Thread by @crowkids

au where shen yuan's little sister transmigrates into PIDW and falls in love with liu mingyan and ends up helping bingge realize he's gay by seducing all his wives

i think shen yuan's little sister would have a Lot of the same hangups as shen yuan but in a comphet lesbian way where she's like "women are just SO pretty and hot and everyone thinks so but one day I'll find a man I actually care about"

she tries really hard to blend in by being a bingge wife but she is just like. so clearly and obviously not into him and he's like "excuse me what goes on"

she definitely helps bingge realize HIS sexuality way before she realizes any of her gfs are into her bc she's in like Really Invested Ally To Gay Men phase

she and nyy IMMEDIATELY become Girl Best Friends and nyy does a lot of like, hopeful hinting that she wants to make out that shen meimei does Not pick up on. they share a bed a lot. meanwhile mingyan is doing The Liu Mating Dance (scowling a lot and challenging her to fights)

sha hualing meanwhile is the only one who objects to bingge's character development bc he's the king! what's he doing messing around having personal revelations when he should be cementing power and growing his harem!!

she requests an audience with shen meimei about it and is fully ready to go in there and tear her throat out for her undermining bingge's power and shen meimei is like [feet tucked up under her casually] have you considered. if YOU were king

shl, intrigued: you are suggesting. insurrection. assassination
smm: NO—i mean, no, haha, i actually think a peaceful transition of power is totally possible. he's like. pretty bored
shl: bored. with the entirety of the demon realm at his feet.
smm: yeah i know pretty wild right

smm: i'm guessing you'd never get bored
shl: I would Not. the tournaments I could organize if given unlimited funds. the hunts—
smm: great then it's settled. I'll talk to binghe in the morning :) thanks for coming ling-jie
shl, flustered, pretty sure she'd organized this meeting:

shl stalking into lmy's rooms: we have GOT to do something about that girl
lmy: i know. the other day she was walking around the palace in just her inner robe and you could TELL she'd just been in the baths bc her cheeks were rosy with—
shl:
lmy: that's not what you meant

lmy: what, uh. what did you mean
shl: she wants to make me EMPEROR
lmy: .......and this is a problem because....? you'd be good at it
shl: she shouldn't have the power to DO that! binghe attends to her too much. she can bend his ear on anything

lmy: no offense but that seems like a problem that'll fix itself? unless you're saying that once binghe's out you'll still let her bend your ear
shl: of course not. don't be insulting.

[always sunny title card] Emperor Sha Hualing Allows Shen Meimei to Bend Her Ear]

still thinking about this. meimei getting dropped into the world of her older brother's favorite bad novel and being like hehe >:3 i make it a BL. only to discover it has been a BL all along and her presence is making it a GL

meimei like "obviously binghe's harem transfers to you as emperor" in order to set up mingling and shl is like 👀 the harem you are in

meimei: i mean. i guess? me and like 300 hot women lol i stand out a bit
shl: you do.
meimei: boy you demons don't pull your punches

ning yingying: shen-jie, are you sure you don't want to take any wives for yourself? as the emperor's most trusted advisor?
meimei: m-ME? i'm straight
nyy: you're what
meimei: oh jeez i'm sorry i didn't think i'd been putting out other vibes—
nyy: no like. what is "straight"

meimei: oh it means i like men
nyy: [bursts out laughing]
meimei: WHAT. I do!
nyy: my dear, dear friend. you had the hottest man in the world, so hot he has 300 wives, and you told him to leave

meimei: i didn't TELL HIM TO—he left for his own good!
nyy: uh huh. are you sad to see him go? will you pine for him for the rest of your days?
nyy: of course not and it's sexist of you to suggest I might

meimei: it's not healthy for women to make men the center of their lives anyway. this way we can have a community of women who care about each other over everything else a& provide for each other in every way
nyy: except sexually?
meimei, blushing: n, no, YOU all can—i just won't

nyy: that doesn't seem fair. *casually unpinning her hair* are you sure you wouldn't ever want the stress relief

nyy: you might not be emperor but you're her right hand woman these days and that comes with its own stress!
meimei: *transfixed, in a heterosexual way*
nyy: sometimes, when a-luo had a long day, some of us would give him a massage
meimei:
meimei: ᵒᵏᵃʸ

somehow meimei ends up shirtless on her stomach with nyy sitting on her ass giving her a back massage, hair loose so it brushes against meimei's shoulder blades when she leans closer, and meimei is like 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 gals being pals

shl and lmy meanwhile, FURIOUS that nyy has gotten further than they have despite blatant seduction and proper courting respectively,

now THIS is harem drama amiright

I realize I started this thread with "and falls in love with liu mingyan" and I do stand by this however she's a shen so it's SOOO sublimated. she just thinks mingyan is SOOOOOOOOO cool and sexy and hot haha

she probably spends a while when she first arrives kind of dressing like lmy and lmy is like ? is this mockery? who even is this

lmy: clearly this beautiful newcomer is trying to steal binghe from me
meimei: ugh this style doesn't suit me like it does her 😔 i should just give up