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Rest in peace shen yuan you would have loved hiring binghe and telling him to show up at your address, not knowing you've mistaken him for a housekeeper when he's actually an escort

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bingyuan

sphinx guardian!yuan who each ask riddles for adventurers to solve or face death. binghe who manages his riddles to well and decides to come and go as he pleases.

shen yuan falls for binghe's charm, though he denies it to the end. he's unsure why binghe continues to come for to his cave when realistically binghe could have taken the treasure shen yuan protected the first time.

still, he isn't mad at seeing the adventurer come back. one night, sy asks why and binghe says he gets lost. it's shocking at first. he remembers his labyrinth to be pretty straight forward. it was long but even a novice adventurer who solved his riddle should take no more than a week to traverse it. he offers to help binghe, since binghe had solved his riddles it only makes sense. he transforms to stand on two legs. he keeps his tail but hides his wings.

shen yuan worries about how someone so clumsy and who cries as easily as binghe does, has managed to become an adventurer. it's odd how binghe will cling to him despite being a head taller and much broader than shen yuan. a protective instinct settles in shen yuan. he cannot leave this poor guy alone, he'll tag along until binghe is able to stand alone.

binghe has no intention of letting his sphinx ever leave him.

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Can any of my Scummies hook me up with the comic of modern AU Shen Yuan and Luo Binghe trading the Shen Qingqiu Labubu XD I can't find it

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Yue Qingyuan has hanahaki. He accepts he’s going to die. He keeps quiet about it and quietly arranges for the sect to be taken care of when he’s gone. The sickness is getting worse and worse though and one day someone catches him coughing up flowers. The rumors spread. Soon everyone in the sect knows the sect leader is dying of the flower sickness. He loves someone so much it’s killing him.

Shen Jiu shows up furious and demands to know who Yue Qingyuan loves. Who did Yue Qi deem worthy of his affection. He mocks Yue Qingyuan when the man doesn’t answer and cruelty says that whoever it is obviously wise to not want to live such a moron. Yue Qingyuan begins to have another coughing fit and Shen Qingqiu jerks back upset, before storming away.

Yue Qingyuan’s condition steadily worsens and Shen Jiu is tearing the sect apart looking for whoever it is that rejected Yue Qingyuan. The other peak lords keep trying to convince Yue Qingyuan to have the flowers removed but he just shakes his head and says it’s fine before coughing some more. When Shen Jiu hears of this, he flies into a rage and corners him in his bedroom so he can shake sense into Yue Qingyuan, demanding once more to know who it is. They both know Yue Qingyuan’s time is almost up. He’s dying. He won’t live much longer.

“You’re going to die,” Shen Jiu snarls at the other man, eyes burning with unshed tears.

Yue Qingyuan smiles softly as a shaking cough tears through him once more. He shrugs. “I know.”

“No.” Shen Qingqiu is shaking with fury. “NO.” He slaps Yue Qingyuan hard. Yue Qingyuan's head snaps to the side, face plastered in wide eyed shock. Shen Jiu shoves him against the wall glowering at the stunned man before him. Yue Qingyuan gingerly touches his reddened cheek and stares up at Shen Jiu, his eyes bright with glossy tears. Shen Jiu snarls down at the moron's guileless expression and grabs the front of Yue Qingyuan’s robes, yanking him in close as he looms over him threateningly. “You don’t get to leave me,” he seaths. “WHO IS IT?”

“Xiao Jiu,” Yue Qingyuan breathes with a wheezing cough, chest heaving as he continues to stare up at him in a morbid, twisted awe.

“WHO!” Shen Jiu shakes Yue Qingyuan again, his knuckles going white. There’s a rattling sound coming from Yue Qingyuan’s chest and it’s infuriating. “Tell me who,” he demands, shoving his face in close to Yue Qingyuan’s.

“You. Are. Mine.” Shen Jiu snaps. “You don’t get to leave me again.” He drags Yue Qingyuan into himself and crowds him hard against the floor, pressing a bruising kiss hungrily against the other's mouth. Yue Qingyuan lets out a strangled groan and goes pliant under him.

Shen Jiu growls against Yue Qingyuan’s lips, “Mine. They can’t have you.” Yue Qingyuan hums lowly in agreement and presses into the kiss with a moan. He shudders under Shen Jiu and tugs at Shen Jiu’s robes, trying to pull him closer.

Shen Jiu pulls back and grabs Yue Qingyuan’s jaw forcefully, jerking his gaze to meet his own. “You will forget about them. You belong to me.”

“It’s as Xiao Jiu says,” Yue Qingyuan murmurs, dazedly, a slight smile tugging at lips.

Shen Jiu’s grip on his jaw tightens and he scowls down at the serene face. “You will forget about them,” he promises threateningly. “You are having those roots removed.”

Yue Qingyuan blinks up at him in infuriating befuddlement. Shen Jiu glowers and leans in close again, “They. Will. Be. Removed.”

Yue Qingyuan blinks. “There’s no need.”

“What the fuck do you mean there’s no need?” Shen Jiu’s voice burns with unconcealed fury.

“There’s no need,” Yue Qingyuan says again, smiling softly. His hand tightens in Shen Jiu’s robes, tugging him down slightly. “Xiao Jiu’s cure works best.”

Shen Jiu stares. “What?”

Yue Qingyuan blinks up at Shen Jiu earnestly, cheeks flushed a light pink. “Xiao Jiu’s cure is effective.” Yue Qingyuan glances away nervously and wets his lips. “Xiao Jiu could keep curing me if he wants?” he says hopefully, embarrassment coloring his voice.

“What?” Shen Jiu blinks at Yue Qingyuan’s flushed face in angry, bewilderment. “Roots were just suffocating you to death. What do you mean there’s no need.” He yanks at Yue Qingyuan’s jaw to force their gazes together again and watches in bafflement as Yue Qingyuan’s throat bobs and his flush gets deeper.

Yue Qingyuan gives him a bright smile, “Xiao Jiu needn’t worry about it. Xiao Jiu has the best cures.”

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AU: Shen Yuan transmigrates into an Endless Abyss resident.

Because I am very fond of monsterfucker!Shen Yuan but also even fonder of Shen-Yuan-fucker!Luo Binghe. Any form Shen Yuan takes, Luo Binghe will be all over it.

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He got that dawg in him

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More post-it MoShang. Oops all HamHuas.

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Soooo nobody is going to ask him about the BLOOD POOL?

Why? How? When? What?

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This just has very intense Xie Lian vibes IMO - poor Dianxia is goin thru it

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NO Tumblr, shut up

If I wanted a digital girlfriend, I'd just start playing FFXIV again and hang out in Limsa. NO AI! BAD! *Slaps hand*

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dangerous place for a Lil Guy

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Fic: The previous Qing Jing Peak Lord

already has found Shen Yuan and appointed him Head Disciple by the time of the Immortal Alliance Conference where Wu Yanzi is killed and Yue Qi begs Cang Qiong to take Shen Jiu. Shen Jiu doesn't catch their eye.

In fact, none of the Peak Lords are interested in him, and so Yue Qi, desperate at this point, tells SJ the only option left: Climb Bai Zhan Peak. Shen Jiu is good at surviving above perhaps even everything else, and the Bai Zhan climb is basically: Survive, and become a disciple.

Shen Jiu becomes Liu Qingge's Shidi. Things domino out of control from there >:3 Many fights, many near-murders due to feeling threatened and constant survival-mode from all the fighting. At first, it feels like hell. But then Liu Qingge starts redirecting other disciples who are targeting Shen Jiu with malicious intent to fight him instead, since they have so much energy to spare. And slowly, Shen Jiu becomes Head Disciple Liu's right hand man, much to Yue Qi's jealousy XD

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a very good boy and his favourite chew toy

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For some reason now I'm imagining Binghe misunderstanding the fact that his Shizun is being "Tested" and believes that SQQ is Acting Like This Now because he's PREGNANT :')

So more than anything, so he doesn't change back, Shizun MUST STAY PREGNANT!

something i wanna say on shen yuan taking over shen jiu's body is that i often see mentions that while everyone knew, nobody did anything because they liked shen yuan better, and i think it's important to say that they did do something about it, but just couldn't find the cause.

shen qingqiu went to wei qingwei's sword trials terrace three times to try to pull hong jing, yue qingyuan himself tested him on demonic qi and mu qingfang did ample research to try and find the reason behind the sudden change, but none of them could find anything. only after all that did they consider the option that it could be amnesia, and then they decided that it might be better not to actively reinstate his memories because they thought the new shen qingqiu was more pleasant. but, again, that was only after they couldn't find any evidence that this wasn't shen qingqiu. it's still pretty tragic that they decided they liked someone else better, but in their defense, they didn't know this was actually someone else.

i think it's not so much a case of "we like this version of shen qingqiu better so let's not look into it too deeply", it's more like "we tried every test we have and nothing came of it, so the only explanation left is that this is the real shen qingqiu, but with amnesia"

it reminds me of this meme:

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Saw this today and ...

"Fabergé, Pickle scent bottle, Nephrite jade, gold, rose-cut diamonds, c. 1890"

We did it, Scummies - we found the Peerless Cucumber :')

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UwU What's this?

I'm actually attempting to write the short fic instead of just outlining the idea here for all of you?!?!?!

PREPOSTEROUS! XD

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(TGCF spoilers)

Parallels between Jun Wu & Xie Lian / Shen Jiu-Qingqiu & Luo Bingge:

Jun Wu couldn't stand to hear Xie Lian say "Body in abyss, heart in paradise" because if that was true, then he took a dark path despite there being another way. He needed to show Xie Lian how cringe he sounded through trials of fire and blood to prove that the world works as HE understands it, and that what he did was reasonable, and Xie Lian is the fool actually.

Shen Jiu-Qingqiu couldn't stand to see Luo Binghe be an idealistic street kid who acted filial in spite of his harsh circumstances because that meant Shen Jiu hardening himself against the world and becoming a murderer wasn't an inevitability. He needed to show Luo Binghe how cringe his optimism was and prove that the world rewards obedience and kindness only with pain - that responding with violence to those in power over you is only reasonable, and that Luo Binghe is the fool actually.