A nurse brings much joy and laughter to the patients under her care, even though her own life journey is peppered with pain and little hope. Stars Chen Hanwei, Tay Ping Hui, Joanne Peh, Laura Fang, Julian Hee, Elvin Ng.
From March 21, 2005, every Mon-Fri at 9pm.
Lin Xiuming (Laura Fang), a nurse at a kidney dialysis centre, marries her long-term boyfriend Pan Zhihao (Chen Hanwei). After a happy marriage of merely one year, Zhihao meets with an accident and suffers brain trauma. He lies in a vegetable state, paralysed and unconscious to the world around him. At the same time, Xiuming discovers she is pregnant.
Zhihao remains in this state for six years, with no signs of recovery or improvement. During this time, Xiuming has to juggle a job and visits to the hospital while being a good mother to her precious daughter. This is no mean feat for anyone to achieve, and a surefire way to drain Xiuming mentally and physically. However, she arms herself with a constant brilliant smile and a never-say-die attitude to encourage the patients at the kidney dialysis centre as well as their families to carry on with their lives bravely.
Xiuming’s good friend, Su Dongping (Tay Ping Hui) is a humorous and humble doctor. Even though they get along well and care about each other, they try very hard not to allow themselves to cross the line beyond platonic friendship. After an accident, they realize the difference between life and death is just a thin, fragile line, and that they have made it through the danger by being supportive of each other. They decide to get married, but first, Xiuming has to divorce Zhihao. She feels deeply apologetic towards him.
On the day of Xiuming and Dongping’s wedding, Zhihao shows a sudden sign of consciousness. He slowly regains his health, unaware of Xiuming’s remarriage. He dreams of a happy family reunion, but Xiuming is torn by the truth and is close to a mental breakdown. Heartbroken to see Xiuming tormented by the lies she had to tell Zhihao, Dongping waits for Zhihao’s condition to stabilize before telling him the truth. Zhihao maintains a calm façade but is inwardly filled with hatred and pain. Feeling betrayed, he begins a plot to a series of revenge against them.
Among Xiuming’s patients is a young lady Feifei (Joanne Peh). Young, pretty and energetic, she is forced to start on kidney dialysis after she is diagnosed with kidney failure. She is filled with negativity towards her illness and feels death is a better fate.
Feifei and a debt-collector gangster Liangyi (Elvin Ng) are constantly at loggerheads with each other. Liangyi has served time in prison and gets violent over any big or small matter. However he is extremely filial to his aged grandparents. Things begin to change between these two when Liangyi finds out about Feifei’s ailment. On impulse, he even says he is willing to donate a kidney to her if he dies.
This odd couple, who both have no faith in their respective futures, has been brought together by a strange twist of fate. If they had not been so quarrelsome with each other, they would not have gotten to know each other so well. Their relationship turns for the better, even though they continue to dish out piercing comments to each other. They start to feel they cannot live without each other, but they never admit they love each other, because she feels she will only be a burden to him, while he feels that as a gangster, he is not good enough for her...
