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Please, I'll be your good boy...

Yandere! Phainon x reader

Prologue of No matter how many cycles it takes

Warning: begging, desperation, yandere behaviour.

Word count: 1.6k

note: bonus sketch down below :D

The grand hall of Aedes Elysiae lay silent, its golden light flickering weakly against the high wall. Your footsteps echoed as you walked toward the door, the Coreflame’s dim glow casting long shadows across the marble— shadows that clung to you like memories you could not escape.

In this cycle, you had been chosen as the new Deliverer. When the Trabilizer had gone missing due to Lygus’s interference. It was inevitable that the backup plan fell to you.

“Don’t go” Phainon’s voice was low and calm at first, barely a whisper, like a quiet wind before the storm.

You froze.

You were afraid to look back— afraid to see his face. Knowing that you might not come back. When you had entered Amphoreus along with Trabilizer and Dang Heng, Phainon had been the good friend, steady and reliable.

But for Phainon, from the moment he saw you, a quiet intensity had kindled in him, something deeper than admiration, something that tethered his heart to yours.

“Are… you going to leave me?” The question wavered, cracking halfway through as if he could not bare to know the answer.

No matter whether he wanted the answer or not. You chose silence. The longer you stayed, the harder it is to leave.

Without thinking twice, you took a big step forward. Suddenly, he moved. His gloved hands shot forward then wrapping around your leg and gripping tightly as if losing his grip would mean losing his beloved to void forever. His forehead rested just above your knee as his shaking and warm breath touched you.

“Please,” he choked as he tilting his head to look at you, tears beginning to fall while his voice was breaking. “Please, Please, Please—” Each word rang with desperation.

“I beg you...” he shook your leg uncontrollably. “Please... don’t leave me. I’ll—”

“I’ll promise” he gasped

“I’ll be your good boy.”

“I’ll do anything you ask. Just—”

His grip tightened, knuckles pale beneath the leather, his entire body trembling.

“Just.. stay. I can’t breathe without you here.”

[Bonus] beginning of destruction.

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Kofi

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the cucumber now vs wild cucumber

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Близнецы Шэни моя маленькая римская империя 🙏

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Give me Shen Twins with a complicated relationship.

I wanna see Shen Twins that viscerally cannot stand the way that the other copes with the bad things that've happened to them.

Give me SY who pleads with SJ to "just behave" while cleaning his wounds because he's scared his brother is going to get into bigger trouble than they can handle. Because he can't understand SJ's refusal to make himself smaller, can't understand why his brother feels the need to fight the world even at the expense of his own wellbeing.

Give me SJ yelling and shaking SY because he can't stand the way the SY just seems to accept their situation. Because where SY's response to fear and uncertainty is to avoid and hide, SJ's is to fight.

I wanna see SJ resent that he's the Only person that SY will actually fight and I wanna see SY being hurt that his brother just won't listen to him when he's Just trying to help.

And then give be post-Qui Shen Twins who learn to understand. Let SJ learn that SY's anger was only safe with him. Let SY understand SJ's violent need to be seen as a real person. Let them both understand that they Both did their best to keep each other alive.

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One of the things that tickles me about SJ and SY fics is that well, sometimes they're brothers, sometimes they're parent and kid, etc, but the overall vibe is usually consistent like:

Older Bro Shen Jiu: this is my idiot didi, if any of you fuckers corrupt him I will bite out your throats.

Younger Bro Shen Jiu: this my idiot gege, if any of you fuckers corrupt him I will bite out your throats.

Father Shen Jiu: this is my idiot son, if any of you fuckers corrupt him I will bite out your throats.

Son Shen Jiu: this is my idiot father, if any of you fuckers corrupt him I will bite out your throats.

Shizun Shen Jiu: this is my idiot head disciple, if any of you fuckers corrupt him I will bite out your throats.

Boyfriend Shen Jiu: this is some idiot I've never met before in my life, if any of you fuckers corrupt him I will bite out your throats.

Every Shen Yuan Regardless: please stop threatening to bite out peoples throats, oh my god this is the shit that will get you killed, DO NOT KICK THAT CHILD WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU I am trying to save your life here! (」°ロ°)」

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AU where SY is ZZL's uncle from his father's side, so he's a snake demon. Transmigration or not, doesn't matter, he's here and delightfully clueless.

He took up raising ZZL after his brother and sister in law skedaddled. He doesn't force ZZL into anything and is proud of him when he becomes a general.

He is close enough with TLJ and SXY that when she dies, she entrusts her baby to him. Baby LBH has no sealed off demon powers because SXY trusts SY to give him a good life. He takes the baby, but has no idea what to care for the little squishy thing that cries a lot.

He somehow wings it (the fact LBH is half demon was coming in clutch real hard). He's doing well enough. Eventually, he encounters a demonic cultivator that tries to kill him for his venom or something and for baby LBH since he's a heavenly demon. That's when a cultivator saves him.

YQY was around by coincidence, attending some diplomatic meeting nearby when he sensed a lot of demonic energy in the distance. When he was done, he tracked down the energy. He dispatches the demonic cultivator, but completely hesitates to kill the snake demon because it has a baby.

He can tell the demon has the same protective love he had for his Xiao-Jiu, and he contemplates just turning his back on the incident. He really does think about it until the snake demon stops him and begs to know what a human baby should be fed.

YQY again hesitates and turns back to the demon. He rattles off baby safe foods like it's second nature and eventually asks to see the baby to see how old it was.

The snake demon hesitantly does, and YQY freezes when he realizes the baby is a heavenly demon. But he logics it out that the baby is probably half human and has a chance to be a spiritual cultivator (he can't bring himself to kill a baby).

He offers the snake demon to stay with him and allow the baby to become his disciple. The demon agrees wholeheartedly.

Yada, yada, yada. They bond during the trip back to the mountain and SY shares his name and what happened. YQY has an oh shit moment. SY says something surprisingly insightful about how no matter what as long as Old Palace Master was around, TLJ and SXY were going to end in tragedy.

They get to YQY's home and SY gets a whole wing of the house to himself (I hc that the sect leader leisure house was meant to originally be the headquarters of the sect before it became the 12 peaks so the home is really big). SY and YQY take care of baby LBH, SY taking care of feeding and most things because well that's his baby >:[ and YQY takes care of teaching him cultivation.

Okay so now that I tricked you into following me into this dark alley, I think it's a good time to mention this with be a freak4freak thing... Also that in my head SY's demon form is something like this

This is a DND Yuan-ti. Kinda fitting lmao. And like SY would be like a REALLY pretty snake. Because it's SY.

Anyway back to our irregularly scheduled programming.

SY also teaches LBH demonic cultivation (to balance LBH and make sure he can't get corrupted yk) , but they make sure that he knows it's a last resort sort of thing. When LBH gets older, YQY starts taking him to spar with him, but SY was to get to a tiny snake form and hide in YQY's robes when he goes out with them.

For some reason SY starts like hardcore crushing on YQY (it's not hard to just look at him 🥴), so he starts trying to get to know YQY and starts stalking him because like no one around TLJ is normal about affection. It works a little, SY starts giving YQY gifts he likes, which gets him attention in return.

But during one of his stalking moments he finds YQY having tea with SQQ. SY immediately gets jealous because YQY acts so much softer with this man that glares and insults him than him and their child. He starts overanalyzing to see what possibly could this man have that he doesn't?

SY concludes that the thing this man has over him is that he's a peerless beauty. So what does he do? Lock in on cultivation so hard until he can force himself to have a human form. Obviously.

So because he's busy with that, he starts letting LBH and YQY alone with their training. YQY thinks it's because SY feels weak and wants to be strong enough to protect LBH, which he's like "why? does he think I can't protect him? I need to try harder then :(" And LBH somehow reverse logics his way into the right conclusion and he's all for being able to walk around with his baba in the open.

Eventually during one of the training sessions, someone sees LBH and YQY. And that's like obviously his secret kid or something because that kid is a noisy disciple that loves starting shit.

It soon gets to SJ's ears and he's pissed. How DARE someone knock up his gege without his knowledge! He goes to MQF (always assume I'll somehow sneak in mujiu if the ship is yueyuan) and demands to know WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?!

And MQF is like "I haven't delivered any mpreg babies in a while" and SJ concludes his Qi-ge knocked up a woman, which is strange because he headcanoned his gege as gay and his headcanon CAN'T be wrong.

Around the same time SY unlocks the human babe skin on his avatar and shows YQY. YQY is going through it, and his erectile isn't dysfunctioning now. SY is all proud of himself thinking that YQY will like him better now, and YQY is panicking because Helen of Troy is in his house.

LBH is happy because he can go on walks with his father AND his baba. So he's basically winning. Especially because he's finally old enough to join the sect.

LBH's dads (he has so many fathers his greed sickens me) are going through it in the background as he's having his first day at school. Something happens that I'm too out of to figure out and now he's crushing on MF.

MF feels like he's being hunted but every time he looks he just finds the sect leader's son looking at him like this

So obviously he thinks he's going crazy and moves on.

SQQ eventually sees LBH and thinks "FUCK he has my gege's eyes! The rumors are true!" He then becomes determined to make MF beat LBH at everything else. MF is confused, but he's not going to disappoint his father figure.

Around now YQY is still freaking out about Helen of Troy being in his home and also a demon. And with a little Airplane logic he's like "Well, fuck me I guess. I have to eventually introduce him because he's LBH's dad, and I'm also like LBH's dad. Co-parenting would leave too much room for questions. I guess we're getting married."

YQY uses a seal to hide SY's demonic energy and forges marriage papers and hides them in the records to make it seem like his master had allowed them to elope in secret.

Anyway my point is stupid slice of life romance anime shenanigans that might become serious as it continues but then returns to stupid slice of life romance anime shenanigans

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Ace: What do you think about my face? Cute, right?

MC: Visage non grata.

Riddle: *chokes on his tea*

Ace: ...

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Neige: *clearly wants a hug*

MC: *threatens to bug-spray him if he comes closer*

Neige: ...

Neige: Please? 🥺

MC: No.

Rook: *watching*

Rook: *smiles, then strings his bow*

Vil: Rook, don't you dare.

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Malleus: MC...

MC: Hm? Oh, hey! You here to watch the—

Malleus: *hugs them*

MC: ...

MC: *confused but hugs him back* Did something happen? Or is there an event I don't know?

Malleus: ...

MC: ...

MC: Mal?

Malleus: Would you... come with me?

MC: Yeah? Sure. I'm not busy today. Oh! Are the others going too?

Malleus: *smiles*

Lilia: What's going on?

Ace: Lilia-senpai! Is the Prefect here?!

Lilia: No? Why are you looking for them?

Deuce: They were last seen with Draconia-senpai!

Lilia: ...

Lilia: *turns to Malleus*

Malleus: *looks confused*

Ace and Deuce: ...

Ace: Wait... You were not with them...?

Deuce: Then who—

MC: I feel sleepy...

Malleus: You should take some rest.

MC: Okay... By the way, Mal... Why do you look like a small child?

Malleus: *smiles* Because I was too young at the time when you passed away.

MC: Passed away...? Me...?

Malleus: ...

Malleus: You don't have to think about it.

Malleus: What matters is the present.

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Lilia with a newspaper in his hands, rolled into a cylinder, shouted: Bad dragon! Very bad fairy dragon! Let go quickly (Y\N)!

Malleus in the form of a dragon: No! My treasure! I won't give it up!

Malleus hisses at Lilia.

Lilia: Don't you dare hiss at your father! I hatched you! I raised you, so don't you dare snarl at me!

P.S. I found this funny.

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we honestly don't give mobei jun enough credit for not immediately going yandere route the second shang qinghua decided to fuck off after his ascension. from his perspective, the love of his life, the one person in the entire world who he trusts unquestionably to the point where he brought him along to guard him at his most vulnerable, just saved his life by defeating his evil uncle at the cost of his own pain, called him handsome, then completely disappeared. all things considered, he was fairly calm and level headed. he didn't even try to basement wife shang qinghua afterwards

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idk where this starts or where it goes but here's 1.2k of uh.... this

“Oh, it was very clever,” Shizun says, wiping the red paint from his lips. “Love curses cause the victim to become infatuated with the first person they see, so I simply made sure to look at my own reflection.” He kicks the dead demon, making its assortment of gold jewelry jangle. “Honestly, even if I was an idiot, there’d be a good chance of doing it by accident. Truly a low IQ move, pairing that spell with this tacky get-up.”

“Shen Qingqiu, stop messing around and untie us!” Liu Qingge grouches, wriggling in the Immortal Binding cables like dying fish. Luo Binghe purposefully relaxes further in his bonds in the hopes of infuriating the brute. It works.

“Take this seriously, a curse is still a curse. We need to take him back to Cang Qiong!”

“Do we?” Luo Binghe drawls, lazily rolling his head left to look at the trussed War God. “This lord has a quite reliable method of solving such things, if Liu-Shishu would afford these husbands some privacy-”

“Ah, about that!” Shizun says, tapping his fan in his palm. As his husband stalks towards him, he starts preparing a pout for the inevitable admonishments- don’t say such things in public, don’t disrespect your martial uncle- but it doesn’t come. 

Instead Shizun climbs on to Luo Binghe’s lap, making absolutely no moves to untie him from the chair he’s bound to. Shizun settles on Luo Binghe’s thighs, leaning heavily against his chest and starts idly caressing Luo Binghe’s cheek as he speaks.

“So, I’m a bit torn,” Shizun says, “Because on one hand, Liu-shidi is right; even curses which don’t cause direct harm to the victim are dangerous, and should be lifted promptly. On the other hand,” Shizun raises a single elegant finger directly in front of Luo Binghe’s nose, forcing him to go cross-eyed to focus on it. The red makeup has gotten smudged all over Shizun's hands. “I feel fucking amazing right now.”

“Shizun?” Luo Binghe asks, surprised (and a little delighted) at the vulgar language. 

“Because you looked at yourself,” Liu Qingge groans. “Shen-shixiong's infatuated with Shen -shixiong.”

“Exactly! “ Shizun says brightly. “And it's awesome! Five star experience! Ten out of ten, would be cursed again! I don’t think I’ve felt this good, maybe ever?” He leans back to look at Luo Binghe better, gently tapping his cheek. “A few times with you, Binghe, but usually just because I’m too fucked out to think-”

“Shizun!!” Luo Binghe squeaks, only for Shizun to roughly grab his face, squishing his mouth into a comical pout.

“Hush and listen to your Master, Disciple Luo.” Shizun drawls, shifting on his perch so he can look down his nose at Luo Binghe. Luo Binghe lets a hot blush flood his face as Liu Qingge splutters indignantly. 

“As I was saying - I feel very good, and I’d like to keep feeling very good. Usually I spend a lot of energy caring about stupid things, like what people think of me, or if I look stupid or scummy or whatever. Isn’t that ridiculous, Binghe? Playacting as some untouchable immortal, it just ends up making me anxious all the time. Did you know that? That I’m actually very anxious?” He asks, staring at him intently. Then he remembers he’s still squishing Luo Binghe’s mouth and lets go, giving him a few light, apologetic pats. 

Luo Binghe works his jaw a bit before answering, “I had… guessed at something along those lines.”

“Oh, of course you did,” Shizun cooed, “My little sheep is so clever.” He kisses the tip of Binghe’s nose, ignoring Liu Qingge hissing ‘little sheep!?’ as if the sheep in question had personally eaten his prized cabbage. Which, to be fair, he had. Enthusiastically and on multiple occasions.  

“So, I would like to stay this way, but there’s one little issue,” Shizun says, tapping his finger against Binghe’s lips, giving him a taste of tallow and sulphur from the vermilion pigment, “Which is that I would also like to keep having sex with the most gorgeous man in the universe-” oh Luo Binghe was going to be living off that compliment for years- “but because said handsome man has such a reliable method of lifting curses, I can’t do both.” Shizun sighs, laying his head on Luo Binghe’s shoulder. “It’s a real pickle. Ha! What a pickle to have with you, in particular. What even is my life?” 

Luo Binghe ignores the last bit of nonsense and turns his head to nuzzle against Shizun as best he can with the awkward angle. He pitches his voice low and sultry and croons “This disciple sadly can’t solve Shizun’s conundrum, but he can offer to draw out his usual method of treatment for a good long while.”

“You perverted little bastard, you’re enjoying this!!” Liu Qingge accuses, accurately. “Don’t think I don’t know you could have broken out of those bindings at any time! You’re letting him humiliate himself for your sick gratification, you-” A silencing talisman cuts the rest of the Brute’s tirade short.

“Enough, Shidi, Binghe’s been a very good boy so far,” Shizun kisses the tip of his nose and Luo Binghe makes sure to project as much smugness as he can in his Shishu’s direction. “He knows better than to try and force a cursed person to accept treatment- curses always seek to perpetuate themselves; it can be very dangerous for the victim if one tries to brute force an end to the enchantment.”

“And this husband is nothing if not cautious when it comes to his beloved’s safety,” Luo Binghe purrs. Liu Qingge’s glare could turn green wood into charcoal, but Shizun hardly seems to notice or care. 

The Brute isn’t entirely wrong - Luo Binghe is enjoying this immensely, and Shizun will be quite embarrassed when he’s back to his usual self. As much as part of Binghe would like to push and see just how far Shizun would go with Liu Qingge still in the room, he knows he’s indulged enough. He has a husband to cure.

However, just as he flexes his demonic energy to disintegrate the immortal binding cables, Shizun swipes his finger along his cheek in a quick, fluid motion that feels less like a caress and more like…

“It’s just a little demonic sealing spell, Binghe,” Shizun says, as Luo Binghe gasps. The power that has been roaring through his veins since that day at Jue Di Gorge gets folded up and tucked into his core like out of season clothing. “It’s based on your original seal, It won’t hurt you- I’d be very upset if you got hurt, and of course I can’t have that.” Shizun presses a kiss on Luo Binghe’s emptied chest and slides off his lap. “Don’t be glum, you were right that it’s best not to push with a curse victim- but you really should have listened to your Shishu’s concerns. Sorry Shidi-” this directed at the incandescent Liu Qingge - “I promise not to make you eat too much more dog food, I just needed to distract Binghe. He really is conscientious about my safety, so I was worried he wouldn’t be willing to hear me out.”

“Hear you out?” Binghe wheezes, still in a state of shock.

“Yes!” Shizun claps his hands together. They’re stained bright vermilion, matching the manic gleam in his eyes. “I wrote a whole thing…” he digs in the sleeves of his voluminous robes and pulls out a bulky scroll, unraveling the first cun to unveil a title:

Why Shen Qingqiu Staying Cursed Permanently Would be Beneficial for His Mental Health and Sex Life

Luo Binghe has a feeling Liu-Shishu will be eating a lot more dog food - if he doesn’t pass out from rage first.

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cain instinct

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when liu qingge wakes early for his morning exercises, he doesn't get up right away. instead, he takes a moment to lie there and silently observe the person beside him.

shen qingqiu, of course, is still fast asleep, his chest rising and falling in a slow, even rhythm, hair spread haphazardly over the pillows, a faint line of drool at the corner of his mouth. and liu qingge just watches, heart full at the simple fact that his beloved is here—alive, alive, alive—in his bed, in his arms, in his life.

he leans over, kisses shen qingqiu’s forehead, slow and careful, then slips out of bed, making sure to tuck the blanket snugly around shen qingqiu. and then liu qingge’s gone, off to train, the morning quiet and soft around him, a small smile still lingering on his lips.

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qijiu at the divorce proceedings. yue qingyuan’s big sad eyes that say ‘i understand, whatever xiao-jiu wants’ but mouth zipped shut in a placid smile. everyone is more uncomfortable with that than shen jiu’s murder vibes. only comment yue qingyuan makes is that he won’t not give everything over to shen jiu and instantly it feels like they’ve just locked themselves in a room with A Demon. a demon who’s very offended by the implication that he can’t live without yue qingyuan’s shit, and yue qingyuan’s smiling now, which is somehow worse, and law school prepares you for a lot but not for this shit

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I know that LQG is like younger than the rest of the pl but idk how much younger he really is

it's probably like 2 or 3 years younger but I find the idea of him being a full decade younger hilarious