Beyond the Realm of Conscience

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 tha...

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 ph...

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 H...

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...

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 blam...

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 in...

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 Bur...

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...

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 before...

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 assas...

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...

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...

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 pi...

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 a...

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 whe...

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...

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 flatt...

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 t...

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 consider...

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...

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...

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 put...

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...

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...

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 being in a...

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 tes...

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 rev...

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 makes...

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 urge YI to...

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....

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...

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 to put WA...

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 thus keep...