War and Beauty — Season 1, Episode 9: Episode 9
Drama • 46 min • 1 season, 30 episodes • ★ 9.2/10
Episode synopsis
YING manages to get YEUNG’s prescription by threatening to reveal his relationship with SHUN. She hopes that, with the prescription dispensed by YEUNG, she will have the chance to get closer to JIAQING. YEUNG warns her about the side effects of the prescription but YING does not listen to him. MO and SONG have been appointed as troopers whose duty is to climb to the top of a pole and feed the crows around. SONG is obviously very unhappy with this job. JIAQING has left the Palace a bit earlier than expected. YING’s efforts are thus wasted. She is so angry that she has put all the blame on YEUNG. YEUNG discovers that SHUN and TIN have met in secret. He warns her to beware of TIN but SHUN doesn’t seem grateful for his advice. YEUNG brings along with him a pile of color sheets and goes to visit CONCUBINE FOOK who has been dumped by the Emperor because of illness since many years ago……
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.