In The Realms of Joy

Cheng Ho Village is an isolated town and the villagers living there lead a quiet and peaceful life. However, generations after generations, they are very superstitious and tend to overreact to whatever happens. It has not rained for a long time and one of the villagers, a grocer, CHIN KUNG SUM, leads a procession along the streets sprinkling water all around, hoping to bring rain. The water damages the paper goods made by KOON YAU CHOI and the two have a fierce quarrel. CHOI curses that the son born to SUM will be an idiot. SUM got very maddened by this.

LINGTUNG is born into CHOI's family and is named CHEUNG SANG. His mother soon passes away and he is brought up by his father CHOI. The temple keeper, CHEUNG, picks up an abandoned. child and thinks that she is god-given. He names her YUET SIN and sends her to the West to be educated. Time flies, SANG and YIN have grown up. SANG has totally forgotten his past but has a feeling that he is endowed with some magic power. Besides, he has a burning passion to look for his destined lover. Since childhood, SANG has been on intimate terms wi.th YIP SIU FUK and SUM's son CHIN BUT WOON. Both FUK and, WOON are deeply attracted by YIN's beauty. Hiding his feelings, SANG also develops good impression toward YIN wondering whether she is his destined lover or not. In order to raise fund for renovating the temple, CHEUNG organizes an auction for a bottle of 'Holy Water'. WOON misunderstands SUM's instruction and puts the highest bid, a house.… ...

Both SUM and his wife are eager to drink the whole bottle of 'Holy Water'. However, WOON is careless and spills it all. Instead he refills the bottle with some dirty water which is then drunk by his parents. In the end, they both suffer diarrhoea. FUK, attracted to SIN, finds chance to express his admiration to her. Yet, he is discovered by CHEUNG who scolds him for being imprudent. NGAN YU PO and her mother arrive in Cheng Ho Village. They start making a. living there by performing. PO meets SANG but they fall out with each other because of some misunderstanding. One day, PO is wrongly accused of shoplifting but SIN comes to her rescue and they both become intimate friends. JO KWAN discovers that LOJO secretly relegates LITUNG to the human world and intends to disclose his crime. However, LOJO threatens him saying that he will also reveals his misdeed. In the, end, KWAN is forced to keep his mouth shut over that.

PO's mother is liberal-minded and her behaviour is not well-accepted by the villagers. One day, a crime is discovered and for no reason and without evidence, the villagers insist that PO and her mother are to blame. However, CHOI does his best to ferret out the real wrong-doer and proves their innocence. SUM is attracted to PO's mother but he is very much afraid of his fierce wife. On the other hand, CHOI also develops good impression towards her. Seeing that his son SANG has grown up, CHOI really has the' intention of getting a second wife. SANG also supports that idea.

Once, CHOI is accidentally injured , PO's mother offers help to cure him and this arouse s gossip among the villagers . SUM has all along eyed on the position of being the village head. He makes plots to scramble for the place but time and again SANG interferes and spoils his plans. In the end, CHEUNG decides to seek the will of god. By mere luck, CHOI becomes the village head and SUM grows furious over that. The misunderstanding between PO and SANG gradually melts and the two become close friends. In fact, PO is the PAKYUK Fairy Maiden. When she is born into the human world, she loses all her memory. Though she has' an intimate feeling towards SANG, she cannot recognize SANG as LINGTUNG. Yet her love for SANG grows and she resorts to fortune-telling hoping to learn about their future. Much to her delight, she learns that she and SANG will be happily married.… ...

to SIN. FUK and WOON are angry to find SANG secretly courting SIN. They scold him and SANG feeling very depressed, turns to PO for consolation. Another celestial being, WOWAI TAIKWAN, is eager to help PO and SANG revive their past memory and be united. Time and again his effort is in vain. In the end, he sends down a clue but is misinterpreted by the villagers as a sign that SIN is to be married to a chosen boy. In order to select the chosen boy, CHEUNG organizes a contest. SANG joins the contest and PO is sad to learn of his affection for SIN.

In the end, SANG is selected to be the chosen boy. He and SIN will soon be married. PO greatly grieves over this. Though selected to be the chosen boy, SANG does not feel too happy as he has to be tied down to learn from CHEUNG. WOON is often ridiculed by the villagers. Feeling sad, he turns to PO for consolation.

For his love life, CHOI is sad to learn that PO and her mother have decided to leave Cheung Ho Village seeing him so anxious, .his sister promises to make the two of them stay. On the other hand, SUM also tries to stop them from leaving the village by burning their properties hoping later to win her heart. CHOI misunderstood that this is done by her sister. Hence, feeling guilty, CHOI offers PO and her mother refuge in his house as compensation for her loss. WOON, is often ridiculed by the villagers. Feeling sad, he turns to PO for consolation. To avenge on CHOI, SUM tries to spoil SANG's reputation. However, CHEUNG helps SANG who is then able to keep his name.