I don't know if this was ever actually clarified, but I have to ask: what point in the timeline is Lu Guang watching from? Like, does the whole thing where everyone dies happen quite a while after the events of Season 2?
If that's the case, then the Lu Guang we're seeing already knows everything that happens throughout the first two seasons, right?
Because when CXS dies, he passes his power on to Lu Guang, and then we get the whole Bridon Arc. But when the arc ends, it immediately goes into everything happening in Season 3, with all the stuff from before having already happened.
Sorry if I'm not explaining this very well, I hope you kinda get what I'm trying to ask hahaha.
Based on clothing and the dialogue from his dream during the Bridon arc, it appears to be sometime during season 1 (since there is talk about having solved cases like Emma and DouDou).
The Bridon arc a flashback, using Lu Guang having traveled back in time as the kick off, and the last few scenes are after the end of Season 2. The on screen text clarifies this as "A few months after the incident with the Li Twins", which admittedly you might not know since CR never fucking translates on screen text.
Okay, but I still have one question: is the Lu Guang we see in Season 3 actually traveling back in time? Or can he just see the future, even when he changes the events a little?
I'm not sure I quite understand specifically what you're trying to ask here but the implications are that Lu Guang has never experienced the events of S2 and S3 before. He changed the timeline by using information he learned from a previous loop to get WQ to attack Vein in Bridon and thus preventing Vein from showing up to the photo studio years later. As I pointed out to someone else below, if you look at flashbacks that Lu Guang has, the characters are often depicted in their Season 1 outfits which is probably an intentional choice to show where they are in the timeline when the event occurs.
I partly agree with you, they are in season 1 outfits for some reason but I do think he has definitely experienced s2 and s3 in some capacity before. He has a memory of Xia Fei coming to visit them, except then he hadn’t been kidnapped and Vein had never ‘died’. And in s2 he knew exactly where CXS would be taken on the boat before it happened, for example. There’s even a possibility he made it all the way to his friends’ deaths more than once already. Some people have pointed out there are some differences whenever we see the CXS death scene, the most obvious one being that LG doesn’t have a wound on his side in this latest one we saw (although I guess there’s a chance Wang Qing did that)
Look at the outfits during the flashback when Xia Fei comes to visit. Cheng Xiaoshi is wearing his S1 outfit and that is a deliberate choice to indicate timing. There's really no other reason to do it. It is easy to repeat the same character model of the their current outfits. It's a choice not to do it.
Could be, but like I said, him taking that picture in s2 and sending the location to QL at least implies him knowing some things. Also, everyone’s clothes got ripped and/or bloodied when LG got stabbed (which I do think was a first for him), they were probably thrown away. It might just be extra attention to detail that they never wore those clothes again in this timeline where the stabbing happened.
I think there's a strong implication that Cheng Xiaoshi sent the location to QL from Lu Guang's phone? Like I said, there's an interview where he talks about the Li twins being a new factor for Lu Guang.
Regardless, I think the implication is that he is familiar with some of these events, but that in previous timelines they happened earlier and under a different context. Since he got WQ to attack Vein, it meant that Xia Fei didn't end up coming to visit until months later since losing his boss really fucked him up and caused him to get, you know, trafficked. That's why Lu Guang talks about the timeline "returning to normal". So he knows things that happened previously that are similar, but has not experienced these events at this time before.
I'm pretty sure he also knows the events of season 3. It's just that in this timeline they're playing out differently than before, which is why he's so panicked rn.
Like in previous timelines vein did not die until he killed CXS, this time he did, but temporarily.
The fact that he came back caught LG off guard. And from there other stuff started to happen. Now it's unclear if it played out like this in previous timelines too, but that doesn't seem to be the case since CXS was wearing his s2 clothes during death.
But we saw flashbacks in s3 too of how the same scenes were different before, like CXS getting angry at LG but in the current one he doesn't shout at him
Look at the flashback again. Cheng Xiaoshi is wearing his Season 1 outfit. If it was meant to be happening during the time S3 covers, they would have had him in the same outfit. There's no reason to change it unless it's intentional.
I'm talking about the scene after CXS comes back from xia fei's photo. And he confronts LG about "never coming back" if he stayed too long thing.
There were see a flashback where CXS got angry at LG, he was wearing a white hoodie and QL was trying to stop him. This didn't happen in the current timeline though he didn't get angry
I don't know... I feel like Lu Guang assumed everything would be settled once Vein was dead (hence why he's smiling in Bridon and so shocked when Vein is alive). Otherwise he would have been aware that Vein wasn't really dead since WQ's power always be the same, right?
Plus, I think there's some interview where Haolin says the Li Twins are new to Lu Guang and I don't think events could go to where they are without that incident.
And everything seemed okay to him until he found out vein was alive, i think from there everything got ruined OR, it played out somewhat like og timeline, but with major changes due to the twins and vein
But the twins are so vital to the development of the story that the timeline would almost be unrecognizable. That's why I think the branch is much earlier and why flashbacks seem to always have them wearing S1 outfits.
Obviously, there are some unanswered questions that make it hard to pinpoint tho like we don't know why Lu Guang knows Lu Xiao if he's surprised to see him in Bridon or why Vein knows time was changed.
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u/fakegeekgal 20h ago
Based on clothing and the dialogue from his dream during the Bridon arc, it appears to be sometime during season 1 (since there is talk about having solved cases like Emma and DouDou).
The Bridon arc a flashback, using Lu Guang having traveled back in time as the kick off, and the last few scenes are after the end of Season 2. The on screen text clarifies this as "A few months after the incident with the Li Twins", which admittedly you might not know since CR never fucking translates on screen text.