War and Beauty — Season 1, Episode 8: Episode 8
Drama • 46 min • 1 season, 30 episodes • ★ 9.2/10
Episode synopsis
YUE points out that YING’s fan has revealed the enormity of her ambition but YING, whose eyes are already filled with tears, insists that she has no intention of replacing YUE. YUE gives her some words of consolation, seeming to be quite keen to befriend her. YING’s mother arrives at the Palace to pay her a visit. There she gives YING the last pot of money. TIN is finally released. SHUN apologizes to TIN and asks for a chance to make it up to him. CHUN suspects SHUN has become addicted to drugs and she tells TIN about it straight away. NAM insists that MO’s handkerchief is stolen from the Palace. He decides to punish MO and SONG and beats them almost to death. Luckily WAH passes by and stops him in time. The Palace has caught fire. MO risks his life to protect the wooden tablets created in memory of the ancestors of the Qing Dynasty. MO gets injured and YEUNG gives him the best treatment possible……
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.