Keep Bingqiu-ing. Please.

Also Dimilix 💙💙💙

[bausse-daraen]

I just want stuff to happen to bingqiu pre-relationship but like, in the worst way possible like--

Lbh managing to 'kidnap' sqq and then the whole cqm sect finding them, they manage to restrain binghe (anti heavenly demon plant ig) and, foolishly, sqq thinks the best solution is to go with cqm when yqy asks him to go with them.

If he goes, then he can try 1) get away from lbh like he originally planned (even tho he did come back after that, dont remimd him!) And 2) negociate with everyone about lbh's case and all! just hold on a little bit longer, binghe! This master knows you hate him but he'll definitely find smth to settle everything peacefully for everyone involved!

(Binghe is heartbroken as he looks at his shizun choose everyone else instead of him. Again.)

(They take lbh away and sqq doesnt think about how he didnt have time to even take a last look at him before he is back on lqg's sword, yqy protectively flying nearby on qqq's sword like a very protective big brother)

They dont let sqq see binghe.

Which is upsetting, because he can take care of himself just fine, thank you! And do they not care about the fact that he's literally the second peak lord with the highest rank here??? Right behind yqy??

And they say it's a direct order from yqy specifically???

Sqq is unable to convince yqy. Or rather, yqy is very firm on his stance, which both impresses sqq for finally showing his superioty, and frustrates him highly because why now???

The negotiations dont really hold any advantages towards lbh

And sqh isnt even there to help him! How useless! How is sqq supposed to convience dozens of very powerful people that lbh can be peaceful, if all lbh ever did was to bring disaster upon everyone (their own words)???

Sqq spends time in his bamboo house, sometimes with company like nyy and mf, liu-shidi or yqy (a very frequent visitor, more than ever before)

He sighs and fails to see how the negotiations can get better

The tea is cold and not particurlarly well brewed, and the food is still pretty much nonexistent

The person who used to make all of this for him is there without being there

And sqq is still forbidden from seeing him

What reassures sqq about this situation is the knowledge that cqm are not merciless. They at least wont send crazy women with dangerous whips to torture binghe, as weakened as he is, haha

(Binghe is being sealed, like they did for tlj. He is being sealed, not given any chance to even get out of that all by himself, forced to be imprisoned for the rest of his existence until his body crumble and his existence fade.)

(He is not being whipped or tortured. what they're doing is far worse than this.)

(And this, sqq doesnt know. So he tries, getting more and more desperate, unable to see binghe, ignorant of what they re doing to him. And binghe slowly disappears behind his back, the pieces of his broken heart vanishing with him)

[anqelbean]

I will never get over how much Shen Qingqiu loves Luo Binghe. Never ever ever.

This man has to literally hold himself back from praising him at every moment, has to hold back the urge to pat him on the head, to kiss him on the forehead because he has such a thin face that he would literally self-detonate a second time from how much love for Binghe he has built up inside of him. He will tell us to our face that he's straight, but then in the very next paragraph he waxes poetry about Binghe's, well, everything.

He is so in love your honor,,,

[bausse-daraen]

The way nobody will ever know about lbh being thrown into the abyss by sqq, or that they would think he deserved it for being a demon, that sqq did nothing wrong in doing so, that he cannot trust anyone else to care about him and he doesnt care enough about the others for this-- not letting anyone else even try to care about his own issues and reasons for actinf the way he did-- to understand where he is coming from--

So he will forever be regarded as a mere demon who bit the hand that fed him, never knowing that this same hand stabbed and pushed him into hell while breaking his heart into million pieces.

Also, lbh must hate himself too much anyway. Maybe he thinks he deserved it too, after all. Especially after sqq grieved and died for him.

[fixielixie]

actually broken from shen qingqius “dying together also included a together. it didn’t seem that bad.” it’s just so……. shen qingqiu. that even after everything, trying so desperately and failing every time to keep binghe as safe and healthy as possible, sqq was finally ready to accept what binghe had always wanted most, to be together, even if that meant dying. GOD ,,…,,, and ppl say “sqq never loved binghe he was only doing it bc he felt bad for him” like missing the ENTIRE point of the book 😭

[ben-wisehart]

I get SO unreasonably, narrow-mindedly offended when people claim that Bingqiu aren’t soulmates. Like yes they are, it’s not that deep😭 “platonic soulmates are just as valid and don’t negate the importance of their romantic relationships! A romantic relationship can be meaningful even if the people involved aren’t soulmates!” you are SO valid and I love you so much!! but these specific ones are, sorry❤️ “soulmates aren’t found they’re built!” Great!! And these ones built each other🥰 “cumplane are soulmates and they would get so mad if you mentioned it to them haha” they would get mad because they literally aren’t❤️🥰 “soulmates are unrealistic and impractical and wouldn’t make sense in real life” SO ARE BINGQIU!!! I’m glad you get it🥰🥰🥰

[ben-wisehart]

i've been running into 'shen yuan is only HIMSELF with sqh' and it baffles me. most of the time shen yuan is just verbally leaving sqh one star reviews on goodreads. that is a very specific mood and no more than 60% of anyone's full identity.

...LISTEN. Listen. Of course it's fair to say that SY/SQQ isn't able to fully express his true authentic self for much of the novel due to the role the System places him in! But "Peerless Cucumber" isn't his true authentic self either. It's just the side of himself he expresses most easily around Shang Qinghua. Am I only myself when I post memes on the internet?? Are the people who read my ramblings on tumblr dot com about one specific Chinese novel the only beings alive who truly know me, better than my own mother??

People are complicated! And it's just baffling to me because the side of himself that SQQ shows around SQH REEKS of performative masculinity. Does anyone ACTUALLY think "You don’t push down the righteous empress, are you fucking kidding me? Airplane, hand over the girlfriends, I’ll eat this book raw" is SY being himself?? His "true self" (whatever that is) does bleed through, especially in the way he talks about Binghe, but that's definitely not the self he is actively choosing to present the world.

I like SQQ and SQH's friendship well enough for what it is, but I've never really understood why they get portrayed as having this, like, deep and universe-defining connection. I can see them having fun together and bonding over their shared history, but come on. They're not soulmates. They actually don't even know each other that well. Shang Qinghua was literally the LAST person to figure out that Shen Qingqiu was gay. Throughout the entire novel I barely got the impression that they even liked each other; when Shang Qinghua gets given the option to return home in the extras, the fact that he would never see Shen Qingqiu again doesn't even cross his mind, only Mobei-Jun.

idk. I DO think they're friends and have a certain fondness for each other, especially post-canon, but I just don't buy that it's somehow more special than SQQ's relationship with any of the other characters in the novel.