Branches Entwined with Roots

An ordinary blind date leads the unremarkable Li Han into a trap set by fate. Mist by the river, eerie dreams, and a mysterious man drag her into the vortex of a parallel universe. She meets the gentle gentleman He An and thinks she has found a match made in heaven, only to be wheeled into a sealed operating room after losing consciousness. He An intends to seize the parallel-universe administrator privileges inside her, and a deadly conspiracy is laid bare.

At the critical moment, sealed memories suddenly awaken: Li Han is only her surface identity. Her true soul is 002, a high-ranking judge at the Space-Time Headquarters, demoted to a low-level post for breaking the rules.

Now that her powers have returned, 002 goes all out to hunt down He An. But in Universe B, she witnesses the most horrific scene of all: He An has killed his own birth mother with his own hands. The dead woman, dressed in a blue qipao, is none other than Li Han, whose identity 002 usurped and whom she wronged. 002 is struck like lightning as she realizes that she herself was the one who drove Li Han into a dead end and set the tragedy of matricide in motion.

Consumed by endless guilt, 002 tries to save Li Han. But Li Han has already seen through her fate and willingly goes to her death. As time and space collapse and the universe is destroyed, 002 discovers that she is merely a copy of Li Han's consciousness, and that all her resistance has been trapped in a closed loop of fate. She defies fate and becomes a man, only to meet Li Han again and give birth to He An, who is destined to kill his mother. A new cycle begins once more...