#meng mo

[shizunitis]

MENG MO X YUE QINGYUAN??? I'm intrigued

i had to go into my notes from months ago for this, because i'm SO sleepy i'm not sure i can rework it properly right now, but i love this ship a Normal Amount. so, with some editing:

IMAGINE (and do not think too much about the details, airplane’s world is ours to do with as we please):

yue qingyuan: sect leader whose favourite (not that he has favourites) shidi went off into the big wide world and married (without inviting him. he found out months after the fact.) his demon emperor student after almost starting a war with the demon realm by way of thinking too much, and he's kind of stressed about all of it.

which isn’t great. mu-shidi has recommended “peace and quiet”. yue qingyuan doesn’t laugh in people’s faces, but he came incrementally close to doing so that day.

though he’s keeping up with the demands of the sect, as he always has, people keep saying he “has the energy of an empty nester wraith” (qi qingqi, always a pleasure and a delight) and is “bringing the vibes, like, way down",” (wei qingwqi, with shang-shidi’s influence, he correctly guesses ) which is, perhaps, reason to believe the “peace and quiet” plan of action isn’t going great.

his most basic issue at the moment is his sleep. he can’t rest , and when he does sleep, it’s only an hour of quality sleep per week. which, in spite of being a powerful cultivator, is not a good way of living. he meditates and deals. whatever.

then shen qingqiu (who was so embarrassed about the sect’s reactions to his shotgun wedding (offended and/or amused, mostly) that he put off his return by an extra fourty three days, not that yue qingyuan is counting) finally visits. he brings as many souvenirs as he deems sufficient bribery, which yue qingyuan is not too proud to monopolise. he's the sect leader for a reason.

they somehow end up talking about luo bignhe’s proficiency with the demonic dream arts, and how wonderful it’s been to have him watching over shen qingqiu’s dreamscape every now and then. shen qingqiu recommends it, with a not-so-subtle pointed look at his undereye bags, and yue qingyuan resolves to look into it, see if there’s any merit in the idea. he dismisses it when it doesn’t seem to be possible without involving demonic practices, but it was worth a try.

the days pass, the not-so-newlyweds go about their days, and yue qingyuan notices luo binghe looking like he’s planning something. he’s got that “vibe” about him. it’s the shifty eyes.

since yue qingyuan is seemingly the only one in the sect who respects shen qingqiu’s choice in partner, he decides to do some… not meddling. it’s more of a show of respect! a token of… being someone’s brother-in-law!

he regrets it immediately.

he quickly realise sluo binghe is looking to actually get the sect to accept him as shen qingqiu’s husband and not just the limpet they have to suffer to see their sect sibling, which now makes it an Official Sect Problem.

yue qingyuan cannot let him try with liu qingge first, mu qingfang is still annoyed about the kidnappings, and qi qingqi will get shen qingqiu sarcastic again, which is delightful but not exactly conducive to a Peaceful and Quiet Time. so, he goes ahead and makes small talk.

it is as painful as he imagined. how is an actual emperor this bad at casual chitchat?

this and that is said, and in a last ditch attempt at salvaging the situation, yue qingyuan brings up the dream stuff. he says he’s been trying to research more dream arts techniques, and luo binghe’s eyes do a thing, and the next thing yue qingyuan knows, it’s the evening and a dream demon is stuck in his head with clear instructions not to let yue qingyuan feel an ounce of stress while sleeping.

he immediately feels a lot of stress.

the reaction of yue qingyuan’s sleeping mind at having a demon infiltrator sniffing around is enough to startle him. meng mo, who yoe quingyuan has never met before, takes a look at the place and says, “well it’s not worse than that brat’s, at least,” which is worrisome.

since they’re both stuck like this, and meng mo (who shen qingqiu has apparently been calling “senior”, which yue qingyuan decides to do as well, on principle) doesn’t seem hyped about the situation either, yue qingyuan decides… well.

what’s the worst that can happen?

so he spends his nights half-confiding to an ancient demon who controls nightmares and loves conjuring up weird things he saw in people’s dreams, and half-listening to him complain about the luo-shen couple and binghe’s insufferable thoughts and dreams. he learns more than he probably should. definitely more than he wanted to.

honestly, it’s kind of nice. so nice, that he makes a mistake: he gets complacent.

the mix of everything that’s been happening in the last few months finally catches up to yue qingyuan. it results in having some less-peaceful dreams.

meng mo being there proves to be a surprisingly good thing. though they’ve built up a rapport over however many weeks it’s been, yue qingyuan did not expect meng mo to help him with guarding nightmares, regardless of what luo binghe had said. it’s not like yue qingyuan was inclined to snitch on the old man.

meng mo isn’t kind about helping him, but he is so unphased by the myrriad of horrible memories stuck behind yue qingyuan’s pleasant and placid gaze that yue qingyuan finally makes some progress in his cultivation after years of stagnation.

of course, this is put into perspective when, for some odd and airplane-esque reason, yue qingyuan has a sex dream. this, more than anything, intrigues meng mo, who is above all a proud filthy old man. meng mo has criticism for yue qingyuan’s ideas of sex and a fun time, so pitying his lacklustre imagination, he provides him with more gratifying dreams that night.

meng mo is an old man, but he is undeniably handsome. he’s got that severe, masterful air about him, a sarcastic and prideful bearing, and a penchant for vulgarity, and… ah.

yue qingyuan is not going to think about that too much, actually.

meng mo is obviously aware that yue qingyuan is an attractive man, since he has refereed to his pecs as “a treasure wasted on someone who doesn’t know how to use them properly”. yue qingyuan is given many nicknames, like “pretty boy” or some such.

over the whatever next amount of time, they end up actually getting together by grace of meng mo’s schemes and manipulations (he just like. conjures vaguely sexual stuff with increasing frequency, until yue qingyuan finally takes the bait and lets it happen), which yue qingyuan is so confused about. not that he likes it, but that it’s actually helping with the “peace and quiet” treatment plan.

he does not tell mu qingfang. mu qingfang somehow, for some reason, knows. yue qingyuan will not that about that too much, either.

//

so that's where the note ended. if i remember correctly i immediately fell asleep, and i think that last line is meant as a meng mo/yue qingyuan/mu qingfang throuple kind of thing but i can’t be certain. i’m sorry. 😔 i just feel like these three, but especially yqy & meng mo would mix together in such Weird ways.

also i firmly believe yue qingyuan should get what binghe didn’t: an old man to fuck. and actual conversations about his trauma.

[artsarasp]

@aceofdivinechlorophyll You know I would die for Meng Mo????? I would! Everyone go read Inappropriate Use!!!

[lurkinginnernarrator]

...Shen Yuan transmigrates as Meng Mo AU.

[wafywaify]

Y'know what I want? More meng mo and shen qingqiu interaction. The few scenes we got with them was honestly golden. The slight concern meng mo showed him after the punishment and the way he sort of helped him? Despite him "hating" shen qingqiu? Their relationship kind of gives me like estranged uncle you only see like every other christmas that always has something to say about you. But it's clear its not like malicious it just comes off as awkward.

I read this one fic awhile ago about shen qingqiu and binghe accidentally body swapping while binghe was in the abyss and shen qingqiu took it upon himself to help out binghe while like expertly navigating through the abyss. And because shen qingqiu was in binghes body, meng mo and him got to talk a bit. The way the author wrote meng mo was so fucking funny dude. Like bro was going through the 5 stages of grief and somehow ended up begging binghe to marry shen qingqiu. Peak comedy.

Fic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/44510221

[crowlyne]

Action RPG AU where SY is the final boss in Endless Abyss, and Binghe has to defeat him to get Xin Mo (how he defeats him, you decide)

[tossawary]

Luo Binghe is kind of an orphan, but he also has SO many deadbeat, dead, or creepy parental figures or technical parents, it's SO funny to me. He only actually wants, like, two of them in his life.

The washerwoman: adoptive mother. Loved her and misses her to this day. Only mother he cares about.

Unknown potential miscellaneous caretakers between the fishermen finding him in the Luo River and his adoptive mother taking him in. SOMEONE had to nurse this kid if he wasn't actually adopted by the washerwoman immediately.

Su Xiyan: birth mother. If anyone told him about the "set adrift in a river" thing, he probably assumed for most of his life that a birth parent left him for dead.

Shen Qingqiu (Shen Jiu): teacher and master. If Shen Jiu didn't give Binghe a lot of his issues, then he definitely made them worse!

Shen Qingqiu (Shen Yuan): teacher and master. The "can't I look at what I raised?" is there and cannot be taken back, and it does just get weirder from there. No, I don't think Shen Yuan would be thrilled about being on this list at all.

Meng Mo: teacher and portable grandfather. This demon had to talk Binghe into being his student and settle for not even being called "Shifu". Probably gives terrible advice.

Shang Qinghua: father to Binghe as much as he's father to everyone in this world that he wrote. Does NOT want Binghe to know this. Probably gave Binghe a lot of his own issues. Sure does give advice.

Mobei-Jun: demon mentor (arguable) and stepfather through the author father thing. Does not know this. Definitely gives terrible advice.

Huan Hua Palace Master: master of Binghe's birth mother, wants to be Binghe's father-in-law and is also using him as a replacement Su Xiyan. Threw Gongyi Xiao aside IMMEDIATELY to take Binghe in and put Binghe in charge of the Jin Lan City mission even when he wasn't an official disciple.

Tianlang-Jun: birth father. Sealed away before Binghe's birth and comes back to cause SO MANY problems.

[red-pearl-white-flower]

When it came to unpleasant mental parasites, Meng Mo could be considered like a polite roommate who generally washed the dishes, and was only occasionally late on rent. Does the esteemed elder have a complaint?  A complaint! Is immortal master Shen aware he has not had a thought that did not in some way concern Luo Binghe since the beginning of the morning?

Chapter nine of Notes on the changing of a narrative is up!

[hyperlinkproxy]

hey so i saw that @wyyvoren assigned scum villain characters to lps and i LOVE lps so i made my own fancast chart! ty for the idea it lit a fire within 10 year old me

[selselskythesecond]

Meng Mo in Inappropriate Use May Result in Strange Side Effects

[allpiesforourown]

Poor Meng Mo in the beast peak AU. He has to deal with the most vile, bloody, fucked up fantasies of this random teenager. Even for a demon he’s freaked out and is a little worried about the Peak lord

Oh definitely. I said this in lowly disciple's too

[shizunitis]

meng mo should have had male lovers in the past that he lore drops on binghe and binghe’s just “??????? but you said me and shizun were unnatural and immoral” “yeah but that’s a you problem”

[artsarasp]

"Inappropriate Use May Result in Strange Side Effects" by @aceofdivinechlorophyll It's hysterical. After the last chapter, I can only assume Meng Mo has been building up a conspiracy board with all the weird info he's gathered about SQQ.

[sillygoofyqueer]

PART TWO OF THAT ONE ANON'S ASK WITH THE REACTIONS OF IMPORTANT DEMONS TO SHEN YUAN (*pulls out the wiki*...now, who's important enough to yap about.....): Sha Hualing: Sha Hualing underestimates Shen Yuan at first, believing him to be just another stepping stone to power - if she can make Luo Binghe deal with her existence, she can do anything! So, she puts on the charm: "oh, Ling-er got lost...can the benevolent corvid deity help her?" all coy and demure. Then SY stares at her, and she can just SEE how her flirting flies over his head before he says "yeah! Of course I can." So, she thinks he's a moron, a brilliant thing for her if she wants to be more powerful. However, SHL then has to watch as all of these demons and yao trip over one another to try and court SY and is like "oh...oh I see...." and tips her hat to him - after all, she has to respect a man who can also use his pretty qualities to get as much power as he wants!!! She sees him, she knows what he's doing... Mobei-Jun: Mobei-Jun doesn't really care about Shen Yuan at all - it's strange that Luo Binghe keeps fawning over him and Sha Hualing nods in approval every time it happens, but it's none of his business. Let this strange crow demon do what he wants, as long as he leaves Mobei-Jun out of it. However, he soon learns that Shang Qinghua is close with SY. The same SY who SHL respects for his faux-innocent flirting with every man who has a conversation with him. MBJ MUST KNOW EVERYTHING. He goes to fight for his right to court SQH, has a singular conversation with SY, and realises that SHL is overestimating SY and that the corvid deity is actually just That Oblivious. So, instead of trying to kill SY, he starts grilling him for details about what would make SQH love him. SY needs a drink. Linguang-Jun: Linguang-Jun hears of Shen Yuan - a new demon that can compete with Luo Binghe, and therefore destroy him!!! PERFECT for LGJ's plot to kill Mobei-Jun. He simply has to get SY on his side, which should be easy to do with his natural charm- he gets hit with the wifebeam. Nobody sees this coming, not even me, but he ends his "interrogation" (conversation) sighing dreamily at the power this heavenly demon holds so casually, without even batting an eye about all the people he has under his thumb. GOD, he wants him carnally (only SY could make this happen in a freak like LGJ). Meng Mo: MENG MO HAS HONESTLY GONE INSANE. HE WAS SENT INTO THE MIND OF SHEN YUAN TO SEE WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THERE, BUT IT. IT MAKES NO SENSE. WHAT'S- WHO IS THIS FREAK. WHY'S HE SO NICE??? WHY ARE HIS THOUGHTS INSANE??? WHY DOES NOBODY FUCKING BELIEVE HIM WHEN HE SAYS THAT THIS IS A FUCKING WEIRDO WHO KNOWS FAR FAR TOO MUCH ABOUT EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING. THIS ISN'T JUST WHAT 'CROW DEMONS' KNOW. THIS IS SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY.

[ladyprophet]

The dreamscape event from Proud Immortal Demon Way.

More Ning Yingying thoughts under the cut.

I have way to many thoughts about original LBH and NYY. I think one can safely say that all marriages aren't based on true love. Especially after Xin Mo's corruption.

But I do want to believe that even the original black lotus still wanted to be good to the wives, at least in the beginning. And with the idea that LBH repaid both kindness and slight tenfolds I would indicate that he at least liked the people he married. Even if there is strong hints that some relationships are less then healthy.

As such I like to believe that there was a core of true caring between LBH and NYY. Even of NYY also was young and had her faults. The way the SY talkes about the dream sequence from PIDW I think supports that their relationship had some truth to it.

Maybe there are more hints of unreliable narrator in svsss that I have forgotten that puts a dent in that chance. And maybe once LBH gets Xin Mo what they have is also eroded away.

But I guess this is all for me to say that I'm all for LBH and NYY friendships!

[starchbean]

What Dreams May Come

Shen Yuan dies from expired food

He doesn't exactly find himself in a new body, but his self-awareness doesn't exactly go away.

Instead, he finds himself bodiless in a dark void with nothing but his thoughts. He has so many thoughts that rage through him about how PIDW ended. He's actually more easily able to focus his anger at Luo Binghe's bad ending than at the fact that he died. With nothing to do but think, he comes up with hundreds of ways the story could have gone that would be more satisfying for his favorite Protagonist.

Eventually, he's not sure exactly when, he realizes that he can manifest visions from his thoughts into the empty space. Landscapes, beasts, swords, and eventually even people--though, unnervingly, it seems he can't do faces.

Things continue like this until one day, his little soap bubble dream world is abruptly popped, and he finds himself in the room of a lavish demonic palace. He still hasn't got much of a body beyond a wisp of smoke, but a pointy eared girl without shoes that he's pretty sure is Sha Hualing??? What the fuck??? Is yelling at him and calling him Meng Mo.

After she mentions releasing him to attack a boy that caught her eye, Shen Yuan (Or... Meng Mo, now) is PUMPED! Not only does he get to meet Luo Binghe, he gets to go and LIVE INSIDE HIM!

[tossawary]

I can't remember if I've posted about this fic idea before, but I know I've definitely mentioned the Hong Jing sword on Wan Jian Peak. It's mentioned in the Airplane Extras when the other peak lords are talking about the fact that Shen Qingqiu's entire personality has changed (and about how most of them like him better this way), as this magical sword apparently unseals itself in the presence of possessed individuals.

Wei Qingwei, Peak Lord of Wan Jian, used the Hong Jing sword to test whether or not Shen Qingqiu was possessed. The sword did not unseal itself because transmigration apparently doesn't read as possession in-universe. Shen Yuan, in fact, exposed himself to the Hong Jing sword MULTIPLE TIMES to test this! (SHEN YUAN, WTF, what if it HAD reacted?! Did the System tell you it was safe?!) Shang Qinghua presumably also easily passes the Hong Jing sword test and no one even has a reason to suspect possession there.

But you know who might actually get a reaction out of the Hong Jing sword? Luo Binghe, after Meng Mo shows up.

It's possible that PIDW Binghe never set off the sword just because he had no reason to visit this particular part of Wan Jian Peak. Maybe Binghe and/or Meng Mo knew about the Hong Jing sword and took careful steps to avoid being in its presence. (We don't know if Airplane invented the Hong Jing sword before or after Binghe left the sect.) But if SVSSS Binghe and Meng Mo are both oblivious to the danger of the Hong Jing sword, and Binghe's actions within the sect change when he becomes a treasured and respected disciple, then the entire plot could get immediately derailed by accident.

Shen Qingqiu sends his 17-year-old head disciple to Wan Jian Peak to pick up some innocuous paperwork or something, only to get a messenger about an hour later telling him that the Hong Jing sword completely unsealed itself when Binghe entered walked too close to it while looking for the peak lord, and Wei Qingwei witnessed this and has essentially forcibly arrested Binghe for being possessed by a demon. Attempting to exorcise the dream demon, as Wei Qingwei probably believes is the next reasonable step here, may accidentally break the seals on Binghe's demon heritage entirely and make everything worse.

Shen Yuan just... forgot to keep his disciple away from this sword, which only showed up as a former relic of Wan Jian Peak in a late chapter of PIDW. The System also did not plan for this loophole.