The Confidant — Season 1, Episode 21: Episode 21
Drama • 45 min • 1 season, 33 episodes
Episode synopsis
ON-HONG is taken back to the Attending Office and subjected to an inquisition by being tortured, owing to possessing the "Thousand Cups Drink" without permission. After learning about the selling location, DE-HAI leads sufficient manpower to arrest a missionary in a small church. Knowing that SIU-CHAI behaves unfaithfully, he recalls what the missionary had said and starts scheming something in his mind. SHEUNG-HEI learns from CIXI that HESHUO left the general's residence and is nowhere to be found, so he returns to the small cottage which he and HESHUO once stayed at and discovers her there unexpectedly. Moreover, he persuades her to go back to the palace for recuperation since her health has been so delicate after pregnancy. LIAN-YING and SAM-SHUN have carefully choreographed a meeting between Prince GONG and Emperor TONGZHI, during which Prince GONG agrees to help TONGZHI make BAO-YIN his empress……
About The Confidant
"The Confidant" depicts how a group of eunuchs survive in the weakening Qing empire, and closely traces imperial eunuch Li Lianying's early life from the first day he entered the imperial palace to become one of the most powerful political figures in the latter years of the Qing Dynasty. The drama also follows Li's relationship with Empress Dowager Cixi, and how he eventually becomes her closest confidant.