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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.
#svsss#shen qingqiu#luo binghe#bingqiu#svsss meta#meta#scum villain’s self saving system#i can’t believe i wrote a 650 word essay with citations instead of doing my coursework
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I don't think Shang Qinghua ever really drops his god complex/detachment from his "characters" enough to see most of them as real people.
For two reasons:
1. I think he was genuinely that detached/isolated from other people in his first life so this isn't new to him
2. He did create them so it's genuinely going to be harder to stop seeing them as characters
I think there is an exception to be made about Mobei because he was already more real to Airplane than the other characters and probably more real than people in his actual first life
However I don't think his god complex/detachment from others is a problem for Mobei who:
1. Is a King and emotionally stunted so has similar issues
2. He's into it
Shang Qinghua: I am your God! You should be worshiping me!
Mobei Jun already stripping: with pleasure
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HELP!! I transmitigated into my own novel and developed Complex Feelings for the SCUM VILLIAN!!!
#svsss#svsss meta#scumplane#sqh#shen jiu#shang qinghua#comic#my art#I'll never forget that SQH was incredibly sincere when he tried to give Shen Jiu advice to change the plot#He would be terrified but also have a soft spot for his most complex and tragic character#his son#his lil meow meow#melon seeds as an offer of friendship
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Can we talk about how amazing Shen Qingqiu actually is?? He wakes up in an unfamiliar room to an unfamiliar person talking like he knows him, and his first instinct is to play along to buy himself time to figure out the situation without endangering himself. He quickly puts it together and manages to outwardly keep his cool and assess the situation. At multiple times in the story he's forced to think quickly on his feet and he's GOOD at it, he realizes things fast, memorizes things easily, he's extremely studious and read through the entire Qing Jing library as soon as he realized where and who he was. He's quick witted and flexible with his thinking, great at problem solving, a great actor... Sure, he couldn't fool people into thinking he was the exact same as someone they had known for years, but he's great at keeping his thoughts and feelings on the inside while showing a cool, controlled, *confident* face to everyone else. Actually he's really good at genuinely taking control of situations in general, even when he IS internally screaming. Fake it til you make it WORKS for him, because even when he feels like he's faking, he is doing amazing work and showing great competense. On top of that he's very compassionate even when he doesn't necessarily want to be, and while he was given a body that had already become an immortal cultivator, he still put in a LOT of work to practice, refine and master that cultivation until it was completely natural and second nature for him to use it. And that's fucking AMAZING.
The only times his abilities fail him, really, is when he believes he already knows how something is supposed to go and thinking it's set in stone. He believes Luo Binghe must hate him, must want a harem, and that he himself isn't that important or desirable, and he believes it SO STRONGLY that he can't see past it until it's shoved directly in his face. That's the only times he truly acts like an oblivious idiot, and honestly can you blame him? Like I said, he believes those are facts set in stone, no matter how much the evidence contradicts it. The pitfall of having detailed future information of an alternate timeline, I suppose.
TL;DR: SQQ is a brilliant, quick witted, creative, intelligent and hard working man and I fucking LOVE that for him. He was the perfect candidate for filling the role of the academic peak's leader and the sect's strategist, because he shares all those same qualities with his predecessor (I'm assuming, I haven't actually read the SJ extras yet oops). The main thing setting them apart, really, is just that SY was raised to be *kind* where SJ was unfortunately raised to be cruel.
Chef's kiss, truly.
#svsss#svsss meta#scum villain#scum villain meta#scum villain self saving system#scum villain's self saving system#shen qingqiu#shen yuan#人渣反派自救系统#mxtx#mo xiang tong xiu#墨香铜臭#沈清秋#沈垣#neko rambles
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there are two layers of unreliable narration in svsss: the one that impacts our understanding of the narrative and the other characters, which kind of dissolves as we read the full novel, and the one that fools us into thinking we KNOW who shen yuan/shen qingqiu is, which... it's something you have to look for, because he's very good at lying to himself and therefore to us.
he's been telling us about how he's easygoing (hahahahahahahahaha), straight(pffff), just enduring sex with luo binghe ("oh i can't help but succumb to binghe's technique!"), etc etc etc.
he repeatedly and desperately brainwashes himself into thinking the other characters around him are fictional because it's the only way to cope with what's happening around him and what he has to do. he is so so so sexually and emotionally repressed the only emotion he feels safe enough to express is anger. in fact he relies on anger and taking it out on (from his pov) a deserving target (aka sqh) as a way to cope with depression. he will slap himself in his mind and for real when he thinks about dicks too much, telling himself there's something wrong with him.
he downplays his own abilities so much some readers come out thinking he's not an excellent cultivator, when in fact he improved the original's cultivation; he's a really good fighter (turning the flying leaves technique, his trademark move, from something aesthetic to a practical weapon that surprised even bingge). he's pretty intelligent on an intellectual level (all the knowledge he's memorized he uses to solves problems, like escaping zzl, the holy mausoleum, the mushroom bodies plan). he's a good teacher and it shows in the way luo binghe was able to leave the abyss in LESS THAN THREE YEARS (because he spent some time in hua hua) and in the way ning yingying developed with his influence. and not only is he a good teacher , he LIKES teaching, as it's his go-to job when he has nothing to do.
and none of this he'll tell you himself. he'll make you think he's a lazy good for nothing because THAT'S WHAT HE THINKS OF HIMSELF
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Luo Binghe's Actual Age
While I was grabbing screenshots, I came across this part and had to pause. Shen Qingqiu asks how old Luo Binghe is, and Binghe replies: “弟子虚岁14” （This disciple is the nominal age of 14).
The NOMINAL age of 14?
I ran to the book to check and, sure enough, nominal age is specified there, too.
I had to lean back and stare at the wall in front of my desk for a moment. Why does this matter? Well, it doesn't — not really. But it puts some things into perspective.
You see, when counting the nominal age of a person, that person turns one year old the very moment they are born. And usually on the Lunar New Year (though some elders today insist that it happens on the winter solstice, which is today by the way — 冬至快乐🥟 ), everyone ages up another year together.
From the book, we know that Luo Binghe was born on the coldest (though not necessarily longest) night of the year. He could be a one-day old two year old. Or two month old two year old, if we count it by LNY and not Solstice. Either way, this CHILD is (to the West's age-counting system) two years younger than he announces using the NOMINAL age system.
Luo Binghe is twelve (not fourteen) when he meets Shen Yuan as Shen Qingqiu.
Luo Binghe is fifteen (not seventeen) when he's stabbed and pushed down into literal Hell and finds out he can regrow entire limbs.
Luo Binghe is sixteen (not eighteen) when he subjugates the Northern Kingdom and Sha Hualing's holdings under his rule.
Luo Binghe is seventeen (not nineteen) when he arrives at Huan Hua Palace.
And when he meets Shen Qingqiu again in Jin Lan just before the disaster at Hua Yue, he's eighteen (phew), not twenty.
That puts him at 23 (not 25) at Maigu Ridge.
He's still an adult when everything goes down, but no wonder Binghe is so messed up. He was so young!
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Whenever I think of PIDW and especially when I see AUs of svsss where people make Shen Yuan transmigrate into the main villain of the story I always thought "oh well, he was a villain SURE but he wasn't the MAIN VILLAIN, it'd be more accurate if he was a side villain character not a main one" but then I realized. Who else?
Like yeah sure Shen Jiu's just a scum villain but I don't think there's any villain in PIDW that has ever done as much impact on the story as he had because when he was written the story still had SOME life to it and it wasn't just a stallion novel. Sure there were villains after him but none of the others ever did much to Bingge.
Shen Jiu might have seemed like just a side villain to the plethora of horny PIDW readers but. Not to Bingge. Even after years and years and years and centuries he's still what Shen Jiu shaped him to be and he cannot escape it. Ever. He might have killed Shen Jiu but he might as well have buried himself with him.
So yeah, anyway, Shen Jiu's the main villain in PIDW, even after he's murdered his impact still remains on Bingge like a smell on your favourite piece of clothing you can't get rid off no matter how many times you wash it, and ain't that fucking gay
#YES THIS WAS A BINGGEJIU RANT ALL ALONG YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE READING A META#I am unwell over them#anqels ramblings#eva.txt#svsss#luo binghe#shen qingqiu#shen jiu#shen yuan#luo bingge#binggejiu#bingjiu#svsss meta#scum villain self saving system#scum villain
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I’ve seen jokes about the absurdity of Liu Qingge and Bai Zhan, the chaotic, dirty, monster destroying, fighters peak, wearing white robes, so I’d like to present a theory:
Laundry is punishment for not being good enough to dodge.
Part of being a good fighter is bodily awareness. You need to know where you are in space/in relation to your opponent at all times. You need to keep your stance and movement well controlled to not leave any gaps in your defenses.
Having mud on your hem means you weren’t aware of yourself or of your environment
Having tears means you didn’t dodge fast enough.
Having blood stains either means you failed to evade or that you didn’t have the good sense not to stand the blood spray as you behead a monster.
Washing out all the stains and mending their robes is the punishment, the natural consequences of these failures.
If they don’t scrub diligently enough, all their peak mates will see the marks of their failure in combat every day.
#of course the /real/ reason is just that handsome men look good in white lol#gotta have LQG in his pretty boy righteous cultivator clothes ❤️#svsss#liu qingge#bai zhan peak#fish post#svsss meta
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I mentioned it briefly a couple days ago but actually im obsessed with Luo Binghe's little list of favorite places to be kissed.
"Forehead, fingers, lips, everywhere."
(vol.4, ch.31)
Like, capping it with "everywhere" is perfect because of course.
But then we start hitting other characterization here, namely that "lips" is third on the list. That Luo Binghe doesn't pick the type of kiss that's associated with romance, or passion, as his first or even second choice. Nope! Apparently our boy likes nonsexual gestures of intimacy more!
And as I said before "forehead" being his top pick (இ﹏இ` ) He likes to be kissed on the demon mark most. He likes the small, chaste assurance more than anything else, more than anything only lovers would do. Gib him kissies SQQ! Do it!
And then we get to fingers which is even more insane because okay. Forehead is very understandable. Lips are also very understandable. But like, fingers?! Because. you know. Shen Qingqiu's obfuscating ass have not mentioned this to us ever like at all. When were you kissing Binghe's hands so much huh?? that he developed such a liking for it that he mentions it before 'lips'? At most I think wedding extra mentions SQQ sucking on Binghe's fingers but. is it that? because we all know SQQ would absolutely not fucking mention if he was just casually kissing Binghe's hands. Damn his unreliable narrator ways.
Anyway yeah obsessed with the implications here help
#luo binghe#bingqiu#shen qingqiu#svsss#svsss meta#scum villain's self saving system#scum villain's self-saving system
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i love how much of Binghe's conveyance of care for sqq is rooted in providing and protecting, even the domestic activities associated with women or servants and therefore looked down on are important to him bc he KNOWS, as the son of a poor washer woman, how vital they are. they are the stable foundation of a good life
a warm delicious meal, a safe, warm house. soft, warm, and clean clothes. lovingly ensured and maintained for his precious person, with his own hands. the money and power to make sure it can't be taken away from them. it goes hand in hand with his quest for physical strength to protect sqq and it all started with being unable to give his dying mother any congee, and him growing up poor in the streets.
providing for sqq in all ways is an intimate expression of his love, but at the same time, it isn't selfless (not that that makes it less sweet or loving).
he guards the right to clean his husband's home, wash his laundry, and cook his meals jealously. it makes him feel more secure about his worth as a partner, because NO ONE else could possibly care for his husband as well as he does. no one else knows how he prefers his food, the temperature of his bath water, or could attend to his wants and needs as well as him.
it's a point of pride in how GOOD he can be for his love, how WELL he can keep him, how safe and happy and comfortable. if he makes sure he's the best, in a material sense, at caring for sqq, then perhaps he can convince his beloved and himself that he's worth staying with, even if Binghe knows he's not otherwise "worthy" (in his own mind at least).
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yet another svsss hill I'm dying on despite the apparent popular opinion — bingqiu would be great parents! give them a decade of peace and quiet to start healing from the trauma of.. everything and to get comfortable in the fact that their love and commitment to the other is reciprocated equally, and I can 100% see them wanting some little ones.
Shen Qingqiu overcame both his age AND gender to become Cang Qiong's resident milf in a matter of days after his transmigration. He's great with kids - as Shen Yuan he had a younger sister who he likely helped raise or was at least somewhat close with, he obviously loves teaching and doting on his disciples, he's immediately protective of random-abandoned-toddler!Binghe in the dream realm after escaping from the Water Prison, and obviously in the Return to Childhood extra he's (the only one) having a great time. you're telling me he WOULDN'T want a baby version of Binghe for real??
and as for Luo Binghe himself, the joke/argument I see most often is that he'd be jealous of the baby for taking his shizun's time and attention away from him. first of all, by the end of the novel, do you know how many times that man has died in his arms, pushed him away, or been separated from him in some other very traumatic ways, mostly while he was being influenced by an evil sword that amplified his worst intrusive thoughts? do you know how many people WOULD take Shen Qingqiu away, given the chance?! I think he deserves to be a bit paranoid!! but again, with a bit more distance and healing from his traumas, time, and reassurance that Shen Qingqiu really is staying, I fully believe he will mellow out in that regard. with that aside, Luo Binghe is a total mama's boy, he's a part-time emperor full-time housewife, and his greatest dream has always been to be a family with Shen Qingqiu. I don't think it's a stretch at all to imagine that someday in the future, he would want to grow that family with him too. and although we don't see him interacting with children in canon the way we do Shen Qingqiu, I cannot imagine him not loving his kids, a tangible result of their love, to pieces too.
#I'm passionate about this can you tell#lies and slander (/hj) are being spread about bingqiu CONSTANTLY and I am standing my ground to defend them until I can stand no longer#but on another note#my absolute favorite way for bingqiu to acquire a baby is through some pidw-typical magic plant#the whole plant baby concept is just SO CUTE#and I'm w shen qingqiu on this one honestly#BABY BINGHE#any bby w binghe's genes is gonna be the cutest the world has ever seen#I don’t make the rules airplane does#svsss#人渣反派自救系统#bingqiu#luo binghe#shen qingqiu#svsss meta#scum villain's self saving system
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Shen Qingqiu's internal identity is making me feral
He's caught in Luo Binghe's dream and I'm assuming that reverts him into his true self or how he sees himself internally which is why he appears as Shen Qingqiu
Every fanfic that has Shen Yuan being revealed in his dreams is wrong
Shen Qingqiu is Shen Qingqiu first and foremost
The wholesale rejection of his past self is so deep and ingrained that if someone went searching for his "real" identity the most they'd get is his web ID
Like that is ...familiar and like honestly same hat in a lot of respects but also! People who are mentally stable don't do that!
I know you said your last life was idyllic and trouble free Shen Qingqiu but forgive me for not believing a damn thing your lying ass has to say!
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i really don't know how to feel about fics/aus where it turns out that sj's treatment of lbh is his own fault because he didn't speak up about issues with other disciples, genuinely misbehaved etc and also later (as bingge) lied about how much he actually got punished and in truth it wasn't any more than any other disciple, and that sj didn't know about the fake manual, when all of this is explicitly against canon.
yqy adresses this when sy wakes up, telling sqq to stop being so mean to lbh. in the sj extra, he himself says that lbh should have died a long time ago bleeding from the seven apertures due to the fake manual. sy says that pidw explicitly states that lbh was punished WAAAY more than any other disciple, and in those conditions obviously noone would tell their teacher about being bullied??
idk i understand altering canon for the sake of telling a story but... somehow it feels like a disservice to sj's character to ignore canon and water him down for the sake of making his redemption easier. and villifying lbh, which is what these fics inevitably end up doing, is also messed up - he was around 11 when he joined cqm. that's a CHILD. no matter how you look at it, sqq's "treatment" of lbh is neglect at best, horrible abuse at worst, and in modern times it would put him in jail faster than you could blink. giving him a realistic redemption arc is difficult, if not impossible, but if you truly love him with all his flaws and faults, isn't it worth the effort?
#and do NOT get me started on the hypothetical sy/sj confrontation#it would get physical so fast#i think it would actually be a pretty even fight? sy in sqq's body probably has approximately the same martial abilities#so it would be down to sj fighting dirty vs sy fuelled by pure rage#because sy would NOT go omg sj gege poor meowmeow 🥺#like. my parents were assholes to me when i was little (obvs not to sj's degree)#and my friends STILL hate them#and in sy's case. THAT'S HIS HUSBAND!!!!!#svsss#sj#sqq#lbh#svsss meta#shen qingqiu#shen jiu#meow
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shen qingqiu thrives with goals, he's actually a driven person. He didn't know this of himself before transmigrating; his comfortable life as a third son meant his parents didnt have big expectations of him.
It's until he transmigrates that he realizes he likes being reliable, likes being a teacher. His knowledge, which was just nerdy trivia in his previous life, becomes life saving and he eagerly seeks more information in Qing Jing's library.
SQQ was able to flourish into himself after transmigrating. And I love that for him.
#this isn't even going into how he was able to explore his sexuality and unlearn internalized homophobia BUT YKNOW#svsss#scum villian self saving system#scum villain#shen qingqiu#shen yuan#svsss meta
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So we know SQQ uses The Wives/The Women as a stand-in to talk around his attraction to Binghe, but another thing SQQ does is use the Original Shen Qingqiu as a way to talk around his own personality, (negative) emotions, and even self-esteem, either by contrasting himself against him, or by finding similarities. It makes a lot of sense, since he's inhabiting the body of the original, the person he needs to, to a certain point, imitate to survive.
From the very beginning, SQQ finds similarities between o!SQQ and him, and says he doesn't get why someone with reputation, good cultivation and the biggest sect backing him up would be so envious of other people's potential to the point of scheming against them. The Original Shen Qingqiu was not satisfied with the things he has and instead of idling his life away, like Shen Yuan in his previous life, he's digging his own grave.
When rummaging through the carriage interior, SQQ finds a lot of stuff that was frankly unnecessary to take on such a short trip, like "five or six different tea sets". And noting this, SQQ thinks,
No matter that in his past life he could have counted as a wealthy second-gen, he still hadn’t been this pointlessly indulgent in his pursuit of first-world affluenza, okay? (Chapter 1: Scum)
He's saying, "unlike him, i wasn't needlessly indulgent".
Another example is when he compares his own competency to that of O!SQQ. He does this a few times in the first volume.
The original Shen Qingqiu’s skill at facing down demons should have made this quest as easy as killing a chicken with a knife. Shamefully, the knife had failed to even hit the chicken.
In seconds, Shen Qingqiu discovered something that made his mood even worse. (Chapter 2: Mission)
In other words, "unlike the original goods, I am so uncool right now". But the best thing about this part is that... it puts SQQ in a bad mood. I want to call attention to the fact that he feels shame for failing, for being being weak when he should be strong. Shame doesn't come out of nowhere.
Rereading this volume and noticing this few hints of his character and emotions really challenge the notion that SQQ/SY is just an easygoing person. There's a lot of mental gymnastics being performed so he doesn't have to confront his own emotions. If the unreliable narrator tells me he's easygoing, should I believe him? I am questioning everything he says until it's confirmed by his actions.
Now, going back to how he uses o!SQQ to talk about his own competency, and most important, how he feels about being competent, strong, etc.
Surrounded by the cheers of the sect’s disciples, Shen Qingqiu attained a complete victory in the first match.
At this moment, Shen Qingqiu realized why the original flavor had clung to being a poser like it was his lifeline—it was unbelievably satisfying. (Chapter 2: Mission)
Why is it so hard to say "being cool feels so so good"? Being admired, strong and capable is something he comes to enjoy, and I wonder about Shen Yuan, and what was his life like. Why does he have to use o!SQQ to open a sentence about why being "a poser" feels good. He won't say he himself is a bit of a poser, or that it feels good to be cool.
The original flavor pushed Luo Binghe onto the battlefield because he was shameless! He didn’t care about the sect’s reputation! He hated Luo Binghe to the bone, enough to want to vicariously torture him via the hands of demons!
The current Shen Qingqiu didn’t share any of those three motives! (Chapter 2: Mission)
SQQ is not shameless, in fact there's a lot of shame in him. He cares about the sect's reputation, even if he's been in PIDW for, what, a few months? And most of that time he spent it in a cave cultivating. I wonder why he latched himself to the sect so quickly? As if a part of him always wanted a place to belong to, be part of, play an important role, a place he could contribute to.
“Do you think that the burden of peak lord will be too heavy, Qingqiu?” asked Yue Qingyuan.
The original Shen Qingqiu would most likely have suspected that Yue Qingyuan was trying to undermine his authority or something of that sort. However, the current Shen Qingqiu knew that Yue Qingyuan was genuinely worried about him overworking himself and damaging his health(...) (Chapter 3: Favor Points)
He's saying: "unlike him, i don't misunderstand people", which is... clearly not the truth, but he doesn't know that. SQQ thinks he has a pretty good grasp about people's intentions and that he's good judge of character.
All that said, the quote that actually made me connect the dots about how SQQ invokes the original to talk around his own emotions is this one, when they're facing MBJ:
“Unusually inferior talent,” [Mobei-Jun] said. “Foundation and techniques inflexible. Leave.”
Shen Qingqiu said nothing.
He wasn’t some unmatched genius in the Human Realm, but his talent was still at least one in a thousand. And Cang Qiong Mountain’s foundation and techniques weren’t inflexible, they were orthodox! Mobei-Jun still described them as he would a pile of garbage. If the original Shen Qingqiu had heard this, he would have coughed up three liters of blood and run away crying to make a voodoo doll. (Chapter 4: Conference)
But wait, that first sentence kind of sounds familiar, doesn't it?
From early on, he’d known that even if he idled the rest of his life away, he’d never want for food. Perhaps due to this carefree upbringing, devoid of either competition or pressure, he came to believe that ranking in the top ten of a competition was good enough, so long as it had more than ten people. (Chapter 1: Scum)
He's saying "as long as I score among the best I don't have to be a top ranker". Like, if he's comparing himself to others, he won't feel bad because he's not at the bottom. He's average, and average is good, right? Like a "at least I passed the test, I don't need a top score" type of thinking. It feels like something he'd tell himself to feel better about his own performance.
The middle child, saying that as long as he has an average rank everything is fine? Hahaha. Yeah ok, Shen Yuan. (wtf are you hidinnnng)
But I want to draw your attention to this sentence
If the original Shen Qingqiu had heard this, he would have coughed up three liters of blood and run away crying to make a voodoo doll.
because it's so fascinating how SQQ is mentally incapable of admitting to himself that his pride has been hurt by MBJ's words. He feels insulted, and he channels that emotion by projecting his feelings on and picturing what the original would feel in that situation.
Oh, but zy, isn't this just SQQ's humorous running commentary on everything that happens to him? Maybe he's not really upset about what Mobei-Jun said about him having "unusually inferior talent".
Nope. He's really, really pissed off
Just as the sword array was about to come down like sheets of rain, Shen Qingqiu snarled within his heart.
I’ve done my best, but he still thinks I’m low-level trash, so what can I do?!
How loathsome! If I have to die, couldn’t it at least be in a better-looking way? After being stabbed with hundreds of black swords, I’m going to be a sieve! Who could bear to look?!
He SNARLED in his heart. MBJ didn't call him low-level trash, he did that himself. It pisses him off that he's going to die in such an uncool way that will leave him looking like an ugly bloody pulp.
Is this really a guy that doesn't care about his reputation or how he looks to others, that calls himself an "easygoing person"????
This is a guy that has had to repress every emotion related to his own pride and self-esteem. And this is something he was doing in his previous life. Again, what the fuck was going on with the Shen family?!
I don't think this is the way a man that is satisfied with his lot in life would think.
Shen Qingqiu was a man of few needs; he would have been satisfied just idling away to a ripe old age. In that way, it wouldn’t be that different from how his previous life had been going.
youre LIYING. I'm not going to trust anything you said about yourself EVER AGAIN. you were so satisfied to "idle your life away" you died from eating expired yogurt! you were clearly repressed and depressed and unhappy and pretending to be okay!
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I need everybody, and I mean EVERYBODY, to know that Bingqiu have the same height (1 inch really doesn't make any visual difference) and the same twunk body type.
Aesthetically you can go bonkers with your choices but don't push heteronormative art conventions onto my weirdo4weirdo gays please.
#luo binghe#shen qingqiu#svsss#scumbag self saving system#scumbag system#bingqiu#mxtx#mxtx svsss#lbh#svsss meta
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