Sweetness in the Salt — Season 1, Episode 12: Episode 12
Drama • 45 min • 1 season, 25 episodes • ★ 10.0/10
Episode synopsis
Recommended by FAI, YUEN becomes a guard at HIN’s house. YUEN’s mother comes to stop him but YUEN insists to take the job. PIK and the others believe that YUEN wants to get close to SUET again. LUNG realizes that YUEN is trying to protect HIN and he is enraged. With the help of SUET and YUEN, HIN successfully makes FAI stay at their salt store. FAI goes out to collect payment but he ends up gambling the money away. He then starts a quarrel with KIN and leaves the house angrily. YIN tries to prevent PIK and ON from meeting each other so that she could get close to ON… ON learns from PIK that HIN is seriously ill so he visits HIN with other salt merchants. Coincidentally, CHING arrives at the same time. HIN wants to meet the salt merchants. KIN and SUET stop him for they want him to take a good rest… CHING questions YUEN about LUNG’s case and LUNG tries to listen to them secretly…
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...