Beyond (simplified Chinese: X元素), is a Singaporean television drama series. It stars Jeanette Aw, Li Nanxing, Pierre Png, Shaun Chen and Xiang Yun as the main characters in the story. The story follows a girl with the extraordinary ability to see a person's inner soul, and an eccentric Private Investigator in search of his missing fiancée, as they brave challenges to unravel mysteries of the unknown dimensions.
It had aired on MediaCorp Channel 8 in Singapore from 24 December 2012 to 18 January 2013. During this period, a total of 20 episodes have aired.
Each episode starts with a flashback that will be related to the episode, followed by the episode's title and the start of the episode.
Quotes in Chinese and English are found after the end of every episode, followed by the credits roll which show the episode's end shot. Most of the quotes are from Western philosophers and writers, except for:
Meichen disappears on Jiang Wei's wedding day. Jiang Wei receives a phone call, and searches for her, only to find a wedding veil left on the roadside near the church where the wedding is supposed to be held. He realized that she went off without a trace, and Jiang Wei was heartbroken.
Jiang Wei remains heartbroken ever since that day three years ago, and is seen conversing to himself as the episode opens. He now stays in a HDB flat which looks as though he had just came in, even though he moved a year ago. Yang Zhiqing and her mother, Zhang Cuiyan, run a fried beehoon stall at a coffeeshop. Jiang Wei patronises the stall. When he sees his mother, Pan Baozhu, he hides, and did not collect his food. Zhiqing runs after Jiang Wei with the food. Outside the flat, a resident dries his laundry upstairs, Zhiqing tries to move back as the water drops on her spectacles, and falls after bumping Jiang Wei holding on to "Missing" fliers of Meichen. Her spectacles fall off her face. Zhiqing has a paranormal ability to see into other people's inner souls. While she retrieves her spectacles, she sees Jiang Wei morph into a filthy and gloomy vagrant in front of her, talking backwards ("吧事没你?", meaning "Are you OK?" backwards). She concludes that he was running away from reality. The vagrant saves Zhiqing from being crushed by the impact of the body falling from the roof. Before Zhiqing wears back her spectacles, she stole one more look at the vagrant. Police officer Qiu Hanxiang turns up at the scene, and finds shopping coupons from 10 years ago on the female corpse. Coffee shop tenant Dong-shu and his wife are very strict with their son, Weijian, and sends him to his tuition and piano lessons. As Weijian drags his feet for his lesson, Zhiqing removes her glasses, and sees Weijian with a huge scholar hat being handcuffed and walks with metal balls attached to his feet. She analyses that he is suffering, but has no idea how she can help. Zhiqing delivers food to the mental asylum and sees psychiatrist Xu Wenbin calming an agitated patient down. She tells him about Jiang Wei, and he gathers that Jiang Wei must have a sad past. Meanwhile, Cuiyan wants Jiang Wei to help her find her missing husband but can’t afford his fee. The deceased was later identified to be Huang Lifang, who has been missing for 10 years. The day she went missing, she was on the way to the supermarket to use the coupons. As Lifang’s looks remain unchanged, no one can explain what happened. Hanxiang and Jiang Wei checked for any clues three days before she entered the lift, but were unavailable. Jiang Wei later suspect that Meichen may have disappeared and her age may have been frozen. Dong-sao rushed to the coffee shop, telling everyone that Weijian went missing as she brought him home. Zhiqing seeks the help of Jiang Wei to find Weijian, after she failed to find him the night before, when Wenbin consoles Zhiqing and tells her that even if she can see other people’s inner world, whatever happens to them has nothing to do with her.