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demoniqt · 10 months

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Remarried Empress

Summary:

"A divorce," Shen Jiu said in a matter-of-fact tone.

"It's only for a year," Yue Qingyuan said quickly. "Just to legitimise the child."

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Shen Qingqiu made the decision to cut all ties. It is Yue Qingyuan's loss and Tianlang-Jun is here to pick up the pieces.

Pairing: Past YQY(SJ)/SQQ, Hint of Past TLJ/SXY, YQY/QQQ, SQQ(SJ)/TLJ

Notes:

Warning: Lots of Qi Qingqi and Yue Qingqyuan hate! If you like this 2 characters, please don't continue!

Prologue: Reckless

"A divorce," the words were delivered in a matter-of-fact tone.

"It's only for a year," Yue Qingyuan said quickly. "Just to legitimise the child."

"Then you can let me foster the child," Shen Qingqiu suggested, tone of voice and facial expression still expressionless as he stared at the document in front of him.

"You know I can't do that," Yue Qingyuan said, his tone cajoling. "A-Qi is a noble's daughter. The Qi family will not allow her child to be taken away from her."

Shen Qingqiu snorted, "So, what you're telling me is that even though I am the official spouse, I am no different than a lowly concubine."

"No, A-Jiu!" Yue Qingyuan immediately denied. "It's just for a year. After the child is born, I will remarry you to make you the first spouse again."

"The Qi family will not allow it," Shen Qingqiu returned his words. "They will not let you strip her of the official title."

"Then, I will take you as my second spouse!" Yue Qingyuan promised.

"You could have just made up an excuse to demote me in the first place," Shen Qingqiu said, still speaking in a business-like tone. "Why go through a divorce?"

"I thought of that, but I couldn't just accuse A-Jiu this way," Yue Qingyuan said.

It was such a poor excuse that Shen Jiu couldn't help the burst of mocking laughter that escaped his lips.

"So you went with what Qi Qingqi wanted instead?" Shen Qingqiu said. He was surprised that there were no tears coming despite the levity of their conversation. Perhaps he'd cried so much that there were no tears left. Perhaps his heart was broken into too many pieces too small to be broken again.

"You thought this was the better option?" Shen Qingqiu questioned. Really, he shouldn't be surprised by the amount of stupidity that Yue Qingyuan was capable of.

"It's only for a year," Yue Qingyuan repeated. "You can stay at the back courtyard and I'll make sure that everything you need is provided."

"You promised that too when we first married," Shen Qingqiu said, taking the document and folding it to slide into the envelop Yue Qingyuan had given him when he first arrived. "Yet there are some days I would starve because your kitchen was having 'shortage'. Imagine that, a first spouse, starving. I cannot imagine what will happen when I am just your abandoned, divorced husband."

"A-Jiu! That's not true! What are you saying!?" Yue Qingyuan asked, looking truly bewildered and accused. Shen Qingqiu just gave him a dispassionate look and got up.

"I understand. No matter what I say, nothing will change," Shen Qingqiu said, bowing to his 'husband' one last time. "Farewell, Lord Yue."

"Wait! A-Jiu, I will have the servants pack your things to send to the back courtyard," Yue Qingyuan said, standing up to follow him to the door. "Don't be angry, A-Jiu. I'll make sure you are taken care of."

Taken care of.. Shen Qingqiu repeated in his heart as he continued walking without a pause. Like you have always?

Through thick and thin he'd stayed with this man. This man who'd once loved him when they were nothing but starving street children. Who'd wanted to stay with him even when his estranged Lord father found him and wanted to take him back. Who'd swore to love him for all their lives when he'd proposed after they were reunited.

"Lord Yue, it will be improper if I stayed at the compound even after we divorced," Shen Qingiqu said, not turning back to the noble-born man he'd once loved. "I will find residence elsewhere."

"Where will you go!?" Yue Qingyuan asked, a hint of desperation in his voice.

"I will inform you when the time comes. For now, I will return to my courtyard to pack," Shen Qingqiu answered. "Good night, Lord Yue."

"Uhm, yes. Good night, A-Jiu," Yue Qingyuan replied, unsure.

Shen Qingqiu left his ex-husband behind, standing stock still in his study with the candlelight casting a lonely dark silhouette on the door.

He didn't stop walking nor did he start crying now that he was alone. Instead, he headed straight to the guest houses.

In front of the door to a guest room occupied by a foreign dignitary, the tall figure of the guard stood in attention.

"I want to see Tianlang-Jun for a while," Shen Qingqiu said, expecting to be rejected but the general just nodded, opening the door for him without any hesitation. It made Shen Qingqiu wonder what the demon lord had told his subordinates before, to allow Shen Qingqiu such easy access on his person.

"Tianlang-Jun," he greeted, bowing to the demon lord. "I apologise for coming here so late."

Tianlang-Jun got up quickly and guided him up by the elbows. "What is it? Is something wrong? Do you need help? You don't look so well."

"My lord," he said, grabbing one of the large hands on his arm with both of his. He looked up to the demon with glistening eyes, "What you said before, did you mean it?"

Tianlang-Jun stared into his eyes, looking sincere when he said, "Yes, every word."

Shen Qingqiu didn't believe him. Couldn't believe him. After all, Yue Qingyuan said those exact same words to him before they were married.

But Tianlang-Jun was his best bet to leave this godforsaken place.

"Then marry me," Shen Qingqiu said. "Take me away and wed me."

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Yue Qingyuan and his pregnant wife, Qi Qingqi, were sending off the ambassador of peace sent by the demon world when Shen Qingqiu made his entrance.

Or rather, his exit.

"A-Jiu...?" Yue Qingyuan gaped at him, taking in the sight of him in his old wedding robes.

Through the red veil on his head, he could see Yue Qingyuan making an aborted movement towards him but was stopped by Qi Qingqi's arm on his.

"Qingqiu," Tianlang-Jun greeted, looking happy to see him. He strode forward to offer his arm. "Are you ready to leave?"

"Yes," Shen Qingqiu answered.

"Wait!? Leave!? What do you mean?" Yue Qingyuan questioned, sounding alarmed.

"Lord Tianlang-Jun proposed to me the night before," Shen Qingqiu explained succinctly. "I accepted."

"Since we were leaving and Qingqiu has no family to return to," Tianlang-Jun followed up with the explanation. "We decided to leave from here. Hope Lord Yue will not mind."

Both Yue Qingyuan and Qi Qingqi stared in shock as Shen Qingqiu and Tianlang-Jun headed to the carriage. The demon lord helped his new bride into the carriage before bidding his host farewell one last time.

"Lord Yue, I appreciate your hospitality very much," Tianlang-Jun said with an amiable smile. "I will ensure that the treaty goes through without a hitch."

Without waiting for an answer, the demon lord climbed the carriage and gestured for his nephew to start their journey home. Just as they thought, neither Yue Qingyuan nor his shrew of a wife actually uttered a single protest when the contingent began their procession, the demon soldiers surrounding the carriage to take away their lord and his future spouse.

Tianlang-Jun put down the curtains once the sight of the mansion disappeared, then pulled out his handkerchief. Wordlessly, he handed it to his new bride.

"I do not need it," came the words from under the veil.

He gently pried open the fist crinkling the red silk robes and put the handkerchief in it. The wedding robes were of moderate quality, fitting for some lord's consort maybe. Though it flattered Shen Qingqiu's figure, Tianlang-Jun made a mental note to have someone make new wedding robes for his future spouse.

One befitting an Empress.

"You can cry," Tianlang-Jun said to Shen Qingqiu, not looking his way to allow his new bride privacy. "You can even lean on my shoulder, should you choose to. Even if you don't want it, it will always be here for you."

Under his old wedding veil, Shen Qingqiu choked on his sob as the tears continued to flow, the droplets darkening the silk robes covering his lap.

He thought that he was over this. That he'd cried all he could when Yue Qingyuan first told him that he was marrying Qi Qingqi. Then, on the day the man he loved married another woman. Again and again when Yue Qingyuan repeatedly accused him of being jealous, being vile and scheming against his wife.

He thought that his tears had all dried up.

That the hurt had stopped.

But it felt as if his heart was breaking one last time.

Leaving the house that had been his home for more than a decade.

He still couldn't believe that his life would change so much in just half a year.

End of Prologue: Reckless

"Each day goes by and each night, I cry Somebody saw you with her last night You gave me your word, "Don't worry 'bout her" You might love her now, but you loved me first Said you'd never hurt me, but here we are Oh, you swore on every star How could you be so reckless with my heart?"

~ Reckless by Madison Beer

Notes:

So the next chapter would be the flashback for what happened 6 months ago. Then after that, a glimpse of SQQ's life in the demon palace. Should take four chapters, because the last chapter is when YQY discovers that his A-Jiu got a glow up.

I recently became invested in a novel called the Remarried Empress and I couldn't stop thinking about how it mirrors the original plot in the novel in the I Wish You Were My Husband by Feynite. So you could say that this is the result of both obsessions marrying and procreating.

But instead of Luo Binghe/ Shen Qingqiu, my terrible brain decided that Tianlang-Jun should be the MC. Just for the heck of it, ya know. Also, because I had so much fun writing about Tianlang-Jun/Shen Qingqiu in my previous fic Mirage of A Dream. Hahaha.

So, tadaa my love child!

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Epilogue

#harem AU #Empress Shen Jiu #Remarried Empress AU #secret identity #Falling in love #AU #SVSSS #SQQ #YQY #TLJ #divorce AU

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rarepears · 2 years

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Father YQY AU:

What if after realizing that YQY's nickname for SJ means "Little Nine" the other Peak Lords think that he has at least 8 other kids, and that's where the name comes from.

So there's many potential naming patterns here.

It could mean 9th child or 9th son. It could even mean that Shen Jiu is the 9th oldest child in his generation of the family. (Aka there's 8 cousins/brothers older than him.)

But the fact that we have so many options to play with means that Cang Qiong sect doesn't know either! So they are trying to gather information (like conspiracy theorists) about which one is more likely.

Qi Qingqi: Hurry hurry! Shen Qingqiu just muttered about some "stupid Shi Wu". That sounds like an older male cousin since they have different surnames. Add that to the corkboard!

Liu Qingge: Or that could mean that Shen Qingqiu has at least 15 siblings.

Mu Qingfang: Ah, that's a lot of concubines that Yue shi-xiong must have in his backyard...

(translation note: 15 is pronounced as shiwu.)

#Yue Qingyuan is Shen Jiu's adoptive father instead AU #liu qingge #svsss ideas #svsss #svsss au #scumbag self saving system #yue qingyuan #shen jiu #shen qingqiu #cang qiong mountain sect

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miss-ingno · 5 months

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FIAB Reveals: My treasure trove of gifts

I participated in FIAB for the first time this year, and I'm extremely lucky with my box full of wonderful gifts! Look at these lovelies!!!

Title: Where the Heart Finds Nourishment Fandom: Dimension 20 - A Crown Of Candy Ship: Saccharina & Caramelinda Medium: Fanfic Words: 2.9k Tags: Deliberate Child Acquisition, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Family Issues Summary: Saccharina is discovered by Candian agents and brought to Castle Candy as a child. Caramelinda deals with the child that's both the main threat to her own children, and the last connection to the love of her life.

Title: Feedback to NFG Conference 2023 Fandom: Guardian (drama) Ship: Professor Zhou & Shen Wei & Li Qian & Science Medium: In-Universe E-Mail Words: 1.2k Tags: Outsider PoV, E-Mail, Academia, Conferences, Humour Summary: Dear Professor Zhou, [...] I was hoping you’d do me an additional favour and pass on this email to Shen Wei – he asked the attendees to send in any feedback at the last breakfast session, but understandably forgot to hand out or collect the feedback forms before the end of the conference. I tried contacting him directly, but I kept getting error messages informing me that my email had bounced. It’s nice to see that IT issues transcend individual universities! [...] Do PhD graduates at Dragon City university get swords??? That’s unfair; is it too late to switch universities? I want a sword as well!

Title: Good Neighbours Fandom: Grimm (TV) Ship: Bud Wurstner & Juliette Silverton, Nick Burkhardt/Sean Reanard/Juliette Silverton Medium: Fanfic Words: 1k Tags: Friendship, Neighbors, Established Relationship, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence Summary: Just a simple morning for Juliette while her men are at work gets interrupted with a cute visit from the neighbors.

Title: Heavy is the Head that Wears the Crown Fandom: Grimm (TV) Ship: Nick Burkhardt/Sean Reanard/Juliette Silverton Medium: Fanfic Words: 1.1k Tags: Responsibility, With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility, Established Relationship, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence Summary: Nick and Sean discuss responsibilities over a cup of coffee late one evening.

Title: In the Woods Fandom: Grimm (TV) Ship: Nick Burkhardt & Hank Griffin & Monroe Medium: Fanfic Words: 1.2k Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Diplomacy, Interspecies Relationship(s) Summary: Nick is on the job and in the forest with Hank and Monroe. Just an average day with the local Grimm.

Title: Being Home Fandom: Grimm (TV) Ship: Nick Burkhardt/Sean Reanard/Juliette Silverton Medium: Fanfic Words: 1k Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Established Relationship, Domestic Summary: Sean reflects a little on the unexpected life he finds himself in.

Title: Of Truths & Falsehoods Fandom: Deja Vu - Dreamcatcher (Music Video) Ship: Yoohyeon/Jiu Medium: Logic Grid Puzzle Summary: In a temple outside of space and time, four options present themselves before Yoohyeon. Only one of them leads to a happy ending. Solve this logic puzzle to help Yoohyeon choose the right timeline for her and Jiu.

Seriously, everyone, check them out, they're all incredibly well done! (And the Deja Vu puzzle is fun even if you don't know the original canon!)

#fandom events #fiab 2023 #fic in a box #Grimm #Guardian #Dimension 20 #A Crown of Candy #crown of candy #acoc #deja vu #dreamcatcher #fanfic #fic rec #logic grid puzzle #puzzles

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mqfx · 2 years

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hi, do you have a list of tws for thousand autumn? i remember you picked it up but stopped reading it for some reason and i wanted to know what happened

i didn't actually pick it up past chapter 2 or 3, i was just investigating/skimming at first out of curiosity but then i saw several red flags thanks to some comments and an anon + mutual's report

TLDR: the TWs are rape/sexual assault mentions, violence, non-consensual kissing, abusive relationship

more under a break so i don't spam the dash:

here's the TW's according to the carrd:

Non-consensual kissing: Yan Wushi frequently kisses Shen Qiao completely without consent. Actually every time they kiss, I am pretty certain it is totally without Shen Qiao’s consent.

Sexual abuse/rape mentions: There is no explicit sexual abuse in the work and it is not a main plot point.

However, there are references to such events. Most of them revolve around a character named Sang Jingxing, one of the main antagonists whose character is mostly defined by the sexual abuse of his disciples and his desire to do the same to Shen Qiao. However, Sang Jingxing is a minor character. He also does not get the chance to act on his desire to sexually abuse Shen Qiao and does die, though rather late into the work.

There is additionally another character named Mutipo who has similar characteristics, and is introduced much earlier on as a minor role, though he comes to his demise rather quickly.

but this totally glosses over the fact that Yan Wushi deliberately uses the threat of sexual violence against Shen Qiao, best summarized by this one commenter, Gerboker (full review in this link):

MC [Shen Qiao] trustingly allows ML [Yan Wushi] to stay with him. In response, ML kidnaps him and sells him to someone who sexually tortures his victims to death. He does this specifically to make a point that he couldn't care less about the MC - he trades him away for a sword, and later in the novel its revealed he doesn't know where the sword is, as he only asked for the sword to make sure the MC understood he was worth less than a sword to him. Bear in mind that the MC has done literally nothing to cause this - there's no revenge back story or anything else to explain what the ML is doing -- the ML is doing it solely because he wants to break the MC for his own entertainment. MC escapes being humiliated and slowly tortured to death by destroying his cultivation core in an act of suicidal self-immolation and survives solely due to plot shenanigans neither ML or MC knew in advance-- in other words, at best ML drove MC to suicide for the laughs and coincidentally MC survived the suicide attempt -- at worst, ML didn't necessarily realise suicide was even an option so you're back to "let him be slowly tortured to death with no escape" (emphasis added)

hope this answers your question! as for "what should i read instead" i think a couple of mutuals are reading qiang jin jiu, but keep in mind i haven't actually read past chapter 5 (i've been busy. sigh) plus the translators have put later chapters behind a "proof of purchase" paywall. basically you've gotta prove you bought it from JJWXC to support the original author

edit: see replies for more info on qiang jin jiu

#hewwo #asks #anonymous #hope you're having a good day anon stay cool it's hot out here (assuming it's summer where you are)

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sayuricorner · 3 years

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Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure x Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: Jiu-Jiu’s Bizarre Second Chance AU

Headcanons part 1

Warning: English is not my first language so sorry if it’s confusing.

Warning 2: This AU content implied non-con, past slavery, child neglect/abuse, violence, night terrors, trauma, depression.

So I’m fan of SVSSS of JJBA for a time now and recently a wierd idea emerged in my mind which give this AU idea based on this question: What if original Shen Qingqiu was send into the Jojo’s universe?

If you want to use this prompt you can! just credite and tag me in return please! :)

Also, if you had any question about this AU don’t hesitate to ask! ^^

JJBA belong to Hirohiko Araki

SVSSS belong to MXTX

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Concept:

So, after his death in the “Proud Immortal Demon Way” timeline, Shen Qingqiu is mysteriously bring back to life some times after Luo Binghe became his disciple and with all the memories from his first life.

Thinking the destruction of the Peaks and the deaths happen because of him, Shen Qingqiu decided to just leave the Peak thinking everyone will be happier without him.

After having take care of certain things(saving Liu Qingge’s life, treating Luo Binghe better and finding and giving back his jade pendant while avoid him as much as possible ect...), Shen Qingqiu run away from Qing Jing Peak one night.

But when he was running away a mysterious event spirit him away to another universe.

This universe is the Jojo’s universe years before the events of “Battle Tendency”, Shen Qingqiu is found inconcious in Air Supplena Island by Lisa-Lisa.

She bring him to Suzie Q to tend him in case he is hurt, when Shen Qingqiu wake up he is completly confused about where he is, who are those “wierd people” and the language barrier don’t help.

Thankfully, Lisa-Lisa know how to speak chinese and after some talk and explanations about Shen Qingqiu’s situation Lisa-Lisa decided to propose him to live in Air Supplena Island and to help him to adjust to her world and Shen Qingqiu not having many options accept.

Years later Shen Qingqiu, now Shen Jiu, make a new life in Italy, learned to speak and write in english and italian and is learning how to use hamon from Lisa-Lisa while still doing cultivation.

But in 1938 the “Battle Tendency” events begin and for Shen Jiu this will be the begining of bizarre adventures with the Joestar family through the ages while back in the PIDW/SVSSS world everyone in Qing Jing Peak and other Peaks are panicking/upset ever since Shen Qingqiu run away and are moving heaven and earth to find the missing Peak lord.

Arcs for this AU(Headcanons parts about the arcs coming soon! ^^):

-Battle Tendency

-Stardust Crusaders

-Diamond is Unbreakable

-Golden Wind

-Stone Ocean

-Eyes of Heaven

-The Past’s Comeback: Arc in which thank to an ennemy stand and demon attack which happened in the Jojo’s universe and the PIDW/SVSSS at the same time, both world collided and the characters we know from both world find themself trapped into a dimension created from the collision, and with this new bizarre adventure filled with hardships and ennemies Shen Qingqiu/Shen jiu will face his hardest trial: facing his past.

AU details:

-Depressed Shen Qingqiu/Shen Jiu.

-Shen Qingqiu/Shen Jiu having a system.

-Shen Qingqiu/Shen Jiu and Suzie Q becoming good friends.

-Suzie Q giving Shen Qingqiu/Shen Jiu the nickname “Jiu-Jiu”.

-Shen Qingqiu/Shen Jiu having a “love/hate” relationship with Joseph Joestar: He doesn’t like Joseph’s antics and is often tend to hit him for his recklessness but develop, despite himself, with time sympaty for Joseph and end up becoming “friends”, while Joseph is being very “buddy-buddy” with Shen Qingqiu/Shen Jiu much to the latter’s dismay.

-Shen Qingiu/Shen Jiu becoming part of the Joestar family.

-Shen Qingiu/Shen Jiu being Holly’s godfather.

-Holly calling Shen Qingiu/Shen Jiu “uncle Jiu-Jiu”.

-Hamon user Shen Qingiu/Shen Jiu.

-Shen Qingiu/Shen Jiu having bad night terrors from his past and from when he was tortured by Luo Binghe in his first life.

-A bunch of characters having a crush on Shen Qingiu/Shen Jiu(some Jojo characters included).

-The whole Qing Jing Peak and the other Peak lords completly freaking out and being worried about where Shen Qingiu/Shen Jiu run off.

-Luo Binghe being a confused sad puppy about his shizun being missing.

-The other young Joestar(Jotaro, Josuke and Jolyne) seeing Shen Qingiu/Shen Jiu as an uncle and calling him “uncle Shen Jiu” or “uncle Jiu-Jiu”.

-Dio having kidnapped Shen Qingiu/Shen Jiu before “Stardust Crusaders” and having done bad things to him try to summit him to join his side.(Warning: implied non-con).

-Protective Joestar family and JoBros.

-Shen Qingiu/Shen Jiu staying young thank to Hamon training and cultivation.

-Shen Qingiu/Shen Jiu being able to see stands thank to cultivation.

-Shen Qingiu/Shen Jiu adopting and raising Giorno since he was a baby.

-Shen Qingiu/Shen Jiu becoming more open to others thank to his family relationship/friendship with the Joestar family but still being a “tsundere”.

-Shen Yuan transmigrating into a cannon fodder character who happen to had the same name than him and who was destined to had an off chapter death in PIDW.

-Shen Yuan being extremely confused about the novel story diverging completly from the PIDW canon(not he would complain) and latter befriend Luo Binghe and latter the two become more than friends.

-Ships: Luo Binghe/Shen Yuan, Jojo canon ships, other ships are up to whoever who use this AU.

-Shang Qinghua/Airplaine Shooting Towards The Sky wondering what the heck is going on with his novel’s story and since when it become a crossover with the manga “Jojo’s bizarre adventure”?

-When he see his former peak and the other Peak Lords once again in "The Past’s Comeback” arc, Shen Qingiu/Shen Jiu being like “nopenopenope” while trying to get away from them.

-The Joestar family/JoBros knowing Shen Qingiu/Shen Jiu’s past about him not having a good life while growing and having not being a good person and having done bad things but don’t know all the details about his past.

#JoJo's Bizarre Adventure #jjba #scum villain's self saving system #svsss #crossover #au crossover #au idea #original shen qingqiu #joestar family #battle tendency #stardust crusaders #diamond is unbreakable #golden wind #stone ocean #eyes of heaven #luo binghe #shen yuan #story idea

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spockandawe · 3 years

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For the ships, Liujiu, Bingjiu or YueJiu ?

Oh man, Shen Jiuuuuuuu

Okay, so my answers for these are going to share some themes, so I’ll try to keep it a bit brief instead of repeating myself x3. Let’s see if I can keep a handle on this without it getting away from me, haha

Liujiu:

Downsides:

So, my biggest logistical struggle with these two is... making it happen. They’re both pretty aloof and standoffish people, and they take a strong dislike to each other early on. I love me some good hatesex, which matters a lot for the bingjiu, but with liu qingge and shen jiu...... getting them to tolerate each other for long enough for hatesex is hard.

And also, even though I love hatesex, for some reason I get really sad in here because they’re both going to take so much damage. Which is a common feature of hatesex? And I’m not opposed to hatesex for either of these men? But together... I don’t know, there’s something about how fragile Shen Jiu is and how bad at people Liu Qingge is, and the way they both amplify each other. I don’t know why this ship in particular makes me so anxious, but they definitely do, haha

Upsides:

Such...... hateful............... hatesex.........................

Like, it hurts me to think about how much they’ll hurt each other, but think about how much they’ll hurt each other! The potential is EXQUISITE. Shen Jiu has a sharp tongue, he’s quick on his feet, and he’s very good at finding cruel, cutting things to say. Liu Qingge is willing to give you his everything, but only if you’re nice to him first, which Shen Jiu is absolutely not willing to be. And Shen Jiu is so proud, and so horribly brittle. He takes damage from someone trying to be nice to him, he’ll react so badly to someone seeing him that vulnerable and trying to be mean.

I don’t know, it’s one of those ships where I instinctively Crave it, but I would have so much trouble figuring out a scenario where I was both satisfied where why they would do it (fuck or die is the easiest scenario, but tbh, i have a real hard time justifying that, even if i enjoy it), and I was confident I wouldn’t exit the scenario just... super super sad. It’s something I would idly like to write, but I’d have to be in a VERY particular headspace :P

Bingjiu:

Downsides:

Okay, now, to be clear-- I do like some well-executed noncon. It can do LOVELY things with character and emotion and power dynamics. And we don��t get much original Binghe on page to draw characterization from, but I’m going to go ahead and assume that similar to how he was hungry for Shen Qingqiu in canon, he was also hungry for something from Shen Jiu. But in a situation like this where one party is clearly and persistently wanting, and the other party is clearly and consistently rejecting, I find straightforward noncon more often... boring.

Upsides:

So what we’re left with is messy, deceptive dubious consent and messy, manipulative hatesex. Which I love. These are some of my favorite favorite kinds of unhealthy ship dynamics, and I live for it. I’ve read some nice liujiu before, and I’ve read some nice bingjiu, and they were both well-executed, but the bingjiu definitely stuck with me more. The liujiu? Even if it was hateful, it tended to be honest, and like........... if I have the option to bring lies and coercion into the situation, why would I say no?

I feel like I’m regularly being introduced to new variants on this ship, but I don’t want to just rehash existing fics that I liked. But there’s the idea of transmigration within canon, where Bingge enters a younger version of himself (or there’s one where older Bingge and Shen Jiu enter swapped bodies for their younger selves). There’s Binghe coming back from the abyss and somehow (angrily, sexily, messily) working things out with Shen Jiu. Or there’s Binghe leaning on his dream abilities and flat-out lying/steering to Shen Jiu to get him into bed. Either way, it’s more complicated that just taking. There’s a psychological/emotional component to the maneuvering that makes it all deliciously interesting to me.

Ah, here’s an angle I think I missed before. With Shen Jiu’s past in the Qiu household, I find a straight-up forcing to be... uninteresting. Shen Jiu himself has so much baggage that unless a fic or whatever is focused on aftermath, I’m very *shrug* about the dynamic, I think canon did plenty well for itself without even fully Going There. For a dynamic as poisonous as this one, I’d much rather see Shen Jiu having all his walls and boundaries and defenses, and being coaxed out into the open (whether he knows what’s waiting for him or not) rather than having his walls just blasted down

(and if you can avoid totally taking out Shen Jiu, it’s so easy to add a mutually assured destruction element to this dynamic, which is ALWAYS a favorite of mine)

(also, Binghe is like the one person in the universe with the power to unlock the secret that Shen Jiu used to hide in Qiu Haitang’s room for safety and comfort, and just....... *grabby hands*)

Qijiu:

Downsides:

None. None? I adore this so much it kills me.

Wait no hold on, Yue Qingyuan cannot fucking communicate. That’s the one downside.

Upsides:

Oh my goddddd, THESE TWO! THEY MAKE ME FUCKING BAWL! They care about each other so, so, so, so much, and they come so close to breaking free of their childhood together, and then it all barely falls apart, and it probably wouldn’t have fallen apart if they didn’t each care so fucking much, and I want to scream.

There’s something about a ship. Where one party is a complete unrepentant asshole who loves one (1) person in the entire universe, and would give them the WORLD, and cares exactly 0% about anyone else... It kills me every time. Especially in the flashbacks, okay. It’s like hua cheng, only Shen Jiu is also still absolutely vicious with Yue Qi, but! Yue Qi cares not at all, he just adores Shen Jiu right back and doesn’t even register the meanness. He’ll maybe, maybe tell Shen Jiu to play nicer with the other kids, and everyone involves knows that he will do nothing to enforce that.

The Qiu household thing... breaks my goddamn heart, I swear. Yue Qi promising to come back for Shen JIu. Shen Jiu waiting and enduring and finally thinking that Yue Qi must have died, or he would have definitely come back. Their reunion, where Shen Jiu is like ‘oh.... I’m an intrinsically terrible person’ because he realizes he would prefer that Yue Qi was dead rather than knowing Qi-ge abandoned him. Yue Qingyuan’s emotional confession in canon that he didn’t abandon Xiao Jiu, he never wanted to abandon him, he trained too hard and too fast and almost destroyed his body and his teacher locked him in the caves for a year.

The downside is that they love each other so much they can’t deal with the idea that Yue Qingyuan abandoned Shen Jiu! They can’t deal with it to such an extent that they can’t even come close to resolving the misunderstanding! The downside is that Shen Jiu loves Yue Qingyuan enough that he pushes him away, just for a chance that he can save him from Bingge, and that Yue Qingyuan loves Shen Jiu enough that he came back for him anyways, knowing that he was walking into certain death, whether it was for the chance that Bingge would take some mercy on Shen Jiu, or because he couldn’t bear the idea of abandoning Shen Jiu again!

The downside is that Shen Jiu quietly dies, Shen Yuan quietly slips into his body, and that Yue Qingyuan goes on loving Shen Jiu without ever realizing he’s already gone.

#ask memes/#spock replies #liujiu #bingjiu #qijiu #liu qingge #shen jiu #yue qingyuan #luo binghe #long post/#noncon mention/#dubcon mention/#Anonymous

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vodkassassin · 3 years

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I hate that bitch ass yqy. Since ur sv prompts exist in an au of svsss, au yqy so that I might not want to kill his trick ass.

Akfjjd ur wish is my command. I’ll give u that SI YQY that u helped me brainstorm earlier, @dancibayo

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Wake up, rush to work, take a fifteen minute break to eat the stale salad leftover from dinner two nights ago, back to work, and then head home to collapse, exhausted, into the sheets of his bed that he really should throw into the wash but never has the time to do so.

That’s that daily life of a run-of-the mill office worker, a low-income employee of a corporate empire, just another coil in a well oiled machine that never rests, never sleeps, never pauses in its fast-paced industrial production rates.

Life had been hopeful still, he faintly recalls, when he’d been twenty and freshly graduated with his business degree, looking at all the options open to someone like him. A promising student, his professors had said. A dutiful son, destined for a grand career, his parents had boasted. He’d never really put much stock into such praises, even then, and he’s glad he hadn’t —because otherwise, the reality of life would have been absolutely crushing.

Well into his early thirties now, and he can’t even remember the last time he even went out for drinks with coworkers — not friends. None of them have time for something like deeper, interpersonal relationships anymore.

It’s amazing, really, how much different his outlook is even ten years down the road.

It’s honestly just another day. There’s nothing special. Maybe he feels more tired? He can’t tell, really. He doesn’t think he’d have been able to, even in hindsight. It’s all the same.

He shuffles a loose stack of paperwork into a blank, cream-colored manilla folder and slides it into its plastic organizer. His head feels light. A glance at the clock tells him he’d accidentally worked through his meager lunch break, again. He really should stop doing that. His coworker in accounting tells him it doesn’t bode well for his overall work ethic. One of these days, it’s going to show consequences on his productivity, and he’ll get a visit from management. It happened to that one unlucky fellow from marketing.

He folds over his desk, pillowing his arms beneath his head. He’s so tired. It doesn’t matter that he missed his break, he thinks. He’d forgotten to pack anything for lunch anyway. He could have gone down the street to the deli, but really… his stomach swirls nauseous just thinking about it. Maybe it’s for the best he hadn’t eaten.

He closes his eyes. Slip in a quick five minute nap, he thinks. He’s managed it before, without getting caught. He can do it again!

He’s just so tired.

Just for a minute.

—

He wakes up numb. At first.

Something isn’t right, but he can’t really pinpoint what it might be. His entire body aches, but that’s normal for him. He can’t feel his fingertips, but that’s happened before. It’s not really anything to worry about.

He takes in a breath, and jolts as pain, tremendous pain, sears through him like hot, liquid magma, and he screams.

Hands are holding him down. Why? What’s happening? He was just taking a nap.

“It shows no signs of stopping,” someone says, voice tense. “Sect Leader, the only method that might possibly work, at this point, is to put him in the caves.”

Sect… leader?

What?

There’s a deep sigh, one that he can barely hear over the helpless, tortured keens that are pressing, relentlessly, out of his own throat. He writhes beneath the hands that hold him down, but they don’t budge.

He’d just wanted to rest!

“My dearest disciple…. If only you were not so quick to take risks. I’d thought we’d trained such impatience out of you?”

Something, beyond the pain he feels, curls nastily in his gut. It feels like shame. Is it responding to the disappointment he can hear in this stranger's voice? But why?

He doesn’t even know who these people are.

“Sect leader, there’s really no time.”

Another sigh. “Yes, I see. Very well. If it takes the caves to straighten this out, then so be it.”

His face feels damp. With the way that every single one of his nerve endings feels like it’s spasming and curling in response to whatever the hell is wracking his systems, he isn’t surprised that he’s sobbing. Even to himself, he sounds hysterical.

The hands that restrain him lift him up off the hard surface that has been cutting into his back. He feels his limbs jerk, as if on some sort of autopilot, instincts that he can’t ever recall having, and someone yelps.

“I told you to restrain him!”

“He’s too strong, shizun—!”

He feels like he’s underwater. Everything sounds submerged. His hearing muffled out, and he doesn’t know anything after that.

—

Sometimes he wakes up.

Most of the time, he’s asleep for it, and he’s just aware enough to know to be thankful for that.

But sometimes he wakes up, and…

—

“Dashixiong,” someone is outside to greet him when he exits. They bow at the waist , hands folded before them, and he watches them without words. “What a relief it is, to see you well.”

He isn’t well. He doesn’t think he ever will be.

But, he can pretend. For these people, who he has seen glimpses of in lightning quick flashes of memories that aren’t his, who he knows just peripherally enough to pass muster. For them, he can pretend.

He isn’t sure if he can do much more than that, though.

“Shizun has been waiting patiently for you,” they say, and turn to lead him down the path to where the rest of the peak sits. Looming over him, despite being technically lower in elevation. “He wished to speak with you as soon as you resurfaced.”

“I’m sure,” he mumbles under his breath.

His hand tightens, where it’s clenched around the hilt of the sword that rests, swathed, at his side. The fingers curls, knuckles white, where they’ve gripped the weapon for… how long was he down there for?

He isn’t sure he can let go of it, anymore. Will he be forced to always have one hand on his weapon?

He follows the disciple down the mountain.

—

Once, a long time ago, when he’d allowed himself to think about it, he’d thought that death might be a final rest. Sometimes, on the nights where he’d been forced to work overtime with no compensation pay, he’d even found himself cautiously looking forward to it.

Death isn’t a rest. If anything, it’s worse.

Being the head disciple of the ruling peak of a mountain sect of cultivators — it was something that he’d before only encountered in a few of the web novels that he sometimes perused, back when he was younger, back when he’d still had a moment of free time to himself, when he was still allowed to have hobbies.

He doesn’t recognize the setting around him, outside of the brief snatches of pre-recorded memories that he assumes came from whoever had occupied this body before him. Obviously, if this world was fashioned after a specific story from his old world, he had never read it.

He’s still not sure if that’s a blessing or not.

It’s hard work, in any case. His career from before, business and managing and organizing — it helps, somewhat, in the running of this peak that will one day rest solely upon his shoulders once his teacher finally ascends alongside his martial siblings.

What it doesn’t help with, is the training. Harsh, grueling, repetitive and taxing. And he’s handicapped, too, unable to use his own sword like all his fellow disciples and teachers do. It’s hard, he isn’t used to it, but his body remembers it, and he slowly begins to relearn what he was already suppose to know.

He doesn’t fancy dying a second time.

Death isn’t the rest that he’d once thought it would be.

—

There’s someone that makes those faint leftovers of his predecessor curl uneasily upon themselves whenever he sees them.

It starts immediately upon their first encounter, this skinny, emaciated and threadbare boy standing over the body of the man that he has just killed. The splatter of blood from the blow, sitting across his face and glistening in the soft moonlight that peaks through the trees, hasn’t even dried yet. This, coupled with the scowl of sheer hatred that adorns his young face… he looks threatening, despite his small stature. Dangerous, despite his trembling grip on the blade.

And yet, his — Yue Qi’s — heart stutters, crying so loudly for this boy that he can barely hear beyond the blood that rushes past his ears.

“Finally decided to show up?” The boy sneers, tossing the slightly rusted blade to the ground. It lands with a clatter that echoes in the silence of the woods that surround them. “... You’re too late. Much, much too late.”

Yue Qi stares at him, something sour climbing up his throat, and he doesn’t even know why.

“Why even bother coming at all?”

This is his first meeting with Shen Jiu.

As time goes on, and years pass by, this slip of a boy never ceases to confuse him and make his heart hurt wretchedly, in equal measure.

—

He is never really able to muster the courage to ask why.

Yue Qi becomes Yue Qingyuan, and Shen Jiu becomes Shen Qingqiu — something that makes the sneer on the boy’s face falter, eyes shining in mysterious fury before his face smooths out into that cold, impassive mask once more — and, really, nothing changes.

He’s still confused. He’s never not. But, he’s trying his best to do good by his martial family. He isn’t sure there’s anything else he can do.

His fellow head disciples — now peak lords — are fine people. He’s grown fond of them, over the years that he’s been forced to get to know them by his own teacher (he’s never called the man his shizun. Despite the leftovers that swirl inside of him, it’s not really his place). He cares for them, as much as he can bring himself to, but he can tell that even they must sense the slight distance between them that he just isn’t capable of breaching.

Even now, he’s still tired.

Shen Jiu, Qingqiu, is counted among them, despite his avarice and clear detest. That’s another he can’t help, the fondness (and odd, distant grief) that curls inside him whenever he looks at the boy, now man.

His predecessor had once loved him, he’s fairly certain, now that he’s had the chance to fully examine the feelings those shreds of soul can communicate to him. Whatever Shen Jiu had been to Yue Qi, he’d loved him, so fiercely and perhaps borderline obsessively that it’s stronger than any other leftover of his predecessor he’s ever felt. Stronger than the duty to his sect.

For that alone, he — Yue Qingyuan — will watch over Shen Qingqiu as much as the man, cold and hateful and hurt and abandoned as he is, will allow him.

It’s no surprise, really, that he eventually grows fond of him, too.

But love? No. He doesn’t think he’ll ever be able to bring himself to love his martial brother to the same degree of… fervor, that Yue Qi once had.

—

And then, Shen Jiu is hit by a familiar fever that Yue Qingyuan can remember feeling down his very bones, once upon a time — when he wakes, he isn’t the same Shen Jiu that he’s slowly, over the years, gotten to know. Slowly, over the years, grown to care for.

Knowing what he does, it’s very clear to him that this isn’t Shen Jiu at all. It’s someone else. Someone who Yue Qingyuan doesn’t know. Someone that Yue Qingyuan can’t even begrudge, because he knows it isn’t even their fault. Because he knows that, whoever they are, they haven't chosen this for themself.

It doesn’t stop him, in those first few weeks, from feeling irrational. He isn’t sure what he’s doing. He’s mourning, surely. Shen Jiu is dead, that much he knows. The fact that no one seems to even mind is —

It’s breathtakingly upsetting.

He hadn’t known… that he’d grown to care this much for the man that he’d never even gathered the courage to ask. Why.

He’ll never know, now.

—

The new Shen Qingqiu is.

He’s fine. He’s kind hearted, despite how hard he pretends not to be, ostentatiously trying to act as close to what he thinks Shen Jiu had been as he can. Beneath that, he is scared, and Yue Qingyuan can see it bright as day. Beyond his fear, he is kind, he is sweet, he is amusingly sarcastic without any of the vitriol. He is leagues lighter than Shen Jiu ever had the capabilities of being.

Yue Qingyuan can see why their martial siblings like him better.

It doesn’t make it hurt any less. But, he figures, that if he gives himself enough time, he can grow to care for this Shen Qingqiu in the same way that he’d grown to care for his predecessor.

—

Time. It’ll just take some time.

#svsss prompts #yue qingyuan #SI yqy #transmigrator YQY #Shen jiu #Shen yuan #vodka answers #vodkassassin fanfiction #dancibayo

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goldencored-arc · 5 years

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boy am i on a roll today with the metas.

this one is brought to you by @jiangswanyin due to a discord discussion.

On Golden Cores ( and why it’s bullshit that you can’t create a new one )

So, I admittedly haven’t done research on this, it’s just my own opinion and ideas, so here we go!

In mdzs, in all of it’s media, there is a whole arc dedicated to jc losing his golden core, and wwx secretly giving his brother his own, leaving himself defenseless and coreless against the wens.

this is something that was really unfair to both of them– the idea that it’s drilled into the minds of cultivators that you’re nothing without your core and the fact that jc was unable to shine in an attempt to do the impossible, and in wwx’s case, the fact that madam yu had made him feel that he was less than jc, that his life meant less, that he was only just a servant and should make sure that jc is safe above all else, even his own health and well being.

there’s really nothing in the series to perpetuate that losing your core was even a thing that could happen before core melting hand technique came along (that i can remember, anyway). so, in that context, this could be a very recent thing, something that hadn’t been researched at all. of course, in cql, there’s the old scroll where wwx finds a core transfer surgery, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it was made for someone who had a core and then lost it.

if it is indeed a recent thing, and cultivators are made to think they’re nothing without a core, and believe the idea that an adult can’t form one, of course there’s going to be no research on it to see if it can, in fact, be done.

i think a lot of it is honestly psychological. with how hopeless and distraught they are, not to mention how depressed and empty they feel, their mind tricks their body into thinking it can’t be done. however, i would like to point out that in scum villain, if you consider all of the works to be in the same universe, shen jiu actually forms a golden core a while after the “cut off” age.

with a good teacher or just out of sheer stubbornness, jc could’ve very well formed a new golden core on his own. however, their situation was dire, and wwx as brilliant as he was, didn’t have many options or the time to come up with a different plan. and i do believe if wwx’s body would’ve been strong enough (the stress, resentful energy and severe malnutrition had taken a huge toll on him), he could’ve formed a new golden core as the yiling patriarch

tdlr; forming a new golden core is absolutely possible with hard work and sheer stubbornness, it’s just that no one has really tried it yet.

#「ᴴ」— shake the heavens ( meta )

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exocara · 5 years

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SV’s Quick Transmigration System

I love system fics and i love clowning shen jiu but i don’t have time to write.

Shen Jiu’s life was one misery after another.

[Don’t be like that, Host! This is a blessing! You can change your fate!]

Even though Shen Jiu didn’t remember what happened in his life before he entered this Xinghai space, he was absolutely, positively, certain that his life was one misery after another, one calamity following the previous, a neverending shitshow of Bad.

Why else would he be here, after all?

[The sealing of your memories was part of the price that you had agreed to pay in order for the chance to change your fate. The other part is to go through four different worlds and complete the tasks pertaining to each world’s Target given to you, by me, in order to cultivate the Good Karma Points needed to return to your world! I am System Airplane, ready at your service.]

Right… and what if Shen Jiu decided to not cooperate?

[Ahh!! That’s not good, Host! If you don’t cooperate, you’ll be stuck in the Xinghai space forever!]

A tasteless outcome, even more so than the idea of having to do tasks for others.

[You agreed to this…] System Airplane seemed like it was sulking.

“The me of the past may have agreed to this, but I currently do not,” Shen Jiu said petulantly.

[Why are you so difficult!] System Airplane whined. [You’re already stuck here! You can’t get out without completing the worlds! What else can you do?]

What else could Shen Jiu do indeed?

-o-

The man in front of him looked almost breathtakingly familiar, despite the fact that Shen Jiu didn’t have his memories.

It was probably memories that came with the body, like a cheap bargain sale. Buy this and get an additional something else.

It had been around two days since he had arrived in this particular world but System Airplane still had not given Shen Jiu any tasks. Instead, he had tried telling Shen Jiu about the world in general, and who Shen Jiu was supposed to be. Shen Jiu tuned him out, not understanding why he needed to know anything in order to complete his tasks.

Yes, Shen Jiu agreed to the world hopping, but that didn’t mean he was going to be nice about it.

“Xiao Jiu…” the man in front of him said. The name did not sit well with Shen Jiu, and so of course he voiced out his opinions.

“Call me that name again and I will break your fingers.”

[HOST!!! That’s the Target of this world! Why are you being so mean to him!]

Why should Shen Jiu be nice to a man he didn’t know? Speaking of which,

“And who are you again?”

The man looked stricken and then, almost immediately after, guilty.

“I’m sorry, Xiao Jiu,” he said. “I--”

“At least have the courtesy of calling me by my name,” Shen Jiu said. Shen Jiu had forgotten the name he was supposed to assume in this world and was too proud to ask System Airplane about it. This was a good time as any to figure out what that name was.

“...Qiu Qingjiu,” the man said. Wow! What a shitty name.

“Oh second thought just call me A-Jiu,” Shen Jiu said. The man’s entire face seemed to light up with a fragile hope. Shen Jiu’s next words ground that hope into dust.

“Seriously, who the hell are you?”

-o-

The man never told Shen Jiu who he was.

[Host, he is Yue Qingyuan, used to be known as Yue Qi or Qi’ge, and he is your childhood friend! You were in the same orphanage together! When he left the orphanage, he made a promise to come back for you but you waited for five years to no avail! Little did you know, he had gotten into a serious accident and was in a coma and then rehabilitation for those five years and when he came back for you, you weren’t there at all! Then the both of you were -- are currently being actually -- reunited in University! I told you this!]

It must have slipped Shen Jiu’s mind.

[You weren’t listening at all, weren’t you!? It was such a masterfully crafted tale too, perfectly setting up the tumultuous relationship of misunderstanding between the both of you!]

Shen Jiu didn’t care. He just wanted to know what the task was.

System Airplane grumbled about Shen Jiu not being able to appreciate good literature, which was untrue. Shen Jiu was completely able to understand good literature, but not this dogblood shit sort of story. After all, he has been--

What had he been?

Before he could dwell any more on his confusion, System Airplane gave him his task.

Task: Join the Literature Faculty Club.

Reward: 5 Good Karma Points

Do you accept?

Yes / Yes

Shen Jiu wondered just what his answer would be.

Why was the system giving options if the options were the same?!

[Illusion of choice.]

Fuck you.

-o-

Yue Qingyuan was in the Literature Faculty Club because of course he was. Why had Shen Jiu ever entertained the thought of otherwise?

-o-

When the club meeting ended, Shen Jiu was the first to leave the room.

“Xi-- A-Jiu, wait!”

Shen Jiu didn’t wait. Shen Jiu was gone.

the idea is that shen jiu has to go into 4 different worlds to complete tasks pertaining to a “target”

1st world: yue qingyuan (modern day, rich heir) 2nd world: liu qingge (those space opera things with giant alien insects called zergs) 3rd world: luo binghe (zombie apocalypse) 4th world: mu qingfang (relaxing fantasy world shen jiu is really grateful for)

he has to do nice things for them like help them and save their life. but he gets to be prickly throughout it all which leads to funny ideas like he’s a tsundere and stuff.

i.e. 2nd world

sj: i’ll kill you, you asshole. mark my words the first chance you get i’ll absolutely obliterate you sj: (helps lqg, risks his own life to save lqg, always covering up for lqg’s impulsiveness) sj: i hate you and you’re dead to me lqg: h

so later on the “5th” world is the scum villain world where he regains his memory and gets to change his fate of death

but wait!

the other 4 people gain memories of their individual world too!

chaos

as you can tell, the system is airplane bro (lol) and it’s sort of after-canon for the original scum villain story. sometimes system airplane has to do something and so system cucumber has to come and help. one time, there’s system mobei. system mobei is shen jiu’s favorite. he allows shen jiu to kill things.

other things:

after sqq returns back to his world: sqq: system i understand why lbh, yqy, and lqg are targets... but why mqf? system: by popular request

mu qingfang’s world is the most peaceful world sj has ever had.

friend: sqq behaves as an actual tsundere once by accident bc he found himself reluctantly kind of fond of this peaceful life with this not a complete and total dumbass. for witnessing this mistake he came to actually hate mqf

me: hes so sad he has to die........ but alas the moment he said "its not like i did this for you or anything!!!" with a blush and caught himself, he realized that He Had To Die Right This Instant

Sqq: well around that person i feel like i want to see them happy, i feel troubled when theyre sad, i want to protect them, i want to help them, and i want to spend time with them Mqf: oh... do you want to kiis them? Sqq: (thinks) Sqq: nah Sqq: so what disease have i contracted Mqf: you just want to be their friend? Sqq: Sqq: i see.

(Next day) Sqq found dead in a ditch

can’t contract feelings if you’re dead!

#scum villain #fanfic

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neoblogcrying · 4 years

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“Let’s Play a Game” pt.9

Here is the next part! Hope you enjoy!

“Hm… that’s a good choice, a very good one.”

“Is it really that much different from the other one?”

“The end result isn’t much different, but the winning option gives them a chance to unlock another flashback scene!”

“Oh? Which one is that?”

“It’s a secret~ I’ll tell you later during break. For now, let’s get a move on. I’m sure they’re curious to know how the story will progress!”

If anything, this goes to show that the worst option wasn’t chosen this round, so the game was going to continue. Remember to be careful about what options you choose in the future. If you pick too many of the worst possible options, it will result in the ‘death’ end and the game will force close!

That has been another warning for you, do be careful! Be mindful of the hints that the Moderators drop for you!

BEEP!

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“Where are my souvenirs? Don’t tell me that you forgot?” Shen Yuan asked with the smallest of pouts on his face. If there was anything that Shen Jiu was weak to, it was Shen Yuan adopting his younger brother role.

Of course, his brother would never admit to it, but Shen Jiu did enjoy being an older brother. Being able to take care of someone and doing good by them was something that eased the edge off his heart. It helped him feel as though here was a part of him that could do good.

There was someone who believed in him, in his ability to be a good person.

That isn’t to say that Shen Jiu thought himself as a good person by any means. He still thought of himself to be a scummy person, but after he’d met Shen Yuan, he started to feel as though he had a pinky’s worth of goodness in his body.

“I have your souvenirs right here.” Shen Jiu revealed a vibrant red satchel from his sleeve. There was a fragrant smell coming from the satchel that sent a shiver down Shen Yuan’s spine.

The younger of the two brothers accepted the item with trepidation, his eyes narrowing suspiciously at the satchel. He wouldn’t have been suspicious if not for the fragrant smell coming from the satchel. This suspiciously smelled like perfume…?

Something you could smell from a woman.

“Brother… what is this?” He asked slowly, staring at his ‘gift’ with unease.

Shen Jiu was enjoying the unease his brother was currently exhibiting, and he chose not to answer. Instead, he was reorganizing the room to his liking.

Taking the plunge, Shen Yuan opened the satchel to see… was that rouge? Face powder…? This… this is makeup? There’s more in here.

“BROTHER!” The younger brother bristled in annoyance, his tone carrying a hint of an aggrieved whine. What use did he have for make up? He no longer lived in the Red-Light District where he was at the mercy of all the elder sisters there. No longer would he be subjected to being their Barbie doll to play with. “Must you tease me like this? Your younger brother has already extended his heart to you asking for forgiveness, has he not? I am hurt. My honorable brother is finally treating me with such disdain, opting to gift me such a thing. I understand, my brother wishes for me to return to the Red-light district.”

Dramatic.

Shen Yuan was the dramatic sort, and only when the two brothers were alone, he liked to reveal this side of his. Sometimes, his dramatics annoyed Shen Jiu, while at other times, it amused him.

This time, it seemed to be the latter. Shen Jiu’s aim to annoy his brother was a success. He chuckled under his breath, reaching into his sleeves once more to pull out a different satchel, this time, it was green in color.

The color matched the bamboo forest. “Calm down, this is your real souvenir. Hide the makeup elsewhere if you don’t want it.” He lightly tossed the bag to his brother.

In truth, he had bought the make up to get information from those in the marketplace.

The demon was smart with the way he covered his tracks. Unfortunately for the demon, he was up against Shen Qingqiu. With his intelligence, no demon would be able to escape from under his nose.

He managed to find his way to a rouge shop and sniffed out some clues. To loosen the mouth of the shopkeep, he bought some rouge. In the process, he chose to use the gift to tease his brother with. This is what you call a win-win situation.

If he had to guess, if Shen Yuan had been the one to descend from the mountain, he might not have been able to figure out the identity of the demon. He may have even lost his life to the demon, in fact.

It was good that Shen Yuan didn’t replace him on this trip.

Shen Yuan was still feeling miffed by the previous satchel he was given, but he accepted the new satchel easily. The design was pretty, as a bamboo forest was embroidered in the fabric. Both brothers enjoyed the aesthetic of a bamboo forest, so he knew that whatever was inside, Shen Jiu carefully selected for him.

Inside the satchel was an assortment of items. One, was jerky that was carefully wrapped up in a cloth. Another item was a beautifully crafted fan (Shen Jiu likely had a matching one of his own). The last item was ink pots with different colors of ink. This must have been expensive and hard to find.

Shen Yuan spent a lot of his time holed indoors, and he came to enjoy writing and drawing pictures in scrolls. Sometimes he wrote stories he remembered from his life on Earth, or he’d draw images of the things he saw in this world.

Everything was so beautiful in this novel when compared to what he remembered from Earth. The air was polluted, and civilization replaced much of the beautiful scenery you could see in nature.

In a magical world like this, who wouldn’t enjoy the scenery?

You could say that of the twins, Shen Yuan was more gifted in the arts than his elder brother. Similarly, Shen Jiu was the smarter of the two twins. Shen Jiu, the main face of Shen Qingqiu built a reputation of being a strategist due to his brains.

While he didn’t mind dabbling in the arts, he spent most of his time polishing his knowledge. He did have a reputation to maintain, after all.

Of course, that meant that Shen Yuan had to study just as much as Shen Jiu did in order to play the part as Shen Qingqiu well. While he didn’t particularly enjoy studying, he didn’t mind reading piles of books and scrolls.

It was like getting your hand on a book that detailed behind the scenes information on your favorite novel. As a fan, who wouldn’t enjoy such a thing? This world was akin to getting a special OVA of your favorite donghua series, you’re an author making a statement on a question the fans are dying to know!

It was touching to know that his brother went through all that effort to find a gift that he knew that would be appreciated. What was with the jerky, you asked? Shen Yuan was the type of person who enjoyed snacking on things, especially when he was bored. The more flavorful the food was, the more he’d enjoy it.

He personally felt that a lot of the food here was bland, but what could you do about it? They didn’t have all the spices you could find on Modern day Earth.

You can simply chalk it up to the Millenial misses eating all sorts of food. Boba tea, instant ramen, ice cream, etc.

Jerky was something you could carry around with you with ease, so it was essentially like carrying snacks with you wherever you went. It was the closest alternative he had.

This was a rarity for him because Shen Jiu disliked meat jerky. It wasn’t a kind of food that fit the image of a Peak Lord. It was something you’d expect from a common day peasant. As long as Shen Yuan was never caught consuming the said jerky, Shen Jiu wouldn’t have his head for it.

Of course, Shen Yuan knew better than to consume meat jerky in front of others. It would make ‘Shen Qingqiu’ lose so many coolness points.

“Brother, you treat me so well. I am lucky to have a brother who understands my tastes so well.” Shen Yuan was currently praising his brother’s good tastes in souvenirs. Appealing to his brotherly side had its many advantages. For one, it helped Shen Jiu understand that there was another path for him that he could take, although very difficult for him on a personality basis.

Two, it did brighten Shen Jiu’s mood, even if it was by a small percentage… maybe even a fraction of a percentage. He wasn’t an easy man to deal with after all.

Finally, sometimes appealing to his brotherly side would reveal surprising information about Shen Jiu’s character. You could say that after he came to realize that Shen Jiu was not a simple canon fodder character, Shen Yuan was very curious about his backstory.

What secrets were you keeping hidden away? What happened in your past to mold you into a scummy character? Were there dangerous triggers to be aware of? Was there anything in the world that you liked?

All these questions would provide a lot of useful information to Shen Yuan.

Shen Yuan was in a very good mood because of his souvenirs. He was smiling brightly to himself, quietly humming a tune to himself as he started to put the two satchels away. He carefully hid them away in a safe place. Even if one of the satchels contained aggravating items, he still kept it tucked away safely… behind all his books on the shelf.

For the blue satchel, he placed it on the table that he used as a desk. He felt as though he would be dipping into the ink bottles soon, so he chose not to stow it away just yet.

“Brother, you treat me so well, but all I do is cause you trouble with my sickly disposition. How could I repay your good will?” Yes, Shen Yuan was still appealing to Shen Jiu’s brotherly side. Even if they were twins, Shen Jiu had his pride as the ‘older twin.’

He took it upon himself to be the one to protect his younger brother and to guide him to on the ‘right path,’ disregarding how ironic it is for him to do so.

After Shen Jiu finished organizing the room to his liking, he’d sat down on a pillow on the floor. He simply patted the place in front of him, wordlessly telling Shen Yuan to sit down. Being the obedient brother that he was, Shen Yuan sat down to get a palm to the forehead.

“Ow.” “Focus on being healthy, instead of worthless things like that.”

Shen Yuan showed a foolish grin on his face, laughing quietly to himself.

“What’s so amusing to you?” Shen Jiu questioned, eyes narrowing in suspicion.

Within moments, Shen Yuan wiped any emotion off his face and he sat up straight and tall. “I only thought about how lucky I was. Shen Qingqiu would not act on the behalf of another person and not expect a payment in return.”

That was a grand blanket statement if there ever was one, but it wasn’t necessarily wrong. Of course, there were exceptions, but given the character Shen Qingqiu was, he didn’t act if there were no benefits for him. If not that, he was likely acting to give Yue Qingyuan face.

“Right, how was your trip, brother? How did it go? Tell me what happened.” This trip wasn’t written in the original novel, so Shen Yuan didn’t know anything about it. He wanted to know what he missed! He couldn’t hide his excitement, and he didn’t bother with trying. Shen Jiu could read him like a book if he wasn’t diligent in controlling his facial expressions, so there was no point in trying to lie.

As such, Shen Jiu could tell that his brother was genuinely excited to hear about the trip, rather than being more curious about how Luo Binghe was treated.

The elder brother thought back to the contents that transpired during the trip. He tapped his chin with a fan matching one of Shen Yuan’s souvenirs in thought. “Yingying got captured by a demon.”

“Ying-er! I assume she’s safe now? You didn’t report any casualties, so you must have saved her in time.” For a moment, Shen Yuan almost panicked. Keyword, almost. As he said, Ning Yingying should be safe. If she had died, Shen Jiu would have reported so.

Even without that, she was one of the Protagonist’s future wives (one of many), so she had to be safe! There was no way she could die! Still, who knew that such a scene transpired in the original novel?

It was possible that she could have died! Maybe this served as a point in time where Ning Yingying’s affections for the Protagonist grew? That was what Shen Yuan was currently contemplating to himself.

“Yes, she is safe. While we were investigating the nature of the murdered women, she asked to go shopping with that brat. Later, he returned stating that he’d lost her. I almost flogged him to death right then and there.”

A shiver ran down Shen Yuan’s spine. He knew that wasn’t a joke. He had a vague idea why, but his brother had a peculiar interest in Ning Yingying. It was as though he considered her highly in particular for some reason.

He was kind to females in general, but he was very kind to her in particular. Given what he learned from the time he lived in the Red-light district, Shen Jiu had some kind of aversion to males. It wasn’t quite so much that he felt uncomfortable around them, but it was as if there was an underlying fear that he kept hidden deep down.

The man would always be on edge if he were around other males, especially any who had formidable strength. Shen Yuan had always theorized that this was some kind of a post-traumatic stress disorder that came from when he lived in the Shen household.

While he didn’t see much, as he arrived late to the scene, but his brother was in a horrid situation when Shen Yuan first found him. He could only guess what sorts of torment he was subjected to.

It took everything he had to not ask about what happened to Luo Binghe. Yes, Shen Jiu would report if anyone died, but Shen Jiu didn’t think of Luo Binghe as a person. In fact, he was lesser than a horse in his eyes. If he died… Shen Yuan highly doubted it would be reported.

Would you report if you had killed a spider by stepping on it? You wouldn’t.

Having faith in Luo Binghe’s golden plot armor, Shen Yuan patiently waited to hear more of the story.

“I left Ming Fan in charge of the rest of the disciples as I had that brat lead the way to where he’d seen Ying-er last. At that point in time, my nose caught the scent of something familiar. All the deceased women had the same smell to them, and this smell was coming from a rouge shop.” At this point, Shen Jiu realized he didn’t give his brother the background story of what was going on.

“Our client was struggling with women in his household going missing and then being murdered. A girl would disappear for a time, and then reappear later. The peculiar thing was that the body of the deceased would never reappear before someone else went missing. This is an important key point, be sure to remember this. All the victims were young women full of life. None were elderly, and neither were any of the victims male. It’s clear that whoever was murdering all these women, they had a strong preference to females. A curious thing I noted at the time was that all the women were largely lacking in injuries. There were no signs of a struggle to be found on their bodies. Poison, drowning, and strangulation were not methods of killing the women. No bodily harm came to the women either.”

This would rule out a hate crime. If someone had beef with the master of the house, he may target his many wives, and maids. Once caught, they would be murdered gruesomely to make a point. However, this was not the case.

Anyone who was driven to murder from sheer rage wouldn’t stop at just killing people. You would want your target to feel fear and pain. Shen Jiu in particular would want for his enemies to suffer the worst sort of pain before they died.

The lack of poison could reasonably rule out foul play from other members of the household. Jealousy was a dangerous drug that killed many throughout the history of mankind.

Drowning and strangulation were other possible means of foul play, but there were no signs of this on any of the bodies. It was as if all the women simply died.

Of course, as a cultivator, it was not so easy to hide certain traces. All the women were lacking in vital energy. They were sucked dry. There was a bloody smell on all the deceased women, that only a cultivator with a keen sense of smell could pick up on. The corpses all had a pungent smell that masked the scent of blood and decay.

How contradictory for the women to smell bloody, considering it didn’t appear that any of the women had any outwardly injuries.

Lastly, it was faint… but he noticed the presence of a demon in their midst. This was no work of a human, but a demon. It was possible that all these murders were related to a demon cultivator who needed the human woman for a purpose.

How dare a demon station itself so close to his mountain peak!

Shen Jiu had spent much time with Ming Fan (his Luo Binghe bullying protégée), so the young man learned a lot from him, including what sorts of things to look into. He didn’t have to receive an order from Shen Jiu. He simply went and performed different tasks on his own accord.

The elder twin started to tap his fan against the open-faced palm of his other hand. This was an action he often did when he was idling about.

Amazing how he could talk about such a gruesome case so nonchalantly!

“All the women had a stench of blood on their bodies. It was checked, and their bodies contained blood, so it isn’t the case that the faint stench of blood came from them being drained of their blood. The smell was caused by something else. Another thing to note was that all the murdered women were very similar to each other, not only in age, but in build and height. That is another important thing to note.”

He’d given Ming Fan some instructions when Luo Binghe burst into the room, crying that Ning Yingying had disappeared.

It was regrettable, but Shen Jiu had to put faith in Ming Fan’s abilities to get the job done. He had a lot of investigating to do. Testimonies and alibies to collect.

“That’s the background story of why we descended from the Mountains. I followed the brat and found a rouge shop. The shop-keep also sold an assortment of perfumes. I was made to buy some of his wares to get any relevant information from him. He said that before the murdered women went missing, someone from the mansion would come to buy some of his wares. They’d always purchase the same thing. As a man who’d been at his trade for many years, he’s very confident in his ability to distinguish between people. All the women who visited his shop, purchasing the same item had the same voice and eyes. I’m sure you’ve realized by now, brother… we were dealing with a demon cultivator that used humans to cultivate. I had given the task to Luo Binghe to relay this information to Ming Fan and have him organize the rest of the disciples to ready themselves for battle. Additionally, they were to investigate who had left the premises after our arrival.”

He didn’t know this, but Ming Fan had sent out a disciple himself to relay the information he found to Shen Qingqiu. Luo Binghe and this disciple crossed paths. They exchanged information and turned back around.

“The reason why all the murdered women were similar in height and build was so that he could don the skins of one of his victims and disguise a corpse of a skin that has already served its purpose. He would meticulously and carefully peel the skin off, so none of the corpses looked to have any outwardly injuries. If you looked closely enough, you’d see where he had started his skinning process. If the builds and heights are too different, the skin would not be able to wrap around the corpse of another woman so well. The rouge and perfume with a strong fragrance was used to help mask the natural scent that is unique to each woman, and to hide the stench of blood. Ming Fan was tasked to question the residents of the mansion. He asked about what all the women had been doing before they went missing. Who had they kept in contact with? What were their personalities like? Relationships with each other? Were there any particular traits about each woman that was important to note, like walking habits, the colors of their eyes, their teeth, and more.”

One may think this was overkill, but it wasn’t. This was important to solving the case. Armed with all the knowledge he gained, Ming Fan had once again looked at all the women who had passed on, and noticed that there were inconsistencies with their traits. A woman who was said to have dark brown eyes suddenly had light brown eyes upon death? One woman prided herself of her pearly white and straight teeth had a tooth that was crooked and chipped. Why did one have a crooked finger that’s characteristic of another woman whose finger was crooked because of an old injury she sustained as a child?

After careful inspection, Ming Fan then noticed that their initial verdict of no outward injuries was incorrect.

All of these women had the same cuts on their bodies.

These women were wearing the skins of another. This would explain why a missing woman wouldn’t reappear until another woman went missing. All the reappearances were offset by one missing woman.

One woman was still missing, meaning that the culprit was still looking for another victim to claim for his own needs.

With the information they gathered, it was evident that all the deceased women were not wearing their own skins. As long as the order of the disappearances and reappearances were kept in order, it would be a simple matter to return the skins to the rightful owners.

This way, the women could at least be buried as their own identity, rather than another.

There was no need for fancy technology like DNA testing to solve this case. Shen Jiu was able to use his wits to figure out that the bodies and the skins didn’t match.

This situation always served as a reminder for Shen Yuan that Shen Jiu was an intelligent man who was very quick-witted. It was such a shame that he couldn’t use this brain of his to understand Luo Binghe’s potential and hug his thighs because of it.

Alas, Shen Yuan could only hope to slowly reform Shen Jiu for the better.

Figuratively on the edge of his seat, Shen Yuan wanted to know more about this scene that never showed up in the novel. How did Shen Jiu solve the mystery? What happened to Ning Yingying? Did Luo Binghe offer his aid in saving her? Was he okay?

“With all this information, time was off the essence if we wished to save Ying-er in time. The demon must have decided it had overstayed its welcome knowing that we have descended from the mountain and decided to run away.” The demon has come this far, so it couldn’t have been an ignorant fool who couldn’t tell when danger was nipping at its heels.

Now that the infamous Shen Qingqiu has descended from the mountain, notorious for his strong hatred for demon-kind has arrived, it was no longer safe to continue to prey upon his household.

The demon would have to change tactics and choose a victim that wasn’t related to the household. At this point, it was well-believed that the women were being killed for some kind of personal vendetta against the old man.

If this were ordinary people investigating the case, they would have been successfully lured away, but Shen Jiu wasn’t so easy to fool.

Since the demon had to choose a new target to kill that wasn’t related to the old man, who else but Ning Yingying was the best option? She came down the mountain alongside a powerful Peak Lord. She was of a higher quality compared to the regular people of this town.

Shen Jiu sighed, shaking his head regretfully. He originally allowed her to go shopping alongside Luo Binghe because he felt that the mansion was too dangerous for her to stay in. With women being killed one after another, there was no saying she’d be safe.

They’d just arrived, so word of cultivators arriving to solve the murder series hadn’t spread yet. Assuming that this was an outside job, getting her out of the mansion would keep her safe. Unfortunately, the culprit had already seen Ning Yingying.

An embarrassing oversight on his part, but who would have expected for Luo Binghe to be so useless! He couldn’t even protect a single girl.

“The brat returned much sooner than I expected because he’d met with a messenger halfway. I tasked him to investigate any seemingly abandoned buildings as that would be less conspicuous, making it easier to cultivate humans. Once he found anything, he was to promptly report back. Though lacking, this served as his punishment for losing Ying-er.”

Both brothers knew that while that was partly true, there was another aspect that Shen Jiu was failing to mention. He simply did not want to waste his time and energy in running around chaotically, looking for an abandoned building.

Seeing that Luo Binghe was young and easy to bully, Shen Jiu gave him the task.

Shen Yuan understood this point, but he didn’t point it out, “I see, seeing as she was kidnapped not long after the two went shopping, that means the culprit knew of your arrival. Only those who were in the mansion knew you’ve come as you reported straight to the mansion upon arrival. Knowing that their cover would soon be blown, the only option available to them is to find another target to kill. Greedy, they set their sights on Ying-er.” This is why Shen Jiu made them investigate anyone who had left the mansion since their arrival.

He never specified they must be women because there was no telling that the demon would have shed their previous victim’s skin off in a fit of desperation. There was no way of telling just yet whether the demon had the ability to manipulate others either.

If the demon had such an ability, it would explain why all the women were killed without much of a struggle at all. Taking this into consideration, it’s possible that the demon could manipulate others into doing its bidding.

“How perceptive of you, brother. I understand. So, I take it Ming Fan narrowed down the suspects and you were able to find a culprit?”

As expected of his younger brother, he was able to catch on. It may have taken him longer to get to the same conclusion as he did, but he figured it out eventually. Saying that Shen Yuan was just as smart as Shen Jiu was too generous, but it was wrong to say that he was an idiot.

He was rather naïve and careless, however.

“Yes, Butterfly, or whatever her name was, she was our prime suspect. I’d waited for Ming Fan to arrive with his fellow disciples. We’d set off to find the brat when we felt a strong surge of demonic energy.” Shen Jiu’s well-formed eyebrows furrowed deep after saying so, which filled Shen Yuan’s heart with dread.

What could have possibly happened for him to make such a face?

Heart palpitations and sweaty palms was highly inelegant, but in the privacy of their room, Shen Yuan frankly didn’t care for appearances at the moment. “… Ying-er… I’m sure she is safe, because brother didn’t report any casualties.”

Shen Jiu’s brows flattened out, his head bobbing once in approval. His brother understood him quite well. He had to give his brother praise for not singling out Luo Binghe at this point in time. “Yes, we made haste to an abandoned building where we witnessed the brat had disobeyed my orders and confronted the demon himself.”

A look of realization dawned upon Shen Yuan’s facial expressions. Anyone who dared to disobey Shen Jiu should expect ‘bad luck’ to grace him until his dying breath. Coupled with the fact that the very one who disobeyed him was the very Luo Binghe he detested… it was obvious to know why Shen Jiu was upset earlier.

“If not for the fact he’d acted against my orders in order to save Ying-er’s life, I would have slaughtered him on the spot.”

The implicit, ‘I can’t harm him in front of Yingying lest I wish her to cry for years to come’ was understood by both parties. You could even say that it was a reward for saving Ning Yingying that spared Luo Binghe’s life.

Shoulders slumped with visible relief. If Shen Qingqiu arrived on the scene, that meant both Luo Binghe and Ning Yingying could rest easy knowing they were saved. Not even Shen Jiu would smite Luo Binghe in a situation like that.

He had an image to keep in front of Ning Yingying, and it would do him more damage to harm her little savior.

“Upon my order, the disciples attacked and made quick work of the demon. We wrapped up and reported back to the mansion. We stayed until Ying-er had recovered enough to travel back up the mountains.” While he didn’t say a word about it, Luo Binghe’s wounds were treated.

Don’t get him wrong, he’d rather leave the brat to suffer his injuries on his own, but Ning Yingying wouldn’t stop crying about it. Luo Binghe put himself at risk to save her.

Tossing a bottle of medicine his way, they returned to the Mansion to tell the old man the ‘good news.’

During the time that Ning Yingying was recovering from her horrific experience, Shen Jiu took the time to scope the various shops that he paid little attention to previously. He never forgot about his other duty, which was to find souvenirs to bring back to his younger brother.

Shen Yuan was content to know that Luo Binghe was okay. Even if his negligence led to Ning Yingying being kidnapped, he still aided in saving her from the demon. That should award him some points in Shen Jiu’s book.

Speaking of getting points… Shen Jiu hadn’t reported to Qiong Ding Peak yet to tell Yue Qingyuan the results of the mission. What did he think about the progress of the disciples? What happened to the demon that was terrorizing the city down below?

It didn’t matter if Shen Yuan hadn’t the slightest of clues as to what relationship the two had, but he wasn’t blind to the fact that Yue Qingyuan held a strong level of importance for Shen Jiu.

There were times that Shen Yuan considered the reason behind the Sect Leader being kind to him was only to garner Shen Jiu’s approval.

“Right, brother, when will you leave for Qiong Ding Peak to report on the events of your trip down the mountain?”

Silence soon made the atmosphere thick with awkwardness, but this was within Shen Yuan’s expectations. Shen Jiu would always react oddly whenever Yue Qingyuan was brought up. Whatever their relationship was, there was a thick tension between them that could be cut with a knife.

“How would you like to go in my stead?”

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Remarried Empress - SVSSS version

Chapter 1: Reckless

"A Divorce," the words were delivered in a matter-of-fact tone.

"It's only for a year," Yue Qingyuan said quickly. "Just to legitimise the child."

"Then you can let me foster the child," Shen Qingqiu suggested, tone of voice and facial expression still expressionless as he stared at the document in front of him.

"You know I can't do that," Yue Qingyuan said, his tone cajoling. "A-Qi is a noble's daughter. The Qi family will not allow her child to be taken away from her."

Shen Qingqiu snorted, "So, what you're telling me is that even though I am the official spouse, I am no different than a lowly concubine."

"No, A-Jiu!" Yue Qingyuan immediately denied. "It's just for a year. After the child is born, I will remarry you to make you the first spouse again."

"The Qi family will not allow it," Shen Qingqiu returned his words. "They will not let you to strip her of the official title."