Sweetness in the Salt

The big salt merchant in Yangzhou, WU KIN, sells salt tickets (official certificate for transporting salt) to small salt merchants. One day, the small merchants join hand together to fight for a reduction in the ticket price. KIN doesn’t k…

SUET pretends to be the daughter of Dr LUI and she follows HIN all the way to Yangzhou. KIN believes that SUET can help cure HIN’s disease so he treats her really kind. KIN’s third son TING FAI misconceives that SUET is a prostitute and SU…

SUET doesn’t want to take everything for granted and she voluntarily asks to work in WU KIN’s salt store. HIN takes good care of SUET in every way and HIN is pleased to see this. Mr CHU, the manager of KIN’s salt store, goes to YUEN’s moth…

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 …

CHING suggests all salt merchants to compete for the chief salt merchant position by an open auction and KIN is very worried. HIN and SUET try to console him. YUEN discovers that his secret informer among the salt smugglers has disappeared…

SUET sneaks into ON’s home. YUEN discovers her but he lets her go. YUEN finds that LUNG is staying with ON. He questions him and discovers that LUNG is... SUET reveals the details of ON’s auction statement to HIN and they finally win the a…

LUNG wants YUEN to return to work but YUEN resorts to drink all the time. YUEN’s mother tries to console him but YUEN scolds her in return. YUEN helps an old woman to catch a thief. The old woman refuses to report the case for she believes…

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.…

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 trie…

The remnants of Yick’s Fort kidnap HIN and they ask for 200 thousand dollars from KIN. SUET runs after the remnants and she meets HUNG. HUNG assures SUET that they will not hurt HIN. KIN is very worried for most of his money was spent on t…

HIN helps SUET to take care of HUNG’s injury and HUNG is very grateful. HUNG believes that SUET still loves YUEN and he blames SUET for not taking revenge for her deceased parents. The creditors come to KIN’s home for money. HIN arrives on…

Recommended by FAI, YUEN becomes a guard at HIN’s house. YUEN’s mother comes to stop him but YUEN insists to take the job. PIK and the others believe that YUEN wants to get close to SUET again. LUNG realizes that YUEN is trying to protect …

In the evening, an assassin sneaks into WU’s house to kill HIN. YUEN and SUET try to fight with the assassin but they fail… On the next day, YUEN meets LUNG and LUNG teases himself for being kind-hearted. They start a quarrel with each oth…

YUEN and SUET discover that Dr LUI has died from epidemic disease. YUEN is infected by the disease as well. SUET risks her life to take care of YUEN and YUEN finally recovers. YUEN and SUET decide to make up the medical book of Dr LUI. The…

KIN is enraged and he blames ON angrily. He even hit the servant FONG SING. Some government officials suddenly arrive at KIN’s house. They say that SING has died suddenly so they come to arrest KIN. KIN is sent to jail and everybody is ver…

PIK is kicked out from the wedding ceremony. CHING follows her and he discovers that she wants to commit suicide… PIK finally settles down at YUEN’s place. KIN asks FAI to manage all matters for him. FAI returns to the salt store and he is…

SUET suggests marrying HIN and KIN agrees. However, HUNG asks her to think twice. People accuse SUET for marrying the very sick HIN because of his money. YUEN is heart-broken to learn about the news but he tries to speak for SUET. YUEN and…

YUEN doesn’t know if he should help SUET. During the time, he suddenly meets the miserable FAI. SUET has sent a letter to FAI’s grandmother asking her not to give any financial assistance to FAI. CHING wants to help PIK but PIK runs away t…

SUET meets a salt smuggler CHOI NGAN FA who is a kung-fu master. In order to protect everybody, SUET fights with FA alone. She loses the fight but FA appreciates her courageous action. During NG LEUNG’s wedding, CHING comes to the brothel …

SUET besieges FA successfully but FA escapes eventually by abducting HUNG. CHING continues to provoke LUNG and LUNG recruits some gangsters to beat him on the street. The guard from WU’s family rescues CHING and CHING realizes that PIK is …

YUEN and his subordinates try to sneak into FA’s tort but they fail. PING arrives on time to rescue them. LUNG doesn’t want CHING to find out the truth and he set the tort on fire. YUEN tries to apologize to SUET’s parents at their grave. …

Dr LUI asks HIN to return to Yangzhou secretly. He wants HIN to stop SUET and the others from killing LUNG. LUNG discovers that his new restaurant staff practices kung-fu and he realizes their plan quickly. He decides to set up a trap for …

Both HIN and YUEN try to sacrifice their love for the other and SUET is mad. SUET decides to think about their relationship after meeting with the governor of Jiangsu. They arrive at Suzhou where they meet PIK. PIK comes here to look for C…

CHING and PIK discover the hiding place of LUNG’s treasures. They ask PING to call for help from the government officers. LUNG suddenly arrives to take the treasures with FA and his subordinates. PIK risks her life to avoid LUNG from meeti…

SUET meets SAM, one of the leaders at Tau’s Fort, on the street. She tries to approach him but somebody hit her on the back and she faints. YUEN doesn’t want SUET to know that he is directly responsible for the death of her parents. SAM tr…