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Themesong: "愛怎麼說" by Steven Ma & Tavia Yeung
*Contains spoiler*
Episode 1 to 25:
Steven Ma (Nip Ji-Yuen 聶致遠) and Tavia Yeung (Dau Sing-Suet 竇勝雪) were once a couple but because of Tavia's family selling illegal salt and Steven, being a government official, was forced to capture their family. In the end, both Tavia's parents died and she put the blame on steven and seek revenge from him. Tavia was saved by Raymond Wong (Wu Ting-Hin 胡亭軒) when she was on the run from the government official. Raymond was undergoing a long-term illness that is said not to be recovered. To repay the Wu family for saving her, Tavia decided to help the family with the salt trading business.
A lot of events happened in the salt trading business. There was a critical event which forced the Wu family to give up the rights to sell salt. Since Raymond was very ill at that time and his father was jailed as he was being wrongly accused of murder. There is no one in the Wu family to support the salt business. In the end, Tavia and Raymond got into a "fake marriage" to save the family from the crisis.
After a long time, Tavia found out that Steven was under the influence of his godfather, Felix Lok (To Ying-Lung 屠應龍) which cause him to carry out the government official duties to capture her parents. Meanwhile, they also found out that Felix was engaged in illegal salt business. Steven, Tavia and Raymond gathered evidence against Felix. Unfortunately, Raymond was killed by Felix. In the end, Felix was captured and killed by government official with the help of Tavia and Steven. Steven and Tavia then got married but during the wedding day, Steven could not bear to hide from Tavia the truth that it was him who killed her parents indirectly. Tavia ran away and lived in some mountain tops where it was snowing heavily. She come across Steven in a mountain cave and the series ended there.
My thoughts:
The storyline was quite good but it is quite sad that Steven and Tavia did not get married in the end. It is very similar to Rosy business 巾幗梟雄. One is about rice business and the other about salt business. For those who watch Rosy business, you may want to watch Sweetness in the Salt, but don't expect it to be the same standard as Rosy business.
