HOUSE OF HARMONY aka. Das Haus der Harmonie synopsis / summary (Cast. Fann wong, Maggie Q, Philippe Brenninkmey, Daniel Morgenroth)

This drama basically is the story about love surpassing many boundaries across countries, races, traditions, and cultures. The summary is here:
Singapore, Mei ling was a pure Chinese sweet girl, grown with strong traditional values from a wealthy family. One day she met Richard Barclay through faith and fell for him while taking care of him because he was stabbed on the road and she rescued him. Richard lost his memory, but even before he lost his memory he already attracted with Mei ling and once again he fell in love with her. Both conquer their loves but Mei ling was engaged to another Chinese guy from a wealthy family forced her to tricked her family that she was dead and left to look for. It's a taboo to be with a guy who is not your race at that time, unfortunately Richard already left to U.S. leaving her a letter that he had to settle some problem in U.S. before come back to Singapore to marry her whom now pregnant with his child, but years pass Richard never come back still Mei Ling was waiting for his return....
After the child born 24 years passed, no news of Richard made Harmony (Maggie Q) their daughter decided to searched for him in Los Angeles. In Los Angeles, Harmony who was pretty and had nice body charmed Gideon Barclay, Richard's step-son. Gideon told Harmony that Richard died after the ship which supposed to brought him from Singapore to U.S. sunk off, Harmony sent letter to her mother about the truth made Mei Ling finally died as well. Harmony hence wanted to live her life in Los Angeles, Gideon who fell for her helped her to set up a factory with partnership the factory is "House of Harmony" to produce traditional Chinese medicine. Gideon hopelessly in love with Harmony and so was she but Fiona (Gideon's mom) who wanted her son to marry with woman with same race and equal status ruined their relationship. Harmony married her best friend, Michael (Jason Chan)just when Gideon back from Singapore to Los Angeles. Gideon wanted to withdraw the partnership but he saw that Harmony was pregnant and thought that she pregnant with his child even though she said it's her husband's child, finally he understood that Harmony wanted to marry with another guy just to save her and the child from embarrassment(another taboo thing at that time, pregnant before marry) and cancel the withdrawal. Just the time when Gideon married to Olivia, Harmony was in labor, Gideon didn't consummate his first night with Olivia but went to hospital to see Harmony and the baby. There, Gideon knew that he had a daughter, the baby didn't look like a Chinese (while Michael was Chinese) but a Caucasian. Harmony even said that her daughter's eyes looked like her father which was Gideon's and named her Charlotte Mei Ling in front of Gideon and left him afterward non-speech.
6 years passes, faith once again brought Harmony and Gideon to see each other again made Olivia became jealous of Harmony. Michael died to save Harmony and Harmony left Los Angeles to Singapore with her daughter, living Gideon in vain because no matter how hard he tried to love Olivia and forget Harmony he failed to do so. When Harmony need Gideon help about the partnership problem with a company in Singapore Gideon flew as soon as he can to be with her. There Harmony admitted that she never stop loving him and that night they were making love again but say good bye on the next day. Fiona had heart attack rush Gideon to come back to L.A. from Singapore. In her dead-bed Fiona told Gideon that actually Richard Barclay was married her out of pity because she was pregnant with Richard's best friend, but because of her greediness she ruined Gideon's, Harmony's, even Olivia's happiness and ask for his forgiveness. Gideon told her that Harmony's daughter was her granddaughter and she said she knew and asked Gideon to get happiness and mend the things from the past. Olivia agreed with Fiona and talked to Gideon that it's OK for him to leave to pursue his happiness, Olivia accepted Alex's love her childhood fried who was in love with her since they were kid.
On the day of opening of "Hose of Harmony" in Singapore eventually Harmony's grandfather Dr. Sung, Mei Ling's father accepted her as his granddaughter, then she had a phone call that one of her relative was sick so she rushed to go to her home. In aunt Wah's home, Harmony received a letter that said Gideon was ready to be with her made her crying and wished that he was there with her and Gideon showed up, they hugged and kissed.... the end.

Nice drama with not so nice ending. After long hours (4 hours to be exact) watched within these 2 days I expect more for the ending. Guess because of the tight budget so they decided with THIS SO SIMPLE ENDING. How i wish they could shoot one more scene where Harmony, Gideon, and their daughter Charlotte together.

Overall it's a good drama, the acting of the actors are great। Especially for the actor who was acting as Gideon, he deserved the word "EXTREMELY GOOD" FOR his romantic role। Maggie Q had improved a lot compare to "Naked weapon", but now I think she already lost her touch when acting in those Hollywood movies as the sweetness only. While Fann acted really good portrayed a young traditional shy Chinese girl emotion, which is difficult to do now because the truth is we're living in a free-modern country Singapore. Yang Pei Pei good acting as Mei Ling's loyal servant. The actor who was acting as Richard Barclay who showed a direct affection toward Mei ling which was nice just that his scenes were to short, and the actor who's acting as Dr. Sung aka Mei Ling's father who portrayed really good emotion as a father but also man who respected Chinese traditions and values at the same time.

I hope that there are more drama like this kind of love story, so romantic, so sweet, and shows us the STRENGTH OF LOVE. The building where Gideon met Harmony in restaurant was the building that I usually saw of my way to go to Orchard, thought that building was scary because it's old but in the movie it became a beautiful
place.