Characters of Kinship

He may mingle and joke effortlessly with his customers and foot reflexology disciples but when the time comes to impart his self-discovered theories and skills in foot reflexology, the man is dead serious. To him, foot reflexology is a service to the people and thus he disagrees with Anxin's method of business.

It was later revealed that Anping once had a child with Lishi. Lishi wants Anping to be with her but Anping refused, forcing Lishi to cause trouble in his family. Lishi later drop the charges against Jinsha, forcing Anping into a lot of stress. Anping finally decided to go with Lishi as he had no choice. Lishi then tells Meiqi and Da Ying Jia's staff that Anping is leaving Meiqi for her, even saying that he was exchanging himself for Meiqi and the three children's happiness. She later waited at the airport for Anping but he did not show up as Anping has made himself missing. To obtain evidence that can help exonerate Yusheng, Anping eventually give in to Lishi; she drop all charges against Yusheng.

Meiqi then pulls out from the love triangle after Lishi buys over half the foot reflexology business. Zhongshang is impressed with Meiqi's kindness and magnanimity and decides to woo her. Even though Anping is with Lishi, he still cannot forget Meiqi; thus, the relationship among the four becomes even more complicated.

Unhappy with her husband's soft tolerance towards his brother Chen Anxin, Meiqi stamps her feet down and plots to have Anxin kidnapped on the grand opening day of yet another Da Ying Jia branch to show the latter up.

Meiqi and Anping are childless, but adopt three girls - Zheng Jinsha, Zheng Yinsha and Zheng Yusheng - from Meiqi's cousin and sister. Meiqi especially hides from Yusheng her true birthright to protect her.

As Anping is still "missing", Meiqi has no choice but to hand the foot reflexology business to Naifa but the latter is not only incapable of managing the business, he also gets into more trouble.

Meiqi then pulls out from the love triangle after Lishi buys over half the foot reflexology business. Zhongshang is impressed with Meiqi's kindness and magnanimity and decides to woo her. Even though Anping is with Lishi, he still cannot forget Meiqi; thus, the relationship among the four becomes even more complicated.

His confidence and success strip years away from his appearance and despite being of the same age as his wife Meixue, the latter look more like his older sister than wife and their relationship is far from passionate. Coupled with his personal assistant Martin's constant introduction of pretty young things to him, Anxin thus has his fair share of extramarital flings. Nevertheless, the flirtatious Anxin finally meets his match in the young and attractive Shuiling. Unaware that the latter is in fact his son Yingjun's girlfriend, Anxin even divorces Meixue to be with her. When the truth surfaces, ties between father and son become strained.

Anxin's grudges with the gangster triad not only stirs up enough troubles, it also cause Yingjun to be abducted and his naked photos taken. And when he eventually discovers and unveils Shuiling's true motives, he falls prey to Martin and her murderous plot. Thrown into the sea, he struggles between life and death. Anxin somehow manage to survives the ordeal and returns as a Thai monk named Ha Sa Yan with the fervent hope to lead Shuiling to repentance.

Years ago, Meixue was dumped by her ex-boyfriend, Li Dawei, and it was only when she married Anxin soon after that she realized she was pregnant with her ex-boyfriend's child. She is unable to conceive again after giving birth to their son Yingjun and because of this deep-seated guilt towards Anxin, she is forgiving towards the latter's dalliances.

Meixue becomes depressed when Anxin divorces her for another woman Shuiling, so much until she becomes a bulimic. When Meixue finally sees through Shuiling's web of deceit, she moves back home in a bid to protect Yingjun's inheritance. Shuiling's many plots almost bring to light of Yingjun's parentage.

Meixue later was stunned and ended up in hospital after she tried to break up a fight between Chang Ying and Anxin. Which only resulted her hitting herself against the staircase which affected her brain nerves, forcing her into coma. With Shuiling's constant fear that Meixue may wake up one day to expose her evil deeds, and under repeated instigation by Shuiling and Martin end Meixue's life.

Yingjun has two buddies, Zheng Yusheng and Wind, who are much tougher than he is and often become his ‘bodyguards'. When Yingjun's first love, Zhao Shuiling, dumps him in favour of his rich dad Chen Anxin, Yusheng is there to pick him up and walk him out of his sadness. A romance slowly blooms but both are reluctant to make the first move and confess their feelings. Their relationship meets with more hiccups when Yusheng's colleague Zhang Wenya takes a liking to Yingjun as well. After Yusheng was acquitted of all charges, Yingjun marries her.

Yingjun later decides to sue Shuiling and Martin when he learns of the embezzlement scheme and the forgery of the legal documents.

Yusheng and Chen Yingjun have been a close but bickering duo from young. Yusheng is allergic to chocolate and will always fall into a sleep after eating it, thus the two have more than a few amusing episodes together. When Yingjun has his heart broken after a failed relationship with Zhao Shuiling, Yusheng takes it upon herself to introduce girls to him, yet she finds herself falling for him. Their romance finally takes a step forward after they survive the ordeal of being abducted and nude photos taken of them together.

Yusheng also finds out about her parentage after the kidnap and in her quest to uncover the mastermind, becomes a murder suspect. She was given a death sentence, but after Anping decided to give in to Lishi, she was later acquitted of all charges and marries Yingjun.

Both Jinsha's legs are covered with tattoos, thus she'll never be caught in a skirt or short pants. She talks roughly to everyone with the exception of her husband Xu Naifa. With him, she's gentle and soft-spoken and follows his every instruction for fear that he'll leave her. Afraid that her precious children will follow in her wrong footsteps, she's extra strict with them, resulting in strained relations with her son.

Jinsha also owns an ice-cream shop next to the foot reflexology centre that's quite widely received by the public.

Jinsha's marriage enters into troubled waters when she finds out about Naifa's adulterous affair with Daisy. After she saw Naifa sleeping with Daisy, she became cold to him.

Years ago, Naifa had to marry Jinsha when she became pregnant and ever since then, he would occasionally lament on how he was forced to ‘give up the entire forest for one tree', and how getting married early is one of his life's greatest regrets. Jinsha, naturally, feels uncomfortable hearing those words. Later, Naifa thinks the rich Indonesian lady Daisy will help him further his career and has an affair with her.

Both of them were later forced to break-up after Jinsha saw Naifa sleeping with Daisy in their house on their bed, resulting Naifa to lose its business as a boss of his own foot reflexology centre. Naifa later promised to be good to Jinsha and went back to work in Da Ying Jia.

The couple is shaken from their comfortable lifestyle when Zhaoyang's mother comes to live with them. Extremely displeased that her son has become a ‘slave' to his wife, the elderly lady quarrels with Yinsha often, leaving Zhaoyang caught in the middle.

Yinsha however faces tremendous difficulty in her career when she is charged with selling fake medicine, and this drives her to depression. As Yinsha is about to go overseas, she finally appreciates Zhao Yang.

She somehow knows about Anping family background and she causes trouble for his family, framing his three daughters: Jinsha for child abusing her son, Yinsha for selling fake health products, and Yusheng for murder. She agrees to end the mayhem if Anping goes with her. Anping however refused and Lishi drop the charges against Jinsha, forcing Anping into a lot of stress.

Anping finally decided to go with Lishi as he had no choice and Lishi tells Meiqi and Da Ying Jia's staff that Anping is leaving Meiqi for her, even saying that he was exchanging himself for Meiqi and the three children's happiness. She later waited at the airport for Anping but he did not show up as Anping has made himself missing. To obtain evidence that can help exonerate Yusheng, Anping eventually give in to Lishi; she drop all charges against Yusheng.

Lishi later buys over half the foot reflexology business as a direct challenge to Meiqi. She ultimately dies due to a heart problem.