War and Beauty — Season 1, Episode 10: Episode 10
Drama • 46 min • 1 season, 30 episodes • ★ 9.2/10
Episode synopsis
YUE wants to find out who has made NING mad but SIN refuses to reveal anything. LUK asks MO to help smuggle some valuable paintings out of the Palace for sale. Having discovered this, SIN goes to stop them at once. MO learns from LUK that his handkerchief used to belong to SIN. Knowing that she is so worried about her grandmother, MO decides to give her a hand. YEUNG offers FOOK the medical materials and herbal products that TIN bought for him, giving her a hope and the motivation to go on with life. Having heard that YUE is trying to find out the true story behind NING’s sudden bout of madness, TIN decides to have NING killed as soon as possible, which upsets CHUN beyond words. YUE asks SIN to spread rumors around the Palace, hoping that this will help find out who is in the same league with TIN. SHUN gets trapped and leaves the Palace in the middle of the night……
About War and Beauty
Fifteen years after Qing Emperor Jiaqing was crowned the country appears to be in harmony. However, fights between the imperial concubines escalate. All the imperial concubines including the emperor's beloved Yu-Yue understand this and becomes nervous when the triennial imperial concubine election approaches. Yu-Yue's position is threatened by an imperial descendant, Yuk-ying, a powerful eunuch's adopted daughter, Yi-Sun, and an experienced imperial servant maid On-Seen. They are friends and enemies in the war for the emperor's love. The four beautiful women are either friends or lovers of an imperial physician Sun Bak Yeung and a trooper Kong-Wu. Plots and lies undermine their love and friendships in the palace.