#revised svsss

[happypeachsludgeflower]

…okay but imagine the whiplash Xiang Fei probably felt when he found out Peerless Cucumber is Shen Yuan, CEO of Shen Tech (or some other company name idk I just threw their name on something fancy sounding) which might be infinitely funnier then if he’d been a neet shut in like we’ve all been headcanoning. Like, no, he’s not just the third son of a rich family that lives off his parent’s money and does nothing but read shitty web novels. This man is running the entire company while his parents live off him. AND HE’S LEAVING LONG WINDED HATE MAIL ON XIANG FEI’S PORNO.

[onnahu]

I honestly did not expect to live through svsss renesanse. And while I'm glad that we get new concent.... i don't know. It might seem silly, but i actually enjoyed that we didn't get any food. Sure, we all fantasised about season 2 of donghua, maybe even a whole new 2d donghua, ressurecting the manhwa, but i think that the way we didn't get anything really shaped the fandom in the space it is today. Which is possibly the chillest fandom ever. Everybody had to read the whack source material bc there's no other adaptation that might have taken any of the freakiness away. The fact that we menaged to stay afloat for so long without anything says for itself how well we did for ourself with only the novel and our wild imaginations. And now that the new content is out, on one hand i'm really happy, since we get more Shang Qinghua and Bingqiu, and while many headcanons got confirmed, i feel like now people might start to do fandom police and i really don't want it to happen in a fandom so fun as svsss. Tbh i just really hope that we don't lose our whimsy with a possible new wave of fans that will know only the censored version. (And i'm so afraid how censorship might twist the og novel, bc i hate the maigu ridge scene, but it is also so important from the nerrative point of view. It's so uncomfortable and queasy and it's the perfect finale because scum villain is, in it's core, an ugly, twisted world that forces terrible things upon it's habitants...)

[happypeachsludgeflower]

Shen Yuan is delusional.

Like, yea I know we knew that already? But. Guys. Luo Binghe apparently figured out Shen Yuan was a transmitigator during the demon invasion when he was 14 or 15 years old.

He recognized Shen Yuan on sight. Despite Shen Yuan looking very different in his original body. As Luo Binghe said, he always recognize his Shizun.

And Shen Yuan thinks that man hasn’t already clocked that Shen Yuan is Peerless Cucumber??

Smh he’s so fucking dumb.

[happypeachsludgeflower]

Honestly, I think the System was a bitch to Xiang Fei. At no point did the system tell him he had the power to write the fate of real people.

As far as Xiang Fei was concerned, he was just writing fictional people, and frankly, most people when struggling to afford to eat will compromise their craft for survival. He was starving, so he wrote bullshit lusty porn for the masses so they would pay him enough to eat. He didn’t know he was controlling the threads of existence of actual, real people, and the System has the power to tell him.

It could have shown up in the modern world and attached to him and coached him through writing a world Binghe was happy in. It obviously had the power to, as seen in the new extra when the System talks to Shen Yuan in modern day. It could have. And it didn’t.

Just imagine a universe where it showed up to Xiang Fei and gave him the world writing keyboard and told him that and then gave him incentives to write by providing points he could exchange for food or something. Xiang Fei would have written a good world with that as his motivation since the primary reason he didn’t originally was that he couldn’t eat.

Anyway, so after failing to give Xiang Fei any form of instructions at all, the System proceeded to punish Xiang Fei for screwing up Bingge’s world so ludicrously by sending him back to the beginning of the world he’d already fucked up so Xiang Fei could try one more time to correct his mess.

Now did it tell Xiang Fei why this happened? Did it tell him at all what his mission was? No. It did not. It told him nothing useful. As far as the now renamed Shang Qinghua knew, he had somehow mysteriously transmitigated post death into the universe he’ had written and would now have to live in it as a villain that was destined to be murdered someday.

He also seemed pretty convinced that he was not allowed to change too much. The only thing he seemed to think the System would let him change was whether Mobei Jun lived or died, pre-story.

Based on that knowledge, the System seems to have told Shang Qinghua that he couldn’t change the main plot. So why would it consider it Shang Qinghua’s fault that nothing changed?? It literally was not his fault for assuming he couldn’t change the state of the world when he appears to have been told he couldn’t. He also had no motive to try to actively change Binghe’s fate since a) he was told he couldn’t, and b) Binghe’s not the one scheduled to murder him??

Of course Shen Qingqiu was more motivated to change Binghe’s fate despite the system saying he couldn’t. Besides the fact that this was his favorite blorbo, Binghe was the one destined to murder him. He had an active motivation to make absolute sure Binghe had reason to not kill him.

And yea, I’m sure some of it did go back to Shen Yuan’s obsession with Luo Binghe and Xiang Fei’s obsession with Mobei Jun, but I’m still saying that without having been told literally anything useful and also informed his hands were tied behind his back? It’s not Xiang Fei’s fault he looked at the mess of a world and went, “I’m gonna fade into the background and nope out.”

Also, a post note here, if the system really wanted Xiang Fei to change the story and give Binghe a happier ending, it could have guided him towards goals to change the story. It chose not to.

[happypeachsludgeflower]

IM GOING TO THROW THINGS GUYS WTF

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS.

Time to do the math again.

Guys. Guys.

Shen Yuan was unconscious for ONE FUCKING DAY. That’s it. It was a single fucking day.

THEY DROPPED THEIR SCHEDULES AND RUSHED BACK FROM WORK WHEN SHEN YUAN HAD FOOD POISONING AND WENT INTO A COMA.

The coma he just woke up from. That he was in for a single day. One. Fucking. Day.

ONE BROTHER WAS IN FUCKING ANTARCTICA.

ANTARCTICA.

Now. Maybe there’s some vital detail I’m missing here. Maybe the translation I’m reading left something out. So correct me if I’m wrong. But—

This man somehow. Mysteriously. Had good enough signal in Antarctica to immediately get the notification that his brother was hospitalized. Then he got on a plane that was coincidentally leaving at exactly the time he needed it to. To fly directly to China, which—side tangent here but commercial flights from China to Antarctica apparently stop in South America or New Zealand first. Which adds a lot of time and would be too long to fit in this time frame. So to get to China from Antarctica soon enough to have visited and left within a single day?? Dude was on a private jet he conveniently had sitting about ready to board at the drop of a hat.

Right. So. He gets to China roughly 15-20 hours later. I don’t know the exact math guys. I’ll figure it out later and reblog. I’m too filled with chaotic rage to solve it right now… RIGHT SO. The guy literally stepped off the fucking plane and walked his ass into the hospital room. Saw his little brother’s comatose body. Did a peace sign next to him for a quick selfie. And strolled his fucking ass back out of the room and hopped back on the plane to fly back to work.

WHICH ANOTHER SIDE TANGENT!!

SHEN YUAN HAD A FUCKING HEART ATTACK GUYS. HE DID NOT “DIE” FROM FOOD POISONING AS WE WERE PREVIOUSLY TOLD.

Now I could be reading this wrong, but:

This translation says “in a state of shock” but to be unconscious for an entire day afterwards specifically from the anger episode? He was in a coma from either a stroke or a heart attack. Because he’s right. Food poisoning doesn’t cause that. He was so angry he either had a stroke or a heart attack.

Food poisoning could have had him delirious and throwing up and/or having diarrhea with a fever and he’d be in and out of consciousness. But he is specifically “in a state of shock” and unconscious for 24 hours. And this is Shen Yuan. The man famous for being an unreliable narrator…

So please appreciate this passage in this new light:

Shen “food poisoning isn’t that bad” Yuan had a heart attack from being so mad at the ending of PIDW.

Anyway 😌 back to the regularly schedule rant. Shen Da-ga here heard his brother was in a coma from a heart attack (or a stroke), and only took a day off work to take a selfie with what he assumed was his last time seeing his brother alive (and not even conscious). And then fucking left. He wasn’t even back in Antarctica by the time Shen Yuan woke up.

And the man didn’t bother turning his fancy ass private jet around to return and see his brother, miraculously back from the dead. He just sent him death selfies.

Don’t even get me started on the brother in the mountains… he was way closer then fucking Antarctica and still couldn’t visit when his brother woke up 😒

Next time Shen Yuan tells you he has a loving family. Please remember his brothers didn’t stay longer then a few hours tops after assuming Shen Yuan was going to die, and didn’t bother to turn around to see him when he woke up again because it would inconvenience their coworkers to be gone longer then 2 days.

Please remember these guys are apparently rich enough to not need jobs if they didn’t want to work.

Edit: I read further to notice this exchange

And felt like adding—they don’t deserve his mercy 🤨😤 and owe him so many more red envelopes

Also, Shen Yuan?? What are your standards?? Dude?? WHY ARE YOU MOVED BY THEM NOT TURNING AROUND THEIR FANCY JETS TO VISIT.

[happypeachsludgeflower]

And without further ado! My opinion on Bingzu.

Just a forewarning though, I seem to have a different take than what I’ve seen everyone else post. And my different take is not me hating on anyone else’s idea. I like the ideas other people came to as well. I’m only sharing my opinion in the hopes others will enjoy my take too.

So to start, here is the section from the fan translated English version about Bingzu.

Now there’s a lot to unpack here. But let’s start with the section specifically about the system’s creation.

So he used his body as a furnace and his own soul as fuel, and in the burning fire of his soul, he forged a group of spirits.

These spirits, carrying his last wishes, will help him find an opportunity to change his fate.

So, remember how Yue Qingyuan’s soul is tied to his swords and if he draws his sword, his soul will burn out? And then he’ll die?

That’s what Bingzu did here.

Bingzu used his own soul as a fire to burn his body to ash and in the forge of that, the spirits of the system were born as new beings.

Bingzu is dead. (Which is confirmed in a later passage.)

The system isn’t Bingzu.

Bingzu is dead and the system is not Bingzu.

Now, I will admit that there could be translation errors. Maybe my understanding of what MXTX wrote is flawed due to a mix up of words. But in the form we currently have access to, I don’t think Bingzu is actually the system as common consensus is saying.

And again, to be clear, I think the common interpretation is hilarious and the take is really interesting and I can’t wait to see the fanfiction and fanart made about it. I might even write some myself. This is not hate on the idea at all.

According to what I’m understanding, Bingzu is actually the systems father.

Bingzu essentially went out just like his mother—dying to bring something else to life. Because he didn’t want to exist anymore. Is even says that.

He wished he never existed.

Bingzu wasn’t looking for a way to exist in another form so he could find his own happiness somewhere else. He wanted to stop existing entirely, but still had a wish to let a different version of himself have a happy ending. So he made an army of spiritual children to go out into the universe and carry out his last wish of happiness.

And on that sad note!! I’m off to go contemplate bingqiu accidental baby acquisition where they adopt the systems and have an army of chaotic children that apparently turn to corporate life when left to their own devices and honestly need a domestication arc.

[happypeachsludgeflower]

You know, technically, based on the new svsss lore drop, I CAN actually still make an argument entirely canon compliant for how Shen Yuan IS Shen Jiu.

I mean. It’s very time shenanigans-y chaotic and involves the of theory of time not being linear and how the systems exist outside the dimension of time and how, therefore, technically speaking, Shen Yuan’s soul could have been Shen Jiu’s souls second chance he traded his existence as Shen Qingqiu for and he just doesn’t know about it…

We know the systems can actually fuck up as seen by Xiang Fei’s god-prophet of PIDW fiasco (and by the fact that mysteriously somehow with no known reason Shen Yuan transmitigated at the wrong time), therefore, it could plausibly have not paid attention and nabbed Shen Jiu’s recycled soul without noticing because it liked Shen Yuan’s PIDW reviews and didn’t check the receipt.

Which, actually! Fun idea!! That might lead to a solid explanation for why Shen Yuan transmitigated at the wrong time!! Say Shen Jiu traded his existence at the time of his qi deviation. That’s when a system approached him and said in a sleezy car salesman’s voice, “Hey, do you want a different life? We can sell you one for the price of this one time steal of an offer of One Lightly Used Body!”

And of course, Shen Jiu said yes because he’s depressed and hates his life and was looking for any reason to leave it and understandably was like, “Yea that doesn’t sound suspicious at all! I’m going to believe this weird god-like alien and not look a gift horse in the mouth. Sure!” So then his soul went to our world and lived a life as Shen Yuan and he forgot about his existence as Shen Qingqiu because it was traumatizing and Shen Yuan was a clean slate.

And then, because the universe hates him, he caught the eye of the system once more and when the system tried to drop him around the birth of Luo Binghe, the world recognized his soul and was like! Ah! You’re back! Let’s just slide you back into where you were when you left!!

Anywho, this plot fill attempt pleases me. I’m sure I’ll come up with others that’ll work for Shen Yuan is NOT Shen Jiu at some point as well. But this is now my favorite Shen Yuan IS Shen Jiu plot hole fix I’ve come up with regarding the new extra.

[happypeachsludgeflower]

I have some… questions. Here, you can see passages from the English translation of the new extra where Shang Qinghua updated PIDW with an recount of his and Shen Qingqiu’s life in PIDW as bonus content.

There’s a huge difference between 180k words and 18 million, and I’m sure you all know. Now, there’s an easy explanation for this. Obviously it was a translation error. And it’s ludicrous to think Xiang Fei managed to write 18 million words in less than a week, so it’s more likely that he posted 180k.

But in light of the translator writing million instead of thousand and seemingly dropping a zero, I have Questions ™ about a later passage.

Here is where Shen Qingqiu is given the book about Luo Bingzu’s life and the origin of the system.

…does this mean the book about Luo Bingzu’s life was 9,210,000 words. Still outrageous, but not actually as much as I initially thought considering it says 921,000,000.

Anyway, Luo Bingzu’s life was apparently worth 9 mil

But also, fun fact, this means PIDW was initially 200,000 words and Xiang Fei wrote an extra that was almost the same length as the original book. I cannot remember right now if the original book actually said how long PIDW was, but whether it’s new or not, it’s funny that Xiang Fei showed up after his near death experience with a rewrite that was just as long.

…also Shen Yuan’s unreliable narrator voice struck again. This man told me PIDW was outrageously long. But if my assumption about the mistranslation is right (it could be wrong, I admit that) PIDW was a normal ass book length. I eat 200k for breakfast.