Sweetness in the Salt — Season 1, Episode 8: Episode 8
Drama • 45 min • 1 season, 25 episodes • ★ 10.0/10
Episode synopsis
YUEN distributes the salt they collected from the salt smugglers to the villagers. LUNG is enraged and he degrades YUEN to gatekeeper. CHING learns that YUEN is degraded and he wants to know the reason but YUEN refuses to tell the details. LIU wants to marry YUET but FAI tries to stop him. NG LEUNG suggests them to compete for YUET. KIN refuses to help FAI so FAI borrows money from others. KIN tries to lock FAI up but SUET helps him to escape. FAI doesn’t have enough money to fight for YUET. YUET and her prostitute friends try to raise money for him but the sum is still not enough… FAI carelessly tells to SUET that everyone knows that HIN likes her. After this, HIN and SUET become very cautious when facing each other… CHING fails to get an answer from YUEN so he questions LUNG. YUEN is drunk at night and somebody attacks him. YUEN is seriously injured and SUET discovers him on the street…
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...