Sunday March 25, 2007 Hong Kong TVB New Series,Pheonix Rising, is going to be released in April. This series uses women in jail as its storyline, describing the darkside of women in prison. In the series, Crystal Tin and Leila Tong are sent to prison, living in harsh conditions, and because they accidentaly got one of the jail owners mad, he forced both to drink soap water, will the two ladies survive? Crystal Tin, Louisa So, and Leila Tong are sisters. Since their parents died at birth, the three of them were sent to orphanges, and were later adopted to 3 different homes with different backgrounds. Louisa was sent to prison for killing her stepmother, but Crystal, wanting to save her sister, told officials that she was the one who committed the crime and went to prison instead. Leila, being a very nice person, tries to save Crystal by forging evidence but gets caught and sent to jail too. The three of them and the Jail owner have some hostilities, and thus the jail owner wants revenge, making Crystal and Leila drink soap. When they were filming the scene with drinking soap, they all had to be in the freezing cold water. Although Leila didn't drink real soap, only just vitamin milk, she still had to drink continuously from morning till night. And when they had to film the jail owner slapping Leila, she had a stunt women do it, but she could tell it hurt a lot and wanted to help. credits: leilatong.com, asianfanatics.
