The Confidant — Season 1, Episode 29: Episode 29
Drama • 45 min • 1 season, 33 episodes
Episode synopsis
Inspired by KANG YOU-WEI, LIAN-YING agrees to return to the palace with SAM-SHUN, assisting CIXI to bring order out of the chaos. TIM-SHAU, who has become Emperor TONGZHI's favorite, takes the Emperor unbridled out of the palace to have fun. While SHEUNG-HEI thinks that CIAN is dying, he gets startled after being summoned to make an audience with CIAN and seeing her being full of vitality. All of a sudden, CHAN FOOK is transferred to guard the mausoleum of the late Emperor by CIAN, so he dashes to the Attending Office to pick a quarrel with TIM-SHAU, who is full of arrogance and mocks him instead. After LIAN-YING and SAM-SHUN rush back to the Forbidden City, TIM-SHAU talks big, prompting LIAN-YING and SAM-SHUN to submit to CIAN as well as Emperor TONGZHI, to which LIAN-YING has no comment……
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.