Chinese Title: 施公奇案II
English Title: A Pillow Case of Mystery 2
Producer: Lam Chi-wah (林志華)
Genre: Detective fiction, Costume drama & Fantasy
Number of Episodes: 20
Preceded by : 施公奇案 / A Pillow Case of Mystery
Starring:
Bobby Au-yeung / 欧阳震华
Jessica Hsuan / 宣萱
Joel Chan / 陈山聪
Leila Tong / 唐宁
Johnson Lee/ 李思捷

Synopsis:
After a radical change in life, Sze Sai-Lun (Bobby Au Yeung) becomes dispirited with the political world and spends most of his time traveling around in search of fun. Along the way, he meets a spirit medium, Ng Kwan-Yau (Jessica Hsuan), who somehow gets caught up in a mysterious murder case. It is not Lun’s intention to intervene at first, but with the fortuitous assistance from the pillow spirit Ngau Tai-Lik (Johnson Lee), he can finally crack the case and prove Yau’s innocence. Lun has his confidence back and pledges to continue his fight for justice.

As time progresses, Lun and Yau get to know each other better and gradually fall in love. Lun finally decides to get over the past and marry the girl. He enjoys his married life so much but gets frustrated at work sometimes - Lik’s power turns out not to be as strong as expected, which ends up with a lot of misleading clues being given. Amidst the various challenges of his new life, Lun realizes that Yau seems to have something to hide and that there is a malicious plot behind their marriage. Knowing that the couple have fallen out, Lun’s mother has found him a new wife, Luk Siu-Tip (Leila Tong). Out of the blue, Tip has also come with ill intentions. Lun is plunged into a complex web of intrigue and things seem to be getting on top of him...

Review part 1:
Okay... as usual, synopsis above are from other sources, but this time, I think it's really badly done. So I'll just summarise the show with what I could still remember. (I'm writing this review after watching several films & dramas)

My own Summary:
Sze Sai-Lun / 施世伦 (Bobby Au-yeung) turns dispirited after his 2 wives and children died & disappeared in the midst of sea. His magical pillow which aids him in solving mysteries cases were lost in the process too. Therefore, he started to lead a carefree life until one day, he met this medium, Kwan-Yau (Jessica Hsuen). He wanted to seek this medium's help to locate his wives, but later found out that she's a con-artist. So several things happened in between, and Sze-Lun happened to meet a new pillow fairy (Johnson Lee). Pillow fairy is still working his way up to become a deity, so he does not own much abilities, when aiding Sai-Lun in solving mysteries, he would often give out misleading hints which would take Sai-Lun a very hard time to solve. Sai-Lun eventually married Kwan-Yau, thinking that she was a great woman, but on the day of marriage, Yau found out that Lun is actually the magistrate that accused her brother as the murderer of a case 5 years ago. So Yau planted herself in Sze Family, trying to avenge.
When she finally got her chance, she was touched by how the Sze Family treated her by divorcing her, so as to get her out of trouble. Their misunderstandings were eventually cleared in the later part of the serial drama, and her brother was released after 5 years of prisonment.
Sai-Lun & Kwan-Yau's relationship were extremely good after going through live & death.

On the other hand was the Romance of Constable So Ying-tsun / Guuwalgiya Jinchun (Joel Chan) [son of the Eighth Prince] and Ting Mei-Yan (Leila Tong).
Ying-tsun thought that Mei-yan was just a daughter of a typical family which wanted to have affiliations with royalty, therefore he canceled the marriage on the day of marriage, leaving Mei-yan disheartened and brought shame to her family. She wanted to avenge for such humiliation so she set out to find this man. Before she knew that Ying-Tsun is actually Jinchun, she had a great likings on him, but after knowing, she tried all means to get him into trouble.
Both of them eventually got together after several obstacles.

Review part 2:
This show is considered a fairytale, having not just fantasy involved in the show, but also have a happy ending. Riddles & hints given out by Pillow Fairy were too hard that I couldn't get them right at all, unlike th0se in 1st series, where the hints are all straightforward & requires not much of twist-thinking.
Still, hard riddles didn't affect the show's ratings after all, but I finds the show a little bit draggy, though rather acceptable.