17 PTS

Sze You Tonight - 今晚睇李 - 16 PTS

(Nielsen TAM: 1 point represents 64,920 viewers)

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Master of Destiny series: Hawick Lau fought with more than 10 people and the netizens remarked it was exaggerating

 

 

It is a familiar scene when Donnie Yen (甄子丹) acted as Ip Man to fight with 10 people but it turns out he is not the only strongest fighter but Hawick Lau (劉愷威) is one of them as well.

Currently, TVB is broadcasting Master of Destiny (風雲天地) at 8.30pm on weekday. There was a scene of Hawick acted as Cho Chi Yuen (曹志遠) was convicted to jail and fight with cell mates which lasted around 30 seconds. Apparently, he trained himself to have a strong and fit body within a short period of time and Hawick was able to fight with more than 10 cell mates and kicked one of them up in the air. He also used kickboxing which frightened the cell leader who wanted to use a sharp weapon to attack Hawick. But Hawick avoided the weapon easily and defeated him in a chok style.

Although the scene lasted for 30 seconds only, many netizens commented it was very exaggerating and Hawick's face remained the same despite fighting with more than 10 people. Other than being called as the 'cell king', he helped the scene to add it effect which was considered creative. Some netizens even made fun that it was the jail version of Ip Man 3 and Hawick should escape the jail since he is a good fighter.

Source: ON.CC (HK)
Translated by: tvfan @ Asian E-News Portal

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Source: Wacow
Translated by: Chloe.C

TVB Ratings Report (07/20/2015 - 07/26/2015)

Dramas
Ghost of Relativity - 鬼同你OT (EPS 8-12) - 27 PTS (Peaking at 29 PTS) *MONDAY TO FRIDAY EPISODES

Master of Destiny - 風雲天地 (EPS 21-25) - 23 PTS 

Come Home Love - 愛.回家 (EPS 815-819) - 23 PTS 

Weekend Episodes
Ghost of Relativity - 鬼同你OT (EP 14) - 26 PTS *AIRED ON SUNDAY

Ghost of Relativity - 鬼同你OT (EP 13) - 22 PTS *AIRED ON SATURDAY

Variety Shows
Sunday Songbird - SUNDAY靚聲王 - 21 PTS

The Million Dollar Minute - 超強選擇1分鐘 - 20 PTS (Peaking at 23 PTS)

Neighbourhood Gourmet 3 - 街坊廚神舌戰新台韓 - 20 PTS

Eating Well with Madam Wong 2 - 吾淑吾食 - 20 PTS

Scoop - 東張西望 - 18 PTS

Sze You Tonight - 今晚睇李 - 18 PTS

(Nielsen TAM: 1 point represents 64,920 viewers)

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Source: Wacow
Translated by: Chloe.C

TVB Ratings Report (07/27/2015 - 08/02/2015)

Dramas
Ghost of Relativity - 鬼同你OT (EPS 15-19) - 28 PTS (Peaking at 29 PTS) *MONDAY TO FRIDAY EPISODES

Master of Destiny - 風雲天地 (EPS 26-30) - 25 PTS 

Come Home Love - 愛.回家 (EPS 820-824) - 22 PTS 

Weekend Episodes
Master of Destiny - 風雲天地 結局篇 (EP 31 END) - 27 PTS (Peaking at 29 PTS) *AIRED ON SATURDAY

Ghost of Relativity - 鬼同你OT (EP 20) - 25 PTS *AIRED ON SUNDAY 

Variety Shows
Eating Well with Madam Wong 2 - 吾淑吾食 - 22 PTS

The Million Dollar Minute - 超強選擇1分鐘 - 21 PTS

Sunday Songbird - SUNDAY靚聲王 - 20 PT

Neighbourhood Gourmet 3 - 街坊廚神舌戰新台韓 - 18 PTS

Scoop - 東張西望 - 18 PTS

Sze You Tonight - 今晚睇李 - 18 PTS

World's Great Parties: Hunan - 過節 湖南侗族半年慶 - 17 PTS