The Confidant — Season 1, Episode 28: Episode 28
Drama • 45 min • 1 season, 33 episodes
Episode synopsis
way home, they spot an abandoned baby so they bring him home, planning to adopt him. TIM-SHAU brings a bunch of singers and prostitutes in gaudy attire back to the palace to serve Emperor TONGZHI, but is stopped by BAO-YIN. Answering back outright to BAO-YIN, TIM-SHAU instead gets scolded by CHAN FOOK. In view of CIAN’s suffering from the severe illness, TIM-SHAU proposes summoning SHEUNG-HEI to attend to her. Later when SHEUNG-HEI is performing acupuncture to try and save sickened HESHUO, TIM-SHAU takes him away against his will to treat CIAN in the Zhong Cui Palace, leaving HESHUO to die there. SAM-SHUN and SHEUNG-HEI intend to deal with TIM-SHAU, who in turn subdues and punishes them. After being rescued by CHAN FOOK, SAM-SHUN goes to Emperor TONGZHI, making a plea for help, however, the Emperor, who has been excessively lecherous, turns a deaf ear to it……
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.