Sweetness in the Salt — Season 1, Episode 20: Episode 20
Drama • 45 min • 1 season, 25 episodes • ★ 10.0/10
Episode synopsis
SUET besieges FA successfully but FA escapes eventually by abducting HUNG. CHING continues to provoke LUNG and LUNG recruits some gangsters to beat him on the street. The guard from WU’s family rescues CHING and CHING realizes that PIK is helping him secretly. YUEN asks CHING’s secretary TUNG PING out and he reveals that he has become a salt smuggler. He asks PING to help attacking FA but PING rejects him. During the discussion, they discover that YAM CHIU who used to manage the dead bodies has become a tycoon suddenly. They question him and discover the truth. KIN is released eventually. ON and his servant SING believe that LUNG was helping KIN behind the scene and they are frightened. LUNG and YUEN fight with each other again. LUNG declares that he has no relationship with YUEN anymore. During KIN’s birthday banquet, FAI suddenly appears……
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...