Sweetness in the Salt — Season 1, Episode 14: Episode 14
Drama • 45 min • 1 season, 25 episodes • ★ 10.0/10
Episode synopsis
YUEN and SUET discover that Dr LUI has died from epidemic disease. YUEN is infected by the disease as well. SUET risks her life to take care of YUEN and YUEN finally recovers. YUEN and SUET decide to make up the medical book of Dr LUI. They tell everyone that HIN’s disease is not fatal. PIK discovers that YIN and ON is getting intimate with each other so she tries to blame them. ON discovers that YIN is crying secretly. He questions her and realizes that she has met her mother… CHING meets up with all salt merchants to discuss the arrangement of new salt tickets. ON discloses to everybody that KIN has deserted YIN’s mother long time ago. Everybody is shocked and they want to depose KIN… KIN returns home to scold YIN and YIN runs away. HIN wakes up eventually. Since his health condition is still unstable, his family members try not to reveal the recent family disputes to him. YIN stays in ON’s house and she sleeps with him eventually……
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...