#bingheweek

Happy Birthday Ma boi! you are loved ~

Two weeks till the start of  Luo Binghe Week. Are you ready, loyal readers? 

 Special thanks to Wakerife for the beautiful promo art. 

A reminder that the event starts on December 22nd and ends on December 29th!  

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Title: The Monster in Us Author: Akiko / Rinsled05 (AO3) Rating: PG-13 Warnings: None Summary: Luo Binghe snaps. It’s humans who bully the weak and step on the downtrodden. It’s humans who care only about power and control, who hurt others for the sheer fun of it. Humans are the scum of this world. (Part 1 of a Binghe-centered; Bingqiu; Monster/Human AU.)

Written for @bingheweek: Day 1; Righteous. 

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Right versus wrong; good versus evil.

Human versus monster.

In a world filled with absolutes, Luo Binghe doesn’t know where he belongs. 

Weak and delicate, his mother had left him when he was young, too young, and the kindly old washer woman who took him in had explained that the world wasn’t as simple as people made it out to be.

Then why, Luo Binghe wonders, do the other children throw rocks at him and laugh at his horns and claws? Why do they call him “freak” and “devil” instead of his name—the name his mother used to whisper so proudly, so lovingly, in his ear before she died?

Because he’s ugly? Because he’s stupid? Because his monster father hates him so much that the old man disappeared even before he was born?

“Because you’re different,” the washer woman tells him, a hand rubbing soothing circles on his back. “People are scared of ‘different’.”

“But I don’t want to be different,” Luo Binghe says, trembling, voice hitching on sob.

“Different means you’re ‘special,’” the washer woman says. Her scent calms him; whiffs of soap and congee and all things familiar. “Your mom and dad made you special.”

“Sh-should I find some monsters?” Luo Binghe murmurs. “Maybe they’d see me as special?”

The washer woman hesitates. “It’s safer for you here, Binghe,” she says, then. “With the rest of us humans.”

But he isn’t safer here.

The beatings continue, the taunting and name-calling. It becomes a cycle of fear, and safety, and right back to fear again, the washer woman’s gentle reassurance having less and less effect with each passing year. 

Then, like his mother, the washer woman wilts and fades. Leaves Luo Binghe entirely on his own, wandering the streets at the age of fourteen. Scared, miserable, angry.

So very angry.

When the next gang of teenagers surround him in an alleyway, maniacal grins shadowed in the flickering light of a streetlamp, Luo Binghe snaps.

It’s humans who have been attacking him, he realizes. It’s humans who bully the weak and step on the downtrodden. His mother and the kindly old washer woman were the exception to a norm of humans who care only about power and control. Who hurt others for the sheer fun of it.

Humans are the scum of this world.

Claws dripping, Luo Binghe swipes blood off his cheek with the back of his hand. Around his feet laid the bodies of his would-be torturers, the stench of their terror still lingering in the air.

Luo Binghe breathes in the fear, fingers flexing. Fills his lungs with it, relishes the taste of it on his tongue.

It’s time to release his other half.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom:人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationship: Luò Bīnghé/Shěn Yuán | Shěn Qīngqiū

What does it mean to be happy and secure; to be rid of the devils in one's heart?

One man, two fates. The king. The disciple.

(aka parallels, parallels everywhere)

Hello, loyal readers!

Welcome to Luo Binghe Week! A week dedicated to celebrating the male lead and protagonist of 「Proud Immortal Demon Way」and 「Scum Villain’s Self Saving System」Luo Binghe!  The celebration will start on 22nd of December and will end on 29th of December. 

Readers, you are to assume to role of Luo Binghe, male lead and protagonist of  「Proud Immortal Demon Way」and 「Scum Villain's Self Saving System」.   The choices you as the reader make will decide what path Luo Binghe follows, 「The Black Lotus」 or 「The White Lotus」path.  

As the pivotal events of the novel happen, choices will be given to you to select. On the left is the 「The Black Lotus」 option, and on the right, 「The White Lotus」.  By your hand, will he become the tyrannical, saintly ruler, 「The Black Lotus」or will he remain a pure, devoted disciple,「The White Lotus」?

 Choose wisely. 

Prompts:

Day One:The Unknown Path 「demonic」⋅❈⋅「righteous」

Day Two: The Jade Guanyin 「lost」⋅❈⋅「found」

Day Three: The Master「poison」⋅❈⋅「panacea」

Day Four: The Abyss「thrive」⋅❈⋅「despair」

Day Five: The Ascension「king」⋅❈⋅「disciple」

Day Six: The Choice「revenge」⋅❈⋅「love」

Day Seven: The Reward「solitary」⋅❈⋅「accompany」

Day Eight: The Secret Route「new beginning」⋅❈⋅「happy ending」