just read a reddit post about op casually bumping into their doppelgänger and
imagine. something goes wrong during shen yuan's transmigration and rather than him isekai-ing into PIDW, og shen qingqiu reverse transmigrates into the modern world instead. who said the system was 100% error-free?
as shen qingqiu wanders the streets of 21st century shanghai, trying to understand which level of qi deviation this is, one of shen yuan's older brothers sees him, strolls over, grinning, and slaps him on the shoulder, "a-yuan, we'll have to celebrate today, you finally left your apartment for the first time in the past three months!"
shen qingqiu, pissed off, is about to tell him to sod off, when shen yuan's little sister, who's been out with her oldest bro doing shopping, also runs over, tugs at shen qingqiu's arm affectionately and starts telling him about the clothes she's bought today, and also how good he looks in this cosplay, is this a character from that book he never shuts up about? and she didn't know he knew how to do his brows, she's so proud of him!
shen qingqiu can't really just shake her off rudely because, well, he's always been nicer to women, and the girl looks genuinely happy to see him, and she's also using a lot of words he doesn't know--cosplay? webnovel? taobao?--so while shen qingqiu is trying to process everything she's saying & decide on the best course of action, shen yuan's siblings realise they have to be somewhere so they say goodbye, but not before telling him there's a family dinner in a week and he has to come too
meanwhile, shen yuan thinks his siblings are simply making fun of his shut-in lifestyle when they message him on wechat asking what forced him to go outside today, and ignores them
until next day, he has to run out to his favourite coffee shop because their delivery system is temporarily down, and bumps into a guy who looks exactly like him, but is dressed like someone cosplaying shen qingqiu from pidw
shen yuan's mind blanks--also why do these robes look so good on someone who looks just like him?? hello?? shen qingqiu meanwhile only takes moments to regain his composure, grabs shen yuan by the shoulder and informs him he needs to come to the family dinner in 6 days. because shen qingqiu hasn't yet figured out how social media and phones work, it seems important to him to relay the message, considering this guy's family members mixed him up with shen qingqiu
shen yuan would've thought this is a prank but this guy looks 100% serious, plus his siblings did send him that message yesterday... around them, people are starting to stare and someone seems to be taking out their phone to take a picture of the "twin jades", so shen yuan has no choice but to drag shen qingqiu to his apartment to talk things over there in peace and quiet
fun of course ensues when shen yuan realises this is, in fact, the shen qingqiu from pidw
anyway *side-eyes the upcoming jiuyuan week* i would 100% read this au











