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disciple!luo binghe finding out that shen qingqiu has a "companion" named shen yuan, who is sunshine personified and who can't seem to stop cooing over binghe, calling him the cutest little lamb and giving him food and an actual place to sleep and a real cultivation manual. binghe falls head over heels.

no one knows the actual relation between shen qingqiu and shen yuan, whether they are brothers, lovers, friends, just that shen yuan lives in the bamboo house and shen qingqiu is notoriously possessive about him and will resort to violence.

one day binghe witnesses shen qingqiu coldly rejecting shen yuan's attempt to cuddle and vows that when he grows up, he will spoil shen yuan as he deserves (shen jiu didn't actually reject his a-yuan, shen yuan was trying to distract him to steal sweets out of his sleeves and shen jiu is trying to make shen yuan eat actual food).

anyway, shen qingqiu eventually realizes that not only does he have to ward off his fellow peak lords (yue qingyuan stop buying him more candy and liu qingge stop leaving disgusting corpses on his porch!!), but the threat is coming from inside the house peak as well, and he kicks luo binghe into the abyss not because he's a demon, but for trying to poach shen yuan.

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I feel like in reverse retransmigration AUs where Shen Yuan gets sent back to the modern world, he should get to be a bit weird. A bit bizarre. A bit baffling.

This man spent like the entirety of his twenties and early thirties as a graceful and powerful peak lord in a fantasy novel. That does some weird shit to you I'm sure.

Imagine he gets shot back into his old life, and after freaking out then compartmentalizing everything, he starts incorporating things from his life as Shen Qingqiu into his life now.

I think the funniest way to conceptualize this is through the POV of, like, his sister.

- Shen-mei just got back from college to visit her brother, who got out of a hospital stay a week ago. Last time she saw him, he mostly grumbled about a shitty web novel and binged some anime with her and ate takeout.

- when she gets there, the house is, like, unsettlingly clean.

-When her brother appears, he has hair going to the middle of his fucking back. When asked about it, he just shrugs and says he got extensions. Extensions that look extremely fucking expensive

- It's summer. It's the middle of fucking summer and this man is wearing a collared shirt with a large-sleeved sweater over it, and loose pants. She has not seen him in anything more formal than jeans since her graduation

- he offers tea. She's only ever seen him microwave tea, but before she can decline he whips out a whole traditional tea ceremony tea set. The tea is really fucking good, and he has matching snacks???

- there's new paintings on the wall, when she asks where he got them, he sheepishly admits he painted them. They're incredibly beautiful traditional paintings. She wouldn't believe him if it weren't for... Everything else.

- A curly haired man comes in and introduces himself as A-yuans boyfriend

- A-YUAN HAS A BOYFRIEND??? WHOS A 10???

- AND NAMED LUO BINGHE???

Honestly if I was SYs family I would have just as big a conspiracy board about him being replaced as the peak lords have for SJ. It would be so fucking funny

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-Eng-

I've finally finished reading the system, so here's the art with Shen Yuan.

-Рус-

Я наконец-то дочитала систему так что держите арт с Шень Юанем.

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おめかし城主 (2024)

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i have 3 kinks and i Will shoehorn them into any dynamic i can. qi-ge can be a little bit of a freak, as a treat.

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Post it Zhuzi-lang and Tianlang-Jun!

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shen yuan voice I’m being such a good shizun there’s no way a-jiu will end up as the scum villain now!

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there's a new peak lord in town..!

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Bingge has a problem, Wife 23- he definitely remembers her name- is sick, she's been poisoned and shock! Dual Cultivation didn't fix her!? What should he do?

Go harass Mu Qingfang obviously - though the doctor just sighs at him and tells him that particular poison requires dual cultivation with one's true love and "I cannot make you love your wife Luo Binghe."

That can't be the only solution, and after pestering him more Mu Qingfang agrees to introduce LBH to a colleague who might be able to help.

Immortal Master Shen ("No relation.")MQF explains as they head to a nearby mountain, was trained on CQMS along side MQF's Shizun and is an expert in handling the kind of poison affecting Binghe's wife.

"So he's an expert in dual cultivation?" LBH asked.

"Not at all," MQF said. "Please be mindful that Master Shen has been in seclusion for many years and only emerged recently."

(Shen Yuan transmigrated in early as an NPC, decided to focus on medicine - and then missed the whole plot because he got stuck in a cave in. At least his cultivation is really high now.)

LBH can't help but stare at the ethereal person they find gardening outside a hut in the woods. Master Shen Yuan looks... similar to his old master, but not identical. And they couldn't act less alike. SY listens to LBH's dilemma, asks what type of poison it was, and then says he can probably fix the issue.

"How?" LBH asks because he's still under the impression that papapa is the only solution.

"Oh most of the time you can just stimulate the right nerves or induce fission and that works too- it should for this poison."

"What about the true love requirement?"

"Oh that's easy," SY says. "One true love doesn't exist."

So they all head back to Wife 23, SY says everyone can stay in the room while he works so MQF and LBH settle in.

SY sits at the Wife's bed side and takes her hand. They talk for nearly an hour, about her- her interests and hobbies, where she's from, her family...

(Oh right, LBH remembers now, demon fish princess, married to form an alliance with her tribe who control one of the demon realm's few rivers)

Eventually SY pulls out a guqin and starts playing a song for her. LBH doesn't recognize it, but it reminds him of running water somehow, and when the song crescendos his wife gasps and then starts crying. LBH has been monitoring his wife with his blood mites, and he feels the poison fade as SY ends his song.

Once he's done he tucks her in and tells her to rest, she'll feel better soon.

LBH waits until they all leave her to ask. "So you're my wife's true love?"

SY tuts,"I told you, it doesn't exist- so the poison or curse or whatever it is can't actually be looking for it. What they're looking for instead is intent and the desire to protect. You have to want to be her true love and want to help her."

"You want to be her true love?"

"I did in there-most people are so lovable when you look closely. She's a sweet girl, and she was scared. How could I not love her? Of course I wanted to help her stay safe and healthy. "

He smiles and speaks softly and there's no judgement in his tone. Nothing at all about Luo Binghe's failure to love this woman as he should. He pats Binghe's arm as he leaves and tells him to come by if he needs anything else.

Luo Binghe retires to his study to think over the entire exchange... ... there's definitely poisons or aphrodisiacs that still effect Heavenly Demons right? 🤔

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haha another svsss au idea. idk if this has been done but au where shen yuan owns a tavern inn that somehow attracts every major important character in pidw (and maybe forms a harem)

shen yuan transmigrates into the child of a tavern innkeeper. eventually, said owner passes away leading to shen yuan inheriting the tavern. he knows he got isekai-d into a xianxia world so learns how to cultivate in his spare time growing up. but shen yuan does eventually learns he's in pidw through talking with customers and trading information through his knowledge of pidw beasts, plants and general knowledge of the world. this somehow causes him to become an information broker of sorts that cultivators like to visit.

one day shen yuan meets tianxi + zhuzhi-lang when the three enters his tavern, looking for a place to stay for the night. shen yuan bonds with them over time with tianxi and zhuzhi-lang occasionally hanging out at his tavern. but as it gets closer to the day lao gongzhu plans his ambush on tianlang-jun, shen yuan hears whispers of it through his customers and his info network. he warns tianxi, hoping to give his friends as well as luo binghe a happier ending. su xiyan admits all the crazy stuff happening with lao gongzhu and tianxi + zhuzhi-lang decides to go back to the demon realm permanently.

the three of them still correspond with shen yuan through covert messenger demons (and occasionally a disguised zhuzhi-lang would visit), with tianxi eventually having luo binghe and raising him. (lbh probably wouldn't be named lbh here but for convenience sakes Im going to use lbh)

years pass and shen yuan continues his life as full time tavern innkeeper, part time info broker. word of this tavern info broker gets back to shen qingqiu one day through his own spy brothel network. (by this point the Qing generation has just begun leading CQM) maybe he’s investigating something and shen yuan has the info he needs so the ladies at the brothel points him to shen yuan’s direction. shen qingqiu is suspicious of this shen yuan at first while shen yuan is freaking out over the scum villain being here and def has his own biases against sqq. before long though, jiuyuan do bond and grow to like each other, with shen yuan quickly becoming shen qingqiu’s top info gatherer.

one day, the town shen yuan lives in has a beast that’s been killing some of the people in it. shen yuan, being the only person in the entire town who has any sort of cultivation, willingly offers to deal with it. unfortunately, shen yuan’s cultivation isn’t strong enough so shen yuan sucks up his pride and writes to shen qingqiu, hoping CQM can help with this.

shen qingqiu unfortunately is away on another mission, so liu qingge is sent to help. shen yuan shares which beast is terrorizing the town and helps liu qingge defeat the beast, getting hurt in the process when he took a poison hit meant for liu qingge. liu qingge feels guilty about getting a civilian hurt while out on a night hunt so zooms back to qian cao, kidnaps mu qingfang and then flies back to the town under one day so that mu qingfang can treat shen yuan. during shen yuan’s healing process, he bonds with both mu qingfang and liu qingge. shen yuan offers to let them stay in his tavern for free since they had just helped him and his town but both peak lords refuse and pays anyways.

a week after the two peak lords left, mu qingfang returns to ask shen yuan for his help in tracking down a medicinal herb in the area as shen yuan kept blabbing about pidw's flora and fauna while healing. shen yuan is always up for tracking down a plant so eagerly helps mu qingfang find it. 

and a few weeks later, liu qingge returns with a monster part as a thank you gift for shen yuan after another night hunt for taking that blow. liu qingge was on his way back to cang qiong but decided to stop by shen yuan's inn first. shen yuan offhandedly mentions he's been trying to improve his cultivation and sword skills since the beast terrorized his town, to which liu qingge offers to help train shen yuan's sword skills since he isn't part of any sect.

this causes both mu qingfang and liu qingge to regularly visit shen yuan’s tavern alongside shen qingqiu who is very annoyed that his secret info broker is now being visited by his sect siblings. literally shen qingqiu comes back from his previously mentioned mission, only to run into liu qingge at the tavern’s entrance and begins hissing.

soon other peak lords grow curious about this tavern owner so they pester all three peak lords over it. shen yuan finds himself suddenly flooded with peak lords customers, especially since the town he's living in is super close by to cang qiong mountain and shen yuan is a treasure trove of information.

cue classic cumplane bickering when shen yuan eventually realizes shang qinghua is airplane. maybe shang qinghua has been hearing shen qingqiu, liu qingge and mu qingfang gatekeep this tavern infobroker. shang qinghua wanted to see what's up with this npc who somehow managed to calm down shen qingqiu a bit and decides to visit. shang qinghua probably outs himself when he mumbles something along the lines 'how did this become a harem novel but for the wrong character?'. and thus, shang qinghua quickly becomes another regular at shen yuan's tavern

one day, while shen yuan is cleaning some cups, luo binghe sits down in one of the tables which causes shen yuan to fanboy (in his mind) for a bit. luo binghe acts very much like the bold protagonist from pidw (he’s a combination of bingge and bingmei, but a bit more towards bingge if he wasn't traumatized tbh) 

luo binghe knew who shen yuan was through his parents obviously, and wanted to meet the guy who helped his family his entire life. bingyuan somehow gets roped into a night hunt and maybe shen yuan somehow gets without a cure a la canon style. luo binghe obvs offers to cure without a cure, but shen yuan is like huh!! you’re suppose to be a straight!! stallion protagonist!!?

soon luo binghe quickly becomes a regular too due to without a cure, and cleans shen yuan’s meridian’s regularly. he highkey starts crushing on shen yuan and even begins working part time at shen yuan's tavern as a chef despite shen yuan's initial protest that the crown prince of the demon realm really shouldn't be working at a lowly tavern.

when cang qiong learns that shen yuan has without a cure, they question him, very concerned over how the heck did he get poisoned with without a cure of all things-! none of the peak lords trusts shen yuan’s new part time chef at all. (except for shang qinghua who's honestly not surprised his cucumber bro managed to pull bingge into his harem and gave his family a happy ending)

liu qingge also helps to clean shen yuan’s meridians cause he doesn’t trust this luo binghe to do so while mu qingfang prescribes shen yuan with medicine and comes down to his tavern to give shen yuan a medical checkup at least once a month.

luo binghe continues to pester shen yuan about curing without a cure, even zhuzhi-lang begins doing the same but that only cause luo binghe to attack his cousin and the two almost destroys shen yuan’s tavern in the process.

behind the scenes tho, lao gongzhu has been trying to find a way to take down tianlang-jun and get su xiyan back for almost two decades now. he's been suspecting that someone leaked his plans to tianxi and helped the two lovers escape to the demon realm for years now. and all his investigation finally leads him to a small tavern innkeeper name shen yuan. he decides to head over to shen yuan's inn and kidnaps him to obviously politely ask him some questions about tianxi. lao gongzhu succeeds with the help of a few of his most trusted disciples.

unfortunately for him, he chose a day where luo binghe, zhuzhi-lang, some cang qiong mountain peak lords, and a few rogue cultivators that owe shen yuan a favor happen to be there for separate reasons.

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[Art day 12]

SY: got poisoned by pollen pa-pa-pa

SJ: he is trying to help

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You missed me, right?

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npc!shen yuan applies for a job opening on qiong ding for librarian smth like that, and yue qingyuan has barely looked at his resume or spoken to him before hiring him on the spot.

at first shen yuan is excited and proud cus wow he aced that job interview, can it really be this easy??? then he meets shen qingqiu and sees they could easily pass for brothers and have the same surname, so for a little while he's grumbly and annoyed that the sect leader only hired him bc of his resemblance to the scum villain, which honestly hurts a bit you know.

but then, double plot twist, the resemblance had nothing to do with it, yue qingyuan just saw an eager young man who had compiled all of his experience and skills on a single paper (yue qingyuan's overworked heart cried tears of joy), who seemed genuinely passionate about library work and treats the other workers well.

bonus thought: at first shen qingqiu has the same suspicion as well, that yue qingyuan was just hiring a lookalike for some weird reason, but then he meets shen yuan, sees the work that he does and is like "i have to have this man for my peak" and starts trying to poach him.

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ScumCum marriage chaos:

In the world, there is the legend of Cultivator Shen. His given name has never been revealed, just his surname. He is a complete mystery.

Depending on who you ask, he is either a hero or a villain. For us modern people, he is an anti-hero.

It is commonly believed that Shen Qingqiu is this mystery cultivator who will kill a dozen demons or humans to save one innocent. But he doesn’t just kill, he RUINS.

And THAT is why everyone believes it’s Shen Qingqiu. To become so disgraced a statue of your ultra famous prayed to respected forefather was TORN DOWN because of what you did is something only Shen Qingqiu can accomplish.

And then one day there’s this big cultivation world meeting thing where all the leaders of all the sects are together. It is then that it’s discovered that the elusive cultivator Shen struck again.

And Shen Qingqiu has been with them all week. Which means it’s not him.

This causes an outrage. Everyone thought Cultivator Shen being Shen Qingqiu to be an open secret. Now they have no clue who this guy is, and that’s absolutely terrifying. Who knows when and how they will strike next. They will uncover every secret you have. You will never recover if they decide you have to go. People like the Palace Master have nightmares over this.

…there is one Shen who is never accounted for during Cultivator Shen’s attacks.

Shen Yuan, that is. Shen Qingqiu’s husband.

Except, how could Shen Yuan be capable of such things? THE mother hen? The one all the disciples love? The one who tries to bake sweets for Peak Lord meetings? The guy that’s friends with everyone? The one that turns even Shen Qingqiu doting? Obviously it’s not Cang Qiong’s angel!

Shen Yuan and Shen Jiu didn’t even realize this was a secret. They thought everyone knew until they freaked out over it not being Shen Qingqiu.

Then Shen Qingqiu realized how big this actually was and told Shen Yuan to keep it a secret because it’s the most hilarious thing he’s ever heard. Shen Yuan is a little offended everyone thinks so lowly of him.

Everyone thought Shen Yuan was an angel who turned Shen Qingqiu good. Turns out they’re a match made in hell.

(Shang Qinghua is the only person who knows)

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A lamb to the slaughter

CW: blood, gore

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after all, weren't he the one who killed that pure, innocent boy?

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A hot day

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Hualian in Ghost City!

Please watch the new short film it's absolutely precious!!!