The Confidant — Season 1, Episode 23: Episode 23
Drama • 45 min • 1 season, 33 episodes
Episode synopsis
HESHUO suffers a miscarriage after taking the fetus-stabilizing medicine prepared by SHEUNG-HEI. Though CIXI fully understands that SHEUNG-HEI has no alternative for the sake of saving HESHUO's life, she has to have SHEUNG-HEI detained in jail. After uncovering the truth about her miscarriage, HESHUO forgives SHEUNG-HEI in the end. Accompanied by LIAN-YING, CIXI goes to attend the morning court audience. Seeing from a distance that Emperor TONGZHI goes in the rain to hold a court audience, she is aware that her son has grown up, so she decides to withdraw from her reign behind the curtain, letting him learn to hold a court audience on his own. It has been a while since DE-HAI secretly took the "Thousand Cups Drink", but there is no sign of his penis growing back. The missionary makes a diagnosis of his condition, stating that it has improved……
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.