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Summary: After the Immortal Alliance Conference, Shen Qingqiu eventually recovered from his grief. A reasonable man, he accepted his limitations. Of course, there were—other options. ➜ a genius svsss bingqiu canon divergence au fic ➜ sqq decides to take care of the unavoidable abyss plot-arc by body-swapping with lbh to do the abyss arc for him ➜ meanwhile the bodyswapping didn't work QUITE as intended so although sqq is indeed in lbh's body running the abyss, lbh is in lqg's body and lqg is in sqq's body ➜ cue: time for lbh and lqg to learn how to appreciate each other! ➜ anyway I loved EVERYTHING about this fic. sooooo many good things it's doing ➜ the way sqq has such a great time testing out his abyss speedrun ideas! lbh and lqg's gym bro friendship style! meng mo providing internal colour commentary the whole way through! ➜ and like holy shit, sqq’s weird as fuck identity issues wrt bodies and self and sexuality and stuff! EXQUISITE. ➜ a totally delightful fic, highly recommend ➜ 36k words in length

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: Luo Binghe smiled and made his way out of the crowd, kneeling in front of Shizun and bowing his head respectfully. "Shizun, this disciple has returned.” “... So you have,” Shizun replied, and Luo Binghe felt a surge of triumph. He hadn't immediately decried Luo Binghe! He hadn't revealed the truth! Luo Binghe raised his head to examine the parts of Shizun's expression that weren't covered by his fan, and noticed the way that Shizun's eyes flicked over to the disciples watching their exchange. / Instead of going to the Huan Hua Palace, Luo Binghe decides to return to Qing Jing Peak immediately after his escape from the Endless Abyss. A retelling of Recompense, from Luo Binghe's POV. ➤ svsss canon divergence au where after the abyss, lbh makes his way back to qing jing peak ➤ lbh is determined to prove to sqq that despite his demonic nature he can be a good disciple who is worth keeping ➤ sqq of course takes lbh's actions very differently ➤ really enjoyed lbh's pov here, and the things lbh does in service of his plan! ➤ 15k words in length

summary: <blockquote>It wasn’t gay for Shen Qingqiu to dream about being fucked by a man. Anyone—even the straightest of men, which Shen Qingqiu was—would have dreamt the same thing after seeing Binghe again after all those years of separation. It was only natural! Binghe was taller now, with wider shoulders and a chiseled jaw and a deeper voice that had gone straight to Shen Qingqiu’s gut when he’d heard it. Was it so surprising that all this new sensory knowledge would combine with Shen Qingqiu’s extensive knowledge of BL tropes—courtesy of his sister’s novel collection—and cause his subconscious mind to produce a naked, horny Binghe? And what was more natural for a naked, horny Binghe to do than to start having sex with whatever person was closest? In this case, the closest person had been Shen Qingqiu. Dreams were funny like that, sometimes.</blockquote> ➤ another fic about the jinlan city encounter going differently, this time because lbh has visited sqq's dreams ➤ and sqq has a Totally Very Straight Of Himself tendency to have sexy dreams about lbh ➤ hard for lbh to believe that sqq wants nothing to do with him after that! (he's still very confused tho) ➤ love this for them ➤ 26k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>"And that," Shen Qingqiu said, his voice steady as he concluded his argument, "is why Liu Qingge is only the third prettiest person on Cang Qiong, after Luo Binghe and presumably Liu Mingyuan, but before Yue Qingyuan. Sorry, Zhangmen-shixiong." "That's alright," Yue Qingyuan said in a strangled voice. "It comes down to his ass." "Yes, you've already said as much, shidi. Several times." Yue Qingyuan looked like he wanted to die a little bit, which was unfair. He wasn't the one who'd been dosed with a wife-plot potion designed to lower inhibitions while also compelling the truth! If anyone here should be embarrassed, it was Shen Qingqiu! He didn't feel embarrassed, though. That was probably due to the potion, now that he thought about it.</blockquote> ➤ sqq is given a truth serum that comes with a side of lowered inhibitions, during the trial in jinlan city ➤ nobody is prepared for the kinds of truths sqq wants to share (thoughtful and detailed list of who's hottest) ➤ or, tbh, for the truths that come out by the wayside ➤ funny and cute ➤ 4k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>"Bro, you know how many words I wrote per day, and how many plants I created!” Shang Qinghua whines. "I can't remember them all, it's impossible." Shen Qingqiu narrows his eyes. "It was used with Wife #418.” "That doesn't narrow it down any further. I'm not going to be able to guess it, so stop punishing me and just tell me how the flower nerfed you." Shen Qingqiu grits his teeth. Obviously he wants to draw this out to punish Shang Qinghua, but it kinda looks more like he's punishing himself. There's a muscle flexing in his jaw, and if he puts any more pressure on his fan's guard, it's going to snap. Uh, actually, Shen Qingqiu kind of looks like he's in pain— “A false dragonhead is also called an obedient plant. It’s in the name—the flower forces you to do whatever you're told," Shen Qingqiu spits out. or: Shen Qingqiu runs afoul of one of Airplane's stupid wife-plot devices...just before a mission to Jinlan City.</blockquote> ➤ sqq is hit by an obedience curse! uh oh, it's time for the mission to jinlan city! ➤ fun sqq & sqh interaction, and sqq's first meeting with lbh post-abyss going very differently than in svsss ➤ sqq absolutely out here making his own life harder on a regular basis ➤ lots of fun with this trope! ➤ 11k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>Shen Yuan has had a push-and-pull relationship with Shen Qingqiu for years. Shen Yuan knows that Shen Qingqiu is meant to be a villain, but he knows just as well that many of the things Shen Qingqiu was accused of in Proud Immortal Demon Way were just shitty misunderstandings, and over the years Shen Yuan has become reluctantly fond of the tsundere asshole that is his Shizun. Abusing Luo Binghe was not a misunderstanding, though, and Shen Yuan will do whatever he can to correct the fact that he wasn't there to protect Luo Binghe when it happened. / “Shizun, I already said that I like beasts best - if I can’t raise Luo Binghe to be my shidi, can’t I raise him as my pet instead?”</blockquote> ➤ this is a fic that really understands the fundamental problem with original sqq, which is that the child abuse is real but so is the tragic backstory. he contains multitudes! one feels complex and conflicting things about him! ➤ ok so the fic is a canon divergence fic where shen yuan is transmigrated in early as a disciple of og!sqq, and it's a bingqiu fic but also a fic about the master-disciple relationship between sy and sqq, and also about sy's relationship with his role as head disciple on the peak ➤ and it's so good at all of that! I love what it does, I love all the sides of sy you get to see and all the things he cares about and puts his energies into (... and what he doesn't), it's all so perfectly him ➤ and aughghhhhhh I have SO MANY FEELS ➤ I am very emotion. I highly recommend. I want to talk more about some of the stuff but I don't want to post spoilers. ➤ 36k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>Shen Qingqiu wakes up in his plant body after Huayue City. There is only one problem: Memory loss.</blockquote> ➤ an SVSSS bingqiu fanfic wherein sqq wakes up in his plant body with amnesia and makes a home in the small village nearby, blessing its crops ➤ lbh eventually comes through looking for his shizun, and sqq helps him ➤ trying to find the right words to describe the tone or flavour of a piece of writing can be so hard but imo that's one of the things this fic does best! it's got this like....distanced, fairy-tale, dreamy vibe that really drives home how disconnected sqq is from his life and his emotions here and it's so great ➤ (happy ending, of course!) ➤ 5k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>In which it really is Shen Qingqiu’s Binghe who returns to him in the aftermath of the initial Bing-ge versus Bing-mei fight, not the original.</blockquote> ➤ post-canon au where post bing-ge vs bing-mei fight, it's bing-mei who returns to sqq ➤ prompts that inspired this fic included “Technically awful attempts at comfort are actually very comforting” and “Comfortee flaunts their hurt in order to get more comfort” and it's perfect actually, I love how THEM it is ➤ sqq having zero clue what to do that's Actually Helpful when someone's injured is soooo funny tbh. but his fussing is what really matters! ➤ 2k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>With the Immortal Alliance Conference looming ever closer, Binghe finds his Shizun acting strangely, intent on telling him a series of tales with some lessons hidden within that he struggles to interpret. Tales of heroes doomed to an ill fate, of enchanted silence, of love, of kind demons, and demonic realms. The only thing Binghe is sure of is that his Shizun is secretly pleading for understanding and help. And he hopes maybe also… true love?</blockquote> ➤ an au where sqq does his best to communicate to lbh prior to the Immortal Alliance Conference, despite having his words held back by the system; so he tells a series of meaningful stories and hopes lbh will draw the right conclusions ➤ the fic is from lbh's pov and I love how earnestly and carefully he tries to put together the clues sqq is giving him! the CONCLUSIONS he draws!! ➤ I screamed internally with delight at multiple points while reading the fic. it's such a delightful read! ➤ 32k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>When Luo Binghe falls into the Endless Abyss, he accidentally pulls Shen Qingqiu down with him.</blockquote> ➤ sqq joins lbh in the abyss

Summary: <blockquote>Luo Binghe, twenty five years old and still neither in the Abyss nor popular with the ladies, keeps accidentally kissing Shen Qingqiu. In front of everyone. This might be some form of hell.</blockquote> ➤ awww! ➤ wistful vibes

Summary: <blockquote>…is not [always] the real truth. Truth-compelling artifacts in the hands of an enemy to one side, SYSTEM-mandated silence on the other, and Shen Qingqiu caught between the two. Is it too late to go back to the Water Prison?</blockquote>

Summary: <blockquote>Shen Qingqiu folded his arms around the trembling boy, his sleeves flowing about him like a blanket. “Silly child,” he whispered, head dipping down until his cheek rest on Binghe’s wild hair, blowing around them in a mane of curls from the hot wind that gusted upwards from the inferno of the Endless Abyss. “Your shizun would never make you face such terrors alone.” He took a deep breath, squeezed the youth tighter, his own hands shaking ever so slightly, the only betrayal of his cool composure. “But this master has no choice but to take you to your fate.” And then he tipped himself, and Luo Binghe in his arms, over the edge of the cliff.</blockquote> ➤ starts as a fairly normal canon divergence and then gets into some genuinely interesting au stuff with a Repair System and all. Not everything about the fic is perfect, there are pacing issues and dropped threads, but a fun and interesting read

<blockquote>Luo Binghe peeks up at him, eyes rimmed nearly as red as his demon mark. “Shizun won’t send me away from him?” Slowly, almost involuntarily, Shen Qingqiu's arms come up to embrace Luo Binghe in return. He’s already gone totally off-script here, what’s a little more adlibbing? He has fifteen seconds left before Luo Binghe must enter the Abyss. “I won’t,” he says quietly. “But you must be brave, Binghe. This will not be easy, but there is only one place for us to go. Shizun is sorry.” The two of them are only a few paces away from the cliff. Even without access to his cultivation, Shen Qingqiu has a height advantage, and more importantly, he has surprise on his side. It is almost too easy to clutch Luo Binghe tighter in his arms, step forward, and -- Shen Qingqiu really hopes he doesn’t die when he hits the bottom. That would be so embarrassing.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Shang Qinghua slips up, revealing himself not only as a transmigrator but as the author himself. Together, Shen Qingqiu and Shang Qinghua have about a year to figure out how to manipulate the plot around the Endless Abyss without being insta-killed by the System, which is difficult and dangerous but surprisingly straightforward—all they have to do is make a deal with a demon. …Or two. Three, tops.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Shen Qingqiu will not stop commenting on the charms of what seems like every eligible woman they meet. Luo Binghe decides that if he can't beat them, he'll join them. (And then beat them: he's not going to lose to some random hussy whose chief attraction is half-decent breasts, he knows what he looks like.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>Fresh out of the Abyss, Luo Binghe learns that he alone can cure Shen Qingqiu's chronic ailment. With this information in hand, he pursues an alternative strategy involving interspecies diplomacy and a royal alliance. After all, Cang Qiong can't expect a gentleman to dual-cultivate outside of marriage.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Summary: It’s like those pictures of two women’s faces, you know? It could also be a vase! Or an old woman–no wait, a young woman! In this case, it’s obviously a clown show. No! It’s an existentially horrifying psychological thriller-slash-nightmare! Oh, wait, actually… it’s definitely a clown show. In other words: what if Luo Binghe found the bubble where the System was hiding Shen Yuan during the five years?</blockquote> ➤ holy shit ➤ the one where lbh is able to access a dream-world bubble where sqq is trapped (as his sy self), and every time lbh accesses it, sqq's memories are reset, and lbh is able to learn a LOT from him. It's delightful and amazing!

<blockquote>Shen Qingqiu, after enduring his trial, is placed into Luo Binghe’s custody at Huan Hua Palace.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Shen Qingqiu really didn’t think anything of catching the Sower when it tried to flee. He even nearly had a second one before Without-A-Cure acted up. That was fine. Liu-shidi could take care of the rest, along with apparently a whole flock of Huan Hua Palace disciples. He was going to go sleep off his tripping and falling. Now… if Luo Binghe could stop making him repeat a quiet dream memory of the bamboo house, that’d be great. How was he even pulling that off from the abyss anyway?</blockquote>

<blockquote>Luo Binghe intends to sulk in the Endless Abyss until the man who cast him down into it repents.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Luo Binghe has it all: the respect of the cultivation world, the home he always wanted, and Shizun's love. There's just one problem: if Shizun ever finds out he's a demon, it's going to ruin everything.</blockquote> ➤ I feel like the ending needed a little more emotional settling time after how very long lbh had been angsting about this stuff; it felt a little too abrupt for him to be making jokes about sqq liking him being a monster, for example. but overall a really delightful fic

<blockquote>wait do you guys remember that tumblr that was called "garfield without garfield". just garfield strips with the cat removed so it became an absurdist comedy. svsss without binghe</blockquote> ➤ really more of a not-fic but holy shit this is an amazing idea

<blockquote>For most transmigrators, fate, their system, or just random happenstance, has the decency to dump them into their new body just as they are "waking up from a fever" or some other near death experience. That is not the case for Shen Yuan. - - Shen Yuan sucks in an inaudible breath and sits very, very still. There is a child in front of him, who looks to be around 10 or so. "Sh-Shizun?" The little one asks, peeking up through his lashes. He glances nervously between Shen Yuan's face and his hands. Shen Yuan follows his line of sight downwards and finds himself holding a steaming cup of tea. - - Aka: Does it count as a meet-cute if you spend the first minutes after meeting your far-in-the-future-husband desperately trying to stop your new body from murdering him? Urgently waiting for the answer online!</blockquote>

<blockquote>Shen Qingqiu opened his arms, but Binghe didn’t run to him. Instead, he hesitantly took a single step forward. “Teacher, I have a question for you.” “Of course, Binghe,” Shen Qingqiu said. “Anything.” Binghe was such a diligent student. “I’m,” Binghe began. He seemed to lack his usual confidence lately. “Teacher, what if I wasn’t dead?” / Shen Qingqiu’s very normal, very dead disciple Luo Binghe has been visiting him in his dreams. And there’s been a surge in demonic activity. And all of his disciples think he’s losing it. He’s coping. </blockquote> ➤ fun vibes

<blockquote>"In a cultivation world where every other innocuous meadow contained enough sex pollen to give the entire population hay-fever, cultivators had been forced to give up on ideals of total purity. While they still valued chastity, realists resigned themselves to fucking in the field due to mischance at least once. And given these circumstances, said cultivators generally felt that one’s first experience with sex might as well be a good one, and occur in a controlled, safe environment. Cultivators also lived long lives: the choice of spouses to share them with was a serious matter, which couldn’t be rushed simply for the sake of being over-nice about virginity. So, upon coming of age, a disciple was encouraged to offer themself up to someone for a ritual first night. The individual they chose could decline the honour, but unless one had a strong extenuating excuse, doing so was considered quite rude (and also resulted in a serious loss of face for the youth in question)." The governor of Jinlan asks Luo Binghe to claim his reward for saving the city. Luo Binghe only wants the things every rising young cultivator is entitled to.</blockquote>

<blockquote>There were plenty of times in his disciple hood that Binghe had faked clumsiness in order to steal a little bit of skinship with his master. Shen Qingqiu liked to be touched even though he didn’t permit that many people to get close to him so there was always a thread of guilty delight in his amused chuckle whenever Binghe sacrificed his own dignity in order to give them what they both wanted. This time, though, it really was an accident when Binghe pitched forward to land face-first in his master’s chest. Or: Post Abyss Luo Binghe fails a critical agility check and accidentally discovers an alternate route in the Jin Lin City story arc</blockquote> ➤ series consists of: Dust and Broken Grains A Lifetime of Stories

<blockquote>Shang Qinghua, also known as Airplane Shooting Towards the Sky, stared flatly at what had once been a field boasting near sect-level Feng Shui alignment, and the drowned, bloated remains of the Sun and Moon Dew Flower cuttings that had sprouted within it. Their plan was now quite literally a wash. If only he could consult Cucumber Bro on how to save Cucumber Bro! But in the absence of Cucumber Bro, he could but rely on the one plot coupon the infamous Peerless Cucumber had ever applauded.</blockquote> ➤ wifebeam made as literal as possible, sqq becomes a sparkly anime princess

<blockquote>Before the investigation in Jinlan City, Shen Qingqiu is hit by a curse that forces him to speak his mind. Unfortunately, this means that the first thing he does when he sees Luo Binghe for the first time in three years is to tell Luo Binghe that he's grown up to be really quite pretty. Luo Binghe, not sure what's going on but absolutely enjoying the ride, abandons all his plans immediately. He has new priorities now, including but not limited to: - get his Shizun to call him 'pretty' again - steal his Shizun away from his (probably in existence) harem - ???</blockquote>