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AU where Shen Yuan transmigrates a System that is presented to OG Shen Qingqiu as a chance from the heavens to redeem himself and re draw his fate.

He is convinced when he sees Yue Qingyuan and System!Yuan says "If you fix your fuck ups Yue Qingyuan won't have to be murdered by thousands of arrows"

So fine. He'll redraw fate.

But he's not going to be nice.

This ends up with

1. Luo Binghe politely threatening to kill anyone who so much as looks at his Master wrong

2. Ning Yingying an expert at poisoning people who are rude to him

3. Shang Qinghua as his terrified accomplice because he's being heavily blackmailed

He just had to teach him and control the bullying on his peak

He didn't even have to teach him directly! He could have taught a class this kid was in once in a blue moon!

All he had to do was leave this kid alone and not encourage Ming Fan and co into tormenting this kid. Which he could do by just being mildly disapproving! From a distance! He just had to curl his lip in disdain!

And just by doing that Luo Binghe, while not in love with Shen Qingqiu, would have been fanatically loyal to him. Just by giving this kid a home and stability and distant acknowledgement of his existence, Shen Jiu could have had a Heavenly Demon/Emperor ready to kill for him on command!

Instead he tied a noose around his own neck by torturing a child because a child dared to have potential and the memory of being loved once

Like Shen Jiu is sometimes so stupid

You're a strategist for fucks sake! You know how easy it is to win the loyalty of a desperate child! You dumb fuck!

He knew it had taken Yue Qingyuan and a huge amount of other cultivators and arrays to pin this boy's probably father under a fucking mountain

Couldn't even kill the bugger

And this kid rightly hates his guts and will turn on him and probably Yue Qingyuan for allowing Shen Jiu to be an abusive shit.

Shen Jiu does not have readers omniscience. He had every reason to believe that the abyss would either kill Luo Binghe or keep him confined forever

AND THE MAN FUCKING SQUANDERED IT!

Shen Jiu you had to the potential to be a fantastic evil person with a cadre of devoted overpowered minions but instead you were STUPID and just made enemies instead!