Portrait of Home

Portrait of Home
同心圆
Genre	Modern Drama
Created by	Ng Kah Huay (黄佳华)
Written by	Lim Gim Lan (林锦兰) Phang Kai Yee (彭凯毅)
Directed by	Loo Yin Kam (卢燕金) Tay Peck Choo (郑碧珠) Loh Woon Woon (罗温温)
Starring	Louise Lee Xiang Yun Adrian Pang Pierre Png Felicia Chin
Opening theme	Portrait Of Home 同心圆 by 乐声, 吴辛荣, 王敏惠, 蔡美仪
Ending theme	1) Topic 话题 by 乐生 & 王敏惠 2) Man's Heart 男人心 by 吴幸荣
Country of origin	Singapore
Original language	Chinese
No. of episodes	Part 1: 60 Part 2: 40
Production
Producer	Li Ningqiang (李宁强)
Running time	approx. 45 minutes
Original release
Network	MediaCorp Channel 8
Release	2005 (2005)

Portrait of Home (Chinese: 同心圆) is a Chinese language drama serial which was filmed for and broadcast on Singapore's Mediacorp TV Channel 8 in 2005. It stars Louise Lee, Xiang Yun, Adrian Pang, Pierre Png and Felicia Chin as the casts of the series. It is shown on weekdays at 7pm.

The show has 100 episodes telecast in two segments, the first part with 60 episodes and the second part with 40 episodes.

Plot

The fishball factory Tong Xin Yuan is a successful local business, with thriving sales in both Singapore and neighbouring foreign countries. But behind the company lies a dark mystery.

The beautiful factory blue-collar worker who eventually became the Lady Boss of Tong Xin Yuan named Li Tian (Louise Lee), married the founder of Tong Xin Yuan named Zhou Dong (Chen Shucheng) many years ago. They had three sons – Zhou Dadi (Adrian Pang), Zhou Dashan (Yao Wenlong) and Zhou Daqiu (Cavin Soh). Zhou Dong then disappeared after a kidnap attempt went awry; and not even his body was found.

Without the master Zhou Dong around, another faithful factory blue-collar worker who eventually became the Boss, white-collar worker and CEO of Tong Xin Yuan named Lin Shitou (Richard Low) took up the task of overlooking the fishball factory. 3 years later, Shitou married Li Tian and had another 3 sons – Lin Dahai (Terence Cao), Lin Dayang (Pierre Png) and Lin Dajiang (Zhang Yaodong). From then on, rumours abound that Shitou killed Zhou Dong and usurped both his factory and Li Tian.

Tong Xin Yuan grew tremendously under Li Tian and Lin Shitou’s management, and all 6 sons receive the same treatment. Li Tian, in an effort to let her children remain close by her side for as long as possible, as well as to encourage them to love and support each other, built a block of apartments with 7 units inside. She lives in one of the units with her husband Lin Shitou, with the remaining 6 units planned for her 6 sons. They may move into their unit only after marriage, and if they should choose not to move in, they will automatically forfeit all rights to the unit. Li Tian has even set a family regulation that no matter how busy each family member is, everyone has to turn up at her unit for a meal at least once a week.

6 half-brothers, each with their own peculiarities, often rub each other the wrong way. All of them work at the fishball factory with the exception of Dahai and Dajiang, where the former has been extremely busy doing scriptwriting and the latter is still studying in university.

Amongst the 6 sons, Dadi has the strangest temperament and is still single. He is nicknamed the Mad Man, and is secretly in love with the fishball factory blue-collar worker and later, supervisor, Manager and CEO of Tong Xin Yuan named Zhang Xiu Hua (Xiang Yun) who is a few years older than he is. Xiu Hua is also the housekeeper of Zhou Jia Yuan who looks after Li Tian, Lin Shitou and all the 6 half-brothers whilst at home. Unaware of his feelings, Li Tian and Xiu Hua select a Vietnamese bride Ruan Mianmian (Jesseca Liu) for Dadi, putting Dadi in an awkward position.

Dashan had a sad past in his youth, falling into despair after witnessing the death of his beloved girlfriend. He fell into bad company and started taking drugs. Upon release from the drug rehabilitation centre, he meets cunning Su Haitang (Le Yao), whom is from Shanghai, China and also bears a great resemblance to his deceased girlfriend named Cat (also portrayed by Le Yao). He would have fallen into Haitang’s trap if not for the appearance of the kind-hearted Yang Qin (Ta Na), whom is also Dashan's new girlfriend later on in Season 2 and also from Shanghai, China as well. He have the tendency to let his heart rule over his head which hindered him further to achieve greater things in life.

The scheming Daqiu married a shrewd Fu Baozhu (Cynthia Koh). He constantly plots to take over Tong Xin Yuan but all his attempts fail. In contrast, his honest and straightforward brother Dayang marries Baozhu’s sincere younger sister Fu Baobei (Felicia Chin). The two work hard to earn an honest living despite frequent efforts by Daqiu and his wife to put them down. Heaven seems to be watching out for Dayang and Baobei as they succeed in their lives.

Dahai who spends most of his time working as a scriptwriter, marries a young lady from a wealthy family, Gao Jimei (Apple Hong). He goes against his mother's wishes by doing so and even moves into Jimei's household. Through his wife, he gets to know Fyn Tan (Yvonne Lim) who has turned up for revenge, thereby putting both Jimei and his life in unnecessary danger.

Dajiang is still in university. He changes girlfriends constantly just like changing his clothes every now and then as he prefers something fresh and new. He always like to try out new things and yearn for changes but he harbours no great ambition.

Daqiu schemes to be the Boss, white-collar worker and CEO of Tong Xin Yuan and the Head of the household of Zhou Jia Yuan all by himself, and chase Shitou, Xiu Hua and his 5 brothers out of the 2 places. The family is turned topsy-turvy furthermore when the supposedly deceased Zhou Dong suddenly turns up who turns out to be Zhang Guangyang all these time who's also as scheming towards the family and they found out that the real Zhou Dong has been truly deceased all these while either!

Cast

• Louise Lee as Li Tian (李甜), the wife of Zhou Dong who subsequently remarried to Lin Shitou.
• Richard Low as Lin Shitou (林石头), the second husband of Li Tian. He is killed by Zhou Daqiu at the final episode of Season 1 and passes away in Season 2 due to head injury which left him in a coma state.
• Chen Shucheng as Zhou Dong (周东) and Zhang Guangyang (张光杨), Zhou is the first husband of Li Tian and also the owner of Tong Xin Yuan who disappeared after a kidnap attempt went wrong, and turns out that Zhang Guangyang has been impersonating him all these time during the kidnapping, and in fact he was very sick and later passes away, and in fact he is not as evil and terrible unlike his good friend Zhang Guangyang. Zhang is a good friend of Zhou and impersonates as him as he looks like Zhou. The latter being Zhang Guangyang is also the Main Villain of Season 2, who lived in Zhou Jia Yuan after Lin Shitou passes away and kept asking both the Zhou and Lin family for money and also killed his own wife named Jiang Ling whilst at home when she wanted to expose the truth that her own husband is indeed a faked Zhou Dong and wanted the photo of both Zhou Dong and Zhang Guangyang back before killing her. Afterwards, the police officers came and wanted to arrest Zhang Guangyang for impersonating ad Zhou Dong and also killing his own wife Jiang Ling and framing Li Tian for the murder, and then moves out of Zhou Jia Yuan and escapes in which he returned back later to kidnap Li Tian, Ruan Mianmian, Fu Baozhu and Amina and finally revealed his plan to extort $2 million from all of the families before being stopped by Zhou Dadi, Zhou Daqiu, Lin Dayang and Lin Dajiang.
• Xiang Yun as Zhang Xiuhua (张绣花), a worker and later, Supervisor, Manager and CEO of Tong Xin Yuan. She is also the housekeeper of Zhou Jia Yuan who looks after Li Tian, Lin Shitou and all the 6 brothers whilst at home.
• Adrian Pang as Zhou Dadi 周大地
• Yao Wenlong as Zhou Dashan 周大山
• Cavin Soh as Zhou Daqiu 周大丘 (Main Villain of the series for both installments)
• Terence Cao as Lin Dahai 林大海
• Pierre Png as Lin Dayang 林大洋
• Zhang Yaodong as Lin Dajiang 林大江

Season 1

Actor	Character(s)	Description	Ref
Cynthia Koh	Fu Baozhu 傅宝珠	Semi-Villain Zhou Daqiu's Wife Fu Baobei's adoptive sister
Felicia Chin	Fu Baobei 傅宝贝	Mermaid 美人鱼 Fu Baozhu's adoptive sister Lin Dayang's Love Interest and Later Wife
Jesseca Liu	Ruan Mianmian 阮棉棉	Zhou Dadi's Wife
Apple Hong	Gao Jimei 高级美	Sister Maria Lin Dahai's Wife
Yvonne Lim	Chen Fenling (Fyn) 陈芬玲	Supporting Villain Lin Dahai's Love Interest
Alan Tern	Chen Shaodong 陈少东	Supporting Villain Fu Baobei's Love Interest Lin Dayang's Enemy and Rival In Love
Zhang Xinxiang	Li Fa 李发	Manager of Tong Xin Yuan Li Tian's younger brother Zhou Dadi, Zhou Dashan, Zhou Daqiu, Lin Dahai, Lin Dayang and Lin Dajiang's Uncle Li Xinmin's Father Zhang Xiu Hua's Love Interest
Liu Lingling		Fu Baozhu's Mother Fu Baobei's adoptive Mother Gambler
Le Yao 乐瑶	Su Haitang 苏海棠	Zhou Dashan's Girlfriend from Shanghai, China
Joavan Brandan Bosco Pereira	Kumar	Lin Dayang's Friend who could speak Mandarin, English and Tamil

Season 2

Actor	Character(s)	Description
Priscelia Chan	Li Xinmin 李心敏	Li Fa's daughter Li Tian's niece Zhou Dadi, Zhou Dashan, Zhou Daqiu, Lin Dahai, Lin Dayang and Lin Dajiang's cousin Zhou Daqiu's Former Assistant and Number 1 Target Enemy after she betrayed him and actually did the correct thing by taking back Tong Xin Yuan before moving on with her new life, because she was studying in university in Australia in Season 1 and was raped by the Australian rapist and her ex-boyfriend Dave did not manage to save her and then ran away and betrayed her instead, which explains why she treated Zhou Daqiu like both the Australian rapist and ex-boyfriend Dave.
Wang Yuqing	Parry	Ruan Mianmian's friend and Love Interest Likes Ruan Mianmian
Li Yinzhu	Jiang Ling	Supporting Villain Zhang Guangyang's Wife Killed by her own husband Zhang Guangyang Li Tian, Zhang Xiuhua, Li Fa, Zhou Dadi, Lin Dayang, Fu Baobei, Zhou Daqiu and Fu Baozhu's Enemy
Brandon Wong	Bryan	Snoopy and Li Xinmin's Lawyer who assisted both of them in getting Tong Xin Yuan back from Zhou Daqiu after the latter cheated and took all of Li Tian's assets and also all of his 5 other brother's stakes in both Tong Xin Yuan and Zhou Jia Yuan Zhou Daqiu's Former Good Friend and Business Partner who betrayed him eventually because of stopping Zhou Daqiu from his evil plans along with Xinmin and the Zhou and Lin family
Ta Na 塔娜	Yang Qin 杨芹	Fu Baobei's Good Friend and Zhou Dashan's New Girlfriend from Shanghai, China after Su Haitang passes away after being tortured and killed by Snoopy Snoopy's former girlfriend and enemies currently
Ace Wang Yanbin 王艳宾	Snoopy 史诺比	Supporting Villain Legitimate Businessman, Crime boss and Drug lord from Shanghai, China Zhou Dashan, Su Haitang and Yang Qin's Enemy Zhou Daqiu's Former Good Friend and Business Partner who betrayed him and then scammed and cheated all of his money away for his own expenditures
Romeo Tan	Joe	Fu Baobei's friend

Music

Song title	Performer	Type of Song
Portrait Of Home 同心圆	乐声, 吴幸荣, 王敏惠, 察美仪	Theme Song
Topic 话题	乐生 & 王敏惠	Sub Theme Song
Man's Heart 男人心	吴幸荣	Sub Theme Song

Awards and nominations

Year	Ceremony	Award	Nominees	Result	Ref
2005	Star Awards	Young Talent Award	Joavan Brandan Bosco Pereira	Nominated
		Best Actor	Adrian Pang	Nominated
		Best Actress	Cynthia Koh	Nominated
		Best Supporting Actor	Cavin Soh	Won
		Best Supporting Actress	Jesseca Liu	Nominated
			Yvonne Lim	Won
		Best Drama Serial	—	Nominated
2006	Star Awards	Best Actor	Adrian Pang	Nominated
	Asian Television Awards	Best Drama Performance by an Actor	Adrian Pang	Nominated
2007	Star Awards 2007	Top 10 Most Memorable Villains 十大恶人	Yvonne Lim	Top 10
		Top 10 Most Memorable Villains 十大恶人	Cavin Soh	Top 10