This article contains character information for the Singaporean Chinese family drama series Kinship.
Main characters Chen Anping Cast Role Description Yao Wenlong Chen Anping A 55 year old and is married to Meiqi; they have three adopted daughters: Jinsha, Yinsha and Yusheng. Still playful despite his age, Chen Anping is a jovial man who enjoys picking up new things and can often be seen playing with a Game Boy often in the show.
He may mingle and joke effortlessly with his customers and foot reflexology disciples but when the time comes to impart his self-discovered theories and skills in foot reflexology, the man is dead serious. To him, foot reflexology is a service to the people and thus he disagrees with Anxin's method of business.
It was later revealed that Anping once had a child with Lishi. Lishi wants Anping to be with her but Anping refused, forcing Lishi to cause trouble in his family. Lishi later drop the charges against Jinsha, forcing Anping into a lot of stress. Anping finally decided to go with Lishi as he had no choice. Lishi then tells Meiqi and Da Ying Jia's staff that Anping is leaving Meiqi for her, even saying that he was exchanging himself for Meiqi and the three children's happiness. She later waited at the airport for Anping but he did not show up as Anping has made himself missing. To obtain evidence that can help exonerate Yusheng, Anping eventually give in to Lishi; she drop all charges against Yusheng.
Meiqi then pulls out from the love triangle after Lishi buys over half the foot reflexology business. Zhongshang is impressed with Meiqi's kindness and magnanimity and decides to woo her. Even though Anping is with Lishi, he still cannot forget Meiqi; thus, the relationship among the four becomes even more complicated.
Lin Meiqi Cast Role Description Xiang Yun Lin Meiqi On the surface, it might appear that the superstitious Lin Meiqi leaves all decision-making to her husband Chen Anping, but in actuality, she's a tough cookie whose strong nature and straightforwardness makes her the No.1 in the family.
Unhappy with her husband's soft tolerance towards his brother Chen Anxin, Meiqi stamps her feet down and plots to have Anxin kidnapped on the grand opening day of yet another Da Ying Jia branch to show the latter up.
Meiqi and Anping are childless, but adopt three girls - Zheng Jinsha, Zheng Yinsha and Zheng Yusheng - from Meiqi's cousin and sister. Meiqi especially hides from Yusheng her true birthright to protect her.
As Anping is still "missing", Meiqi has no choice but to hand the foot reflexology business to Naifa but the latter is not only incapable of managing the business, he also gets into more trouble.
Meiqi then pulls out from the love triangle after Lishi buys over half the foot reflexology business. Zhongshang is impressed with Meiqi's kindness and magnanimity and decides to woo her. Even though Anping is with Lishi, he still cannot forget Meiqi; thus, the relationship among the four becomes even more complicated.
Chen Anxin Cast Role Description Chen Tianwen Chen Anxin The ambitious and far-sighted Chen Anxin succeeds in turning Da Ying Jia from a small, HDB flat-operated business into a large-scale enterprise with 14 branches locally with plans to expand overseas and get listed in the stock market.
His confidence and success strip years away from his appearance and despite being of the same age as his wife Meixue, the latter look more like his older sister than wife and their relationship is far from passionate. Coupled with his personal assistant Martin's constant introduction of pretty young things to him, Anxin thus has his fair share of extramarital flings. Nevertheless, the flirtatious Anxin finally meets his match in the young and attractive Shuiling. Unaware that the latter is in fact his son Yingjun's girlfriend, Anxin even divorces Meixue to be with her. When the truth surfaces, ties between father and son become strained.
Anxin's grudges with the gangster triad not only stirs up enough troubles, it also cause Yingjun to be abducted and his naked photos taken. And when he eventually discovers and unveils Shuiling's true motives, he falls prey to Martin and her murderous plot. Thrown into the sea, he struggles between life and death. Anxin somehow manage to survives the ordeal and returns as a Thai monk named Ha Sa Yan with the fervent hope to lead Shuiling to repentance.
Lin Meixue Cast Role Description Lin Meijiao. Lin Meixue Unlike her sister Lin Meiqi, Lin Meixue looks tough but is actually a softie at heart. Her husband's success and their financial affluence have turned her into a high society ‘tai-tai'.
Years ago, Meixue was dumped by her ex-boyfriend, Li Dawei, and it was only when she married Anxin soon after that she realized she was pregnant with her ex-boyfriend's child. She is unable to conceive again after giving birth to their son Yingjun and because of this deep-seated guilt towards Anxin, she is forgiving towards the latter's dalliances.
Meixue becomes depressed when Anxin divorces her for another woman Shuiling, so much until she becomes a bulimic. When Meixue finally sees through Shuiling's web of deceit, she moves back home in a bid to protect Yingjun's inheritance. Shuiling's many plots almost bring to light of Yingjun's parentage.
Meixue later was stunned and ended up in hospital after she tried to break up a fight between Chang Ying and Anxin. Which only resulted her hitting herself against the staircase which affected her brain nerves, forcing her into coma. With Shuiling's constant fear that Meixue may wake up one day to expose her evil deeds, and under repeated instigation by Shuiling and Martin end Meixue's life.
Chen Yingjun Cast Role Description Elvin Ng Chen Yingjun Beneath his cold demeanor, Chen Yingjun is in fact a passionate young man who just isn't very good at socializing and articulating himself. His attractive looks, coupled with his family background, makes him Prince Charming to many young girls.
Yingjun has two buddies, Zheng Yusheng and Wind, who are much tougher than he is and often become his ‘bodyguards'. When Yingjun's first love, Zhao Shuiling, dumps him in favour of his rich dad Chen Anxin, Yusheng is there to pick him up and walk him out of his sadness. A romance slowly blooms but both are reluctant to make the first move and confess their feelings. Their relationship meets with more hiccups when Yusheng's colleague Zhang Wenya takes a liking to Yingjun as well. After Yusheng was acquitted of all charges, Yingjun marries her.
Yingjun later decides to sue Shuiling and Martin when he learns of the embezzlement scheme and the forgery of the legal documents.
Zheng Yusheng Cast Role Description Jesseca Liu Zheng Yusheng Zheng Yusheng is lively, optimistic, straightforward and righteous. She remains blissfully unaware of her complicated family background: her birth mother Lin Meiyu and grandmother both took the rap for her drug-dealing father Chang Ying, and Yusheng was born in jail, thus her name is of the same pronunciation as the phrase ‘prison-born'. Her mother was sentenced to death and her grandmother to life imprisonment. Yusheng's aunt Lin Meiqi later adopted her.
Yusheng and Chen Yingjun have been a close but bickering duo from young. Yusheng is allergic to chocolate and will always fall into a sleep after eating it, thus the two have more than a few amusing episodes together. When Yingjun has his heart broken after a failed relationship with Zhao Shuiling, Yusheng takes it upon herself to introduce girls to him, yet she finds herself falling for him. Their romance finally takes a step forward after they survive the ordeal of being abducted and nude photos taken of them together.
Yusheng also finds out about her parentage after the kidnap and in her quest to uncover the mastermind, becomes a murder suspect. She was given a death sentence, but after Anping decided to give in to Lishi, she was later acquitted of all charges and marries Yingjun.
Zheng Jinsha Cast Role Description Cynthia Koh Zheng Jinsha Frank and self-righteous, arrogant yet with an inferiority complex, Zheng Jinsha was rescued from a near-destructive delinquent youth by her aunt and uncle, Lin Meiqi and Chen Anping, after her parents died, and Jinsha is thus very filial to the two of them.
Both Jinsha's legs are covered with tattoos, thus she'll never be caught in a skirt or short pants. She talks roughly to everyone with the exception of her husband Xu Naifa. With him, she's gentle and soft-spoken and follows his every instruction for fear that he'll leave her. Afraid that her precious children will follow in her wrong footsteps, she's extra strict with them, resulting in strained relations with her son.
Jinsha also owns an ice-cream shop next to the foot reflexology centre that's quite widely received by the public.
Jinsha's marriage enters into troubled waters when she finds out about Naifa's adulterous affair with Daisy. After she saw Naifa sleeping with Daisy, she became cold to him.
Xu Naifa Cast Role Description Darren Lim Xu Naifa Glib, sociable and popular with the girls, Xu Naifa regards himself as half the boss of Da Ying Jia based on the fact that he is Chen Anping's son-in-law and that he's been working at the centre since he was 20 years old. He instigates his wife Jinsha to speak well of him to her parents; eventually even opening his own chain of foot reflexology centres, putting his Jinsha in a tight spot.
Years ago, Naifa had to marry Jinsha when she became pregnant and ever since then, he would occasionally lament on how he was forced to ‘give up the entire forest for one tree', and how getting married early is one of his life's greatest regrets. Jinsha, naturally, feels uncomfortable hearing those words. Later, Naifa thinks the rich Indonesian lady Daisy will help him further his career and has an affair with her.
Both of them were later forced to break-up after Jinsha saw Naifa sleeping with Daisy in their house on their bed, resulting Naifa to lose its business as a boss of his own foot reflexology centre. Naifa later promised to be good to Jinsha and went back to work in Da Ying Jia.
Zheng Yinsha Cast Role Description Ann Kok Zheng YinshaZheng Yinsha is overconfident, pushy and ambitious. Afraid of doing household chores, she is lucky to marry Hong Zhaoyang, a man who willingly gave up his career as a swimming instructor to be a househusband.
The couple is shaken from their comfortable lifestyle when Zhaoyang's mother comes to live with them. Extremely displeased that her son has become a ‘slave' to his wife, the elderly lady quarrels with Yinsha often, leaving Zhaoyang caught in the middle.
Yinsha however faces tremendous difficulty in her career when she is charged with selling fake medicine, and this drives her to depression. As Yinsha is about to go overseas, she finally appreciates Zhao Yang.
Hong Zhaoyang This Mr Goody-Two-Shoes has no temper at all and is a big softie at heart; Hong Zhaoyang only weakness is that his overly passionate and helpful nature can sometimes turn things for the worse.
Zhaoyang, once a superb swimming instructor, met his student Zheng Yinsha at the pool and love blossomed from there. He enjoys doing housework and cooking, and loves his wife and children extremely.
With a special passion for baking, Zhaoyang decides to rent a stall in the market to hawk his creations but is eventually conned of his money. He then takes over half of the stall space in his sister-in-law Zheng Jinsha's ice-cream parlour to sell his cakes. There, he becomes acquainted with Heping, a study mother, and incurs the suspect of his wife Yinsha for having an affair.
Hong Zhaoyang is played by Alan Tern.
Zhao Shuiling Despite her sweet looks, Zhao Shuiling, or sometimes referred to as Lynn, is actually a superficial and jealous young woman who will stoop to any level to get what she wants.