
Theres a really nice tumblr timeline someone did.
But the easiest way to tell is a few points:
-We know when they’re adults Zhan and Mo live alone and we’ve seen their homes. So since currently Zhan is still with his family and Mo with his mom we know they’re not yet in the adult setting. Also He Tian gets a car and currently he doesn’t have one.
- Jian Yi says he wants to go to HS with Zhan which implies they are not yet in HS. And I doubt the author would completely skip the transition and not even do a single chapter on it at all. The potential for gags and plot is too much. Even a line of dialogue-something.
-It would conflict with what was said earlier in the story. That Jian Yi disappears on the second day of HS. When he returns he even mentions everyone else is in university except for him who is still completing HS.
We already see they’ll be reunited and happy again anyway so some conflict, angst, and plot isn’t so bad.
I can't follow the time intervals, the events that is happening right now, happened before JianYi was kidnapped? Or JianYi was brought back then these? @_@ I'm sorry I'm at a lost here.