The Confidant — Season 1, Episode 26: Episode 26
Drama • 45 min • 1 season, 33 episodes
Episode synopsis
With CIAN's help, CHAN FOOK resumes his position as the Grand Eunuch. In order to save DE-HAI, CIXI condescends herself to plead with CIAN, but to no avail. LIAN-YING intends to arrange DE-HAI to sneak out of the palace, yet DE-HAI merely asks for an arrangement to make an audience with CIXI. While waiting outside, LIAN-YING and the imperial guards suddenly hear that DE-HAI scolds CIXI, who sentences DE-HAI to immediate execution. With TIM-SHAU's arrangement of a forbidden room for him to treat HESHUO, SHEUNG-HEI is determined to get HESHUO out of the coma. CIXI summons LIAN-YING and unmasks his attempt of leaving the palace, above which she frankly commands LIAN-YING to spend his lifetime in the Forbidden City until the day he dies……
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.