Shiguang Dailiren: Yingdu Pian

Lu Guang loses everything when a mysterious man bursts into the photo studio that he is renting with his close friend Cheng Xiaoshi. The man, who comes to punish the members at the studio for playing with time, murders both Qiao Ling and Cheng Xiaoshi in cold blood. However, Lu Guang inherits his friend's power to go back in time and decides to save everyone from their grim fate.

Now in the past, Lu Guang travels to Bridon to help Cheng Xiaoshi investigate his father's whereabouts; however, he discovers an uncanny series of small disparities that cause the situation to spiral into complete uncertainty. Suddenly unable to rely on his ability to predict the future, Lu Guang must invent a new strategy to foil the plans of the man who took everything from him.

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Cheng, Xiaoshi Main

Toyonaga, Toshiyuki Japanese

Lu, Guang Main

Sakurai, Takahiro Japanese

Qiao, Ling Supporting

Koga, Aoi Japanese

Vein Supporting

Xia, Fei Supporting

Liu, Xiao Supporting

Hanae, Natsuki Japanese

Wang, Qing Supporting

Shen, Miaomiao Supporting

Brown, James Supporting

Shao, Yuanyuan Supporting

Lu, Yuanyuan Co-Director, Storyboard

Li, Haoling Director, Original Creator, Chief Producer

Jewell, Jerry ADR Director

Zhang, Jie ADR Director

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Feb 1, 2025

Wunder3000

Recommended

This little side story takes some time to wrap your head around. Especially when watching it on a streaming service that provides weird subtitles (looking at you crunchyroll). But if time is taken to digest it and do a lot of rewinding it starts to make more sense. The plot reveals and twists are in true Link Click fashion. But the vibes still felt different from season one and season two. Don't expect it to be exactly like what you've watched before. But I believe the true season 3 will be better off having the room to breathe now that Bridon Arc has happened now ... that we have been introduced to most if not all the important characters. There is a lot going on in the show but it got me hyped for the next season.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Feb 2, 2025

Aisukurimu

Mixed Feelings

TL;DR If you haven't watched this arc, I recommend holding off until the new season.

I'm reluctant to have any strong negative opinions about this arc, mainly because it feels more like a transitional arc, laying the groundwork for the next season. Whether these six episodes are good or not depends entirely on the new season to fill in all the gaps they've left here. It created more questions than answers and doesn't tell a contained story on its own. The introduction of new characters is as vague as ever. I'd even argue that we don't know much more about Lu Guang or Cheng Xiaoshi either. ... Lu Guang's background and the origins of the superpowers are still unknown.

It's been almost four years since the first release. I'm starting to think some viewers are more attached to their headcanons, predictions, and theories than to the source material itself. The unfortunate situation of an original donghua that doesn’t come from a manhua or book has only fuelled this. Because how else do you cope when you love these characters so much, and all the content they release is Lu Guang in a Cinnamoroll outfit? I can see where they're going with this, told in a backwards(?) timeline, typical time-travelling butterfly effect, etc...but as the episodes progress, it just feels like wishy-washy suspense.

There's no character development with the new characters. Who's Vein? Still don’t know. What's Liu Xiao's relation to Xia Fei? They sat in a car together once. What happened to Cheng Xiaoshi's parents? Not sure. Does Lu Guang have a secret power we don't know? I cannot answer that.

The annoying thing is that you can't seem to have a discussion about it on any platform without someone throwing out that Huixiaohui interview with Li Haoling, as if it explains everything—and if it does, why isn't it in the show? Why do audiences have to watch a half-hour video defending poorly executed plot points? Just a heads up, watching or reading any of Huixiaohui’s or reddit threads' speculations and treating their analyses as canon only proves my point above about people being more attached to their ideas of the show.

I’ve come to terms with the fact that original shows are difficult to fund and produce, but I still have a lot of hope for this. I bought a bunch of the merchandise and went to the Surprising Click concert last year too. It's probably pennies to them in terms of production, but it's my copium that maybe they just need that extra penny to give us a satisfying ending. Maybe buying the Lu Guang in a Cinnamoroll outfit is in fact crucial to the final plot.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Nov 25, 2025

ZeroEnigma

Not Recommended

Absolute nothing content.
The episodes themselves are a snore-fest, the story is more interested in hinting at timelines we don't see than actually developing the new characters introduced, and none of it culminates into anything meaningful.
At this point, we're two seasons and several years deep into Link Click, so having as many scenes dedicated to conveying what was already explained multiple times just feels like filler. In what is meant to be an arc answering questions, no questions are answered and more mysteries are seeded. The series continues to have a real problem with showing something exciting and then having to laboriously catch the viewer up ... to get to that exciting moment and this entire season feels an endeavor in that pursuit except it never quite lands on actually exploring why the antagonists are doing the antagonism. The whole production feels confused on what it wants to accomplish and so it succeeds at doing very little.
It's not all bad, mind you. Animation is serviceable. There's a little excitement that bookends the arc so that it's not all just the nothing that permeates the middle of it. The initial premise of Lu returning to the past is interesting but nothing of worth is done with it. Just skip this and go on to the next arc when it is animated--this arc doesn't stand on its own and it is hard to see it meaningfully mattering to anything yet to come.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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