The Unbeatables III
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The Unbeatables III is a 30-episode Singaporean drama serial which was telecast in 2003 and is a drama serial by MediaCorp
. It is the second sequel of The Unbeatables
series.
Eight years have passed and Yan Fei has become the most philanthropic gambler king on Coral Island. His generous deeds greatly move the authorities that they decide to release Qifang on a reduced sentence. Just then, illusionary gambler Luo Shenfeng challenges Yan Fei to give up his monopoly of the gambling business. Yan Fei refuses and thus gets into several rounds of tussles with Shenfeng.
Yan Fei’s grown-up son, Yan Xing, is finally back from abroad. The latter dreams of being a reigning gambling king just like his father. To his great disappointment, his father forbids it and refuses to pass on any of his skills to him for fear that he’ll get enmeshed into the whirlpool of the gambling scene.
Instead, Yan Fei chooses to impart his skills to his 3 disciples, Wu Youkang, Dong Meiyao and Ding Wei, in the hope that 1 of them can take over his gambling empire. But because of this decision, Yan Fei creates a rift in his relationship with his son. The rebellious junior decides to go against his wish and makes a bid for the coveted throne as well.
Antagonist Huang Yunjiu, changes his looks and poses as a professional gambler so he can continually attack Qifang to avenge his wife’s death. He first befriends Luo Shenfeng to join forces against Yan Fei. Later, he schemes to ensnare the gullible Yan Xing into his plot of revenge by baiting him with the promise of the gambling king’s throne.
Yan Xing succumbs to temptations and acknowledges Yunjiu as his mentor. He turns his back on his parents, breaking their hearts. Huang Yunjiu sends assassins after Qifang but a nurse, Jiang Yexue, saves her. Yexue was once forced into an immoral deal with Luo Shenfeng when she tried to pay off her brother’s gambling debts. Luckily for her, Yan Fei appeared and helped her out of it. Since then, she begins to develop feelings for him.
One of Yan Fei’s disciple, Dong Meiyao, turns out to be Yunjiu’s daughter. She is forced by her father to betray Yan Fei, thus causing the latter to lose his memory. Yan Xing makes use of this opportunity to force his mother back to the gambling arena. With no one to turn to, Qifang is at a loss. The discovery of her amnesic husband’s amorous relationship with Jiang Yexue adds to her sorrows.
Yan Fei finally regains his memory. When he finds out his son had forced his mother into a life and death gamble, he decides to take his wife’s place, hoping that he can bring back Yan Xing’s conscience.
Yan Fei lost the match and he declared that he will surrender his life in 3 days time.During the 3 days, Yan Fei has been finding the relationship between Dong Meiyao and Huang Yunjiu.The truth was out as a DNA showed that they are related.
During the second day of his remaining three day,he met up with his son and spoke of his desire for him to come to his sense, and told him that about the significance of the casino.Yan Xing refused to listen and instead told Yan Fei and Luo Qifang to flee Coral Island.
The last day before Yan Fei died,he challenged Yunjiu to a life and death match.The decisive Ace of Spades landed at Yunjiu hand,and Yan lost the match subsequently. Before his demise, he told Qifang that he has let her down,and ask her to take care of Yexue.
Times passed since Yan Fei's death, Qifang started to set out to avenge Yan Fei and make her only son back to his sense, she headed to the casino to challenged Yunjiu the life and death: the Dice. As final round is about to concluded, Qifang's dice has been grinded into powder, make Yunjiu laugh hard to think her dice was set as "zero". But a cloaked figure appeared at the casino, revealed it was Yan Fei, who is still alive. Making Qifang surprised, Yan Fei's "death" is part of his plan and revealed his spy is injecting and extracting Yan Fei's blood and spill the blood to cause the scene. Yan Fei blew the dice ashes and revealed the number is the large one. Qifang wins the challenge but Yunjiu refused his loss and escaped. Chasing after him, Yan Fei has killed Yunjiu by threw the card into his forehead. At the island prison, where Qifang is imprisoned, Yan Xing has been imprisoned for helping Yunjiu. Knewing his regrets, his mother forgave him. As for Yan Fei and Qifang, they were reunited as husband and wife again.
MediaCorp
Media Corporation of Singapore, better known as MediaCorp, is a group of commercial media companies in Singapore, with business interests in television and radio broadcasting, interactive media, and, to a lesser extent, print publishing and film-making....
. It is the second sequel of The Unbeatables
The Unbeatables
The Unbeatables is a 1993 Chinese drama serial produced by Singapore's Mandarin channel, Channel 8.The Unbeatables is best remembered for being the first Singaporean show on gambling, and featured two of Singapore's biggest actors, Zoe Tay and Li Nanxing, who played the roles of Luo Qifang and Yan...
series.
Synopsis
Ever since he defeated Ye Zhong, Yan Fei had decided to bow out of the gambling scene. However, things were not as peaceful as he had hoped. His wife, Luo Qifang, got embroiled in a mysterious case of casino murder and was innocently sentenced to life imprisonment.Eight years have passed and Yan Fei has become the most philanthropic gambler king on Coral Island. His generous deeds greatly move the authorities that they decide to release Qifang on a reduced sentence. Just then, illusionary gambler Luo Shenfeng challenges Yan Fei to give up his monopoly of the gambling business. Yan Fei refuses and thus gets into several rounds of tussles with Shenfeng.
Yan Fei’s grown-up son, Yan Xing, is finally back from abroad. The latter dreams of being a reigning gambling king just like his father. To his great disappointment, his father forbids it and refuses to pass on any of his skills to him for fear that he’ll get enmeshed into the whirlpool of the gambling scene.
Instead, Yan Fei chooses to impart his skills to his 3 disciples, Wu Youkang, Dong Meiyao and Ding Wei, in the hope that 1 of them can take over his gambling empire. But because of this decision, Yan Fei creates a rift in his relationship with his son. The rebellious junior decides to go against his wish and makes a bid for the coveted throne as well.
Antagonist Huang Yunjiu, changes his looks and poses as a professional gambler so he can continually attack Qifang to avenge his wife’s death. He first befriends Luo Shenfeng to join forces against Yan Fei. Later, he schemes to ensnare the gullible Yan Xing into his plot of revenge by baiting him with the promise of the gambling king’s throne.
Yan Xing succumbs to temptations and acknowledges Yunjiu as his mentor. He turns his back on his parents, breaking their hearts. Huang Yunjiu sends assassins after Qifang but a nurse, Jiang Yexue, saves her. Yexue was once forced into an immoral deal with Luo Shenfeng when she tried to pay off her brother’s gambling debts. Luckily for her, Yan Fei appeared and helped her out of it. Since then, she begins to develop feelings for him.
One of Yan Fei’s disciple, Dong Meiyao, turns out to be Yunjiu’s daughter. She is forced by her father to betray Yan Fei, thus causing the latter to lose his memory. Yan Xing makes use of this opportunity to force his mother back to the gambling arena. With no one to turn to, Qifang is at a loss. The discovery of her amnesic husband’s amorous relationship with Jiang Yexue adds to her sorrows.
Yan Fei finally regains his memory. When he finds out his son had forced his mother into a life and death gamble, he decides to take his wife’s place, hoping that he can bring back Yan Xing’s conscience.
Yan Fei lost the match and he declared that he will surrender his life in 3 days time.During the 3 days, Yan Fei has been finding the relationship between Dong Meiyao and Huang Yunjiu.The truth was out as a DNA showed that they are related.
During the second day of his remaining three day,he met up with his son and spoke of his desire for him to come to his sense, and told him that about the significance of the casino.Yan Xing refused to listen and instead told Yan Fei and Luo Qifang to flee Coral Island.
The last day before Yan Fei died,he challenged Yunjiu to a life and death match.The decisive Ace of Spades landed at Yunjiu hand,and Yan lost the match subsequently. Before his demise, he told Qifang that he has let her down,and ask her to take care of Yexue.
Times passed since Yan Fei's death, Qifang started to set out to avenge Yan Fei and make her only son back to his sense, she headed to the casino to challenged Yunjiu the life and death: the Dice. As final round is about to concluded, Qifang's dice has been grinded into powder, make Yunjiu laugh hard to think her dice was set as "zero". But a cloaked figure appeared at the casino, revealed it was Yan Fei, who is still alive. Making Qifang surprised, Yan Fei's "death" is part of his plan and revealed his spy is injecting and extracting Yan Fei's blood and spill the blood to cause the scene. Yan Fei blew the dice ashes and revealed the number is the large one. Qifang wins the challenge but Yunjiu refused his loss and escaped. Chasing after him, Yan Fei has killed Yunjiu by threw the card into his forehead. At the island prison, where Qifang is imprisoned, Yan Xing has been imprisoned for helping Yunjiu. Knewing his regrets, his mother forgave him. As for Yan Fei and Qifang, they were reunited as husband and wife again.
Main characters
- Li NanxingLi NanxingLi Nanxing is a Chinese Mediacorp actor from Singapore.Li may be the best-known male actor in Singapore in modern times, and is widely regarded as the 'king' of Caldecott Hill, alongside Zoe Tay who is the 'queen', both having consistently been voted as the 'Top 10 Most Popular Artistes' for their...
as Yan Fei - Zoe TayZoe TayZoe Tay Hui Gek is a Singaporean actress in MediaCorp and previously a model. She is known as the Queen of Caldecott Hill, but her popularity has dipped significantly in recent years. She was previously also known as the Thousand-Faced Lady....
as Luo Qifang - Lee San San as Jiang Yexue
- Cai Yiwei as Yan Xing
- Willy Liu as Yan Xing (Older)
- Tay Ping HuiTay Ping HuiTay Ping Hui is a Singaporean Chinese MediaCorp television and film actor. Tay is best known for acting in many Chinese language TV drama series on Channel 8 and has made appearances in the films Summer Holidays and Infernal Affairs II .-Early life:Tay Ping Hui attended Catholic High School and...
as Luo Shenfeng/Luo YingFeng - Huang YiliangHuang YiliangEddie Huang Yiliang is a veteran Singaporean artiste and insurance agent.-Career:Huang started off as a small screen actor with MediaCorp...
as Huang Yunjiu
Supporting characters
- Chen ShuchengChen Shucheng-Acting:Chen joined Mediacorp, then known as Radio Television Singapore , as an actor in 1971. Since then he has portrayed many different roles ranging from the young nerdy doctor in The Awakening, a rich flirting playboy in Pretty Faces to the strict and unbending father in Love at 0°C .-Life...
as Yan Kun - Zhu HourenZhu HourenZhu Houren is a Singaporean MediaCorp actor, most notable for his role in Wok of Life.In 2003, Zhu directed and acted in After School.In the recent Star Awards 2010, Zhu won the Best Supporting Actor award for his role as Sgt...
as Long Tingguang - Vivian LaiVivian LaiVivian Lai is a Taiwan-born Singaporean Chinese MediaCorp television actress and host. She is married to Alan Ong and the couple have two daughters.-Biography:...
as Dong Meiyao - Allan WuAllan WuAllan Wu is a Singapore-based Chinese-American actor and MTV Asia VJ who is recognized by many people as the host of the Asian version of The Amazing Race....
as Ding Wei - Joey Swee as Ding Jiajia
- San Yow as Jiang Xueming
- Wang De Yuan as Wu Youkang
- Henry ThiaHenry ThiaHenry Thia is a Singaporean actor who is probably best known for his roles in Money No Enough and Police & Thief as Hui and Georgie Gan respectively...
as Ding Shiyi - Le Yao as Jiang Xiaotong
- Jin Yinji as Auntie Qian