#svsss spoilers

[rainyatw]

Chapter 3 "Favor Points"

Sqq is the most oblivious guy I know. He somehow manages to think about how down bad he is for lbh and one sentence later he denies any meaning of it.

"Oh lbh cooks for his maidens. He sways them with his skills. How lucky I am to taste it and to have him cook for me regularly. I am so very grateful. those things have nothing to do with each other" you keep telling yourself that, sweety

"Oh having sex with lbh would cure my poison but I could never. Or could I? Hahaha what a laughable thought. Unless? ... Nah" are you maybe a bit thinking about that?

"oh I have been thrust in the role of the damsel to take care of lbh and help him. There must be a bug. I am surely not the romantic interest. There is simply no way. well I got to march on and fulfill my role, my hands are tied, there is no other way." SURE YOU ARE

"I will throw myself in front of everything to protect lbh, no matter the consequences and although he has plot armor. I just can't stand him getting hurt." BE REAL

"My heart thumped and I get lost in lbh's eyes and I feel safe with lbh and I literally say oh. This is just me taking on the role of the female lead but it doesn't mean anything. hahaha. actually I should get paid extra. let me just quickly pat lbh's head." I WANT TO GRAB YOU BY THE COLLAR AND SHAKE YOU.

"I want to forever keep him by my side and protect him." MY GUY *gets held back by a security guard*

"I finished my friendship performance" I S2G.

"I am keeping him close so I can let him wait on my hand and foot. that's the only reason. yeah." ARE YOU FOR REAL RIGHT NOW.

Lbh is also so down bad for sqq. he keeps talking about him! He is so happy when he gets to move in with him! He won't allow him to be hurt! Meng Mo is so annoyed by that!

I laughed a lot while reading this! I have a feeling the horrors will come soon enough but so far I am really enjoying this!

#rainy reads svsss #svsss spoilers #svsss #luo binghe #shen qingqiu

[setsu0000gen]

Zhuzhi-Lang during the fight at Mai Gu Ridge at the end of volume 3

#my art #人渣反派自救系统 #SVSSS #svsss spoilers #Zhuzhi-Lang #danmei #mxtx

[nonpoppie]

give up what you love / before it does you in

#scum villain #svsss #luo binghe #svsss spoilers #my art dump #technically spoilers but everyone knows abt this part right #yeah... Yeah #its bingy :^) <3 #im incapable of drawing things that look good on thumbnail #ahehe ANGUISH!!! ANGUISH AND MISERY

[xieliansbignaturals]

#svsss #bingqiu #svsss spoilers #sort of

[starry-stan-blog]

cumplane number 1 talent: bitching at each other

#I cannot BREATHE #i love cumplane an exorbitant amount #danmei #svsss #mxtx #shen qingqiu #shang qinghua #cumplane #airplane shooting towards the sky #peerless cucumber #ren zha fanpai zijiu xitong #svsss spoilers

[fluffmonster31513]

do you ever think about how luo binghe was supposed to spend five years in the abyss but got out early. and how after that, shen qingqiu was dead for five years. do you think it’s some inevitability that no matter what, they have to be apart for that long. and maybe binghe turned what was meant to be five years into eight because he wanted to see shen qingqiu so badly. do you think that his good intentions brought them both more suffering.

#god im glad this book has a happy ending #i dont know what i would become if it didn’t #a more prolific writer ig #bingqiu #svsss #svsss spoilers #the scum villain's self saving system

[bonesblubs]

Talking to @goatpunches about the Gongyi Xiao/Zhuzhi-Lang ship and their nickname has never been more relevant

#not art #to delete later #svsss spoilers #IM NOT HATING ITS JUST FUNNY #I support y’all

[piosplayhouse]

I was thinking about Maigu ridge yesterday and my controversial opinion that I do genuinely and objectively think it's the best climax of the three mxtx series despite not enjoying reading the scene. I think what makes it so special is that as opposed to the other climaxes, sv builds up a sense of gradual dread towards it from the very beginning. You know it's going to happen. Shen Yuan tells you: luo binghe merges the realms at the end of the story, this is an unavoidable fact of the canon. But as things start to go to shit and the plot signs are pointing towards it actually happening what once was a somewhat reassuring expectation that you know what's going to happen turns into an inevitable dread that you're desperately hoping is shifted off course before it's too late.

And then sv hits you with the second aspect of Maigu ridge that it's been slowly getting you to dread: the story always ends in sex. That's how things are fixed. Whether the characters want it or not, the genre formula says sex crowns all. That's just how both PIDW and romance works. So there's this horrific reversal of expectations as you're watching all of these things go to shit, and a sense of futility connecting you to sqq as you both know there's only one way the story's going to be able to end, no matter how much else has been changed throughout the narrative. And then rather than granting you any kind of reprieve with the scene itself, that maybe somehow it'll all be fixed easily in the last minute, the climax is viscerally horrific and messy and wildly uncomfortable to sit though. It's like it's sitting you down to say here, this is the type of story you buckled in to read, here's how it will happen. You're rewarded this farce of a conclusion that by all accounts should have been satisfying, but all of the illusion has been stripped out of it until there's just a deep unease left.

#svsss spoilers #long post #long posts

[dokidreaming]

my favourite scene from maigu ridge

#svsss #svsss spoilers #shen qingqiu #luo binghe #tianlang-jun

[saaraofthesand]

actual analysis to come but I’m being so serious when I say I’m onto something here and it’s profound

#like I think cross analysis would be beneficial if it hasn’t already been done #orv #svsss #omniscient reader's viewpoint #scum villain’s self saving system #shang qinghua #sqh #han sooyoung #hsy #demonic judge of fire #uriel #liu mingyan #orv spoilers #svsss spoilers #kim dokja #shen qingqiu #yu junghyeok #luo binghe #ning yingying #lee seolhwa

[rainyatw]

Like, he knew that going at it with the protagonist could have cured the poison, but like he could do that! Could he? Ha ha ha ha...

MY GUY. DID YOU JUST REALLY GO

hahaha jk

unless? 👀

#rainy reads svsss #svsss spoilers #svsss #shen qingqiu

[lovefrombegonia]

You ever....[SHAKES WITH EMOTIONS]

You ever think about how...in both canon timelines, Yue Qingyuan thought that...his...his Xiao Jiu... That Shen Jiu...left him behind, rejected him. That Shen Jiu didn't think of him as the most significant person in his life even though to YQY, he is the most important person. That YQY lived and died feeling the person he loved the most, didn't love him back (or atleast not as much YQY loved him).

"Now go. Don't appear before me."

In PIDW, he died thinking even if he gave up his life, it will not be even important enough to SJ to make a difference. And yet, he embraced 10,000 cursed arrows because YQY's love and devotion to SJ cannot be measured in how much love he got back from SJ. YQY willingly threw away his life, believing his death in the will not matter a lot to SJ, and he didn't care. He loved his Xiao Jiu all the same.

"Shixiong, its Qingqiu."

In SVSSS, he lived on believing that "shen jiu" chose another person over him. That SJ is happier, much better without his memories of his Qi-ge. That SQQ wants to leave him behind. Choosing someone else who loves him better than YQY could, and left him behind along with the "forgotten past". And YQY...still loved his Xiao Jiu the same. Because...in the end, he will always be waiting for SJ. Even when he knows that waiting is in vain.

In PIDW, YQY willingly gave Xuan Su to SJ in the water prison. Do you.... [BREATH IN. BREATH OUT]...do you... Ever. Feel like dying after reading that part??? Coz I feel something tightly gripping me and suffocating me inside, when I think of how YQY cared SO LITTLE about himself. That even though his love was imperfect, it was PURELY UNCONDITIONAL.

In SVSSS, knowing fully well, that SQQ has decided to go with LBH, he still said that CQMS will always be open to him. Because he will NEVER let SQQ be without a home to return to. That's what a home is after all: a place, when you have nowhere else to go, they have to accept you.

He will always, ALWAYS, choose Shen Jiu. Even if Shen Jiu didn't choose him back. He will always be Shen Jiu 's home, even if the home is abandoned.

#yue qingyuan #svsss spoilers #spoilers #yue qingyuan is driving me insane actually #qijiu #yue qi #somebody LOVE HIM PLZ #saya rambles. #pidw or svsss...yue qingyuan will always be the one left behind it seems #oh qingyuan...if you only knew that the same happened with svsss shen jiu and no one even cared other than you #these two characters are DRIVING ME IN-SANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #SCREAMS IN QIJIU #svsss

[hauntthenarrative]

Haunting the Narrative Round 1

Haunting the narrative means that the character’s absence heavily impacts the plot. They’re not present when their influence is most strongly felt, whether they’re alive or dead!

#polls #round 1 #haunting the narrative tournament #the scum villain's self saving system #scum villain's self saving system #scum villain #svsss #omniscient reader's viewpoint #omniscient reader viewpoint #omniscient reader #shen jiu #original shen qingqiu #the oldest dream #most ancient dream #the scum villain's self saving system spoilers #scum villain spoilers #svsss spoilers #omniscient reader's viewpoint spoilers #omniscient reader spoilers

[magicpotatothoughts]

I NEVER REALLY UNDERSTOOD LUO BINGHE UNTIL NOW

Holy shit I was so swayed by SQQ’s POV that I honestly never truly understood LBH’s intentions until I read this line In Ch 2 (SVSSS Seven Seas)/Ch 13 at the demonic evasion arc:

When a person is affected with Without a Cure, starting from their wound, their spiritual flow becomes disconnected. This schism slowly spreads to their entire body. In the end, not only does their spiritual qi coagulate and stagnate, so does their blood."

So then when in Ch 6 (SVSSS SS)/Ch 34, LBH fed SQQ his blood and subsequently used his blood to seemingly "torment" SQQ during the water prison arc, all of this got me thinking....

What if everything LBH did with his demonic blood this entire time was to save SQQ from Without a Cure?

Like yes, he probably did have other intentions such as tracking him, making SQQ horrified at the fact that he has demon blood inside him when he hated demons so much but I honestly think the main reason LBH forced SQQ to drink his blood, and I would even go further as to say that his main motivation when he trained under Meng Mo, was not to become the “strongest” in the general sense but to heal SQQ. Hear me out. The first thought white lotus LBH has when SQQ got poisoned in Ch2/13 was

the demons had harmed his teacher to the point that he might be crippled—he might even lose his life. And all because of him.

LBH probably was a direct witness to how a whole team of Cang Qiong mountain peak lords needed to revolve around SQQ, with Mu Qingfang constantly providing prescriptions and LQG clearing his meridians and probably YQY hovering around SQQ dying with worries, to maintain his health post the SHL -demon evasion, he must have felt absolutely terrible about it! And that guilt literally haunted our bing-pup like he never once stopped thinking about it; no wonder he offered himself to take care of everything including the nutrition of SQQ's food, snaccs, water, small-big errands, and even wanted to pick that "Snow something Lotus" flower for Shizun! Without a Cure affecting SQQ was on LBH's mind ever since he was 15 and for all 3 years he was in the Endless Abyss.

This is absolutely evident when black lotus LBH returned and started to chase SQQ, SQQ's inner monologue was cursing how Without a Cure is stagnating his ability to coordinate and run, I am certain that LBH was not blind to just how much SQQ was struggling with that poison in his body. My theory was further confirmed when LBH finally caught up to SQQ:

“While Shen Qingqiu was still in the midst of confusion, Luo Binghe flipped his hand over. “You were infected?” .....“This hand of Shizun’s is plagued with misfortunes.”

Bruh, LBH may be giving the sadistic energy of an abandoned demonic child (thanks SQQ unreliable narrator) but here is clear evidence that the thing he was most worried about is SQQ's blood coagulating and him dying of demonic poison. What this tells me is that Without a Cure seemed to be activated and/or further exacerbated by other demonic poisons. LBH was also clearly still carrying the guilt of SQQ saving him with that hand! Following on immediately, what he did was 1) punch SQQ, then 2) says "An eye for an eye. Since Shizun sowed the seeds, he should reap the bitter fruit himself. Shizun should personally make up for himself" and 3) straight up fed SQQ his demonic blood.

White Lotus LBH never died. Both actions are for the benefit of SQQ, 1) I think he did this to get SQQ to cough up coagulated blood after SQQ was poisoned by that Jin Lan City sower and 3) LBH's quick return from Endless Abyss was so that he can feed Shizun his heavenly-blood to help cure him. I have reason to believe that LBH's demonic blood is the CURE to WITHOUT A CURE. Why else pay such specific attention to SQQ's hand out of literally any other body-part after a 3 year reunion?

But what I find most fascinating is 2) LBH’s words are nearly always laced with double meaning. “An eye for an eye” here isn’t necessarily just him blaming SQQ for kicking him and unlocking his demonic heritage but he wants to repay SQQ for taking on Without a Cure back then by giving him his demonic blood as a cure now. Another interpretation is that LBH deflected feeling the guilt of indirectly harming SQQ by verbally jabbing him. He tried to make SQQ feel guilty about tossing him into the Endless Abyss when he himself couldn't bare to think that his Shizun got hurt again on the same hand that saved him all those years ago. SQQ of course is an unreliable narrator and tricks us into thinking that LBH's actions matched his words when if we look closer, they're LITERALLY THE EXACT OPPOSITE.

Right after the reunion, SQQ "didn’t know how he made it back to the Jin Zi Weapons Shop," which has me believing that LBH must have been doing something to surpress SQQ's Without a Cure's effects with his demonic blood.

During the Water Prison arc, LBH seems like he is tormenting SQQ by demonic blood manipulation but if we really read carefully:

…strange sensation of something crawling inside his blood vessels....Luo Binghe said leisurely, “Spleen, kidneys, heart, lungs.” Though it wasn’t to the point of extraordinary anguish, it was still awful to suffer through.

Doesn't this sound like LBH trying to get the blood in SQQ flowing again to prevent coagulation after SQQ had been in presumably a seated position for a long time jailed in the Water prison? Once again, LBH's intentions behind his actions are the opposite of his words, he may be emotionally hurt by SQQ's silent response to him asking whether Shizun regrets kicking him down the Endless Abyss but his first and foremost concern is SQQ's health. This totally explains LBH's extremely low anger points! SQQ seemingly mistook LBH’s worry as anger! If SQQ asked the System for LBH's worrywart points, it would have been like ~the limit does not exist~. 🤯🤯🤯

Bruh, it’s so telling when Gongyi Xiao went to untie SQQ's immortal binding cables two days later when SQQ noted:

His spiritual energy was unmistakably back in operation and flowing smoothly. When he’d been imprisoned, he had been in the middle of a random Without a Cure flare-up, but after two days of being tied up by the immortal-binding cables, the poison had unexpectedly been suppressed again. Was this following the same principle as fighting fire with fire, or how two negatives make a positive?

No SQQ you oblivious gay, LBH was circulating your coagulating blood for you and suppressing the effects of your poison! We as readers can get so misled by SQQ constantly worrying about how Without a Cure randomly stops his spiritual powers that we forget about the actual main issue, blood stagnation and coagulation, which can absolutely kill him. Also, when SQQ escaped the Water Prison, LBH didn't try to manipulate the blood in SQQ's body because now he didn't need to, he’s done it already. He never wanted to do more than what was necessary for Shizun’s health. LBH tried to convince SQQ to come back when he could have used his powers. SQQ always had agency because LBH loves and respects him too much.

The next time SQQ got poisoned was by that sower who hid amongst the Huang Hua Palace disciples in Hua Yue city right before his self-detonation. He couldn't attack the sower with fire but then complained that it must have been Without a Cure that flared up again. Somehow, silly SQQ kept randomly getting himself poisoned so doesn’t it make sense that LBH keeps track of his Shizun so that his own demonic blood could notify him of any potential future SQQ demonic poisonings?

Bruh, the worrywart White-Lotus LBH never fucking died, SQQ ah SQQ you silly silly man. LBH has always been, even if he says hateful words, worried about you and your health and made it his top priority. What made LBH lose his mind though were

everytime LBH tries to save SQQ, SQQ thinks that he is using his demonic blood/demonic poison to do all these unfathomable things when using demonic poison is literally the last thing LBH would do because he has literal guilt trauma around it.

SQQ keeps calling LQG, GYX and literally anyone else to save him when LBH has been the one doing all the work.

Then we arrive at Xing Mo’s recoil exacerbating LBH’s insecurities.

“Shizun, look at what I’ve become. Am I strong enough? Do you know how I spent those years within the Endless Abyss? For three years underground, at all times and all moments, my mind thought only of Shizun. I wondered why Shizun would do this to me, why he refused to give me even a single chance to explain or plead my case.”

He did so much for Shizun’s health but never got a chance to explain why! And then when SQQ self-detonated, LBH thought:

Didn’t Shizun hate his blood more than anything? Wasn’t he unwilling to even be near him, to associate with him at all? So why, at the last moment, had he so gently helped to contain Luo Binghe’s mind, as tender as he had been in those years long past?

The blood here doesn't just have racist but literal connotations, LBH literally thought that SQQ hated the very demonic blood coursing through his veins, so that's why he kept forcing SQQ to drink it. LBH's every action, with me now looking back at all this evidence, is SO fricking justified. From his POV, isn't it more like SQQ is the constantly sick child throwing a tantrum about not wanting to drink bitter medicine? LBH, After all this effort of forcing himself to go through literal hell, training himself, chasing SQQ, imprisoning SQQ (LBH is giving Lan Wangji energy here) so that his Shizun can stop accidentally poisoning himself, SQQ somehow got put in harms way again but on top of that, died because of him. SQQ died whilst also restoring and reaffirming himself as the Shizun who had once been so good to him. 😭😭😭

All this absolute adds so much more weight as to why LBH was never ever going to let SQQ out of his sight ever again, as a corpse or alive, from that moment onwards.

#Im truly sorry if this was all incredibly obvious information for the rest of the fandom but my pea-sized brain exploded ok #svsss spoilers #svsss #svsss meta #bingqiu #luo binghe #shen qingqiu #shen yuan #scumbag system #scum villian self saving system #ren zha fanpai zijiu xitong #mxtx #mxtx svsss #svsss analysis

[huevostuff]

Shen Jiu's burning of the Qiu house

#art #digital art #my art #fanart #drawing #huevodraws #svsss #svsss fanart #shen qingqiu #original shen qingqiu #shen jiu #me: i hate it when shows and movies dont let me see shit bcs of lighting #me: proceeds to paint in colors so dark i can only see with my brightness to the top #scum villian self saving system #svsss spoilers #trying to get back to painting in mspaint is killing my wrist

[fluffmonster31513]

ok look quanyin and bingqiu are the same ship for a lot of reasons but the most important one is that shen qingqiu once jumped out of a fucking window to get away from luo binghe and if you can honestly say that yin yu would not do the exact same thing to avoid quan yizhen then you need to read tgcf again.

#quanyin #bingqiu #tgcf #heaven official's blessing #tian guan ci fu #svsss #scum villian self saving system #svsss spoilers #yin yu #shen qingqiu #luo binghe #quan yizhen #<- seperating them for yin yu’s sake