LINKDING

<blockquote>Luo Binghe is seventeen, and on the cusp of great things.</blockquote> ➤ Preslash, early canon, lbh's pov

<blockquote>Demonic Emperor Luo Binghe's reputation precedes him. It's just not very accurate.</blockquote> ➤ Oh this is so interesting and fun on the subject of sqq's shifting identities and complex relationship to who he himself is! And I love that he has fun with it too, this many years into a happy future!

<blockquote>Airplane sets aside the teapot. “All I’m trying to say is…there are ways to ensure that your sweet little disciple doesn’t always leave his shizun with a horrific limp the next day. I mean, I figured that you were into getting railed so hard you can’t walk, because that seems to be the exclusive way the two of you go about it—hey! Where are you going?” (Alternate title: The Gang Learns About Non-Penetrative Sex)</blockquote>

<blockquote>Immediately before the Immortal Alliance Conference, Luo Binghe learns (via the magic of library science) that he alone can cure Shen Qingqiu's debilitating condition. When Binghe properly understands what that remedy will actually entail, he is even keener to be of use to his shizun.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Fuck! Shen Qingqiu read too much of that stupid stallion novel not to know what’s meant to happen. There should be a beautiful woman here, someone to soothe Luo Binghe’s fevered brow with cool hands, uncover her trembling assets and, well, you know!! But instead there’s only Shen Qingqiu. / (What if, instead of papapa to save the world, Shen Qingqiu made a different choice? That ruined everything? And then had to sit with the consequences?)</blockquote> ➤ the one where sqq dies and goes back to the modern world, and lbh gets there the long way ➤ endlessly amused by sqq's ability to not recognize his own feelings, this is perfect. Also I love every single detail in the author's notes at the end omg

<blockquote>Shen Qingqiu had been certain, the night before, as he’d let himself drift, that he would never wake again. Instead, he was awake. He could feel sunlight on his face. He had all his limbs, and the bed was soft, and there was no pain save, perhaps, the deep, pleasant burn of muscles well-exercised. And there was a hand touching him. / After his death as Luo Binghe’s prisoner, the original Shen Qingqiu wakes up in Scum Villain’s universe, in the same body Shen Yuan trasmigrated into. A body Shen Yuan has not vacated. Faced with a world in which all it took for his sect to thrive, for Yue Qingyuan to live and for Luo Binghe to avoid turning into the scourge of the realms was for someone to take his place and live his life in his stead, Shen Jiu finds himself having to confront old hurts, his own accountability and the inevitability of human (and demonic) nature.</blockquote> ➤ I like the ending!

<blockquote>Sometime in between agonising about the uncertain future of his marriage and pondering why his Shizun would be so accepting of the idea of him having a harem in the first place, Luo Binghe was overcome with a sudden realization. It was Shizun who wanted a harem. Luo Binghe was so stupid. It wasn't about him at all, of course not. -How To Build Your Husband A Harem, a guide by Luo Binghe.-</blockquote> ➤ The one where lbh creates a harem for sqq because he thinks that's what his Shizun wants after all those comments about a harem for Binghe.

<blockquote>Standing on the edge of the Endless Abyss, Shen Yuan chooses to take the point deduction and die rather than shove Luo Binghe over the edge. What can the System do except engage the failsafe mode and restore the account of the original user? (or, Shen Yuan and Shen Jiu become trapped in the same body and are forced to cooperate in order to survive the plot and achieve their happy endings)</blockquote> author note: <blockquote>My three favorite things in any SVSSS fic are: 1. Shen Jiu gets some sort of redemption/resolution instead of just fading away, unmourned. 2. Shen Yuan learns to game the system like the lazy millennial he is. 3. Luo Binghe learns the truth about Shen Yuan's past/identity. So I figured I'd take a crack at doing them all in one. Enjoy!</blockquote>

<blockquote>Wherein Shen Yuan transmigrates into a harem intrigues romance novel (gay edition), Yue Qingyuan really fucks up, Liu Qingge is not suitable for his job, and no one even remotely sees Luo Binghe coming.</blockquote> ➤ main fic is I Wish You Were My Husband, extras are in More Wishes. Introduced me to the fandom! A great deal of fun! At the end of the main fic though, the emotional arcs don't all seem to be resolved (as there's SOMETHING between Liu Qingge and Shen Qingqiu), and that doesn't get addressed in the extras. But overall: extremely readable and enjoyable!