Bonus points if the original wife was incidental enough (one line about a marriage added to a treaty, Airplane dropped the plot thread, etc.) that Bingge doesn't know this is OOC.
Just sitting there thinking 'my own kind shizun was here all along, languishing unappreciated because of my unceasing voracious ambition, what have I done?! I have to make this right!'
Meanwhile Shen Yaun was just chilling and helping out. Thinks it's neat to finally meet the protagonist but he'll probably forget wife #whatever immediately. 'Oh well back to my books...'
Bingge has been running himself ragged for MONTHS looking for HIS 'nice Shizun'.
What he doesn't know is that Shen Yuan transmigrated into wife #216 (the one from the sexy slime chapter...) the same night he came back and have been living his best life in the palace's library every day. He's been 'giving' his night with Bingge to the harem member who managed to sneak him in a 'Flower of Transing your Gender'.
It's kind of uncomfortable to wear a woman's clothes when he's just a totally normal straight guy, but he's FINE!! He's low enough on the totem pole that he is ignored for most of the harem drama and since he's a DUDE now he isn't pulled into any wife plots! Now he gets to study all the monsters he could ever want! Plus, just occasionally glimpsing the 'best wives' like Liu Mingyan, Sha Hauling, and Ningying is pretty cool, too!
Things are going GREAT until he passes by an upper courtyard one morning and finds a Beauty Devouring Harpy-Lizard has three wives cornered and is about to eat them! Oh no! Well, this is probably a wife plot, so Bingge will come any moment now to save them....
any moment now....
any moment....
...
WHERE is he???
Shen Yuan uses his new Beast Knowledge and his stolen body's mild cultivation to tame the lizard. Turns out it's just a juvenile and they can wean it off eating pretty women if they feed it enough regular meat! Now Shen Yuan has three women in his corner, too! They can help keep him off Bingge's radar while he stays in the palace!
Except... well... it keeps happening.
Beasts attack when Shen Yuan is nearby. Bingge doesn't show up. And then Shen Yuan has to deal with it! He's forming his own harem inside of the harem and he doesn't WANT that!!! Bingge will kill him!!!
It all comes to a head when one of the IMPORTANT wives, Ningying, is cornered by a Ravenous Rainbow Gem Tiger! Even using all of his cunning and smarts, Shen Yuan isn't sure he's going to make it! He manages to get Ningying out of there, but he's on the back ropes...
Then Bingge shows up just in time to save the day.
Oh and he looks BAD. Hair unkept, bags under his eyes, like he hadn't been eating; even with Airplane's shitty Cultivation rules the protagonist shouldn't look like this! Shen Yuan INSTANTLY starts fretting over him. Bingge doesn't seem that impressed, probably used to it by now and thinking that this is just gunna lead to The Usual Business. But he gets this little nagging feeling when Shen Yuan invites himself back to his chambers. Shen Yuan bullies him into bathing, brushes out his hair, makes him eat something, and gets him tucked all nicely into bed. And without a hint of papapa in sight!
In fact, Shen Yuan just... pats Bingge on the head and makes him promise he'll sleep and then leaves.
Bingge staring at the ceiling of his bed, taken care of, no sex expected... squints and has his 'wait a fucking minute' moment.
SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENIBUYFR5ZRYEYKUVUTIDERYAEEYKTUBGHKCYR
Y'know, forget the top-bottom or the redblack/coolwhite divide, I think the two who would get along best out of all the MXTX mains would be Shen Yuan and Hua Cheng
Shen Yuan: I was revived into my second life by virtue of my fanatical devotion to my favorite person and my seething hatred of the oceans of unworthy people around him who failed to properly respect how awesome he is
Hua Cheng: You. You get it.
People really read Scum Villian and think Shen Yuan as Shen Qingqiu doesn't care about any of the people around him?
Yeah he struggles to see them as actual people at first but that changes over the years! Long before he realises it!
And saying that he doesn't care that Shen Jiu was abused? He literally yells at Airplane for creating his backstory and putting him through it!
He does feel for Shen Jiu and mourns that he wasn't there to hear Yue Qingyuan's explanation and apology
However! He doesn't let Shen Jiu's trauma justify him abusing Luo Binghe in the same way which is correct!
Yes what Shen Jiu went through was horrible and deserving of of sympathy but he also regularly had a child whipped bloody!
He didn't just bully Luo Binghe he abused him horribly and broke his spirit
The abyss didn't really blacken Luo Binghe in PIDW, Shen Jiu did. The abyss was the final act of Shen Jiu in the process
Thats why while SVSSS Binghe is blackened its not nearly as much. Because there were gaps between Shen Jiu and the abyss where Shen Qingqiu was loving and kind because he was Shen Yuan
They spell it out! Shen Jiu is a complicated villian, he is sympathetic but he's still a villian. (And I say this as a Shen Jiu fan)
And Shen Yuan pretends he doesn't care, that he's seperate, as a defense mechanism. But his actions are the opposite
He saves Liu Qingge so Liu Qingge can protect him later and then repeatedly puts himself in danger to protect or help Liu Qingge
He goes running towards Cang Qiong when Luo Binghe is laying seige to protect everyone and because he's realised Luo Binghe loves him and has accepted that even though he's still struggling with what it means for him
He repeatedly abandons attempts to run away and protect himself in favour of protecting others
In fact in Sha Hualing's raid on the sect after he's poisoned (that happened because of an action he took to instinctively protect) he was fully prepared to self detonate right then and there to protect the sect
So from really quite early on he was already treating them as more than characters
Just how can you read Scum Villian and think Shen Yuan doesn't care?
(yes this is about that one post. No I'm not responding to it directly to save my sanity)
Airplane "Drama" Youtuber- He wrote smut for a living in the past and that was enough for some people. But also the money laundering and money scams. He does not care
Shen Yuan Video Essayist- got in too deep about dumb fandom drama, panicked, faked his own death. Eventually comes out years later when he's making internet essays about monsters and his past is mostly forgiven because he seems sorry
Shen Jiu Troll Channel: first for hiring a hit on Liu Qingge which he didn't do and then later and more severally for throwing hot food at a customer service employee (Luo Binghe before he started his channel ). It doesn't hurt his career because he makes money by being hated
Yue Qingyuan ASMR channel: for defending Shen Jiu
Luo Binghe Cooking Channel: for stalking Shen Yuan (revealed by Shen Jiu) which leads to Shen Yuan being half canceled and Luo Binghe being half uncancelled when they start dating because of the stalking
Liu Qingge Martial Arts Channel: for punching Shen Jiu even though people thought he deserved it and later for refusing to apologise for breaking a statue by kicking it
Zhuzhi-lang Nature Channel: for stalking Shen Yuan but is forgiven because he's just so cute
Tianlang-jun Book Review Channel: for reading erotic RPF of his own son
Liu Mingyan Book Review Channel: for writing erotic RPF of Bingqiu
Sha Hualing beauty channel: for having her nudes leaked because she definitely leaked them herself. She didn't even deny it
Mobei Jun Ice Carving Channel: killed a man
When I say a character is hot, I don't mean that they are sexually attractive; it means I want to go on long walks with them, make them coffee, and snuggle up in a blanket.
no thoughts just shenmian
Shen yuan. I wanna kiss her.
DNFHFHSHDHFHFHD IM GONNA SOB THIS IS AMAZING? THANK YOU SO MUCH. I promise I have so many more memes and stuff in store heheheheheheheh
Cumplane and their Cold Ass Big Titty Goth Wife™
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For @xxmiserysmilesxx
@artsarasp attacking u back with cumplane being silly lil guys
Shen Yuan had Hastune Miku gender envy as a teenager and hasn’t realized that it’s not a universal experience
Qinghua cuddles solve EVERYTHING.
she’s so beautiful in her sleep, he can’t help but stare ❤️⭐️🥒✈️
Pt 2 of the Cumplane “local trans girl falls for pathetic author man” comic. Link to pt 1!
Part 1 of my Cumplane AU comic with @acanthusbloomed
someone help this poor man
they are two whole dumbasses and I love them
cumplane doodle dump
also modern cumplane with tfem shen yuan
Local trans girl SQQ and her dumb fucking hamster bf
and SQH then just has to deal with these two grumpy little cats knocking things over and warring for his attention and being brats
sqq sits at sqh’s desk while he’s writing and bites him whenever he forgets a plot point. meowbei-jun gets mad and smacks sqq onto the floor so forcefully with his big kitty paws that sqq gets knocked out, and mbj just proceeds to turn and make big eyes at sqh like “im juft a kitjy cat,,,, see i am so innocent and smol,,,,”
mbj just does not consider that cat injuries translate to human injuries and so spends their entire time as cats smacking the shit out of sqq and then is very confused when sqq is heavily concussed and maimed back in human form. (no one knows to this day if this was another courting attempt or simply meowbei jun being a dick)
sqh also would start a tiktok acc just filming his cats then suddenly one day have to explain why the cats are gone and two inhumanly attractive men are sitting in his apartment looking like they just were in a barfight
Shen Qingqiu doesn’t get many hugs. His spouses are not going to let that slide.
Shen Qingqiu ends up as Mobei Jun’s “date” to a demon meeting of sorts, due to Shang Qinghua’s workload just being too much to make it. They’ve been going along with this sort of “arrangement” (throuple? is it a relationship?) for a bit now, but SQQ still isn’t sure that MBJ even LIKES him. Surely he’s just tolerating him for Qinghua’s sake. A few hours into the event, SQQ is way too overwhelmed. His head is spinning, it’s too loud, too much- it’s all a blur already. He can barely discern what’s happening, and he’s ready to find a corner and hope no demon notices him hyperventilating. Before he can leave though, a hand is on his shoulder, and he’s back at Moshang’s place (their place? Is it his too now?) and he’s being led to their bed, a voice telling him to breathe. Mobei Jun is just holding him, cold and solid, a hand running through his hair. They just sit there, until SQQ can feel the room he’s in again. He knows then that it isn’t just Qinghua that MBJ cares about. SQQ is cared about - genuinely, really cared about - by two people. It’s more than he could’ve asked for.
shang qinghua, after writing two extremely objectifiable men and marrying both: i’m a fucking genius shen qingqiu: is that all i am to you?? some horny fantasy?? shang qinghua: YOU READ THE WEBNOVEL YOU KNOW THE ANSWER TO THAT.
Shang Qinghua: wait… how did you know how to make a corset so fast?? Shen Qingqiu: well. sometimes with my old cosplays…. Shang Qinghua, ready to die for a second time: oh my god. Shen Qingqiu: look, i just had a thin waist okay? it worked with my body type! Shang Qinghua: OH MY GOD.
Waking up after a surprise body swap? Not very demure, not very mindful. (Au explanation if confused)
so he just starts writing a book on “how to take care of your pet transmigrator” and just spends time staring at shang qinghua and shen qingqiu interacting as his “research” like they’re two pets he’s trying to introduce
“it is customary in transmigrator culture to, after performing an act of mating, tell the other “no homo” and show the other ones clothed feet to indicate the validity of the claim”