279 | meta musings on the main SV timeline

I’ve been reading quite a bit of Scum Villain fic recently, which has once again led to me contemplating the timeline of Luo Binghe building his powerbase in the Demon Realm. Most fic seems to have set that as happening during those three years he spent in the Endless Abyss / before his reunion with Shen Qingqiu, but… I feel like that doesn’t actually make sense?
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