Sweetness in the Salt — Season 1, Episode 13: Episode 13
Drama • 45 min • 1 season, 25 episodes • ★ 10.0/10
Episode synopsis
In the evening, an assassin sneaks into WU’s house to kill HIN. YUEN and SUET try to fight with the assassin but they fail… On the next day, YUEN meets LUNG and LUNG teases himself for being kind-hearted. They start a quarrel with each other and break up unhappily. FAI’s maid SIU-YUEN visits him secretly and they end up sleeping with each other. HIN learns that FAI is going to leave Yangzhou. He goes to stop him but he suddenly collapses because of the illness. In the evening, YUEN and SUET meet up to discuss the whereabouts of Dr LUI. TIP misconceives that they are… YUEN finally discovers the whereabouts of Dr LUI. KIN asks SUET to search for Dr LUI with YUEN. Some new salt tickets will be issued by the royal government. KIN asks FAI to attend the meeting with salt merchants……
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...