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Summary: Just months before the Immortal Alliance Conference, Luo Binghe discovers the cure to Without-a-Cure. With his own heritage still sealed and mostly unknown to him, there seems to be only one solution: Shen Qingqiu must receive the cure from the last known Heavenly Demon, Tianlang-Jun, even if it means that Luo Binghe has to grit his teeth and set his precious Shizun up with another man. Shen Qingqiu does not want to receive the cure from Tianlang-Jun. He doesn't particularly want to receive anything from Tianlang-Jun. Shen Qingqiu somehow ends up fake-dating Tianlang-Jun anyway, if only to swindle the System into delaying the Endless Abyss plot for as long as he can. ➜ svsss canon divergence au fic ➜ luo binghe, not yet aware he's a heavenly demon specifically, discovers the cure for Without-A-Cure....and is determined to get shen qingqiu the cure. from tianlang-jun. ➜ and goddamn this whole fic is SO much fun?! I adored ittttttt ➜ sqq awkwardly fake-dating a doesn't-trust-cultivators tlj while lbh resentfully but determinedly wingmans......along with the far less conflicted wingmanning of all the other peak lords ➜ teen binghe is so CUTE and sqq is the most sqq and I love them forever ➜ and wow I am genuinely so compelled by this understanding of tlj's character. he's a major character in this novel-length fic but I would happily read so much more about him! ➜ all the character dynamics in this fic are just. SO GOOD. ➜ 67k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>After being turned away by the nice Shizun of that other world, Luo Binghe finds himself in the modern world where he can find a new nice Shizun for himself. Instead, he finds Shen Yuan, who could not possibly be who he's searching for - he's crass, and inelegant, and looks only vaguely related to Shen Qingqiu. Luckily for both of them, Shen Yuan mistakes Luo Binghe as a cosplayer for hire, and asks to rent him out as his very normal new boyfriend.</blockquote> ➤ I feel sure I've talked about this fic on masto before but I can't find it in my tags?! I've been following it as a wip and it's now DONE! ➤ the premise: bing-ge transmigrates to our world, and shen yuan thinks he's an attractive but incompetent and down on his luck cosplay-boyfriend-for-rent and takes pity on him ➤ sy tries to reform lbh and turn him into someone who's not terrible at being a boyfriend. meanwhile lbh is slowly discovering that maybe.....it's possible.........for someone to care about him and be nice to him just because they like him?? sounds fake! but what if? ➤ every single aspect of their relationship (and everything else in the fic!!!) is a COMPLETE delight. I love to see how much sy's sharp-mouthed peerless cucumber side is out in full force, and how feral lbh is, and how the two of them play off each other ➤ 86k words in length

<blockquote>Shen Yuan is ten when he transmigrates onto Qing Jing Peak. He makes it his goals to prevent his favorite character from suffering at the hands of Shen Qingqiu, resulting in Luo Binghe living on Bai Zhan Peak, Shen Yuan being the focus of Shen Qingqiu's ire, and Shen Yuan writing instructional letter to Luo Binghe on Shen Qingqiu's behalf. But Luo Binghe can't help but feel a growing fondness for the author of these letters, and Shen Yuan is barely keeping the whole thing together.</blockquote>

<blockquote>When Shen Qingqiu drew Shen Yuan’s soul sword, it felt like being burned from the inside out. The fire wasn’t cruel, but it was still fire—hot and destructive, searing the softest pieces of him. When Binghe’s fingers touch the hilt, he is ready for pain. Transmigrated into a version of Proud Immortal Demon Way where cultivators manifest their own souls into spiritual weapons, Shen Yuan finds himself sort of kind of…accidentally blackmailing Shen Qingqiu into taking him on as a disciple before Luo Binghe joins the sect. / That should give Shen Yuan plenty of opportunities to make sure nothing goes wrong for his favorite protagonist, right? RIGHT!? A story of twists, turns, hope, despair, and soul swords.</blockquote> ➤ interesting worldbuilding!

<blockquote>Over a year after Shen Qingqiu's death, Luo Binghe consults his servant's servant, concurrently his disgraced martial uncle, for a way to bring the love of his life back. Shang Qinghua sends him in the direction of a certain time-traveling artifact, which supposedly brings one to the day they first met their soulmate. Odd, though, that the artifact ends up missing the destination by just a few years… A story in which post-Abyss Luo Binghe relives his disciple days, while juggling his secrets, traumas, and some unexpected revelations about the man he loves on top of that.</blockquote> ➤ they both keep on going over and over the same things, binghe trying to convince his shizun that he understands and will forgive him if sqq must push lbh into the abyss, and sqq trying to convince lbh to not torture and murder him after sqq's betrayal, because sqq is incapable of truly hearing and believing. And like. YEAH.

<blockquote>There were three things of which Shen Yuan was absolutely certain. The first, that Luo Binghe was an irredeemable jackass. The second, there was a part of Luo Binghe, and Shen Yuan didn't know how large, that wanted Shen Yuan dead for trussing him like a pig and dumping him on his own front porch. And the third, that Shen Yuan was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with Luo Binghe. P S Y C H !</blockquote> ➤ the one where sqq is a grouchy hermit immortal heavenly demon who lbh keeps pestering. fic 1 of the series is complete, but it ends on a cliffhanger, and fic 2 isn't posted yet. ➤ series consists of: Loaded God Complex, Cock It And Pull It

<blockquote>Shen Qingqiu stood at the edge of the cliff, his back lit up by the fiery light of the Endless Abyss. The blood from the wound on his chest spilled out between his fingers, splattering onto the shattered remains of Xiu Ya laying at his feet. When he looked up, his expression was half-wild with the heat of battle, shoulders heaving with his ragged breaths, and his eyes, which were normally like green jade, glowed blood red- -The very same red shining from the demon mark etched onto his forehead. Or: Shen Qingqiu is the protagonist of PIDW</blockquote>

<blockquote>At a crucial moment in Proud Immortal Demon Way, Luo Binghe loses faith in his shizun. Shen Yuan, a brand-new reader of a novel still in the backstory chapters, feels so bad for him that it rips a hole in space-time. Now he's tasked with fixing the baby protagonist's broken heart, so Luo Binghe is ready to become the stallion he's destined to be! Your classic reverse transmigration premise, but Binghe is fifteen.</blockquote>

<blockquote>When Shen Qingqiu transmigrates, he finds himself in a world where heartbreak can make a person fall apart - literally, since those who are heartbroken crack open starting from the space over their heart, and only cultivators can survive the blood loss by using their qi to hold their blood inside their bodies where it belongs. Having a physical indicator like this that alerts Shen Qingqiu in real time of the hearts he's breaking... well, it changes things. Luo Binghe, somehow, still ends up suffering more than Shen Qingqiu ever wants him too.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The blob finished rotating into place in a way that wasn’t quite compatible with geometry as Shen Qingqiu understood it, and cleared a throat it didn’t seem to have. “Greetings,” it said, somehow clearly addressing him in particular more than the room as a whole despite its total lack of features other than blueness and translucency. “I’m here on behalf of the Hyper-Celestial Peace and Order Enforcement Bureau. Crime scene secure, proceeding to interviews. Beginning with Subject One: You are Shen Qingqiu, formerly Shen Yuan, also known as Peerless Cucumber?”</blockquote> ➤ the one where a space cop comes to a peak lord meeting to explain that the people behind the system are being punished, and thus unintentionally revealing a whole pile of sqq & sqh's secrets ➤ series consists of: and judgment is just like a cup that we share and the wind takes a bird where it blows well past the weeds

<blockquote>Roleswap! Luo Binghe transmigrates into Proud Immortal Demonic Monsters Way, a novel in which the protagonist, Shen Yuan, made a name for himself collecting monster facts and writing up a widely-disseminated Monsterdex in what is an obvious rip off of certain major franchises. Unfortunately, Luo Binghe is in the role of Shen Yuan's shizun- a man who earned a messy and well-deserved end after absolutely decimating the ecological diversity of the local monster populations. Can Luo Binghe avoid getting on Shen Yuan's bad side and guide his disciple to the righteous path of cultivation instead of monster fanboying?</blockquote>

<blockquote>When Shen Yuan transmigrates, he has slightly better luck and doesn't end up in the doomed walking corpse of some scummy villain in a shitty stallion webnovel. Instead, he transmigrates into the body of a no-name NPC in a shitty stallion webnovel. Or: When two souls meet, it's the hearts that matter.</blockquote> ➤ this fic is marked as finished but its ending does not actually conclude things, and though the author says there'll be a sequel, it's been nearly 2 years so that seems unlikely at this point!

<blockquote>Shen Yuan never expected to transmigrate, so when he does, he's at least relieved he hasn't become some poor cannon fodder character in that shitty novel he just finished reading. But as he navigates his new life, he discovers that isn't the case at all—he's landed himself right in the role of a minor villain in Proud Immortal Demon Way. Except ... why are things different from how he remembers them? And why did the white lotus love interest turn into the villain instead??</blockquote>

<blockquote>In Shang Qinghua’s defense, this whole trope was originally something he’d only ever written in for Sha Hualing, for precisely one scene.</blockquote> sqq/lbh & mbj/sqh get equal billing ➤ seems to be tragically abandoned incomplete ➤ the one where demons purr like cats when they're content, and also sqq/lbh learn how to have good sex and good nonsexual physical touch also

<blockquote>Shen Qingqiu does a slightly better job of resolving things with Luo Binghe before self destructing, so when he's reborn into the Sun and Moon Dew Flower Seed body, the System gives him the chance to unlock a new save file as Peerless Cucumber: Mysterious Rogue Cultivator. He still can't escape the protagonist's orbit, or his fate as a fixer of plotholes, of course, but Shen Yuan won't let go of his fresh start so easily.</blockquote> ➤ the one where sy succeeded in going to his plant body, and then starts up a fwb relationship with lbh

<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>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>