Will Kristal Tin (田蕊妮) win the TV Queen title again? The 38-year-old actress, who won TVB’s Best Actress and Most Popular Female Character for her portrayal of Yiu Man-ying in 2013’s Brother’s Keeper <巨輪>, is getting the Best Actress buzz again for the sequel. Brother’s Keeper 2, which premiered on August 29, is sequel to 2013’s Brother’s Keeper, a drama about two long-lost brothers living against the changing times of colonial Hong Kong and Macau. The sequel takes place in present day, focusing on Edwin Siu’s (蕭正楠) Lo Wai-son and Kristal Tin’s Yiu Man-ying, and the struggles behind their successful bakery chain in Macau. Plagued with average premiere ratings and even lower ratings on its second week of broadcast, it seemed unlikely that Brother’s Keeper 2 would get any mentions at the TVB Anniversary Awards this year. But with the broadcast of Thursday’s episode, a winning opportunity may actually be coming their way. *SPOILERS* In Episode 14, which aired on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Man-ying hears from the news that her husband’s (Louis Yuen 阮兆祥) flight had went missing while on the way to Okinawa, where she is temporarily staying in. Man-ying freaks out and breaks down, mumbling and crying to herself. After receiving the news that her father-in-law (Yu Chi-ming 余子明) had suffered a stroke from the shock, she rushes back to Macau to visit them, but gets brutally and tearfully slapped away by her mother-in-law (Angelina Lo 盧宛茵), who blames her for her son’s disappearance. Netizens were very impressed with Kristal’s acting and praised her performance in the episode. A netizen said it could feel the pain and sorrow along with her character, expressing that episode 14 should be Kristal’s representative work. Others say they will endorse her to be this year’s TV Queen. The slapping scene, though happened briefly on air, was actually very painful to shoot. Kristal said it took them two days to complete the shot due to unfortunate circumstances on the first day. She explained, “I was sick with hypothermia and gastroenteritis on the first day we filmed it. I vomited after several slaps. I went back to work the next day and we successfully completed the shot.” “Brother’s Keeper 2” Episode 14 clip
