List of Three Wishes episodes
Three Wishes (simplified Chinese: 三个愿望) is a Singaporean television drama series produced by Wawa Pictures. Starring Huang Biren, Thomas Ong, Julie Tan, Shane Pow, Zhu Houren, Jin Yinji and Tan Junsheng as the main characters in the story. It is also the fourth Wawa-production to air on MediaCorp Channel 8. The fantasy drama series revolves around a man facing mid-life crisis and how humans will sacrifice their families due of greed.
It had aired on MediaCorp Channel 8 in Singapore from 27 October 2014 to 21 November 2014.[1] During this period, a total of 20 episodes will air.
Episodic synopsis
| Episode | Title | Original Airdate | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Episode One" | October 27, 2014 PG | |
| Zhao Yaozong (Thomas Ong) is a middle-aged man who is an assistant horse trainer. As things do not go well at work, his wife, Shan Mei (Huang Biren) and three children are always worried about him. When the whole family goes to Kusu Island to make wishes, he meets an elderly woman who sells him tissue packets with wishing coins inside. She says they can make his wishes come true. Shanmei encourages Yaozong to make a wish with the coin and a miracle happens. | |||
| 2 | "Episode Two" | October 28, 2014 PG | |
| Yaozong's horse, Power Boy, loses control while filming a program but this surprisingly makes Yaozong a horse trainer hero, allowing him to keep his job which he almost lost. But, another horse trainer still treats him unreasonably at work. He tries to make another wish with the coin to solve the problem but Shanmei disapproves. She encourages him to believe in his own ability and not simply rely on the wishing coins. | |||
| 3 | "Episode Three" | October 29, 2014 PG | |
| Shanmei is worried that if she passes away due to her sickness, her children would not be independent enough to support themselves. She cries in the arms of Huijing (Darren Lim) who tries to comfort her, but is seen be Yaozong. Yaozong misunderstands and confronts Huijing. In Shanmei’s attempts to stop this, she falls unconscious to the ground. Huijing then reveals the truth about Shanmei’s sickness, leaving Yaozong devastated. | |||
| 4 | "Episode Four" | October 30, 2014 PG | |
| Yaozong’s father meets with Chaihua in the coffee shop and finds out that she sells beer for a living and is harassed by her customers. He sympathizes with her and invites her to the house to be a maid. Chaihua is very capable and manages the household chores very well. Everyone in the family likes her except Ah ma who is cautious of her motives and suspects she is trying to seduce Yaozong’s father. | |||
| 5 | "Episode Five" | October 31, 2014 PG | |
| On Shanmei’s birthday, Enlai intentionally arranges Yaozong to work overtime, preventing him from going home to celebrate her birthday. Yaozong gets angry and quits. He rushes home to celebrate her birthday but Shanmei collapses and is sent to the hospital. Yaozong is faced with the dilemma and eventually uses the last “wishing coin” to save Shanmei. | |||
| 6 | "Episode Six" | November 3, 2014 PG | |
| Yaozong messes up Youting and Winnie's affairs and just when he is feeling down, he meets the old woman again. Yaozong decides to buy another three wishes but the old woman warns that each wish would come with a price. After considering for a moment, Yaozong decides to buy the wishes and immediately wishes for him to win the top prize for TOTO. | |||
| 7 | "Episode Seven" | November 4, 2014 PG | |
| Yaozong wins the grand prize of $3,000,000 but when he and Shanmei goes to collect the prize money, the lottery ticket is snatched away by a thief. The thief meets with an accident while escaping and the lottery ticket returns back to Yaozong. Yaozong is elated but Shanmei feels uneasy about this incident. | |||
| 8 | "Episode Eight" | November 5, 2014 PG Some Disturbing Scenes | |
| Xiaomin ( Julie Tan ) meets with a car accident and loses both legs. Yaozong realizes that the price for winning the lottery is Xiaomin's legs. He tries to return the remaining two wishes back to the old woman. But the old woman says that once the wishes are given out, there is no way to return them. Yaozong throws the wishing coins into the ocean. One day, when the family is eating dinner at the table, they find the wishing coins in the fish's stomach. | |||
| 9 | "Episode Nine" | November 6, 2014 PG | |
| Xiaomin asks Yaozong to make a wish to restore back her limbs. Yaozong is afraid the wishes might harm the other family members and refuses Xiaomin. Anna and Yaozu hears about the wishing coins from Yaozong ' s mother and plots to steal them. Just when they had the coins and were about to make a wish, Yaozong discovers and stops them. | |||
| 10 | "Episode Ten" | November 7, 2014 PG | |
| Yaozu moves into Yaozong's house to try to steal the wishing coins but the same coins in Yaozu's pocket was found out by Yaozong's mother. Yaozong and Shanmei go to check on the safety box and find out the wishing coins is still inside. When Yaozong and his whole family invites Yaozu to dinner, he did not attend. He quietly sneak into Yaozong's room and tried to steal the wishing coins. After successfully getting the coins, he is knocked out by Xiaomin and she takes the coins away. Xiaomin gives the wishing coins to Junhao for him to wish for recovery from his sickness. Once Junhao gets his hands on the coins, he wishes to win TOTO. | |||
| 11 | "Episode Eleven" | November 10, 2014 PG | |
| Xiaomin realizes she was deceived when Junhao lied about his sickness to take the wishing coins from her to wished to strike the lottery. Yaozong and Youting beats Junhao in anger, Xiaomin is so sad that she faints. When Xiaomin awakes, she blames herself for causing trouble for her family. She takes out the other wishing coin and hope that Junhao wish doesn't granted. Shanmei comforts Xiaomin and tells her that the wishing coin is fake. Anna fakes prengnancy and invites Yaozong's mother to move in with them. The next day, Yaozu tell his mother that Anna has lost her baby and cannot pregnant again in the future , making her guilty and ask the wishing coins from Shanmei. | |||
| 12 | "Episode Twelve" | November 11, 2014 PG | |
| Yaozu and Anna finally manage to steal the wishing coin. The duo wishes to be the richest person in the world and starts to buy large volumes of stocks and mortgages the house. They suffer huge losses in their stocks and do not even strike the lottery. The duo starts to suspect whether the wishing coin is fake! Yaozu decides to invest in Youting's business and Shanmei don't approve. Yaozong's mother make a fuss at the dining table when Shanmei don't want to take out the wishing coins for Anna. | |||
| 13 (2nd Highest Viewership) | "Episode Thirteen" | November 12, 2014 PG | |
| Shanmei discovers that the coin is missing and suspects it in the hands of someone. She starts to worry that if someone makes a wish, something bad will happen to her family. Chenglong scores high marks in his examinations and Shanmei suspects that he made a wish. Xiaomin clinches a contract with a record company and releases an album. Shanmei also suspects she made a wish, treating everyone in the family as a thief. Yaozu stop selling health product as it is harmful. Anna ask Yaozu to keep selling the product and make Youting responsible if anything goes wrong. | |||
| 14 | "Episode Fourteen" | November 13, 2014 PG | |
| Winnie is pregnant and this make her father angry. Yaozu decide to stop selling the product as it has been block by the custom. Anna encourages him to keep selling the product and even if police ask , Youting is responsible for this thing. Youting meets with some issues with his supplement business and might get sued. He does not want to go to jail and asks for the wishing coin from Shanmei to wish him out of his troubles. Shanmei and Yaozong do not want Youting to shirk from his responsibilities and tells him honestly that even if the wishing coin was around, they will not give him. Youting is dejected and Yaozu encourages him to escape from the country. Before Youting leaves, Xiaomin passes a wishing coin to him. | |||
| 15 | "Episode Fifteen" | November 14, 2014 PG | |
| Xiaomin steals a wishing coin for Youting, Yaozu rushes over to try to steal the coin from him. During the process, Ah Gong and Xiaomin is knocked unconscious by Yaozu and Youting manages to take the coin away in the midst of the chaos. Youting wanders outside but finally returns home to beg for forgiveness as he feels guilty. Youting is brought away by the police station. Ah Gong is in the hospital and Yaozong and Shanmei go over to Yaozu's house and Yaozong beats Yaozu in anger. | |||
| 16 | "Episode Sixteen" | November 17, 2014 PG | |
| Yaozong hides from his family that he secretly used the wishing coin to save Ah Gong. He prepares himself and waits for a tragedy to happen to him. Because of this, he cherishes the time spent with his family and wishes to leave behind good memories during his last days. He arranges many types of activities with his family. | |||
| 17 | "Episode Seventeen" | November 18, 2014 PG Some Disturbing Scenes | |
| Yaozong suddenly loses all his memory since he was 10 years old and forgets about Shanmei and his children. Everyone knows that this is the price to pay for a wish and Shanmei reveals the secret of the last wish. No matter who uses the last wishing coin, the price is Yaozong's death and the last wishing coin is nowhere to be found. | |||
| 18 | "Episode Eighteen" | November 19, 2014 PG Some Disturbing Scenes | |
| Shanmei and Yaozong's wedding anniversary arrives. To celebrate Yaozong's reacceptance of Shanmei, Yaozong's father arranges for them to go out to have fun. Shanmei accompanies Yaozong for a day and ends up under a tree by the beach, a place where the two used to date often. Strange images start to flash through Yaozong's mind and his head starts to hurt badly. | |||
| 19 | "Episode Nineteen" | November 20, 2014 PG Some Disturbing Scenes | |
| Shanmei asks Anna out, pretends to be disappointed in her family and intends to divorce Yaozong. She tells Anna that she will not stop Anna from stealing the coin and that she knows where Yaozong hid the coin. Anna goes to the place that Shanmei told her the coin was hidden but this was all part of Shanmei's plan to reveal Anna's true intentions. | |||
| 20 (Highest Viewership) | "Episode Twenty (Finale)" | November 21, 2014 PG | |
| Anna kidnaps Chenglong and Yaozong asks Shanmei to use the coin to save him. Shanmei is put in a dilemma as Yaozong will die if she uses the third wishing coin. Yaozong decides to sacrifice himself and searches for the coin through the night. He finally finds it, leaves some things for Shanmei, and takes a look at his family before leaving the house. Will Yaozong be able to save Chenglong? What will his predicament be? | |||
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See also
- Three Wishes (Singapore drama)
- List of MediaCorp Channel 8 Chinese Drama Series (2010s)
References
- "Three Wishes". Xinmsn (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 2014-10-27. Retrieved 2014-10-27.
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