#I wouldn't put it past him to buy redbubble Binghe laptop stickers

[luobingheshoe]

I think he loved the potential of the plot and story. That's why he's so critical of the plot holes. He seems like the kind of person that would lay in bed for hours thinking about what PIDW *could* have been. I think he kept reading merely to 1. know more about the world building 2. see if Airplane actually filled any of those plot holes. But I also think he definitely loved Luo Bing-ge as a character, wanting to see how his story would end, and when the ending was super unsatisfactory and none of the plot holes were filled and the amazing expanded world that the author had in mind went to shit, obviously he was angry. I agree that he probably wasn't #1 stan but i think he was invested enough to dedicate so much time to it.

I’m gonna make a meta about how Shen Qingqiu has always been consistent about his feelings towards PIDW, and that the plot of scum villain justifies his critiques of the original novel from when he was Shen Yuan. Because I’m tired of people either 1) forgetting that what Shen Yuan loved about PIDW was the world-building and (early) character creation, not a lot of the plot (which he said was full of holes) and tropes (which he said was nonsensical and just trauma porn), which is why he died mad or 2) somehow falling on the complete opposite end of the spectrum and thinking that Shen Yuan was just an edgelord who either actually hated or was only pretending to hate PIDW (for what, cool points?) and had to learn that the story “wasn’t bad” through his transmigration.