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Shen Yuan has come to the decision that the best thing he can do after transmigrating is to fake his own death of a qi deviation in the Ling Xi caves and disappear. No human stick necessary if the protagonist can’t even find him. And, Liu Qingge will survive if there’s no scum villain to kill him!

Fate was not on his side. It turns out Liu Qingge really did have a deadly qi deviation in the caves, and Shen Yuan can’t just leave him to die! He’ll stabilize his qi and bolt as soon as the other man is stable.

However, Liu Qingge is a freak of nature. Practically as soon as he’s stabilized and Shen Yuan is ready to go, he wakes up. Shit.

Liu Qingge is no more happy with this situation. He owes Shen Qingqiu a life debt. Fml

Once he can convince Shen Yuan to not immediately leave, Shen Yuan makes him agree to help him fake his death and run away. Of course that honorless letch would run away from his responsibilities, but it’s not like he can say no….

LQG leaves the caves briefly for medical treatment (and to get supplies for SQQ to flee). Upon his return, they sneak out. SQQ is….. different on the road. A lot different.

He’s happy, excitable, smiling. Was he always really like this, hiding it under a cool mask in the sect? Is he playing at something? Was his life that bad as a peak lord?

Eventually they find a town in need of an apothecary. Shen Yuan buys the cottage and takes over the garden. It’s the perfect job, he can quote every plant from PIDW and its properties backwards and forwards. And with his knowledge of modern medicine, maybe he can actually help people in this world instead of just making his disciples miserable.

SQQ takes to the post like a fish to water. LQG has never seen him like this with other people- mere strangers of nowhere. But SQQ is smiling, helping people, doing charity work…. Had he always been this kind? This enchanting?

LQG makes the trip to and from the sect many times to check on SQQ and bring supplies. He’s hardly repaid a debt of life, so it’s the least he can do. He’s finding himself more eager to leave the sect than ever before. All the time he spends hunting monsters, it’s to bring rate ingredients to SQQ and take care of the beasts plaguing the villagers. The villages have come to expect them together.

The sect did not buy that SQQ died of a qi deviation that didn’t leave behind a body, and LQG poor lies did nothing to help. YQY and SQQ’s personal disciples have been pulling their hair out over his absence for the past several months. Eventually they follow LQG on one of his many trips from the sect, coming to an unremarkable village LQG has dragged a shorthaired beast to. In an apothecarian’s cottage, they find the missing peak lords leaning against each other by a fire, sharing a meal and talking like old friends….. more than friends is YQY is being honest.

raindeathlily

Ack, I forgot to post this.

Another one of my SYONR inspired drawings. Doing some for each chapter to improve my art.

SQQ btw breaks a suprising amount of fans.

Shen Yuan Of No Relation - @grubus

raindeathlily

'The door slams open and Shen Yuan nearly drops one of those jars; it’s heavy all by itself, clumsy to handle for a boy of twelve. The lid of it clatters and he flushes, putting the jar down to pick the lid up.

It’s kicked out of range, the foot kicking it glancing off of Shen Yuan’s reaching hand.

Shen Yuan winces and yanks his hand back; finally, he looks up.

“This one greets Shixiong,” Shen Yuan says, cursing his luck.

Did Hu Song set him up? No, that doesn’t sound right. They probably just heard from him that Shen Yuan happened to be there.

This is however the most blatant the trio have been up until now.

That is scary, he finds, and Shen Yuan nervously tugs at his sleeves, as if he needs to hide bruises from the ones who gave them to him.

“Are you avoiding us, little shidi?” Zhao De asks, towering over him.'

Finally colored one of these scenes.

Shen Yuan of No Relation Chp 3 - @grubus

Also, have you read 'By Hook or By Crook' which is co-authored by Grubus and by Prim_the_amazing. You get to see a lot more of Zhao De there.

raindeathlily

'When they first met, Shen Yuan had reminded him of the stray kittens he often saw in villages. A wet and bedraggled little thing, more skin and bones than anything else, sneaking closer to catch a bit of warmth and hoping to avoid a kick to the side. His green eyes had been so big in that gaunt face. He had been pitiful and Luo Binghe had let him come closer because of it. Of course, there had been nothing pitiful about him. It hadn’t taken long for Luo Binghe to realize that the scared kitten had a clever mind and a lilted smile that hid shy mischief. He had taught Luo Binghe how to spell his name by scratching it into the dirt and was fascinated as Luo Binghe showed him how to keep the fire alive. He had made sly little comments about the nobles camped nearby, the kind of comments that would have had them both whipped if overheard. After a mere day of knowing him, Luo Binghe had thought that if they were not both accepted into the sect, one may very well not bother joining it. '

Shen Yuan of No Relation Chp 4 - @grubus

teazart

Read the new chapter for Shen Yuan of No Relation by @grubus and I absolutely needed to draw this scene from it STAT. If you haven't read this fic yet omg it's a must I love it so much <3

coffeepaintwater

shen yuan, luo binghe and shen jiu the most explosive trio to ever trio i fear (there are two duos in these trio and hint hint both of them feature sy lol)

also this is basically fanart for Shen Yuan of No Relation on ao3 by Gemi bc i'm binge reading/listening to it and it's so good!!! the characterisation is so on point it dragged me back into the svsss fandom by my hair. the character study tag 100% deserves its' place there.

notes, bc how could there not be??:

i saw a post that said that any svsss fanwork's inaccuracy to history can be attributed to airplane's lazy pidw world-building and. yeah. basically.

i was thinking what would the disciple robes look like to both seem regal to the commoners (as described in 99% xianxia novels) and good to train in and i realized that there shouldn't probably be more than two layers anyways because it isn't even really accurate. also, i like the interpretation that each disciple has a subtly different uniform, but i just can't picture how that would work???? 100% the rich kids and older disciples who can actually earn some money would add accesories to their robes, but for shen yuan and luo binghe, i just couldn't imagine where they'd get anything like that, besides the hair pins ning yingying made/gave them (sry if i mix some shit up, i've read 20 chapters in 2 days okey have mercy). plus, with a world that focuses on social standing as much as pidw/svsss does, i think that the sects would naturally aim to recreate that hierarchy in their own society.

with the example of cang qiong mountain, yue qingyuan would have the highest rank, and (as syonr showed!!!) probably boast the biggest estate on the peak, inheriting all the wealth the previous sect leaders had accumulated. and while from what i understand, being a sect-affilated cultivator means your payment is basically getting fed, clothed and having a roof over your head in the sect instead of idk, coin, yue qingyuan would still have monetary means because of, surprise surprise, inheriting it. so, clothes just on the better side from the other peak lords perhaps

next in the food chain would be the other peak lords, except that we see that even the peaks have different 'rankings'. so, while on the outside each peak lord carries the same authority, shen jiu would have been able to be as he was in canon (MASSIVE side eye btw) and no one would have been really in a place to kick him in the gut and say he was a fucking asshole, for example, besides yue qingyuan. that is, from a purely theoretical stand-point, bc all hierarchical order is sometimes broken but that's besides the pointttt. the point is, they would have freedom to dress however they wish and while i believe the disciple robes remain unchanged since the founding of the sect (bc svsss universe is implied to be a largely unadvancing society, regarding anything besides cultivation), the peak lords most likely don't have one set uniform, besides each peak being color-coded apparently??

there was a post i was inspired by (https://www.tumblr.com/svsssfanonarchive/736782613008809984?source=share) that confirmed that the peaks (or at least three of them, but we don't get much of the others anyways) do in fact have the disciples wear robes of one color. qing jing favors greens and teals (see the post for more details pls pls pls it's so good) BUT i love adding white to my art bc i feel like a fabric this vibrant and light would fit the scholars there. also, white seems like the furthest one could get from the gutter to me, bc while it is the color of mourning, it's also the color of purity and shen jiu would take the chance to put one more barrier between shen qingqiu the peak lord and shen jiu the slave. don't ask why i put shen yuan in better robes; there's no reason other to make him more like a mini shen qingqiu lol

the head disciples could probably get modified uniforms or a layer more, to make them really stand out. and i'm not touching on the hall masters and senior disciples bc NOPE. not my problem for now

last thing, fu yue my love, my beauty, my life force, WHICH CHARACTER ARE WE TALKING ABOUT FOR FU?????? i decided on these ones bc there were the closest i could get to the meaning Gemi intended but :(( i have a gut feeling the first character is wronggg

rhiangalaxy

Could you draw Luo Binghe & Shen Yuan from Shen Yuan of No Relation for the doodles?

Late night hair-braiding :3 Thanks for the request!!

[ID: A Scum Villain Drawing. White Lotus! Luo Binghe sits with his knees up and his hands resting on his knees as he looks towards the floor with a flushed happy face. Shen Yuan from the fic Shen Yuan of No Relation sits on his knees behind LBH as he holds and braids LBH's hair. His hair is down and he is happily chatting away as he works. Both are dressed in sleeping robes. End ID.]

rhiangalaxy

Absolutely in love with the pangolins on Wan Jian Peak in @grubus 's fic Shen Yuan of No Relation!!!

[ID: A Scum Villain Drawing. Shen Yuan from the fic Shen Yuan of No Relation, is standing whilst cradling one pangolin in his arms whilst another climbs on his shoulder. He looks down at them with an endeared smile whilst also trying to make sure they don't fall. End ID]