SVSSS Au wher SQH waits like a year after SQQ self destructs and just fucking kills himself to start living out his days as a cottage core gay farmer(gone wrong). (its a long post so im gonna be nice and put it under the read more :D)
he sets up a nice little house by where the mushroom bodies are growing and puts some farming materials and preserved food and because he kills himself normal style (read, puts on those binding cables and slits his throat) next to Sqq's body [binghe is fighting Lqg in the courtyard and Sqh takes his chance to sneak into his dear cucumber bro's room to snuggle up next to him and die] it takes only a few months to a year for him to wake up and starts living the low stakes farmer life while on occasion going to sell some surplus crops at the nearby village to learn the general gossip (and of course checking up on his dear Mbj, who seems much colder and much more ruthless now... how strange....)
after a few years, he comes home from his bimonthly trip to find Sqq's body plot is torn up and the clothes he set out on the line are GONE and he panics because he had a whole plan for dragging his bro out of the closet and convincing him to be his pretty male wife! that was HIS bro whos the only other real person in the world! his most devoted fan! he had a whole novel he wanted his dear cucumber to proof read(he wrote some parts as trashy as possible so he could feel that sweet, sweet fan smack across his head... his mild masochist plans... foiled by not setting up any arrays to alert him when Sqq woke up...)
now he has to track down his bro, and gets dragged back into the plot around the same time that sqq is being kidnapped by Shl and brought to the demon palace and that whole plotline happens.
Sqh gets grabbed by Lgj who's like "i recognize that mousy human... maybe i can use that one's face to trick my nephew so i can kill him and take his throne...." which fails spectacularly because Sqh ass kisses for a good week and then just sets him on fire and skips away to go warn his king that an army is being sent towards him.
at this point he see's his corpse in Mbj's palace frozen in a block of ice and gets caught because he spirals questioning why his body is here? why wouldn't it have been thrown away? why is his body seemingly perfectly uninjured when he KNOWS he caused massive physical wounds- *gets snattched by Mbj who is about to throttle this demon wearing his dead love's face* AH MY KING IM SORRY FOR RUNNING AWAY- *insert emotinal(for mbj) reunion before they have to deal with Lbh trying to kill everyone by merging the realms*
they get to the ridge and everyone else is like "WHEN DID HE GET REVIVED???? THE FUCK??"
of course this means that it takes a lot longer for sqh to notice his kings affection because they no longer deal with that little side quest of Sqh running away before the accension until like. two decades later.
demons sing songs of the legendary quest of Mbj regaining his dead lover who served him for so long. and then they make fun of their lame ass emporor for marrying his teacher.
(no one brings up the rumors of Sqh and Sqq being lovers anymore, at least not in public... there is a very popular novel that details the four as an insane polycule situation but th servants make sure to never show this to the royals.)
(even though Sqh is the one writing the novels-)
















