The Mysteries of Love

Series synopsis from Astro on Demand, character information from TVB.com – credits to FungForever.net for the English translation

Official Site: The Mysteries of Love @ TVB.com
Number of Episodes: 25
Year: May 2010 (Broadcast)
Role: King Pok (Kingsley King)
Age: 30
Occupation: Associate Physics Professor


Synopsis: This is a love story between a professor and a policewoman. Their dating experience is enhanced with sense and sensibility through the application of interesting physics theories on the investigation of various crime cases.

KING POK (Raymond Lam) is regarded as the youngest genius in physics and he is appointed as an associate professor in a Hong Kong university. Invited by his good friend LO TIN-HANG (Ma Kwok Ming), Senior Inspector of Police at Regional Crime Unit, POK assists in cracking many mysterious crime cases and he also meets the policewoman CHUI SIU-LAI (Tavia Yeung) during the process. The rational POK evaluates that he has fallen in love with LAI because of a love hormone called “phenylalanine”. However, owing to the huge difference in their family background and life value, POK fails to tackle their ever-changing relationship problems with formulas.

On the other hand, the romantic and uninhibited HANG has been maintaining a sex only relationship with the journalist LING MAN-KA (Liu Bernice Jan). HANG doesn’t believe in eternity and he is only looking for sensual pleasure in a woman. However, his belief is suddenly shattered when he learns that MAN is going to get married.


Characteristics: He’s clever, calm and has a scientific mind at all times. He’s very enthusiastic to explore scientific matters; he believes in cause and effect and everything can be explained scientifically after a scientific analysis. Even love is considered as a type of behaviour and explainable by Biology.

He’s raised and trained to have good manners since he’s a kid. Hence, he’s nice and polite to everyone. If he’s being criticized unreasonably, he would deal with it with an English sense of humour in a way that will not hurt others in any ways! He’s exactly like an English nobleman with good taste and enjoys high quality of life.


Background: Kingsley is a well-borne nobleman in a wealthy residential area.

He is a genius in Physics. He achieved outstanding scores in Physics and it has always been his favourite course since he’s a kid. After graduating from the famous Windsor College in Hong Kong, he got his Ph.D. at Cambridge University in England. His doctoral thesis and research was a stunning and contributive one. He has been expected to be the next youngest Nobel Prize Winner since Dr. Samuel Ting got it.

Kingsley was invited to return to Hong Kong and he’s hired to be the Physics Associate Professor at a University. His classmate/close friend (Tin Hang – Kenneth Ma) is a superintendent of the Serious Crime Unit of the District Crime Squad and he asked for Kingsley’s help in his investigation. Kingsley successfully helped him resolve many puzzles of mysterious crimes with his expertise in Physics.

Although Kingsley is handsome and talented, he spent too much time on his research and did not have any girlfriends at first. His ideal girlfriend should be understanding and considerate and she should be someone who’s willing to wait for him to complete his research. His dream girl should also be someone who’s nice, elegant, kind and gentle with a good educational background. According to these criteria, Siu Lai (Tavia Yeung) should never be the one in the drama.

Unfortunately, fake data was added by someone else to Kingsley’s thesis and he was challenged by scientists. To reestablish his reputation, he must prove his thesis with new proofs within a very short period of time. Although Siu Lai wasn’t able to help him in terms of gathering this type of data, she cooked noodles for him when he stayed up late at night. That was refreshing for him to keep on going for his research.

Later on, Kingsley realized that he has fallen in love with Siu Lai and told her so; they finally became lovers. However, their families did not get along well because of difference in wealth, status, etc.. Siu Lai tried her best to meet their expectations whereas Kingsley also got more and more pressure and complaints from his parents. He finally decided to call it off.

Kingsley’s parents were very delighted that they broke up and introduced some other lady Bowie Choi (Leanne Li) to him. They got along well as friends. But Kingsley knew that he still loved Siu Lai so he did not even consider starting any new relationships yet. Hence, Bowie got jealous of Siu Lai.

Kingsley then got challenged by another scientist and that also got his parents into trouble. After all this, he realized that Siu Lai is way better than the wealthy lady Bowie Choi. He tried his best to face the challenge and hope to save the broken relationship with Siu Lai.

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