Sweet Honey is a romantic film directed by Chen Kexin and starring Maggie Cheung and Li Ming, which was released in Hong Kong, China in 1996. With the help of the background of the era on the eve of Hong Kong's return to the motherland and the year after Teresa Teng's death, the film tells the story of Li Xiaojun (played by Li Ming) and Li Qiao (played by Maggie Cheung) who came to Hong Kong from the mainland to work in the early days of reform and opening up. The two finally reunited in a foreign country, and at this time it was a vicissitudes of life, but their hearts were still together.
On March 1, 1986, at Kowloon Station in Hong Kong, the crowd was bustling. Li Xiaojun, who had a dream of making a fortune, said goodbye to his fiancée Xiaoting and defected from Tianjin to his aunt in Hong Kong. The small army, which has no long skills, can only do the hardest work - distributing slaughtered chickens and ducks to restaurants, earning more than 2,000 yuan a month (Hong Kong dollar or yuan is unknown). The wind came and went, but Li Xiaojun was happy in the bitterness, because Hong Kong was much more developed than the mainland at that time, and everything was fresh. He works with confidence and wants to give Xiaoting a better future.
One day, Li Xiaojun went to experience the legendary foreign fast food McDonald's. He couldn't speak Cantonese, and it was difficult for him to even order food, so he happened to meet Li Qiao, who also came to Hong Kong from the mainland to work, and relieved him. Li Qiao works as a cashier at McDonald's and learns that Li Xiaojun wants to work at McDonald's, but his Cantonese is not good and he doesn't know anything English. Li Qiao, who works part-time as a cleaner at an English school, gave full play to her expertise in sales and introduced Li Xiaojun to the school where she worked to learn English. Not only has a favor but also earns hundreds of referral fees by the way, why not? In this way, the two got to know each other, and in the future, what kind of entanglement will their fate be?
Li Xiaojun started attending classes at the English school, while Li Qiao cleaned up. After class one day, Li Xiaojun invited Li Qiao to go with him. He said, "I have a car and I can take you with me, and it turns out that this car is his bicycle for delivery." Li Qiao, who couldn't cry or laugh, told Li Xiaojun that this is called a bicycle in Hong Kong, and the real car is a car. Li Xiaojun rode a bicycle, and Li Qiao sat in the back seat, and the two walked through the downtown streets and sang Teresa Teng's "Sweet Honey" together. In this way, Li Xiaojun, who has no friends because he is introverted, and Li Qiao, who has no time to make friends because he is busy making money, have become good friends. As a Cantonese person, Li Qiao gave full play to his shrewd expertise and asked Li Xiaojun to help her deliver flowers while delivering the goods, and in return was to invite him to dinner and rent him ** films to pass the time.
On the eve of the Spring Festival in 1987, there was rain. Li Qiao borrowed money to rent a night market stall and bought a large number of Teresa Teng's tapes, wanting to make a lot of money. Li Xiaojun said that his aunt told him that only mainlanders listened to Teresa Teng's songs, but Hong Kong people did not listen, and Li Qiao did not care. Unexpectedly, this batch of goods was really smashed in his hands, and no matter how the price was reduced, no one cared. In desperation, the two had no choice but to close their stalls and return to the small "house" where Li Xiaojun lived. After eating the dumplings, Li Qiao decided to leave, and Li Xiaojun thoughtfully put on two coats for her. In the process of buttoning the buttons, the two lonely young people finally forgot about the world and fell asleep in each other's arms.
Li Qiao, who is good at making money, of course, will not let go of the opportunity to make money, she invested all her belongings in **, but unexpectedly encountered a stock market crash and lost everything. Li Qiao, who wanted to make money quickly, chose to be a massage girl and met the *** boss Leopard who came to massage. Li Xiaojun, who made money by selling his physical strength, saved a lot of money, he took Li Qiao to the gold store to buy jewelry, Li Qiao took a fancy to a bracelet, but Li Xiaojun bought two, one for Xiaoting and one for Li Qiao. Li Xiaojun, who didn't understand a woman's heart, made Li Qiao very angry, and she decided to leave Li Xiaojun and mess with Brother Leopard. In this way, the two drifted apart.
Xiaoting came to Hong Kong, married Li Xiaojun, and became a dance teacher under the introduction of Li Qiao. Brother Leopard wanted to leave Hong Kong because of a crime, and Li Qiao chose to flee with him. Li Xiaojun was depressed because of Li Qiao's departure, and he confessed to Xiaoting about the matter between him and Li Qiao, and the two broke up peacefully. After his aunt's death, Li Xiaojun left the sad place of Hong Kong and went to the United States. On the other side, Brother Leopard also came to the United States with Li Qiao, but was beaten to death by street thugs. One day, the two reunited again because they stopped to listen to the news of Teresa Teng's death, and the lovers finally became married.