Sweetness in the Salt — Season 1, Episode 4: Episode 4
Drama • 45 min • 1 season, 25 episodes • ★ 10.0/10
Episode synopsis
KIN’s eldest daughter TING PIK’s ex-boyfriend CHOI CHI ON is a salt merchant. He makes use of PIK to steal the treasure in KIN’s home. All salt merchants organize a welcome banquet for CHING. ON is not invited but he arrives to send CHING an expensive gift. He declares that he will replace KIN’s position very soon. KIN doesn’t treat ON seriously but HIN believes that somebody is backing ON up secretly. CHING is drunk and he tries to look for his ex-girlfriend LUK NG LEUNG who has already become the owner of a brothel now. Upon arriving at the entrance of the brothel, CHING accidentally meets YUEN and his senior TO YING LUNG who is also his foster father. CHING claims that LUNG is a corrupt official and YUEN is puzzled about it. KIN hides in his reading room to wait for the thief. He finally discovers the thief but… All women in WU’s family are unkind to SUET and SUET decides to leave the place secretly……
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...