LINKDING

Summary: <blockquote>The System offers Shen Qingqiu the ability to transport his consciousness back in time to fix past mistakes.</blockquote> ➤ due to System shenanigans sqq travels back in time to when he first encountered lbh in jinlan city post-abyss ➤ sqq does his best to make things go differently this time, within the parameters of the genre "h/c fic" which the system tells him he is now in ➤ I'm just! so delighted by so much about this fic! ➤ and I love how the fic plays metatextually with its own fourth wall in ways I haven't really seen much in svsss fic before! ➤ fic is a WIP; currently there are 14k words; satisfying to read as is at the moment

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>

<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>[Self-Saving System Activated! You will be now returned to your original starting position.] Shen Qingqiu dies and gets a second chance and decides to try a different approach.</blockquote> ➤ series consists of: Metagaming Character Optimisation

<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