In this world the mushrooms don’t exist, but Airplane has another solution, and it’s eyes another thrown away plot point.
It was originally supposed to be used to make all of Luo Binghe’s human, non cultivator wives into immortals. It was scrapped since that also meant threats from outside the harem were less dramatic.
It’s a type of rock sugar that, when fully dissolved into liqueur makes a cultivation boosting elixir. It takes an excessively long time to fully dissolve, but a drop mixed into tea is intense enough to give someone with no cultivation base their own golden core, and a teaspoon is enough to bring anyone to the brink of Ascencion.
Airplane’s solution is to have the Cang Qiong peak lords ascend, if only to give Shen Yuan more time to prepare for Luo Binghe’s revenge. Airplane would, of course, stay down and provide information for Shen Yuan
Bingqiu that, after a couple thousand years of marital bliss finally decide it’s time to rest eternally together.
They die in each other’s arms, then Shen Yuan gets an alert from the system (which has been quiet for millennia now) that he’s been assigned a new mission.
Shen Yuan has been given the opportunity (chore) of reliving his whole life in the modern era as Shen Yuan to “see how things will change.” He’s even given the reward of keeping the ability to use Qi, even though he’ll have to cultivate a golden core on his own.
Shen Yuan thinks: whatever, it’s only a couple hundred years or so, not insubstantial but only a drop in the bucket compared to how long he’s lived.
He grows to be a child prodigy in multiple different studies and arts, but decides the spotlight is annoying and so becomes a professor at an arts university.
Of course Luo Binghe ends up being his student, one who dedicated himself to that field of study, who’s worked hard throughout his schooling just so he could study under the incredible prodigy Shen Yuan.
Shen Yuan who unintentionally spirit writes with Shen Jiu being the spirit trying to tell him stuff like “kill the beast, coward,” and “you’re wasting my favorite tea, kys.”
Von Willebrands being a genetic disorder that fucks with how blood clots, making it so small cuts can bleed for hours and bruises form really really easily, which matches up with Jing Wang bruising after Piao Xue.
Probably type 1 or type 2, since idk if he would’ve survived type 3 back then. I’d say type 2, so maybe in that case the fish babies couldn’t inherit it? And maybe it could be resolved for Jing Wang with the vacation they take near the end?
He would’ve had a crap ton of nosebleeds growing up, and had to be very diligent in combat training since receiving a more severe injury in battle could kill him via blood loss. As he gets older it’s a lot less serious, he bruises a lot but doesn’t seem to bleed as long.
Prompt of that one scene in the first book of The Disabled Tyrant’s Beloved Pet Fish, the misunderstanding of the century, as a thank you to @melons-n-cocoa for their donation with @danmei-action for g4g!
“Your Highness, you can't! The fish is too small! It won't be able to take it!”
Soulmate pairs in PIDW each have a semi-unique way to symbolize that connection:
Red strings of fate. Words/names/marks on the body. Feeling each others pain. Only seeing color when making eye contact. One eye changing color with first eye contact. Having a mental link. Sharing scars. Sharing dreams. Sparking on first physical contact. A/B/O pheromone stuff. Etc etc.
In PIDW, Luo Binghe is each of his wives soulmate. Each and every one of them. It’s not totally clear whether that’s just fate or some reality bending protagonist/heavenly demon power he holds. He marries each beauty who claims to be his soulmate, since rejection by a soulmate means falling into soul-sickness (an ailment where one’s soul latches onto its mate, slowly plunging a person into a deep depression until all that’s left is a living, soul-less husk. It’s cured, as one might expect, from papapa with one’s soulmate… or a heavenly demon)
In SVSSS Shen Qingqiu wakes up and discovers he has no soulmate. At all. Which should be completely impossible by the world’s logic. But he puts it aside, it’s safer for him like this, anyway. No reason for the stallion protagonist to go into a jealous rage if he was somehow also fated to one of the wives (as had happened way too many times in PIDW)
Second Ranked Pokémon Gym Leader Shen Qingqiu who abuses one of his monsters, BingBing. BingBing is unable to gain any exp as he’s always sent to fight against Pokémon which are way higher level than him, and thus he always faints before the battle is over. He stays at his base level and is often times used as a shield for Shen Qingqiu’s favorite Pokémon.
The only reason Shen Qingqiu hasn’t released BingBing yet is because one of his favored Pokémon, YingYing, fights so much better with him on the team.
When a tournament is overrun by feral Pokémon, BingBing is forced to fight an ice type Pokémon and is somehow forced into a rapid evolution. This has the effect of revealing BingBing as a Heavenly Demon type. In response, Shen Qingqiu knocks his Pokémon into the abyss so he can use his pokeball for something else.
BingBing doesn’t get eaten by the Abyss, however, instead gaining levels never before seen, evolving into a legendary beast without compare. In the process he becomes feral, gaining a bloodlust for humans and a desire to kill them all.
BingBing discovers Xin-Mo, a Pokeball that acts as a portal through space and uses it to leave the Abyss. He makes his way through the overworld, dead set on seducing lovely Pokémon and killing their humans. He won’t stop until all the humans are dead, and his first target is Shen Qingqiu.
But that’s not really how the story plays out, is it?
Because when Shen Yuan dies and wakes up as Shen Qingqiu, the scum villain of his “least favorite” Pokémon game, he knows he can’t be cruel to his loyal little BingBing.
BingBing is such a determined little bun, never giving up despite all the odds stacked against him. With just a hit of kindness from his human he’s toughing out fights he really shouldn’t just so he doesn’t make his Shizun sad.
But Shen Yuan’s system insists BingBing must go into the abyss, and so he does.
And Shen Yuan keeps the empty pokeball in his team, unable to fill it or the slot ever again.
If Cang Qiong sect is the only sect that accepts from common people, and all the other sects only take nobles/ the wealthy, then that means Su Xiyan’s parents were well off.
Maybe they were cultivators.
Or scholars.
Or merchants.
Etc etc.
BUT, if they’re well off, there’s a better chance that one or both are still alive at the beginning of PIDW.
And in PIDW Luo Binghe would’ve never met them because they ascended, died to PIDWs monsters/poisons or died/went into hiding because of Luo Binghe targeted cultivators/rebels.
And of course the Old Palace Master would know about them but never say anything, since that would bring up Su Xiyan’s death and his role in things.
Death note esque AU where heavenly demons can see how much time a person thinks they have left to live.
When Luo Binghe spots Shen Qingqiu in Jin Lang city he’s absolutely shocked to discover a mere 2 or 3 (how much was it) years left on Shizun’s counter. What had happened in the time he was gone? Did without a cure get worse? Was it something else?
Worried to pieces he hurries over to his master. Except once said master lays eyes upon him—while outwardly calm—his counter starts to glitch showing only minutes left, then seconds, then months, zero, seconds again and so on.
Luo Binghe had seen that before. On his enemies moments before he killed them.
The numbers seem to have stabilised but are still somewhat low (Binghe opts against chasing him through the city), but with each benign interaction a bit more time seems to increase on the counter, and Binghe sees it as "Shizun is starting to trust me again! Activate"lost puppy best disciple ever" mode!"
Until when trying to make awkward conversation, SQQ asks if HHP gave Binghe a new sword to use, and being the clueless dork that he is thinks "Oh my chances to prove to Shizun I'm strong and respectable by taming a demon sword!" and pulls out Xin Mo. The numbers go haywire, he can feel SQQ's heart racing and body panicking from the blood mites he snuck into his tea to track this current WAC flare. He takes a step forward and reaches out to SQQ in concern, but the panic becomes too much when combined with the 2.5 years of WAC and poor nutrition, and SQQ faints.
LBH makes the connection that this didn't happen when he was carrying the spare sword from HHP, and concludes Shizun is actually terrified of Xin Mo. He reaches out to Meng Mo because he needs to talk this out with someone (he doesn't know about the widow era self neglect so it confused), and MM suggests that as a strong cultivator currently ill with a demonic curse, SQQ might be incredibly sensitive to demonic qi, especially the levels coming off of Xin Mo.
Binghe starts putting pieces together, except none of them are actually the correct pieces for this puzzle. The fact Shizun was still defending him briefly after his seal was broken, not immediately bothered about his demonic nature, and if MM is correct, Shizun likely felt his nature long before and wasn't concerned. However when they were close to the abyss, Shizun changed. He became poker faced, then the new numbers (he didn't know what they were at the time) were going haywire before Shizun pushed him into the abyss.
Binghe puts these together and concludes SQQ sensed Xin Mo and the other demonic energy coming from the abyss, and that's what caused his sudden strange distance and rejection, and the panic upon reunion. He decides that the gradually increasing trust was because with his demonic side under control, the qi wasn't bothering Shizun as much. Sensing the sower demons' qi in the city is probably why his numbers were only at 2 and a half years to begin with. Xin Mo's demonic aura, and the residual demonic energy from infection he cured from Shizun's body this morning in secret is probably what caused Shizun to faint just now. He concludes Xin Mo is bad news for his chances with Shizun and decides to seal it the moment he puts Shizun to bed at the inn.
He does some dream snooping on YQY and MQF and discovers their memories of widow era SQQ. How they had disciples perform a suicide watch in rotation at all times. How MQF had a talisman sewn into all of SQQ's inner robes to monitor his qi signature in case he deviated, had a WAC flare, or attempted to detonate his core to end himself. How YQY had NYY and MF keep a strict nutritional intake record and behaviour diary, which often read things like "26 hours at the Binghe's sword mound. Finally agreed to go inside after Ning Shimei persuaded. Ate 3 spoons of soup and 2 mouthfuls of rice after much persuasion. Went to sleep fully clothed. Found back at sword mound at dawn."
SQQ wakes up confused to a very upset Binghe in a full bow, crying and apologising. "I'm so sorry Shizun! This Binghe was foolish! He understands everything now and has sealed Xin Mo away, so there's nothing to make Shizun unwell or afraid anymore! This disciple only wished to protect Shizun and was unaware how sensitive to demonic qi Shizun had become due to Without a Cure and made an unforgivable mistake. This disciple believed Shizun had thrown him away out of choice, but now understands the demonic qi from the abyss and this disciple had made Shizun unwell and not himself! This unfilial Binghe should never have doubted Shizun's care of him. Please allow this Binghe to return home and care for Shizun, at least until Shizun's health returns! I'm so sorry!" His forehead is still firmly on the ground despite his whole body shaking with sobs.
SQQ can't help it, he rushes to pull Binghe up and comfort him, barely processing what he just heard.
The system pops up "Alternative route unlocked: Protagonist's forgiveness! The protagonist has created his own conclusions and has chosen to forgive User 2. Side effects: User 2 will become unwell or faint when exposed to high levels of demonic qi to align with the protagonist's expectations. Would you like to accept this alternative route?"
SQQ while disappointed that demons will be hard to study after this, decides it's worth swooning inconveniently to avoid being a human stick.
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I don't know how to screenshot, but I know how to copy and paste.
Emperor Tianlang with a harem and everything, who is taken with Su Xiyan to the jealously of the other concubines. His Empress (whom he cannot remove due to political implications) is especially determined to maintain her power, and poisons all the other concubines to ensure no viable heirs ever survive or are born.
Su Xiyan falls pregnant, and for fear of her child being slaughtered, convinces her washerwoman to help her hide the child. She arranges for the washerwoman to catch Tianlang-Jun’s fleeting attention. Then, when the maid is promoted to a concubine, she pleads with her Emperor to send the maid to the Cold Palace. He concedes.
She guards herself carefully from the Empress and her machinations, carrying her pregnancy to term. But when she gives birth, she replaces her baby with a stillborn and has her trusted Eunuch whisk the child away to the washerwoman in the cold palace, where he can hopefully grow old and strong enough to survive the palace when he’s revealed to his father.
The washerwoman is isolated from the rest of the palace, guarded by two trusted Eunuch’s who bring her food and water twice a day.
By the time Binghe is grown and strong enough to dominate the palace, he’s the only child of the Emperor still living.
Shen Yuan dies, and transmigrates into some low level monster, plant, or inanimate object. His System helps him like any standard Leveling System, showing his skills, stats, health and granting him points to improve them.
It’s tedious and painful work for sure, but he’s thrilled. He’s read so many different versions of this, and is certain that he’s the main character of some new, exciting fantasy world.
He levels up enough to gain a human form, and finally leaves his cave/dungeon.
Then he realizes he’s in PIDW.
+ Extra points if he’s some rare, precious material Luo Bingge needs to find for one of his wives.
++ Extra points if this rare, precious material must be harvested in a way that will permanently hurt or kill Shen Yuan, making Shen Yuan flee in fright. Plus it provides extra conflict for Luo Bingge as he falls for Shen Yuan.
+++ Extra Points if the material is harvested by Luo Bingge before he falls for Shen Yuan, and it permanently affects Shen Yuan. Then he falls for him and has to find some kind of way to fix/make it up to Shen Yuan.
Modern day Luo Binghe who lives in the same apartment complex as Shen Yuan. They see each other out and about, every so often, but it’s not enough.
Luo Binghe has held a deep, unbreakable longing for Shen Yuan since they first bumped into each other in the elevator. It was love at first sight, at least to him. But it’s hard to catch Shen Yuan, who is shy and awkward around him. Luo Binghe thinks, perhaps, Shen Yuan must feel the same way, but is too thin-faced to say anything! Sometimes, if he’s feeling especially daring, he’ll intercept the food deliveries in the lobby and bring it up to Shen Yuan himself, just to catch sight of his elusive love.
And then Shen Yuan dies.
Luo Binghe can’t handle it, his secret obsession is gone! He drinks himself into a stupor, and wakes up… somewhere else.
I have this idea for an SVSSS fic where SQQ winds up regularly sharing dreams with both his LBH and OGLBH. I'd need to do a reread for it but I'm gonna post the broad strokes because I can't stop rotating it in my mind.
It's Abyss time but SQQ puts his foot down. No he's not pushing his Binghe into the Abyss, shut up System. Oh you're going to kill him? Then do it.
Then he throws his sword away and pulls LBH away from the Abyss.
SQQ: Ok honey I'm maybe about to drop dead but it's not your fault ok?
LBH: WHAT???
And then the System does indeed try to rip SQQ's soul out- except LBH, right there and terrified, mentally grabs hold of his Shizun's soul and won't let go.
MQF rolls up to a fucking nightmare, SQQ is in the process of having his soul ripped out by some kind of mystery curse? LBH is burning through his own supply of qi to stop it but that's a napkin on a stab wound- Liu Qingge put your sword down right now! Yes MQF can see LBH's part demon, now help him keep SQQ alive or fuck off - you too Sect Leader!
Meanwhile the System is glitching out, and decides to initiate a Punishment Protocol because this mess is all SQQ's fault and he won't die like a good user.
So it dumps him in the dreams of OGLBH, who's just been pushed in the Abyss by his own Shizun.
Faced with a very upset teen Binghe, SQQ does the only thing that he can. He hugs that boy and tells him none of this is his fault and he didn't do anything wrong.
It probably only works because OGLBH is very upset and desperate for comfort- and when OGLBH said "SQQ??" incredulously SQQ says "No, I'm sorry I know I look like him" and this man doesn't act like the SQQ he knows at all, and he gives really good hugs.
SQQ is stuck in OGLBH's dreams when he's not just... nowhere and after a few more short hug sessions (OGLBH can't usually sleep for long) OGLBH finally asks who exactly SQQ is then?
Right around this time MQF figures out how to stabilize SQQ without requiring LBH to be awake and actively channeling qi the whole time. So LBH passes the f out and goes to look for his Shizun, turning up right when SQQ is dreaming with OGLBH.
After a little Binghe stand off SQQ sits them both down and decides to just, tell them everything -he can here, the System can't stop him and it's already killing him what else can it do?
So he tells them about parallel universes, and his own original world, about Proud Immortal Demon Way, and his decision, upon waking up in his favorite book in the villian's body, to meddle every way he could. He tells them about the System and explains that it probably sent him here thinking OGLBH would hurt him, thinking he was OGSQQ. Everything.
Eventually MQF and a bunch of other cultivators untangle SQQ from the System, letting his soul come back to his body but leaving that door open between his mind and OGLBH's.
From there I just have ideas I'd want to explore, some of my favorites:
-OGLBH finding out about Without a Cure and that SQQ isn't telling his Binghe about the easy fix and having to decide if he's going to spill the beans or not.
-Every time I think about what to do with SQH I wind up thinking about what would probably be a whole side fic of court wranglings, political assassinations and interspecies dating drama after SQH runs away to hide with MBJ when SQQ wakes up and goes "you're cursed too right?"
-Both Binghes and their Meng Mos coming along on SQQ's scenic tour of SJ's traumatic backstory (I just need SQQ to hug that little tea-soaked Binghe only for him to split into the two older Binghes because when they entered this memory both of them inhabited the baby Binghe's avatar)
- The whole sect deciding that actually LBH is their half demon son and none of the other sects better even look at him funny. (The biggest reason for this might be SQQ waking up from being cursed and immediately threatening to kill everyone in the room and then himself if anything happens to LBH even though he can't even sit up. Also like, the kid's been crying nonstop for days now, not exactly scary demon behavior. Kid needs a hug and some juice)
-A very fraught conversation when OGLBH gets out of the Abyss where he tells SQQ he's going back to the mountain and SQQ refuses to ask him not to kill everyone because he knows exactly what OGLBH suffered at the hands of those alternate versions of the people SQQ loves.
-Every now and the the Binghes just meet up to hiss at each other like angry cats
