#if lu guang gets crazy

[dekukaze]

IM STILL HERE

[nemoys]

i think it's really funny how director li haoling mentioned how the leads of link click couldn't be a male and a female because then 'matters of the heart would make it more complicated for them to work together' SIR YOUR MALE LEADS ARE RIPPING THE LITERAL SPACE TIME CONTINUUM TO STAY TOGETHER I THINK THEIR HEARTS ARE PRETTY FUCKING INVOLVED ?? 😂😂☝️

edit : okay let me just say this to clear doubt or anything, i truly do not believe the director views them platonically. given what he's directed in the past and currently, i highly doubt he isn't aware of what he's making, this is just a light tease over what he's said in an interview! keep in mind, censorship is most definitely a real thing, and he's already walking a tight as hell rope

[quarriart]

boys in dresses amirite

[autism-corner]

had a dream where gay people were finally real!!

[toelessbastard]

HELL

[mysterialistic]

I'm extremely surprised that Lu Guang agreed to this crazy plan back in season 1. Like, how did he accept to lock Cheng Xiaoshi in the red room with a serial killer knowing his fate?

I would've turned into a panicking mess.

[Unless... He had already seen how it'll all play out? Nope, doesn't make sense because then he would've also seen how he was going to get stabbed.]

EDIT: wait, guys, I think Cheng Xiaoshi didn't told Lu Guang his plan until he was possessing Xu Shanshan, so I guess it was more of a "hey, this is the deal, Lu Guang, you really don't have a choice" lmao.

[hirokari]

cherry flavored slushie

wc: 0.8k | g: friends to more, fluff, high school!au | w: none!

Lu Guang never pegged you to be a person to show up to basketball games. He supposed you showed up for Xiaoshi, though you sit oddly far from the game, leaning on the net outside the court, sipping on the typical slushie you tend to buy after school.

Wordless, Lu Guang leans against the wired net next to you, looking your way, though you don't take your eyes off the game.

"I didn't know you liked basketball," He says. "I don't," You answer, handing the boy your slushie. He takes it and sips on the straw, imagining your lips tasting of this cherry flavor. Finally, you look at him, "Why don't you play? You're tall and pretty good at it," 

"You've seen me play?"

"Yeah, dude. Were you so immersed in playing to notice me?"

He guesses he was- which is a surprise. It takes a lot to get Lu Guang’s eyes off of you. He responds with a shrug, tilting and tapping the straw against your lips. You comply and look back at the game as you let the cherry flavoring dye your tongue a hot, bright red.

"Why are you watching if you don't like basketball?" He can't help but ask. He thinks it's a stupid question. You answer, though, unbothered, "Because I know the rules. And I know this referee is incredibly blind. I'm out here so I don't strangle him with my bare hands."

He can’t help but let out a light chuckle, one that feels innocent and pegs a smile out of you too, but it also ignites a sharp feeling in your stomach. “They don’t seem to play fair, but I believe Xiaoshi is decent enough to overcome said blindness.”

Your worn out converse nudges his knee as you sit back against the wired fence and you give him a teasing smile, “Finally giving him credits, Guang?” With his cheeks dusted pink, his eyes avert away in a shy manner as he mumbles gruffly through a frown, “No.”

And it’s your turn to laugh, though yours is much more bubbly than his, and he likes to hear your voice more than his own. The fuzzy feeling that washes over him merely from your voice and its tone; the wide smile you give him and the crinkle at the end of your eyes; your fingers that ignite tingles when they graze over his shoulder; frankly everything about you makes him go crazy, as hard as it is for him to admit.

Your tongue is painted a hot red from the cherry flavored slushie that you’d just finished, and he supposes his is a little dyed as well. But it makes you all the more kissable. Your lips are also stained– but they’re much lighter.

“You like sweet junk?” You ask, leaning forward to sip from the slushie that he holds in his hand. He watches as you drink the cold treat, your eyes still skimming across the court, carefully analyzing each player. “Truthfully: no.”

“You tried it out, though?”

“I know you like this junk,” He says. “So I went for it.”

Oh. Your cheeks flare, attention abandoning the game almost completely to look at the white-haired boy. “But you’re still drinking it.”

“I don’t mistrust you and your taste,” Says Lu Guang, sending you a boyish smile. Who’d have known the stoic boy could ignite such feelings in you, your chest tightening in hope and your stomach, twisting. You watch as he smacks his lips open and close; as if playing around with the residue taste that the slushie had left in his mouth.

“Doesn’t taste the best.”

“No?”

“Not from a cheap foam cup, no,”

“Hm? Where would it taste the best from, then?”

There’s a moment of silence. The grass you both sit on rustles when Lu Guang shifts and leans forward, but it comes to a halt. So does the thump in your chest. It freezes– you freeze. His nose brushes against yours and for a moment you think he’s teasing. 

Lu Guang, the often emotionless and objective robot of a human, is in fact teasing you by brushing his nose against yours. And you think you love it as much as you hate it. His breath is hot when it fans against your skin and it makes your skin ignite with goosebumps. Your eyes grow half-lidded, charmed by both the anticipation and frustration he leaves you in.

A loud clattering noise emits from the court. Instinctively, you turn your head to watch as Xiaoshi scores a point. Lu Guang, seemingly growing a little jealous, plants his fingers against the base of your jaw and leads your attention back to him.

“Wh-”

Lu Guang doesn’t give you time to breathe or respond, lips pressing against yours in a chaste kiss. And you think he’s right, as always. This cherry flavored slushie tastes way better from his lips compared to the foam cup (that is now tipped over and abandoned next to Lu Guang’s side). You always imagined his lips would have tasted sweet, but nothing like this.

You imagined he’d taste sweet of citrus and warm like a summer breeze. Though, you don’t think you want to complain right now. Cold cherry lips are all the same, as long as they’re Lu Guang’s.

a/n: experimenting with the idea of straightforward n flirty lu guang hehehe

©️ hirokari, 2024

[mykingdomforapen]

Lunar New Year headcanons of our favorite trio while I do my deep cleaning...

brought to you by a Cantonese person disclaimer disclaimer

Cheng Xiaoshi loves the dancing lions so much. When he was little, he always told his parents he wanted to be one of the lion dancers one day, doing all sorts of acrobats and tricks. He would always run to the front to feed the lion money or lettuce and to this day as an adult still gets giddy when they eat something out of his hand.

That being said, Lunar New Year was hard for Cheng Xiaoshi the first several years without his parents. He was extremely lonely, and while Qiao Ling's family would have invited him over to their celebrations for the holidays, they also had all of Qiao Ling's grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins running around. It was too stressful for him so there were years he refused the invitation and spent it alone. Also, because so many of his classmates' parents didn't really like him, no one would give him a red envelope* which made him feel really embarrassed when the other kids would make fun of him for it. And he had no parents to get him new clothes, get him a haircut, etc. He honestly got depressed around the season each year. *if I understand correctly, while in the south of China it's usually your family/close friends who give you red envelopes with lots of money, northerners will give red envelopes to any kid they come across with a nominal amount

Lu Guang does go down south to see his extended family each holiday, and he has a pretty large extended family as well. His grandparents spoil him rotten and he gets SO much money. Most of which he subtly shares with Cheng Xiaoshi and Lu Guang ie treating them to dinner, getting them little presents, etc. It helps that his grandparents worry he's destitute for working in a photo shop and give him extra money.

That being said, he does try to spend some of the important days with Cheng Xiaoshi and Qiao Ling because he LOVES THEM!!! And also he's got beef with one of his cousins.

Nowadays, Qiao Ling and her parents prioritize Cheng Xiaoshi over extended family when it comes to celebrations. Qiao Ling insists that they all like it better this way, but it took Cheng Xiaoshi a bit of time to believe it. He's grateful for their home, where there will always be a pair of chopsticks for him....

Also, Qiao Ling's mom begs him every season that she help him cut his hair. He says No ❤️

Lu Guang takes the deep cleaning very seriously around this season. He dedicates an entire weekend to scrubbing, dusting, changing out filters, cleaning out closets, everything. Cheng Xiaoshi and Qiao Ling always get a little nervous when, in the weeks leading up to LNY, they notice Lu Guang buying new cleaning liquids and rags.

Meanwhile, Cheng Xiaoshi cooks up a storm for the holidays. he completely takes over Qiao Ling's kitchen and cooks like crazy. He badgers Qiao Ling to keep him company but also doesn't want her in the kitchen else he'll trip over her when he's In The Zone, so she literally pulls up a stool and sits at the doorway.

This isn't a headcanon but just picture the trio bundled up in scarves and watching the fireworks together....clapping with the lion dancers...eating niangao and talking over the TV special....my heart.

[anulithots]

I feel like people sleep on The Tides just because Overthink is SO good, but the symbolism goes CRAZY in The Tides and it's straight up beautiful 😭😭

Do you have any thoughts on it? :0

YES EXACTLY. Like sure overthink is what I hum to myself when I’m stressing about something and it’s an absolute bop and this is coming from someone who doesn’t listen to rap songs whatsoever…

OKAY BUT THE TIDES THOUGH. As the season two outro it’s a masterpiece as welll. And while I cannot (unfortunately) read the lyrics in Chinese, I do think the English lyrics are wonderous as well. (’openn your eyeess… passingg throughh liessss’) AND THE MUSIC ITSELF. Like it’s sooo soft and pretty and has been on repeat in my head for days and days and days. (LIke all the link click songs but STILL.)

BaishaJAWS - as always, I honestly don’t think they can make a bad song - realllyyy did well with the - I don’t know music terms akljfljaksdf - repetition of the melody and the lyrics being about…actually reads the lyrics because this is one of the rare songs I haven’t memorized the lyrics too… smh at myself.

Okay so it’s about how (assumminngg CXS because IDK it feels like him sort of? But of course the ‘POV’ could be a mix of the characters or this season itself) CXS has been ‘lost of in the trap of time lapse’. To me this seems like his season one search for a perfect past, and now he blames himself for how this season has turned out/how the present unfolded because of his decisions. (Like with Lu Min and Lu Guang’s stabbing and how he couldn’t save everyone. Although, I have yet to do a deep dive analysis on season two as of yet, just season one. So these thoughts will probably change going forward).

Now the past is cemented in place, and he cannot escape from the world as it is, rather, CXS resolves himself to use the past, not to fix it, but to move towards the future and ensure it turns out okay. (Overall that’s the difference of season one and season two to me. Season one focuses on CXS primarily and his desire to fix the past, whereas season two focuses more so on a wider cast of characters along with CXS - Qiao Ling especially gets more screen time, and she’s the ‘present focused’ one of the trio - and uses the past to deal with the unfolding issues in the present.

Which leads my storytelling brain to theorize that season three will be ‘future focused’ and it… would be very cool… if the structure changed again. Episodic for season one. More narrative for season two. Then for season three it would be cool (again, from a storyteller’s perspective) for the structure to become more ambiguous, a little abstract, something of that nature. AND THEN WE GET LU GUANG ANSWERS AS THE FUTURE FOCUSED ONE OF THE TRIO!! KAJFKLASJDFKLAJSDLKFJASLKDFJALKSFJKLASJFKLASJDFLSAJDFL

Erm yes… so that’s my theorizing over the two lyrics I can understand /pos <3

... this is too long /pos

[shuakepilled]

the last episode of link click I feel truely established the dynamics of shiguang and literally swapped their roles in one way because from season 1 up until the last episode of season 2, we were under the impression that lu guang is the less impulsive or one that does not make drastic decisions and is always calculated, except all those rules and logic falls apart when it comes to cheng xiaoshi, he truely loves him so much. xiaoshi on the other hand is very expressive and also quite impulsive as we have seen since season one but when he thought lu guang had died, he did think about diving into a photo but immediately stopped himself from doing so after lu guang's words , this happenes not once but a couple more times, it rlly shows how interesting they are as a dynamic, one who would respect the principles of the other even if it meant the one they love would die and the other won willing to break the rules to save the one who dies.

while it may seem that cheng xiaoshi would never do what lu guang did that is changing time for some reason I do feel if cxs would be pushed to a corner he could also do the same thing as lu guang, I can't determine the likelyhood of that after seeing what happens through the season but anyways the shiguang angst is truely just crazy... also the fact that lu guang knows that death can't be changed but he still wanted to save xiaoshi (and the camera pans out to him smiling... thats gay as hell alr) is honestly something that is a stepping stone to lu guangs development as a character, his mysteriousness is slowly getting cleared up and I'm honestly excited for what season 3 has in store for us because ik it's gna make me just go batshit crazy atp

[dekukaze]

Guys I noticed something

Link Click S2 ending spoilers

So this scene when Cheng xiaoshi was dying, Lu guang had his watch on his left wrist.

BUT

After Cheng dies, Lu guang has his watch on the right wrist. Did he changed it after he died? I saw a theory about him replacing it on the right wrist since it was triggering for him cuz you know, the man it's traumatized :(

Bonus: The traces of Cheng xiaoshi blood on Lu guang's face I-

(They need to show us what the heck happened there 😭)

Idk guys, for me, I don't this is a mistake and it's a very important detail. I gotta check if on the Yingdu chapter trailer, where is the watch this time.

(guys, I'm so desperate ah-)

[g1ngerbeer]

who are these link click boys im intrigued by what youre putting on my dash

HELLLO ALEXMEY link click (时光代理人) is a donghua web series about cheng xiaoshi (dark-haired ponytail guy) and lu guang (white-haired guy) who run a photo studio that is also a time travel fix-it agency. their landlady is cheng xiaoshi's childhood friend qiao ling (dark-haired girl and the third protag).

they do little jobs that qiao ling finds for them, using cheng xiaoshi and lu guang's powers: cheng xiaoshi can enter a photo by possessing the person who took it at the moment they took it (effectively time traveling) and lu guang can use a photo to see everything that happens up till 12 hours after it was taken. theres also umm plot. and greater-scope villains :] it starts off episodic, but there's a larger plot that soon gets introduced and it carries across both seasons

and also cheng xiaoshi and lu guang are one of the doomed yaois of all time. with time travel involved. i dont think i can say much because of spoilers but rest assured. that is a doomed yaoi. one of the doomed yaois of all time even. their codependencies start from whats baked into their power sets and only get worse. they would forsake everything they stand for for each other's sake. their portmanteau name mash ship name is shiguang im crazy. im crazy

2 seasons of 12 twenty-minute-ish eps out right now. season 3 coming umm. soon? i hope its soon. ive been here for three days and if i dont find out whats going on with lu guang im goign to lose it

(even if you dont end up watching the show i highly recommend looking at the intros for s1 and s2 theyre super cool)

[animegoil-vnc]

I didn't even *consider* it wasn't LG himself doing that crazy stunt, but now...

Look, my estimation of the writers for this show has taken some hits this season - if it's not LG himself, time travel shenanigans or not, I'm going to lose so much respect for them.

It'd be one thing if they'd put in clues beforehand - LG maybe smiled a little too much like CXS or did or said something that made us go hmmmm something is off with LG... And then this scene happens and they play up that smirk and confidence and so now we have CLUES to say HOLY SHIT I BET THAT'S CXS. That would be a great setup! That would be exciting because it allows the audience to becomes more invested and engaged as they "pick up what the show is dropping" so to speak. The suspense is around the *anticipation*.

If they make it so that it wasn't LG himself, that would be, in my opinion, a huge breach of the audience's trust. There are so many reasons why it being Lu Guang is important in terms of audience satisfaction and expectation:

The emotional thread tying the show together has always been LG and CXS's relationship, and they've made a point of showing how protective LG is of CXS already.

Despite that, there hasn't been much communication between the two this season despite all the insane plot events that have been happening - this becomes a gap the audience is dying to have filled.

The fact that they've shown LG being suspicious this entire season, which is setting up expectations that LG does indeed know something and that he's going to do something unexpected.

Even if LG hadn't been set up as knowing something about this ahead of time, the suspense and mystery of his background means the audience is waiting for that moment when the story will finally dig into that.

In terms of action, LG hasn't gotten many moments to shine this season yet compared to the others - makes sense since he's (supposed to be) bedridden, but it means the audience is also going to anticipate or be excited about him getting a chance to be the center of the action or plot.

Given all of that, it would be incredibly cruel and bad storytelling (nearly on the level of killing LG off in the first place) if they turned around and removed that agency from LG and revealed it was never him. That kind of yanking around of the audience's feelings would be really, really dissatisfying. Despite all the missteps I personally feel the show has made in storytelling this season by creating hype and suspense through misdirection and questionable pacing choices, I really hope that they're not so hellbent on that vision of their story that they'll make this kind of error.

[animehouse-moe]

Link Click Season Two Episode 3: Two Funerals

After the initial two episode fare of this season, episode three certainly feels like it slows things down. Which is not a bad thing. It gives the story time to establish itself, to provide mystery and unspoken curiosities to the world, to allow for exploration of the new characters and their roles in the story, and it gives Lu Guang and Cheng Xiaoshi time to work their magic. So certainly quite a bit to chat about with this episode!

I think the first thing that really tickles my brain is the oddities of the production for Link Click. Not that it's a bad thing, but that it's just decidedly different when compared to anime. Stuff like the letterboxing and the camera movement leave it very telling that this is a donghua rather than an anime. Bit hard to explain over words, but check out this panning shot. Feels.... wrong, right? Well, that's because of how it's shot. The way that the pan stops during the scene is different than what you'd normally see with anime, which continue the pan right to the end typically (or at the very least have it slow down before coming to a stop).

Similarly, the production vastly prefers depth to breadth, which is an interesting idea. Considering the share of horizontal to vertical space, you might have thought the latter, but instead they choose the former. Detail doesn't come from side to side, rather it likes to appear from front to back. Take this layout for example.

Typically, if you're operating on breadth instead of depth, you'd be more inclined to place the focus (the older characters in track suits on the right) towards the center of the frame, while placing the supporting characters and details on either side of them. Focusing on depth first however allows for far more different shots that feel more grounded in 3-dimensional space.

Anyways, the episode itself. We start with the older characters and/or masters of Lu Guang and Cheng Xiaoshi waiting around in a hospital. Nothing too special, just establishing their characters and why they showed up to help Qiao Ling and Cheng Xiaoshi. Though I have to admit, some of the pieces through their short time here are comical as they have a run in with an incredibly drunk person.

Of course, the trio of elderly leave this hospital and arrive at Lu Guang's (in style, obviously) to take on the mob that has surrounded Qiao Ling and Cheng Xiaoshi. I was really looking forward to some crazy action, but I also wasn't surprised when they kept things simple and skipped most of it. They gave two crazy action sequences back to back, so I think they can afford a bit of a break. Still, they delivered some cool and interesting sequences and a fun impact frame or two.

Also, fun little detail here. During this sequence, and before the impact frames, the father of the other two actually disappears in frame for a brief second. Fun little bit to give to people paying close attention.

Also also, this gif provides an excellent example of that depth-first approach for the production. Rather than the left to right or vice versa you might usually see, they place the camera at an arbitrary spot in 3D space, and have the mob of characters run through the camera. Pieces like this really help establish Link Click's visual style.

A similar example can be found in a follow-up scene of Qiao Ling and Cheng Xiaoshi after the fight. It really does look good, it's just that it might take a bit to get used to because of the letterboxing. Certainly makes me curious about the choice for it to be a consistent visual restraint considering how much they might be able to accomplish with a full scene.

I haven't really talked about the story, have I? Well, up until this point it hasn't been anything super crazy, truthfully. The bad guys got beat up and are being interrogated, and Xiao Li comes to apologize to Qiao Ling and Cheng Xiaoshi. There's nothing crazy or important yet. That is, until Liu Min's father and entourage show up and butt heads with our current trio.

The back and forth is more performative than substantive, but Qian Jin's interactions are most certainly the focal point. Establishing his prior history as a police officer, and the past that he shares with Xiao Li, an odd rivalry brews between him and Cheng Xiaoshi.

It makes you really curious as to what led Qian Jin to his current station in life, and what it was that happened in this flashback we're shown by Xiao Li.

Anyways, the arguments come and go, and Qiao Ling ends it all with an incredibly satisfying slap that gets the first reaction out of Qian Jin in the whole conversation.

It's an incredibly subtle difference, but his default grin does widen a bit after the interaction. I think it adds a good deal to the sort of slimy and snake-like personality that Qian Jin wields so far. Very curious to see how his role plays out given that his lackey is being detained.

We move forward, and into Chen Bin's funeral. They do well with it as an emotional moment and bring out the best in Chen's now-widow to help give Cheng Xiaoshi the push he needs to solidify his desire to go back and prevent Chen Bin's death. I do think the emotional beat is well done, it's just that I'm not really one to be "all-in" on this sort of stuff myself, so I don't have too many words to say about it.

What I do have words to say about though is how Cheng Xiaoshi and Lu Guang interact as the latter goes back in time. Also, just more of that whole Black and White/Ying and Yang theme here.

Anyways, the biggest thing is how Cheng Xiaoshi asks Lu Guang for his help. He says that he wants to help the pair, which appeals to Lu Guang through the guilt they share for being the cause of Chen Bin's death. It's a great moment that establishes the hesitation the pair have in the use of their powers currently, and their overall intent in their reasoning for using them. A solid shift from their original purpose through season 1, though of course the natural conclusion of their experiences with it anyways.

Of course, we end the episode on a cliffhanger though. That red-eyed guest from the prior episode? They didn't come to take over Lu Guang, they came to deliver a picture. Are they the same person that inhabited Qiao Ling at the end of S1/start of S2? It's hard to say, but the idea of the red eyes does beg quite the question.

The back of the photo is even more interesting when you know what it says. "Don't Die, Good Brother". Specifically "Gege" which is elder brother. Together with the drawing on the back of the young girl in the photo with an older brother, does it really mean what viewers might think it does? Is Lu Guang related to this pink haired girl somehow? Does she expect him and Cheng Xiaoshi to use the photo and learn something from it?

A far more intriguing ending than the episode itself might let on, this third episode works very hard to slow things down and draw them out so that viewers can have time to get attached to and understand the stories and characters that appear within. Of course, the quality is still way up there in terms of animation and direction, so it seems overall we've settled in for the long haul with a long term story compared to the more episodic approach of season 1. Really interested to see what they do with more time.

[stray-tori]

some chen bin / ep2 observations

hello. today i’m putting ep2 under a microscope. 👍

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I’m going to argue that Chen Bin was probably not directly controlled by red-eyes in the discussion scene, especially after handing Lu Guang the phone.

assumption: the glowing eyes are only for the audience, as no one has pointed them out so far (unless I'm forgetting).

Which means the show has to work around giving the audience more info than the characters -- a great example of them doing that is Liu Min in the dark room (red eyes in a red scene), but it’ll be hard to always pull off natural obscuring.

And what’s interesting to me is that... they didn’t really try to obscure CB all that much? So it made me wonder about the implications of that.

So, afaik what happened was:

Qian Jin (green haired dude) got the photo from his home for red-eyes

At some point, CB switched the phones (his and Liu Min’s)

CB gave the phone to LG.

Then CB vanished to yeet out a window.

I'm assuming he was controlled for 2) & 4). Assuming he didn't do 2) right in the room with them, it must have happened at some point during/between all of the hospital room scenes. Because the call QJ has with CB is before QJ hands red-eyes the photo and that call was while CXS was changing, so he couldn’t have done 2) (under control, at least) until the hospital room scenes.

Still, assuming 2) happened before the red-eyes ability discussion scene, we have a lot of far shots of him with his eyes seemingly blocked in (not the same as lineart, but not 1:1 his actual color tbf), implying to me that he was not directly controlled in this scene - but was at some point prior (to switch the phones).

So, red-eyes seemingly controlled him more than once.

Which, for me, opens a ton of questions:

Assuming CB switched the phone out a while before he handed it to LG, did he not notice it was his while handing it over?

if it was shortly before handing it over, why would red-eyes stop the control for such a short timeframe?

how did they know when to possess CB again to do 4)?

do they not have the 1-use-per-photo limitation that our MCs (allegedly) have? or did they have another photo? (Did they get the lockscreen photo while he was controlling him to switch the phones, perhaps?)

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Or... is there something entirely different going on? Like some sort of hypnosis? Some freaky puppeteer or voodoo stuff with the plushies?!!

I'm half joking, but he really is quiet in that scene. He doesn't talk/discuss anything, no close-ups and just hands over the phone when he's told (looking kinda dead inside while doing so, too lol).

(could of course be because he’s controlled - and who knows, maybe the lack of close ups is their way of obscuring his eye color, but tbh in comparison to the dark room scene that seems kind of... lackluster.)

I doubt it’d be something other than control, considering red-eyes was actively given a photo - but maybe we’re also being tricked with the assumption that this red-eyes is the person controlling people; considering their natural eye color is a lot more direct than CXS and LG, which almost makes me suspicious of it.

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I’ll stop throwing darts at a wall now, but I do hope that my limit observation OR the lack of CB substance in that scene will somehow be relevant in the future :D

Or this may all be the ramblings of a crazy person, we shall see.

[mysterialistic]

Over-analyzing the Yingdu Chapter [PART 2]

I'll leve the link to PART 1 here.

Now, going back to the analysis... Who sent this postcard and "clue" to Cheng Xiaoshi? My best guess is that it was Liu Xiao. He got information about Cheng Weimin and sent a clue to lure CXS and LG to Yingdu.

You can't convince me this isn't the face of someone who knows what they're doing lol. Liu Xiao was expecting CXS and LG and he achieved his objective. Besides, why else would he react to their presence if he didn't knew them?

But now this raises another question: Lu Guang knows or doesn't know Liu Xiao and Vein?

I think that Lu Guang knows neither of them. He doesn't react to Liu Xiao's presence when he walks past them at the airport. And Vein... I think he's working with Liu Xiao. My crazy theory is that Vein has the power to invade other people's dreams or minds, so he invaded Lu Guang's and sent him a message through the photographs with the same image of the building and, of course, the clock with "Bridon" written on it.

This would explain why the synopsis mentions that Lu Guang, "with a nervous heart", heads to Yingdu with CXS. LG knows that something awaits him there, a "punishment" that could be potentially dangerous for him and, most importantly, CXS.

And... what's the deal with the "hot-headed" trio?

My main theory is that they're all working together because they want a taste of Cheng Xiaoshi's power, or at least Vein and Xia Fei do, the ability to fix a mistake from the past, to change the course of things. Liu Xiao is the one that confuses me the most, he's... A bit more complicated.

I actually have a couple of speculations about each of them. Let's start with the one we have the most information of:

Liu Xiao: this guy, according to what he said at the end of season 2, wants to "bring more parallel lines together and turn all uncertainties into certainties".

One of my theories is that his power is some sort of omnipotence, he can see everything, including different outcomes, aka, "parallel lines". Something that caught my attention a while back was this official illustration where he's holding a staff with an eye. It's kinda farfetched, but I think it might be a clue to his "see it all, know it all, control it all" power.

We don't know what his ultimate goal is, but we do know he's willing to go to big extremes in order to get what he wants (he has killed indirectly and probably directly too). He's manipulative; for example, I'm pretty sure he's been using LTC ever since they met when they were kids, knowing that he would get powers and lose everything. And how does that benefit Liu Xiao? Well, now he has another powerful ally.

But what stands in the way of his plans?

Cheng Xiaoshi's power. A power that allows him to alter the past and create more parallel lines, something that must NEVER be tempered with. I've always thought that his ability is the most dangerous/powerful of the bunch, so it makes sense that they're hunting him down.

Vein: this character is described as "the eccentric head of Chinatown". Ok, hear me out, this is gonna be a big cliché, but I bet he has something to do with this "mafia" thing on the newspaper.

Now, what about him tormenting Lu Guang? Like I've mentioned before, I think he might have a power as well (manipulating people's dreams/mind?) An extra reason for Liu Xiao to work with him.

Xia Fei: this is the character we know the least about. We only know that he's a model and "seemingly friendly". Aka, he's probably a highly deceiving/manipulative guy.

My guess is that he's going to befriend Cheng Xiaoshi, specifically him cause I think he's more "naive" (maybe we'll see jealous LG lol) and because CXS was the one who noticed him at the airport; he'll probably recognize him when they meet. Xia Fei is going to become close to him just to use him at the end, typical bad guy stuff.

Now, this is a crazy theory of mine: In the newspaper there's this photo of a girl, and like someone once pointed out, she kinda looks like Xia Fei, so I was thinking maybe they're related)?

I don't think they would put a random chick in there just for decoration. Also, there's probably clues of each member of the trio in here.

Ok, so we have the general analysis and the antagonists, what now? Well, now is time to speculate about the plot itself!

PART 3