You're a Pink Pony Girl and You Dance at the Club!

after shen qingqiu (shen yuan) transmigrates, he takes a few days to familiarize himself with the Original Goods' house. he finds a strange "artifact" (a D20). Of course, SQQ being SQQ, he recognizes it immediately. It's an artifact of chance.

rolling the dices either gives the roller a range of really bad luck (1) or really high (20). now, sqq is a bit of a gambling addict. (he loves the ups and downs of spending points/receiving points and JUMPED placing a bet at the IAC). he is HOOKED on this dice immediately.

he uses it for innocuous things - when ming fan and the gang beat up luo binghe for the jade pendant, sqq rolls the dice and it gets them to stop and the jade pendant falls right into his lap.

for the skinner demon mission, sqq rolls it to find the culprit. well... it works! but he wakes up kidnapped and ahem disrobed.

it gets to the point where the disciples all recognize the dice and they're all like "shizun, plz no." shizun thinks "shizun, plz yes."

when liu qingge gets tired of his shixiong using the dice, he tries to steal it. the only problem is that the dice is now linked to sqq, so it shows right back in his pocket.

now we get to the IAC.

imagine an sqq desperately trying to roll the dice to change the outcome, to fix lbh's fate. he keeps rolling and rolling, hoping that something, anything, will stop this from happening.

lbh steps up to him and places his hands over sqq's, watching him do this, and tells him, "shizun... it will be okay."

it won't though, will it? lbh still has to go into the abyss. he still has to go through this character arc. sqq still has to be the scum villain.

rolling the dice consecutively makes each outcome more likely to be worse (rolling at disadvantage). so, the abyss cracks open even further and swallows lbh. and he has the dice in hand.

now lbh gets to go through the abyss with the artifact of chance.

why doesn't it go back to sqq? because lbh and sqq are tied by a string of fate. the dice recognize their fates being tied together.

So far I have their reactions as this

WWX- aggressive immediately after coming out of anesthesia because Jin Zixuan is in the bed next to Jiang Yanli

LWJ- Just gets really honest, probably says that he likes boys, which isn't a shocker to the Lans anymore, they've known for forever

JC- Also aggressive, but because Lan Wanji is talking too much, then realizes Jin Zixuan is next to his sister

JYL- decided to go without anesthesia so she can watch the clown show

Currently my theory is towards the end of the Sunshot Campaign, but not over yet.

They get points for helping him with his jobs, going to town and drinking with him, doing well on night-hunts, basically any time one of them does something with him the others talk to wei wuxian about it and take his answers to determine if that junior gets to move up or down in the rankings.

Lan Wangji pretends to not know about it.