The Confidant — Season 1, Episode 3: Episode 3
Drama • 45 min • 1 season, 33 episodes
Episode synopsis
Throwing herself on the floor in front of the Chang Chun Palace, Lady YUEN insists that she will not get up until she gets to see CIXI, who in turn is bent on refusing to let Lady YUEN leave and return to her hometown. CHAN FOOK overhears the two Empress Dowagers' conversation, maintaining that there must be something unraveled with regard to the premature death of Lady YUEN's little Prince. For the sake of paying off the gambling debt for his father, LIAN-YING asks SAM-SHUN for a pass to leave the palace. However SAM-SHUN keeps changing his words, which leaves LIAN-YING and the others no choice but to grab the pass by force, which ends up with SAM-SHUN being knocked out cold. Leading CHAN FOOK to meet Lady YUEN, SIN YUNG discovers that Lady YUEN is going to commit suicide by hanging herself from a beam. CHAN FOOK then tells Lady YUEN the secret that he has overheard, causing her to seek revenge……
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.