would love to see a liujiu fic where pidw liu qingge watches everything unfold after his death and he gets pissed off enough at the fact that shen qingqiu gets blamed for murdering him and doesn’t even fight the accusations that he ends up going back in time, regressing all the way back to when they were disciples. this time around, he takes it upon himself to help improve sqq’s cultivation out of a place of duty and gratitude because even though sqq doesn’t remember that he tried to save lqg’s life, lqg remembers and that’s what matters. despite the fact that sqq still manages to get under his skin, lqg is a man of honor and he will repay his debt.
(lqg also plays a more active big brother role this time around. he refuses to acknowledge a future where his sister is one of hundreds of wives— and married to a half-demon, no less!)
sqq is not happy about lqg’s sudden change in behavior and is downright suspicious of his motives but he can’t figure out why his shidi is trying to be nice to him. he eventually just assumes lqg has a concussion or ate something weird because that is the only thing that could explain his behavior. meanwhile lqg can’t fathom why sqq seems more pissed off at him now than before (and trying to make any sense of sqq is an immediate headache).
the well incident happens again, just as it had in the past. but this time, lqg turns just a few seconds earlier and sees sqq take down a resentful spirit that was silently creeping behind him, ready to strike.
by this point, lqg wants to pull out his hair because what do you mean his shixiong wasn’t a backstabber but instead had saved his life back then, and refused to tell the truth that would have cleared his name?! this was the same behavior that led to his arms and legs being torn off in the original timeline— a gruesome scene that even lqg as a ghost had had a difficult time watching. lqg doesn’t understand sqq At All.
meanwhile sqq is equal parts mortified that his least favorite shidi knows that he saved his life and curious to see just how far he can push lqg in the name of “repaying” this debt. If he could manipulate his shidi into dealing with several pests in sqq’s life, that would be a definite plus.
in the end, sqq very quickly regrets not letting that spirit kill lqg back at the well. first, he starts dropping monster carcasses on sqq’s doorstep, getting blood everywhere. and then he has the audacity to tell yue qingyuan and the rest of the head disciples that sqq saved his life!!!
(sqq doesn’t realize lqg is fluent in fan language. he signs “I hate you” over and over with his fan during the head disciple meeting, scowling with just the tiniest bit of red tinting his cheeks. things finally start to click for lqg— sqq is embarrassed. the tenth “I hate you” is signed and lqg flashes an unrepentant, toothy grin at sqq. sqq nearly cracks his fan in half.)