* Eldest sister, Ma Yujia (Chen Liping) – Owner of a beauty palour, she is a nosy parker and likes to criticise at everything. She loves to criticise people without good reason, and dislikes people in general. She is very fierce towards her husband, and easily gets jealous. Nevertheless, she is still kind at heart.
* Second brother, Ma Yucai (Tay Pinghui) – The only son of the family, he has inherited the family’s gift of the gab, and is media savvy in addition. He has the people skills that his sisters are lacking in, and is therefore able to hold his position as sales manager in a food products company for many years. His greatest weakness is his over-pampering of his wife Xu Minmin. Because of his wife, he gradually drifted apart from his sisters. Eventually, with the birth of his twin babies, he realised the importance of his family.
* Third sister, Ma Yuwan (Jacelyn Tay) - A rattle-mouth woman with a hot temper, which explains why she is single even though she is pretty and had many boyfriends before. She is extremely impatient, anxious, and does not take time to listen to people properly. She jumps to conclusions, or even picks squabbles over small matters. Yuwan’s fellow retrenched colleagues have all taken upgrading courses and found new jobs. But Yuwan feels that upgrading is a waste of time, and remains jobless. With the help of a SLF officer, she finally went to upgrade herself, and landed a good job. Love also blossomed between her and the officer.
* Xiong Junjie (Joanne Peh) - Daughter of Yujia, who works at NTUC Fairprice as a branch manager. Her mother who longed for a son has dressed her as boy since she was a little girl. Therefore, she still dresses androgynously and even behaves like a man, doing things like standing up for strangers in public like a knight in shining armor. This worries Yujia immensely, and she has a fear of Junjie turning lesbian. Thus, whenever Junjie happens to have a male friend or companion around her, Yujia will force Weihong to team up with her to try and matchmake this person with Junjie. This creates much amusement. She falls for Wenhui who treats her like a buddy.
* Xiong Weihong (Huang Wenyong) – A secondary school teacher who is a Goody Two Shoes. He is as timid as a mouse and Yujia’s hen-pecked husband. The oppressed Weihong then befriended a gentle Chinese woman Liu Qing, and resulted in a huge fight with his wife.
* Xu Minmin (Cynthia Koh) – Yucai’s wife, who is spoilt and feels that a modern family should not include the entire clan. This constantly puts Yucai in a difficult position, who finally chooses to listen to his wife after she gets pregnant, and stops contacting his sisters, much to their fury. It is only after being the mother of twins that she learns the importance of kinship and seek forgiveness from Yucai’s family.
* Chuanfeng (Terence Cao) - An SLF officer who is in charge of Yuwan’s case to find a job. He treats her with utmost patience and this changes Yuwan’s attitude slowly. She eventually went for upgrading and landed a good job. In the process, they gradually developed feelings of love for each other.
* Lu Wenhui (Andrew Seow) - Yucai’s colleague, who joins the SDU and gets to know Junjie. The two hit it off well, and become buddies. Junjie develops feelings for Wenhui, but Wenhui treats her like a brother.
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