The Record of Heaven and Earth's Passion

In the state of Daliang, at the Liu residence in Qingzhou, sixteen-year-old Xiao Ling is a cousin in the family, but because her mother, Liu Shuang, is frail and her father died young, her aunt treats her like half a maid. She is gaunt and sickly, with a pale, sallow complexion. Her only distinguishing feature is a faint red birthmark on the back of her left hand, shaped like a five-pointed maple leaf.

While gathering medicinal ingredients for her mother, Xiao Ling falls off a cliff and accidentally enters a "Yin-Yang Rift" hidden beneath dense fog. She tumbles into a completely different world: a kingdom of men. There are no women in this country, and everything is yang. The people pray to the "Father-Son Sacred Tree" for fruit formed from flesh. Specially appointed "nurturing fathers" swallow the fruit and nourish it for nine months with the saliva in their throats, then cut open their bellies to bring forth baby boys.