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A story of an ambitious world of power and dream that leaves behind many sacrifice and regrets.
So far the cast is: (in order they come out)
Gallen Law
Jessica Hsuan
Louis Koo
Annie Man
Julian Cheung
Wong Hei
Kevin Cheng
Kwok Fung (the man that play Flora father in ATE)
Moses Chan
Benny Chan
Yoyo Mung
Flora Chan
Frankie Lam
Myolie Wu
Bobby Au
Nick Cheung
Sunny Chan
Ada Choi
Raymond Lam
Joyce Tangs....and lots more as story develop.
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Ambitious Eye Chapter 1: Addicting Game
In 1980's the business world is at it blooming state with lots of hope, many people is willing to risk all their saving to the marketing industry. This period is the high point of the business world. Big investors has became a millionaire within a couple of days while other has lost their entire saving and even took their own life. It's a period of gambling for chance to climb up to the top of the pyramid. While many fallen off the competitive race, but there is still one ordinary man with a sharp eyes to hit the jackpot of the marketing world. He risked all he own just on this one chance that everyone say it impossible, but the word impossible was never in his dictionary. And cause of his confident on this one wise choice, he has made his dream come true right after the news announced the upcoming event that sky rocketed his stock. Gallen Law is his name, a very ambitious man that wanted to success in the business world just for the thrill of the game. A man that has always set his goal high above and has never doubted himself from reaching his goal.
But every gain always came with a lost. Nothing is as easy as what met the eyes. He didn't just start his gambling on the market the day he success, he has invested more then ten years into this game already. And cause of this game he has lost all of his pride procession, including his family, wife, friends, and dignity. He has gone to the point where no one is willing to lean him money cause he never have the money to return it. He has lost his pride and dignity when he asks for a favor and no one is willing to help, no one trust his word anymore and think of him as mud under their shoe. But that never stop him from dreaming and continuing studying the stock market world even if it meant he might have to live in the street.
Ever since he has graduated from general education in 1970 at the age of 18. He knows his interest, so he entered the stock market world as an office boy and slowly works up. The experience is what he is going after rather then the wage. During his stay at the marketing world, he learns the valuable lesson of how the market world works and the pattern of the stock market. From then on he invested all his time on it and spend all his income to play with the game trying to figure out the key element of the thrilling game. Years after years he has up and down that make him understand more about the stock market and he is determine that one day he will win this game of his.
With his ambitious goal and confident personality, he has won himself a wife that believes in him and supported his dream. He married a beautiful energetic wife named Jessica Hsuan in 1975, when she is twenty and he is twenty-three. Their marriage is based more on a blaze of passion at the moment more than the thorough love for each other. Jessica thought that she has find the right man that is able to love her, but she slowly find out that she don't really love him, she just loved the thrill and excitement that his dream can offer. But she still carry on with the marriage cause she thought that one day she will gain more understanding and love toward her husband again. Very soon after their marriage she is pregnant with their first child. A little boy that they named Louis is born in 1976. Both husband and wife cherished their son like precious gold.
After being a mother, Jessica is starting to get anxious and nervous about how Gallen is gambling with all their procession on the stock market. She is starting to feel insecure and wanted a more stable life for her family since they are having the second generation. But Gallen will not lets anything stop his dream, he has ambitiously determine to win, so no matter how much Jessica nagged him, he would just ignore her.
Gallen just rushed into the flat and ran straight to the radio to turn it on. Jessica whose is in the kitchen walked out to greet her husband with a warm hug, "You are home early! Go wash up and get ready for dinner. I'll bring the soup out." Gallen just nodded absentmindedly, which made Jessica felt pointless to her marriage life. She headed to bring out dinner and started to feed her two years old son while Gallen is still anxiously waiting for the announcement of the stock.
"That is impossible!!" Gallen shouted with rage and shuts off the radio, Jessica knows exactly what is going on and just stare at him with her hard eyes. Gallen dragged himself to sit down on the dinner table and they eat in silent.
Jessica didn't feel like eating anymore, she know that something must be change to secure her and Louis lives. Gently she put down her bowl of rice and looked at Gallen waiting for attention. "Gallen we can't go on like this." Gallen just ignore her and continue his dinner, this is not their first time heading into this conversation. Jessica felt her eyes watered from seeing how insensitive her husband could get. "Have you thinks of us? We don't much money left if you continue to throw them into the big ocean. Louis is growing up, he need to go to school. Our expend will be higher and.."
"And that is why I'm trying to earn money." He coldly finished off Jessica sentence. "Just give me a bit more time, I just calculated wrong. It won't be like this next time" his hand reach to grab her gently. "Trust me, I'll give you a luxurious life like I promise. And Louis will go to private school to get the best education. Jessica you know that I have been investing in stock for the last eight years."
"I wish I could forget. Gallen I don't need a luxurious life, all I want is a stable secure life that I could depend on. It not just the two of us anymore, we have Louis to worry about, I don't want to risk anymore. You love the game more than me or Louis." She sighed and picked Louis up to walk into her room with the door shut.
Like always Gallen just pushed her concern away and continue to try masterminding the game of stock. Since Jessica couldn't convince her husband to give up, all she could do is continue to hold in her fear and her nervousness every time her husband has invested. Time dragged slowly fading away with Gallen still struggling with his game, and Jessica trying to struggle with their living cause Gallen has been addicted to the marketing game and has spend almost every penny of his earning on it.
Instead of moving to bigger house like how he has promised her when they got married, they has moved to smaller flat, then to share flat with other family, then now finally to a tiny shabby flat that is by the hillside where all the poor lived. The hope that is in Jessica eyes seem to be faded away and her heart seem to die along with it, she is tire of this kind of live. The worry and anxiety she would get when she listen to the radio for the stock rating and the news she read in newspaper on how many people has jumped off their building with their family cause they are in huge debt that they can't pull themselves out of. She is afraid that one day it will be their turn if Gallen continue to deepen into this addicting game.
She tries to talk Gallen out of it and they would end up arguing. Day in and days out Jessica worry has numbed to bitterness. She resented her husband for doing this to her and her son but she still try to stay in the marriage cause she doesn't want her son to grow up in a single parent home. Couple more years passed by and in 1980 she give birth to one more child into this dreadfully poor family, a baby girl they named Annie. The day that Annie is born, the stock that Gallen has brought has dropped more causing a big downhill situation for the family. On that day Gallen has start picking up on alcohol and didn't even go to the hospital when Jessica is giving birth. From then on Gallen is either in one of the stock station putting down his bet or came home drunk. Jessica seeing how her family is getting out of hand, her mood has became more bitter and cold, she blamed on her daughter Annie for bringing bad luck to the family. Therefore she never cares as much for her daughter Annie as she is for her son Louis.
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