Five years after the edict of Milan was signed and ratified the living conditions of Christians still didn't improve. Violent persecution by city governments were still the daily practice, even though provincial laws granted them legal protection. In Britain, however, religious freedom became a practical enforcement in society. There were refugees from the Far East (China, Korea and Japan) that fled towards the Danube Provinces (Alpine regions) of the Eastern Roman Empire. One of them is Yeo-il Sin Ying, a former slave girl who fled to Noricum to avoid the political and military chaos in her home country.