#bingplane

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XF wakes up absolutely groggy and out of it- of course, who wouldn't be after he got electrocuted to what he thought would be his final breath??

[ System Activated! Welcome, User 001! ]

…Who wouldn't wake up absolutely groggy and out of it after he got electrocuted to his final breath?!?

Guess he actually fucking died?????????????

So Xiang Fei panics for a bit (a lot) until he realizes the system has been glitching for a while now—talking about an error? on soul misplacement? Before shutting down entirely. Weird!!!

All he got from it is that he's in his stallion novel, PIDW. His Magnum Opus, his cashcow, his absolute demise, his most significant work, and- yeah he thinks those were enough descriptors.

Anyway! It doesn't take long for XF to figure out that he's been transmigrated as… well, an absolute nobody! Not much of a difference from his previous life! Not even an important side character, no! Not even a cannon fodder! He's just in the body of an extra he didn't even bother to name!! Hell, he didn't even know this guy existed in his novel!

From the looks of it, the body he's in is that of a child's—no more than what, 10? Sure, he can roll with that.

So after having a huge existential crisis, XF decides to actually try living out this second chance he has in life.

He finds out that this boy's family includes only an emotionally neglectful (?) father who doesn't even talk to him, save for meal times where he at least gives his son some spare fish he successfully caught during his job as a fisherman. Oh, and the man blames the original goods for his mother's death, apparently.

Thankfully, it doesn't get brought up more than once! Lucky him!

So XF mostly spent his time helping the old man out in the dock and playing hide and seek with the kids in the area. Doesn't really help that the internet is quite literally non-existent, forcing poor Airplane to do actual in real life activities.

So most of XF's days were spent in mundanity.

Then, he meets Binghe. At first, XF thought he was just a random kid in town who was too shy to join playtimes. But upon seeing the dark curls and familiar face, Airplane himself could never mistake his protagonist for anyone else!!! (The system showing up again after months of inactivity also confirmed it, more or less.)

He was so, so small!!! So scrawny too!!! He looks like he's at least 7 years old. Of course, XF couldn't help but try to befriend his tiny protagonist, despite all of tiny LBH's reluctance.

So XF eventually becomes closer to LBH and goes through the good and bad with him.

And despite all of XF's efforts to avoid the tragedy, the washerwoman still died. The system calling it a "necessary plot point". Xiang Fei's guilt only deepens upon witnessing Luo Binghe's behavior towards him after his mother's death. He had gotten clingier, more paranoid, more demanding of his attention.

On days where Xiang Fei was quieter than usual, Binghe would ask, "Are you tired of me, Fei-ge?"

Or when the other kids wanted to play with him, "Fei-ge, you wouldn't choose them over me, would you?"

and even just visiting a nearby town for errands prompted a "Fei-ge, you said you wouldn't leave!", along with tears and reddened cheeks.

Of course, how could Xiang Fei deny Binghe of anything? It was airplane's fault for his grief. It was his fault he had to resort to clinging on the same reason why his mother died in the first place. How horrible would it be of him to deny anything? So he stayed by LBH's side, everytime, without fail.

Fast forward to 9 years later, Binghe is now 16 and Xiang Fei being 19. 2 years after both of them had joined CQMS. XF ending up in An Ding peak and LBH, still on Qing Jing peak, upon the System's insistence on canon compliancy.

Binghe gets more possessive, more clingy, more demanding. Of course, XF tried to not acknowledge this at first. Because why would his stallion protagonist who is supposed to have a harem of women acting this way to him of all people, right? Perhaps guilt had twisted his judgement though.

Because Xiang Fei is now forced to fully confront the truth when Binghe lies atop the corpse of someone who spent a nighthunt with him.

Binghe is covered in blood and Xiang Fei's mind spirals in dread and guilt. Airplane was the one who made Binghe turn out this way. This was all his fault.

So of course, he pulls LBH straight into his arms—blood and all—whispering sweet reassurances;

"Fei-ge will handle this."

"Binghe did nothing wrong."

"Fei-ge is on Binghe's side."

He should accept the demon he's made of Binghe, long before he should've awakened.

This was all Airplane's fault.

Art for my Touchstarved BingHua fic ft. apple trend

but oki to keep from complicating matters, this is an au where shen yuan never transmigrates. so he's off living his happy cucumber life and buying his binghe merch while cursing that hack of an author.

MEANWHILE that hack of an author got grand-slammed into the story he wrote, as per canon, and he is Trying His Fucking Best To Survive Okay. And he thinks he's doing an okay job of it too! He avoided interacting too much with the protagonist during his disciple days, but when they did run into each other he made an effort to make a good impression on his future emperor.

things were going Just Fine until the day that binghe accidentally found out there was a demon sleeping on an ding peak using his dream demon powers. w/o shen yuan to distract him, he's already been gathering intel on all the peaks AND BOY IS THAT SOME INTEL. but now binghe is big curious about this demon. is the demon like him? someone who joined the sect without knowing what they were? or were they a demon spy? what were they doing on an ding of all places?

so binghe decides to take a good long peek into this demons dreams, just to get a feel for what sort of person he is and theres mobei jun in all his booby glory, the sexiest man binghe has ever seen in his entire fucking life.... who is dreaming about napping? literally. thats the dream. mobei jun is taking a cat nap in the snow by a tree with a satisfied expression on his face. clearly the demon likes the cold.

it's a really stupid a simple dream but its just... cute? binghe is kinda dying over how cute it is. how much does this guy like napping? but also this tells binghe next to nothing about the identity of the strange an ding demon so he really should prod the dream to gather intel. but he kinda cant bring himself to? and he winds up letting mobei just dream bc he's so cute, determining that he can prod the dream next time

binghe watches a few of mobei's dreams that way. sometimes mobei is fighting in his dreams, sometimes he's napping or reading, and sometimes peak lord shang appears in the dreams, just kinda scrambling away in that undignified way that he does. which isnt actually surprising, mobei is on an ding so of course the people around him might appear in his dreams and the peak lord is the person who sticks out the most. binghe has certainly had more than one terrible dream involving shen qingqiu. at least peak lord shang seems to just be an inept peak lord and not a cruel one, binghe can respect that

binghe's irl investigations of an ding arent proving very fruitful tho. he cant find a disciple with mobei's appearance anywhere on an ding and he is LOOKING, but perhaps he has some sort of appearance distorting magic? he does have some undeniably demonic features so that would make sense

anyway, binghe doesn't end up interfering in the dream until he winds up in a nasty one from mobei's childhood and he is PISSED bc he now has a fair idea how this guy wound up stuck in the human world, but also who could dare be cruel to baby mobei?! he's literally the cutest thing on the planet!

so binghe shows up in the memory dream and scoops up child mobei, carrying him away from the danger and transforming the dream around them to be something pleasant that mobei would like. snow and creatures and books and hoenstly binghe is getting the best kind of power trip from watching mobei's face just light up as he's saved from his terrible dream

and okay, binghe is very invested now. what's the harm in just... showing up in mobei's dreams? ya know, just on and off. he's another face in the sect. it's easily explained away as "oh a random shidi appears in my dreams lol dreams are so weird" and binghe takes to interacting with mobei in the dreams. just small things. sitting next to him while he naps or asking about what he's reading or helping him in fights and it's just Really Nice to be with him

mobei doesnt talk much and he's either terminally awkward or super shy, or maybe both, but binghe gets really happy over every time he's able to get mobei to talk to him

except

except the most fucking common topic is shang fucking qinghua.

look, binghe has nothing against the an ding peak lord. he really doesnt. qinghua's been nothing but a good shishu to him. but it's just... really annoying to him somehow that he spends so much time and effort to get mobei to open his mouth to talk about what he's reading and what comes out of his mouth is something inane like "qinghua's writing is better" and what's with that? 'qinghua'? not shizun? not shifu? not even shixiong or shidi? QINGHUA?

WHAT IS THEIR RELATIONSHIP AND CAN QINGHUA PLEASE JUST DIE THANKYOU

binghe isnt quite blackened yet so he's still feeling a lil ashamed over being so possessive and cruel in his thoughts but fr, if he has to hear another "the pelt will be for qinghua" after they hunt a beast together in the dream world, binghe might actually do something very unfilial to his dear shishu

hedging, binghe decides to prod the dreams so that he can understand the relationship between mobei and qinghua better. directing it to a random dream about their past together. he's expecting something about maybe them being disciples of the same generation but what he is NOT expecting is to find himself in a cramped inn where qinghua was circling mobei like a fucking octopus and nearly licking him where a younger (and INJURED) mobei is looking quite flustered and unsure what to do before shoving qinghua off the bed

and what exactly the fuck was that? binghe needs CONTEXT. but the dream ended before he got more because mobei woke up and oki, now binghe is going to investigate the fuck out of his damn shishu. HOW DARE HE HUG MOBEI LIKE THAT BEFORE BINGHE GOT AN OPPORTUNITY TO HOLD MOBEI LIKE THAT, HE IS DROWNING IN VINEGAR RN THANKYOU

and now qinghua is freaked the fuck out bc his protag son is Paying Attention To Him. making an effort to make conversation and make excuses to run errands to an ding and Yep, that Cannot bode well actually. it doesnt help that his king has been acting a bit strange lately as well.

not necessarily angry or mean. just kinda... distracted. like his attention is elsewhere. and ya know what? qinghua kinda resents it oki. bc even tho his king is mean and grumpy and a spoiled tyrant and a total jerk, his king usually pays more attention to him? and this split focus is stressing qinghua out a lot. so he's doubling his efforts to please his king while trying to dodge the protagonist and His Life Is Stress

and then the immortal alliance happens and qinghua thinks its mostly gonna go as planned, except NOT bc mobei jun shows up in person and looks noticeably shocked when he meets binghe. and binghe looks shocked too?? and the system is freaking out and shen qingqiu shows up to be scummy so things SHOULD be back on track except--

except mobei jumps into the abyss after binghe?! WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING EXACTLY AND WHEN EXACTLY DID IT HAPPEN AND FUCK QINGHUA DOESNT KNOW WHY HE JUMPED IN AFTER THEM BOTH, HE REALLY HAS NO FUCKING EXPLANATION, ITS THE STUPIDEST THING HE'S EVER DONE

Coming soon to an ao3 near you...