Witness to a Prosecution

<h2 id="synopsis">Synopsis</h2>
<p>For 30 years, nighttime keeper <a href="/facts/Song_Ci/6FDkMs4l">Song Ci</a> (<a href="/facts/Bobby_Au-yeung/6zGvMDjb">Bobby Au-yeung</a>) was despised in To Yuen village due to his <a href="/facts/Posthumous_birth/MzBL8JrU">posthumous birth</a> in a coffin, having only the sickly scholar Sit Dan (<a href="/facts/Michael_Tse/l1NPruQI">Michael Tse</a>) and the <a href="/facts/Coolie/tbaHqMKN">coolie</a> Cha Siu-chaan (<a href="/facts/Lo_Mang/ePpB49yJ">Lo Mang</a>) as his friends.
</p><p>After disputing with the village chief over his family's land, Ci, along with a homeless female thief Tong Sze (<a href="/facts/Jessica_Hsuan/ask28p0x">Jessica Hsuan</a>), are accused for murdering the chief and are sentenced to death. The village's newly appointed magistrate Sung Yik (<a href="/facts/Frankie_Lam/1d0D7V8t">Frankie Lam</a>) finds the case suspicious and investigates.
</p><p>With the help of the mysterious yet experienced coroner Ma Kwai (<a href="/facts/Lau_Kong/20B3YptF">Lau Kong</a>), Yik successfully revokes Ci and Sze's sentences. Kwai becomes Ci's coroner master and Yik employs Ci to be his personal forensic medical doctor. The two become good friends and partners, successfully solving many murder cases in town.
</p><p>Sze develops a crush on Yik, unaware that Yik and Nip Fung (<a href="/facts/Mariane_Chan/UMb53vJ4">Mariane Chan</a>), daughter of chief <a href="/facts/Constable/ceBQg6vn">constable</a> Nip Yan-lung (<a href="/facts/Gordon_Liu/RMdxDJz0">Gordon Liu</a>), are already in a relationship. Ci, on the other hand, falls for Lam Choi-dip (<a href="/facts/Eileen_Yeow/mMYom7JH">Eileen Yeow</a>), the spoiled daughter of rich merchant Lam To (Lee Lung-kei). Choi-dip, however, has her eyes on Yik.
</p><p>Several months later, a man also by the name of Sung Yik shows up and confronts Yik, calling him a traitor. After the two intensely quarrel, the fake Yik accidentally kills the real Sung Yik. In a panic, he buries Sung Yik's body in the garden of the Sung family rice shop. Yik's relatives then mysteriously die one by one; Ci eventually uncovers the body of the real Sung Yik and begins to grow suspicious of the current Yik, a man whom he has always respected and treated as a friend.
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<h2 id="cast">Cast</h2>
<i>Note: Some of the characters' names are romanised via Cantonese pronunciation, instead of Mandarin.</i>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Bobby_Au-yeung/6zGvMDjb">Bobby Au-yeung</a> as <a href="/facts/Song_Ci/6FDkMs4l">Song Ci</a> (宋慈)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Frankie_Lam/1d0D7V8t">Frankie Lam</a> as Magistrate Sung Yik / Fong Tsun (宋翊 / 方俊)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Jessica_Hsuan/ask28p0x">Jessica Hsuan</a> as Tong Sze (唐思)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Mariane_Chan/UMb53vJ4">Mariane Chan</a> as Nip Fung (聶楓)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Michael_Tse/l1NPruQI">Michael Tse</a> as Sit Dan (薛丹)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Lo_Mang/ePpB49yJ">Lo Mang</a> as Cha Siu-chaan (查小燦)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Gordon_Liu/RMdxDJz0">Gordon Liu</a> as Nip Yan-lung (聶人龍)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Lau_Kong/20B3YptF">Lau Kong</a> as Ma Kwai (馬貴)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Eileen_Yeow/mMYom7JH">Eileen Yeow</a> as Lam Choi-dip (藍彩蝶)</li>
<li>May Kwong as Princess Sum-yu (心如郡主)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Benz_Hui/mFpG8HAt">Benz Hui</a> as Sung Sing (宋誠)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Mimi_Chu/8ETMph4Q">Mimi Chu</a> as Lo Fa (魯花)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Celine_Ma/m6CGuzc7">Celine Ma</a> as Sung Ling (宋玲)</li>
<li>Anderson Junior as Tenth Prince (十王爺)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Alice_Fung_So-bor/u6u3KgAn">Alice Fung So-bor</a> as Princess of Hong (康王妃)</li>
<li>Lee Lung-kei as Lam To (藍濤)</li>
<li>Lo Chun-shun as Choi Chuen (蔡全)</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>TVB's Top 10 Dramas (1997–2009) <a href="http://www.19740.cn/show.asp?id=1359/" target="_blank">http://www.19740.cn/show.asp?id=1359/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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