#but ye it's so juicy thematically. the idea of holding onto the little things that keeps coming up in s1.

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I do sometimes just like chucking ideas at the wall just because I think they're thematically really cool but have no real stake in them being canon.

So say for instance, I often wonder why Lu Guang latched onto Cheng Xiaoshi. Realistically, it's likely linked to his whole thing about CXS being "naïve" and acting impulsively to help people.

And then I think about how s1 and s2 both have visuals with Lu Guang at the very top of a building. How Emma herself wanted to kill herself by falling. And I'm like, wouldn't it be really neat if CXS's action to help Lu Guang in the first timeline was to talk him out of suicide?

The implications are so fascinating when you think about the fact that Lu Guang being saved then means he wants to save Cheng Xiaoshi. A life for a life.

But not even that, because Lu Guang was willing to die in the s1 finale if it saved Cheng Xiaoshi. A hypocrite with going against his rules, but even beyond that, still bargaining away his own life. Telling CXS what to do as he ignores what CXS himself taught him. Cheng Xiaoshi always wanted him to save himself.

And thinking how the node they keep returning to is Emma's. How Cheng Xiaoshi almost talked *her* out of suicide before she was possessed and the option taken from her.

The recurrence of "falling" and all the different forms that takes.