Sayama Michio is a young and callous beautician who will stop at nothing to fulfill his ambition(s). Coming from an impoverished background, he suddenly becomes the darling of the beauty world. He holds women who desire beauty captive and puts on several different faces when dealing with Murase Minako, the female owner of the place that he works at; Hatano Masako, a woman of leisure; and Fukuchi Fujiko, an editor of a weekly magazine to come out tops. He also gets involved with two detectives who are investigating him for a prior incident.

As a child, Man Cho was rendered mute as a result of the cruel actions of his mother and was adopted by the kind-hearted Chu Sa Kiu. Man Cho grew up with Sa Kiu's daughter Kwan Ho, and the two eventually develop romantic feelings for one another. Man Cho is extremely self-sacrificing, has an inferiority complex due to his disability, and therefore feels unworthy of Kwan Ho. Sa Kiu is also against their relationship and things are further complicated when Si To Lai Sun enters the picture after falling for Kwan Ho, too. This series was one of the highest rated TVB series in 2000, reaching a peak of 40 points.

This drama is a story about love, family, and the realism of people's dreams! Each character will experience their joy, frustration, and pain at times as they live out their daily lives. Na Dan Poong is a company marketing team leader. Jang Hyun Woo is a plastic surgeon and Baek Ho's friend. Sun Jae is good looking, smart, and makes very good decisions. He has a girlfriend, Ji Young, who he met while they were in college. But to farther his ambitions, he breaks up with Ji Young to marry Bong Soo Ah whose father is the owner of Bonjour Foods.

Dr. Kaede Kojima (Matsushima Nanako) is now the staff leader at Minato University Hospital's Emergency and Critical Care Center. It's been a month since she took that position. She's calm and precise in her role as staff leader, but she doesn't let others get close to her. The relationship between staff members is awkward because of this. Others can't figure out why Hospital Director Tooru Mogami (Danta Yasunori) put Kaede Kojima in her position. One day, a patient's family asks the hospital to stop a donor transplant. Hospital Director Tooru Mogami calls Dr. Kaede Kojima in for a meeting. When Kaede Kojima gets there, Tooru Mogami and Yasuhiro Sugiyoshi (Tezuka Toru) wait for her. Yasuhiro Sugiyoshi complains about the cancellation of the donor transplant and blames staff members for not persuading the patients' family enough. Tooru Mogami then reveals that he invited donor transplant specialist Dr. Mamoru Natsume (Tokito Saburo). Around this time, tragedy strikes with multiple stabbings and an explosion. The Emergency and Criticial Care Center is inundated with injured victims. Chaos ensues as the staff fails to work together and the doctors do not cooperate or communicate with each other.

Xia Tian, Jia Jiang, Fang Wei, and Bulu grew up on Westside Street together and currently study at Ying Ye School. It's one month away from graduation.

Xia Tian's dad is a police officer on Westside Street and is retiring. But on the day of his retirement, the kids had a fight with the Dinosaur gang at school and were almost expelled. When Officer Xia went to settle the conflict, his gun was misplaced by the principal. After a discussion, it was decided that the students would remain in the school, but they must find the gun within the one month before graduation to let Officer Xia retire peacefully and happily.

While searching for the missing gun, they discovered that an ex-convict Grey Wolf who escaped from prison may be connected with the missing gun. And more surprisingly, Grey Wolf is has been in close contact with the students at Ying Ye.

Ari, Kim, Momo, Sumi, and Sam are members of a former idol group. One year after the group was dissolved, Sam dies in an accident. During the wake, the ex-members reunite, talk about their memories, and confess things they weren’t able to say before. The origin of the nickname “Sam,” the possibility that it was a suicide, and in the middle of the wake, a message from Sam who should’ve been dead…

The Mermaid Beauty is the story of the carp spirit who has finally taken form of a human after 500 years of cultivation. Mudan, her good friend who often fed her while Xiao Lian was still a carp got bethrothed to Zhang Ziyou, a poor scholar. However Mudan's parents, particularly the father was set on marrying Mudan to the great General's son, Jiang Yunfei for status purposes. However, Mudan and Ziyou were mutually attracted and because Yunfei was seen as evil and scheming, Xiao Lian, the carp spirit was set on helping Mudan and Ziyou be together. Often, Xiao Lian would secretly lead them to meet but in the end, was discovered by Yunfei. Together, his father, the General and Yunfei plotted to wreck Ziyou's life by framing him in attempting to violate Mudan. Ziyou got locked away in jail and Mudan was overwhelmed with grief. The carp spirit was enraged with this act of injustice, so helps in every she could, including getting Yunfei to confess the truth. Soon, Mudan got ill after discovering the truth and feel helpless that she caused Ziyou's death. Mudan's health continues to deterrioate and the Xiao Lian's final plan was to steal the bride on the day of the wedding and bring them into the mountains so they could be together. Unfortunately, fate wasn't their side and Mudan never made it. This began the story of Xiao Lian pretending to be Mudan and ultimately, her carefree spirit, playfulness and happy nature made their days in the mountain so very fun and memorable. Xiao Lian also teaches Ziyou many things, such as how to simply enjoy life and disregard all those confinements that only ties a person up. However, happiness doesn't last long because Ziyou soon found out the truth about Mudan and accuses Xiao Lian for killing her, as he viewed spirits like her to be demonic. In the mean time, Zhang Tianshi, the Taoist was set on killing all kinds of demons, including the carp spirit. He was hunting for the Yuanping Pearl, which was with Xiao Lian's mother The question is, would Ziyou eventually accept Xiao Lian for who she really is?