Sweetness in the Salt — Season 1, Episode 21: Episode 21
Drama • 45 min • 1 season, 25 episodes • ★ 10.0/10
Episode synopsis
YUEN and his subordinates try to sneak into FA’s tort but they fail. PING arrives on time to rescue them. LUNG doesn’t want CHING to find out the truth and he set the tort on fire. YUEN tries to apologize to SUET’s parents at their grave. HUNG arrives to console him and he understands that YUEN was cheated by LUNG before. The three of them plan to kill LUNG secretly. ON tries to draw away his money from home secretly. LUNG suddenly arrives with FA. He claims that FA is ON’s auntie and he asks FA to stay in ON’s place to keep an eye on ON. HIN reveals to KIN that LUNG is the one who keep attacking their family secretly. He suggests moving the whole family away from Yangzhou and KIN agrees. Before their departure, HIN asks YUEN and SUET out. He reveals to YUEN that he is not practically married to SUET and he asks YUEN to take good care of SUET… CHING and PING go to Suzhou together but they meet some killers on their way……
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...