The Confidant

Inspired by KANG YOU-WEI, LIAN-YING agrees to return to the palace with SAM-SHUN, assisting CIXI to bring order out of the chaos. TIM-SHAU, who has become Emperor TONGZHI's favorite, takes the Emperor unbridled out of the palace to have fun. While SHEUNG-HEI thinks that CIAN is dying, he gets startled after being summoned to make an audience with CIAN and seeing her being full of vitality. All of a sudden, CHAN FOOK is transferred to guard the mausoleum of the late Emperor by CIAN, so he dashes to the Attending Office to pick a quarrel with TIM-SHAU, who is full of arrogance and mocks him instead. After LIAN-YING and SAM-SHUN rush back to the Forbidden City, TIM-SHAU talks big, prompting LIAN-YING and SAM-SHUN to submit to CIAN as well as Emperor TONGZHI, to which LIAN-YING has no comment……