#correcting deviations

Working title: Of monsters and men alike

Words: 5k-8k, definitely under 10k

Rating: Explicit

Pairing: Jiuyuan (Shen Qingqiu | Shen Jiu / Shen Yuan)

A direct continuation of 'Correcting Deviations'

I've got an outline and scenes planned, now only to write it - hopefully I can finish before 24th ^^

When Shen Jiu was supposed to be morally dark grey, two-dimentional but barely likeable older brother to Shen Yuan.

*writes*

When Shen Jiu becomes morally gray but with good? heart? intentions? And his actions are not driven by unexplainable personality? And instead of unlikeable I start to empathize with him?

He fucking made me cry a bit???

This wasn’t supposed to happen, again QwQ

Plot bunny question that would close certain plot points options in the future if I wanted to write more.

I kind of have an idea but it feels like if I go with it, the reason why it would work could make it difficult to write even more potential oneshots that would be direct sequels? Unless they are true to this being the lore.

The idea:

It's a few months since Shen Yuan aka Liu Qingge and Shen Qingqiu left the caves. Shen Yuan is accidentally on purpose dosed with a flower that gives him a flower, if you get my meaning?

During all the time they spent together, Shen Qingqiu was definitely handsy, a possessive bastard that kept teasing and playing with A-Yuan but never by touching directly his length.

And then, a dazed Shen Yuan, becomes futanarized because of that flower and of course, dual cultivation is the cure to everything (or is it? 🤭). And Shen Qingqiu takes adventage for the first time all the way, directly.

I'd say 3k to 8k words, smutty thing.

“I’ll try to visit. I promise, I’ll come back soon.”

“Don’t bother. It would be better if I never saw your traitorous face again.”

“Xiao Jiu, please—”

Actually, that was a lie, wasn't it?

It's been nine days since A-Yuan had seen him—he had kept watch regardless, checking on his wayward younger brother.

Just like any good sibling should.

Someone had to pick up the slack while Da-ge still hid behind his trinkets and useless apologies.

The start of Realignment series, where I was wondering: what if Shen Yuan transmigrated into Qi deviating Liu Qingge?

He dared to lift his head. Only a little.

The figure stepped forward, and the light caught him at last: tall, lean, clothes a deep bamboo green, heavy and marked with dark bloodstains. Long, dark hair was pinned into a careful updo, crowned neatly, and the sharp cheekbones gave the kind of elegance that made you forget the grime and disarray. Shen Yuan’s throat caught.

He drank in the facial features—so similar to his own, yet sharper—his gaze climbing until it met the dark eyes studying him in return: cold, calculating.

“Er-ge…?” he whispered, a small, fragile hope threading through his voice. He looked just like his older brother if he had ever lowered himself to do a xianxia cosplay.

For a heartbeat, the other man seemed slightly taken aback, before settling into an unreadable expression. But Shen Yuan knew his brother’s tells: the slight uptick of the mouth, a twitch of an eye—subtle signs that spelled you did something and now I'm curious.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/75138896

A prequel to 'Correcting Deviations'.

Shen Jiu's POV origin story, character study.

It went both similar and different than I wanted, in the end I couldn’t help but had a tiny bit of love to our A-Jiu.

I hope this fic will give some of you as many feelings as it did give me.

And I really do wonder if you can uncover all easter eggs I left there 🤭