#having the smallest inkling your father figure murdered your soulmate but havinf no proof?

[oh-wow-im-still-here]

Currently thinking of a pidw native shixiong shen yuan au scenario where at the beginning of his tenure as a qing jing peak disciple him and shen qingqiu did have like a weird father-son esque bond. That like, slowly started to deteriorate as shen yuan got older and befriended binghe, slowly but surely being dissilutioned for his teacher/father figure/role model as time goes by and the more mature shen yuan is. Once shen yuan is like in his early 20s and is completely attached at the hip with luo binghe, shen yuan just. Finds it hard to love or respect shen qingqiu the same now after everything he's learned what he did to binghe and some other things he's done running the peak. But surely it can't get worse right?

And then the immortal Alliance conference happens. I'm thinking maybe either shen yuan missed out on the conference or wasnt around when the abyss opened, whatever the case, shen qingqiu comes back without luo binghe. Says he unfortunately died during the conference. And shen yuan privately thinks, for a horrible moment, "did he really?"

And because of that moment of doubt any sort of positive relationship between the two turns to dust.

#think of the angst! the drama!! #having the smallest inkling your father figure murdered your soulmate but havinf no proof? #and having to quietly live with that for years? pretending everything is fine?? #but you can never look at the man beside you the same ever again. #and now you just sit there. stuck. because where would you go? #the person who understood you. who you planned to take care of for the rest of your life is gone. #idk what im trying to get at lmao #gimme a fraught father-son relationship falling out with soap opera levels of drama plz!!! #svsss #scum villains self saving system #shen qingqiu #shen yuan #luo binghe #shen jiu #au plot bunny thought thing #text