Sweetness in the Salt — Season 1, Episode 19: Episode 19
Drama • 45 min • 1 season, 25 episodes • ★ 10.0/10
Episode synopsis
SUET meets a salt smuggler CHOI NGAN FA who is a kung-fu master. In order to protect everybody, SUET fights with FA alone. She loses the fight but FA appreciates her courageous action. During NG LEUNG’s wedding, CHING comes to the brothel to congratulate her. After drinking, CHING reveals to others that he feels sorry for PIK. PIK overhears their conversation accidentally. SUET brings everybody back to Yangzhou and she meets Dr LUI who pretended that he has died. Dr LUI learns that HIN is seriously ill so he comes to give treatments to him. HIN and SUET visit KIN at the prison. They tell him that the salt store is operating smoothly and they have successfully delayed KIN’s execution date. Somebody hits FAI on the street. YUET rescues him and allows him to work in the brothel. FAI has gone through lots of tortures and he meets PIK at the brothel 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...