Imparting valuable lessons 😌

At least the kid is cute, but this is seriously cutting into his time with MBJ, so he's gonna need to explain. MBJ is now acting weird and keeps trying to get the kid. Which he shouldn't do because SQQ will definitely know and will kill him for bringing the baby around a demon.

Poor MBJ has been courting this idiot for years and accepting his child is part of that. How can he demonstrate that acceptance if Qinghua won't let him see the baby? This is going to be his son too, he needs to be a proper stepfather. He can't have this child inherit, but he still needs to show favor to the boy.

Meanwhile, SQQ is having a great time messing with his most anxious shidi. Bullying the hamster is excellent enrichment for him. Bonus: the man is too much of a coward to ever harm his child. Bonus: too cowardly to get weird. Bonus: he actually enjoys his company? Huh, well, whatever.

They look like a happy family from the outside. YQY is being extra sad because HE wanted that! But if Xiao Jiu is happy...

This only gets funnier with time, because the baby is gonna start showing some traits that aren't solely SQQ. Like, eye shape or something. Just enough traits that the other peak lords are like

"you sure sqh is the dad? Cause those eyes are all yqy."

Sqq: "you can't see the resemblance between my son and his father? Just because Qinghua constantly looks like a shifty, anxious little rodent? Shame on you. He looks more like his father than he does me."

It happens during disciple days, Shen Jiu doesn't recognize the egg as an egg at first, dragon eggs tend to look like large rocks to deter predators from snatching them away while the parents are out.

It's just a smooth looking rock that SJ takes notice of (It's directly in the pathway of one of his shortcut routes), nothing special. Until it hatches. See, in his disciple days Shen Jiu wasn't the most liked nor the most respected, is wasn't uncommon for select disciples to group up and chase after him--spewing some nonsense about honor for that brute Liu-whatever his name was. So currently, SJ--who is using his shortcut to escape from pursuit--stumbles across the egg in the midst of it's hatching.

When a slimey--snotty dragonling peeks its head up and starts chirping loud enough to give his location away, SJ can only scoop the entire egg up (much too light to be a rock now that he's holding it) and book it.

It's not easy to hide the fact that he has a dragon but SJ manages, climbing the ranks is far easier when there's a dragon helping him regulate his qi now.

When SJ becomes a PL there's no real reason to hide it anymore, however rather than drawing attention to himself and putting a target on his head, he allows SY to assimilate naturally--leaving traces of SY everywhere until LQG "Stumbles" on SY during the caves incident and is saved. (SY is huge btw)

From that point on it's known that CQMS has a DRAGON. SY enjoys his freedom in roaming across the peaks but always returns to Qing Jing peak (the pls assume that his nest is there but SY just loves his mama actually, even though he acts all snooty and standoffish and judgemental)

Anyways so SY is fond of LBH (and trying to change the story and his mama's fate) or whatever so when the whole demon thing happens (if SQQ somehow gets affected w/ without a cure) I'd like to imagine SQQ just standing in front of the demons, a manic glow in those green eyes of his as he closes his fan and points it at the demonic elder guy. These demons go wide eyed as a huge ass dragon descends from the sky, landing in front of SQQ defensively all snarls and spilling flames from its mouth.

Liu Qingge is hunting some beast in a forest near Cang Qiong Mt Sect and spots a little kid outside the forest that looks exactly like Shen Qingqiu so he goes "wtf". And because he's a man of action his first thought is go and confront SQQ, so he does just that and speeds to Qing Jing Peak.

He breaks down the door and sees SQQ grading papers and he's more piss because his potential kid is alone in the forest.

LQG: How dare you abandon your child in the forest!!!!

SQQ(piss because lqq broke his door): Have you finally gone mad, you brute!??!!

They start a screaming match and SQQ still doesn't acknoledge that he has a kid nor that he abandoned him so LQQ flies out again to find the kid and bring him to his door to see it.

Shen Yuan is feeling troubled. The system had an error and know he's in some random npc orphan. That's not the issue tho, the issue is that the system is changing his face so he can replace the current SQQ and it's playing with his genetics! Luckily is not going to bad and he actually looks good but he's like 10 so is not really convincing.

He was going to explore his surroundings to see where in PIDW he is in and what part of the timeline when out of nowhere a man grabbed him by the collar and dragged him (more like flung him) to a random house in the mountains. So he thinks he's being kidnapped by demonic cultivators.

Or not????

He's kneeling infront of the Scum Villain himself!!! And he's in screaming match with the War God about... paretnal rights??? What is happening???

LQG: See??? He's exactly like you!

SQQ: And??

LQG: So it's yours!!

SQQ: NO IT'S NOT!

LQG: YOU CAN'T ABANDON YOUR KID IN THE FOREST!

SQQ: IF YOU'RE SO PISSED, WHY DON'T YOU TAKE IT??

LQG: MAYBE I WILL

SQQ: YEAH???

LQG: YEAH!!!

And now Shen Yuan is a disciple in Bai Zhan peak and LQG's personal disciple because "he won't be like his deadbeat father"

Rumours spread like wildfire of how Liu Qingge had a child with Shen Qingqiu and SQQ refuse to acknoledge his son so LQG is forced to be a single dad.

Luo Binghe is in Qing Jing peak shortly after but SQQ is so focused in being mad at LQG that he just ignores to boy to fight with the other peak lord. And SY is always sneaking to QJP to try and help LBH to not get bully but this is confused by the other disciples as SY wanting to connect with his other father.

LQG: Stop stealing my disciple!

SQQ: Maybe if your peak wasn't so shitty he would feel the need to be here in the first place!

SQQ: You know what?? He's staying because NOW he can start using his brain properly!

SJ, injured, sitting in the water prison: So let this one get this strait. You are seeking REVENGE on this one?

Lbh: you pushed me into the abyss!

SJ: What I did was accept your pitiful attempts of courting my son!

Lbh: wut.

SJ: I throw you into a challenge. Unarmed, injured, without warning and while spewing the vilest things i could verbally throw into your face. I initiated an acceptance!

Lbh: WUT.

SJ: I went out of my way to abide to your people’s customs and what do you do to my leniency to your feelings for my A-Yuan? You throw it into my face! You scheme against your master! You do not return, you show no fidelity and instead of challenging me to combat in front of the sec as you should have done you lick at the heels of Huan Hua Palace and leave Yuan-er to the advances of other men!

Lbh: WHAT??!!’

SJ: This is what I get taking a chance on a man! If it weren’t my son’s love for you I wouldn’t’ve wasted the effort.

Lbh: He-He loves me!?

SJ: He did at least! he may have been blind but I have both of my eyes still. He was like a widow by your sword mound every day, refusing to eat. But you have been wasting time! Other suitors have been pounding at the sec’s gates and the less we talk about the members of the sec the better.

Lbh: ..I have fucked up. i have fucked up so bad!

1) Shen Jiu × kid! Shen Yuan (mamajiu)

2) Shen Jiu × Yue Qingyuan (qijiu)

3) Shen Jiu × Shen Yuan (ghost)