

A Bride for a Ride is a 2009 Hong Kong television series based on the traditional Pingtan story of the same name. Set during the prosperous Ming Dynasty of China, the drama revolves around the rich and influential Wong family and their comedic ties with Chow Man-bun, a young and handsome scholar who has a specialty in cross-dressing. To prove his worth to Wong Sau-ying, his ideal lover, he cross dresses as a beauty in a lantern festival so he can get closer to her. Sau-ying's older brother, Tiger Wong, sees Man-bun's beauty and kidnaps him home. A Bride for a Ride consists of elements of Cantonese opera. Chin Kar-lok, who stars as Tiger Wong, is also the drama's action choreographer.
People say that a dragon is attacking Mui Lung County and lots of poultries are being killed. Chief guard of the county, TIGER WONG, and his teammates perform dragon dancing to lure the dragon. Besides safeguarding the county, TIGER is keen to kill the dragon because the girl SZE MUNG LO promises to marry the one who killed the dragon since her father was killed by the dragon. Gifted man CHOW MAN BUN is being attacked by the dragon on his way to attend the government examinations. BUN has no choice but to hide away in his cousin CHUK CHI SHAN's home. BUN later kills the dragon with TIGER. TIGER burns the books and money of BUN accidentally and he tries to make compensation by buying his calligraphy. TIGER's younger sister SAU YING loves arts and calligraphy very much so TIGER sends her the calligraphy. SAU YING used to admire BUN a lot but she is very disappointed to see his latest works for it's not as good as before.… ...
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TIGER captures both SHAN and BUN to the jail. BUN claims that TIGER didn't kill the dragon that killed LO's father and LO refuses to marry TIGER. SHAN's wife KWAI FEI and TIGER's mother BING TAI know that LO doesn't really want to marry TIGER but they try very hard to persuade her. In order to marry LO, TIGER promises to search for the dragon in the mountain and TAI convinces the villagers to follow him as the witnesses. After learning that TIGER is bringing all villagers to the mountain, SHAN and BUN sneak away from the jail for they want to rescue the villagers. BUN meets the chivalrous woman MO SHAN LEUNG who is also looking for the dragon so he shows her the way. The dragon finally comes. TIGER asks all villagers to hide away and he fights with the dragon alone. Luckily, LEUNG arrives to join the fight and they finally kill the dragon together.… ...
Aired: 9/8/2009