#scum villain’s self saving system

[herbofthyme]

missing shizun

[corysius]

Forgot about this but yqy wrangling his shidis

[kimbapchan]

How did Binghe find out, hmm?

[theladysunami]

I feel there should be more post Bingge vs. Bingmei fanfics from Bingmei’s point of view.

He came upon another version of himself that, apparently, Shizun has met before???

The same Shizun who inexplicably threw Binghe into the Abyss only to mourn him immediately afterwards. Who was absolutely terrified of him in Jinlan City, and kept blaming him for everything. Who died for him only to pop up later in a replacement body Shang Qinghua helped him make. Who just so happened to know a great many things he really shouldn’t about the Holy Mausoleum.

I’m not sure what Binghe would conclude from all this (I doubt he’d come up with transmigration exactly) but you can’t tell me his Protagonist IQ didn’t come up with some very interesting, and fairly plausible, scenarios.

[jemkha]

First news Luo Binghe saw after he escaped the Endless Abyss.

Airplane-bro is definitely Michael Cera and Cucumber-bro is Aubrey Plaza.

[toffeecoco1]

@perpetualgrey's comment on this post

Ok my first instinct was to laugh, but then I realised you might be onto something???

Shen Yuan is LITERALLY an impostor, who’s more far more kind and beloved by Binghe than the original. The Guanyin pendant is a counterfeit, but it carries the love of Binghe’s mother and is far more precious than any real jade could ever be.

The heartbreak Binghe’s mother felt after realising that the Guanyin pendant was fake and she’d been tricked was part of what lead to the gradual decline of her health.¹ In wanting to do something kind for Binghe, she felt that she’d failed, and this led to her demise. What is Shen Qingqiu’s entire story, but trying to be kind to Binghe, feeling inadequate at this, and dying? (More than once!!)

Guanyin is a Bodhisattva associated with mercy, kindness, compassion and unconditional love. She is a patron of mothers, and is called upon in times of fear, uncertainty, and despair. The Bodhisattva she originated from is seen as a saviour, through whose grace even those with the most negative karma can achieve salvation. Even when she is not worshipped as a goddess, she is revered as the principle of love, compassion and mercy.² From wikipedia, “The act, thought and feeling of compassion and love is viewed as Guanyin. A merciful, compassionate, loving individual is said to be Guanyin.”²

The original Luo Binghe appears never to have lost his pendant. Shen Qingqiu tells us: “It was the only bit of warmth in Luo Binghe’s dark world, always by his side, and even in the future when he was at his darkest, it could summon up his last dregs of humanity.”¹ He also states that “it was Luo Binghe’s biggest berserk button.”¹

Our Luo Binghe does not cling to the pendant when he’s at his darkest: he clings to the love he has for his shizun and to memories of his kindness, and later, to the lifeless body of Shen Qingqiu himself. His biggest berserk button isn’t when people insult the pendant or his mother, or try to take it away; it’s Shen Qingqiu: when people insult him or try to take him away.

From the start, Shen Qingqiu expresses truly unconditional love for Binghe. He spends three years showing endless compassion and kindness, actions which feel insignificant to him but are more than enough to completely change Binghe’s life. He holds no blame or resentment for the things he fears Binghe will do to him; though he doesn’t want to be tortured, he forgives Binghe for it nonetheless, before it has even happened. He sacrifices himself to save Binghe as his mind is eaten away at by Xin Mo, when he believes that Binghe just slaughtered a hundred Huan Hua Disciples, when Binghe’s reckless use of the sword is putting countless more lives at risk.³

Shen Qingqiu is a counterfeit that is more precious than the original could ever be. For Binghe, he personifies kindness, compassion and unconditional love. His regrets over his treatment of Binghe lead to his temporary demise. Binghe clings to him in his darkest moments, and he is that which Binghe protects most fiercely.

I always found the pendant’s role in the story to be almost lacking: it’s treated as such an important item to Binghe, yet in the end its return is almost anticlimactic. But perhaps this is because the role the pendant played in Bing-ge’s story has been overtaken by Shen Qingqiu. When he returns the pendant, Binghe is relieved and appreciative: but his joy seems to stem more from the fact that Shen Qingqiu held onto it and cherished him than from the pendant itself. The pendant doesn’t matter all that much to him anymore, at least not compared to how important it seems to have been in PIDW. Binghe doesn't need an object to symbolize love and kindness; he has a person to love, who loves him back.

In conclusion: Shizun was in fact the fake jade Guanyin pendant all along!

sources cited below :)

1. Seven Seas Volume 1, Chapter 1: Scum. Pages 40-41.

2. “Guanyin,” Wikipedia. There’s a lot more to her than what I mentioned here, she’s quite interesting.

3. Seven Seas Volume 2, Chapter 8: Death. Pages 154-156.

[starry-stan-blog]

illustration of the extra at the end of chapter 11 of shen yuan of no relation !! I’m obsessed w this fic lmao

[rarepears]

To counteract the surge of yang energy that came from depositing a second male soul (Shen Yuan) into Shen Qingqiu’s body, the system had to turn the physical body into a female so that even though the yin and Yang energy now doubled, it was the same ratio as before.

It didn’t matter that Shen Jiu’s soul had already passed on. The body still needed more Yin.

And thus Cang Qiong wrote off Shen Qingqiu’s previous prickliness as being body dysmorphia as this new version of Shen Qingqiu - the new female version - was clearly so much happier and easy going. Truly, they regret not realizing and helping their shijie out earlier. It had to take a qi deviation that forcibly corrected her body to the right gender to set everything right.

[mios-art]

.🫣.

[cherruni]

svsss memes that definitely have been done before

[herbofthyme]

demon saintess

[corysius]

My SVSSS Designs Masterpost

Opening my SVSSS design post because this shit is about to get long so I need to start now

BITCH ONE!! MQF!! a little guy

[kimbapchan]

Solo version:

Finally finished this andajsjajsjs LMFAO this took so frikkin long but I am dedicated to this meme. Shizun’s very own harem 🤭

[naixaie]

shizun and lotus pup 🪷

[wangxian-everyday]

Bingqiu married official art!!

First art is from the Korean editions, second is from the English editions. ❤️❤️❤️

[toffeecoco1]

This post. Making me think about Shen Qingqiu coming to visit Binghe at work (doing emperor things and paperwork in the demon realm), and hiding himself out of sight for a little bit. He spends just a little while watching Binghe, because he never sees Binghe like this! He loves watching him be all serious and studious and efficient when Shen Qingqiu isn’t around. And he knows that as soon as he steps forward and reveals himself, Binghe will push all the paperwork off the table. Which he isn’t complaining about, but he likes watching Binghe work first :)