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sinterblackwell · 11 months

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Hi! I read your tags on the aro!LQG post and I wanna talk about it a little if you don't mind? (Disclaimer I'm rlly awkward so if anything sounds rude pls know I don't mean it to be.)

Okay so I feel like when Madam Meiyin talked about SQQ's fated person LQG did think that it was him, because I'm pretty sure no one else knew LBH was still alive by then (cmiiw)? To be fair the traits could be used to describe LQG which is hilarious so it's probably deliberate for comedic effect. When I read about LQG getting more aggravated by Madam Meiyin's prediction, I deadass thought he was just baffled like "why is this random demon telling that I'm SQQ's soulmate??? this is definitely bullshit we shouldn't continue listen to her." and so the rest is history hahah. I had thought it was really funny for LQG to be self-conscious about the prediction and so unhappy about it.

Anyway yeah that's it. Sorry for bothering you I just want to talk :')

first things first, you didn’t bother me at all!! this ask actually made me smile because i don’t engage a lot with the svsss fandom…or just any fandom in general, in discussions so i was happy to see someone reach out to me to just get to talk. second of all, i did a reread of that scene purely to see from a better pov than i did when i first read it and it truly is something.

**what is even more something is how much i write, hence why i put this “keep reading” sign.

hopefully any of it is salvageable :’)

the laughable thing about all this is that i genuinely feel like sqq regarding that scene in that … it just did not occur to me that lqg could possibly have been who madam meiyin was talking about. there was not a single brain-cell that considered lqg was thinking along those lines as you said where he was like “what the hell, is this stranger insinuating i’m sqq’s soulmate?”. while sqq didn’t consider any guys at all, in my case, i think i was very biased bc of how much i love bingqiu that any other character who may have an infatuation with our mc just wasn’t in the cards for me.

reading your own interpretation of that scene, i feel dumb now because it just seems so obvious. i said in my tags of that post you mentioned that that prediction can go both ways and madam meiyin’s words can apply to both lqg & lbh, i think.

“Your fated person has very little interest in others,” Madam Meiyin went on. “But once they find someone, their devotion is absolute.”

“A first-class beauty, peerless among all humans.” Madam Meiyin said with certainty.

i would also say this one below but i’m not too sure, since if we’re applying it to lbh, that “first meeting” would have been when he met sj!sqq, not sy!sqq so idk if the lines are just blurred there.

“Your first meeting was unhappy, and there might even have been loathing involved,” said Madam Meiyin. “But after a critical moment, that all began to change, and thoroughly so.”

but i can definitely understand now why the fandom are so rattled when it comes to lqg and his feelings for sqq, whatever they are. it now makes me curious to see fics that explore that, but i’ve also just been very wary of reading any svsss fic that isn’t centered around bingqiu as the main pairing😅

thank you for giving me your thoughts on that scene!! it honestly makes a lot of sense in reflection, and i feel like it definitely hits hard because whoever this “fated soulmate” this madam was talking about was, for both lqg & lbh, it reveals a certain depth in the impact that sqq has had on these two characters that they just end up sort of blurring the lines in this prediction.

which makes what happens during those years where lbh held onto sqq’s corpse and lqg constantly chased after him so much more heavy to think about…..

#❣️#liu qingge #luo binghe #shen qingqiu #svsss #asks

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thewindsofsong · 3 years

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Ok ok ok!!! So last night I had a dream that I rec’ed a dmbj/svsss crossover fanfic, but never actually read the fic. Then I woke up because my cat was yowling in the middle of the night.

After talking with @1ebilcat and @merinnan for a while, I managed to flesh out a basic outline of what that fic might look like. Please know that because this is a crossover with svsss, there is papapa mentioned. several times.... (nothing actually explict is described because that would make this not a not-fic)

So one day SQQ and SQH are messing around trying to figure out what this new “unique one of a kind treasure” does when SQH accideny drops some melon seeds on it or something and it suddenly activates.

Meanwhile in dmbj world, the Iron Triangle are pretty much retired from the whole tomb raiding business, but still run Wushanju (better now that wu xie actually concentrates on running it instead of running off every week). Someone comes in with a strange artifact that they found while clearing out a deceased relatives store room they want to sell. Wu xie buys it because he’s never seen anything like it before and wants to research it.

Xiaoge gets super weird vibes from the object, but it doesn’t seem overtly menacing, so he leaves wu xie be (if wu xie is preoccupied he gets in marginally less trouble). However, when xiaoge touches the object with wu xie and Pangzi nearby, it grows a point and gives xiaoge a paper cut. The blood touches the object and it activates.

One blinding flask of light and disorienting tumble latter, they find themselves at the foot of a picturesque mountain with a gate that labels them at the foot of cang qiong mountain. They’re quickly found by the cang qiong crew and everyone is super weird out by each other. Things happen and eventually LBH crashes in and says his shizun is missing mobei-jun is there too because SQH is also missing. More communication happens and everyone realizes this is the artifact’s fault. No one knows where the artifact is.

Meanwhile SQQ and SQH wake up someone completely unfamiliar to either of them. After using magic to light things up, they see that they are in a tomb absolutely covered in different depictions of penises: there’s pictures on the walls, statues of men with WAY TOO BIG penises, sooooo many dildos. Queue SQQ immediately launching himself at SQH with a shriek of outrage because “THERE’S NO WAY THIS ISN’T YOUR FAULT YOU SHITTY HACK AUTHOR!!”

Back with the iron triangle, there’s a research montage going on as they and other CQ sect member scour the libraries for any information about the mcguffin that caused all this randomness. At some point in all of this, iron triangle go to MQF to see if he can take a look at Xiaoge regarding his memory problems. After some more research, MQF learns about an herb that could stabilize his qi and stabilize the fluctuations that cause his amnesia.

Turns out that while proper cultivation doesn’t exist in dmbj world, the Zhang family line has managed to cultivate the family line to extended life but because they’re the only ones that can (maybe due to bronze gate?) it has a lot of dangers.

The herb needed is of course incredibly rare and only found in some horribly dangerous location. Xiaoge wants to go alone because he doesn’t want wu xie and pangzi to be in danger, but knows that they won’t be left behind. There’s some agnst had about how Xiaoge feels he’s brought pain and suffering to wu xie and pangzi, but of course neither of them are having any of it. The three of them talk about how they’ve never regretted meeting each other and how the adventures they’ve shared have brought meaning and joy into their lives.

The three of them cobble together some hotpot and spend the night before setting off soaking their feet side by side, content and secure in their bonds with each other. Its very sweet.

The next day, the three of them set off with LQG and LBH. Right before arriving at the location, bullshit happens and Iron Triangle get trapped in the location where the herb is located and trigger a wife plot in which papapa is the only way out. Iron triangle proceeds to have incredibly kinky marathon sex. LBH and LQG can only listen awkwardly from the boundary, not able to get through, but also not wanting to leave completely just in case something else happens. The sexual tension between LBG and LQG grows to new heights. Neither will do anything about it until SQQ is back home safe.

After the marathon is over and iron triangle has time to actually sleep, the three of them get cleaned up with the herb in tow and head back to Cang Qiong. They get the herb to MQF who tells them it will take at least a day to prepare the pill for xiaoge to take. That night, Iron triangle has sweet, tender, affirming sex because while they all agree that while xiaoge not losing his memories every few decades is for the better, it also means that he’ll have to carry the memories of wu xie and pangzi long after they’er gone, with no hope of them ever being together again. Xiaoge assures wu xie and pangzi that this is what he wants, to know that at least at some point, he loved and was loved, that he had a connection to this world and that his life has meaning beyond his obligations to the Zhang clan. Wu xie and pangzi make xiaoge promise to live on after they pass and to find him in their next lives.

Xiaoge takes the pill and the search for a way back home continues again in earnest. Eventually, LBH travels back to the demon realm and figures out how to track the artifact through space and time because his protag halo is too strong to keep him away from his love interest for too long.

Wu xie and pangzi learn some basic meditation techniques that disciples would learn when first arrive at the mountain. Its too late for them to cultivate to longevity and there’s no guarantee that its even possible in their home world to cultivate if you aren’t a Zhang. Regardless, wu xie and pangzi don’t want immortality, they just want to spend as much time as they can with xiaoge. Wu xie is gifted a flute made with special bamboo and pangzi is gifted a wine jug from Zui Xian Peak. Both have spiritual properties that may or may not be able to function when back home, but they’er good gifts given in good faith.

LBH, losing patience, forces iron triangle to get moving so he can save SQQ. He bursts through time and space and iron triangle plus LBH, MBJ, and LQG end up in dmbj world, in Wushanju. After scaring the crap out of Wang Meng, the group realizes that while several days have passed in svsss world, its only been a few hours since iron triangle was pulled away. Which is good because Ershu was likely to call in an army if wu xie went missing for no apparent reason. The whole thing would have been way too messy. Probably more than one person would have died.

What follows is a night of LBH, LQG, and MBJ attempting different divination spells to try and pin point the exact location of SQQ and SQH to varying degrees of success. None of them are good at divination. Regardless, the three of them manage to get a general location of where the two missing peak lords might be and the iron triangle gets to work searching the internet for any rumors or information of any tombs that might be in the area. (Its just wu xie and pangzi looking, but xiaoge standing around still in his beautiful borrowed robes from CQ is good moral support.)

They hear about some local legends about an ecentric noble from a bygone era that was buried in a very peculiar tomb. Potential tomb located, the whole group prepares to head out. the SVSS gang is convinced to not fly over immediately because that would be waaaaay to flashy and draw unwanted attention to them that would delay things even more. The six of them cram in together into the van and head off. Svss gang are forced into modern clothing and are def a little too big to comfortably sit in the van. LBH hits his head on a doorway at least once on this adventure. At lease two women and maybe a guy slip their numbers to him too. The man is supernaturally gorgeous.

After some more road trip shenanigans, they arrive at the rumored entrance to the tomb and head in. The tomb has a few traps here and there, but is practically child’s play for the iron triangle to get through. Svsss are appropriately impressed by their competence and LBH and LQG think specifically about how the iron triangle is a true threesome that supports each other and fights together. MBJ just wants his hamster boy back.

When they near the central chamber of the tomb, they hear the faint sounds of fighting which spurs SVSSS to speed ahead while iron triangle tries to get them to at least be a little cautious about setting off traps.

The sight that LBH sees when he breaks into the main chamber like the kool aid man is a disheveled SQQ beating SQH over the head with a baton? Kind of. Its a baton carved into the shape of a penis. SQQ immediately stops and tries to put on his “peerless immortal cultivator” mask on with a flick of his fan, but its hard for that to be effective when your hair is all over the place and your in a room covered in penises. SQH dives for his king’s thighs and cries in relief that he’s no longer trapped in a room full of dildos and penises with SQQ.

Then the iron triangle catches up and the realization that SVSSS gang is in modern clothing sinks in. The transmigrators freeze for just a second before jumping in front of iron triangle with a thousand questions. They ask in their shitty English which leaves answering the questions mostly to wu xie because pangzi’s english is pretty spotty and xiaoge doesn’t like talking in general, let alone a foreign language.

The whole group eventually leaves the tomb and all its phallic glory behind and get above ground where there’s phone service again. After a bit of searching, the transmigrators realize that while this world is very similar to their original world, there’s no signs of “Proud Immortal Demon Way” ever being written here, no other signs pointing to the two of them existing in this world. SVSS gang are very concerned as they watch SQQ and SQH talk in a strange language to these relative strangers, but don’t feel like its the time to figure out whats going on until everyone gets back home. The now expanded group makes their way back to Wushanju in an even more cramped road trip back. SQQ absolutly ends up in LBH’s lap at least once and SQH ends up with MBJ’s head in his lap at some point. its all very cute as the feeling of everyone being accounted for and safe settles in.

Maybe there’s some stuff about SQQ and SQH being transmigrators and them being tempted for all of half a second to stay in this world that is so very much like their original world but choosing to go back with their lovers and the lives they’ve made for themselves.

As the complete SVSSS gang now gets ready to head back home, the Iron triangle makes a huuuuge goody bag of all the snacks and treats that SQQ and SQH have been missing ever since they’ve transmigrated and put together a basic netbook plus solar charger for them to take back. There won’t be internet service back in SVSS world, but they loaded it up with a whooole bunch of web novels and pop songs, along with a few spare parts.

SVSSS gang finally makes their way home after having a large farewell dinner at Wushanju at Pangzi’s insistence and LBH bullies his way into helping out. Its a very sweet scene of laughing and drinking. After dinner is done, SVSSS decide to go back immediately because the time dilation thing would mean they would be away for longer than they would like.

Once back home, LBH, SQQ, and LQG have a confrontation/conversation about their relationships with each other and figure out if they want to try being all together, all three of them. MBJ confines SQH to his northern palace. Specifically their bedroom. He was also the one that remembered to grab the artifact that caused all these problems to begin with while everyone else was distracted by dildo tomb.

Iron triangle goes back to their retirement, at peace with the decisions they’ve made and the lives they’ve chosen to live.

THE END!!!

#dmbj #svsss #the lost tomb reboot #iron triangle #wu xie #wang pangzi #zhang qiling #shen qingqiu #lou binghe #if you cant tell i like polyships a lot #i just want everyone to be happy together #i made myself sad writing part of this #oh god this is so much longer than i thought it would be #feel like this is a little light on the svsss side of things #but the current fixation is dmbj so its not that surprising #this is 2000 words of not-fic #my writing

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touchmycoat · 3 years

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thinking about a Princess Mononoke AU...

where Shen Yuan wakes up transmigrated into the body of Shen Qingqiu, the figurehead of a mining fortress populated by ex-brothel workers. He learns several things in quick succession: 1) the people in this town, especially the women, fucking adore him, and his daily business pretty much involves overseeing iron production and protecting the population with his new dope ass shooting skills, 2) their work cuts down the forest around them and has enraged the demon-gods of all the mountains, which is a little less great, and 3) there is one half-demon in particular who is out to get him. Luo Binghe is the half-child of Su Xiyan and the mysteriously missing Demon-God of the Forest. Su Xiyan is an honorary member of the Wolf Tribe? She’s been granted an ancestor’s pelt and can transform into a great wolf, while LBH is the last demon-god with human form.

LBH holds a great grudge against SQQ and sneaks into the fortress to assassinate SQQ whenever he can. LBH is driven by a personal vendetta of SQQ hurting him and his mother in the past as well as wanting to save his home the great forest. He’s still young though, and unpolished. For now, SQQ can defeat him handily. SQQ contemplates killing the boy to save himself the trouble but doesn’t go through with it. Surely LBH’s anger is reasonable? If you ask him, he doesn’t want to be spearheading industrialization and its destruction of the environment, he’s a man with 21st century values thank you very much! Also, he kind of sees the protagonist halo around LBH—the guy was just too damn good-looking, even covered in animal blood and snarling. He spares LBH over and over again, and the dynamic between them changes a bit, but in a way that’s hard to describe.

so this goes on for a while until one day, after a rice caravan was ambushed by LBH and SXY, SQQ meets a mysterious stranger who introduces himself as Liu Qingge. He’s been cursed by a feral demon-god, he says, and he’s come to seek the source of the curse in hopes to cure himself.

Behold, another beautiful man!! This must be the other protagonist!! All at once SQQ’s role in this narrative becomes dreadfully clear—he’s the antagonist that LQG is going to help LBH destroy. Greedy human industry will be punished and the forces of nature will prevail. Goddammit!! SY has actually been trying to greenify his operations, okay, he doesn’t deserve this!!

Despondent after this realization, SQQ introduces LQG to his iron production, gets predictably hissed at for his blatant destruction of nature, and points out—just for fairness’s sake—that he’s actually providing livelihoods and happiness for the people here. Then he points LQG in the direction of LBH ‘cause the two are bound to meet at some point, right? Plus if anyone can heal LQG’s curse it’s LBH’s missing dad.

anyways very unfinished notes ‘cause i gotta sleep laskjdfnlasdf BUT iMPORTANT QUESTIONS: how does LQG thematically fit into the plot ‘cause he’s not exactly a nature guy skfjnskjdf and how do I save SJ...the whole plot where men come and get Lady Eboshi to fetch the Forest God’s head, that’s gotta be driven by YQY-in-a-hostage-situation somehow. So why is SQQ here? What did SJ do and where has he gone?

#sv #rambling

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grandmasterofwangxiancultivation · 5 years

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SV ch.50

oKAY BREATH IN BREATH OUT WELCOME HOME (i was blissfully ignorant of this update cause i wasn’t home), ME, SV CH 50 IS OUT

EDIT: sqq trying to kick lbh away and lbh getting “hell no shizun” and diving in again only to back up a bit and call him “shizun” thank you mxtx, my life is complete. NEXT ON OUR SCREEN: HOW SQQ’LL REALISE HE IS IN FACT GAY FOR LBH

He didn’t raise the male protagonist into an asexual, and it wasn’t a problem of him being masochistic either. The truth was far more terrible than those options: he had raised the male protagonist into being gay aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!

AND WHAT A WONDERFUL TEACHER

EDIT 2: SOMEONE BROKE IN. I’M GONNA GO AND SAY IT IS BEAUTIFUL BROTHER LQG

EDIT 3: i KnEw It-

EDIT 4: OKAY SHIZUN GOT INTO PROTECTIVE MODE (over lqg? yes, but fight me and say it’s not over lbh, too), HE CAN THROW A FIT AT ME AND SAY THA’TS NOT TRUE BUT

Dammit. Liu Qingge just had to come at this time. There was no way Shen Qingqiu could throw him to the completely broken down Luo Binghe who was in the middle of throwing a fit, right?

NOT TRUE? AOJDIOPAJSDIOW WHO ARE YOU TRYING TO FOOL SQQ-

EDIT 5:

Luo Binghe himself was only wearing his inner clothes, looking like he had just gotten up from his bed. His black hair was scattered and loose, his clothes disorganized, his neckline crooked and open. His face was pale white but his lips carried a touch of bloody red. Cold light flashed in his eyes, the ghastly energy exerting immense pressure. The cutting edge of his sword was exposed and his posture was one of preparation for battle.

omg i think he is beautiful

EDIT 6: wAIT WAIT

Instead of saying it was a person, it would be better to say it was “a body”: completely lifeless, head hanging down, limbs weak, but very soft. It was wearing a thin layer of inner clothes. The collar had slipped below the shoulders, revealing half of a back as white as paper.

IS THAT SQQ’S BODY MAYBE? IS IT? LQG SEEMS SO ANGRY, AND WHO ELSE WOULD LBH WANT TO SLEEP (sleep sleep, not sex, omg, i’m not into necrophilia) WITH

EDIT 7: OKAY IT HAS TO BE SHIZUN’S BODY

Shen Qingqiu was completely speechless. Two people—to be specific a living person and a dead person—who were not wearing covering clothes as they rolled down from a place similar to a bed and hugged into a ball——no matter how one looked at it, it didn’t seem like anything positive!

that’s... incredibly suspicious, but honestly i don’t think lbh would be into that, he probably just misses sqq a lot? IT’S OKAY BABY DON’T WORRY HE IS R I G H T T H E R E if only sqq would tAlK-

EDIT 8:

During their rough and tumble duel, that body’s clothes loosened and slid down to the waist, and Luo Binghe’s palm directly attached to the fair flesh. Liu Qingge’s eyes turned completely bloodshot: “Brute, no matter what, he is your Shizun!”

Luo Binghe calmly said: “If it were someone else, do you think I would do this?”

OH MY GOD-

EDIT 9:

His brain was as full of holes as the surface of the moon, but he had never once imagined there would come a day where he became one of the main characters in this hardcore PLAY. The one held in Luo Binghe’s arms……was indeed dead, right? Absolutely correct, because that was his corpse, alright?!

okay, like, but think about it. you find someone sleeping with your corpse and you are right there and just- aside from the fact that you are literally looking at your corpse omg, i bet that’s be strange af.

I love how shizun freaks out in his head while outside he is stoic and emotionless

EDIT 10: SHIZUN SENDING SPIRITUAL ENERGY TO LQG, Y E S

mxtx are you trying to make me ship these two

EDIT 11:

Even after Luo Binghe was forced to let go, his line of sight remained firmly stuck on that body, and his face showed unwillingness and helplessness. Seeing his expression, Shen Qingqiu abruptly could not bear it. Using this method to force him to let go felt a little bit like they were bullying him.

nO mY bAbY-

OKAY BUT???? THIS IS SO SAD???? CAN YOU STOP HURTING LBH PLS, HASN’T HE BEEN THROUGH ENOUGH????

SHIZUN CAN YOU FREAKING TELL HIM YOU ARE ALIVE THANKS A L O T

EDIT 12: OKAY OKAY OKAY THIS IS SO STRANGE AND INDEED PROVOCATIVE BUT NOT HOW LBH SAYS IT IS

sqq caught the corpse, he is literally holding himself in his arms, and omg this is so strange what the hell i’m loving every second of this. but sqq’s dead body is half naked and lbh is like yOu ArE tOuChInG mY sHiZuN, which- which is A BIG NOPE, since this scene is described as

Added to how he was touching and looking at it…. It was overall an extremely unhealthy and rather provocative sight.

so i just imagine two sqq in lbh’s eyes, one dead and one alive, and think why can’t lbh suddenly understand everything and jump sqq and be happy, why are you throwing this angst at us-

He hurriedly pulled up the corpse’s clothes and sent this hot potato towards Liu Qingge: “Catch!”

in the meantime, these two children are playing volleyball with a dead body. you know, like zombie-haikyuu

EDIT 13: why did lqg feel some kind of electrical current touching sqq’s dead body, but shizun didn’t? or did i miss it?

EDIT 14:

Zheng Yang, Xiu Ya.

These two broken swords had once shared a common destiny and been shattered in countless pieces. It was unclear how they had been repaired, tied together, and placed in the Huan Hua Pavilion.

okay who asked you all to hit me like with angst-

EDIT 15:

Seeing these two swords once again, Shen Qingqiu felt an unclear taste rising in his heart and looked at Luo Binghe. His clothes had originally been untidy in the first place, and now after this wave of bombardments, his well-defined clavicle and chest were all exposed. On his chest wall, a hideous sword scar approached his heart.

Luo Binghe’s self-regeneration ability was extremely strong. Even if his limbs were cut off, he could seamlessly re-attach them, and even re-grow them without a problem. Unless he deliberately chose not to heal them, there were no wounds he couldn’t completely recover without even leaving a scar.

NO. OKAY STOP THIS ANGST RIGHT NOW.

wait, no, maybe shizun will realise how strong lbh’s feelings are, it may work, bUT MY HEART-

(LBH YELLING THAT HE SPARED LQG��S LIFE FOR SHIZUN’S SAKE IS SO HEART WRENCHING I CAN’T DO THIS IF SQQ DOESN’T COME CLEAN WITH THE FACT THAT HE IS ALIVE PLS SHIZUN GIVE. HIM. HOPE. BACK.)

EDIT 16:

Luo Binghe originally wanted to attack, but he unexpectedly felt his heart quake—the backlash of the Xin Mo sword came out of the blue and slowed him down by a hair. Just from this missing hair, he could only look on helplessly as Liu Qingge left with Shen Qingqiu’s corpse under his arm.

*sobs* now shizun will help him by sending him his spiritual energy and fill the void caused by sqq’s dead corpse disappearing before his eyes.

right?

RIGHT?

EDIT 17:

Shen Qingqiu had been planning to take advantage of his daze to fish in troubled waters and slip away. But when he saw this situation, for some unknown reason, his heel stuck to the ground and that flash of unbearableness grew more and more intense.

OMG PLS SHIZUN.

those are your feelings telling you what the right thing to do is, LISTEN TO THEM AND Go To YoUr LbH-

EDIT 18:

The problem came with this untimely softening of his heart. He had not successfully snuck away when Luo Binghe suddenly turned his head, those two violent red eyes fixated directly on him.

sHiT sHiT *nervous energy*

*sweats heavily*

EDIT 19:

He wanted to tell him: “Don’t be this sad, Shizun is not dead.”

D O I T FREAKING Do It PlS sHiZuN-

I DON’T HAVE THE STRENGHT TO GO ON, I’M SO FRIGGING SCARED

EDIT 20:

The figure moved with remarkable swiftness, wrapping up Shen Qingqiu and leaving like a whirlwind.

whaT-

what happened? someone came with lqg and helped him, but who? are they the same person that just helped shizun? thank you for the help, stranger, but YOU DIDN’T REALLY HAVE TO, SHIZUN WAS GONNA CONFESS.

(no, okay, ty for saving him bUT-

also, i feel so bad for hualing, babe-)

HOW CAN THE CHAPTER END LIKE THAT

#sv #sv novel #sv fangirling mode #the scum villain’s self-saving system #scum villain #scum villain’s self saving system #sv ch.50

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