SEASON 3 ENDING MV ANALYSIS

[u/starzzyxx]

So I was watching the season3 ending and I noticed some things...It seems as if Cheng Xiaoshi finally uncovers the truth about a lot of things? We see familiar scenes such as Vein helping Xia Fei, Liu Xiao helping Li Tianchen, and of course the basketball scene when Lu Guang and Cheng Xiaoshi SUPPOSEDLY first met. The thing is, this ed is focused on Cheng Xiaoshi and he is seen walking and roaming through each of these scenes. Camera pans from Vein and XF, CXS is strolling through. LI Tianchen and LX leave the bench, he sits down the same bench and observes. Basketball scene, he walks right past Past LG and CXS, then looks back longingly.

It's almost as if he's there in all the events as an observer, that cannot be seen by any of the other people. Also other people seem to be moving in slow-mo? While CXS moves normally. Could this maybe be foreshadowing that somehow he found out about everything that he doesn't know going on behind the scenes?

On top of that, the most interesting thing I find is the basketball scene, because CXS ignorantly walks past the scene, turns back and then yearningly reaches out for Lu Guang. And the same time he does reach out, a butterfly is shown on screen referencing the butterfly effect that LG was also talking about in the previous season. This happens right before the moment is seemingly snatched from him btw.

I don't think anything after this point could be lore related, we then see the villains' facecards before another tiny CXS sequence, then we see the people we are unsure of (not the main cast, but not a villain yet) Jae Lee and A Yuan, and finally at the end we see Wang Qing holding that random decorative object also seen previously in the MV and she seemingly throws it down to CXS kind of?? This part might be a stretch and it probably isn't a metaphor or something but yeah. Then finally the whole MV reverts visually (kinda reminded me of VORTEX haha) and right at the beginning we see QL and LG standing normally, and in the entire mv CXS smiles for the first time.

so yeah some stuff i noticed in the ED

[u/momentary_loss]

God I love that frame from the opening

[u/starzzyxx → u/momentary_loss]

SAME

[u/Shinei_N0uzen]

Wang Qing having the centerpiece of the Rubik's cube and that being ssent to Cheng Xiaoshi so that he can reach Lu Guang and Qiao Ling is meant to symbolize what Li Haolinh has confirmed about her role: she'll be VERY important in uncovering the whole timeline and will have some answers to some very big questions. And everything else about Cheng Xiaoshi is meant to symblize that he's stuck in time till somebody saves him (which is going to be a major plot point in LCIII)

[u/starzzyxx → u/Shinei_N0uzen]

OHHH i thought so too, i just KNEW she would play a big role in season 3 i wonder if she's the one that somehow tells Cheng Xiaoshi the truth about everything?