Sweetness in the Salt — Season 1, Episode 3: Episode 3
Drama • 45 min • 1 season, 25 episodes • ★ 10.0/10
Episode synopsis
SUET doesn’t want to take everything for granted and she voluntarily asks to work in WU KIN’s salt store. HIN takes good care of SUET in every way and HIN is pleased to see this. Mr CHU, the manager of KIN’s salt store, goes to YUEN’s mother Mrs NIP’s soya sauce store in the evening. He has collected some leftover salt for Mr NIP secretly… YUEN is injured while trying to catch the salt smugglers. Mrs NIP is very worried about him. Her good friend, KIN’s younger sister CHOI TIP, suggests her to find a wife for YUEN so that YUEN will not devote himself completely in his job. TIP suggests Mrs NIP to marry YUEN to KIN’s youngest daughter TING YIN. They bring YUEN to WU’s family to meet YIN without telling YUEN their actual intention. YUEN discovers the truth later and he firmly rejects the plan……
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...