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love your role reversal au, not enough of those in the world, peak lord bingge is already annoyed with lqg, how will he feel with the intrusion of qiong ding's head disciple yue qingyuan? yqy is probably dropping by qing jing every week or so to see his xiao yuan

not to mention all the peak lords who've probably been treating shen yuan like the head disciple/peak lord whenever bingge has been away once shen yuan's cultivation reached a suitable level of cultivation, a level possibly helped by mu qingfang who might drop by with some pill or tea that's supposed to help those who started cultivating late if not because mfq admires shen yuan then it's absolutely because mfq figures that if sy is going to get into trouble and perform self sacrificing stunts even WITH lqq there as a bodyguard, sy needs his cultivation improved stat to he'll have a better chance of surviving and not needing to be on the medical peak every other day

We know that Cang Qiong prides itself as being very familial, and says its peak lords are very close.. we also know that wasn't really true until shen yuan transmigrated, because before that, everyone except for Yue Qingyuan hated shen jiu.

So I'm imagining peak lord Luo Binghe who does not give a fuck about any of his martial siblings except for Liu Mingyan.. but shen Yuan gets along GREAT with all the other head disciples. Everyone sees Shen Yuan, Liu Qingge, Qi Qingqi, etc etc all hanging out having picnics regularly and they're like "the next generation of peak lord are going to be SO close" and binghe is the only one who absolutely hates it.

Yue Qingyuan asks to hang out with Shen Yuan and Binghe says Shen Yuan spends too much time with him, and Shen Yuan replies "but if shizun has chosen me as the next peak lord of Qing Jing... shouldn't this one foster a good relationship with the future sect leader" and binghe feels like he's been punched in the stomach. Binghe kind of gets off on being shen yuans shizun and therefore holding authority over him, so the idea that one day he'll be out of the picture and it'll be SECT LEADER YUE telling him what to do... he's going insane.

I haven't quite decided what to do with Yue qi and shen jiu's backstories and how they're related to shen yuan... maybe shen jiu will join Qing Jing Peak later and become another person binghe hates because they keep stealing away shen yuan

As for Mu Qingfang... I think he's very protective of Shen Yuan because they are friends but also.. he definitely sees Shen-shixiong as his little lab rat. How is it possible for one man to get hit with so many wife plots poisons and enemies? He made an entirely separate patients log just for shen yuan because of how frequently he visits him. The log was layer refined into a medical guide on various illnesses and injuries and their symptoms, and Mu Qingfang is widely renowned for his book. No one knows that the entirety of the book is documenting just one person.

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Role reversal bingqiu is something I didn't like until a month ago and now it has me in a chokehold ... cold ruthless peak lord Luo binghe fighting perverted suitors off his sweet disciple shen yuan ... because it's his job to protect his student, duh! Especially one that's as naive, trusting, kindhearted beutiful and charming as shen yuan...

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Jiuyuan where sj and sy are both disciples, but shen jiu has a crush a one sided rivalry with shen yuan

Shen jiu studies and trains like crazy, but shen yuan is the peak favourite because he's laid back, friendly, and tutors the juniors instead of focusing only on himself. When shen yuan is offered the position of head disciple, he respectfully declines it, and shen jiu is chosen instead.. shen jiu eventually finds out he wasn't the first pick, and he kicks down shen yuans door furiously and sees him sitting with liu qingge playing chess

Shen jiu: you think I need your charity?? You think youre too good to be in my place???? Fuck you!! How dare you?!? You have the AUDACITY to think you're number one, then fight me right now!! Mark my words, I'll kill you shen yuan!!!!!!

Liu qingge, about to grab his sword: who is this!?

Shen yuan, casually waving for qingge to sit back down: don't worry about my shidi, he throws a fit over everything. Come on, it's your turn

Shen jiu: YOU DARE IGNORE ME!??!? YOURE DEAD

Shen yuan: sure, after this game

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"I think Shen Yuan's real body is peerlessly beautiful" "I think shen yuans real body was average at best" you guys don't UNDERSTAND. It doesn't matter what shen yuan looks like because he charms people with his gentle eyes and sweet smile. When some random person trips on the sidewalk, they don't see a "pretty boy" or a "lame looking nerd" they look up to find a hand helpfully extended to help them up. They see shen yuans concerned face asking if they're alright, the sun behind his head shining like a halo. They get a headpat that makes them feel like they're 8 years old again, shyly talking to the babysitter they had a crush on as a child. Then shen yuan says he's glad they're okay and waves goodbye, and when that person goes to bed at night, they stare up at their ceiling and think about the lovely angel who helped them up when they tripped. People fall in love at first sight with shen yuans personality. Goodnight

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when we think of courtesan shen yuan au, its very easy to think "he would not fucking do that." But honestly? I can see it.

He doesn't have sex with any of his customers, no. He's too proud and "straight" for that. But he can entertain them with music and stories. He can serve them tea and smile and ask about their day. And that alone would make him more popular than anyone else at the brothel.

And I think people would go in with the plan to fuck him, but the second they bring up the idea of sleeping together, Shen Yuan raises an eyebrow and gives that 'how can you even ask something like that?' face and they immediately feel guilty and say haha that was just a joke,,..

every interaction goes like

customer: i really enjoyed spending time with you, can we go to bed now?

shen yuan: *gives a disappointed look*

customer, about to cry: OR NOT! YOUR COMPANY ALONE IS ENOUGH! you were telling me about this 'airplane' authour?? please continue

he's been the most popular worker at a brothel for like 5 years and no one has ever bed him

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Manipulative gaslighting bingge meeting his match when he kidnaps shen yuan and realizes that he's extremely out of his depth for the first time ever because he doesn't need to trick shen yuan

Shen Yuan: so you just took me from my world? And you want me to leave my whole life behind because I remind you of someone?

Binghe's inner monolog: I have to be careful, ease him into the idea of living here. He'll throw a fuss but I can't let him return. Should I pretend to be hurt that he's rejecting me, or show off my power so he's too scared to? No, no, trying to force love is what went wrong with that other Shen Qingqiu, I have to make him think he wants to stay willingly. Brainwashing him would be easy, but then he'd be just another puppet-

Shen Yuan: sounds good to me! I didn't really have anything going on back there anyway. Now that I'm here, can you show me a black moon rhino python? I can't really figure out how a rhino and a snake mixed together looks

Binghe: ...you..... what?

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idk i'm a big fan of the "shen yuan is extremely competent, but not competitive enough to care" idea. every disciple shen yuan au i have involves the peak lord begging him to be the head disciple and hes like "uhhhh idk sounds like a lot of work and also i think ____-shidi would want to be head disciple way more than me...." and even after he refuses to become head disciple he still goes out of his way to help the juniors with their techniques and aids his shizun with sorting his documents because he's just a nice guy.

whenever someone from another peak needs something, its very exhausting for everyone to explain the situation

guy from another peak: i need to speak to the peak lord

students: shizun is off the mountain

him: where's the head disciple

students: we don't have one, you'll want to talk to Shen-shixiong

Him: whos that

students: he's just a guy we like a lot

him: so who does all the [head disciple duties] ???

students: shen shixiong.

him: if he does all the work and you all like him why not just make him head dis-

students: WE TRIED, OKAY!!?!

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I love it in Bingyuan fics or reveal fics where Luo Binghe gets to see Shen Yuan's original body, and Shen Yuan is like, ah this is embarrassing, the Shen Qingqiu body is much cooler haha, don't worry this is only temporary!

Meanwhile Binghe is like:

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Bingyuan fic where Bingge makes a bargain with some variant of the System in order to find his own Nice Shizun, and is then deeply confused and kind of pissed off when his supernatural Nice Shizun Tracking GPS system keeps leading him to some random twink in a noisy dimension full of glass and machines.

He's just like, I don't have time for a rare male wife plot. I'll circle back to the beguiling siren later, okay? Shaking his shizun tracker and smacking the side like it's an old-fashioned television and he's trying to get a better signal. Shen Qing Qiu, he's trying to find Shen Qing Qiu, where the heck is he?

Meanwhile Shen Yuan has no idea what's going on but he's still trying to help. After all, it's not every day your favorite fictional character shows up on your doorstep. Better let him have the guest room and teach him how the internet works!

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Mobei Jun having fantasies of Shang Qinghua using his wiles and schemes to overpower him and tie him up and have him at his mercy, Shang Qinghua having fantasies of using his wiles and schemes to overpower Mobei Jun and tie him up and get a solid 24 hours of uninterrupted rest.

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Thinking about Black Widow Luo Binghe.

Hear me out -- so just like in canon, Shen Qingqiu self-destructs to save Luo Binghe, dies, and Luo Binghe steals his body to put on ice while he looks for methods to resurrect him. But unlike in canon, staving off decomposition is simply not that doable for a matter of years, even with cultivation and Luo Binghe pouring qi into the process. The qi costs are still high, so is Xin Mo, and now Binghe also needs a special artifact that can actually preserve Shen Qingqiu, but that runs on blood sacrifices.

To get the thing working, Luo Binghe feeds it a bunch of prisoners from the Water Prison. Then he starts kidnapping cultivators to drain for his own qi reserves, but that's difficult, controversial, and he can't use the same victims for the blood sacrifice afterwards. Frankly, between one thing and another it would be easier to satisfy Xin Mo with dual cultivation, and focus on finding victims for Shizun's Snow White style glass preservation coffin without having to choose between using targets for one or the other. Especially given that, if he finesses it, Luo Binghe can extend the use of his sacrifices and get more out of them with fewer deaths that way.

He's pretty sure that Shizun would want fewer deaths.

Of course, he is not a fan of the logistics of the plan itself, but he'd do worse things to one day be reunited. He consoles himself that he's building up bedroom experience for one day being with Shen Qingqiu, and that it doesn't really count because his heart's not really in it, and also if Shizun got to spend all that time in brothels then it's only fitting that Luo Binghe be his equal in this as well. It still doesn't make it pleasant for him, but it makes him able to tolerate the necessity of it.

So Luo Binghe ends up marrying a string of rich and powerful figures -- mostly the villainous single fathers and mothers and evil uncles of harem members from PIDW, rather than their daughters -- and coming up with creative ways of making all their deaths a few months into the process look like accidents. After the third one people are undeniably wary of marrying him, but there's always someone with a big enough ego to think they'll be an exception, or stupid enough to believe that it really has just been so much bad luck up to that point. It helps that the universe is predisposed to let him hit it.

When SY wakes up in the shroom body and hears about Luo Binghe's succession of marriages, he's not surprised. What he is surprised by is the bisexual graveyard of toxic dilfs and milfs that has replaced the harem.

What did he do to cause that?!

And what does Luo Binghe mean that he wants to marry his own shizun now? Is this his new method of revenge??? Binghe, you don't have to marry someone to kill them!

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Further speculation on Shen Yuan transmigrating in some kind of Beast:

Werewolf Shen Qingqiu.

And like, major emphasis on the wolf, in his case. Not wolfman. Every full moon Shen Qingqiu has to make arrangements for himself to turn into a gigantic silvery-white wolf that retains extremely little of his consciousness, and mostly just seems to want to do Wolf Things, though according to PIDW and all information he has on the matter, he ought to be turning into a violent and bloodthirsty predator.

However, it turns out that the wolf form does retain some awareness from the mind/soul of the human, meaning that the reason SJ's wolf was so incredibly unsafe to be around was because it was constantly trying to process SJ's trauma in wild animal terms. So, it was hostile towards the vast majority of humans and in a heightened state of anxiety, always anticipating violence (and reacting accordingly) whenever something unexpected happened. Matters were not helped by SJ's decision to try and lock himself up for every transformation, which of course freaked his wolf out even more (trapped) and resulted in self-harm as it desperately tried to escape. It was just that SJ interpreted the self-harm as a sign that the wolf was so extremely violent that it would cannibalize itself rather than go a single night without the taste of blood.

SY, who is a lot less traumatized, conversely has a much more calm and curious wolf. Like he's extremely cautious and nervous about the whole thing, because he's expecting it to be violent based on his information, and since he doesn't retain much awareness of his transformations he has little idea of what his wolf-self does. But he also isn't great at locking himself up like the original goods did, and he never really seems to wake up covered in blood or anything? Once or twice he thinks he might have hunted a rabbit, but they definitely were rabbits and not like his subconscious somehow going after children in the middle of a wilderness somewhere, because when he came to the wolf had brought the leftover bunny bits along back to the ruined temple he was supposed to be shutting himself up into.

The new Shen Qingqiu consequently gets a bit complacent about the whole thing. He can only blame himself. Maybe he should have anticipated Luo Binghe, with his boundless curiosity and interest in his shizun, would notice the oddities in his schedule and follow him out one night. Everyone's supposed to believe that he's just going to brothels and engaging in purely mundane debauchery, though, so why would Binghe doubt his story?

But he did, and so of course Luo Binghe ends up witnessing his shizun's terrible transformation into a wretched and hated beast. Stunned, the young disciple stands transfixed (no doubt in horror) in the moonlight. The wolf sees him, and though Shen Qingqiu doesn't retain much memory, he recollects the running, the leaping, the... uh... licking...?

Well. Turns out that even Shen Qingqiu's subconscious wolf mind recognizes Luo Binghe as pack, and thank goodness too, because at least he didn't attack him!

Although after that it becomes an extreme challenge to explain to Luo Binghe why he can't accompany Shen Qingqiu for his transformations every month. It's not safe, the wolf is unpredictable and Shen Qingqiu can't promise that he won't startle or suddenly change his tune and lash out, and even though Binghe's cultivation is progressing in leaps and bounds, the wolf also isn't limited to normal mortal strength. It would be able to track his scent and follow him relentlessly, chasing him down to catch and pin him beneath its massive paws, and... Binghe why is your face so red? Are you feeling alright? If it's too frightening, then let's not describe it any further, but the point is that it's dangerous.

Shen Qingqiu has to put his foot down. In the end, he has his suspicions that Binghe is still circumventing him, as he could swear he sometimes remembers running around the wilderness with company. (Binghe is absolutely sneaking out to go spend time with Wolf Shizun.) But there's nothing concrete enough to be certain. Meanwhile, Luo Binghe has at least agreed to keep it secret (for now -- probably not once the time comes for Shen Qingqiu to be put on trial) and fusses over his shizun, helping him keep track of the moon scheduling and always making sure he has a full belly before he goes into wilderness seclusion (Shen Qingqiu never says, but somehow Luo Binghe guesses anyway that he doesn't like waking up to find that the wolf had a snack during the night...)

Another hazard: lycanthropy in the PIDW setting is a curse. Like admittedly it's kind of a kickass one, but it still has tons of negative associations, most commonly befalling impoverished individuals or travelers who get bitten by wild wolf demons, and survive only to find that a piece of the wolf's spirit has gotten stuck to their own. Cultivators with lycanthropy are often associated with demons and disrepute, like Wu Yanzi, and there are countless tales of them turning on their own people or being revealed as violent, depraved criminals. It's only slightly more acceptable than being a demon outright.

In other words it's not a desirable circumstance.

And yet, for some reason, Luo Binghe is reprehensibly lapse in his protections against lycanthropy. Shen Qingqiu has told him all of the precautions he knows against it, and yet it's almost like Binghe keeps doing the exact opposite things! Listen, wolves are cool. Shen Qingqiu knows that. He's actually kind of fine with turning into one, since it seems to be less of a ravenous beast situation than he'd feared. But there are still social consequences to this kind of a thing! Luckily, it doesn't actually matter much because even with his uncharacteristic youthful irresponsibility, Binghe's heavenly demon blood protects him from ever being cursed. The only way he'd get lycanthropy would be if he deliberately let a werewolf bite him and then just refused to excise the curse, and even then, he could purge the tainted wolf spirit from him just by force of will whenever he wanted.

Seriously, though! It's only when Shen Qingqiu points out that Luo Binghe is going to make people suspicious with all his negligence towards basic precautions that Binghe finally smartens up about it.

(Luo Binghe, out in the woods during a full moon: Wolf Shizun please bite me? Bite Binghe? Then we can be together every full moon! Look here I'll stick my hand in your mouth... just, just chomp down... no don't lick... *sigh*...)

Anyway, the plot still goes mostly the same, except that when Shen Qingqiu put into the water prison it's the full moon. He expects this is part of Luo Binghe's plan against him -- Binghe probably couldn't reveal the lycanthropy without also admitting he'd known before and helped hide it, but this way, Shen Qingqiu can just get caught as a wolf by the palace guards. But Luo Binghe's just been so frazzled and distressed by everything that he genuinely forgot what phase the moon was on. Shen Qingqiu's expecting a lot of things when he wakes up after transforming in the Water Prison, but being back out of the Water Prison and snuggled up to the protagonist's chest wasn't on the list.

Turns out that after his confrontation with Luo Binghe and the Little Palace Mistress, Gongyi Xiao went to check on him and found him transformed. After Gongyi Xiao alerted the rest of the palace, the Palace Master determined that Shen Qingqiu being a werewolf was as good as a confirmation of guilt, and had the wolf dragged out to be killed. Luo Binghe intervened, Shen Qingqiu took off, and between one thing and another the whole night was spent with Huan Hua and Cang Qiong cultivators trying to catch him (for different reasons).

Of course it was Luo Binghe who eventually cornered the terrified wolf, at which point the wolf actually, finally did bite him. But when Binghe failed to react, it whimpered and went back to its usual behavior, and let Binghe lead it out of the city and off to its usual territory near Cang Qiong. The wolf then proceeded to act like an overjoyed puppy whose owner had finally come back from war, until Binghe broke down and sobbed himself to sleep. It must have curled up onto his chest afterwards.

Shen Qingqiu is deeply embarrassed, but... somehow Luo Binghe doesn't seem to be taking revenge on him?

He's going to need to treat that bite wound soon, though.

Binghe.

Binghe, you are going to treat that--

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Shen Yuan's elaborate explanations for why the fake marriage he and Luo Binghe have arranged in order to Binghe a green card or something should involve this moonlit dinner for two at a fancy restaurant vs Luo Binghe's elaborate schemes to gradually introduce more and more explicitly romantic gestures into their relationship without spooking Shen Yuan until Shen Yuan realizes on his own that they are married for realsies, fight.

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(ignoring canon in favour of satisfying my own cravings)

when luo binghe is sleeping and not actively hiding it, the demon mark is almost invisible, kind of like a faded scar. when he’s feigning sleep to see what shen qingqiu would do, it glows as usual—a dead giveaway, which somehow mr. cunning demon lord protagonist doesn’t realise.

shen qingqiu, however, does realise. from the first time it happens, in fact. he pretends he doesn’t so he can ‘reinforce binghe’s confidence’ and help treat the poor man’s abandonment issues by cuddling him and petting his hair.

it’s totally not because the heavenly pecs are extremely comfortable and he loves his silly husband, of course. that would be cheesy and unbecoming of an esteemed master such as he. this is for binghe’s sake, and we’d all do well to remember that.

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question for the council: is it vore or vore adjacent if, hypothetically, shen yuan was transmigrated into binghe’s body, but vacated the premises to revive binghe and return his life to him, thus awakening in binghe a need to get shen yuan back inside of him, kind of in a “i never want to separate from you” way? i’m asking for a friend

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swordtember day 13: ice

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Life is awfully hard rn so I made some serotonin for myself, mom omega Binghe I love you so much