Sweetness in the Salt — Season 1, Episode 10: Episode 10
Drama • 45 min • 1 season, 25 episodes • ★ 10.0/10
Episode synopsis
The remnants of Yick’s Fort kidnap HIN and they ask for 200 thousand dollars from KIN. SUET runs after the remnants and she meets HUNG. HUNG assures SUET that they will not hurt HIN. KIN is very worried for most of his money was spent on the chief salt merchant auction. FAI tells YUEN about the case. YUEN tries question SUET but SUET refuses to tell the details. SUET tries to deliver HIN’s medicine to HUNG but she is caught by other remnants of Yick’s Fort accidentally. In order to raise money, KIN tries to sell his salt tickets in very low price. The remnants are requested to kill HIN and SUET. HUNG tries to stop them and the group captures him as well. KIN tries to lure away YUEN and FAI so that he could deliver ransom money alone. After receiving the ransom money, the kidnappers try to kill the hostages but YUEN arrives on time to stop them. During the fight, HIN, SUET and HUNG fall down from the cliff accidentally…
About Sweetness in the Salt
NIP CHI YUEN (Ma Steven), who works in the anti-smuggling camp, is determined to wipe out the Tau’s Fort, which is the stronghold for salt smugglers. He pretends to be a down-and-out scholar. TAU SING SUET (Yeung Yi), daughter of the chief smuggler, sympathizes with YUEN and puts him up in the village. Later, they even become fond of each other. During an anti-smuggling operation SUET is badly hurt and has since been separated from YUEN and her family. Fortunately she is saved by WU TING HIN (Wong Ho Yin), son of salt merchant WU KIN (Kwok Fung). HIN takes her home. One day, SUET is horrified to see the dead bodies of her parent being hung on the wall of the city tower, and that the official standing on the top of the tower telling the public not to sell smuggled salt is none other than the man she misses day and night. She is heartbroken, and her love for YUEN turns into hatred that moment on...