War and Beauty — Season 1, Episode 16: Episode 16
Drama • 46 min • 1 season, 30 episodes • ★ 9.2/10
Episode synopsis
TIN thinks that SHIM has put a curse on the Queen as instructed by YUE but SHUN learns from YEUNG that YUE is not superstitious at all. A blessing ceremony is held for the 100-day-old baby princess, during which YUE doesn’t seem to take the Feng Shui stuff very seriously. TIN thus decides not to reveal anything about the curse, which has helped him win YUE’s trust. SHUN gets so jealous when she knows that YEUNG has asked FOOK to make a pair of gloves for YING to protect her injured hands. It makes her angry that she has given YING a good telling-off. MO and SONG have been saving for a bribe to their supervisors. To help SIN out of her difficulty, MO gives her all the savings so that she can bribe the officials in charge to arrange a secret meeting between her and her grandmother. This has infuriated SONG beyond measure. SHIM falls for MO but MO shows no interest in her. SONG has become obsessed with SHIM……
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.