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Sweetness in the Salt

Sweetness in the Salt

200910.01 Season25 EpisodesEnded

Overview

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...

NetworksTVB Jade

Top Cast

Tavia Yeung

Tavia Yeung

Steven Ma Chun-Wai

Steven Ma Chun-Wai

Raymond Ho-Yin Wong

Raymond Ho-Yin Wong

Halina Tam Siu-Wan

Halina Tam Siu-Wan

Samuel Kwok Fung

Samuel Kwok Fung

Ngo Ka-Nin

Ngo Ka-Nin

Joel Chan

Joel Chan

Ram Chiang Chi-Kwong

Ram Chiang Chi-Kwong

Kara Hui Ying-Hung

Kara Hui Ying-Hung

Felix Lok Ying-Kwan

Felix Lok Ying-Kwan

Themes & Keywords

saltearly republican chinaqing costume drama

About Sweetness in the Salt

Sweetness in the Salt is a drama series that first aired in 2009 exploring themes of salt, early republican china, qing costume drama. it stars Tavia Yeung, Steven Ma Chun-Wai, Raymond Ho-Yin Wong. 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...

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