War and Beauty — Season 1, Episode 25: Episode 25
Drama • 45 min • 1 season, 30 episodes • ★ 9.2/10
Episode synopsis
FOOK offers to take the blame so as to save YEUNG from further trouble, but sadly she fails to convince the Queen. Having heard what FOOK said, SHUN goes to have a word with SIN. SIN points out that YING has fallen in love with YEUNG and she believes that YEUNG will soon be fine. Though YING admits that she has tried to meet YEUNG in secret, she manages to provide an excuse for doing so. To get YEUNG out of trouble, she even tries to intercede with the Queen for him. The Queen explains to SIN why YING and YEUNG are mildly punished and takes this opportunity to give her a warning. SUET asks FAU to come and console YEUNG but YEUNG indicates that he is dying to see YING one more time. SHUN regrets not having turned herself in earlier than YING did. FOOK cannot do anything but give her a few words of consolation. TIN is afraid that FOOK and SHUN will sooner or later discover their true relationship……
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.