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What If

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20251 season · 12 episodesLimited series — complete

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

The story

What it's about

Lok Chak-shun, a man who lives three different destinies shaped by his choices. Born prematurely in 1960s Hong Kong, he grows up passionate about comics. A school prank leads him to a fateful encounter with a mysterious girl, but a broken kite triggers a ripple in time, splitting his life into three divergent paths.

The run

Seasons

1 season · 12 episodes.

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Season 1
202512 episodes
8.2IMDb
Lok Chak Shun, a 1960s Hong Kong premature survivor, sought escape in street comics where he met Lung, a teen gangster mentoring him into petty crimes. When Shun’s autobiographical comics were altered at school, he publicly shamed the vandal—a reclusive art student departing soon. Overwhelmed by guilt, he then uncovered his father’s infidelity and Lung’s escalating gang war. Amid the turmoil, a severed kite string crystallized his crossroads: embracing Lung’s chaos led to imprisonment; pursuing the girl forged an artistic career marred by her abrupt emigration; confronting his father shattered the family, exiling him into solitude. Each path mirrored Hong Kong’s fractured identity—caught between colonial twilight and generational rebellion. The kite, once a childhood solace, now symbolized life’s irreversible pivots: a single frayed thread unraveling into lifetimes of regret or reinvention, bound by choices made in the breath between adolescence and consequence.

Behind the series

Created by

Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.

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Ho Chung Ken
Writer

The craft

Key Crew

Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.

Executive production

Yau Nai-HoiProducer
Johnnie ToProducer
Elaine ChuProducer

Writing

Ho Chung KenWriter

Direction

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