It turns out that, I was using “year” as a custom taxonomy, which was part of the reserved terms of WordPress!!! With using the reserved term, it will return the 404 error for the top level pages, hence the redirection to the home page. !!!
Listed here:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_taxonomy#Reserved_Terms
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