A General, a Scholar and a Eunuch (Traditional Chinese: 超時空男臣; literally "Time-Travelling Male Official") is a 2017 Hong Kong television costume historical, science fiction comedy drama produced by Marco Law for TVB, starring Edwin Siu, Kristal Tin, Raymond Cho, Grace Wong and Matthew Ho as the main cast. It premiered on Hong Kong's TVB Jade and Malaysia's Astro On Demand on July 17, 2017 airing Monday through Friday during its 8:30 to 9:30 pm timeslot and concluding August 27, 2017 with a total of 32 episodes.
A General, a Scholar and a Eunuch is a historical fiction comedy about three Ming dynasty imperial officials who accidentally travel to modern day Mainland China by accident while searching for the crown prince's missing wife. The three male leads are actual historical Chinese figures Yuan Chonghuan, Zuo Guangdou and Wei Zhongxian, however, the characters are portrayed fictitiously in the drama.
General Yuan Chonghuan (Edwin Siu), Donglin Academy scholar Zuo Guangdou (Raymond Cho), and eunuch Li Junchong (Matthew Ho) are Ming Dynasty imperial officials that accidentally went through a time portal while escaping assassins during their mission of escorting the betrothal Crown Princess (Grace Wong). The three find themselves in modern-day Foshan China at an ancient filming set which confuses them from reality and fiction. They also meet film production manager Sister Ha whom they mistake as a lazy court maid. Sister Ha befriends the three when they are unable to pay a restaurant bill, after she finds out the jade pendant Guangdou gave her as a token of appreciation is in fact a priceless Ming dynasty relic. Sister Ha modernizes the appearance of the three in an impoverish style and gives them work as film extras. She also gives them three new names. Chonghuan becomes Wan Tai-kwan, Guangdou becomes Fung Yat-bo and Junchong becomes Lee Siu-tung. When Junchong encounters popular female actress Sandy Wang Yi-san (Grace Wong) at the filming studio, he mistakes her as the Crown Princess. However, Sandy who is really a hypocritical fake person that pretends to care about her fans but think they are really idiots, thinks the three are her fans. Sandy's manager prevents the three from communicating with her unless they join her fan club which cost HK$3000 each person. The three borrow the fan club entry fee from sister Ha, but in order to pay her back Chonghuan has to work as a cross-dressing stunt double.
Meanwhile struggling restaurant owner Jackie Fung Wai-chi (Kristal Tin) from Hong Kong is also in Foshan to search for a new head chef at her restaurant since the current head chef suffers from Alzheimer and can't remember how to cook a single dish. When she is unable to find her intended prospect she holds a cooking competition at a hotel banquet hall. Wanting to help pay off their debt, Junchong decides to join the cooking competition, but his confusion and as well as the faulty system of the elevator causes him to be late. When he arrives at the competition site Jackie had left. Still determined to get hired he cooks a dish, but Jackie's uncle shoos him away. When Jackie returns to the competition site she recognizes Junchong dish as the signature dish of her restaurant, but Junchong is nowhere to be found by then. Determined to find Junchong she posts fliers all over the city looking for him. After a passerby tells Jackie that he knows who the person on the flier is, she arrives at the film studio just in time to say that she will bring them to and take care of them in Hong Kong when the three beg Sister Ha that they must go to Hong Kong after seeing a celebrity news report that Sandy is leaving Foshan and returning to Hong Kong.
Junchong, not wanting to sign a long-term work contract with Jackie refuses her offer of employment no matter how high a price she offers. In order to trick the three and especially Junchong, she lies that she and Sandy are close friends and that she will help them get in contact with her. When Jackie's father meets the three he does not believe that Junchong/Siu-tung is the newly hired head chef due to his young age. Siu-tung proves everyone wrong when his cooking impresses a very important guest their rival had brought to the restaurant. Soon Siu-tung becomes a media darling when television stations line up to have him as a guest and also a social media celebrity with a huge following.
Unhappy with their newfound success, Jackie's rival tries to lure Siu-tung to work for them with every means possible. Meanwhile Tai-kwan has attracted the attention of a triad boss who causes trouble for the restaurant. Impressed by Tai-kwan's highly skilled martial arts, the triad boss tries to force Tai-kwan into joining his gang. Yat-bo, who has been absorbing all of modern technology and information creates a believable lie that scares off the triad gang. When Sandy uses Yat-bo to ward off an unwanted suitor, he finds himself falling for her since he had a romantic relationship with the Crown Princess during their actual timeline.
All seems fine when Jackie merges to become part of their rival company, but the true evil culprit who wants to ruin them and expose their secret of being sent from the past starts to emerge. With problems dealing with their current enemy the three also faces more problems when a powerful enemy from the Ming Dynasty, who Tai-kwan is no match for also comes to the future to look for them and bring their heads back to the Ming Dynasty.
A General, a Scholar and a Eunuch ending was left inconclusive leading to speculation of a possible sequel.
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