Sweetness in the Salt — Season 1, Episode 23: Episode 23
Drama • 45 min • 1 season, 25 episodes • ★ 10.0/10
Episode synopsis
Both HIN and YUEN try to sacrifice their love for the other and SUET is mad. SUET decides to think about their relationship after meeting with the governor of Jiangsu. They arrive at Suzhou where they meet PIK. PIK comes here to look for CHING since CHING has been attacked by LUNG earlier and PIK doesn’t know if he is still alive. The three of them sneak into the governor’s house and they deliver CHING’s letter to the governor. They also reveal that ON will be helping to unmask LUNG’s sins. The governor asks his subordinates to arrest LUNG but LUNG runs away by abducting HIN. YUEN and the others follow them along the way and they finally discover HIN lying on the floor… All family members rush back to Yangzhou to see HIN for the last time. SIU YUEN also brings her son to WU’s house and she forgives FAI in front of HIN. In the evening, SUET accompanies HIN to watch the firebugs until HIN closes his eyes…
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...