I have a #JiuPlane plot bunny, sort of like a sister story (kinda) to Two Part Harmony. In this, Airplane is disciple not-yet-Qinghua and Shen Jiu is Shen Jiu, LOL
But Shang Hua is a musical cultivator, one that can't play any instruments. He can sing, though, but his cultivation only comes through songs that he *loves*. So like, just humming a little ditty won't do. He has to LOVE what he's singing, he has to Feel Things while he's singing.
He has to sing with his whole chest, no reservations or hesitations.
So he gets to be very good at silencing arrays, is what I mean.
The A Ding peak lord, Wang Anshui just *happens* to wander by when Shang Not-yet-Qinghua is singing his heart out in some hidden away place on A Ding. Maybe by one of those cliffside waterfalls.
Anyway, Wang Anshui realizes immediately what the problem is. Fortunately, he's good friends with the Qing Jing peak lord, Shen Anwei. And Anwei has his *own* disciple issues to deal with--namely his feral little disciple who bites and claws in fights, who forgets to use cultivation except when he thinks he's fighting for his life.
Shen Jiu's problem is that he needs to feel *safe* in order to properly cultivate. Which is nearly never does. So you see the problem, yes?
Thankfully, Wang Anshui is something of a genius, and therefore he brings Shen Anwei into his confidence about their little disciple problem.
And so, Shen Jiu is voluntold to go teach this A Ding peak disciple how to play the qin. And Shang Not-yet-Qinghua is ordered to make Shen Jiu feel *safe* enough to cultivate.
Cue the montage of :
SJ spying on the ADP disciple Shin wants him to teach.
SJ discovering that Shang Not-Yet-Qinghua *does* have musical cultivation after all! And the music he creates is so--unlike anything he's heard before. It brings to mind the flight of birds across a cloudless sky, the movement of stars across a moonless night, the feeling of flying without wings, the feeling of *hope*, the feeling that someday, someone might look upon Shen Jiu and *know* him.
Know him and not be repelled like everyone is.


















