Relic of an Emissary — Season 1, Episode 17: Episode 17
Action & Adventure, Mystery • 44 min • 1 season, 30 episodes • ★ 1.0/10
Episode synopsis
Filled with remorse, FUNG swears to find out the person who has humiliated KIU. LEUNG is dead drunk. FUNG interrogates him. YEE-WAH, TAI’s concubine, is pregnant. He therefore wants to go home to her company. To his disappointment, she is already on the way to the capital under MAN’s arrangement. PO has found the birth record of the imperial family. The pages regarding to TAI’s birth are missing. TAI believes there is something suspicious about his identity. FUNG manages to draw out the man who raped KIU but the man puts KIU under duress. TAI chills out at Willow Court. His eccentricity scares SUET and she turns to SAM for help. MAN’s scout reports to him TAI’s frequent visits to the brothel. MAN finds it incomprehensible that TAI enjoys being whipped. On the other hand, TAI is surprised to learn that WAH is already in the palace.
About Relic of an Emissary
Relic of an Emissary is a 2011 Hong Kong historical fiction television drama serial produced by TVB. The 30-episode drama premiered 4 April 2011 on Hong Kong's TVB Jade and TVB HD Jade channels, airing five days a week. Wong Wai-sing, who produced TVB's The Academy trilogy series, serves as the drama's executive producer. The drama is loosely based on the Jingnan campaign of the Ming Dynasty, a coup d'état that ended the Jianwen Emperor's brief four-year reign over Ming China. The Chinese title of the drama literally means "Hongwu 32", the 32nd year of the Hongwu Emperor's reign.