i was thinking abt how liu qingge fought binghe everyday for 5 years, that's a long time like a really long time and then realised binghe was supposed to be in the abyss for 5 years but ended up coming out (pun intended) after 2 years. so if u think abt it according to the og storyline and what ended up happening with sy!SQQ, binghe and SQQ were Supposed to be away from each other for 5 years no matter what storyline they ended up at. it would be really interesting if that's how the system intended for certain things to go like it's out of the character's hands. like yes their words and actions are completely up to them, how they spend their time too, but outside of the plot like SQQ Having to be publicly slandered and ending up in prison, i mean the smaller details like yea binghe speed ran the abyss and sqq self detonated but I'll see u when I'm ready is mostly an illusion of free will bcs that's something completely up to the system, u will Have to be ready by the 5th year. i don't know if any of this makes sense but the 5 year gap was necessary for their individual character developments and overall political shift that had to happen in both PIDW and svsss