Episode 19

FU sends his men to arrest KOK during the proceedings of his wedding with WAN. Having extricated himself from the immediate danger, KOK is determined to expose FU’s hypocrisy at his wedding. The emperor talks him into abandoning the plan, believing it to be far too risky. The two drown their sorrows in the bottle. WONG and YU gamble away their fortune and have no choice but to return to Hekou seeking the emperor’s help. FU attends to WAN’s make-up when fragmented recollections of her life urge through her mind. FU is informed that the emperor has gone on a tour incognito and deduces that the man who was sentenced to forty harsh beatings is none other than the emperor. FU receives the emperor to the Yamen. The emperor reprimands FU’s and KWAI’s wrongdoings. FU holds the emperor hostage and coerces KWAI into colluding with him by threatening the safety of his wife……