#Link click spoilers

[90108s]

[ID: A three-panel illustration based on the first episode of the Yingdu Chapter. The first panel shows Cheng Xiaoshi when he died, the gold leaving his eyes. The gold flecks transform into butterflies, moving in a downward trail. The second panel is Lu Guang holding Cheng Xiaoshi’s wrist at the basketball court. The last is Cheng Xiaoshi smiling at Lu Guang from when they were walking back to the studio. The text reads, “isn’t it nice to help people find their precious thing?,” in reference to a line said by Cheng Xiaoshi.]

[etsukiharu]

The game has started

Bridon Arc lets gaurrr

[intothefrisson]

You can now get this as a print on my Inprnt shop!

He looked so grief-stricken at the end

intothefrisson Twitter/Insta/Bluesky

[dragonfruitjazz]

Happy link click day (even if it is a bit delayed...)

[nirvanaida]

the best part about the new ep is the reveal every time lg goes back to his and cxs’s first meeting, he gets bonked by a basketball. "oh you wanna break the timeline to save the love of your life? okay but you do have to get whacked sorry”. peak comedy

[always-a-joyful-note]

They are judging you

[stochastictimeline]

truly the people's protagonist

[uruwashi-no-nightingale]

cheng xiaoshi fell first lu guang fell harder then went back in time so he also technically fell first too

[mimicha-arts]

LC, YINGDU SPOILERS

All this sudden information that shiguang met in 2019, during the university days, does not give me peace, and… If we rewatch s1, then these are definitely different events, and their co-players here are completely different people 🤔 s1, ep3

s-Yingdu, ep1

Lu Guang, what have you done with time…

[miyamiwu]

The yellow in Cheng Xiaoshi’s eyes going out like a fire, while Lu Guang’s yellow is filling up like water

I am unwell

[snorlaxlovesme]

listen i know this is a really traumatizing and serious moment. but putting that aside....as a pro cosplayer...do you think part of lu guang was a little impressed by the fit or

[bentofaxmachine]

hey so as a general rule of thumb if you put a photo from the time that you met your bro in a book of shakespearean sonnets thats probably not just your bro

[darkrooklobby]

⚠️Yingdu / Bridon arc spoilers: Episode 1!⚠️

Lu Guang basically the entire episode:

(hugging himself 🥺🥺🥺) (sad boi hours)

[akeedia]

yingdu ep1 was "they're all dead and eternally doomed to repeat the cycle" but also "lu guang is a beautiful boy, he's so handsome that he resembles a male lead of a historical comic"

[miyamiwu]

When the fuck is everything happening??? In 2018 (S1) or 2019 (Yingdu)?

Picking up from the discussion in the replies under @kuschelkissen’s post...

The year Doudou was kidnapped, Lu Guang and Cheng Xiaoshi spent their summer* break abroad—we now know this trip was to Yingdu.

*Summer months in China are June-August

The kidnapping and the Yingdu trip happened 3 years before the events in season 1, which took place in 2021:

(Date and time on Lu Guang’s watch right before they first dived into the Doudou case: 2021-10-13, 14:30.)

Three years ago would be 2018—which means ShiGuang should’ve already met by then and grown close enough to be on a trip together. But as we’ve seen in YE1, Lu Guang hasn’t moved in with CXS yet by the end of the Anime Con, which was on June 10, 2019:

(Throughout YE1, this is the only frame of Lu Guang’s watch where the year, 2019, is not blurred out)

The Vivian case started right after…which means that ShiGuang establishing their partnership also happened later since that took place afterward. Notably, throughout the Vivian case, the date was never once shown. But it’s safe to assume that it started on the same day/the day after Anime Con.

So, summing it up so far, ShiGuang has not yet met/formed a partnership in 2018, which they should’ve already done to be able to go to Yingdu together, as implied in S1.

I tried to look for frames showing the actual year Doudou was kidnapped, but guess what I found instead:

Translation of relevant part:

He went missing at around 3 pm on 201X, X month, X day.

If the entire date was in Xs, I could’ve just brushed this off as a design choice to show that the actual date doesn’t matter. However, they purposely revealed 3 digits for the year, leaving only the rightmost digit hidden: 201X

The year being 2021 is prominent throughout season 1:

(see date on monitors)

The kidnapping case taking place three years ago was also mentioned several times. Doing the math is easy, so why still hide the 8 in 2018? Why not just have the entire year in Xs to make it uniform with the month and day?

Did the kidnapping and Yingdu trip actually happen in 2018? If yes, then ShiGuang meeting and partnership should’ve happened much earlier. It doesn’t align with what we’ve been shown in YE1 (partnership established some time after June 10, 2019).

There’s still room for the first meeting date actually taking place in 2018, since the year it happened was never shown. We can only infer that it took place on an April 11 from the date on Cheng Xiaoshi’s phone (April 12) and the text he sent (which uses the word ‘tomorrow’):

However, I’m gonna trust the directors’ scene order choices here. Let’s just assume Yingdu Chapter has ShiGuang first meeting on April 11, 2019.

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I’d like to think the confusion here over 2018 vs 2019 is simply due to an error in the anime. Maybe it’s actually just 2018. Or maybe they decided to change the kidnapping/yingdu trip to two years ago instead of three… But such discrepancy on a deliberate detail seems unlikely, especially for Link Click.

Did something happen that the events (first meeting and partnership establishment) are happening a year later than they’re supposed to be? Could Lu Guang be trying to prevent the Yingdu trip?

(Also, wasn’t it mentioned before that ShiGuang met in high school? Why is Lu Guang already a university freshman in the basketball match in Yingdu??? Why are he and CXS still wearing high school uniforms???)

I don’t know what the fuck is going on anymore

[dgnrtshunch]

Do we think maybe Vein's reason for showing up at the time photo studio wasn't because Lu Guang was going back in time already but just because of their time traveling side business to begin with?

Could explain why he also went after others affiliated with the time photo studio like Qiao Ling and Xiao Li and why he wasn't specifically trying to kill Lu Guang but seemingly just everyone there

It also makes more sense to me considering this seems to be Lu Guang's first time diving since he seems shocked by Cheng Xiaoshi's death in the first place and so caught off guard when he dives back and sees him again. If he'd done it multiple times already I feel like there'd be less of a surprise there

I feel like they also take lengths in the series to say that unless they tell someone they're currently possessing someone the time dive is undetectable, so i'm curious how Vein would even find out if it was just about Lu Guang diving back