fluff-ball of death

Only he finds out quickly.... Bingge kinda sucks at actually running a kingdom...multiple kingdoms.

Basically with court if it's something dramatic airplane could make money off Bingge is not good at it.

Administration is chaos, order is being held together buy a thread.

SY tries to talk to protagonist but he's just an NPC and Bingge won't even look at him. So SY tries to sort things out...

Basically SY ends up running the entire kingdoms while Bingge is off doing the plot stuff fighting or fucking or both .

It becomes an open secret that if you want to actually get stuff done talk to SY, if the emperors here you aren't going to get shit done. In fact if you have any female relatives don't interact with the emperor unless you want them to most likely join the harem.

If the emperor is there odds are there's going to be a fight, or papapa, most likely an assassination attempt and odds are someones going to die.

SY loved reading Bingge he's so cool best protagonist he deserves the world... but in the world he really really wants to yell at him and get him to actually fill out paper work a d have one proper court session without starting papapa with multiple wives.

SQH has transmigrated as well working in the North and MBJ listens to him... or well he just lets SQH do everything but at least he pretends to listen and looks at SQH (MBJ is never not looking at SQH)

Eventually either

A) Bingge realizing people are going to someone else, that someone is usurping power and running his kingdom. Suddenly he is paying attention to SY seeing what this usurper is planning.

Or

B) The Bingge Vs Bingmei extra happens Bingge is sulking qi deviating and using resources into some other world research?? He's destroyed SY budget he isn't going on adventures or gaining wives. He tore through the vaults of treasures that SY just finished organizing. Usually Bingge leaves for plot reasons and SY can calm down and put things in order but Bingge is still here and SY snaps and ends up charging into rooms and finally giving Bingge piece of his mind.

You get to witness him talking himself into it in real time, going from, “look at him, that evil bitch, he's the worst person alive, so depraved, I have no compassion for such a heartless wretch," to, "well, I mean he’s never been ugly—but like how gross of AU me, like why would I jump into bed with—well, no okay I can see it. Yeah, okay I won’t lie, I definitely see the sex appeal. I’m just gonna…fake seduce him just to fuck with him a little bit. Yeah. That’ll show him. He’ll be so humiliated..." before immediately jumping to, "you know, I bet I could fuck him way better than AU me could.”

Until, while accompanying the little prince in their courtyard, a sudden scenario-pusher occurs. The Emperor has fallen in a lake! And somehow he's been paralyzed and can't swim! So of course Shen Yuan jumps in to drag a man 1.5 times his size out of freezing cold water, and resuscitates him in front of the crying little prince.

The next day he receives the decree: Consort Shen, due to virtuous service to the Emperor, and in mothering the Crown Prince is hereby conferred merits. Move into the Emperor's back chambers immediately!

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Reviews and Ratings of S-Class: average Rating 1.79 out of 5 (714 people)

Holy shit, I am engrossed. A treasure(? trash?) trove of very very upset male readers.

Most hilarious:

Quite a few of them mention there being a fakeout heroine? Are they referring to Moon Hyuna?!

(eta: i read more. i think they are referring to Yerim... Ah, the audience for whom all that 'i'm not a guy who is into middle-school girls!!!!' stuff in the early chapters was aimed at. But who presumably thought it was fakeout he-doth-protest-too-much kind of thing? OK.)

A master analyses "the problem". Basically the problem is my guys are getting frog-boiled into reading "BL" 🥲. A dastardly problem started by ORV but this novel has taken it to the peak.

Another hits the nail on the head more crudely. Reading and enjoying reading about emotions as a man makes you gay.

Uhhh. "How dare you write novels that don't appeal to the straights, straights are the majority!?"

A new kind of guy: (he gave it 2.5 stars not 0.5 like everyone else)

This guy accidentally hits on a solution that might be good to implement in at least some canons:

A converted visionary...

Also surprising number of folks who genuinely aren't just mad about the BL, but also the "feminism"?! I thought you all wanted more female characters?!

on the one hand you have luo binghe. there are exactly two (2) people he's ever loved, one being his mother, and one being shen qingqiu. the only person luo binghe ever falls in love with is shen qingqiu. the original luo binghe had hundreds of wives, collecting them in some desperate bid to fill the void inside him, but never could. the one and only person he ever truly loved after his mother died was shen qingqiu, and i feel like shen qingqiu will never understand the weight of that, and what it means to luo binghe. to luo binghe, shen qingqiu is the single, solitary lifeline back to humanity, back to even a chance of happiness, back to a life that isn't utterly empty. shen qingqiu is the only person he is capable of loving. luo binghe doesn't just love shen qingqiu - he only loves shen qingqiu, and that is a critical difference

and then you have shen qingqiu who transmigrates into luo binghe's world and immediately misinterprets Everything (again, he is blind to how much he means to luo binghe and probably always will be), but even when shen qingqiu was afraid of luo binghe, even when he believed wholeheartedly that luo binghe would torture him to death in the most brutal fashion, he always loved him. even when he thought the worst of luo binghe's intentions, he still loved him. his admiration and affection is so built into him that he doesn't even remark on it - luo binghe is the protagonist, of course shen qingqiu adores him, of course anyone and everyone thinks he's the Greatest Ever (despite the constant evidence to the contrary). loving luo binghe is so innate to him that he's genuinely baffled that other people don't feel the same. of course he loves luo binghe - for the simple reason that luo binghe is himself

You're an ordinary Unawakened in the world of My S-Class Hunters. On the first day of your vacation, you decide to visit Kiseungsu Rearing Facility and you run into Han Yoojin. Will you become an S-Class Hunter or stay an Unawakened? Which Hunter will you follow? Will you discover the truth behind this world? Everything depends on the choices you make!

Happy Han Yoojin day to those who celebrate! 🎂🩷

To celebrate Han Yoojin's birthday, I fan translated the free official S-Classes game written and created by Geunseo! It contains spoilers for the manhwa and light spoilers for the novel, but it's original content that is not directly related to the plot of either.

It features multiple character routes, each with multiple endings. I'll also post guides sporadically on how to get each ending.

Recommended play order. Keep trying until you reach S-rank before moving onto the next! Or if that's too hard, feel free to skip around <3 1. Han Yoohyun 2. Song Taewon 3. Sung Hyunjae 4. Han Yoojin

Download the game here! For Mac users, you may have to install this to run the game as well, with a video guide here. Full disclosure, I do not have a Mac so I do not know if it works. Feel free to send asks or message me if you can't get it working or if you find any typos!

And then later, other opportunities to see his shizun come and he- he just avoids them. He's not ready. Nothing he's worked for is ready. If he sees his shizun now, won't he still be the undeniably dirty heavenly demon his Shen Qingqui so feared?

So a year passes. Two. Another two. Time keeps moving forward and he's still not ready. He's undeniably a righteous Cultivator, all the realm can see it. You go up to a civilian on the street and they'll tell you about the newest beast he'd slain or the epic treasure he brought back, but it's not enough. It all has to be perfect. He has to be perfect.

But what he doesn't know is that, outside of his circle of influence, far beyond the Hua Huan territories and deep in Cang Qiong's, Shen Qingqui is not doing well. He hasn't been since the moment he pushed Binghe into the Abyss, but in the five years since news of Luo Binghe’s return reached him, Shen Qingqui has been in a debilitating spiral.

At first, he was terrified. Then, as months passed without a hint of hostility, he became paranoid. As a year passed with still nothing, he became too exhausted to be paranoid and descended into helpless exhaustion- then finally just deep, unending apathy and despair. After all, wasn't five years too long for even a blackened Luo Binghe to wait? Wasn't this a clear sign that his former disciple had decided to simply pretend he'd never had a Shizun in Shen Qingqui? Perhaps this was just his way of evening the scales: after all, hadn't Shen Qingqui been a good shizun to him until those last moments? (Well. Besides the part where he hadn't been Shen Qingqui.) Luo Binghe always repaid kindness in full, so this...this must be his kindness.

But also, he sometimes thought as others whispered behind his back. Also, this must be his revenge. Perhaps Luo Binghe had done nothing towards him, but Hua Huan definitely had. Outside the calm home of Cang Qiong, whispers ran rampant. No one ever confronted him directly, but all glared the moment they knew his name. He was a pariah, plain and simple.

It was an awful feeling. Just...just the absolute worst, knowing he wasn't even worth a glance from the protagonist he'd raised. Knowing that, whatever was going on with those rumors, whatever the intentions, they were not wrong. He was the worst shizun. He is scum. He doesn't deserve his shidimei, his Sect Leader, or his disciples. He...

He wasn't worth anything.

And so, in the sixth year since Luo Binghe's return, something strange happens. Shen Qingqui quietly disappears. No trace. No tracks. Just a single, short letter whose words are spread throughout the realm in a matter of days.

Binghe hears of it then, a week later. He hears it amongst cheers and laughter, surrounded by the friendly and familiar faces of Hua Huan Cultivators. His shizun, vanished. A letter that simply read, "To you who must hate me, let this be my gift to you." Surrounded by a Sect celebrating his beloved's-

"-death."

Binghe blinks. Once, twice. "Repeat that."

Mobei-jun's face remains cold and unknowable. "My contacts have received word that a body has been found. They say your master's sword, Xiu Ya, was found beside it in pieces."

Binghe begins to feel his world crashing around him.

"Cang Qiong has positively identified it as Shen Qingqui. They are making preparations for a funeral as we speak; however, it seems that they are not surprised by his death."

The air suddenly feels too thin to breathe. "What do you mean- what does that mean? They're not surprised? Was there something I was not informed about-?" His breath hitches. "Without a cure, did it become worse in my absence?"

Mobei-jun's stare becomes strange. "No."

So like, what if one day after the end of the books and extras (feels like I said that like someone would say "100 B.C.")- actually, wait hold on.

Some years After End of Books and Extras! Yeah. A.E.B.E. (<-hopefully not an existing acronym) Shen Qingqiu and Luo Binghe are on honeymoon number...idk. Four? Eight? Wandering the big wide cultivation world. Then suddenly, a wild wife plot appears!

Look it's another cave or something, I'm not that creative. Or! Or. Maybe it's an artifact maliciously given to them by someone who just has no idea what kind of hell Binghe is going to unleash upon them for fucking with Shizun. Point being tho! Something happens. As usual, it happens to SQQ.

Bleh I'm just gonna get to the point. SQQ gets torn into, like, five pieces- not literally! I mean in a cloning way, not a human stick way! There are now, theoretically, five of him in the world! And I say theoretically because, like, Binghe can only see one in front of him. And this one is...very withdrawn. Quiet in an alarming way.

So now it's quest time! Binghe must now hunt down the lost pieces of his Shizun in key locations that have significant meaning to him! (So, like, buckle up if you're still reading because I think this might be a long one.)

Binghe is forced to leave the quiet shizun behind to find the others (for reasons I haven't got at the moment) and ends up trying a few locations around their Peak first. All end up pretty much a bust, though. No Shizuns there, which confuses and worries him a good deal, because wasn't their Qing Jing Peak very significant to both of them? So then he tries their other homes, but that comes up empty-handed too.

He ends up going back to Quiet Shizun and asking for help. A hint, or direction; just, something other than this blind patting down on locations because obviously there is some significant Thing- some criteria or item or memory- he is missing here that is preventing him from figuring out where the other four are.

Quiet Shizun suggests that perhaps he is thinking of things too positively. And that's it. That's the hint. Binghe leaves unsure and frustrated, feeling almost as if Shizun does not want him to find the others.

Protagonist I.Q. in full effect, he somehow stumbles on the idea of checking Jue De Gorge. It's just a hunch (a dread, really) but it ends up panning out because sure enough there be Shizuns here. Just the one though, sitting on the bare ground and hunched over. Shoulders shaking ever so slightly.

His husband is sitting alone in the same place he had stood when he'd thrown Binghe to the Abyss, and he's Crying.

Insert Binghe Panic Time. His poor husband! Crying! Why? Who did this? He'll kill them!

Insert here a heart to heart where Binghe realizes that 1) the split Shizuns are more than just clones, and 2) that Quiet Shizun was likely hoping Binghe wouldn't find them because SQQ's face is far too thin to ever reveal his harder to swallow emotions- because the new shizun in front of him very clearly represents some very heavy aspects of grief and heartbreak. (Introducing Sad Shizun.)

When he finally convinces Sad Shizun to return to the Quiet one with him, the journey is spent with his husband clinging to him. When the two shizuns meet, he expects. Well. He wasn't sure what he expected. A merger? Instead he got:

"Still crying then?"

His Sad Shizun glances back at Binghe. "I...I am hurting. I am allowed to cry."

Binghe smiles at him and squeezes his hand- and Quiet Shizun snorts, unimpressed and sneering. "If you say so."

It's so callous and dismissive that for a moment Binghe feels as if he is looking at the old shizun. He ends up leaving with a pit in his stomach and a feeling like he needed to go back and take the Sad Shizun with him.

The next Shizun he finds wandering Jin Lan City, hiding in alleys and walking on roofs. This one flees at the sight of him, and when he gets close they yell at him to leave them alone and to stop looking at them- which confuses and hurts Binghe in turn. Lo and behold, this shizun represents shame, fear, and anger; and demonstrates all of it as if it were Only anger.

When he takes this one back, Quiet Shizun greets them with a cold, "Done throwing a tantrum now?"

Angry Shizun just looks down with a clenched jaw and doesn't reply.

Fourth Shizun was much harder to find. Much harder. Until, out of a sense of frustration and helplessness, and still thinking about Quiet Shizun and the other two, he makes his way to...a familiar rooftop in Hua Yue City.

He just stands there for awhile. Thinking. Watching the sun slowly set. And then Shizun greets him from behind.

"Reminds you of that day, doesn't it?"

"Shizun!"

"I think about this place sometimes. Others too. Sometimes I think about it all and I..."

His shizun trails off, and Binghe thinks, just this once, he can maybe guess what this aspect of his Shizun might be. Just a little.

This one is the feelings of regret. Guilt. Always just a few steps behind you, appearing at the littlest reminders. Or big ones, in this case.

This time, Binghe takes a moment to ask after the Quiet Shizun as they make their way back. He tells of how cruel that one is to the others, how cold and callous and derisive. How it disturbs and confuses him in turn, to see his kind husband go from speaking to him in polite tones to sneering at the other parts of himself as if they were dirt.

Regretful Shizun listens, then, once Binghe had run out of words, asks him what Binghe thinks the Quiet Shizun represents; and Binghe thinks about it all the way up till the moment they rejoin the group.

Quiet Shizun glares the moment he and Regretful Shizun's eyes meet.

"Finally."

Regretful Shizun hums, "Waiting for me? This one thought you'd prefer I never show my face again."

"Tch."

Oh. Quiet Shizun...hates the others, doesn't he? Which means...

Binghe has a quiet moment while the Shizun's glare at each other where it feels like he can't breathe, choking on the lump in his throat that is the realization that his husband...Hates himself. Really and truly.

The fifth Shizun has been on Qing Jing Peak the whole time. He's hiding, though. Squirreling himself away in the bamboo forest (perhaps in the very location where Luo Binghe lost his precious jade pendant). When he sees Luo Binghe, he practically throws himself at him: hugging him, kissing his cheeks and forehead, patting his head, finger-brushing his hair, cooing and fussing over him

He is, also, the hardest to get back. Luo Binghe practically has to physically drag him to the bamboo house, with Loving Shizun growing more and more terrified the closer they get to the group

And when they rejoin them, Self-Hating Shizun is more vitriolic than he'd been with any of the others

Not to say that each of the stories describes only one single kind of love language; they are, after all, all novels that focus on Found Family, with many different types of relationships between characters that express their love for each other in as many different ways.

Yet, I’ve noticed how at the core of each of these three stories there is one specific act of love that recurs more than others, and that becomes the true Theme each novel revolves around.

In Lout of the Count’s Family, the main love language is providing food and a home.

“Home” is such an important concept in LCF that Cale collects houses like they were pokemon cards. The source of his trauma when he was a child as Kim Roksu was that he was not given sufficient food, and that where he lived was not truly a shelter where he could feel safe, just a place he was trapped in.

And I don’t think there are ever more than 2 chapters in a row without a character offering food to others, or asking if they’re hungry, if they’ve eaten, why haven’t you eaten, here have some apple pie!!

Cale uses his newfound money and power to make sure his loved ones are provided for. That’s how he adopts bonds with most of his new family.

The first thing Raon does after he’s freed from the prison he’s been trapped in all his life, is to leave food for this hopelessly weak human.

Choi Han, who has lived alone in a dangerous forest for decades, would do anything to protect his home.

The Crown Prince, who has been isolated and untrusting of everyone ever since his mother died, makes sure to always have cookies in his bedroom in case guests “break in” for a visit at any time of the day or the night.

I love you, you’ll never be hungry again. I love you, my home is your home.

In The S-Classes That I Raised, the main love language is words.

Yoojin’s powers are literally activated by telling people “I love you”. Because all he ever wanted was to say “I love you” to his brother one last time.

Because the tragedy that starts the story happens because Yoohyun loved and protected his hyung in secret for years. Silence creates misunderstandings, it creates distance, it leads to loss.

Loving someone isn’t enough, tell them! Reassure them. Remember what they say, because their words are important!!

Ever since the regression, Yoojin always let people know when he loves them and appreciates them. “You’re perfect, you’re cute, you’re so talented, you’re so handsome, you are loved.”

And as the novel progresses, whenever Yoojin is in pain, or doesn’t know what to do, he turns to Sung Hyunje because he needs to be reassured, he needs to know he did well, he needs to hear he is still important to the people he loves.

I love you, please know that I love you! I love you, please tell me you love me back.

And finally, in Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint, the main love language is time.

Time is one of the greatest sources of horrors in ORV. Eternities upon eternities of suffering, being trapped for ages in the same, hopeless loop, wishing for everything to just stop.

And yet, time is also the greatest gift characters give to each other.

Because the wounds Dokja suffered as a child, and then again and again through his whole life…. They need time to heal. They need so much time. They will probably take forever.

So let them take forever.

Despite how much pain and worry he causes his companions by giving up on himself over and over again, his companions never give up on him. And he doesn’t understand why!! He doesn’t think he’s worth it. But it’s not his choice, it’s theirs. And they will go through as many tries, as much pain, as much time as it takes, before they can finally save him.

Kindness could not erase Luo Binghe’s abuse, but it changed the story into a kinder one.

Kindness did not stop Wei Wuxian’s death, but it did save a-Yuan.

Kindness did not undo Xie Lian’s suffering, but it renewed his sincerity to help others.

Kindness did not change the entire world, but it helped create a softer future.