A wanderer's wonderland

PROPAGANDA:

[Gomez]

"It's not fair if Morticia's the only one hogging all the pain of childbirth. Her hubby wants some too!"

"t4t Gorticia. That is all."

[Yue Qingyuan]

冰哥✕岳清源

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​I use an AI translation tool (Gemini) for English texts. Thank you for your understanding!​Please note that the non-Japanese text on this site is machine-translated.

YQY is the one who wants a child.

For Bing-ge, children are complicated. He never had a particularly positive image of family. In his experience, children often became the reason affection drifted away. If YQY wants one, he'll give him one—but at first, that's about as far as his enthusiasm goes.

When YQY becomes pregnant, Bing-ge notices himself growing irritated for reasons he doesn't fully understand. YQY's attention is drawn toward the baby. Other people start calling him "Papa." It feels as if he's becoming an attachment to the child rather than YQY's partner.

Meanwhile, YQY is trying very hard.

He hides how miserable the morning sickness is. He worries constantly that Bing-ge will feel neglected or left behind. He wants Bing-ge to love their child, wants him to embrace being a father, and he keeps reaching out, sometimes a little desperately.

Bing-ge never pushes him away. He responds, he listens, he stays by YQY's side. But there are moments when he catches himself treating YQY's anxieties the same way he once handled the worries of palace wives, and the realization leaves him feeling guilty.

The change comes slowly.

He starts talking to the baby.

He starts worrying about the baby.

He starts making things for the baby.

Eventually, he finds himself looking forward to meeting the tiny person who has grown strong by taking so much from YQY.

YQY insists the baby belongs to both of them.Bing-ge sees a tiny YQY.

YQY sees a tiny Bing-ge.Their temporary nickname for the baby becomes "Half-and-Half(半分こっこ)," which gradually turns into "Little Koko."

⇧「半分こっこ→こっこ→ここ」は日本語の言葉遊びです

(In Japanese, the nickname comes from a little wordplay about the baby being half Yue Qingyuan and half Luo Binghe.)

By the time the pregnancy reaches a stable stage, they're finally sharing the happiness together.

No fear, no uncertainty.

Just excitement.

YQY tells him, "You're going to be a wonderful father."And for the first time, Bing-ge believes it.

After the child is born, YQY ends up being the stricter parent.

Bing-ge is the softer one.

YQY worries that too much indulgence will make the child indecisive like himself.

Bing-ge argues that too many restrictions will only make a child grow bitter.

The one secretly spoiling the kid the most, however, is Shen Jiu.Naturally.

Both fathers eventually agree on only one rule:"Whatever you do, don't fall in love with Uncle Shen Jiu."

This is because there are two parts to memories - their encoding and their recall. The encoding determines their availability, their recall determines their accessibility. The reason why trauma memory and childhood amnesia are different is in this distinction. Trauma memory is often encoded differently, bypassing to the limbic system where it is stored as intrinsic memory. It can’t be recalled because it was never encoded. Childhood amnesia, however, seems to indicate that the memories are encoded, but we lose access to them as we age. This is most likely due to the development of brain structures that fundamentally change our encoding and recall of memory as we get older.

WIP snippets:

The art of mindless embroidery.

through the years… 

Two more weeks until QiJiu Week starts~

But wait...where did our Sect Leader go?!

Let's help Shen Qingqiu find him!

The plot starts off with a hybrid of Cinderella and the Taming Of The Shrew where a woman with her own daughter marries a Duke who has an older daughter, and then the Duke dies under "Mysterious circumstances".

But he leaves in his will that his fortune won't be disbursed until his daughter (the elder one) marries.

The elder daughter (like, 20ish?) is refusing to get married because her step-mother is trying to set her step-sister (age 12) with IDK A Medieval Italian supreme court judge?? (Age 65) , but the marriage can't go through until the Duke's fortune disburses and the mother can pay the dowry.

Other thing about the Eldest Daughter: She Always Speaks The Truth. Not only does she refuse to lie, but kind of like a retroactive Cassandra, everything she says is True. As you can imagine, this is not terribly popular In Fantasy Medieval Italian High Society.

The mother, big mad about being stuck with this stubborn, awkward girl, gets a Lawyer and a Bishop and a bunch of other authority figures to modify the will so that "Should the plague take my eldest, we will not be bereft *wink*" AKA if the eldest just dies or disappears without getting married, the mother will get the money anyway. (They all know she's going to kill the girl, but they're getting a cut.) The Step-Mother then, in true operatic fashion of Going Way Too Hard tortures the Elder daughter, and locks her in the basement to bleed out and die.

There, in the darkness, abandoned by God and the Law and Family etc. the daughter turns to the last thing she has left.

BLACK MAGIC

(Come on, it's Opera. Everybody knows Black Magic)

he dwells on the outskirts of Cang Qiong so the Sect recieves a bunch of alarmed notices from local citizens about a man who is— not a danger to anyone aside from himself.

“Local Wandering Cultivator attacked by squirrel demon after trying to draw the pattern on its horns”

“Local Wandering Cultivator seen wrestling swivelling crocodile hellborns, lives to tell the tale”

“Local Wandering Cultivayor argues he’s done nothing wrong after accidentally setting a flock of dual-headed rabbit snarls on local village”

Of course, this isn't the first noble lord to come up to plead their case... Because naturally if this marriage scam worked once, Wu Yanzi pulls it off again. And again. And when the noble circle hears about how one lord found their runaway bride in Qing Jing peak lord, a few more try their luck. (Plenty lords have had runaway brides and concubines; not all of them were Shen Jiu ahem.)

Shen Jiu is sweating bullets when he manages to convince the second man to appear is another scam. It helps that this is an elderly man whose aging looks rival that of the Old Palace Master and no one likes that mental image. The third one is chase away by an annoyed Qi Qingqi who's annoyed that there's so many of these arrogant noble scum men daring to claim that the Qing Jing peak lord could be merely a concubine and not first wife. The 4th one, uhhh, accidentally gets injured by an out of control disciple learning how to fly a sword and loses all his memories in the accident.

The 5th lord however? He proves to be a problem. A major problem. The peak lords are all beyond annoyed with Shen Qingqiu. "There's no smoke without a fire," one peak lord says. "These accusations may not be without merit."

Another scoffs. "No person gets married off again and again. Brides are not something that can be regifted like some trinket."

"Ah, but Shen Qingqiu being a runaway wife may be true."

"Hm."

Now the 5th lord to come up is some deputy minister of the Ministry of Justice. He's a rising star in the imperial bureaucracy and worse? He knows a little too much. He starts off with not a petition but shares that over their nuptial wine, his wife had shared how his older brother was missing and possible dead after setting out to join a sect. He continues sharing a couple more facts such as how his wife wanted to become a cultivator and find his brother's bones for a proper burial as they grew up destitute with no one to depend on but each other on the streets and -

Shen Jiu grows alarmed. Unable to stop himself, Shen Jiu snaps, "That's enough-"

Which was all but declaring that this man was truly his husband else how would this unrelated man know such private details of the prickly peak lord?

(Shen Jiu can't even recall if this man was indeed some of the men he "married" with the three bows or not. Towards the end where he started getting too used to being used as a bride slash distraction, he may had used the groom as a bit of a sounding board that he could rant to.)

Deputy Minister Shang Feiji (Feiji meaning Airplane) smiles. He knows his creations the best.

Yet how can he expect that first noble lord "NPC" to come back and try to steal Shen Jiu out from his grasp?

(That first noble, one transmigrated Shen Yuan, is desperate to save this NPC from the evil scum villain's hands.)

And suddenly the Cang Qiong sect is hit with the realization that yes, their Qing Jing peak lord somehow got married off to multiple (filthy rich or extremely powerful) men and before the previous husband died, he went and married another man. He was a scumbag, just of a different kind than they thought.

Yue Qingyuan: I should had known A-Jiu would have leveled up from crying fake tears to milk out more coins from nobles on the streets to fake becoming a bride to sleep in comfortable beds and eat tasty foods.

Yue Qingyuan knows exactly what kind of sly trickster of a gremlin Shen Jiu is under that haughty Shen Qingqiu mask.

#jiuyuan flavor: shen yuan transmigrated into the rando lord and is doing this to interfere with the plot#he figured out who the original goods got scam married to thanks to the wu yanzi connection#fate of the world and the future mental health of his blorbo are at stake unless he can wife. that. man.#the system says nothing because this is inarguable peak entertainment#pidw is a telenovela now#bonus at some point qiu haitang still shows up and everyone is like damn shen jiu how many times have you done this @sunderwight

Shen Yuan comes bumbling in not knowing about Shen Qingqiu's backstory and all his assumptions about the scum villain (i.e. rich, privilege background and all that) paint an ugly undertone of presumed moral superiority and arrogance that immediately puts Shen Jiu off on him...

And into Airplane's arms.

Insert scenes of Airplane and Shen Yuan fighting over Shen Jiu in some weird Twilight-esque love triangle and Shen Jiu is annoyed, delighted, and amused in equal measures. Plus he now has two attack dogs he gets to aim at any new noble popping up to claim him as their missing bride.

Qiu Haitang gets ripped a new one in record time.

Shen Yuan and Airplane at first: Here to save the world and that NPC lord from the scum villain!

Shen Yuan and Airplane now: I'm not losing this competition!

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The timing in between all those noble lords coming in isn't too long - maybe a week or two apart? So the sect doesn't get to think or wonder too much about the Ning Yingying situation for any too crazy conspiracies to start up.

Maybe one of those comedy with multiple couples in the same house but here sometimes LB kisses SJ cause he's REALLY pretty and Airplane looks at SY and says (after making out): no homo bro

SY, being a rich second son all his life, now married to the sexiest man alive: it's just for the plot *sit watching LB cleaning the pool (the tiniest clothes he could have. There were few clothes used) he made just for this moment* if we don't hold hands we're just bros living together *sips wine as LB bends*

(YQ is there, crying cause he wants so much to be part of them and at the same time he wishes to never know anything about them and their kinky sex)

And cause SJ can't have good things without a lot of drama, he has to convince SY he's the real victim here (he really is, but SY is dense as concrete so you had to make a strong point)

SJ: I didn't want to marry anyone! I just wanted to be free! And when I was in peace with my fate being the scum lord YOU have to come and eradicate my hard work! I'm more than just a bride! No the little bride that ran away and you have to chase to show how powerful you are and force me to be a slave with the name of wife! But now everything I did is nothing against your show

Airplane-bro is there trying to stop the Greek tragedy that is his character's back story, wants to save SJ and takes him far away from CQM would surely solve at least 90% of the problems.

Sometimes he goes to the demon world and fucks with MBJ but only when he's tired of everyone bullshit (twice a week at least)

LB can be a lord demon but here's the sugar baby, manwhoring his way to SY's bed and worrying that if he isn't his hottest version we would be removed and SJ takes his place.