War and Beauty — Season 1, Episode 2: Episode 2
Drama • 46 min • 1 season, 30 episodes • ★ 9.2/10
Episode synopsis
Royal Maid ON-SIN is shocked to discover that YING has got into CHAN’s room. She means to make a fool of YING so that YUE may let her off. YING blames SIN while SIN, as an experienced royal maid, teaches the girl a lesson about how to survive in the Palace. Like SHUN, xiu-nus YUEN-KEI and SHUK-NING are the adopted daughters of a eunuch TSU MAN-TIN. TIN sends them into the Palace hoping that they will help maintain his position. MO goes to gamble at a brothel and wins a lot of money. But his luck does not last. He loses everything eventually and gets severely beaten up. MO and SONG try to seek help from YING’s family, but in vain. They are therefore very disappointed. Imperial Physician SUEN CHING-WAH frowns when he is checking YUE’s pulse. YUE secretly summons another Imperial Physician SUEN PAK-YEUNG……
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.