Beta!LQG taking care of OA couple Bingqiu during their heat/rut.
Like, he struggles for a solid 15 minutes trying to make something akin to a nest — running around trying to get stuff.
Hunts animals, brings them back and watches the Cooks closely to make sure they don't try nothing on the food.
Maybe hand feeding his shixiong and his shixiong's annoying (-ly handsome) demonic husband.
Sitting close by or guarding them to make sure they're okay.
Scented candles he pre-made by hand for their next heat/rut to help them through it.
LBH is just cronked out, while SQQ has some amount of lucidity — but that's mainly to demand attention and affection.
LQG may have coo'd and crooned while holding LBH once, because he was having some rut-enduced nightmare. (He swears that if SQH says anything about it, he'll make sure nobody finds him again)
Nobody is allowed to comment about the fact he smells so much like them once the joint heat/rut is about to end — mainly because he realized neither remembered the fact he was there and thus he shall keep it that way.
On hand suppressants/scented oils because too many plants enduce ruts/heats, and these two idiots keep falling into them-
(LQG's inner beta wants to stay so badly, but he pulls himself away. Which is why he usually ends up dealing with Moshang — Elder beta want to cuddle younger beta; Alpha dosen't know how to express friendship, so just does as his mate suggests in that situation.)
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I think part of the reason I’m so obsessed with MXTX’s works is the way that each story seems to hold you gently as say “Your kindness mattered. It didn’t alleviate the suffering, it did not undo the pain. But your kindness mattered.”
Kindness could not erase Luo Binghe’s abuse, but it changed the story into a kinder one.
Kindness did not stop Wei Wuxian’s death, but it did save a-Yuan.
Kindness did not undo Xie Lian’s suffering, but it renewed his sincerity to help others.
Kindness did not change the entire world, but it helped create a softer future.
Its such a nice message, that maybe kindness will not protect you, maybe you don’t see the outcome of it, but you should still try to be kind, and I love that honestly.
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Binghe is such an interesting chatacter with the way that him being love brained is the least of anyone's problem. The only way i can describe it is if he was one of those girls that went to a very prestigious university, fell in love with one of his teacher and dropped everything to become a housewife but everyone can agree it was for the best because if he followed the girlboss path hundreds would have died because there's something deeply wrong with him. It's a good day when a character belongs to the kitchen but not because of sexist beliefs but because if they were left yearning out in the wild they'd become a serial killer or some shit like that
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Headcanon that Shen Yuan was hotter than Shen Qingqiu, actually.
Like yeah SQQ being a cultivator gave him a boost to enough attributes + being in a stallion novel where everyone is either unrealistic hot or dog's butt ugly got the Shen Qingqiu body extra points, and he wasn't bad looking to begin with. Plus not being ill is vastly more important to the new Shen Qingqiu than those extra hotness points (Without a Cure notwithstanding). But part of the reason why he's kind of like, meh, at least I'm not hideous or anything, is because Shen Yuan's original body was a knock out.
I also like him as chronically ill, and, as many people know, beauty standards and sustained suffering are not as incompatible as they should be. Shen Yuan was conventionally attractive in part because conventional beauty standards seem to want everyone slowly dying all the time. But even setting that aside, the man had flawless bone structure, an appealing figure, captivating eyes, and the kind of voice that stopped people in their tracks.
All of which was a contributing factor to his antisocial lifestyle, actually. Despite the fact that Shen Yuan does enjoy company and requires a certain baseline of social enrichment for his enclosure, his internalized homophobia and closeting did not play well with overtures from interested parties (regardless of gender). The only way to minimize the odds of him being asked out on dates was to essentially become a shut-in, especially since even Shen Yuan can only make so many excuses before he himself starts to notice that he's going to a lot of effort to avoid specifically that avenue of socialization. Far better to just remove himself from any risk of it, and then vocally lament that oh no he's just too much of a nerd to get anywhere with women!
Anyway this largely doesn't matter much outside of sheer comedy potential for any situation where SY gets his old body/life back. Like imagine a reveal scenario where the System is going to transport them back to their old lives.
Shang Qinghua: well bro I guess this is gonna be the ultimate test of love, right?
Shen Yuan: what do you mean?
Shang Qinghua: our husbands are gonna see what we looked like back before we were glorious cultivators! they're going to have to track us down in our mundane, kinda shitty pre-transmigration lives! it's gonna be at least a little embarrassing, right?
Shen Yuan: *gets his old body back*
Shang Qinghua, normal human with average looks: ...
Shen Yuan, exemplary 11/10: ?
Shang Qinghua: what. the fuck?? bro what the fuck why are you hot???
Shen Yuan: don't make it weird
Shang Qinghua: make it weird??? why were you sitting at home reading my shitty novel when you could have been out there building your own harem???
Shen Yuan: stop exaggerating
Shang Qinghua: oh my god you've always been like this. this is it, isn't it? it wasn't even brain damage from the transmigration or something--
Shen Yuan: hey
Shang Qinghua: --you've just always been completely unaware, haven't you? every time I wrote a beautiful woman who didn't know her own appeal you'd be jumping down my throat--
Shen Yuan: because that's a stupid trope--!
Shang Qinghua: --JUMPING DOWN MY THROAT EXACTLY LIKE THAT but this whole time THIS WHOLE TIME it wasn't even a glow-up issue, you've just been that, personified, yourself--
Shen Yuan: look I know I'm not ugly but I'm not I'm hardly that good-looking
Shang Qinghua: YOU ARE NEVER ALLOWED TO CRITICIZE THAT TROPE AGAIN! oh my god. how many broken hearts did you leave behind when you died?!
Shen Yuan: none, I wasn't even seeing anyone--
Shang Qinghua: yeah full offense but I am nottt taking your word for that. I bet you had a harem you didn't know about in this lifetime too. I bet you had a fan club, like an anime prince
Shen Yuan: *mumbling*
Shang Qinghua: what was that?
Shen Yuan: I said... only in high school...
Shang Qinghua: oh my god
Shen Yuan: it wasn't a big deal!
Shang Qinghua: *frantically trying to see if he can find any trace of it on the internet now*
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that 1 fucking cars meme
[ID: Scum Villain fanart. Shen Qingqiu smiles and says, "Hey, Liu-shidi. It's nice to be back in Cang Qiong Mountain." Liu Qingge, intense and flustered, replies, "I want you."
Shen Qingqiu sweats, looking confused. He's labeled "Most desired straight man by men". In the background is an ominous-looking Luo Binghe, labeled "Most desired gay man by women." End ID]
ID by @princess-of-purple-prose
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Shen Qingqiu, handing Yue Qingyuan a baby: Hold this
Yue Qingyuan: Of course, Xiao-Jiu. Who is this?
Shen Qingqiu: This is Shen Yuan, our child. I gave birth to him. You will take responsibility
Yue Qingyuan: Of course. I will make preparations for our wedding ASAP
Shen Qingqiu: Good.
Qi Qingqi: I don't remember Shen Qingqiu being pregnant?
Mu Qingfang: I believe that our shixiong just grabbed some random orphan to baby trap Yue Qingyuan with
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