Fake Jade Guanyin

SVSSS is my very first danmei + xianxia, so I'm doing my best but I'm very much feeling like a tourist about being here.

In general, and especially for texting or lightly meta memes, the canonpoint will be post-canon unless otherwise noted! (Basically a couple weeks post-wedding.)

Canon*, and post-canon threads equally welcome, alongside AUs! Canon divergence or otherwise; check below for some suggestions. I'm also open to doing pseudo-jamjar threads by borrowing a game's setting, or just making something up. (If we're doing this, I'm not interested in power nerfing/removal.)
More post-canon-leaning ideas; identity and System reveal (the former could be with or without the latter, and with or without 4th wall-breaking levels of detail in what's revealed, too). General wifeplots adventures, as well as exploring the "in-betweens" we didn't get to see when it comes to the extras.

*For canonmates who aren't Binghe, I think I'd be most interested in the timespan from the moment of transmigration up to Jinlan City in terms of threads set in canon. For Shang Qinghua or Luo Binghe though, any point of canon is good.

Shipping
For anything requited, Binghe (Bingge or Bingmei, both equally loved! Draft!Binghe/Bingzu can come too if we want to be daring). I'm also fine with assuming development for a BingQiuBing scenario if jumping straight into shipping with Bingge but canon SVSSS is desired. Kinklist down in the comments of this post!

When it comes to the new extra(s) in the new simplified Chinese edition

-I'm straight up not going to acknowledge the "they didn't die" and the whole "going back to the modern/real world" (however temporarily) parts of it. Especially for the latter I'm just not interested in that sort of thing.

-As a default, I'm also not going to go with the new meta/worldbuilding origin/reasons and background for the System. However! I'd be more than happy to play with that if a RP partner wants, because it is a different sort of fun/interesting angle to what's suggested of the System originally (or if we want to take Bingzu and run with him in some other way).

-While Binghe's obviously shown as having known from basically the beginning that his shizun is someone else, I'm honestly happy to go with any level of Binghe suspecting or being aware of what's up with his (new) shizun, or not, if he should be completely unaware. (Though personally I have definitely become convinced he had figured it out pre-IAC, even if he can't know without confirmation.)
Since, really, it's definitely more that it's Shen Qingqiu who is obviously going to be hard to crack about confessing the truth and really confirming if Binghe is right or not for him. It's clearly SQQ who's more worried about what the reveal of not being the same individual as Shen Jiu - despite that he doesn't like being thought of as him lol - will do to Binghe/his relationship with him rather than this being an actual problem.

-otherwise, the new names and general details of Shen Yuan's family will be acknowledged!

Some (mostly headcanon) notes on pre-transmigration Shen Yuan

-Died on the 21st September 2014... also, thus, on his 22nd birthday.
-174 cm/5'8" tall ; so shorter than Shen Qingqiu's 184 cm.
-Brown eyes, but a lighter shade than Shen Qingqiu's darker brown.
-While it absolutely was not what was intended, it amuses me, so; plain Shen Yuan does actually look somewhat similar to Shen Qingqiu, just like he says the mushroom body does thanks to the blood that had to be used. Shen Yuan is prettier, in a softer way, compared to Shen Qingqiu's more severe elegance (that yet gets softened up when Shen Yuan is inhabiting the body thanks to how he is just a different person). <- I will default to this, but if you'd prefer a Shen Yuan who doesn't look anything like Shen Qingqiu for any threads we might do where it's relevant, just let me know!
-He's got a bit of a drop-shaped ass - it's not fully flat, but certainly not round like Shen Qingqiu's is.
-I'm not necessarily married to the fanon idea that Shen Yuan was chronically ill, so I can take or leave it for any given thread. But since I can also see why it developed and do also kind of like it, when it's used he's immunodeficient, and so (very) susceptible to infections. He has weekly intravenous treatment for his condition, but that's about it for the limits put on him, aside from needing to be careful about getting sick.
-Studying/just graduated for a bachelor of literature at Peking University. (I'm thus taking that most likely a joke at Shang Qinghua's expense about having taken the entrance exams seriously, because why not). He'd intended to major in Chinese language and literature but ended up choosing Business English for reasons of the family company instead. (But he's still been dabbling with the other major on his own time.) Shen Yuan moved to Beijing for his university studies.
-His oldest brother is seven years older, the second is five years older, while his little sister is four years younger than he is. The family is from Hong Kong, but since the handover they live in Shanghai where the headquarters for the company have been moved.
-Even when/if he doesn't have a full on fanon Binghe shrine, I still headcanon he's got some things, which are: both login and regular desktop screen are set to Binghe fanart, and he's got at least one nicely printed and hung fanart on the wall lol In addition, taking inspiration from the new extras where he had that Benben hair tie custom made, he's got several black t-shirts with Binghe's zuiyin on them that he custom ordered himself. They're usually his bottom layer and/or part of his sleepwear. Similar to the Benben hairtie thing he also has custom made/ordered Binghe's fursona a number of tiny black cotton puppies with the zuiyin on their forehead which he uses as phone charms.

AU suggestions

Canon divergence:
-Endless Abyss AU; Shen Qingqiu ending up getting himself and Binghe into the Abyss somehow.
-No Endless Abyss AU, with some other way for Binghe to lose his seal, or simply not ending up in the Abyss and having to deal with the fallout of being revealed as a demon, or any variation on that.
-From Jinlan city and/or the Water Prison, or Binghe's return in general. I do love me a good truth serum trope... ;)
-Connected to the above, maybe something like this?
-From/during those five years Shen Qingqiu is dead/stuck unaware in the mushroom body; being dragged in earlier into Binghe's dreams, perhaps. (SQQ being some sort of asleep would make sense, after all.)
-Alternately, AU where the mushroom body plain doesn't work out in some way/the fertilizer SQH added fucking things up and Binghe's attempts to call on Shen Qingqiu's soul thus work/end up as inadvertent rescue and the Mausoleum's resurrection array with the body has to be used.
-During the House Arrest chapter, maybe? Dragging that part out could be interesting!

More straight up AU:
-Shen Yuan ending up transmigrating into someone else; if it's someone in Cang Qiong, I'd default to an OC on either Qing Jing (as shixiong or shidi), Qiong Ding Peak or a fanon peak I have an AU idea for. For another canon character, maybe Ming Fan? For something set later in the canon (and maybe more fitting with Bingge), Gongyi Xiao would be a fun possibility!
-Role swap AU? Whether that's "PIDW was always about peak lord!Binghe and his being exposed as a (half-)demon in a fall from grace and rising as the demon realm's saintly ruler and taking revenge" or "Shen Yuan inexplicably transmigrates into an AU version of the PIDW he knows" - the latter might be more fun, I think, since he'll be more in the dark and get taken by surprise when certain canon events still stay the same (like the Endless Abyss).
-Shen Brothers AU in some way? I have some thoughts on connecting that to Shen Yuan transmigrating into an OC disciple if it's of interest. (Or other familial connection! Or even no real connection but something happened during transmigration and now there's Two of Them. Also wouldn't say no to 'PIDW!Shen Jiu gets to reverse transmigrate into the Shen family and now has to deal with his little brother being Weird About Luo Binghe'. Right up until Shen Yuan has to deal with 'my prickly brother is the fucking scum villain' that is.) If you want to be naughty, Shen Yuan actually having been Shen Jiu's younger brother who died before the Qius and got reincarnated into modern day and then back is another option.
-Shen Yuan transmigrating into Qing Jing Peak's spirit beast (going with an AU where all the peaks had one); maybe with flavours of The Disabled Tyrant's Beloved Pet Fish?
-I wouldn't be against reverse transmigration or similar, but I'm not really interested in that being the permanent situation. I'd rather use it as a temporary step before going (back) into PIDW, as it'd be more fun to me. (If you give me magic and demons and monsters, I want to keep those lol)
-However! I'd be up for modern cultivation AU sort of set-up.
-Pre-transmigration dream realm meeting; would love this either as a lead-up to actual canon, or more AU!