Troubles with the Bachelors
(Synopsis)
Three bachelors, Chang, Lee & Kao, though of different character, work in the same firm and share a room, getting along fairly well.
Chang, the cheerful young chap, soon falls in love with his neighbour, Yu-Ling. Whilst Chang's romance begins, Lee, the honest middle-aged bachelor, falls for the landlady's neice, Ah-Chuen, who has hitherto fled from her jobless, opium-indicted father, whose intention it was to force her to become one of the rich men's concubine, thus making a profit of it. Kao, the other room-mate, is the carefree type, and spends money on girls like nobody's business.
Time has come when the question of marriage is brought about. Chang and Yu-Ling have decided to wed each other. Yu-Ling's mother who has had great hopes that her daughter will someday marry someone wealthy, reluctantly consents to her daughter's marriage, but under the condition that Yu-Ling must get a diamond ring on her engagement to Chang and that a great banquet must be given to celebrate their wedding. Happy on one hand, distressed on the other, Chang, being an ordinary clerk, has hardly enough money to fulfil either of the conditions, so he seeks loans from his friends but time and again his efforts prove fruitless. Meanwhile Yu-Ling, having stolen her own mother's diamond ring to help Chang raise his funds, manages to get a false one to substitute her mother's with the help of Kao. Nevertheless, things get to the worst stage when it is discovered that the ring they pawned is not even genuine. At this climax, Yu-Ling's mother loses all her face in front of her friends and relatives because of her own vanity, whilst Chang almost gets involved in a court case - everything turns topsy turey.
Meantime, Kao, for all his folly, gets thrown out of a restaurant and shamefully returns home.
The only ones that survive in such tumultous conditions are Lee and Ah-Chuen, whose simple marriage gives their happy new life a good and steady start, while the other two, Chang and Kao, as bystanders, come to realize that the best way to live a happy life is to face the fact, living a life of honesty and relinquishing all dreams of vanity.
THE END