Thread by @bingjiuwus

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Warning for OOC behaviour or w/e, yes yes Liu Qingge is the opposite of yandere shhh. Sketchy behaviour and mpreg ahead!!

So yes. Thinking of Liu Qingge who basically falls for Shen Jiu at first punch during the interpeak tournament. Does he hate that SJ "fights dirty"?

No, he loves it. Loves seeing how SJ scrabbles for every advantage to win, how quickly he loses his decorum and pristine image and turns into a wildcat... and how he's practically on the verge of tears when he loses and insults LQG after. What a tactless brat!

LQG wants him.

Unfortunately, the Qing Jing Head Disciple is anything but malleable, and LQG quickly realises the only way to get his continued attention is to trade barbs and fists back and forth.

He enjoys battering SJ to the ground, yes, but he'd also like to draw him into his arms and kiss his hair and talk about their future together. Alas, it seems SJ has no interest in romance nor courtship, and if he's the type to bark off gifts and pleasantries by Yue-shixiong,

with all his strength and talent and position as the future Sect Leader, then LQG doubts even his own illustrious pedigree and family wealth will be enough to attract SJ to him.

Pity.

LQG's jealousy is inflamed when he hears from his shidi that SJ visited the Red Warm Pavilion

and confronts him that night, leaving only when YQY shows up to interfere (annoying). He'd always thought SJ was prissy but pure, and seeing him half-clothed with his head in the lap of that scented woman playing the pipa...

Well.

He's going to put a stop to that, thank you very much.

LQG calls in a favour (rich boy privilege strikes again) and arranges for him and SJ to go on a mission together to collect some herbs for Qian Cao, which "coincidentally" has them fall into a patch of sex pollen together.

One thing leads to another, and LQG is pleased both to lose his virginity (ha!) and to find SJ was practically mewling and begging him to keep going during the act.

He's won, he thinks triumphantly, and proposes marriage right away. Unfortunately SJ shuts him down HARD and flees, running away much to LQG's bafflement and fury. Wasn't that supposed to work...?

SJ avoids him for the next few months, turning heel whenever he sees LQG and even

daring to use YQY against him, dragging the man off for a conversation (much to his own surprised delight), which just pisses LQG off more and more.

He's not sure what he did wrong, but he grows convinced it was because their "incident" happened in private that SJ felt he could run away scot free.

But even if LQG says so aloud, no one will believe he and SJ had sex on a mission, and what would be the point anyway?

That's not going to draw SJ to him.

He follows SJ one evening down to the town only to overhear him talking with a mortal about remedies to get rid of an unwanted child. LQG confronts him, and SJ grudgingly admits their encounter made him pregnant.

He's a few months along, and he doesn't know whether he wants to keep the child or not, considering his status as head disciple.

LQG realises his opportunity at once and basically lovebombs SJ with assurances that he'll support him and the baby 100% if he keeps it.

He assures SJ they can raise the child together while remaining friendly, and SJ is reluctantly won over. He finally shows LQG his soft belly, which is small but already rounding, and LQG knows from now on he'll never SJ nor their child go.

Alas, when they return to the sect, SJ's idea of having LQG support him with the baby consists largely of letting him buy baby clothes and a crib, and little else. supplemental medicine.

He doesn't want to listen to his advice or take anything LQG offers him, whether it be nourishing food or supplemental medicine.

Adding to LQG's frustration is the fact SJ keeps hiding his pregnancy from everyone else, even continuing to fight and fly with a sword even though the wrong move could induce a miscarriage or ruin SJ's health as well.

LQG decides to corner SJ at last, and uses his shidis to "accidentally" follow SJ one day until they discover how _very_ pregnant he actually is.

Everyone on Bai Zhan is a snitch, so naturally it takes all of two days before everyone on Cang Qiong hears about the mysterious head disciple of Qing Jing is pregnant, unwed, and refusing to tell everyone who the sire is!

LQG goes to comfort SJ as soon as he hears the gossip for himself, and for once SJ actually looks grateful to see him. He cries a little and tells LQG that his shizun has told him to either step down or give his baby up to prove his commitment, whether it be abortion or adoption.

LQG absolutely refuses to let the latter option happen, and he promises SJ he'll take care of him and their baby, fully aware the man still wants to be the Qing Jing Peak Lord. LQG assures SJ he'll talk to his shizun on his behalf, but a mortified SJ refuses, horrified at the

idea of LQG potentially facing censure as a result of HIS mistake.

(Of course, SJ has no idea the sex pollen incident was a set up...)

A bitter LQG has to watch as SJ instead kneels in front of his Shizun's house for days, not eating or sleeping, until the Peak Lord gives in

at last and agrees to letting SJ keep his head disciple position if he can keep up his duties while taking care of his baby.

Obviously, SJ falls sick right after, and he's close enough to labour as it is.

LQG laments how easily SJ risked their baby's health for his own stubborn pride, and comes to the conclusion that as much as he loves the wildcat side of SJ, he's going to have to curtail him in the future because he clearly doesn't care about his own body or the baby that much.

He used to love the way SJ used his sword like it was a ribbon, but now the sight of Xiu Ya just annoys LQG. So dangerous, and for what, when he can protect them with Cheng Luan without breaking a sweat.

LQG takes an ill SJ to his quarters in Bai Zhan, knowing perfectly well

it'll inflame the gossip around them, and there SJ stays in a medicinal haze until he eventually gives birth to a darling little girl he later names Yingying (!!).

Of course, despite his best efforts SJ is incredibly weak and sickly post-labour, and LQG delights in taking care

of him and baby Ying'er personally for months; he even has a cook sent from the family estate to make the perfect confinement food for SJ's delicate constitution, and his old momo as well, to teach him how to swaddle his baby daughter and rock her to sleep on his own.

By the time SJ is finally stable enough to walk around and face the outside world again, it's been _months_ and it's obvious his position has slipped him by. He hasn't been formally replaced yet, but the generational handover is only in a couple of years, and SJ should have been

helping his shizun with a thousand different things by now, instead of being laid sick in bed and unable to do anything but nurse Yingying and bite his nails when he thought LQG wasn't watching.

LQG is there to support him, even though he grits his teeth when SJ insists on moving back to the Bamboo Cottage with Yingying when clearly he'd set up his own house for the three of them just fine, and everyone on Cang Qiong already knows LQG is Yingying's sire.

Only SJ remains stubbornly insistent that they're not actually together, and LQG can only comfort himself with being the one to teach SJ the fundamentals of sword training again, as he'd lost most of his strength and muscle tone after his pregnancy.

LQG keeps the lessons deliberately light though, as he hates seeing SJ trying to fight again even though he should be resting inside, taking care of Yingying or enjoying a leisurely nap.

Fortune proves on his side yet again, though, as SJ is called to his Shizun's home one day,

and as expected, his head disciple status has been formally removed in favour of someone else.

LQG had been expecting the news too, as SJ hadn't been attending the head disciple meetings for months, but even so, he's overwhelmed when the man finally throws himself into his arms

and sobs over losing what he'd earned so hard to work for all these years. What did he even do it all for, what does he have now?

Nothing, nothing...

We have a daughter, LQG tells him, and consoles him even though he's furious inside SJ considers their life together "nothing" in comparison to being Peak Lord. He promises SJ he'll always be there for him, support him and have a place in his heart for him.

He reminds SJ of all of Yingying's precious first moments with the two of them and tells him he makes a good mother, and how happy LQG is to have found him.

SJ is still upset, but slowly lulled by LQG's words, and LQG realises he finally has him.

He asks SJ what he did nearly two years ago - asking SJ to marry him and stay with him in Bai Zhan, and this time SJ accepts.

END OF PART I

(Ok this turned out way longer than expected, so I'll write Part II + the ending in the next couple of days! Do you think it'll be a happy/sad/getthefuckouttathere kind of ending 👀 who do you want to win 👀👀)

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