SJ after finally killing LBH (he doesn’t know that he’s still alive and planning to come back to fucking GET HIM)

As recompense for no season 2, I will slowly begin inserting scum villain characters into other various media

Shen Jiu should make dark jokes about his time as a slave but no one gets the jokes coz everyone thinks he is a spoilt young lord from a noble family.

(Except, Yue Qingyuan. He gets it. He is currently screaming, wailing inside coz sometimes SJ is a bit too detailed JUST to make him feel even MORE guilty.)

Say what you want about Yue Qingyuan, but HE is the ultimate Wife Guy. His wife was a complete and utter bitch, and he fr didn't care. In fact, he did everything in his power to make sure his wife could be a bitch in peace. Did this backfire on him? Well, yes. But look at his commitment!

beautiful jiu @ 230602 'bon voyage' mini fanmeet

A lot of Shen Twins AU portray Shen Yuan as the more understanding 'maybe he has a reason' brother, when in reality he's always been prone to jumping to conclusions while Shen Jiu literally stayed for decades waiting for Yue Qingyuan's explanation even if it would just boil down to 'I got tired of you'.

What do you call a Shen Yuan who’s desperate for the Original Goods to release inside of him? 

A scum slut.

gotta love characters being passionately pursued by a power couple from another kindom/empire/clan/whatever and thinking theyre waging war on them and their own kindom/empire/clan/whatever

oh my good god. lord have mercy the concept makes me so happy i cant think about it further. just. emotional incompetence and political savvy stuffed into one person, anxiety & overthinking practically bursting through every crevice of their brain

ughahahjskk

(ahhahahahahaha read a few fics with this concept, and sj x tlj x sxy magically appeared before the front, bumper looking part of my brain, and i have been left to think about them extensively due to depressingly low levels of signal, and im thoroughly, thoroughly swayed.)

Thinking through the misconception that Shen Yuan is a self-serving individual who spends most of his time as Shen Qingqiu doing what he can with the motivation of “saving his own skin,” thereby negating his acts of kindness as innately selfish, and how this is all wrong. When he first transmigrates and finds out that, rather than it being at the beginning of the novel, he is more than halfway through Luo Binghe’s disciple arc, he panics:

That meant that at this point, this master and this disciple, Shen Qingqiu and Luo Binghe, had already passed the incident at the mountain entrance. There, the latter had been forced to kneel as punishment.

It meant they had also passed the incident where Luo Binghe’s fellow Qing Jing Peak disciples had pummeled him en masse, as well as the incident where he’d “backtalked” Shizun and been strung up and beaten, in addition to the incident where he’d ruined the peak’s talismans and been punished with hard labor... Such a glorious track record.

(Shen Qingqiu waved goodbye to his last hope of survival.)

—Chapt. 1: Scum, official

Luo Binghe had already been a Qing Jing Peak disciple for four years, all of which he had been subjected to horrific abuse at the hands of Shen Jiu. Shen Yuan is well aware of this and clearly believes that everything that Shen Jiu has done to Luo Binghe is already enough to damn him to an early, vengeance-fulfilling grave. Despite thinking that his death was predestined, though, he spends the entire time that the OOC function is frozen fighting with his system about being kind to Luo Binghe, showing kindness to the boy multiple times and arguing after the fact that he should not be punished by the system for acting in such a way. In a way, he is already courting death via system by fighting against his system to be kind with all the risk and no benefits, since he keeps his acts a secret from everyone, most of all Luo Binghe, his would-be murderer. It is only after the OOC function is unfrozen that he decides to enact his plan of “earning a less painful death” by overtly being kind to Luo Binghe. So while it is clear that Shen Yuan thinks his kindness is only a cosmetic salve, not a solution that will save him, he still chooses to show kindness to Luo Binghe at imminent risk to himself.

Mind you, though, we’ve only covered Shen Yuan’s actions and intentions towards Luo Binghe, not counting all the times Shen Yuan was life-changingly kind to “meaningless” side characters. His motivation for redirecting Ming Fan’s anger from Luo Binghe was that he didn’t want the boy to die a needless death just so that the plot could give Luo Binghe another chance to flex. His kindness towards Gongyi Xiao who Shen Yuan thought was guaranteed a good (albeit banished) ending was purely borne from the fact that he liked the kid (and also a little bit from him reminding Shen Yuan of Luo Binghe), and it was enough to get Gongyi Xiao to turn against his own sect to protect Shen Qingqiu. And not only did he stop Gongyi Xiao from killing the snake hybrid demon they found in Bai Lu Forest—even though it would have been expected of them as cultivators—he even left a magic mushroom for him, paving the way for Tianjun’s and Zhuzhi-lang’s reemergence into the narrative. Shen Yuan doesn’t do any of these things with the intent to change the narrative. He does them because they were kind things to do, and it is that selfless kindness that changes pidw into the world of svsss.

All this to say: from the very beginning of the novel, Shen Yuan is introduced as a character whose transmigration is meant to bring humanity into the aloof, abusive Qing Jing Peak Lord Shen Qingqiu, thereby injecting kindness into the story where there had previously only been cruelty, and he is shown to be the perfect man for the job as someone who is willing to put himself at risk to do good. This is why it is Shen Yuan and not Shen Jiu who is able to save the world pidw and it’s protagonist from their original destructive trajectory.

Oh wow this svsss fic and it's sequel were both so incredibly good

Like definitely read the tags. Shen jiu gets into some interesting headspace sometimes and has that backstory and how it influences all his actions is heavily explored. Just very excellent characterization. And the second fic with how their relationship is shown is so amazing.

Happy Halloween~

Luo Bingge made a perfect costume for his dear shizun:)

I’m not. Entirely sure what I was doing with the clothes or the hair or the anything. But here you go

in my head, svsss shen jiu didn't really die after shen yuan transmigrated into his body. instead, he (reverse?) transmigrated into shen yuan's body, and all is well bc sure, whatever. this guy has it sooo much easier than he does anyway. for one, he's filthy rich and has an acceptible family. he can live with this; he's been through far worse.

he copes pretty well, even after finding out about pidw and his role. until one day he runs into shang qinghua, the cannon fodder, who has transmigrated into the author's body, and somehow, one thing has led to another, and they both find airplane bro's drafts which contain the truth about what happened to yue qingyuan in the past. how his qi-ge really did actually try his damn hardest to return to him as he had promised, almost literally died trying hard even, he just happened to have arrived too late.

yeah...... shen jiu decides to give therapy a try after that.

mamajiu taking care of his baby!

Man lately it’s been like, do a task and then rest. Oh so tired. Hurggghggghg ok do necessary task. So tired. Go to bed an hour early. Not hungry. My tummy feels weird. Wake up, do task, be tired and bored. Rest. So tired. Eat but it’s just meh. Tired. Go to bed early.

jiu @ spotify canvas