A General, a Scholar and a Eunuch

General Yuen Sung-woon (Edwin Siu), Donglin Academy scholar Jor Gwong-dau (Raymond Cho), and eunuch Lee Jun-chung (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 Ng Siu-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 Gwong-dau 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. Sung-woon becomes Wan Tai-kwan, Gwong-dau becomes Fung Yat-bo and Jun-chung becomes Lee Siu-tung. When Jun-chung 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 a hypocritical person who pretends to care about her fans while secretly thinking they are idiots, believes 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 for each person. The three borrow the fan club entry fee from Sister Ha, but in order to pay her back, Sung-woon 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, Jun-chung 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 Jun-chung's dish as the signature dish of her restaurant, but Jun-chung is nowhere to be found by then. Determined to find Jun-chung, she posts fliers all over the city looking for him. After a passerby tells Jackie that he recognizes the person on the flier, she arrives at the film studio just as the three beg Sister Ha to lend them money to go to Hong Kong after learning that Sandy is leaving Foshan for Hong Kong. Jackie offers to bring them to Hong Kong.

Jun-chung, 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 Jun-chung, 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 Jun-chung/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 that their rival had brought to the restaurant. Soon, Siu-tung becomes a media darling and social media celebrity, with television stations lining up to have him as a guest.

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 past 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 culprit who wants to ruin them and expose their secret of being sent from the past starts to emerge. While dealing with their current enemy, the three also face greater danger when a powerful enemy from the Ming Dynasty, who Tai-kwan is no match for, also travels to the future to hunt them down 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.^[2]

• The costume fitting ceremony was held on October 4, 2016 12:30 pm at Tseung Kwan O TVB City Studio One Common Room.^[3]
• The blessing ceremony was held on October 31, 2015 3:00 pm at Tseung Kwan O TVB City Studio.^[4]
• Filming took place from October 2016 till February 2017, on location in Hong Kong and Foshan China.
• Rosina Lam was originally cast as the Princess character, but turned it down due to her busy personal schedule. Grace Wong was then cast in the part.^[5]