Sweetness in the Salt — Season 1, Episode 9: Episode 9
Drama • 45 min • 1 season, 25 episodes • ★ 10.0/10
Episode synopsis
SUET rescues YUEN but she feels uneasy after it. HIN tries to cheer her up by bringing a large group of fireflies to the garden. While CHING and PING travels along the countryside, they discovers ON’s villa at a remote location. CHING tries to tease ON about it and he meets PIK while leaving ON’s place. YIN helps her sister to pass a message to ON and ON sends her an expensive jade bracelet. LUNG is enraged to learn that YUEN is being attacked. He tries to punish the attackers but YUEN steps in to speak for them. The viceroy of Jiangsu appoints YUEN to work for CHING. LUNG doesn’t want to offense the viceroy so he organizes a celebration banquet for YUEN… Yick’s Fort is destroyed by the government and ON persuades the remnant members to rob the WU’s family. SUET’s uncle TAU HUNG was rescued by Yick’s Fort but he refuses to rob the house with others…
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...