War and Beauty — Season 1, Episode 5: Episode 5
Drama • 46 min • 1 season, 30 episodes • ★ 9.2/10
Episode synopsis
MO discovers that it is actually the crows that have broken the Guan Yin statue. SIN is resolved to reiterate SO-YING’s innocence. Eunuch NGOK LAW-LEI points out that crows are regarded highly by Manchurians as their mascots, implying that SO-YING has to take the blame alone. SIN feels so sad for not being able to help the girl. MO is also upset by SO-YING’s death. He means to shoot the crows to express his outrage about the injustice. YEUNG is sorry about the tragedy but all that he can do is to give MO a few words of consolation. WAH mocks YEUNG for being too servile to his superiors but deep down he is weeping over his son whom he thinks has reached the point of no return. YEUNG knows what WAH is worried about. He is so downcast that he goes to confide in his soul mate HEUNG FAU. The Emperor returns to the Palace and offers to see YUE and the baby princess. YUE is a little upset as she realizes the Emperor has lost interest in her……
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.