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Mei is defending her thesis in front of a panel. She has prepared for every question. Halfway through, a professor she has never met asks about a source she cited — a paper from 1998. She falters. She has never read that paper; she found it in a footnote. The professor smiles and says: I know. I wrote it. And the name you cited is wrong.

Mei's advisor steps in to smooth things over. When the room clears, the professor hands Mei a card. On it is an address and a time. The professor says: if you want to know what the paper was really about, come tonight. What Mei finds there will change more than her thesis.

Mei is cleaning out her late grandmother's kitchen when she finds a recipe card in a drawer. The handwriting is familiar; the recipe is for a dish her grandmother never made. She tries it. The result is perfect. She posts a photo online. Within an hour, a stranger messages her: where did you get that? That recipe is from my family. We thought we were the only ones who had it.

Mei agrees to meet. The stranger brings an old photograph. In it are two women — one is Mei's grandmother. The other is the stranger's. They are standing in front of a restaurant that no longer exists, in a city neither Mei nor the stranger has ever visited.

Mei falls asleep on the train and wakes up at the end of the line. The station is empty. She checks her phone: no signal. A conductor approaches and says the last train back left an hour ago. He offers to call her a cab. While she waits, she notices a poster on the wall — a missing person. The face is familiar. She steps closer. The missing person is her. The date on the poster is from three years ago.

The conductor returns. He is not holding a phone. He says: we've been waiting for you. You're right on time. And he gestures toward a door she had not seen before. Through it, she hears voices — and one of them is her own.

Mei has signed up for a language exchange. Her partner is a man who says he is learning her language to talk to his daughter. They meet once a week. One day he brings a photo of his daughter. Mei freezes. The girl in the photo looks exactly like her — not similar, exactly like her. The man says: I've been looking for you for a long time. My daughter has been asking about you. She says you've been in her dreams since she was little. And the dreams started the year you were born.

Mei does not know what to say. The man slides an envelope across the table. Inside is a birth certificate. The name on it is different. The date is the same as her birthday. And in the space for mother, the name is one she has never heard — but when she looks it up later, she finds a woman who died the day Mei was born.

Mei is cast in a small role in a reunion special for a show that was canceled years ago. She has one scene with the lead. During rehearsal, the lead keeps missing cues and staring at her. Afterward, the lead pulls her aside and says: you need to leave. This show — something happened. They're not just making a reunion. They're trying to fix something. And you're part of it, even though you don't know it yet.

Mei asks what that means. The lead hands her a script — not the reunion script, but an old one. A scene is highlighted. In the scene, a character who was never cast is described in detail. The description matches Mei exactly. And the episode never aired.