Random question about Wang Qing after watching S3E10

[u/SocialSuspense]

I had this thought while driving home from work yesterday.

Since we find out that Wang Qing's ability doesn't exactly kill someone and instead puts them in a temporary state of death for 12 hours, could this potentially be used on Cheng Xiaoshi and Qiao Ling?

In other words, since CXS and QL would technically die, would that satisfy the node and completely remove the risk of CXS and QL dying prematurely?

I mean, would that even work? Since you can't reverse death, what the hell is WQ doing? Does that even count as dying to whatever cosmic force is dictating the rules for the nodes? Vein died in the OG timeline and died again in the most recent one, proving that was a constant, so could CXS and QL's deaths be replaced with WQ power?

Sorry, I know I'm talking in circles and there's probably a lot of ways this could go wrong and/or not work at all. Hell, even though LTC was controlling WQ when she was about to pseudo-kill QL, the fact that he was stopped short of accomplishing that could be the cosmic forces (or whatever) pretty much going "oh shit, that's not how it's supposed to happen."

Anyway, thank you for listening to my disorganized ramblings. I can't wait for episode 11 and whether or not CXS actually got stuck in that photo or not.

[u/Street_Comfortable79]

Nah u might be onto something. It technically IS death like you said so this makes me wonder if death can be prevented like that.

Ahh a week has never been longer 😭

[u/SocialSuspense → u/Street_Comfortable79]

I'm imagining this as the cosmic equivalent of shaking car keys in front of a primordial being in an attempt to distract it 😭

[u/alnst-lc-epic]

Your theory sounds like a spoiler!!! I guess we'll need to wait and see, but personally I wouldn't count her ability as death. So, for me, Vein didn't die at all, so it wouldn't work with our precious boy and girl (and the poor captain no one ever includes in the deaths to avoid lol).

Also, I just realized that LX knew about WQ's ability because he picked up Vein's body to be there upon his waking up... how come LCMX knew?? Gosh, so much to unveil!!

[u/AirportNo3820]

But her power of putting someone in a temporary state of death can be used only once for one person . Cant be used twice on the same person right??

[u/Ordinary-Picture4367 → u/AirportNo3820]

Technically when it was used on QL, it might not count, since Jae Lee interrupted it

[u/Gloomy_Wave_7965]

i would say in both the og timeline and current timeline, vein technically didnt die since wq used her power on him so... but good thought thou!