War and Beauty — Season 1, Episode 20: Episode 20
Drama • 46 min • 1 season, 30 episodes • ★ 9.2/10
Episode synopsis
MO and YEUNG are rewarded for saving JIAQING’s life. Because of this incident, MO is late for the meeting with SONG who is outside the Palace. He assumes that SONG has left without saying goodbye. SHUN tries to make JIAQING believe that YING would bring him bad luck, but in vain. Her plot is thwarted by SIN who, by stratagem, has made JIAQING care about YING more. SONG asks to meet MO, during which he tries to put MO to the test by asking about SHIM. SONG is so unhappy with MO and falls out with him. YING is shocked to discover that the portrait of herself and her mother is lost. She believes that it is stolen by SHUN. YEUNG decides to draw another portrait for YING, which makes FAU realize that he is in love with the girl. YING is chosen to sleep with JIAQING but SHUN finally manages to spoil her chance. YING is infuriated and YEUNG tries to give her a few words of comfort……
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.