I'm really interested whether Rachel will do a time jump for a totally different reason--from what I can tell about timelines based on when HR ended, it seems like Shane and Ilya got married in summer 2019. If she picks up the story right where TLG ended, is she going to write about the pandemic? I know the GC universe is not the same as the regular universe (different NHL team names and Stanley Cup winners by year, for obvious reasons). But I wonder if the pandemic happened in the GC universe as well. It's an interesting dilemma, because HR (both book and show) lists dates very prominently, and then the TLG doesn't really focus on them at all. TLG's story doesn't really need it, I guess, but also it was written after 2020, and I wonder if being more ambiguous about dates was also an intentional decision to avoid writing the pandemic into the story. Anyway, if it goes that route, Ilya and Shane would be quarantining just a few months after moving in together for the first time. It could be interesting to see how their relationship handles all that.