| Native Name: | 守護神之保險調查 |
| Genre: | Action Insurance Investigators |
| Runtime: | 43 minutes |
| Producer: | Chung Shu-Kai |
| Location: | Hong Kong, China, Shenzhen, UK, Czech Republic, Prague, Slovakia, Malaysia |
| Starring: | Michael Miu, Bosco Wong, Annie Liu and Kate Tsui |
| Opentheme: | (世世 (粵語), 真相 (國語)) by A-Lin |
| Endtheme: | (守護人) by James Ng and (守護英雄) by Theway Zhang |
| Country: | Hong Kong |
| Language: | Chinese |
| Company: | Shaw Brothers Studio, IQiyi |
| Network: | TVB Jade (Hong Kong), myTV Super (Hong Kong), Astro AOD (Malaysia), IQIYI (Mainland China/Taiwan), Fairchild TV (Canada) |
| Num Episodes: | 36 (Original Version) |
Guardian Angel (Chinese: 守護神之保險調查) is a 2018 Hong Kong insurance drama produced by Shaw Brothers Studio. It stars Michael Miu, Bosco Wong, Annie Liu and Kate Tsui as the main cast, with Benz Hui, Hugo Ng, Alex Lam, MC Jin, Mimi Kung as the major supporting cast.
Northern Lights Insurance Company has a team of insurance investigators that is led by Fong Chi-keung (Benz Hui), who loves to make impromptu jokes, and includes wealthy heiress Dou Sum-yu (Annie Liu), the affectionate Bak Tin-ming (Bosco Wong), and retired police officer Cheung Tung (Michael Miu). They each have their own talents and form a legendary team in the insurance industry. They manage to thoroughly investigate and uncover the truth in all the thorny, dangerous or strange cases that are passed to them. Although 9 out of 10 cases end up with the insurance company paying out money, their mission is to discover the truth. Fairness, impartiality and righteousness are their guiding principles. The three investigators are like special agents, conducting cross-border investigations, searching for clues, following targets and gathering evidence. At the same time, they unintentionally become involved in many people's stories and become their guardian angel.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
| Cast | Role | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cheung Tung (張東) | Former police officer (senior inspector), now a “junior” Insurance Investigator he suffers from claustrophobia of elevators after he killed Yip Chi's boyfriend at the time, Barbecue Pork. Friend of Chung Gor. Friend and subordinate of Fong Chi-keung, and Bak Tin-ming. Subordinate and uncle of Do Sum-yu. in episode 33, after encouragement from Yip Chi, he takes the elevator to overcome his claustrophobia to see her instead of going up the stairs like he always does. When he doesn't find Yip Chi in her office, he goes back down only to hear people say an accident happened near the parking area. He rushes there to find that Yip Chi has already died. He found out the murderer of Yip Chi was Vincent and went on the black market to buy a gun. Cheung Tung prepared to avenge for Yip Chi. In episode 34, he asked the underworld to find Vincent. He later received notice that someone was holding Vincent hostage and Cheung Tung made a deal to exchange Vincent for a USB which had very important information in it. On the way however, a white van crashed into the Taxi Cheung Tung was in and a person with a tattoo took away Cheung Tung's USB. Cheung Tung was in a coma for three days. In episode 35, he lynched the mysterious person who stole the USB by hanging him and pulling him down to almost near death until he successfully forced him to confess the stolen USB and where Vincent was. The stolen USB has been entrusted to the Northern Lights Insurance Company. Cheung Tung wanted to shoot Vincent dead but because Rachael came in time, he was unsuccessful. Later, he was arrested by the police and allowed bail. In episode 36, Vincent who killed Yip Chi didn't need to go to jail because he used his mental problems as an excuse to make him not criminally responsible. So Vincent was put in a mental hospital for one year as his charge for killing Yip Chi. Cheung Tung who also had some mental problems asked the doctor to let him stay in the same mental hospital as Vincent for observation. At the mental hospital, he held a knife at Vincent's neck and took the recording pen with the evidence of Vincent's corruption from his hand, and then asked Rachel to transfer the recording pen to Bak Tin-ming. In the end, Jin Shang-wen and Vincent were successfully convicted and Cheung Tung was released from the mental hospital. | ||
| Bak Tin-Ming (百天明) | “Senior” insurance investigator he is the boyfriend of actor Kay. His ex-girlfriend, Cici Baby is now Chung Gor's girlfriend. He likes magic. Chung Gor's friend Cheung Tung's boss and friend. Do Sum-yu's subordinate and friend. Later, she becomes his girlfriend but then they break up. In case 11, he tells Chan On-yee that Michael Miu (Michael Miu plays Cheung Tung in this drama) is his idol. In episode 36, he is Mark's friend and boxing master. In episode 29, he went to Prague with Do Sum-yu to find her boyfriend, Ken, who had been missing for many years. Chung Gor was mad at Cici Baby and when Cici Baby went down the stairs, she fell down and injured herself. Cici Baby used this injury to her advantage and claimed that she had paraplegia, forcing Chung Gor to take care of her but also making him investigate her. In episode 32, he was able to secretly record her using his hidden camera showing that she was faking paraplegia and threatened to send it to Chung Gor. In episode 36, after he confessed his illness to Chung Gor, he reunited/pursued Dou Sum-yu again. In epsoide 36, he asked Chung Gor to help him find out the truth about Ye Chi's murder. The cooperation with Jin Shang-wen enabled him to gain the trust; later, he used Yip Chi's recorder and company documents to indicate to Jin Shang Wen that there was sufficient evidence to convict the Jin Shang Wen, and finally persuaded Jin Shang Wen to surrender to the police station. | ||
| Do Sam-yu (杜心茹) | “Supervisor” insurance investigator The daughter of Chung Gor Rich Second Generation Ken's girlfriend, looking for him for eight years, and then breaking up with him. Boss of Bak Tin-Ming and Cheung Tung. Good friend of Bak Tin-ming and later becomes his girlfriend. She breaks up with him in episode 36. Cheung Tung is her uncle. Does not like her dad's girlfriend Cici baby because she is younger than her. Mark likes her and in the end, she finally agrees to bike with him around the world. Is a fan of Mi Je which is also a person she had to investigate. She is mostly vegetarian due to her sensitive stomach. In episode 29, she and Bak Tin-ming went to Prague to find Ken, who had been missing for many years. Officially accepted Mark in episode 36 and travelled with him on a bike trip around the world. | ||
| Yip Chi (葉子) | Broker of the Northern Lights Insurance Company. Director of the Quifeng Laundry. fiancée of Barbecue Pork who died because of a police officer making her not like the police. She had a relationship with Cheung Tung. In episode 16, she opens a joint venture after coax from Ho Kwok Leung who has a crush on her. Because of this, Yip Chi borrows huge amounts of cash from financial companies. Ho Kwok Leung divorced his wife who has kids with because he wanted to get together with Yip Chi. Episode 19, she broke up with Cheung Tung because she went up to his office to ask why he put money in her account every month and he told her the truth of him being the cop that killed her fiancée. After that, she took some time off. In episode 20, her aunt used the elderly to apply for insurance under Yip Chi but was actually tricking them and framing Yip Chi. Cheung Tung tried to help her and found out the truth, bailing her out but she still didn't want to see him. She also sells her laundry shop In episode 28, she saved Chung Gor who fainted and fell into the pool. He then started drowning and Yip Chi saved him. After that, Song Gor starts to have a crush on her. In episode 33, she learned about the internal secrets of Northern Lights Insurance Company. Jin Shang Wen and Vincent demanded to join forces, and later apparently agreed to cooperate but the dialogue was secretly recorded by Yip Chi. Vincent found out that she was recording them and Vincent fought for the recording pen and pushed her off the building resulting in her death to get the recording pen. | ||
| Fong Chi Keung (沈堅強) | Insurance Investigation team director, FIT bar owner. Friend of Chung Gor, Cheung Tung, Bak Tin-ming, Do Sum-yu. He had a relationship with Linda Wong Lin until Linda abandon him in front of his staff for not telling his real age. In episode 32, he was framed in creating fake document (forgery) and got arrested. In episode 33, Yip Chi went to the police station to clarify and help him. |
| Cast | Role | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Jin Shang-wen (金尚文) | Ultimate Villain in this drama. Northern Lights Insurance Company Chairman. Husband of Amy. The boss of Yip Chi. Promised Vincent to make him the boss, and cooperated with the other party to forge documents so that the insurance company can reduce or cancel the compensation to the customer in order to defraud the customer for money. Surrendered to the police after persuasion from Bak Tin-ming in episode 36. | |
| Vincent (周諾言) | Main Villain in this drama Director of the Northern Light Insurance Company. Eva's fiancé Was suspected by Rachel that he was related to Eva's death. In episode 32, In order to defraud the client's money and framed Fong Chi-keung, he forged Fong Chi-keung's documents and Fong Chi-keung was arrested by the police. In episode 33, Yip Chi found out about his crime/corruption and she recorded it. In episode 35, Cheung Tung wanted to kill him but Rachel stopped Cheung Tung making Cheung Tung only shoot around Vincent's head. Because he was the one who pushed Yip Chi down resulting to her death, he claimed that he had depression, and because of this illness, he pushed Yip Chi down. Therefore, he was sentenced to a mental hospital for treatment for one year. In episode 36, he was held hostage by Cheung Tung in his mental hospital room with Cheung Tung holding a knife at his neck. Cheung Tung took away the recording pen with his crimes recorded in it. He was later arrested by the police because of the recording pen and because Jin Shang-wen told the police all about their crimes. | |
| Eva (黃倚梅) | President of the Greater China Division of Northern Lights Insurance Company Cheung Tung's ex-wife and the superior's superior's superior's superior (one of Cheung Tung's big boss). Vincent's fiancée. She was kidnapped after discovering that someone in the company was related to an international telephone fraud group. In episode 25, she was pushed down the elevator shaft and was injured by a screw which resulted in her death. | |
| Chung Gor (To Chung) (鬆哥/杜鬆) | The CEO of his film company Do Sum-yu's father. Cici Baby was the boss of the film company as well and also Chung Gor's girlfriend. He later broke up with Cici Baby and then got back together. Friends with Cheung Tung, Fong Chi-keung, and Bak Tin-ming. Had a slight crush on Yip Chi. He used to be in the underworld (gangs) when he was young. The boss of Mike, appreciates his abilities to make money and hopes that Mike can become his son-in-law. In episode 34, he learned that Cheung Tung wanted to buy a black-market pistol (gun) to avenge Yip Chi and so, he immediately contacted his acquaintances in the underworld and black-market and ordered everyone to ban the sale of guns. | |
| Cici Baby ( (何玉蓮) | One of Chung Gor's actress. Chung Gor's girlfriend, later broke up but then got back together. Bak Tin-ming's ex-girlfriend. Enemies with Do Sum-yu. Moved to Hog. Kong with her parents when she was eleven years old, had to become a star/famous under the pressure of her mother and became alienated/estranged from her parents when she grew up. Because Chung Gor was mad at her, when she went down the stairs, she fell down and injured herself. She used this injury to her advantage and claimed that she had paraplegia, forcing Chung Gor to take care of her but also making Bak Tin-ming investigate her. In episode 32, Bak Tin-ming was able to secretly record her using his hidden camera showing that she was faking paraplegia and threatened to send it to Chung Gor. In episode 36, after Bak Tin-ming confessed his illness to Chung Gor and reunited/persuaded Dou Sum-yu again. | |
| Mark Yuan Jun (袁俊) | Lawyer for Chung Gor. Nephew of Fong Chi-keung. likes Do Sum-yu. Friend of Bak Tin-ming and consults with Bak Tin-ming's in ways to pursue Do Sum-yu like what she likes. In episode 36, he was able to go on a bike trip around the world with Do Sum-yu. | |
| Ah Shui (楚淼淼) | FIT bartender and social worker Fong Chi-keung's subordinate and friend. Cheung Tung, Bak Tin-ming, Do Sum-yu, and Yip Chi's friend. | |
| Vivi (Vivi) | Secretary and receptionist for Fong Chi-keung Friends with Cheung Tung, Bak Tin-ming, and Do Sum-yu. | |
| Frankie (Frankie) | Helped the International Telephone Fraud Group. Was killed episode 27 after stealing customer information from a Protection Company and selling it to the phone scam group. | |
| Tommy | Police officer (inspector). He is good friends with Cheung Tung. Is the police officer in charge of many of the cases that have relation to the fake insurance claim cases. In episode 34, he had to body check Cheung Tung at the FIT Bar because there were rumours going around that he had bought a gun from the underworld. He checked Cheung Tung but couldn't find anything unknowing that Cheung Tung had hidden it in an ice bucket. | |
| Ho Kwok Leung (何國亮) | Business liar meaning that he tricks people into opening a business and then having to pay him money. He divorced his wife who he has kids with to try to get together with Yip Chi. In episode 16, he tried to rape Yip Chi only to be stopped by Cheung Tung. | |
| Barbecued pork (叉燒/馮偉業) | Gangster he was Yip Chi's Fiancé and was killed by Cheung Tung years ago. | |
| Amy (金太) | Jin Shang-wen's wife. Her father was the founders of Northern Lights Insurance Company, but they have been operating by illegal means later on. | |
| Ken | Tiffany's brother. Do Sum-yu's missing boyfriend of 8 years. He was lost in an accident while diving with Dou Sum-yu in Guam eight years ago. He was severely injured by the accident and it took him six years to fully recover. Lives in Slovakia. He suffers from brain cancer. His sister Tiffany lied that he had died but Bak Tin-ming and Dou Sum-yu found out that was not true in episode 30. In episode 30, he suddenly fainted on the street and was admitted to the hospital. After that, he asked Bak Tin-ming to give Dou Sum-yu the dying letter for him, and hoped to conceal his illness from Dou Sum-yu. | |
| Tiffany | Ken's sister. Hates Dou Sum-yu because her brother, Ken was severely injured in a diving accident with Dou Sum-yu. In episode 29, told Dou Sum-yu that Ken had died, but was later revealed by Dou Sum-yu and Bak Tin-Ming that that was not true. In episode 30, she told Bak Tin-ming that her brother had brain cancer. | |
| Rachel | Eva's half sister and Cheung Tung's former sister-in-law. Likes Cheung Tung. Started appearing from episode 25 and onward. Found out that the death of Yip Chi and her sister was related to Vincent. Graduated from psychology and psychiatric research. Licensed to be an expert witness. In episode 34, she became Cheung Tung's psychologist and prescribed medication for him to eat, although, Cheung Tung did not eat the medication. In episode 36, she helped Cheung Tung give the voice recorder that contained the evidence of Jin Shang-wen and Vincent to Bak Tin-ming. After Cheung Tung recovered and was discharged from the mental hospital, she decided to live with him. | |
| Kay (謝淑賢) | Famous star and Bak Tin-ming's girlfriend but later broke up. Had another boyfriend and had a baby with him. In episode 26, She informed Bak Tin-ming that she was pregnant, but the father of the baby in her tummy was not him. | |
| Jeff | One of Yip Chi's insurance customer. | |
| Yan | Employee of Chung Gor's film company. | |
| Chung Bo (鐘波) | Taxi driver and father of CiCi Baby. Estranged with her daughter. | |
| Fat Bo (肥波) | Member of the underworld. Went to ship Chi to collect her debt only to be stopped by Cheung Tung. | |
| Lam Bing (藍冰) | Tutoring/tuition teacher and Vincent's wife. | |
| Gang member. Tried to hurt Yip Chi but was stopped by Cheung Tung who called his Gang leader making him go away. | ||
| Bak Siu-ling (百小玲) | Tsui Yin's undisclosed girlfriend and a Bak Tin-ming's mother. Suffers from Alzheimer's disease. | |
| Tsui Yin (徐賢) | Bak Siu-ling's undisclosed boyfriend and Bak Tin-ming's father. Hollywood Star. Died a year and a half ago. | |
Case investigated by Dou Sum-yu and Bak Tin-ming.
Case investigated by Cheung Tung, Bak Tin-ming, and Do Sum-yu.
Case investigated by Cheung Tung.
Case investigated by Bak Tin-ming and Do Sum-yu.
Case investigated by Cheung Tung, Bak Tin-ming, and Do Sum-yu.
Case investigated by Bak Tin-ming and Do Sum-yu.
Case investigated by Cheung Tung and Do Sum-yu.
Case investigated by Cheung Tung, Bak Tin-ming and Do Sum-yu.
Case investigated by Cheung Tung, Bak Tin-ming, and Do Sum-yu.
Case investigated by Cheung Tung.
Case investigated by Bak Tin-ming and Do Sum-yu.
Case investigated by Cheung Tung, Bak Tin-ming, and Do Sum-yu.