SVSSS Older Brother Luo Binghe AU
PIDW progresses the same way up until Luo Binghe is pushed into the abyss.
He survives there for about two weeks when he stumbles upon an abyssal monster trying to catch what looks to be a demonic child and turn it into a meal.
Luo Binghe doesn't know what makes him act but he tears the monster apart and saves the child. He strongly considers leaving it there. It's hard enough surviving on his own let alone with a child of unknown demon species. And the child surely must have someone looking after them, right? Why would a child be in the abyss anyway?
In the end, some part of Luo Binghe sees too much of himself in this abandoned monsterous child that doesn't even know how to speak yet and takes it- him- in.
It's even harder surviving the abyssal monsters and other demon kind after that, but, surprisingly, much easier dealing with the terrain.
Somehow, Yuan-er (the only word the kid knows how to say - therefore must be his name) is all too aware of which flower is poisonous, or with unpleasant side effects, which animal (demonic or otherwise) is safe to eat and, a lot of the time but not always, which cave is already occupied by another beast.
And he cries out whenever Luo Binghe would attempt to go near anything that might spell his doom. It was fascinating. Luo Binghe considered Yuan-er might have a danger sense of some kind but was forced to abandon the idea when not all dangers were predicted ahead of time by Yuan-er.
Somehow, it seems, Yuan-er's ability to tell the individual dangers to their life is born purely from experience. The kid seems no older than 3, and yet... Whatever. Things work differently in the abyss. This kid might just be aging slower than most or have very good instincts.
Feeding them both is a bit of a chore but to his luck Yuan-er doesn't seem to be picky at all.
And... For the first time since his adoptive mother, Luo Binghe feels unconditionally loved by another being. Another person.
As time passes in the abyss, Yuan-er starts talking, and walking more than crawling on four legs as he used to, and he calls Luo Binghe "gege" and Luo Binghe cannot possibly imagine his life without A-Yuan any longer.
(As he grows, Yuan-er continues having inexplicable knowledge about anything and everything.)
When he gets them out of the abyss, Luo Binghe's revenge plans must change.
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