Beyond the Realm of Conscience
| Beyond the Realm of Conscience 宮心計 |
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Beyond the Realm of Conscience official poster
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| Genre | Costume drama |
| Written by | Ka Wai Nam Sai Chui Jing Ho Wing Nin Tam Chui San |
| Directed by | Fong Chun Chiu |
| Starring |
Charmaine Sheh Tavia Yeung Michelle Yim Susanna Kwan Moses Chan Kevin Cheng Joseph Lee Susan Tse Selena Li Mary Hon |
| Opening theme | Kung Sam Kai (攻心計) performed by Susanna Kwan |
| Ending theme | Fung Cheh (風車) performed by Charmaine Sheh |
| Composer(s) | Tang Chi Wai |
| Country of origin | Hong Kong |
| Original language(s) | Cantonese |
| No. of episodes | 31 33 (Production) |
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| Executive producer(s) | Mui Siu-ching |
| Location(s) | Hong Kong |
| Camera setup | Multi camera |
| Running time | 42 – 45 minutes |
| Production company(s) | TVB |
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| Original network | TVB Jade |
| Picture format |
576i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Original release | 19 October – 29 November 2009 |
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| Related shows |
Can't Buy Me Love (2010) Deep in the Realm of Conscience (2017) |
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| Website | |
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Title screen
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| Traditional Chinese | 宮心計 | ||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 宫心计 | ||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Palace Scheme | ||||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Gōng Xīn Jì |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Jyutping | Gung1 Sam1 Gai3 |
Beyond the Realm of Conscience is a 2009 Hong Kong television series. Produced by Mui Siu-ching, the serial is one of two 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 (尚宮局). The series title roughly means "Plots in the Palace" and is a play on the phrase (攻心計), a homonym which roughly means "Plots that target and attack the heart".
Gong Choi-king is forced back into the palace with her daughter, Lau Sam-ho and their servant, Yiu Kam-ling. Gong Choi-King comes from a very talented background of jewellery making, therefore she was assigned the task of making a beautiful, gold hairpiece in the shape of a phoenix, with a luminous pearl as the eye and the feathers of a river kingfisher as the tail for the Empress Dowager. However, during the Empress' daily walk around the imperial garden, the phoenix headpiece suddenly weeps tears of blood. Taking this as a sign of bad luck, she throws the hairpiece away and demands the jewellery maker to be severely punished. Gong Choi-King suffers harsh beating as her punishment and eventually passes away. Before passing away, she tells Sam-ho to always remember the significance of her name("Speak good words, do good deeds, show good will."). (Sam-ho literally means three goodness) She also tells her to help and work together with Kam-ling as if they are related sisters.
Around the time of Choi-king's death, Dowager Concubine Cheng's son, Lee Yi (prince) encounters the six years old Sam-ho. He showed kindness to Sam-ho by giving her some white flowers from Choi-king's favourite tree, the Chinese viburnum (瓊花), so she can take it to her dying mother. Empress Dowager was still very angry because of the hair piece and asked the new head of the Jewellery department, Yuen Chui-wan to shatter it. However, Yuen Chui-wan believed that the hairpiece is a one of a kind masterpiece, therefore she injures her own hand to protect it. She tells Empress Dowager that the hair piece is full of bad luck and if it is shattered all the bad luck will merge with the air. Taking this as an advantage Empress Dowager forces Dowager Concubine Cheng to wear the hair piece and tells her because of her good spirit she can block the bad luck from the entering the palace. After a short period of time bad luck begins to happen to Dowager Concubine Cheng and her son Lee Yi. The story was told that Lee Yi fell off a tree, while trying to reach for his kite. The fall injured his head causing his brain to remain as a 6-year-old boy forever. Lee Yi uses this mental illness as an excuse to escape the imminent death threat from the Empress Dowager, Sam-ho gives him some sweet lotus seed candy to comfort him on the journey. Because of this, the young prince begins to develop a small affection for her.
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