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@kaleidoscope-draws
Sometimes after a particularly tiring day, Yue Qingyuan likes to close his eyes and mentally play a dead-wife-montage of Shen Jiu, only instead of soft lighting and lazy smiles in bed, it's him snarling and verbally obliterating people who annoyed YQY that day
Hell, he'd even repay memories of being spoken to like a pos by Shen Jiu and rememebr them fondly because he's a bit broken and loves his Xiao Jiu so much, right down to all the bad parts too.
distressing things to say to your friends
Its been five years of it’s august and the flow of time still haunts me
this strange new sqq smiles in a way that yqy only remembers seeing long ago
drift away cover by ifyoustilldream on ig
When talking with you is too exhausting for people but its all you have left so you just have to wait til people have energy for you again.
And so, my TGCF journey has come to an end! Enjoy the memes I made during my read through of Vol 8
Mobei Jun doesn’t need a lot of words to get his point across. Shang Qinghua is used to it lol
SQH doodles
It's never good news when he's summoned to Qiu Jianluo's office this early in the day- it's rarely good to be summoned by him at all but in the morning is when Qiu Jianluo meets with outsiders... Qiu Jianluo only wants him at those types of meetings to humiliate him...
The man Qiu Jianluo is meeting with is tall, in stately black and grey robes. There's a streak of white in his hair at the temple and there's something familiar about his face. He had kind eyes, which Shen Jiu finds suspicious.
He expects orders from Qiu Jianluo, but his master waves a hand dismissively as he counts a large amount of gold coins.
"This man is your master now." Qiu Jianluo says.
"What?" he asks in shock before thinking better of it. But his old master doesn't even glance at him and the new one smiles at him before gently taking his shoulder in an iron grip he has no hope of shaking off.
"Come along," he says.
He sounded familiar too...why was that?
He's a little shocked by how quickly they leave the manor, taking absolutely none of his things when they go. One minute they're at the top of the stairs and the next they're already outside...
"Are you a cultivator?" he asks quietly.
His new master stops, and leans down to look him in the eyes. "Yes. How old are you Xiao Jiu?"
He wants to tell the man not to call him that but he doesn't dare. "Thirteen sir."
The strange cultivator pats his head. "No sir from you Xiao Jiu, call me Shixiong."
He explains that he didn't buy Shen Jiu because he wanted a slave. He can tell Shen Jiu has excellent cultivation potential and he intends to take him as a disciple... For a few years.
"I have business I must see to in three years time that I cannot involve a disciple in. I plan to train you as best I can then see you admitted to the sect I was trained at, Cang Qiong Mountain Sect."
It sounds too good to be true, but Shen Jiu can hardly say no. Good intentions or not the man still owns him.
Until a few days later when 'Shixiong' hands him all the paperwork necessary to prove he's a free man and not a slave. This is just the first gift Shixiong gives him as they travel around the country. Shixiong buys him clothes and books and teaches him to read and write and how to stand so that people think you're rich. Shixiong grew up on the streets too, he tells Shen Jiu, he's just learned to act like he hasn't.
And he teaches Shen Jiu how to cultivate, how to use the power he can feel under his own skin.
"Xiao Jiu has great talent," Shixiong says. "He'll be a master cultivator soon."
It's not all sunshine and roses of course, Shixiong is ...strange. He never gives anyone the same name twice, and never gives Shen Jiu a name at all. They meet a man on the road about a year into their wandering and Shixiong kills him without a word. After that he shows Shen Jiu that the man was a demonic cultivator, and a known criminal... But watching him kill a man so effortlessly was a little scary.
(Shen Jiu absolutely does not have a crush on Shixiong what are you talking about?)
Shixiong isn't the violent type though. Shen Jiu never sees him draw his sword. He doesn't even kill the actual demons they run into one night at an inn. Shen Jiu doesn't think he did anyway, Shixiong had sent him up to bed early.
The three years fly by, though towards the end of them, Shen Jiu starts to get anxious. What if Qi-ge is looking for him? Eventually he tells Shixiong the whole situation and Shixiong promises that Qi-ge is on the mountain still and will be there when they arrive.
Finally the day arrives, Shixiong must leave soon. They go to the sect and camp at the base of the mountain. Shixiong hands him a letter to give the sect leader.
"You aren't coming up the mountain with me?" Shen Jiu asks.
Shixiong shook his head and told him to sit. There were many things he wished to tell Xiao Jiu before he left.
The story is long, and Shen Jiu's stomach drops not long into it. It's too familiar. Shixiong used to have a dear friend when he was on the streets, one who he had to leave behind when he went to cultivate.
He tells Shen Jiu about rushing his cultivation, about trying to claim more sword than he could handle, and the year he spent locked underground, knowing every moment he was there his friend must be losing hope he'd ever return.
He talked about finally getting out and racing back to where he and his friend had parted ways...only to find smoldering ruins and bodies he didn't recognize.
He talked about his Shizun, a cruel and vicious man coming to drag him away from the ruins eventually. He talks about wanting to die.
Shixiong tells him about finally finding his friend again by chance, and being too ashamed of himself to explain himself.
He explained how he never explained himself, instead letting the pain they both felt ferment inside them until eventually it took his friend from him all together. He's very vague about what exactly happened. But Shen Jiu thinks he appreciates that.
"And then I was given a chance," Shixiong says. "A god came to me and told me it could not change my present, but that I could if I wished change someone else's future. And I have I hope, changed yours for the better, Xiao Jiu. But it's time for me to leave."
"Wait so Qi-ge doesn't even get to go back to a better future?" Shen Jiu snaps. There's no question of course who the man staring at him wide eyed is of course. He's not stupid. "He had to go be all alone again??"
Shixiong - Qi-ge laughs, "I'm not all alone, I just don't have my Xiao Jiu."
"Same thing!"
"Well you can't come with me," Qi-ge said.
"Why not??"
Qi-ge gestures behind Shen Jiu. "What will he do without you?"
Shen Jiu turns around.
His Qi-ge looks awful. Pale and shaky and like he's going to throw up any second as he stumbles down the steps, he holding the same sword Shixiong has in his arms like an enormous baby.
Shen Jiu can't breathe.
"I could only change your fate Xiao Jiu," the older Qi-ge says behind him. "Not my own."
"When did he get out of the caves?" Shen Jiu asks.
"Less than a day ago."
Qi-ge attempts to get his sword in position to fly on and has to pause to dry heave. Shen Jiu took off toward him and caught him upside the head as he straightened up.
"What do you think you're doing running off in this condition?" he snaps. "Are you trying to kill yourself?"
Qi-ge gapes at him for nearly a minute before Shen Jiu feels like he has to explain himself. "... Qi-ge took too long so I came on my own."
And then his arms are full of a sobbing hysterical Qi-ge. He holds his dearest person tight and looks back towards the camp.
Shixiong is gone.
𝓭𝓪𝔀𝓷 a promare fancomic by AJ
Part 1 / Part 2 / Twitter / AO3 / Ko-Fi
Gueira centric. Background Meis/Guiera and Galo/Lio. 19 pages. Contains spoilers for Promare. Inspired by this tweet.
Babygirling himself for xiao jiu, super important work he's doing
mobei-jun gets a little possessive if you stare at his human for too long (and sqh really doesn't care)
I miss my dog. I should have died when she did.
I feel like I've already died and I'm just mourning myself. I dont know who I am anymore and I dont lile them either.
Shen Yuan: Let me ask you a very fair question: what do you do successfully?
Airplane: ...
Shen Yuan: Quickly.
Just keep all the peaks from crashing and burning AND the North Kingdom too. Ya know, not much.
Just when you think things cant get worse. BAM HAVE SOME WORSE WITH YOUR ALREADY WORST!
I've written a fic about this before, but a comment I got made me realise that the connection between Mobei-Jun isolating himself after his first time in the human realm and Xiang Fei isolating himself to write PIDW isn't something a lot of people pick up on.
I felt like it was something obvious. The way the novel went out of its way to mention they were both isolated because they wanted to survive in some way. Survival meant something different for them, Mobei-Jun knowing what it's like to fear for his life and Xiang Fei devoting himself to something that will help him survive, but it was survival all the same.
It always felt like this is what drew Mobei-Jun to Shang Qinghua to me. Their first meeting was Shang Qinghua begging for his life, and I am to believe this means nothing to someone who wished his doing the same meant something to those humans? No matter how pathetic it was, seeing someone value their life so much must have done something for him.
The theme of survival, and wanting a life felt like such a prominent theme in the Shang Qinghua chapter, from both of them. I doubt that was a coincidence. After all that talk of survival, of being happy with the bare minimum, didn't it feel like the chapter ended by choosing more than survival, choosing to live a life?
I truly believe that by choosing each other, they chose to do more than survive. There is a reason I started shipping Moshang after being uninterested by the way the fandom portrayed them, and that is because people aren't talking about the beauty that is their story in regards to life and survival and choosing to seek happiness when you learn you can do more than just the bare minimum.
Being-A-Creative-On-Tumblr-Culture is going through all of the 24 reblogs on your post with 357 notes just to get just enough serotonin to get through your day by reading what the five god sent people who left tags wrote
