War and Beauty
The series is in a miniseries format popular throughout East Asia. It revolves around palace scheming, which has been featured in numerous TVB television series before Beyond the Realm of Conscience and also beyond Hong Kong, China and Taiwan in dramas from Korea and other East Asian countries These series were made very popular in Hong Kong possibly by War and Beauty, produced by TVB in 2004 also as an anniversary grand production. However, Beyond the Realm of Conscience is rather a series that carries the message that good (Lau Sam Ho, Charmaine Sheh) always beats evil (Yiu Kam Ling, Tavia Yeung). War and Beauty depicts the lives of four imperial concubines who all scheme to rise.