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Shen Jiu unknowingly mimicking Qiu Jianluo’s treatment of Qiu Haitang with Shen Yuan.

He lies about and hides all his misdeeds. Shen Yuan was only a toddler when SJ burned the Qiu household, Shen Jiu told him it was a freak accident and they took their chance to escape. Shen Yuan completely avoided Shen Jiu’s time with Wu Yanzi by being left to be raised by a trusted brothel worker, picked up once Wu Yanzi was dead and brothers joined the sect - with Shen Yuan being around a good age to start cultivation. He’s never given a chance to grow up because of Shen Jiu’s coddling, and ends up oblivious, stubborn and stupid. OG Shen Yuan hates Liu Qingge because he’s told that he insulted them for their former slave status (edit: or something equally infuriating Shen Jiu could use to explain why they’re always at each other’s throats). He believes that Liu Qingge’s death was caused by Qi Deviation. And while SQQ doesn’t want to spread why LQG died, OG Shen Yuan has no problem still talking shit about LQG.

And later on, Shen Qingqiu uses Luo Binghe to keep an eye on Shen Yuan while forcing Binghe to never say shit about his own abuse.

He lines up Shen Yuan and Binghe to at least become cultivation partners (aka make Binghe a cauldron) just as he tries to shove Ning Yingying and Ming Fan into a relationship so all of them stay stuck at the sect and under his control… Then he discovers Luo Binghe is a demon and throws him into the abyss out of worry that his perfect innocent brother will become tainted…

Maybe he finds someone else to set his brother up with in those abyss years. Ji Jue from a Bai Zhan Peak, maybe? Or the head disciple of Qiong Ding, maybe?

And this OG Luo Bingge loved Shen Yuan… in the beginning. But resentment grew at Shen Yuans adoration of his brother, his obliviousness to Luo Binghe’s abuse, at his mindless dismissive comments about Luo Binghe’s clumsiness. Hate festers in the abyss, and when the five years pass and Shen Qingqiu’s trial begins, Shen Yuan is laughed out of polite society and becomes some sort of pitiful, braindead minor antagonist that only showed up for Luo Binghe to humiliate every few hundred chapters. Later, he’s used similarly to Yue Qingyuan in order to break Shen Qingqiu.

Me: what about him

“Well you seemed super into him”

Me: what why

“…dude you were flirting all night”

Me:

Imagine for a second you are Adrian surname The Eridian. Your spouse has been missing and presumed dead for around a decade, and suddenly one day an alien spaceship comes into orbit. And you cheer "Yay alien species have realized we have the same problem and have come to either give us a solution or join or efforts, too bad my mate is still gone."

Except he is not actually gone, because the eridian equivalent of a carebear decided to save them. And he doesn't want anything in return, in fact he is well aware that he might die A PAINFUL SLOW DEATH, shortly after fighting just to get the love of your life back to you. But it's ok :) because Rocky (yes he gave them a silly name) is my best friend! Oh- Are you ok-