Captain of Destiny — Season 1, Episode 17: Episode 17
Action & Adventure • 45 min • 1 season, 32 episodes • ★ 8.0/10
Episode synopsis
Walking alone back to the naval barracks, MAN-HO spots two groups of the soldiers gambling. Surprisingly, he does not scold them about it, on top of which he himself even joins them and becomes the banker. Prince MAN-JING comes to the barracks to deliver fifty thousand silver ingots together with a letter written by Lady SHUN, to which MAN-HO feels very grateful. MAN-HO then hopes that LAI GONG GONG can help prepare food for the soldiers in celebration of the Winter Solstice. However, an officer suddenly comes to relay that as per YEE-TAI, they are not going to celebrate the Winter Solstice because they don't have enough money. Though HA SIM manages to deliver the silver ingots to YAT-HIN, Police Captain FABIO out of the blue leads his troops to come and take YAT-HIN into custody, revealing that YAT-HIN will be executed by hanging in three days.… ...
About Captain of Destiny
During a high-speed motorboat chase with a criminal, Cheung Chau police officer Wong Tai-mui gets herself trapped in a waterspout, accidentally opening a time portal. She travels back 200 years to 19th century Hong Kong, a time when the island was under Qing rule. Using her knowledge of the future, which she keeps in an e-book, she saves a family of pirates from a deadly naval battle against the Qing naval fleet led by Prince Man-ho, the eleventh son of the Jiaqing Emperor. Puzzled by her mysterious origins, the family remains wary of Tai-mui and is hesitant in trusting her. Meanwhile, at the royal court, Prince Man-ho becomes jaded from politics and family feud and decides to let go of his ambition for the crown.