#reverse transmigration

imagine. something goes wrong during shen yuan's transmigration and rather than him isekai-ing into PIDW, og shen qingqiu reverse transmigrates into the modern world instead. who said the system was 100% error-free?

as shen qingqiu wanders the streets of 21st century shanghai, trying to understand which level of qi deviation this is, one of shen yuan's older brothers sees him, strolls over, grinning, and slaps him on the shoulder, "a-yuan, we'll have to celebrate today, you finally left your apartment for the first time in the past three months!"

shen qingqiu, pissed off, is about to tell him to sod off, when shen yuan's little sister, who's been out with her oldest bro doing shopping, also runs over, tugs at shen qingqiu's arm affectionately and starts telling him about the clothes she's bought today, and also how good he looks in this cosplay, is this a character from that book he never shuts up about? and she didn't know he knew how to do his brows, she's so proud of him!

shen qingqiu can't really just shake her off rudely because, well, he's always been nicer to women, and the girl looks genuinely happy to see him, and she's also using a lot of words he doesn't know--cosplay? webnovel? taobao?--so while shen qingqiu is trying to process everything she's saying & decide on the best course of action, shen yuan's siblings realise they have to be somewhere so they say goodbye, but not before telling him there's a family dinner in a week and he has to come too

meanwhile, shen yuan thinks his siblings are simply making fun of his shut-in lifestyle when they message him on wechat asking what forced him to go outside today, and ignores them

until next day, he has to run out to his favourite coffee shop because their delivery system is temporarily down, and bumps into a guy who looks exactly like him, but is dressed like someone cosplaying shen qingqiu from pidw

shen yuan's mind blanks--also why do these robes look so good on someone who looks just like him?? hello?? shen qingqiu meanwhile only takes moments to regain his composure, grabs shen yuan by the shoulder and informs him he needs to come to the family dinner in 6 days. because shen qingqiu hasn't yet figured out how social media and phones work, it seems important to him to relay the message, considering this guy's family members mixed him up with shen qingqiu

shen yuan would've thought this is a prank but this guy looks 100% serious, plus his siblings did send him that message yesterday... around them, people are starting to stare and someone seems to be taking out their phone to take a picture of the "twin jades", so shen yuan has no choice but to drag shen qingqiu to his apartment to talk things over there in peace and quiet

fun of course ensues when shen yuan realises this is, in fact, the shen qingqiu from pidw

Just a man and his oversized cat ´∀｀

Bonus detail shots below

I'm on a "give SJ a happy ending" agenda where kid SJ reverse transmigrated into the modern world and subsequently gets adopted by kid SY. In this au, SY happens to be an only child who desperately wanted a sibling. He found a feral skrunkly SJ and imprinted on him (right after SJ tried to pickpocket him).

Would probably add more to this au in the future

Luo Binghe; My husband has been kidnapped from me to a strange world and is being held in a cursed sleep by strangers!!!!

Shen Yuan’s family: Jesus fucking Christ this lunatic keeps trying to break into the hospital room and assaulting people while screaming that we are keeping him away from his beloved wife! Where the fuck does A-Yuan pick up these people!

There’s a popular online cultivation game called Proud Immortal Demon Way that’s been making the rounds recently due to a new encounter players might run into that was unlike anything they’d ever experienced in other games.

In this encounter, the atmosphere would dim out of nowhere and from a distance, a boss character would start approaching them. Suddenly, their character would be grabbed out of nowhere by the incredibly handsome and imposing figure with red and black robes, a black sword and a full mane of hair. The man would look at their character before dropping it while clicking his tongue, usually saying something like, “Another empty husk…” before turning to the player’s screen and staring at them for a few moments. Even if the player tried to attack the boss character, it would ignore the attacks, hardly gaining any damage at all.

Then the character would furrow their brows and turn away. “You’re not the one.” he would say, and he would leave through a portal made with his sword.

The encounter happened only once per account, and the only hint that it was about to happen was a small voice calling out “Shizun?” from off-screen.

One day while Shen Yuan, under his somewhat popular streaming name PeerlessCucumber, was grinding enemies before a big raid, he heard the iconic and long-awaited “Shizun?”.

Rather than run away or attack like most players did, Shen Yuan was excited to finally, FINALLY get to see this legendarily unbeatable and good-looking NPC for himself and happily ran up, chattering happily to his viewers as he wanted to show them what usually happened when one encountered this particular boss.

The boss started his usual routine, picking the player character up and tossing it aside with an annoyed mumble before turning to the screen— no, to Shen Yuan.

His head tilted then and that— that wasn’t part of the routine.

A somewhat unsettling smile made its way onto the character’s face as he approached the screen, seemingly getting closer to Shen Yuan.

“Found you, Shizun.” he said.

That was the last time anyone saw the boss in-game. There was a video clip roaming around of PeerlessCucumber’s facecam, where an arm reached from off-screen into his room, strangely from about where the man’s screen should have been.

Then the stream cut and PeerlessCucumber hadn’t streamed for over a year.

When he came back, however, he introduced his new husband, Luo Binghe to his viewers. His new husband looked strangely familiar to anyone who'd played Proud Immortal Demon Way.

... Then Bingge comes into his life. The emperor, Luo Binghe, who suddenly begins to act like, literally, a service dog.

Sometimes he can't even feel the blood parasites. Sometimes, before Shen Yuan even starts to feel depressed and on the verge of fainting, Binghe can smell it. It's like, he knows something strange is happen- and many times that peculiar smell in the air next to his A-Yuan follows him practically fainting in his arms like a princess. Sometimes it's a complete faint, other times Shen Yuan just loses his strength, other times he just needs to sit down.

Luo Binghe casually comments on this when Shen Yuan says it's strange that he's always there to catch him before he falls. Because before Binghe, Shen Yuan could feel those episodes coming, but sometimes they were too abrupt and fast, and he actually ended up on the floor at least twice a week. And now he always falls into Binghe's arms!

And Luo Binghe might comment to him like: ah, the air around A-Yuan smells different before he fades away.

And Shen Yuan must feel humiliated in this fate thing because he didn't want a service dog!! But look at him now!! Binghe can sense that he is having an episode, he catches it, gives him water, medicine, sometimes injections if he really needs it. What was this?! A service boyfriend!? Even worse!!

... Well, Shen Yuan won't complain too much. Eh. At least Binghe can feed himself (and buy and get his own food and cook the best delicacies Shen Yuan ever tasted), and he doesn't have to take him out for walks every day... although if he buy him some, ahem, toys and collars in which Binghe has shown interest.

Liu Qingge happily munching on a taco while Shen Yuan watches for his review of the day.