Beyond the Realm of Conscience

Selena’s character

Mang Bo Yin
First appearance in episode 15

Personality: smart and resourcefull, iron-willed and unyielding, straight-forward, keeps on promises, is knowledgeable and comes from a wealthy family. At first she obeyed her godfather’s orders, but later she sees clearly that he’s wrong. Without hesitating, she risked her life by giving out the name and fights righteous for her true love. She’ll not grudge, even when have to sacrifice her life.

Background: 24 years, General Mang’s (Cheung Kwok Keung) daughter and Ma Yuen Ji’s (Lee Kwok Lun) goddaughter, she got introduced into the palace to become Lee Yi’s concubine.

Event: Lee Yi (Moses Chan) is very scrupulous towards Ma Yuen Ji, he thought that concubine Yin was just a chess piece that Ma has put to his side, because of this Yin Fei was neglected by him. Yin Fei could only feel gloomy and cold behind the palace door, later she got to learn Sam Ho (Charmaine Sheh), and she was touched by Sam Ho’s good character and they become friends.
At the time, Ma sees that Lee Yi expands his power. In order to isolate Xuanzhong, he has to eradicate his imperial guard Ko Hin Yeung (Kevin Cheng) first. He makes use of the subject that Hin Yeung father boast disrespectful words as a pretext. The punishment led to confiscation of posessions and house. Sam Ho asked Yin Fei to step forward and help begging, for Hin Yeung will Lee Yi be risked. That time, Yin Fei has developed true feelings to Lee Yi, weighting the pros and cons, she risked her life by giving out Ma’s name and stepped forward to solve the trouble. Lee Yi felt grateful, later Yin Fei got pregnant of the Emperor’s son, her relationship with Lee Yi developed even deeper. But Ma recruited Lai Fei (Tavia Yeung), who strikes a vicious blow to murder Yin Fei…

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Synopsis

Imperial Household Bureau is responsible for managing and directing all household services to the Emperor and the Imperial family in the Tang Dynasty. It is comprised of four departments, namely Jewels, Attire, Food and Furnishings. Lau Sam Ho (Charmaine Sheh) and Yiu Kam Ling (Tavia Yeung) are introduced into the bureau in their tender age and brought up in the disciplines of the palace. The two girls are diligent. Yuen Tsui Wan (Susanna Kwan), Head of the Jewels, and Chung Suet Ha (Michelle Yim), Head of the Attire, are both very fond of Ho for she is a kindhearted young girl. Soon, they start fighting for the fellowship of Ho.
Ho always remembers her mother’s words left to her before she passed away, that she was told, ‘Doing good deeds, Speaking good words, Showing goodwill’. She lives her life of being gracious and kind-hearted in the palace. On the other hand, Ling believes her survival in palace is achieved through cruel and calculating tactics. She cheats and schemes her way to the top and finally becomes the concubine. Though she realizes that Ho has fallen in love with the chess master Ko Hin Yeung (Kevin Cheng), her jealousy still arouses by Ho’s attraction to the Emperor Lee Yi (Moses Chan). Fearing that she is losing power, she ruthlessly makes up a false allegation against Ho for murdering the Empress (Mary Hon) and condemns her to death. No matter how clever she is to scheme, things do not go the way she planned. By using a strong comparison of the two distinctive characters, Ho and Ling, the message of the drama is that “benevolence” is the only way to gain final victory.