S01E01 Episode 1
Consort LAU SAM-HO and Consort YIU KAM-LING, the two beloved concubines of Emperor SUEN CHUNG (personally named LEE YI) of the Tang Dynasty, keep picking on each other. Seeing that LING, her once close friend,...
Beyond the Realm of Conscience
S01E04: Episode 4
HO is greatly impressed by Chess Master HIN-YEUNG upon their first encounter. Japanese chess player ONIZUKA KOJIRO has come to China. As instructed, YEUNG’s father YIU-ON engages in a contest with the Japanese visitor but is defeated. KOJIRO has set a chess puzzle for the Chinese. Emperor MO CHUNG is so keen to solve the riddle that he keeps pushing his cabinet members for an answer. LING is injured by YIN. WING-FONG pretends to comfort LING and coaxes her into disclosing her design. Knowing that SIU-YUNG, a skivvy from the Department of Jewels, is desperate to get out of the Palace to visit her dying mother, HA offers to intercede with CHOI for the girl in a bid to embarrass WAN. Emperor MO CHUNG plans on attacking KOJIRO by making use of YI. Luckily HO comes along in the nick of time and manages to get YI out of the jam. FONG steals LING’s design and takes all the credit for it.… ...
Overview
Beyond the Realm of Conscience is a 2009 Hong Kong television series. Produced by Mui Siu-ching, the serial is one of the two grand TVB productions to celebrate along with the channel's 42nd anniversary, the other being Born Rich. The drama aired five days a week on the TVB network with 45-minute episodes starting October 19, 2009.
Set in the latter years of the Tang Dynasty, Beyond the Realm of Conscience tells the story of palace maid Lau Sam-ho and her relations in the Imperial Palace, beginning with her experiences in the Imperial Household Bureau. The series title roughly means "Plots in the Palace" and is a play on the phrase, a homonym which roughly means "Plots that target and attack the heart".
Episodes
S01E02 Episode 2
After KING’s death, CHOI decides to destroy the phoenix hairpin as instructed by KWOK. Unwilling to see KING’s efforts go to waste, WAN means to injure herself. KWOK gives the phoenix hairpin to CHENG, and...
S01E03 Episode 3
KWOK needs HO to explain the design of the clothing, making HA and WAN believe that the Empress is going to punish the girl. To everyone’s surprise and delight, KWOK appreciates HO’s design and holds...
S01E04 Episode 4
HO is greatly impressed by Chess Master HIN-YEUNG upon their first encounter. Japanese chess player ONIZUKA KOJIRO has come to China. As instructed, YEUNG’s father YIU-ON engages in a contest with the Japanese visitor but...
S01E05 Episode 5
Knowing that YEUNG is not really confident in winning the contest, HO begins to worry about him. Too desperate to recover his military power, CHI plans to kill HO and put the blame on KOJIRO,...
S01E06 Episode 6
HA and WAN both deny having anything to do with the account book. For the sake of fairness, KWOK decides to lock up both of them as punishment. TSU goes to question HA and WAN...
S01E07 Episode 7
YEUNG admonishes KWOK for being too unfair and manages to save all members of the Imperial Household Bureau, for which HO is very grateful. Knowing that the Imperial Household Bureau has got itself out of...
S01E08 Episode 8
HO is promoted to the post of Deputy Head of Jewels. Not wanting to disappoint LING, HO would like to submit her resignation to WAN. HA believes that it has been WAN’s life-long ambition to...
S01E09 Episode 9
KWOK passes two bowls of so-called medicine to CHENG and YI and asks them to try it out. KWOK finally allows CHENG and YI to get out of the Palace. WAN pays CHENG a visit...
S01E10 Episode 10
CHEUNG informs HO at once knowing that KWOK is planning to kill CHENG and YI. HO reveals YI’s secret to YEUNG and YEUNG is willing to risk his life to rescue YI. MO CHUNG’s assassination...
S01E11 Episode 11
KWOK expresses strong opposition to YI’s accession to the throne during the coronation, saying that it is totally irrational to leave the country to the hands of YI. YI immediately reveals his true self and...
S01E12 Episode 12
YI has a meeting with CHI hoping to develop a range of public policies in favor of his fellow countrymen. CHI, however, hopes to remain in sole control of the government and does not want...
S01E13 Episode 13
All members of the Imperial Household Bureau offer to help with the investigation and the truth is finally uncovered. FONG insults LING on purpose. HO tries to defend LING and picks a row with FONG....
S01E14 Episode 14
WAN is appointed as the Head of Furnishings while HO is promoted to the post of Head of Jewels. SHEUNG goes to see CHOI at her bedroom. She is not happy with WAN’s transfer and...
S01E15 Episode 15
The dye HA will be using has been swapped with something else, which makes her extremely angry. The relationship between WAN and HA is once again on the rocks. CHOI asks SHEUNG whether it is...
S01E16 Episode 16
WAN goes to see PIK to discuss the design of the dressing table, during which she bumps into FUNG again. Believing that they have been having an affair, WAN gets so angry with WAN and...
S01E17 Episode 17
SHEUNG submits some nice snacks to YIN and YIN urges her to prepare another set of desserts. SHEUNG turns to CHOI for help but is told not to spend too much effort trying to flatter...
S01E18 Episode 18
Fearing that ON and YEUNG will reveal all the gruesome details of his crime sooner or later, CHI is keen to weed out ON insisting that the man should be sentenced to death. FUNG tries...
S01E19 Episode 19
CHOI has been ill for quite a while. She reveals that she would like to step down and that only the best candidates in terms of both ability and ethical rectitude will be considered for...
S01E20 Episode 20
CHENG treats LING, YIN and PIK to dinner, during which PIK notices that YIN has a partiality for sour food, which makes her think that the girl may have been pregnant. In fact it is...
S01E21 Episode 21
PIK is sentenced to death. YIN waits for YI at the Tortoise’s Tomb hoping that he will give in to her persuasion and overturn his verdict. But by stratagem LING manages to deter YI from...
S01E22 Episode 22
WAN has made a bronze mirror for PIK as her funerary amulet, for which FUNG is very grateful. Rumors about them begin to circulate around the Imperial Household Bureau. CHENG puts HA in charge of...
S01E23 Episode 23
YIN who is detained in her place offers to copy the Buddhist text for various temples outside the Palace. YI happens to discover YIN’s manuscripts of the Buddhist text, and feels a bit touched when...
S01E24 Episode 24
HA praises SHEUNG and HO for the recipes and the accessory layouts they have submitted. The two departments led by WAN have only handed in one layout respectively. WAN points out that the layouts have...
S01E25 Episode 25
HO and PAK go to KO’s Mansion with a gift to celebrate ON’s release. HO and YEUNG are shocked to find that PAK and ON have been poisoned. PAK is found dead while ON is...
S01E26 Episode 26
HO asks YIN about PIK’s malevolent plot against LING. YIN admits that PIK had an intention to cast a spell on LING but was stopped before she could start. HO puts LING to the test...
S01E27 Episode 27
YEUNG and FUNG are sad to hear that YUE, who was demoted earlier, has just passed away. FUNG blames YI for failing to distinguish right from wrong. YEUNG has no choice but to reveal the...
S01E28 Episode 28
YI has not defended LING when she is rebuked by CHI, but has apparently stood up for HO when she is reprimanded by the eunuch. HO has the support of both YEUNG and YI, which...
S01E29 Episode 29
Eager to rescue WAN, FUNG means to talk about the past and how he has helped CHI all these years. CHI has no choice but to release WAN. CHI and the rest of the cabinet...
S01E30 Episode 30
FUNG is shocked to discover that LING has been trying to harm YIN and her baby with various poisonous plants. Knowing that her plot has been thwarted, LING gets extremely furious. FUNG and SHUN hold...
S01E31 Episode 31
Having forced YIN to drink the abortion potion, LING starts to reprove her. After that she has one further explosive secret to reveal to YIN. YI is devastated by the death of YIN. As he...
S01E32 Episode 32
WAN asks HA if she knew from the very beginning that SHUN is not her biological son. HA has no choice but to reveal the truth to her. HO tells CHENG that LING has tried...
S01E33 Episode 33
CHI incites the rest of the cabinet to denounce and punish HO. HO claims that she is pregnant with YI’s son and that no one can harm her before her son is born. She can...
Cast
Tavia Yeung
Yiu Kam Ling
Moses Chan Ho
Lee Yi
Charmaine Sheh Sze-Man
Lau Sam-ho
Kevin Cheng Ka-Wing
Ko Hin Yeung
Susanna Kwan
Yuen Chui Wan
Michelle Yim
Chung Suet Ha
Selena Lee
Concubine Yin / Man Po Yin
Edwin Siu Ching-Nam
Lee Chin
Rosanne Lui Shan
Wu So Yan
Kara Wai Ying-Hung
Tam Yim Sheung
Joseph Lee Kwok-Lun
Ma Yuen Zi
Susan Tse Suet-Sum
Empress Dowager Guo
