Presumed Accidents (; literally "Skillful Accident") is a 2016 Hong Kong modern suspense crime television drama produced by Andy Chan for TVB, starring Lawrence Ng and Sisley Choi as the main leads, with Lai Lok-yi, Joyce Tang, Raymond Cho and Selena Lee as the major supporting cast. Presumed Accidents ahmike.com. Retrieved June 25, 2016 Filming took place from June to October 2015 on location in Hong Kong. The series premiered May 30, 2016, airing every Monday to Friday on Hong Kong's TVB Jade, Malaysia's Astro On Demand and Australia's TVBJ channels during its 8:30-9:30 pm timeslot, concluding July 3, 2016 with a total of 28 episodes.
Presumed Accidents plot centers on insurance investigation and fraud with a side plot focusing on past life regression.
Synopsis Antique and Cafe shop owner George Kiu (Lawrence Ng) has a mysterious life. He is an immortal that has lived since ancient times. He was given a life elixir by Princess Yuet Ngai (Selena Li), a woman he loved when he was a high ranking general during the Yuan dynasty. A minor car accident connects him with Eunice Yan (Sisley Choi). Since Eunice resembles a loved one from his past, with the help of his personal butler the two begin a blossoming friendship which he hopes will bring them closer, but what seemed like romantic pursuing is actually something else as George has his reasons.
Insurance investigator Eunice Yan gives up her promising medical career when her parents are killed in a car accident on the day of her university graduation. When receiving her parents' life insurance payment she becomes curious of the process and decides on her future career path. After meeting George, each of her cases strangely somehow have a connection with him. Due to his connections with the people involved in the cases he becomes a huge help in helping her solve her cases. As the two become closer and closer their true relationship is later revealed and starts to understand why George wants to be part of her life. in order to mend the past he had wronged Eunice, George decides to work for the investigation firm she works for in order to fix their relationship and help her.
When Eunice learns of her complicated relationship with George she starts to pursue a relationship with her former university classmate Mantus Chuk (Lai Lok-yi), who is now an attorney for suspects of insurance fraud. George also meets Faye Lin Yeuk-fei (Selena Li) a woman that identically resembles his late wife Chong Wing-yee (Selena Li) who George loved very much. As Eunice and Mantus relationship progress and Faye and George become closer it is revealed that both Mantus and Faye are part of a sinister organisation and their main targets are George and Eunice. George and Eunice soon learns that all of the insurance cases they have investigated together are somehow connected and everything began the day of Eunice's parents death.
Cast Main cast Lawrence Ng as George Kiu Man-kit () A mysterious man who has lived since ancient times. He meets Eunice when he accidentally scratches her car. Since Eunice resemblance someone in his life he starts to pursue her in order to form a relationship and also see if she really is who he thinks she is. He is somehow connected to all the cases that Eunice investigates. It is later revealed that his interest in Eunice is not romantic as he is Eunice's biological father. After the death of George's wife during child birth he could not accept reality and gave Eunice up to be raised by foster parents whom he hired. After an incident where he is almost accused of murder, he and Eunice starts to form a real father and daughter relationship.
Sisley Choi as Eunice Yan Yin () A former medical student whose parents died in a car accident on the day of her university graduation. While obtaining her parents death insurance payment she becomes curious and decides to become an insurance investigator. After worrying that she may have fallen-in-love with him, George finally reveals that she is his biological daughter and that the people she thought were her parents are actually people he hired to take care of her and give her a normal upbringing. Finding out George is her real father she starts to pursue a romantic relationship with her former university friend Mantus.
Lai Lok-yi as Mantus Chuk Sing-yeung () A lawyer and Eunice's university friend. He and Eunice reconnect when he becomes the lawyer that represents suspects for the Insurance Fraud Organization. Eunice had a crush on him during their university years, after she finds out George is her father she decides to pursue a relationship with him. He pretends to get close to Eunice because he is the real head of the Insurance Fraud Organization. Faye and him grew up in the housing projects together and the two are in a secret relationship. George's staged accident on the death of Eunice's adopted parents caused him to lose a leg and the death of his father. Mad on revenge he kidnaps Eunice and Faye but this ultimately causes his own death.
Joyce Tang as Jessie Hui Kit-ying () Head of True Detective (TD) Investigation Limited insurance department. She treats all of her employees like family and gives them all nicknames. She and her estranged husband Jason, have a young son together. After seeing her being bullied by her estranged husband's girlfriend, Lai Yat-ming pretends to be her new boyfriend which gives her the courage to finally divorce her husband. However, with Yat-ming pretending to be her boyfriend and dressing more formally she starts to develop a crush on him. With the help of her son, she and Yat-ming starts dating for real at the end.
Raymond Cho as Richard Lai Yat-ming () A former CIB police investigator that currently works as an investigator at TD who is partnered with newbie investigator Smart Ho whom he can't seem to stand. He hates traffic speeding drivers because his police partner died in a car accident due to speeding traffic. Knowing he is a former police investigator, George ask him to help investigate Mantus and the Insurance Fraud Organization. He also helps Jessie by giving her the courage by pretending to be her new boyfriend, to divorce her estranged husband after seeing her being bullied by her husband's girlfriend.
Selena Li as Faye Lin Yeuk-fei () / Chong Wing-yee () / Princess Yuet Ngai () Princess Yuet Ngai: A princess of the Yuan dynasty who was sent to Korea escorted by George at the time. When they fell in love, they were trying to escape from the imperial hunting. She fed George a Korean Immortal Pill which gave him the ability of self-healing and immortal life. Chong Wing-yee: George's wife who he was madly in love with and Eunice's biological mother. She died in hospital while giving birth to Eunice. George first meets her while passing by and she was being a good samaritan saving an injured life on the street. Faye Lin Yeuk-fei: An insurance sales agent that refers her clients to the Insurance Fraud Organization doctor. George meets her when she claims to be the owner of the antique porcelain cup George highly seeks after. She is also in a secret relationship with Mantus who is the real head of the Insurance Fraud Organization. Due to her similar facial appearance to Chong Wing-yee she agrees to have plastic surgery to look identical to Wing-yee in order to help Mantus and get close to George. With the help of George to help her face her fears she starts to see the evil side of Mantus.
B Cup Cafe staff Chow Chung as Brian Cheung Hak-loi (; nicknamed B Kid ()) Bob Cheung as Young Brian Cheung Hak-loi () George Kiu's personal butler who knows his secret. He helps George get close to Eunice by setting up circumstances where she has to relay on George for help. He also helps George manage his cafe and online antique dealing. The other secret is he is also George's adopted son whom George found abandon as a baby during World War II. Snow Suen as Yeung Yin-ngoi (; nicknamed I.I) Eunice's feisty friend and roommate. She is model but is often unemployed and later gets a job as a waitress at George's cafe. She gets killed when she finds out about Insurance Fraud organization, which her boyfriend Tang Chuk-qiu is part of.
True Detective (TD) Investigation Limited staff Henry Lo as Mak Wing-cheung () A middle-aged man and former investigator who does administrative work at TD. Calvin Chan as Smart Ho Tse-chung () A new investigator at TD who is partnered with Lai Yat-ming. He is eager and optimistic on every case he takes on, however, Yat-ming can't stand him and decides to take Tse-fung as his new partner. Milkson Fong as Yeung Tse-fung (; nicknamed Ah Mook ()) A new investigator at TD who is partnered with Eunice. He is nicknamed Ah mook (meaning wood in Chinese) because he is slow and stiffed, however he is more intelligent than everyone thinks. He later resigns from TD because he found a better job. Brian Chu as Sherlock Hung Siu-hon () The secretary at TD. He is in charge of filing and submitting case files to the insurance companies once a case has been completed.
Insurance Fraud organization *A secret organization that stages accidents or murder victims in order to collect insurance payments. They are also assassins for hire that will solicit their clients with a purpose to kill someone. Max Cheung as Blue Yau Tin-nam () Leader of an insurance fraud organization that stages accidents or murder victims with no known relatives in order to collect insurance. He fronts as a home furnishing shop owner. George's staged accident of Eunice's adopted parents caused him and wife to lose their unborn child and later his wife's suicide. Tang Chuk-qiu later kills him in order to avenge for his girlfriend Yeung Yin-ngoi, death. Rachel Kan as Chan Ka-kei () She poses as a social worker helping the homeless in order to find new victims for the organization. She is actually the cause of May Kwan's death. She was forced into the fraud organization when they blackmailed her after obtaining evidence that she murdered a man who was sexually abusing a retarded girl she was a case worker of. Due to her conscience she later betrays the organization. Hoi Yeung as Tang Chuk-qiu () Yeung Yin-ngoi boyfriend who she meets when she forces him to take her to see her sick grandmother in the hospital. He fronts as an entertainment reporter but is really the photographer in charge of photographing the organizations target. He kills Blue Yau in order to avenge for Yeung Yin-ngoi, whom he really did love, death. In the process of killing Blue he ends up killing himself. Man Yeung as Lee King-chiu () A mechanic garage owner whose car repair shop is involved in shady business in order to scam insurance companies. He was a teenage juvenile delinquent who tried to steal from Mantus. After Mantus finds out he under the control of an abusive triad boss, Mantus becomes his friend. The two reconnect as adults when Mantus is his lawyer for a hit and run case that he is a suspect of. After proving his innocence Mantas buys him a mechanic garage in order to commit insurance fraud. He is later killed by the organization by raging his car brakes. Kedar Wong as To Kam () A mechanic at Lee King-chiu's garage. For a cut of the money he writes up fake invoices or pretend extra work has been done to a vehicle in order to scam insurance money. He was made a sacrifice of the organization when the police started learning more about their organization. Geoffrey Wong as Ko Tak-shing ()