#qishang

Unfortunately, he gets this idea because he accidentally slept with Yue Qingyuan. It was during a late budgetary meeting. They'd both been slightly drunk. Yue Qingyuan had been sad and Shang Qinghua had been sad AND horny. It was a "bro helping another bro out" kind of thing! Shang Qinghua still can't really believe it happened. But it can't happen again! Bad idea!

Shang Qinghua encounters Shen Qingqiu in a brothel with half a plan on how to start unraveling that much damage, only... uh... Well, Shen Qingqiu got the wrong idea about what Shang Qinghua wanted from him, and Shang Qinghua's favorite type unfortunately happens to be "scary and mean and very pretty". Fuck! He accidentally slept with Shen Qingqiu too!

So, okay, back to Yue Qingyuan, who will definitely be the more reasonable person to talk to, because he hides all of his massive trauma like a polite person! Oh, shit, Yue Qingyuan is pretty hot, isn't he? And is coming on to Shang Qinghua again for a casual fuck... and whoops, the bad idea happened again! Fuck! When Shang Qinghua tries to have a productive conversation afterwards, Yue Qingyuan even confides in him a little. Yeah, bro, it IS super obvious that you're totally hung up on Shen Qingqiu, and oh, shit, you are NEVER going to make the first move, are you?

Okay, maybe "fixing" these guys is just not possible. Mistakes! He has made them! Shang Qinghua is just going to stay out of things moving forward. He's going to avoid them now! Oh, shit, Shen Qingqiu wants to know why Shang Qinghua was staring at him in that meeting and is slamming against a wall and- uh. Oh, wow. That's hot.

"Both of them?" Mobei-Jun says later, too bemused to be jealous. (Moshang aren't a thing yet. Maybe not ever a thing like that in this AU. Demons also have different societal conventions even so.)

"BOTH OF THEM!" Shang Qinghua wails, lying facedown on the floor of his house. He doesn't know why he's actually venting to Mobei-Jun, but he has NO ONE ELSE. He's getting SO well laid, sure, but the constant nagging feeling that he's going to get maimed this way is really putting a damper on the sex. Qijiu really, truly, honestly do NOT know that he's sleeping with both of them. "What is wrong with these people?! Why is their taste so bad? I made everything so much worse..."

to be clear, yqy lets things slide bc he thinks its funny.

when sqh starts the whole spiel: "...and have i mentioned, your shoulders look especially wide today, zhangmen-shixiong~~~ new cultivation routine? we're so lucky to have such a strong, dedicated sect leader..." right after mu qingfang off-handedly asks how sqh sourced some demonic medicinal plant so quickly, yqy fully assumes sqh has some black market/demonic dealings. he just doesnt really care too much, so he just acts flattered and moves the conversation along while the other peak lords look a bit weirded out

sqh uses this often bc he did it once without thinking and it worked ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and yeah, maybe yqy has more "eldest daughter" vibes than his normal "mean and sexy" type, but yqy is built and nice and doesnt make fun of him, those are good things! flirting isnt too hard!

Summary:

Shang Qinghua is miserable as an outer disciple of Cang Qiong Mountain Sect, doubtful that the plot will ever begin, when he finally runs into his first character. But Yue Qingyuan is only a boy in desperate need of a helpful friend. Well, why shouldn't Shang Qinghua be that friend? A little investment now when they're young and Shang Qinghua might just be able to survive this world with the support of a sect leader.

It's definitely not because he's also in desperate need of a friend.

 (He's definitely not expecting love.)

Hello, everyone! I'm excited to be sharing this story with you! This is a pairing that I once suggested somewhat jokingly, but I really enjoyed digging into details of such a what-if. It's really interesting to think that Yue Qingyuan could have honestly been the first named character from PIDW that Airplane Bro ever met!

This story starts in their disciple days, before they are anywhere near becoming peak lords, so I refer to Shang Qinghua as "Houhua" throughout this story. It's a non-canon name. Likewise, Yue Qingyuan and Shen Qingqiu are Yue Qi and Shen Jiu. The non-canon name that I'm using for Liu Qingge is Mingyi. Other non-canon names will appear for the other peak lords over the course of the story.

Yes, though I do enjoy both Moshang and Qijiu, the main pairing is Shang Qinghua/Yue Qingyuan! But Shen Jiu does appear, obviously, and I'm not about any pairing or character bashing. We're here to have fun! I also do a fair bit of sect-centric worldbuilding, which may be shameless alternate interpretations or universe alterations. I'm not looking for concrit either, if you please; just looking to share my fun.

Thanks again to the person who prompted me!

Chapter 15: here's everything I have V

This chapter is around 3,500 words long. Thank you for all of the lovely comments so far. It's a wrap!