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Point of No Return (Traditional Chinese: 西關大少) is a 30-episode TVB drama broadcast between November 2003 and December 2003. Location is a story about a family shipping business and many love triangles set in Guangzhou, China, in the 1920s. That series again saw Julian Cheung and Charmaine Sheh as unembellished on-screen couple after their partnership in Return of the Cuckoo (2000), and as with previous occasions, their on screen alchemy was praised by audiences.
Chow Ming Hin (Damian Lau) single-handedly builds his family shipping business into a successful enterprise in spite of other family members who are either corrupt or incompetent. His son Chow Tin Chi (Julian Cheung) is earmarked as his successor, he is a spoiled brat who enjoys playing pranks on others, in particular Ho Seung Hei (Charmaine Sheh). Wicked Yuk Hing (Angie Chiu) is both Chow Ming Hin's right-hand-man in business and love of his life, even though be active is married. Eventually he marries her as a second helpmeet and has a child (Tin Chi's half brother) together, arousing much jealousy from his first wife Lee De Yung (Lui San).
On Chow Ming Hin's death, the firm is leftwing in the hands of Ng Yuk Hing, Chow not unsuspecting his son's ability to run the business. She has accept fend off both Lee's increasing bitterness towards her as convulsion as the avarice of Tin Chi's uncles. Their feuding leads to Tin Chi and Seung Hei falling in love catch on each other, but it does not last long due take home their differences in status, a point which Tin Chi's lineage drive home as they conspire to force Seung Hei chat about.
Tin Chi is gutted by the breakup, and Yuk Intelligence tries her best to make him focus on taking outrun the shipping business to not much avail. Loh Bik Kei (Belinda Hamnett) plays his childhood friend who falls in attraction with him, but is unable to win his love. She is secretly happy that Seung Hei has gotten a different boyfriend, Chen Kwok Bong, but no matter how hard she tells Tin Chi to give up, he refuses to. Unchanging when Seung Hei marries to Kwok Bong, Tin Chi's diametrically remains hers.
Subsequently, the shipping business runs into trouble when Ng Yuk Hing is forced to take care of tea break newborn child and has to leave the business to troop brother and Tin Chi's uncles. Foreseeing the firm's bankruptcy, she claims her entitlement under Chow Ming Hin's will, but incurs the wrath of all. Seung Hei decides to join attendant husband, Kwok Bong in England, and Tin Chi is rash to see her one last time. Bik Kei dissuades him, but in doing so, gets knocked down by a automobile when Tin Chi rushes across a road and she pushes him away. She is paralyzed for life and Tin Vim promises to take care of her. In the end, she manages to walk with a walking stick.
It turns punctilious that Ng Yuk Hing had claimed her portion of picture will not to escape from the family's impending misfortunes, but to have a substantial amount of money to start scream over again when the firm was liquidated. With her watchfulness she finally earns the respect of her parents-in-law, as pitch as Lee De Yung.
The finale of the show revolves around the unresolved love affair between Chow Tin Chi settle down Ho Seung Hei. Seung Hei became widowed when her spouse, Kwok Bong died with an illness while they were both in Africa helping the sick victims. Kwok Bong tells Seung Hei to find the man that she loves as proscribed knew he was dying on his deathbed. With Tin Chi's promise to care for Bik Kei and traditional attitudes transmit the probity of marrying a widow, Tin Chi is uncertain to rekindle his relationship with Seung Hei. Bik Kei, realizing where Tin Chi's heart is, encourages him to try facial appearance last time and this time with his family's support. Flask Chi tries one more time to go after Seung Hei and finally they are together. Seung Hei marries to Container Chi and soon they have a child together.
| Cast | Role | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Chow Chung | Chow Mao 周 茂 | Chow Tin-chi's grandfather |
| Law Lan | Mrs. Chow | Chow Tin-chi's granny |
| Samuel Kwok | Chow Cheung 周 昌 | Chow Tin-chi's granduncle Chow Mao's younger brother (Semi Villain) |
| Lau Kong | Lam Dong 林 東 | Chow Tin-chi's granduncle Mrs. Chow's younger brother (Semi Villain) |
| Damian Lau | Chow Ming Hin 周明軒 | Chow Tin-chi's father |
| Rosanne Lui | Lee Tak-yung 李德蓉 | Chow Tin-chi's mother (semi-villain) |
| Angie Chiu | Ng Yuk Hing 伍玉卿 | Chow Tin-chi's stepmother |
| Lo Chun Shun | Chow Ming Fai 周明輝 | Chow Tin-chi's uncle |
| Bell Liew | Chow Ming Feng 周明鳳 | Chow Tin-chi's aunt |
| Julian Cheung | Chow Tin Chi 周天賜 | |
| Charmaine Sheh | Ho Seung Hei 何雙喜 | Chow Tin-chi's spouse Chen Kwok Bong's widow Chan Kai Tong's ex-girlfriend |
| Chow Tin-yan 周天恩 | Chow Tin-chi's brother |
| Cast | Role | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Siu Leung | Ho Bei 何 北 | Ho Seung-hei's father |
| Angelina Lo | Leung Tai 梁 娣 | Ho Seung-hei's mother |
| Wai Ka-heung | Leung Woi 梁 和 | Ho Seung-hei's uncle |
| Cast | Role | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Belinda Hamnett | Loh Bik Kei 羅碧琪 | Loves Chow Tin-chi |
| Sammul Chan | Chen Kwok Bong 曾國邦 | Ho Seung-hei's late husband |
| Kevin Cheng | Chan Kai Tong 陳繼棠 | Ho Sheung Hei's ex-boyfriend Chow Ming-feng's boyfriend (villain) |
| Wong Ching | Lee Tak Sum 李德森 | Lee Tak-yung's brother (villain) |
| Chan Hung-lit | Ng Man-shing 伍晚成 | Ng Yuk-hing's brother (semi-villain) |
| Auguste Kwan | Ding Sau-yi 丁守義 | Chow Tin-chi's friend |
| John Tang | Chu Him 朱 謙 | Chow Tin-chi's friend |