War and Beauty — Season 1, Episode 24: Episode 24
Drama • 46 min • 1 season, 30 episodes • ★ 9.2/10
Episode synopsis
SIN and YING are going to set SHUN up and accuse her of committing adultery. MO manages to arrange a meeting between YUE and the baby princess, for which YUE is very grateful. Having found out that SHUN is in love with YEUNG, YING decides to change her plan. SIN does not want to get YEUNG in trouble but she is probably unaware that this is actually a plot against her by YING. YEUNG is arrested for having had an affair with an imperial concubine. SIN and YING have a quarrel over YEUNG, from which SHUN learns that YEUNG has got involved in their fight. The Queen is keen to find out who has been carrying on an affair with YEUNG. She asks SHUN, YING and SIN to keep a close eye on those whose behavior is suspicious and urges them to settle this matter before JIAQING comes back. As instructed, WAH tries to extract the truth from YEUNG, but in vain. By stratagem, YING manages to drive SHUN to turn herself in……
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.