House of Spirits (; literally "A House of Old FriendsWhen used in this context, "Old Friends" is a euphemism for ghosts.") is a 2016 Hong Kong television comedy, family, supernatural drama produced by Dave Fong for TVB, starring Bobby Au-yeung, Nancy Wu, Helena Law and Bowie Wu as the main cast. It premiered on Hong Kong's TVB Jade and Malaysia's Astro On Demand on June 27, 2016, airing Monday through Sunday during its 9:30-10:30 pm timeslot and concluding July 31, 2016 with a total of 31 episodes. TVB新劇《一屋老友記》劇情介紹（1﹣31集大結局）ihktv.com . Retrieved June 28, 2016
Synopsis Po Foon (Bobby Au-yeung) finds his heart-broken father Po Luk dead, while waiting for his grown children to come over for dinner. Foon makes a promise to fulfill his father's last wish of mending his bickering family together. As requested on Po Luk's will, all four of the Po siblings must live together in his rundown home for nine months, before they can sell it. At first, none of Foon's siblings, Po Yan (Joyce Tang), Anthony Po (Jonathan Cheung) and Po Yi (Bob Cheung) agree to live together, but after discovering the property's worth in the market, they all move in without hesitation.
Po Foon, the oldest of the four, is not respected by his younger siblings. He had walked out on the family during his youth, instead of contributing to his family when it was needed the most, he had decided to leave so he could seek his freedom and escape his father's abuse. The death of his father has finally made him realize the importance of unity and family, and makes him finally understand his father's words of "A bunch of chopsticks is stronger than one chopstick."
On the first day of moving into his father's home, Foon comes across a dusty antique umbrella and opens it in the balcony. As he turns to go back inside he sees an elderly couple suddenly inside the house watching television on his couch. They introduce themselves as Bak Wah (Bowie Wu) and Yi Lan (Helena Law), and claim that they live next door. However both Bak Wah and Yi Lan seem to not want to leave the Po home until Foon asks them to.
Foon then starts to notice something strange about the couple, as he and his niece Bianca seem to be the only two people who acknowledge their existence. The neighbors in the building tell Foon that the apartment the couple claim to live in has been vacant for many years, and that they do not know of such a couple in the building. However the Baks use an excuse, that they do not get along with the neighbors, as an explanation to Foon. After witnessing Bak Wah jump off the roof and then reappearing without a scratch, Foon realizes that the couple are indeed actually ghosts.
Meanwhile, Foon meets certified electrician Chu Chan-chan (Nancy Wu) when she approaches him in the middle of night after learning his building had a fire scare because of electrical problems. Foon wards Chan-chan off after thinking her estimated price for the repair work is too expensive, but she gets hired later by Yan who is also a former classmate of Chan-chan. When Foon tries to rid the Baks from his home they start playing tricks on him and soon Foon starts calling Chan-chan to do repair work as his thinks there are plumbing issues within his home.
Chan-chan's good deed to help Foon causes her to lose her job as she is forced to resign when she loses a huge client for the shop she works for. Due to a mean spirited former co-worker bad mouthing her she is unable to find employment elsewhere. However opportunity arises when a soon to retire shop owner is willing to sell his business to her. With the help of Yan's investment, Chan-chan becomes her own boss.
After Foon, who is a founder of a prestigious child learning center loses his job, he finds work at his friend's noodle shop, working the late shift. The noodle shop and Chan-chan's new shop happened to be right across from each other, because of this the two see each other everyday and besides bickering they also become closer.
When Foon realizes that the ghostly Baks cannot be rid, he forms a truce with them in order to co-habitat peacefully. After seeing that the Baks are friendly, peaceful ghost who will do no harm to the living, Foon and the Baks form a friendship. When the time comes that the Po home is to be sold, the Baks give in a helping hand.
Cast Po household Lau Kong as Po Luk (寶祿) The Po sibling's deceased father. He left behind a will, which specified his children to live together in his home for nine months before they can offer the property up for sale. His facial expression changes on his death portrait according to deeds Foon has done for his siblings. During his lifetime he worked various jobs, such as rodent exterminator and rice noodle roller at a dim sum cafe in order to support his family. After his death his spirit possesses the body of an orange-haired cat that watches over and protects his family. The family names the cat "Fai Jie" (肥仔; literally "Fat Boy" in Cantonese) Bobby Au-yeung as Po Foon (寶歡) Andrew Au as Teenage Po Foon (少年寶歡) - Ricco Ng as Young Po Foon (青年寶歡) The oldest of the Po siblings. Foon is the principal of a prestigious children's learning center, and used to be the host of a popular children's television program. Foon left the family at a young age to pursue his freedom and get away from his father's abuse. This angered his younger siblings since they thought he was selfish and made all of them disrespect him as adults. He is often late to family events, but goes by the motto: "Better late than not showing up." Foon develops the ability to see their ghostly neighbors the Baks, after opening a dusty antique umbrella inside his father's home. After offending a powerful socialite tiger mom at the learning center he loses his job and later works the late shift at his friend Wong Bak-chun's noodle shop. Having much free time working the night shift, it reignites his interest in learning how to make rice noodle rolls according to his father's teachings years ago. Joyce Tang as Po Yan (寶欣) Au Ming-miu as Teenage Po Yan (少年寶欣) The second Po sibling and the only daughter of the family. Yan resents Foon for leaving the family behind when he was needed the most. Bitter, Yan constantly reminds her two younger siblings of how she had sacrificed her university scholarship to raise them. She is married to Mui Chiu, and they have a young daughter, Bianca. After a huge fight with her husband Mui Chiu, about finances she decided to invest into Chan-chan's electrical and plumbing shop. Tsui Wing as Mui Chiu (梅昭) Yan's loving and understanding husband and Bianca's father. He works as a construction material factory director in New Territories, Mainland China and hardly gets the chance to see his wife and daughter when they move back to Hong Kong to live at the Po household. Not happy with his wife moving with their daughter back to Hong Kong without consulting him he tries to take their daughter back home to New Territories but decides not to when Bianca says she is happy at the Po home. Not happy being separated from his wife and daughter for nine months, he also moves into the Po household part-time. He is the voice of reason for his wife and always calms her down whenever she has a heated agreement with her siblings. Bianca Chan as Bianca Mui Siu-fei (梅小菲) Yan and Mui Chiu's young daughter. After opening the dusty antique umbrella she is able see the Baks also. She has many extracurricular activities and depends on Po Yi to take her to her lessons. Her main activity is piano which she is taught by Liu Sing-san. After moving into the Po home she becomes extremely close with her uncle Po Foon and even stands up to her mother when Foon is kicked out of home. Jonathan Cheung as Anthony Po Yue (寶愉) Yiub Cheng as Childhood Po Yue (童年寶愉) The third Po sibling who works as an investment fund manager. He and his wife, Fiona, are newlyweds. They are both materialistic who like luxury brand items. After finding out Foon fraud their father's will he agrees to keep his secret when promised a share of Foon's cut of the home sale. Due to his poor upbringing, he is always paranoid of people looking down at him. He wants the fancier things in life in order to show he is better than the people that criticized him. When the investment company he works for gets in trouble he becomes the scapegoat and is fired. In order to cover for his losses and still be able to purchase his luxury flat, he secretly sells his father's apartment for a much lower price than the value and secretly keeps the profits for himself. Koni Lui as Fiona Yue Fa (余花) Yue's newlywed wife. She is a shallow ditz, and has an obsession with luxury-branded items. She works as a part-time show model who thinks she is much better than the new much younger models. She agrees to move into her deceased father-in-law's home for nine months believing she will get half of her husband's share when they sell the place. She doesn't like to be called stupid because she is the least bright among her sisters. Her unreasonable, selfish and vain personality causes her to be at odds with Po Yan, who constantly points out her stupidity. She is also a spokesperson for a slimming tonic company. When she breaches her work contract by gaining weight, she goes as far as lying about being pregnant in order to save herself from being sued and also uses this lie to have the entire Po family slave over her. Bob Cheung as David Po Yi (寶怡; name homophone to British rocker "David Bowie") Cyrus Ho as Childhood Po Yi (童年寶怡) The youngest of the Po siblings, and a university student. He was living in school dorms prior to his father's death. He is a lazy slacker who sleeps all day instead of finding a job. He is interested in music and wants to be a musician; however, he suffers from stage fright. Due to being extremely picky about employment and always broke, Foon forces him to work with him during the late shift at Bak-chun's noodle shop
Baks Bowie Wu as Bak Wah (白樺) Yi Lan's husband. He and his wife were 1940's and 50's movie stars. His successful movie career made him a heavy gambler. He died broke and lonely in his apartment with his fans having to pay for his funeral. During his lifetime he owned the entire building the Po's currently live at. He and his wife currently inhabit the Po 's secret storage room as a house ghost. Helena Law as Mrs. Bak - Yi Lan (白太-依蘭) Bak Wah's wife. She and her husband were 1940's and 50's movie star. They currently inhabit the Po's secret storage room as a ghost. When the Po household is in shambles due to bickering, Lan takes it upon herself by entering a Po family member's body to do household chores. Chloe Nguyen as Bak Wai (白慧) Bak Wah and Yi Lan's rebellious teenage daughter. Not wanting to live under her parents rules, she ran away from home in 1977 and became a prostitute to survive. The Baks have been searching for her ever since and even had Po Luk help them find her when he was alive. She is Chu Chan-chan's birth mother who gave her up to the orphanage. She died in 1996 from liver cancer
Friends Electrical & Plumbing Nancy Wu as Chu Chan-chan (朱燦燦) Jacqueline Chan as Teenage Chu Chan-chan (少年朱燦燦) A certified electrician. She is an orphan who was also Po Yan's high school classmate. When electrical and water problems arises at the Po household she becomes their daily handyman. Due to helping Foon she is forced to resign at Man Lung. Unable to find employment elsewhere she opens her own shop with the help of Yan. She suffers from insomnia and can only have a goodnight sleep when she eats a plate of Foon's homemade rice noodle roll, made with a specific rice flour brand. She highly admires Kwai Si-fuk because of a character he once played in a children's television show cheered her up at the orphanage. Calvin Chan as Cheung Tsan (張震)