XiaLin

XiaLin is the femslash ship between Yu Xia and Lin Zhen from the Link Click fandom.

Canon
Yu Xia and Lin Zhen are best friends who opened a noodle shop together and lived in the same dormitory in their college years. Although they end up separating for a while due to different interests, with the help of the Time Photo Studio, they reunite together.

Yu Xia requests help from the Studio to figure out what Lin Zhen uses as a secret ingredient in their shop's most famous noodles.

Cheng Xiaoshi enters the body of Yu Xia just as their timed camera goes off. She walks to the camera and checks the image as Lin Zhen yawns. Lin Zhen reminds her that they have work the next day, so Yu Xia enters the shop with her. Yu Xia yawns and relaxes onto the counter, and hears Lin Zhen suggesting that even marriage wouldn't be as tiring as this. She exhaustedly states that if so, she would't get married after all. Lin Zhen smiles and puts her hand over Yu Xia's, startling the latter, who jumps back in surprise. Lin Zhen brings up how Yu Xia would sleep with her in their dormitory after watching horror movies, which earns an embarrassed laugh from her. The black haired woman finally gets up and says that she's about the treat the two of them after their long day, so Yu Xia follows her into the kitchen.

As Yu Xia watches, Lin Zhen takes out a plastic container from the fridge containing a black powder. Even though Yu Xia asks what it is, Lin Zhen just answers mysteriously. Just as she's about to ask again, the deliveryman starts knocking on their door. Yu Xia hesitates for a long time, but finally goes to the door to receive the goods. The deliveryman, although initially annoyed, brightens up when he sees a "woman boss". Yu Xia hears this and angrily advances on him, asking if men were any better than women, and that they were perfectly capable without a man. She ends up scaring him into helping her load the items into the shop.

Lin Zhen finishes preparing her bowl of ramen and places it in front of Yu Xia. Yu Xia looks at it, surprised, and asks if her friend would be having any. The chef shakes her head, saying that her happiness came from seeing other people's expressions while tasting it, not from the food itself. Yu Xia continues to insist, so they both take a pair of chopsticks and begin eating. Yu Xia bites into a strand just as Yu Xia gets the other end, and they end up with a noodle string hanging from their mouths. When Lin Zhen starts pulling it in, Yu Xia suddenly starts coughing, astonishing the other, who lets go of the strand. After a moment of bewilderment, Yu Xia slurps up the noodle and the two begin laughing.

Cheng Xiaoshi enters a series of photos in which he only stays for a short amount of time, they go as:


 * Yu Xia takes many photos of her friend while she's being interviewed, and is reprimanded by the reporter. She apologizes and promises to be more aware.
 * Yu Xia explains the concept of intelligent management to Lin Zhen and how it could help their business with shipping orders. Out of the blue, Lin Zhen asks how long it has been since Yu Xia has went home to see her family, and she replies that it has been a while, due to the business taking up most of her time.
 * Yu Xia looks into the fridge that once held the secret ingredient, taking everything out but still getting nothing. Lin Zhen's voice shocks her, but she's simply asking Yu Xia to come over and check out the new LOGOs.
 * Yu Xia is being interviewed as she is taking a photo of the new tastes of their shop. Reporters crowd around her as she taste-tests them, not pausing for anything. The consequent photo is the same thing, and she finishes all 6 bowls again. As she is eating, Lin Zhen leaves her side, looking worried.

In the last photo, their camera goes off, and Yu Xia walks over to check the quality like she did so many years ago. Yu Xia asks if Lin Zhen would stay with her, but the black-haired woman sighs and brings up all the new management skills that Yu Xia had developed, ending with the fact that she wouldn't need her any more. Yu Xia starts getting angry, wondering why her old friend didn't want to change, to adapt and achieve a greater dream for the restaurant. Lin Zhen reminisces that the noodle shop from 10 years ago was her greatest dream. Yu Xia attempts to sway her one last time by saying that if they worked together, they would gain a larger influence and more money, but Lin Zhen regards this with distaste, calling their new brand name, XGM, "disgusting". When she starts walking off, Yu Xia forcefully stops her and demands that she leave the secret recipe to her. Cheng Xiaoshi sarcastically replies that he didn't know either, getting a irritated shout from Lu Guang, before telling Yu Xia that she had nothing else to say to her. Cheng Xiaoshi realizes that it wasn't Lin Zhen who changed, it was her.

Lin Zhen gets on a taxi, and Cheng Xiaoshi asks if they had any more chances. Lu Guang tells him that she would be crying at home the whole night, with no possibility of clues. As Lin Zhen rides home, she thinks about her and Yu Xia in their younger years, dancing together, singing karaoke together, watching horror movies together. She brings out her phone which has a picture of the two in their college dorm as her lock screen.

They end up figuring out the secret ingredient from a few train tickets in Lin Zhen's bag, and Qiao Ling reports their findings to Yu Xia, but warns her that this is just the duo's inference from the clues gathered in the photos. The businesswoman just shakes her head, verifying their statements.

Cheng Xiaoshi finds a picture left behind, and realizes it's the photo of Lin Zhen's lockscreen. He enters the photo to the annoyance of Lu Guang, and is immediately posed with a question by Yu Xia. She suggests that they should create a restaurant together after they graduate and Lin Zhen happily agrees. As Lin Zhen starts gathering a bowl of noodles, Yu Xia hands her a container that she describes as "fragrant flower". At the same time, with Qiao Ling and present Yu Xia, the blonde lady begins to shake and cry, remembering the memories of the fragrant flower. Lin Zhen watches while the other Yu Xia describes the taste and feelings that the seasoning offered.

Yu Xia buys a train ticket and watches the scenery go by as she travels back to Lin Zhen. When Lin Zhen notices her, she simply says, "Welcome back," right before Yu Xia runs and embraces her.

Quotes
"You used to sleep with me after watching horror movies in the dormitory."

- Lin Zhen

"My happiness is watching the expression on your face as you eat the noodles"

- Lin Zhen

"We said that we would take one photo each year, but the second one is after more than ten years. Don't let it be the last one, okay?"

- Yu Xia

"Welcome back."

- Lin Zhen

Fanon
XiaLin is highly considered to be canon, or at least behind the scenes in the fandom, because although neither Yu Xia nor Lin Zhen explicitly mentions a canon confirmation of their relationship, many of the flirting cues or general interactions hint to a deeper bond. For example, Lin Zhen puts her hand over Yu Xia's in the context of talking about marriage. A fair amount of angst is associated with this ship as well, with some people opting to create fanwork of the time period in which Yu Xia and Lin Zhen separated.

In the Link Click fandom, XiaLin is one of the few rare side-character ships but gets a decent amount of attention from viewers who appreciate their close friendship and reunion. They do not currently have any works on AO3.

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Trivia

 * The name of the first shop that Yu Xia and Lin Zhen opened was called "夏林" (xià lín), a combination of Yu Xia (予夏 )  and Lin Zhen (林贞)'s names.
 * As with ShiGuang, Bilibili tends to merge names together for a specific reason (in this case, the co-owned noodle shop) that is a possible reference to ship names.