Airplane-bro needing to help Cucumber-bro get OUT of this wife-plot vs. Uhm. This.
[ID: The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System fanart. Knee-up, greyscale digital drawing of Qian Cao Librarian!AU Shen Yuan and Airplane!Shang Qinghua. Shen Yuan has his arms tied over his head while Airplane has paused in the middle of untying the other ropes from his body. Airplane's face is flushed and sweating as he looks at Shen Yuan, who is pulling the ribbon— blue and the only part of the drawing not in greyscale— from the back of Airplane's xiao guan with his teeth. Shen Yuan, focused on the action, doesn’t realize how flustered Airplane is, and has blank speech bubbles around him, indicating that he's speaking, but Airplane isn't listening. /End ID]
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Artist Note: "Does he need to bite the ribbon?" Hush.
Anywho, this has been a WIP for like 3 months and I already have a redone sketch of it that's a different pose that makes more sense, but I felt like completing the old sketch.
"Please don't leave me alone."
It doesn't matter that it's temporary, Shen Yuan still died. It doesn't get easier the second, or third, or so on. If anything, it hurts more because of how much he's grown to care for his biggest anti-fan.
He fears, one day, there won't be a spare body nor demonic powers ready to save him when he needs it.
~✈️🥒 Idea~ Shen Yuan's died one too many times, and Airplane hates that
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Artist Note: I wanted to figure out Qian Cao Librarian Shen Yuan's design but I kind of got sidetracked by something.
[ID: Clip Studio Paint screenshot. The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System alternate universe fanart. Digital drawing of an Transmigrated as an NPC Shen Yuan and Airplane Shooting Towards the Sky Shang Qinghua making out. Shen Yuan, blushing heavily, is sitting up on a not-pictured counter or table while Airplane is standing between his legs, hands on Shen Yuan's thighs, leaning forward to kiss Shen Yuan with tongue.
Airplane resembles his design in the Seven Seas release, with Shen Yuan an original design; he has light skin, straight-wavy long black hair tied into a half-bun-half-ponytail and a disheveled long fringe in the front, a thin black buckled choker, a green short-sleeved cross-collar zhiju that has two pen-nib shaped metal fasteners in the front, and a black leather wrap— secured with green and off-white fabric over top of it— at the waist, an off white zhong yi— that has its sleeves tucked into metal wrist guards— worn underneath, black fingerless gloves, and black trousers.
The background is a yellow rectangle, and the Clip Studio Paint file is titled "Shen Yuan still tries to no homo out of this." /End ID]
Shen Yuan actually tried dating a guy (actually, his first time dating someone at all) back in high school but the break-up was so awful that he convinced himself that is was because he was actually straight that it went bad (it's not, it's because they were shit at communicating, and it was both their first relationship)
The first person who decided Airplane would switch from calling transfem Shen Yuan "Cucumbro-bro" to "Cucumber-babe," I need to kiss you on the face, you're a genius
Shen Yuan reciting some shitty porn dialogue he remembers from Proud Immortal Demon Way, specifically from Luo Binghe's wives. He puts on a sultry voice and does some exaggerated sexy poses. He's doing it to tease Airplane because there's no way anyone would actually be into this, right?
Meanwhile, Airplane is horny-gripping so hard.
Shen Yuan doesn't realize this until he gets close to Airplane and goes, "Oh my fucking god, you're actually into this?"
Long version of that thought:
Shang Qinghua promptly clamps his mouth shut. The switch-up in Shen Yuan's demeanor and tone had... severely affected him.
Shen Yuan looks at him with such a bullied face, clinging onto bedpost as a substitute for, what Shang Qinghua now remembers as, Luo Binghe in that scene.
He speaks in a manner that's so foreign to his voice.
He sounds submissive and looks pitiful.
Shang Qinghua recalls how Peerless Cucumber dug into him for this, about how a pattern of [Luo Binghe's to-be wives that turn from strong, formidable forces, to OOC wilted roses until they were tended to again] began.
It's definitely one thing to write filler papapa with loose imaginings of how the scene would go. It's another to read the final draft, publish the chapter, and find fanart of the scene soon after.
It's an entirely different thing when your best friend is reenacting the scene right in front of you.
This is it.
He's going to fucking die.
There's no way he can call upon his king to spirit him away from this.
What is he going to say? That Shen Yuan quoting his novel was getting him way too hot and bothered? He knows Mobei-jun would come and get him anyway, but that would 1. be really pathetic of him, and 2. be fuel for Shen Yuan to call him pathetic.
Unfortunately, it's still very tempting.
"Isn't this how you like Binghe's wives to talk in your novel? Hm? Are you just now realizing how cheap and sappy it all sounds?" Shen Yuan asks. Then, with a smug grin, he adds, with a deceptively innocent tone,"C'mon~ What's wrong, Tian-ge?"
He should've never told Shen Yuan his real name. That was a weapon that went straight (ha) to his dick.
Shen Yuan is in his bed and dressed down to his inner garments, hair down and a little tousled. While that's a fairly normal sight in Shang Qinghua's, Shang Tian's, bedroom— and no! Not in that way!— with this "indecency" being par for the course in the average sleepover scene in a teen movie of the 21st Century...
...it definitely wasn't helping in the context of everything else. Not to mention how they are just a bit loosened up, bare collarbones and chest peaking out.
He was on his hands and knees, back slightly arched, as he looked up teasingly at Shang Tian's heated face.
Logically, Shang Tian knows that this won't lead to anything. Shen Yuan is trying to get on his nerves, not on his dick. He's trying to get a rise out of him, but not that kind of rise.
Shang Tian swears to every deity that he'd never thought about how Shen Yuan would look in this kind of position. Yes, he thought he was pretty, and he did hold a lot of unsaid fondness for him, but he never thought about their relationship delving a bit more into the sensual, or even sexual, side until this very moment.
He wants to... Nope! Shut up, horny-brain wishful thinking!
Still, how was he supposed to even think when Shen Yuan is posed like that, and speaking like one of the blatant horny-bait evil seductress characters he shoved into the harem once upon a time?!
Unexpectedly, the System blips into existence right in front of Shen Yuan's face, giving Shang Tian a prompt.
[ Want to enable 'Scenario Pusher,' Host? ]
'What scenario?! No! No! Stop that!'
[ Aw, Host ( T^T ) *cry cry* This one only wishes to help you! ]
'In what?!'
Before he could yell at the System more, realization dawns on Shen Yuan's face, and Shang Tian resigns himself to his grave as Shen Yuan's expression soon morphs into one of incredulous amusement.
"Oh my fucking god—" Shen Yuan slaps a hand over his head as he leans back to laugh. "Oh my fucking god! You're into this, Airplane?"
