The Legendary Four Aces

The ‘Suchou’s Three Geniuses’, TONG PAK FU (CHEUNG KA FAI), MAN CHING MING (LAM KA TUNG) and JOR CHI SHAN (AU YEUNG CHUN WAH), represent the Six Art Club and compete with the Seven Stars Club for the championship of the annual National Talent Competition. Although SHAN deliberately loses two games to increase the betting rates, FU manages to score the third triumph for the Six Art Club. The adopted son of Prince LING, KIN, wants to recruit these three geniuses, but fails. So he tries to humiliate them with some difficult questions, however fails again allowing them to win the big prize of a hundred gold bars. From then, KIN hates them. Meanwhile, CHOW MAN BUN (NGAI CHUN KIT) who has come to China with the Persian business delegation, proposes himself to work for KIN based on his ability in memorizing and forging paintings. BUN passes KIN’s tests and is hired to gain revenge on the three geniuses.… ...

BUN shocks the watching crowd with his flying painting show. FU refuses to take the challenge because he has promised his father, TAK that he will never compete with anyone again. BUN promises KIN that FU is going to take the challenge after ten days. TAK forces FU to retire. FU and his wife, LUK CHIU YUNG have been living together like brother and sister. YUNG persuades FU to take a concubine in order to bring the Tong family a son. SHAN’s sister, LIN likes FU. She feels perturbed after learning of YUNG’s suggestion and has a little argument with BUN on the ferry and makes him remember her. BUN teaches western painting in the Six Art Club. He turns the place into a mess and outrages the owner, CHOW SUN. BUN knows that LIN is SHAN’s sister and arranges her fake disappearance to blackmail the three geniuses to get the Unbeatable Knife from the Cheung Lok Fon.

FU takes his mother’s charm to break into the Cheung Lok Fon with MING and SHAN. The Unbeatable Knife owner, WONG KU LIK sets up four obstacles for them. FU drops the charm during the challenge. BUN arrives and pretends to rescue the three geniuses while they are trying to overcome the obstacles. KIN pays a prostitute to drug the three geniuses. LIN suddenly appears when they wake up. The three geniuses are accused of using the excuse of rescuing LIN as a pretext to visit prostitutes. They have no way to explain the misunderstanding, which was created by KIN and BUN in order to humiliate the three geniuses. TAK and his wife go to visit their ancestors’ graves and find strange things around the Chow ancestors’ graves. BUN in fact is the Chow’s descendent. The reason that he is in China is to take revenge on FU’s family.

TAK stops FU from joining the examination for scholar selection because he fears the curse that BUN’s grandfather made on the Tong’s descendents will come true. The Six Art Club is heavily in debt. All paintings from the ‘Suchou Three Geniuses’ have fallen in price since the Cheung Lok Fon incident. So their plan of saving the Six Art Club is ruined. A tattooist, TAK CHUK BING, tattooed a map to a hidden treasure onto four men’s backs, as a safeguard against losing the map. SUN is one of them. BING tries to cheat a Tungchon secret agent, YU, but falls short. So he can only tell her the truth. SUN lets KIN take over the Six Art Club in order to prevent it from closing down. He then tries to hang himself but fortunately is stopped by TAK. The three geniuses reckon the only way to save the Six Art Club is to re-establish their fame. TAK decides to let FU pick up his pen again after considering the situation.… ...

The three geniuses are competing with BUN on a randomly drawn topic after seven days. They have all signed a will although they do not have any confidence in winning because they are all weak at their respective topics in the competition. A very famous prostitute, SO always reminds YU to find a good man. However, YU is already very occupied in finding the four men who have been tattooed. LIK guesses that FU might be his nephew from the jade that he wears. So he goes to FU’s home looking for his sister, DIP. He tells everyone the history between his father and sister. TAK stops DIP from meeting LIK and even kicks him out. FU plays tricks on LIK and gets sued. So DIP finally meets LIK and asks him to take the three geniuses to Cheung Lok Fon for training before the competition. LIK pinpoints their shortcomings. FU’s weakness is insensitivity to love, so LIK sends YU to make FU understands what love is.

CHU PING TING does not get on with her father, Prince LING. She leaves home with her servant, ON ON. On the way, they are robbed and luckily saved by MING. TING, however, mistakes MING as the thief. MING and SHAN both finish their training in the Cheung Lok Fon, but FU still has not learnt how to love. During a flag fighting competition in the Cheung Lok Fon, YU’s idea of tattoo matching is also held. FU has a woman picture drawn on his back in order to match up with YU. Meanwhile, she arranges some Tungchon agents to kill all people who have a woman tattooed on their backs and cut off their tattoos. This causes many deaths. TING is suspected as the murderer because of her misleading sayings and handed over to the officials for further investigations. MING and the others study the characteristics of all the people killed and start worrying for FU.… ...

FU manages to get away from the agents during the tattoo matching competition but ends up falling off a cliff with YU. YU discovers that it is only a fake tattoo on FU’s back and is totally disappointed. She is injured and FU does not want to leave her alone although he has to rush to join the competition with BUN. So he carries her on his back and this changes her feelings about him. During the competition, BUN beats SHAN and MING with his dirty tricks and even seriously injures MING. When BUN and FU are competing, FU is stimulated after hearing that MING is dead and beats BUN with his magic pen. BUN wants to override the results with his trap but FU accuses him of using unauthorized drugs and finds a doctor to prove it. Eventually KIN gives BUN up and leaves him facing all the consequences alone.

MING’s death is just a lie to stimulate FU’s ‘love’. The reason why FU has not fallen into BUN’s trap and BUN has been proven taking unauthorized drugs is because of YU’s help, so FU pledges to help her if she needs help in the future. FU wants to make friends with BUN who should be punished by amputation of one arm after losing the competition. BUN, however, does not accept his kind invitation and swears he will make FU suffer double more than what he is suffering. TING is put on trial because of the Cheung Lok Fon murders. During the hearing, she defends herself with old literature and her eloquence and is finally found not guilty. KIN wants to send TING back home but she begs to stay for seven more days. YU gets into the Six Art Club to continue searching for the fourth human skin with FU’s help. FU tells MING his understandings of the examiners’ psychology and everyone starts to realize that FU still wants to join the exam.… ...