The New Adventures of Wisely is a Singaporean adventure-science fiction television series adapted from the novel series Wisely Series by Ni Kuang. It was directed by Daisy Chan and starred Hong Kong actor Michael Tao as Wisely (or Wei Si Li), the main character. The series was first aired on Television Corporation of Singapore Channel 8 (now MediaCorp Channel 8) in Singapore in 1998.
Plot
The 30 episodes long series is divided into six segments, each involving a mystery case that Wisely has to solve.
Shadow (影子) Uncle Cai is accused of murdering a man who claimed that his shadow was after his life. Wisely investigates the mystery and learns that the shadow is the ghost of a man who committed suicide by throwing himself into a charcoal kiln. Once the shadow attaches himself to someone, he can control the person's movements and make him/her do things against his/her will. Wisely helps the shadow find a new "home", a rare piece of charcoal, and in return, the shadow helps to prove Uncle Cai's innocence. After the incident is over, Wisely's friends steal the charcoal out of mischief and accidentally destroy it. The shadow swears to take his revenge unless Wisely and his friends find him a similar piece of charcoal. When they fail, they have no choice but to lure the shadow into a trap and destroy him.
Heavenly Book (天书) Wisely and Bai Su meet Fang Qi, a fortune teller, who predicts his own death and says three events will happen to Bai Su. First, Bai Su will lose something important but will get it back later. Second, Chief Bai (Bai Su's father) will be affected by a life-threatening illness but will eventually survive. Third, Bai Su will die on 7 July. Fang Qi is murdered later and the first two events happened as he predicted. In the meantime, Wen Baoyu encounters and romances the alien Haide, who has come to Earth to search for the Jade Compass and Heavenly Book – the two items Fang Qi used to predict the future. Wisely tries to get hold of the Heavenly Book and use it to change Bai Su's destiny, but fails as she still dies from a serious injury on 7 July. At this critical moment, Haide uses her powers to bring Bai Su back to life and then leaves for her home planet with Wen Baoyu.
Reincarnation (轮回) A serial murderer responsible for killing many young women over a span of 20 years strikes again. One of the victims was Guo Zeqing's girlfriend; Guo has been feeling depressed since her death and is determined to avenge her. While investigating the case, Guo meets Wang Yufen, who narrowly escaped from the killer. After the ordeal, Wang experiences visions about her past life as Laura, who was murdered by the killer on the day she was born, and believes she was Laura in her past life. She manages to contact David, Laura's dead fiancé, whose soul is trapped inside a computer system, and continues their past romance. With help from David and Wang Yufen's recollections of her past life, Guo manages to identify the killer, who turns out to be the forensic psychologist Lin Liren. Lin dies in a scuffle with Guo while trying to escape. Guo finally puts the past behind him and realises he has fallen in love with Wang Yufen.