#yueyuan

[pr0cyon-lotor]

AU where PIWD is a RPG game that follows LBH defeating the disgraced cultivator turned demon king (emperor? lord? Whatever) Shen Qingqiu and becomes the demon king and gets a harem made up of his adventuring party.

Shen Yuan had playing it and it sucked major ass (I might make him fond of SQQ again the au is growing on me ngl). He enters the modding community for the game. He makes mods that give story behind the characters, give the girls actual personalities, fleshes out the villain, etc. He's fairly popular in the community and is well known to be Airplane's biggest hater.

Shen Yuan gets a helper eventually someone that also dislikes how the story went (totally not Airplane on an Alt account. nope.) and together they work on a mod that completely rewrites the whole thing because the game mechanics are good enough. (Airplane finally gets to tell the story he wanted)

It's their magnum opus. It takes years to finish and when they finally upload it, bullshit happens and they both end up croaking because yay 😊

Shen Yuan gets thrown into the modded version of PIDW. He is the current demon king's son. He recognizes that he will be the demon king that is the predecessor to Shen Qingqiu.

He tries to run away from his fate and ends up running right to the throne and accidentally becomes way over qualified. He eventually resigns to his fate and instead focuses on making sure his staff is loyal to him because the former demon king was betrayed by his staff or something.

Shen Yuan ends up becoming one of the most well liked kings in their history without realizing it.

One day when he's doing fuck all in the mortal realm. He encounters a town gets raided. He came too late to stop it, but he did manage to take down the raiders (Huan Hua Palace). He looked over the town and didn't find many survivors, one was a little girl that he picked up after she clung to him in desperation.

He takes the survivors back with him and makes sure they're fine, but accidentally adopts the girl since she tugged at his heartstrings. So he has a daughter now.

Years pass and he becomes an old man before he figures out how to halt his aging (old man Shen Yuan makes me feel things). And by then his daughter (take a wild guess who it is with my track history. c'mon we all know it's Su Xiyan) is an accomplished cultivator.

He's proud of his daughter and insists that she at least visits him. Su Xiyan eventually joins a sect/guild (honestly depends on how much RPG I want to make this) and gets aquatinted with the people there.

She becomes friends with one of the cultivators there named Shen Jiu and they're both very catty and take shit all the time.

Things happens, plot occurs, and Su Xiyan accidentally releases an ancient demon that had been sealed away for centuries. She is fascinated by his pathetic rizz and decides that "sure, I'll fuck that."

She brings back her totally-not-demon boyfriend to the rest and he is accepted in (YQY couldn't find it in himself to really gaf). Eventually Huan Hua Palace requests for help to take down the demon king.

And even though they have an ancient demon among them they said "yeah sure :)" Cang Qiong ends up being the ones to actually do the journey.

They get there, it was a tiresome and perilous journey. And they're finally at the demon king's throne room in front of this terrifying demon and this terrifying demon is like

SY: "Oh my God. Hi Xiyan you're visiting again? You were here a few days ago. Are these your friends? :D"

SXY: "Hey dad. These are my friends also we're here to kill you :)"

SY: "Woah really? That's great, sweetie! Make sure to aim for the head :D"

The cultivators get their asses handed to them (Tianlang-jun's ass was NOT helping)

And instead of getting killed by Shen Yuan he invites them to dinner to recover their strength. And like the demon king is like pretty chill and asks if they want to try to kill him again. Yue Qingyuan proposes an alliance instead.

Shen Yuan agrees because he figured out that trying to run from your fate brings you straight to it, and he might as well benefit his kingdom before he's killed.

The dealings take a while (a suspicious amount of time) so Yue Qingyuan, Shen Qingqiu, and Shen Yuan get aquatinted. They start having tea and gossip and maybe start a bookclub :D

Shen Yuan thinks he somehow thinks he befriended the guildmaster and his future murderer and is a little confused while Yue Qingyuan and Shen Qingqiu is like "This Gap Moe is Crazy. We wanna fuck this old man 🤝🤝🤝"

Eventually they do, in fact, fuck that old man. Su Xiyan is not impressed that her friends are dating her dad. Tianlang-jun is personally enjoying the fanfiction.

[prism-wanderer]

Listen. Regardless of how you feel about Yue Qingyuan/Shen Yuan. I don't even know their ship name. That shit slaps. Those writers write like they get powered through the angst of a million suns. I don't know what's worse. Yue Qingyuan KNOWING and still being that desperate/or maybe he does Love Shen Yuan or him being completely unaware and Shen Yuan is stuck constantly comparing himself and Shen Jiu. It also can be Hella funny. Especially when they make Yue Qingyuan the type that snaps and goes ape shit. Like holy shit that man is insane and it's high key hot. Writers never stop it's like a guilty pleasure for me 🙏🏾

[gaywarcriminals]

Yueyuan is princess4princess to me

[adragonthatwrites]

After forever and a day I'm proud to say I'm finally getting started on my next bookbinding project!

This one, rather than being a single fic, will be a small collection of shorter fics! Included shall be:

Still Human, by @rnbwstar

TGCF, JunMei

Junmei’s little introduction to BDSM begins, naturally, when Jun Wu is restrained under Mt. Tonglu. He begins to take a liking to it.

...and that's why they stopped showing guests the sex trees, by @azzandra SVSSS, YueYuan

Sometimes you and a bro get hit by an aphrodisiac and have to help each other out. Totally normal day at work.

and empty, full by northfallmusic

TGCF, HuaLian

It isn't that Xie Lian isn't afraid of his body, of whether it will do what he wants it to do, feel what he wants it to feel. But he's much more afraid of taking slow careful steps into the unknown than he is of leaping.   Or: Xie Lian can, in fact, get it up, often and enthusiastically. Getting off is a little trickier.

along with at least one more; though I haven't quite decided yet which one... I'll update when it's been selected and the binding can officially begin!

A quick thanks to all of the authors above who agreed to let me find their wonderful fics! They're quite good and I recommend checking them out (though mind yourself, they are all explicit lol!)

[amystarsmith]

Yue Qingyuan and Shen Qingqiu (SY) Drabble

Basically SY feels guilty about YQY calling him Xiao-Jiu

Word Count:720

Can be platonic or romantic!

“Xiao-Jiu.” The sect leader said calmly, beginning to address Shen Qingqiu. It was a calm afternoon, until it all suddenly blew up.

“Don’t call me that!!” The Qing Jing peak lord slammed his hand on the table, causing his own tea cup to tumble over. He didn’t care about the hot tea getting on his clothes or on his hands, he didn’t care about the cup shattering to the floor in an instant.

Yue Qingyuan looked startled, wincing when the cup broke. It was from one of the sets he had gifted the man, so seeing it destroyed hurt his heart a little. Shen Qingqiu didn’t seem to calm down all that much, his brows still furrowed.

Suddenly it hit him, there would be no reason for him to act like this. This was different then when Shen Jiu would tell the sect leader to shut up, a more raw feeling in his voice as he yelled.

Shen Yuan had tried to play his part well. Being cordial and nice to the people around him, trying to fix his body’s awful reputation.

But this felt so different.

Yue Qingyuan would constantly be calling him by a name that wasn’t his, a personal name that wasn’t his. The way the sect leader said it too was always so tender and warm.

He’d be looking at Shen Qingqiu as if he was the sunshine after a rainy day. Warm, ready to surround you and comfort you now that the clouds are gone.

It made Shen Yuan too uncomfortable. He wasn’t the one Yue Qingyuan had wanted to give that look.

It was meant for the original Shen Qingqiu, the irritable Shen Jiu.

The person Shen Yuan wasn’t.

“Don’t…. Don’t call me that, please.” His tone was changed as he said it a second time, sitting back down politely. He took his hand off of the table, ignoring the feeling of his wet and warm robe sticking to the wood.

The look Yue Qingyuan held now was… worry. Those sunshine filled eyes, warm and happy, were slightly glossy now, the man’s brows a little furrowed.

“Shen… Qingqiu.” The sect leader’s voice was soft, he was testing if that form of address was okay. The peak lord met his eyes, there was so much emotion that wasn’t usually behind them. “What’s wrong with me calling you that?”

It was a simple question, but to Shen Yuan it held too much weight. So many things could be said and asked about it, like that he wasn’t Shen Jiu and shouldn’t be called that.

But that would only bring more questions.

Shen Yuan breathed in shakily, remembering what the dreams he had showed him of Shen Jiu’s past.

His enslavement. How he had met Yue. How he acted to proud but in reality was just as scared as every other child there.

“Jiu isn’t a name.” Shen Qingqiu buried his nails into his robes, clenching down on the skin underneath it all. “It’s just a number. Slaves never got names.” Every word that left his throat felt bitter, like as it crawled from his mouth it left a burning trail. Shen Qingqiu felt his face get hot, the words struggling to make it out as he talked.

“I’m no longer a slave, Yue Qingyuan.” He made eye contact with the man, a fierce look in green eyes despite the tears welling up in them. “Saying such a title as my number is disrespectful and only brings bad thoughts.”

The look of the sect leader’s face changed. Thinking, accepting, looking at Shen Qingqiu with a look of pity.

Shen Yuan knew that Shen Jiu couldn’t stand that face.

“Okay… I understand. That makes a lot of sense.” Yue Qingyuan sighed, picking up a new cup and pouring tea for the man across from him.

“… if you must call me Xiao something, Yuan is a name I like. The wall version, not like yours meaning source…” he continued, ignoring how Yue Qingyuan stopped pouring tea.

“Xiao-Yuan.” The way the sect leader said it held so much weight, as if his name was the most important thing in the world.

“… Yue-Ge.” Was Shen Qingqiu’s informal reply, sipping on his tea as the sect leader beamed in front of him.

Maybe this new life won’t be so bad.

[heart2heartroses2u]

Perfect CP pairing, can’t wait for more collaborations between them

[her-lightbringer]

I got sniped again,,I'm immortalizing these in my memory forever obymgd

[gemkun]

anonymous said : dan heng, since the vidyadhara are self reproducing, does that mean marriage and dating don’t exist for your culture?

      ⸻       ❝   the   vidyadhara   are   not   self   —   reproducing.   they   undergo   the   cycle   of   self   —   reincarnation.   it   begins   with   embryonic   development   in   the   ancient   sea   and   once   the   egg   is   nurtured   ,   it   proceeds   to   hatch.   the   young   vidyadhara   are   then   guided   into   adulthood   under   the   elders   ,   where   they   acquire   knowledge   gradually   ,   and   discover   their   specialisation   to   depart   to   their   respective   places.   in   their   maturity   they   become   elders   themselves   and   teach   the   young   ,   who   then   realise   their   trade   as   their   elders   once   did.   after   seven   centuries   ,   they   return   to   the   same   sea   ,   lose   their   memories   ,   molt   and   revert   to   embryos   once   more   to   await   their   hatching   rebirth.   the   cycle   then   restarts.   ❞

  ❝   this   hatching   rebirth   does   not   affect   romantic   inclination   —   marriage   and   dating   are   not   exclusive   for   procreation.   vidyadhara   are   capable   of   experiencing   emotions   such   as   love.   any   creature   with   a   consciousness   is.   on   the   luofu   ,   i   have   come   across   a   great   deal   of   individuals   who   express   their   affliction.   but   it   is   true   that   aversion   for   romance   exists   ,   which   largely   stems   from   the   removal   of   memories   in   later   years.   however   ,   love   has   proven   to   be   quite   powerful   and   challenges   even   fate   itself.   ❞

[beansssssssss]

Vidyadhara canonically cannot reproduce. Yueyuan in the alchemy commission tells us this very explicitly:

If you are desperate this could also implies they don’t have reproductive organs. Even if you aren’t, the whole reincarnation thing means there is no need for reproductive organs and they should be canonically ace because there is no biological incentive for sex or organs. Why tf is there so much mpreg for the man who is physically unable to reproduce (more so than you average man). Also, man is basically a platapus, they are born out of eggs, why does he have babies that are not eggs in fanon?

Instead of canon diverging Dan Heng’s organs maybe we could instead have slay ace representation and take the opportunity to explore his relationship with other characters!

[pr0cyon-lotor]

*hands you abandoned WIP* you want this?

Anyway context was that SY, YQY, and SJ grew up together. SY is a half demon who had his demonic side sealed away as a child. . They joined Cang Qiong and SY learns to cook because these bitches NOT eating. Anyway one thing led to another and Shen Yuan is presumed dead. A full on war breaks out between the cultivators and demons. And Cang Qiong lost too much and had to surrender in hopes of spearing the rest of their population.

Luo Binghe sets them in the care of "Lord Shen" who is just Shen Yuan. SY as soon as he was presumed dead decides to take care of and nurture the southern territories in preparation for LBH eventual take over. Anyway SY takes care of Cang Qiong and just randomly realizes they haven't eaten so he feeds them.

This is a gross oversimplification of the plot, but honestly, I'm too lazy to finish it. I'll do it eventually 😮‍💨

[prism-wanderer]

I wrote a Yue Qingyuan/Shen Yuan post and I'm glad yall agree with me on that, but I wanted to give an example for those who hadn't seen one so here it is

This fic is phenomenal and amazing. I needed a sequel three years ago. This is the Yueyuan I want 😭

[gaywarcriminals]

Yueyuan AU where PIDW was a tragedy about Yue Qingyuan. Shen Yuan still fervently hates Shen Qingqiu for SHUNNING HIS PERFECT GE AFTER EVERYTHING YUE QINGYUAN HAS BEEN THROUGH FOR HIM, and when he transmigrates into Yue Qingyuan's scum brother, he knows the best way to make his blorbo happy is to repair their relationship. Shen Yuan did not pick up on the homoerotic undertones of PIDW, and doesn't realize that SQQ was not just YQY's once brother, and now painfully distant shidi, but also YQY's white moonlight.

SY: I gotta make Qi-ge happy, I'll stop openly scorning him, and accept his gifts, and have tea with him, and hold his hand, and--

YQY: Omg Xiao Jiu doesn't hate me anymore.

YQY: ....... Are, are we courting 😳?

Cue Shen Yuan thinking he's just developing and close and loving 🥰 brotherly 🥰 relationship 🥰 while Yue Qingyuan is patiently waiting for Shen Qingqiu to be ready to take the next step. They've had so many conflicts and misunderstandings, YQY is happy to take it as slow as Xiao Jiu needs 🥺. 

Shen Qingqiu is full on sitting in Yue Qingyuan's lap but never kisses him, and hasn't even mentioned marriage. Yue Qingyuan doesn't want to rush him, but now that Shen Qingqiu is within reach, Yue Qingyuan is feeling a kind of greed he hasn't indulged in decades...

[strinak]

anyway liujiu and yueyuan annoy me for the same reason: pretending two very different men are the same bc they have/had the same body. the lack of respect...!!

lqg didn't like sj at all, he fell in love AFTER sy took the wheel! yqy isn't into the body, he is somehow bewitched by the horrible bastard man IN that body!

[leahsfiction]

cool thread about a ttrpg about a Daoist and their retinue of ghosts, Shrine: the Siege of Yueyuan!

The game was an attempt to evoke a sort of lived feeling and experience, of instinctual associations, and share them with wider audiences (who might or might not be Chinese/Shenist). With xianxia's growing popularity as a genre, we hoped players/ readers might be interested!

[astralexpressarchives]

Hi thanks for you great response, I'm really tired while I write this so bear with me 🙏

Actually, I am already familiar with the CN versions but figured it didn't actually change anything for the theory so opted not to include it bc that's a whole extra thing to explain. Regardless of the chosen language, the idea of a "fake" realm being created or accessed persists.

You're actually pretty close with the delve thing! Delves are an actual concept on the Xianzhou; their entire ship is made up of these delves. You can read about it in the Travelogue on Xianzhou: Delves.

Specifically, the Delve-Hidden moon is underneath the scalegorge and the Arbor. We already have proof of that with the poor guy tied to the Unshackled who ended up in a lost paradise in the recent daily quests with Yueyuan. I believe these are also part of the "Lunarescent Depths" and only accessible by swimming or starskiff (see how Oppenheimer needed a helmet to get there in the myriad?).

The other really fun thing that I noticed is the Vidyadhara sections on the luofu literally have little hanging decorations of the Arbor with a moon under it:

All of the other High Elders are also shown in mountainous terrain in their dragon portraits in the Myriad. I think these mountainous paradises are a Vidyadhara thing.

And yes of course the ball is used to draw on Long's power - by all definitions, High Elders should qualify as emanators which means their power comes from their Aeon.

Actually, the chance of Cloudpiercer itself being somewhat imaginary is up there because his DH:IL form is seen several times manifesting one or multiple cloudpiercers from water, seemingly willing the spear into existence as he pleases. This isn't unusual for him as his own body is something he also seems to be able to will in and out of existence with water - re-watch his transformation scene carefully and just pay attention to what actually happens to his body. I think this is the "transmutation arcanum" that let's him turn the special dragon blood water into whatever he wants!

Dan Heng, the Imaginary, and the Lunarescent Depths

So I was recently discussing lore with a friend of mine and we came to a very interesting conclusion about Dan Heng that just makes a little too much sense for me to not make post about.

Dan Heng is an artist who uses the blood of Long to paint imaginary realms into existence and also Long is probably an Imaginary Aeon

Okay hear me out.

So everybody has the 4 star version of Dan Heng on their account. Everybody would have seen his ultimate ability and should be quite familiar with his line:

This sanctuary, is but a vision... Break!

The animation begins with a zoom in on his sphere - very likely the same sphere he uses in his Dan Heng: Imbibitor Lunae form for his spells. He closes his eyes.

Now, the camera zooms out quickly so that we can see the sanctuary that is but a vision.

Then he attacks the enemy, his weapon trailing black splatters of...

Ink!

Alright, now let me back it up a bit for a brief intermission and introduce you to the Judges of the 10 Lords Commission. The Undestroyed Notes makes this statement about the Judges:

A sister among the disciples once described to me one of the judge's brushes — it could write talismans out of thin air, which would make the written words come true.

Of course, we now know this is likely a reference to Hanya as her recent promo material shows her using a magic brush:

She specializes in reading the karma and sins of criminals, and records their crimes and punishments with the Oracle Brush.

It's unclear is this Oracle Brush is in fact the brush that can write things out of thin air, but it's worth noting regardless.

The point is that there is precedence in HSR for characters using brushes/painting/writing to make things real.

Back to Dan Heng, though. It doesn't stop at his 4 star variation, either. Dan Heng: Imbibitor Lunae's ultimate is a very similar story.

A zoom in towards his sphere, his eyes are closed - this time, the (drawn!) clouds are circling him.

Then a scene where the entire thing looks painted! But it doesn't stop there.

Dan Heng and Blade

Now, as with any analysis of Dan Heng, it's basically impossible to make one without also mentioning Blade since Hoyo is obsessed with them:

Blade's sword graveyard (the Hellscape, as he calls it) is very similar to Dan Heng's heavenly moon realm. I believe this is because these locations are mirror images of each other - that is to say, the mountainous area is a real location and one or both of their ultimates are mirror/s of this location.

Also note that he also accesses this location by "slicing" it out of thin air with his Blade.

Also note the drawn aesthetic of the spiderlilies, I think this is implying they are in another realm - same as when he is in his ult and the spiderlilies are projected on his attack! In that same scene, if you look very closely you can spot some lotus the water (extra credit to my friend for spotting this one!)

The realm keeping commission has this image of a dragon's face over the moon between two sets of mountains, one set is upside down mirroring the other set.

A few more examples of Dan Heng and Blade as mirrors:

Blade in the reflection of the water. Note the presence of the moon and leaves surrounding Dan Heng vs the Arbor roots surrounding Blade.

We also know the arbor roots are a real location because we fight Phantylia there beneath the Scalegorge:

The Azure Dragon enters through a circular cloud formation and arrives at the mountainous location on the Xianzhou.

Blade in his fansong shown at the circular clouds swapping identities of Blade vs Yingxing (this happens when he is "marastruck" as seen in his trailer). In his fansong, the clouds lead to the red moon.

This is important because Blade is the creator of Cloudpiercer - the weapon attached to the orb Dan Heng uses to paint his imaginary landscapes - and Blade also created the sword he uses that cuts open the portal to the hellscape. It's unclear if the connection is the weapons or something else, like Dragonheart theory would would mean Blade's blood contains Long's blood which could be the triggering tool.

Anyway, we know these mountains are a real location because Dan Feng was imprisoned there. I believe this location is the Lunarescent Depths Delve below the Scalegorge:

We also know there is a moon present at Blade's Hellscape:

Keep in mind that this splashart features the moon (piercing through the clouds, very subtle Hoyo), destroyed arbor roots, the sword graveyard, and the spiderlilies. Now compare these images:

This is the same area before and during/after the sedition. Note the arbor roots that were present in the reflection of Blade, the water, the chains, the moon (eclipsed, too) that he is drinking the power of...

To drive the point home even further, here's Blade seated during Kafka's companion quest, courtesy of my friend:

Doesn't that painting look... familiar??? Other than in this location, the painting only shows up in two other locations on the Xianzhou one of which is the Realm-Keeping Commission office (which is literally covered in Vidyadhara mountain references - seriously go check it out for yourself).

Hoyo is definitely hinting at something with this set up, lol.

Genshin

It's hard to talk about a Hoyo game without mentioning Genshin Impact. Honestly, a lot of the Vidyadhara story mirrors the story in Genshin, especially Fontaine, for example:

Special water, potentially people made of water

Water dragon making rain in idle animation

Small female child contained by local scientists might have the soul of a god or could be a scam

And more... but the point is people who play Genshin might be familiar with the story of the melusines who were created with the blood of a dead dragon and they live inside it's corpse and also one of them is a painter using the blood of said dead dragon and also fiction is real and they can enter it in an imaginary space?

Yeah... I think they might have copied that idea and applied it to Dan Heng, allowing him to paint using the special water (probably the Blood of Long) and allowing him to create imaginary spaces. "This sanctuary is but a vision" a vision he literally painted!

I swear I'm not crazy.

Long the Permanence

Now here's an additional theory I have about Long the Permanence.

Long could be an Aeon that exists within the Imaginary space.

By this I mean the reason noone has met him or knows where he is or what happened to him is because he's always been imaginary. His scions exist in the primary reality, of course, but Dan Heng's power comes from the Imaginary element in his Imbibitor Lunae form.

This is further supported by the fact that the moon in reality (outside of the mountain scenery) only shows up briefly at key moments for corresponding characters.

It shows up briefly in Fu Xuan's trailer when she recites lines from a poem about the moon but otherwise is absent. Note how she has Long's constellations on the back of her outfit and dragon heads on her tools.

Jingliu's power is also moon based and you also see the moon in the reflection of her ice/nearby water. The reflection of the moon is actually the real power behind her attacks and the moon that appears behind her is a mirage projected from the reflection (not the other way around!). And in the recent Jingliu Myriad you can tell at the start that the moon only just appeared because the moon flowers are only just blooming! IRL these flowers only bloom at night time, presumably in the moonlight, so the fact that they only just opened implies the moon was not present earlier in the scene. This is the same flower eternally bloomed on her shoulder.

Also note how both scenes where she is drawing upon the moon's power also becomes drawn in an inky art style! Just like Dan Heng.

I might stop here because this post is already very long but I might do a whole post dedicated to dissecting Jingliu's lore and symbolism in greater depth, especially as more Jingliu content is released over the coming days.

[heart2heartroses2u]

Mr. Bad, one of the best drama’s starring Shen Yue and Chen Zhe Yuan as the main lead, to see. It’s simplicity and humbleness and light comical storyline makes this drama very enjoyable to watch..what’s more, the Female lead is down to earth, doesn’t need to dress to impress the male lead, her natural beauty, warmth and loving personality is what captures the heart of her leading man, no sex appeal is needed.. the natural atmosphere keeps you tentative and comical back to watch it over and over again.. and still gets the same feeling as if watching for the first time.. 💛💙