In Xingting City, there's a technology called “Offshoot” that lets people briefly experience a life they might have led if they'd made different choices.
It has one basic rule: Offshoot experiences belonging to different participants will never intersect.
The first time Lin He enters an Offshoot, he meets Yang Mu Bai in a flower shop in the north district. But from Yang Mu Bai's perspective, the previous second he was standing in a hospital in the south district.
They come from two completely different lives, yet their paths overlap for seventeen minutes.
After that, every time they enter an Offshoot, the two keep meeting again in unexpected places. Flower shops and hospitals, old streets and train stations: two unrelated lives briefly intersect from time to time. At first, they only want to figure out what has gone wrong with the System. But gradually, they grow used to one thing:
After entering another life, the first thing they do is look for each other.
Lin He asks, “What if there's a time when I don't show up?”
Yang Mu Bai smiles. “Then I'll come find you.”
The world never arranged their love for them.
After the first time, they kept choosing to move closer to each other.
Theme: Life has countless crossroads, and love comes from choosing to draw closer again and again
