The Zheng family lives in a five-room HDB flat. Zheng Shanguo owns two coffee-shops, 899, and is a thrifty and frugal man. His wife, Zhang Yuxiang, is a spendthrift who hankers after branded goods. Shanguo has three daughters, Aizhen, Aishan and Aimei. Aizhen is at loggerheads with her next-door neighbour Liqin, who lives with his sister, Lifen and grandmother, Jinyin.
Ah Quan, Shanguo's neighbour, commits suicide, leaving his family to pay his gambling debts. Lifen goes door to door, collecting donations for his family. With her brother's help, she persuades their neighbours to donate, attracting them with a lucky dip in which could be found a $900 television set.
Yuxiang steals $2000 from Shanguo to pay her friend, Helen, for a branded handbag by pretending to have a nightmare in which the ghost of Ah Quan demanded $2000 from her for stepping on hell-notes meant for him.
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"Episode 2"
November 10, 2009 (2009-11-10)
March 17, 2012 PG Some Disturbing Scenes
Yuxiang loses the money meant for Helen. Wu Youli, a rag and bone man finds the money and secretly gives it to Quansao, Ah Quan's wife. Quansao, thinking that the money was from Lifen, calls the media and tells them about Lifen. As the reporter, Yang Yan, interviews Lifen, Yuxiang claims to be the kind-hearted soul who had donated the money to Quansao, through the ghost of Ah Quan.
Wu Youqing, Youli's lawyer sister, returns from overseas after winning a tough case. Youli frames up a newspaper cutting featuring his sister and places it in a prominent place at their house.
Yuxiang announces to her employees at 899 that she would be on television that night, only to find out that her segment had been cut by the Yang Yan. She is relieved when she finds out that the televisions at 899 had broken down, but is horrified to learn that they had been watching Param's mobile TV.
Yuxiang wrongly accuses Youli of molesting Aimei, but Aimei tells her that she was just frightened by his appearance.
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"Episode 3"
November 11, 2009 (2009-11-11)
March 18, 2012
Liqin dresses up as a ghost to scare the three sisters as revenge for Aishan's vomiting into his bag. Yuxiang is worried that it is Ah Quan’s soul. When their grandmother asked if they’ve done any wrong against him, all three sisters confess their guilt. Aimei develops a fever as a result.
Yuxiang and Shanguo offer Quansao a job at 899's rojak stall and Quansao gratefully accepts it. Yuxiang tells Quansao to tell Ah Quan's ghost to forgive and forget. Quansao is puzzled but feels obliged to do so.
Yuxiang meets her old secondary school friend, Duoli, a property agent, at the Women's Club. She directs her to a bungalow which she claims is her own, but Duoli plays along, knowing that she was lying.
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"Episode 4"
November 12, 2009 (2009-11-12)
March 18, 2012 PG
Yuxiang bumps into the arrogant Zen, an actress, during one of her shopping trips. Out of pride, she insists on buying a pair of branded shoes. She has no money to pay for it as Shanguo had secretly stolen her money, and asks for Aizhen’s help.
Quansao is ostracised by her neighbours and is sacked from the rojak store when her husband is diagnosed with AIDS following a post-mortem. She and her children begin to starve.
Aizhen is made a mockery by Liqin when she accidentally steps on urine in the lift. Upset, Aizhen goes to Liqin’s house on the pretext of looking for Lifen, and secretly plants laxative in his drink.
Jianzhou, Jinyin's husband, asks Aizhen to write his daughter-in-law, Guan Qiumei a letter, informing her of the family's new address. Aizhen is told to keep the letter a secret but it is snatched away by Jinyin, who burns the letter.
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"Episode 5"
November 13, 2009 (2009-11-13)
March 24, 2012
Lifen begs Guoshan to give Quansao a job. However, Guoshan refuses to help as he is afraid that his wife would make an objection. Lifen tricks Aishan and Yuxiang into witnessing the sorrowful plight of Quansao and Yuxiang finally agrees to hire her.
Duoli is estranged from her husband, Hanwen, but they pretend to be a happy couple for the sake of their children. They divorce, promising to continue putting on an act for two more years, after which their daughter Xiaoxi would have completed her pre-University examinations.
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"Episode 6"
November 16, 2009 (2009-11-16)
March 24, 2012 PG
Yuxiang yearns to move into a landed property and secretly goes house-viewing with her three daughters and Duoli. Shanguo faints when he hears about Yuxiang’s plans to buy a S$4,000,000 house and leaves the flat in a fit of anger. Yuxiang goes searching for him and promises not to bring up the issue again.
Qiumei is released from prison after fifteen years for the manslaughter of her husband and tries to find her family home, only to find that they had moved. She stays in a motel instead.
Youqing has a fear of enclosed spaces and refuses to take lifts. While climbing down the stairs, she meets Yue Guang, a psychologist, and mistakes him for a pervert when he asks her to take off her stockings.
Aizhen forces her admirer to pose as a flasher in front of Shanguo, hoping that the incident would persuade him to move.
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"Episode 7"
November 17, 2009 (2009-11-17)
March 25, 2012 PG Some Sexual References
Yuxiang bribes 4D to pose as a robber so as to frighten Shanguo into moving, but he fails. Shanguo tells her that he'd rather die with his money than give up his $4,000,000.
As one of Jinyin's mahjong kakis, Big Mouth Gang, was late to arrive at her mahjong session, they start with Qiaomei instead and she surprises them with her mahjong skills, despite claiming to not know anything about the game.
Aimei dirties her pants and returns home to shower, only to be peeped at by Big Mouth Gang when she drops her towel. Her scream is heard at Jinyin's house, but Qiaomei dismisses it as a small matter, saying that her granddaughters scream several times a day.
When she arrives home, Qiaomei asks Aimei about what had happened and Aimei tells her that she no longer has the will to live. Qiaomei tries to comfort her by telling her that she had to strip (in front of a doctor) before, only to be chided by Yuxiang.
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"Episode 8"
November 18, 2009 (2009-11-18)
March 25, 2012 PG Some Sexual References
Aimei identifies Big Mouth Gang as the Peeping Tom and Yuxiang and Shanguo beat him and his cronies up, only to find Aimei missing. She returns to the coffeeshop soon after and faints.
Yuxiang decides to send Aimei to Yue Guang, but she runs away from the office. Yue Guang sees her on the rooftop, and thinking that she was about to commit suicide, tries to save her, only to fall off the roof with her, landing on a pickup, their lips touching in the process. The pickup drives away and Yuxiang is worried sick, not knowing Aimei's whereabouts.
Aimei is brought home by Qiumei, who had found her on the pickup after it was parked by the roadside. Yuxiang rewards her with a job at the coffeeshop, where she is praised for her efficiency by Uncle Rojak but belittled by 4D for her backwardness. Youli tries to collect empty drink cans from 899, but Yuxiang stops him and claims the cans as her property. Qiumei meets up with him and persuades him not to make trouble at the coffeeshop, saying that kindness begets kindness.
Shanguo refuses to purchase the $4,000,000 bungalow and Dolly proposes a house at Lentor Plain just over $1,000,000.
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"Episode 9"
November 19, 2009 (2009-11-19)
March 31, 2012
Dolly sells the house at Lentor Plain to Yuxiang, much to Youli's disappointment. Youli releases cockroaches into the property but Dolly kills them before Shanguo manages to notice them.
Aizhen meets Yang Yan on a shopping trip and identifies her as the one who had cut her mother's interview. She takes revenge on her by disputing her credibility as a neutral party on national TV. Feeling that talking in front of a camera is a breeze for her, she decides to apply for a job as a news reporter for Yang Yan's news channel, Clear Sky.
Yuxiang persuades Shanguo to send Aimei to a psychiatrist again. Shanguo reluctantly agrees and Aimei returns to Yue Guang's office. Upon realising that Yue Guang was the 'lecher' who kissed her on the pickup, she tries to run away, but Yue Guang calms her down. Amazed at her daughter's quick recovery, she happily pays the bill of $300.
Hanwen goes to Jinyin's house with news of Qiumei's release and her wish to meet them. Jinyin chases him out, saying that they wanted nothing to do with her. Lifen is suspicious but finds it better not to probe too far.
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"Episode 10"
November 20, 2009 (2009-11-20)
March 31, 2012
Qiumei pressurizes Hanwen into giving her Jinyin's address. He relents after much pleading from the formal. Shanguo wants his mother to move with the family into the new house but Yuxiang objects. Qiaomei, listening at the door, is distressed because of this. Yuxiang and Shanguo go for a meeting with the new house's designer but Shanguo cancels it, much to Yuxiang's displeasure.
Aizhen meets Fang Kai while working on a project with Lifen. She is immediately attracted to his long sideburns and becomes infatutated with him. Back at 899, Qiumei asks Aizhen about Liqin's likes. Aizhen decides to use the opportunity to get back at her enemy.
Qiaomei takes up mahjong and discovers her talent after she repeatedly defeats Jinyin, famed for her mahjong prowess. Shanguo assures Qiaomei that she would not be forgotten after the move and she jokes that she would be content as long as she gets a regular supply of bird's nest. Yuxiang tries to raise money for the house's renovation by collecting money early from her coffeeshop tenants.
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"Episode 11"
November 23, 2009 (2009-11-23)
April 7, 2012 PG
Dolly and Zen become friends over a game of pool. They have a drinking competition and both women end up returning home drunk. In her drunken state, Dolly seduces Hanwen. The next day, she quarrels with him, accusing him of taking advantage of her.
Aizhen knows that Liqin is allergic to the fur of teddy bears. However, she tells Qiumei that he adores them. When Qiumei shows up at her son's flat the next day, she is pushed out and Liqin throws the toy out of the window. Aizhen thinks that Qiumei may commit suicide and is relieved to see her leave the block safely.
Qiumei had murdered her husband on Liqin's birthday. Jinyin was so furious that she made a memorial tablet for Qiumei as well as her husband, telling Lifen that her mother was dead. Liqin asks Aizhen to help him keep that secret from Lifen. She ends up thinking that the two enemies had 'reconciled' and had become an item. Liqin is haunted by his past and could not concentrate on his studies.
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"Episode 12"
November 24, 2009 (2009-11-24)
April 7, 2012 PG
Aimei overhears Qiaomei and Aizhen talking about Qiumei's past and is astonished to find out that she was a murderer. Aishan instructs her to bury her secrets in a bottle, but 4D overhears her speaking her secret into the bottle and leaks the news. By the next morning, every worker at 899 knew about Qiumei's secret.
Yuxiang secretly purchases expensive furniture and toilet bowls but claims that they were only fakes and imitations from Taiwan and China. She makes Nelson Tan, the interior designer, forge the receipts to make them correspond to the prices she had declared to Shanguo, who tries to make her drunk so as to divulge her secrets. She gives nothing away.
Youli has lunch at a restaurant with magnate Jason Fang, who admires his talent in financial strategies and stocks.