Negócio da China is a Brazilian telenovela produced and broadcast by Globo. It premiered on 6 October 2008, replacing Ciranda de Pedra, and ended on 13 March 2009, replaced by Paraíso. The series is written by Miguel Falabella, with the collaboration of Mauro Mendonça Filho and Roberto Talma.
It stars Jui Huang, Bruna Marquezine, Anderson Lau, Grazi Massafera, Ricardo Pereira, Rodrigo Mendonça, Thiago Fragoso, Fernanda de Freitas and Juliana Didone.
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Plot
In Macau, China, Liu (Jui Huang) stole 1 billion euros from a casino, not knowing it belonged to the Chinese mafia, through a digital transaction in which the data was recorded on a flash drive. Pursued, he flees to Portugal and the device ends up in the suitcase João (Ricardo Pereira), who is moving to Brazil, causing Liu to also have to travel to Brazil to try to recover it. Liu goes to live in Parque das Nações, a suburb of Rio de Janeiro, where he falls in love with the martial arts fighter Flor de Lys (Bruna Marquezine), but the two have to face Wu (Anderson Lau), a Chinese mercenary and Liu's cousin, who also wants the money and put an end to the hacker. There is also Stelinha (Fernanda Rodrigues), who returns to Brazil after years living in Asia, where she joined another Chinese faction that also wants fortune, in addition to rivaling Flor on the mat.
Meanwhile, João falls in love with Lívia (Grazi Massafera), who struggles to raise her son Théo (Eike Duarte) on her own, the result of a troubled marriage with Heitor (Fábio Assunção), whose mothers Luli (Eliana Rocha) and Suzete (Yoná Magalhães) tormented the two until they separated. After Heitor is murdered for finding out about the flash drive, Lívia starts to live a romance with João, but is also harassed and persecuted by the psychotic Ramiro (Rodrigo Mendonça).
Cast
Jui Huang as Liu Chuang
Bruna Marquezine as Flor de Lys Silvestre
Grazi Massafera as Lívia Noronha
Ricardo Pereira as João Viegas
Anderson Lau as Wu Chuang
Fernanda Rodrigues as Stela Falcão "Stelinha"
Rodrigo Mendonça as Ramiro Veláquez
Thiago Fragoso as Diego Dumas Fontanera
Fernanda de Freitas as Antonella Bertazzi
Juliana Didone as Maria Celeste Moreira
Natália do Vale as Júlia Dumas Fontanera
Herson Capri as Adriano Fontanera
Luciana Braga as Denise Dumas
Oscar Magrini as Mauro Bertazzi
Vera Zimmermann as Joelma Bertazzi
Ney Latorraca as Edmar Silvestre
Leona Cavalli as Maralanis Silvestre
Yoná Magalhães as Suzete Noronha
Nathalia Timberg as Augusta Dumas
Francisco Cuoco as Evandro Fontanera
Cláudia Jimenez as Violante Gonçalves
Special guest stars
Fábio Assunção as Heitor Alonso
Dalton Vigh as Dr. Otávio Della Riva
Antônio Fagundes as Ernesto Dumas Fontanera
Sérgio Loroza as Detetive Adílson
Débora Lamm as Mariete Gonçalves
Cacau Hygino as Pedro
Victor Pecoraro as Felisberto
Ellen Rocche as Laura
Alexandre Zacchia as Zeílson
Inez Vianna as Dóris
Bruno Fagundes as Jander
Luca de Castro as Donato
Chico Tenreiro as Juiz de Paz
Soundtrack
Negócio da China is the soundtrack of the telenovela, released on 13 November 2008 by Som Livre.