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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: On the desk in between Yue Qingyuan and Shen Qingqiu was a printout of the email. Shen Qingqiu refused to look at it. If he tried very hard, he could pretend it wasn’t there. When the email had hit his inbox this morning, Shen Qingqiu had read it and reread enough to have it memorized, as he tried to comprehend the meaning of these words arranged in this order. The second that comprehension dawned upon him, he’d deleted the email then promptly tried to forget everything about it. He wasn’t being very successful on that front. The message, written with the extraordinary eloquence that Shen Qingqiu knew Luo Binghe was capable of, had been sent en masse to the entire faculty and student body. It stated two main points. Firstly, that Luo Binghe attested that Shen Qingqiu had never slept with, assaulted, molested, groomed, or was in any way inappropriate to him during his time at Cang Qiong Academy (thanks for the endorsement, Binghe!!). Secondly, that Luo Binghe was announcing this because he intended to marry Shen Qingqiu and did not want even the whisper of false impropriety to stain his Shizun’s name. ➤ cackling with delighted laughter over this svsss bingqiu modern au ➤ these complete weirdos!!! (affectionate) ➤ lbh, a former student of sqq who has since become an international superstar, sends a mass email announcing his interest in sqq. sqq is more worried about his old student's feelings being hurt than he is about the evident stalking the email reveals ➤ the fic is so funny, with so many perfect details. and the last line!!! I'm dead. ➤ 6k words in length

Summary: Whenever Shen Yuan thought of Luo Binghe, she got a weird feeling in her stomach, like she was hungry, like she was about to fall. So she stopped thinking long enough to lay down on the sofa. Luo Binghe wasn’t like other women. She had a perfect body: strong, but also soft. She could pick Shen Yuan up, but she also made a good pillow. She was an excellent cook, but she hated to have help in the kitchen and would only let Shen Yuan sit on the counter and watch. She was highly intelligent, with a memory like a trap and a natural aptitude for learning. But she was cute, too—she liked to hold onto Shen Yuan during scary movies, and if Shen Yuan didn’t pat her on the head and tell her ‘good job’, she pouted. ➤ a cute little modern au f/f bingqiu get-together! ➤ lbh comes over to sy's apartment to cook for her on a rainy day ➤ binghe is SO good at working around her yuan-jie's heterosexual hangups 🥰 ➤ 2.5k 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

Summary: <blockquote>Shen Yuan buys a body pillow, cyberstalks his nemesis, and joins a harem. Luo Binghe, recently escaped from the Endless Abyss, is just along for the ride.</blockquote> ➤ shen yuan definitely didn't intend to buy this body pillow of luo binghe what are you talking about ➤ he also definitely didn't involve his "essence" in an accidental ritual that summoned the real luo binghe ➤ however luo binghe is now here and he needs to do SOMETHING about that ➤ extremely funny, tshirt is always so good at the comic timing ➤ the airplane cameo is also perfect ➤ 4k 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>Things go wrong at Maigu Ridge. Shen Qingqiu wakes up back at the beginning, in a body that is still shaking off Shen Jiu's fatal qi deviation. Luo Binghe wakes up in the woodshed with a disembodied voice chiming in his ear. It calls itself the System.</blockquote>

Summary: <blockquote>Shen Yuan is given a limited-edition, 1 day FREE trial of the System (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉchar-.✧ (hurry, while supplies last!) Aka, Shen Yuan transmigrates for one (1) day and fixes whatever he can on Qing Jing peak in 24 hours</blockquote>

<blockquote>In which Shen Yuan goes poking around the ruins of an old castle and ends up haunted by the ghost of Luo Binghe, demon emperor extraordinaire... .. and Shen Yuan thinks the whole "being haunted" thing is fantastic, thank you very much.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The long-fallen god of strategists and scholars has but one devoted worshipper left. No one sees the Heavenly Martial Emperor Luo Binghe kneeling in front of a statue maintained only by his own careful hands, praying faithfully to his lost master: Shen Qingqiu, the god who took him under his wing when he ascended—and who was later struck down from Heaven by Luo Binghe himself.</blockquote> ➤ au with svsss characters in tgcf setting; sj & sy are twins ➤ love the au and some of the fun thematic things it was doing, but it felt like it all wrapped up a little too easily and quickly in the end

<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>sqh: bro what the fuck sy: I know he's so nice?? sqh: ...shen yuan sqh: he wants to smash sy: what? smash what? sqh: he's HITTING ON U DUDE sqh: HE WANTS TO WINE AND DINE U. FEED U AMBROSIA & THEN SUCK IT OUT THRU UR DICK / archived bingyuan threadfic - modern au where binghe is a celebrity chef!</blockquote>

➤ takes place entirely in comments on webnovels

<blockquote>Shen Yuan’s eyes widened when he opened the door to find his regular courier standing there, drenched, pitiful and dripping copiously onto his door mat. Luo Binghe looked like a particularly handsome drowned rat. “Shit, I’m sorry,” Shen Yuan said with a wince. “I tried to cancel! It just came on so suddenly—seriously, fuck rainy season.” Luo Binghe had received the cancelation text, and he had ignored it. He knew how to work in these conditions, and Shen Yuan needed to eat. God only knew what the man would try to bolt down if Luo Binghe left him to his own devices.</blockquote>

<blockquote>When Luo Binghe was eleven he told everyone in his class that when he grew up, he was going to marry Mister Shen from “Stories and Songs with Shen Yuan”. Even his nice teacher had laughed at him—though she’d stopped laughing when Luo Binghe had punched the class bully Ming Fan, who’d jeered that “Stories and Songs” was for babies, hard enough to give the awful boy a bloody nose. Luo Binghe didn’t think laughter was an appropriate response to his declaration. After all, he hadn’t been joking. Luo Binghe adored that fresh-faced, becardiganed twenty year old television personality with his entire, earnest little heart. </blockquote>

<blockquote>Shen Yuan’s gotten away with avoiding many of the responsibilities of a well-to-do young master, but he’s finally found the one thing he can’t escape: no matter what, he must take a wife. Luo Binghe, Shen Yuan’s personal servant and totally platonic best friend, takes a particular interest in this. (Unrelated, and surely not important: demonic sightings in town have risen, and Luo Binghe is keeping secrets. Good thing these things have nothing to do with Shen Yuan’s bridal selection!)</blockquote> ➤ no transmigration (pidw native sqq)

<blockquote>Shen Yuan transmigrates into a Shijie instead of a Shizun. (No Ning-shijies were harmed in the making of this fic.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>Loosely based off of 'I Became the Wife of the Male Lead'. The main ship is Bingqiu!</blockquote> ➤ the one where sqq transmigrates into the nephew of qiu jianluo (son of qiu haitang and og!sqq)

<blockquote>After almost a decade of separation, Prince Qingqiu is glad to see his little brother again. He just wishes Luo Binghe weren't probably here to kill him.</blockquote> ➤ pseudo-incest (they're both sons of the emperor but with no actual parents in common - sqq's adopted) ➤ love the way this story has translated the pushing into the endless abyss!

<blockquote>Instead of being found by Huan Hua Palace disciples, Luo Binghe meets a Wan Jian disciple who instantly falls in love with his sword. No, not that sword. Xin Mo.</blockquote> ➤ where shen yuan is a pidw native and xin mo is a character

<blockquote>Peak lord Shen Qingqiu has been officially betrothed to the demonic prince Su Binghe via an intermediary. Prince Binghe's chamberlain is attentive, comely, and absolutely not the man Shen Qingqiu should be falling in love with.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Sha Hualing considers that somehow, she might have been the only person on Luo Binghe's top ten contacts who hadn't figured out that he was gay before now. She throws her phone at the fridge so hard that the screen cracks.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Luo Binghe is eleven when he is given to Cang Qiong as a present for the young, new-made lord of Qing Jing. Luo Binghe is twenty-one when he wins Shen Qingqiu for himself.</blockquote> ➤ no transmigration au (sy|sqq is a PIDW native)

<blockquote>【The System was successfully activated! Role bound: Luo Binghe’s master, ‘Shen Qingqiu.’ Special challenge mode enabled: Alternate Universe #517, 'Eternal Youth'!】 Shen Yuan woke up in a new body, in a new world, smug with the knowledge that he was ready for whatever transmigration might throw at him. This lasted exactly as long as it took for the System to boot up, and for Shen Yuan to realise that his fellow humans, in this twisted AU of his favourite-least-favourite web novel, were strangely... aquatic. Oddly baby-faced, as if they'd just stepped out of a donghua. And there were other changes, too, which scared him in particular more than they would most of the characters in Proud Immortal Demon Way.</blockquote> ➤ another discovery channel challenge fic! axolotls this time!

<blockquote>Shen Yuan isn't lonely. He's just overseas in a new city, trying to muddle his way through a business degree, and dealing with the side effects of his stupid intestines trying to kill him. So, maybe he sometimes watches ASMR to cope with his too-quiet apartment. Maybe he has a little bit of a parasocial-relationship-thing going on with one particular cooking ASMR channel. It's 2016, who doesn't? The point is, he's content with his quiet life. And then Shang Qinghua strong-arms him into watching one Hallmark Christmas movie, and it all goes to hell. Or: Shen Yuan is a Hallmark movie protagonist, Luo Binghe is a Lifetime movie protagonist, and somehow they make it work.</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>one of the engineers at my job said "bingbot" and they weren't talking about binghe but now I am THINKING<blockquote>

<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>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