#bingfan

He took up raising ZZL after his brother and sister in law skedaddled. He doesn't force ZZL into anything and is proud of him when he becomes a general.

He is close enough with TLJ and SXY that when she dies, she entrusts her baby to him. Baby LBH has no sealed off demon powers because SXY trusts SY to give him a good life. He takes the baby, but has no idea what to care for the little squishy thing that cries a lot.

He somehow wings it (the fact LBH is half demon was coming in clutch real hard). He's doing well enough. Eventually, he encounters a demonic cultivator that tries to kill him for his venom or something and for baby LBH since he's a heavenly demon. That's when a cultivator saves him.

YQY was around by coincidence, attending some diplomatic meeting nearby when he sensed a lot of demonic energy in the distance. When he was done, he tracked down the energy. He dispatches the demonic cultivator, but completely hesitates to kill the snake demon because it has a baby.

He can tell the demon has the same protective love he had for his Xiao-Jiu, and he contemplates just turning his back on the incident. He really does think about it until the snake demon stops him and begs to know what a human baby should be fed.

YQY again hesitates and turns back to the demon. He rattles off baby safe foods like it's second nature and eventually asks to see the baby to see how old it was.

The snake demon hesitantly does, and YQY freezes when he realizes the baby is a heavenly demon. But he logics it out that the baby is probably half human and has a chance to be a spiritual cultivator (he can't bring himself to kill a baby).

He offers the snake demon to stay with him and allow the baby to become his disciple. The demon agrees wholeheartedly.

Yada, yada, yada. They bond during the trip back to the mountain and SY shares his name and what happened. YQY has an oh shit moment. SY says something surprisingly insightful about how no matter what as long as Old Palace Master was around, TLJ and SXY were going to end in tragedy.

They get to YQY's home and SY gets a whole wing of the house to himself (I hc that the sect leader leisure house was meant to originally be the headquarters of the sect before it became the 12 peaks so the home is really big). SY and YQY take care of baby LBH, SY taking care of feeding and most things because well that's his baby >:[ and YQY takes care of teaching him cultivation.

Okay so now that I tricked you into following me into this dark alley, I think it's a good time to mention this with be a freak4freak thing... Also that in my head SY's demon form is something like this

This is a DND Yuan-ti. Kinda fitting lmao. And like SY would be like a REALLY pretty snake. Because it's SY.

Anyway back to our irregularly scheduled programming.

SY also teaches LBH demonic cultivation (to balance LBH and make sure he can't get corrupted yk) , but they make sure that he knows it's a last resort sort of thing. When LBH gets older, YQY starts taking him to spar with him, but SY was to get to a tiny snake form and hide in YQY's robes when he goes out with them.

For some reason SY starts like hardcore crushing on YQY (it's not hard to just look at him 🥴), so he starts trying to get to know YQY and starts stalking him because like no one around TLJ is normal about affection. It works a little, SY starts giving YQY gifts he likes, which gets him attention in return.

But during one of his stalking moments he finds YQY having tea with SQQ. SY immediately gets jealous because YQY acts so much softer with this man that glares and insults him than him and their child. He starts overanalyzing to see what possibly could this man have that he doesn't?

SY concludes that the thing this man has over him is that he's a peerless beauty. So what does he do? Lock in on cultivation so hard until he can force himself to have a human form. Obviously.

So because he's busy with that, he starts letting LBH and YQY alone with their training. YQY thinks it's because SY feels weak and wants to be strong enough to protect LBH, which he's like "why? does he think I can't protect him? I need to try harder then :(" And LBH somehow reverse logics his way into the right conclusion and he's all for being able to walk around with his baba in the open.

Eventually during one of the training sessions, someone sees LBH and YQY. And that's like obviously his secret kid or something because that kid is a noisy disciple that loves starting shit.

It soon gets to SJ's ears and he's pissed. How DARE someone knock up his gege without his knowledge! He goes to MQF (always assume I'll somehow sneak in mujiu if the ship is yueyuan) and demands to know WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?!

And MQF is like "I haven't delivered any mpreg babies in a while" and SJ concludes his Qi-ge knocked up a woman, which is strange because he headcanoned his gege as gay and his headcanon CAN'T be wrong.

Around the same time SY unlocks the human babe skin on his avatar and shows YQY. YQY is going through it, and his erectile isn't dysfunctioning now. SY is all proud of himself thinking that YQY will like him better now, and YQY is panicking because Helen of Troy is in his house.

LBH is happy because he can go on walks with his father AND his baba. So he's basically winning. Especially because he's finally old enough to join the sect.

LBH's dads (he has so many fathers his greed sickens me) are going through it in the background as he's having his first day at school. Something happens that I'm too out of to figure out and now he's crushing on MF.

MF feels like he's being hunted but every time he looks he just finds the sect leader's son looking at him like this

So obviously he thinks he's going crazy and moves on.

SQQ eventually sees LBH and thinks "FUCK he has my gege's eyes! The rumors are true!" He then becomes determined to make MF beat LBH at everything else. MF is confused, but he's not going to disappoint his father figure.

Around now YQY is still freaking out about Helen of Troy being in his home and also a demon. And with a little Airplane logic he's like "Well, fuck me I guess. I have to eventually introduce him because he's LBH's dad, and I'm also like LBH's dad. Co-parenting would leave too much room for questions. I guess we're getting married."

YQY uses a seal to hide SY's demonic energy and forges marriage papers and hides them in the records to make it seem like his master had allowed them to elope in secret.

Here me out. Ming Fan is supposed to be head disciple. He does everything he can to align with his father's shizun's preferences. In the original pidw he doesn't fail at that per se but he's still treated poorly just like everyone else besides Ning Yingying. Binghe is significantly more naturally skilled than he is, fights off a demon invasion, and even gets invited to participate in the Immortal Alliance Conference despite having his cultivation progress stunted by SJ's neglect and purposeful dissemination of poor learning materials (likely through Ming Fan.)

He's also probably unceremoniously killed along with everyone else at Cang Qiong (besides the marriable women) when Bingge returns. He's a nobody with some skills at organisation and admin, not terrible at cultivation but definitely needs to work at it, desperate for attention that is always given to that other one (even if it's negative for Binghe), and he loses everything because of said fellow disciple.

... do you see the vision??? Jiang Cheng would be SO FUCKING PISSED OFF to end up in this story, especially if he gets the SVSSS version.

Maybe he'd even congratulate himself that at least in this life he's undisputed as head disciple, he can treat the others better than his pre-transmigration self did, his skills at coordination and sect management are properly acknowledged etc. Then in comes Shen Yuan and Suddenly He's Not Even Second Best anymore. That demonic brat has returned to haunt him. And it's so fucking frustrating because he does actually like Binghe - LBH is the kind of kid who is incredibly endearing and tries very hard for anyone who shows him kindness (which, I think a post-canon or even Jin Ling era JC would absolutely do because That Is A Child. Also Binghe offered to make his shixiong food from his 'home town' and no one - not even himself - has ever gotten so close to recreating Yanli's soup before. He cries.)

But also, his father shizun has begun to completely and obviously favour Binghe over him (and everyone else), he's so gonna lose his title as head disciple, his cultivation isn't so great he could consider just leaving the fucking sect to strike out on his own (not to mention he's the only reason anything even works around here he can't just ABANDON these kids.) And then... turns out Binghe practices demonic cultivation??? Apparently??? And shizun is pushing him into the Abyss??? And some of his shidis and shimeis are dead because the Immortal Alliance Conference has a demon attack and-

Binghe is falling. Except it isn't Binghe. All he can see is Wei Wuxian. And he can't- he can't watch that again. Not in this fucking life. So he jumps in after him.

Tldr; JC and LBH adventure in the Abyss and he almost dies several times and LBH is,,, being weirdly overprotective of his shixiong (why... why is this familiar.) Endgame BingFan/BingCheng/is this really just ChengXian idek anymore probably.

Now ning yingying has started calling MF da-shijie whenever no one's around and MF has started to go a little easier on her shidimei(no she has not gotten kinder,she's still a dick but she has better things to ponder about rn)

At somepoint she ends up on a mission with her shizun(shen jiu) where she ends up taking some truth serum or sm and accidentally comes out to shen qingqiu

And suddenly..she's shizuns favorite?

Sj's favorites are obviously his girls and if anyone says anything to contradict his kids they will go missing for unknown reasons

Maybe ming fan isn't as much of a bully to luo shidi since now she doesn't feel like she has to prove herself as much anymore(she bullied binghe bc 1: sj didn't like him and 2:she's just kind of an asshole tbh)

And suddenly a doors been opened and lbh's TV starts to glow some familiar colors...

Your usual AU where Ming Fan qi-deviates and gets PIDW!Ming Fan’s memories, then tries to save the entire world (somehow bagging Luo Binghe in the process).

Just sketches bc I'm LAZYYYYYYY

Cue Shen Yuan trying to convince his scum teacher to let up on Binghe, pretty please. It doesn’t matter that Shen Qingqiu was the Original Goods’ role model and defying him is OOC! Shen Qingqiu is a horrible person, and the Original Goods had horrible judgement… right? Except, as he tries to make Shen Qingqiu be kinder to Binghe, he discovers that a lot of the things he was accused of simply aren’t true!

His goal slowly shifts to keeping his Shizun from suffering his horrid fate. Using his position as head disciple, in addition to his persistence, he’s able to minimize Luo Binghe’s suffering (Bing-mei’s hero… he’ll love him forever…). Everything seems fine—Shen Qingqiu is indifferent to Luo Binghe’s presence!—until the Abyss.

Shen Yuan knows, now, that Shen Qingqiu isn’t as bad as the novel made him out to be. That doesn’t erase the abuse, which had only become neglect with Shen Yuan’s meddling. Surely Binghe would still hold a grudge! And this Shixiong is surely not one of Binghe’s future wives, to be spared from punishment! (And, also, Shen Yuan had yet to fully forgive his Shizun, who still scoffed at the mention of Binghe’s name).