Autumn

Hakming heads the Ko Family but he and his brothers Hakting and Hakon and the second wife of the late Master Ko quarrel Young Cousin Mui who has tuberculosis is forced by to marry an older woman Koksun is guilty of being unable to stop the marriage Sun and maid Chuiwan are wary of their feelings for each other due to class difference Cousin Mui dies of illness Hakting has his eyes on Wan His wife Wong complains to their daughter Shukching who cannot take it and commits suicide Wong blames herself for her death Undergone these tragedies Cousin Kams mother let Kam have a modern wedding with Kokman When Ming is ill Ting and On want to sell the ancestral home Hakming dies of angst When the fifth uncle of Sun forces Wan to be his concubine Wan tries to kill herself but is intercepted by Sun Pressurised by people of the house over the issue of inheritance Sun protests by declaring his love for Wan and leaves the family with his mother brother Man and Wan