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summary: They say he may ascend and reach immortality, come the rumors. Sect Leader Yue is so powerful- perhaps he is ready to transcend this world. The very idea leaves Shen Qingqiu cold and nauseous with anger. Escape this world? Yue Qingyuan can’t be allowed to. ➤ pre-canon/canon divergence maybe? in which original sqq hears a rumour that yqy is going to ascend, and he'll do anything to keep that from happening ➤ it's SO them <3 all tangled up in each other, terribly possessive, unable to communicate like normal people, I love them ➤ content notes: dubcon, babytrapping attempt ➤ 2k words

Summary: Cang Qiong Mountain Sect AU - no Binghe and no Shen Yuan, just the original sect siblings being fundamentally dysfunctional without any outside help. “Shidi.” Yue Qingyuan breathed. He would burn cities for him. Only he never did. Yue Qingyuan makes the mistake of inviting Shen Jiu back to his house for tea. Tea and emotional torture. Nothing is said. Nothing will ever be said. ➤ hello I am murdered by how on point this fic is, it's perfect and I adore it ➤ svsss au qijiu fic from og!sqq's pov ➤ (trans sqq, for those to whom that's enticement!) ➤ no lbh or transmigration, so the complex relationships between the various peak lords keep marinating over decades ➤ I love how the vibes are so much older, more grounded and more ground down at the same time. and still sqq and yqy are full of all their Problems ➤ I loved the evolving beliefs sqq had about what must have happened to fill yqy with endless guilt towards him! ➤ and the ways sqq treats yqy, before and after the reveals...how things do & don't change ➤ and the beautiful physicality the narrative has in details like the tea, and the hair, and how both yqy & sqq use clothing to hide things about their bodies they don't want noticed ➤ and of course the sharply perceived characterisation! ➤ LOVED IT ➤ 23k words

Summary: <blockquote>When Shen Yuan dies and transmigrates into Yue Qingyuan, he's happy to improve his favorite story without the axe of human stick-hood hanging over him. It’s kind of a surprise that he can rescue the protagonist so quickly, but he isn’t about to look a gift horse in the mouth. And Liu Qingge’s presence, however sticky, means that he can spar in this strong body any time he wants – life at Cang Qiong really is good! Meanwhile, if Shen Qingqiu had been more willing to discuss his past with the only person who was part of it, then perhaps it would not have taken him three full years to realize that his childhood friend is gone. When the only other option is living without Qi-ge, he devotes himself to hunting down his soul. Unfortunately, this is pretty difficult when the man wearing Yue Qingyuan’s face has ordered that he not leave the mountain. (It’s not really a surprise when he begins hallucinating Qi-ge.)</blockquote> ➤ svsss au where sy transmigrates into yqy instead of sqq ➤ the fic is in two parts: first, from sy!yqy's pov as he tries to change events within the parameters the system allows him, and then the second from og!sqq's pov follows where the first part left off, with sqq trying to deal with the fact that yqy is so different now from the one he remembers. ➤ the two parts are different in tone and both excellent, both really fitting the kind of character and person the pov character is, and what it is they want the most. I loved it! ➤ 11k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>Yue Qingyuan struggles to know right from wrong, desire from guilt, and impulsiveness from intent. But one night he lets his impulsiveness lead him to the bamboo house and into Shen Qingqiu’s arms, unintentionally changing destiny along the way.</blockquote> ➤ An svsss qijiu canon divergence fic, about things that might have happened while lbh was still a very young disciple to change the course of events ➤ I love how small the things are that cause these changes, and that it's a small unthinking kindness from yqy to his own disciples that in a winding way leads to his own happiness ➤ as the author says, these two are freak4freak and I love it ➤ the desperation both of them feel about each other while being unable to talk about any of it! ➤ 11k words in length ➤ the dialogue is all punctuated wrong, unfortunately, but the writing is good enough to overlook this

Summary: <blockquote>Yue Qingyuan has one giant blindspot as a sect leader, and that's Shen Qingqiu. But now a curse has made him forget Shen Qingqiu, and that changes some things.</blockquote> ➤ I enjoyed a lot of this fic but I feel like the ending was too simple, that everything would just be perfectly fine again even after he gets his memories back. still overall worth reading though.

Summary: <blockquote>Shen Qingqiu draws his hand slowly up, over the fabric of Yue Qingyuan’s sect leader robes, tracing the line of his lapel. His voice is still low in Yue Qingyuan’s ears. “Look at that. A single touch, and you close your eyes and let me do whatever I want. Do you give it up this easily for everyone?” “Qingqiu Shidi…” Yue Qingyuan says, voice carefully controlled, to hide the shiver that wants to work its way through him. “If you’re really so desperate, I can help you,” Shen Qingqiu says, voice so low it’s almost a whisper. “You need that? For someone to give it to you, even though you’re too much of a coward to ask for it?”</blockquote>

<blockquote>When Yue Qi rushes away to save her Xiao Jiu, it is not a cultivation sect that finds her, but rather a nun. Meanwhile, when Shen Jiu decides enough is enough and escapes the life of a slave, her skills enable her to work at the Warm Red Pavilion. Both think the other dead, but when their paths cross once more, they cannot help but be drawn to each other. Yue Qingyuan, wracked with guilt, offers herself in penance. Shen Qingqiu, she says, may punish and hurt her as she likes. And what is Shen Qingqiu going to do, except take the chance to corrupt that immaculate nun as best she can, and pull her away from the heavens, so that they might go to Hell together, hand in hand? In other words, a Tang Dynasty historical au, featuring far too many footnotes.</blockquote> ➤ author's tag: #meta-textually exploring the way fandom conceives of guilt and punishment

<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>Mutually antagonistic Liu Qingge and Luo Binghe share an ill-advised hookup at the wedding of their exes.</blockquote> ➤ bing-ge/liu qingge, past bing-ge/shen jiu & yqy/lqg, the wedding is for og!sqq/yqy

<blockquote>Shen Qingqiu can't just let the sect leader die. (Or, Shen Qingqiu begrudgingly(lying) assists when Yue Qingyuan gets dosed by a fuck or die poison.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>yue qingyuan is a simple farmer. he is strong, dependable, tills the fields well - that's why the old man who found him wandering the forests left the farm to him. he only knows his name because it was embroidered on the money pouch he carried. he has no idea what came before.</blockquote> ➤ seems to be abandoned unfinished, but I love what there is

<blockquote>Shen Qingqiu had been on Qing Jing for four years when he found out the truth.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Heavenly Demons get around. What if Yue Qi had a more colourful ancestry than in canon?</blockquote> ➤ he doesn't make it into cang qiong, and things get darker

<blockquote>Yue Qingyuan and Shen Qingqiu reconcile, years after the point of no return. Good thing the world doesn’t care about you anymore when you’re dead.</blockquote> ➤ og!sqq/yqy together after death

<blockquote>Wu Yanzi barks out a laugh. "I used to have another student," he tells Shen Jiu as he takes a swig of his wine. “I picked him up when the Cang Qiong brats rejected him.” “I don’t care,” Shen Jiu says coolly. He doesn’t. What does it matter that Wu Yanzi had a student before him? That has no effect on him. "He was far less obedient than you, though,” Wu Yanzi continues, not bothered by Shen Jiu’s lack of reaction. “He kept trying to escape. He had some kid he wanted to see, this Xiao-something he promised to return to." His grin is made of black teeth and nastiness when he says, "Make sure I won't have to bury you next to him." (Or, there is a very good reason why Yue Qi never returned for Shen Jiu.)</blockquote> ➤ the one where yue qi really did die instead of being able to rescue shen jiu - but sj reanimates him in the end

<blockquote>WHO COULD THE ARRANGED MARRIAGE BE BETWEEN? IT'S A MYSTERY</blockquote>

<blockquote>When Yue Qingyuan has a bright idea, Shen Jiu takes what he can get.</blockquote> ➤ holy shit

<blockquote>Yue Qingyuan is afflicted with a deadly poison, and the only cure is dual cultivation with a particular man. Shen Jiu holds the sect leader’s life in his hands (and hole).</blockquote>

<blockquote>In his dreams, Xiao Jiu is dead. Post-canon, Yue Qingyuan receives a series of unsettling visitations. It's probably nothing to worry about. "Tell me, Sect Leader: in your vast and storied experience, what do the dead usually want with the living?"</blockquote> ➤ tags: <blockquote>#sometimes a ship is just two codependent assholes who deserve to haunt each other for all eternity #and that's okay #look I think this is a fix-it but ymmv </blockquote>

<blockquote>Murder. Jealousy. Hidden desire. A mission and a mystery turn into something much more.</blockquote>

<blockquote>By finally learning to lie, Yue Qi manages to get herself purchased by the Qius instead of Shen Jiu on that fateful day. Shen Jiu, in her efforts to rescue her, ends up Sect Leader of Cang Qiong Mountain. But during Shen Jiu’s patient ascension, Yue Qingyuan is sold, only to be located a decade later. Now, as Yue Qi tries to adjust to a new life at Cang Qiong Mountain she never expected would come, Shen Jiu tries her best to pamper her. Together they will navigate their past, present, and their future together. For Qijiu Week Day 6: Role Reversal/Hand-Holding</blockquote> ➤ ahhhh, the difference in yqy's assumption about why og!sqq didn't come back for him!!

<blockquote>(Or, Shen Jiu isn’t quite sure whose body he has stolen, but he knows for certain he isn’t going to give it back without a fight.)</blockquote> ➤ hopeful ending

<blockquote>Nothing about this dreamscape is as he’d have predicted it to be. Something strong enough to keep their Zhangmen-shixiong contained so completely and so utterly ought to have been hellish and dark, a prison of mind and body alike. Shen Qingqiu enters Yue Qingyuan's mind to break a curse. But that which holds him there might be far older indeed than their uneasily shared present.</blockquote> ➤ from a "farming au" prompt! ➤ ohhhhh boy

<blockquote>One morning, Shen Qingqiu woke up a changed man. Yue Qingyuan is left trying to figure out what happened to make him so relaxed and affectionate.</blockquote> ➤ love getting to see a time loop from the pov of someone outside the loop

<blockquote>Yue Qingyuan dies in a hail of arrows, having failed to save Shen Qingqiu once again. Then, he wakes up.</blockquote>

<blockquote>“What’s going on in there?!” the raspy voice of a slightly inebriated ruffian comes from outside the thicket. Shen Jiu, one arm of the corpse slung around his shoulder and the other around Yue Qi’s, stares dead ahead into the shallow freshly dug grave, thinking furiously. “We’re not doing anything!” he gasps out performatively, trying to make his voice less snappish and more flustered. He fails, miserably, judging by the wide-eyed trapped look that Yue Qi fixes him with. “Quick,” he continues, pitching his voice quieter- but loud enough to carry to the man on the path- “quick, put your clothes on, ge!”</blockquote>

<blockquote>Shen Qingqiu had made use of many excuses over the years to avoid the presence of the man who was now his own sect leader, some of which had even been good. Some of them had even also been true. In fact, he greatly preferred it when his reasons to excuse himself (before the raging fire always burning deep inside his chest reared up) were true. Pre-Canon Original Shen Qingqiu and Yue Qingyuan accidentally get nudged into actually talking.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"Okay, okay, okay, I'm starting." "Don't tell me you're starting, just start." "Okay okay okay."</blockquote> ➤ one of the tags is "failed sexy roleplay" -- they're attempting to rp as original sqq/yqy, but get distracted by discussing characterization and backstory

<blockquote>Brunch went south about two steps away from the front entrance of Shen Yuan’s favorite cafe; a place with free wifi, big squishy chairs, custom mimosa pitchers, and an endless avocado toast special. He arrived bright and early with his computer bag under one arm and the intention of staking out one of the solo tables in back for the rest of the morning until he’d finished his current editing project. The project in question was the latest offering from Airplane Shooting Towards the Sky after he broke out from webnovels, so endless mimosas and carbohydrates would be necessary for Shen Yuan to make it through with his sanity and blood pressure intact. Shang Qinghua was late on his most recent draft, but the earliest chapters had been finalized so he could get started on that at least. However, his phone pinged just as he reached the entrance, and Shen Yuan made the fatal mistake of pausing to check the message. Shen Jiu: Too late now, but brace yourself. We’re inside. Qi-ge set us both up. Or: that one where Shen Yuan lost his break up, but Luo Binghe is about to kill it on the rebound.</blockquote> ➤ series consists of: Brunch Warfare Best Served Cold

➤ time travel from the non time travellers perspective