Been listening to Newjeans' Hype Boy non-stop, so thinking of a cute modern #liujiu with college basketball star Liu Qingge and his stuffy nerd boyfriend Shen Jiu, who always walks around covered head-to-toe in baggy clothes and in chunky black frames.
Sometimes LQG's teammates rag on him for having such a "dorky" boyfriend, but LQG always tells them to back the fuck off. His A'Jiu is a priceless treasure and that's that 😤
He does wish though that SJ could attend one of his games to support him sometimes.
He knows why he can't, SJ is a scholarship student who also works as a tutor, he can't spare the time and he supports LQG in other ways. It's just tough being the only one without his partner at a game 😢
Anyway, LQG asks SJ to come to the last game of the season, the championship game. SJ hems and haws, and LQG drops it, disappointed but not willing to argue since SJ looks even more tired than usual.
LQG is in a mopey mood the day of the game, and tanks practice, making his coaches and teammates worry.
He knows he's being immature about this; his parents came to see him, and he and SJ are moving in together after graduation.
And yet... couldn't his boyfriend have been there for him? Just once?
Because the university's basketball team is a big deal and this is the championship game, there are plenty of performances before the game to get people excited.
Honestly, LQG has always found cheerleaders and their ilk embarrassing, so he's determined to just glower inside the locker room until the game starts. For some reason his asshole teammates drag him out to watch the girls and start whistling and cheering, my god 🙄
He's about to fight his way back through the crowd to sull and hide when he catches glimpse of one of the dancers in their tight little outfits. Only, that's definitely not one of his teammates' girlfriends, but HIS.
LQG watches, mouth agape, as SJ dances with the rest of the cheerleaders in a pretty little blue and outfit that shows off his waist and legs.
LQG is both enraptured and jealous - he's always known SJ was cute under his clothes, but never THIS captivating, and he doesn't like how everyone is drooling at the boy next door turned bombshell all of a sudden when they were all calling him a stingy nerd just yesterday 🔪
But SJ dances to perfection and gives LQG a little wave at the end of the performance.
LQG's team wins the game, ofc, and are crowned champions 😤
And later.that night, LQG wins again 😳
(yes, so picture cheerleader SJ with the kind of outfits and fresh cuteness of the Newjeans girls haha. I believe in Jiumei power, don't you? 😜)
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Got permission from @xpityxfanfic to write a little spin-off/AU of my own based on this thread, so let's go hihihi. Implications for potential bingjiu, up to you though.
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"You! Tell me what happened to Zhangmen-shixiong, now!"
Shen Qingqiu stormed into Qian Cao's main building and grabbed the lapels of the first tittering Qiong Ding disciple he saw, pacing the halls uselessly and not doing anything to help his teacher at all.
"I don't know!" YQY's idiot disciple cried out. "Shizun was just writing his letters for the day - and then he got a nosebleed and started qi deviating out of nowhere!"
Random and deranged idea, but suppose Su Xiyan decides to seek safe harbour with her aunt's (the late Lady Qiu) family after she's been poisoned because she knows she won't survive otherwise. Qiu Jianluo takes in his biaojie and in the Manor, SXY recovers with baby Binghe...
And then she asks for a nurse maid for Binghe while she gets back to fighting strength, and QJL gives her Shen Jiu to take care of her son "or else". Needless to say, it doesn't take long before SXY discovers what's going on and all hell breaks loose 🔪
From what little we get of SXY, I imagine her as a true patrician, the classic blueblood who's always been raised in comfort and privilege... and yet, when push comes to shove she's willing to upturn the whole table to do the right thing.
Bingjiu is excellent for many reasons, but one reason I dig it so much is the contrast of Binghe as the ultimate power fantasy and Shen Jiu being his complete antithesis. Like, not only is SJ THE anti-power fantasy, but he is so tragicomically shit upon it makes me wanna cry 😢
Are bingjiu's perceptions of each other completely warped by their own traumas and personalities? Absolutely. Yet I think they see through each other utterly and completely like no one else does. Now in canon it manifests only in terrible ways, but AUs exist for a reason 😁
It's so tragicomic when Bingge is ostensibly dragging SJ in the Water Prison for being an ungrateful bastard who hurts people who have never done anything to him, he's basically insulting himself ☠️
Zhuzhi-lang always seems so young, but what if he's actually 200 years old and his lack of social interaction is why he's just Like That ☠️
I always thought it would be fun to have a zhujiu AU in a reverse-Otoyomegatari fashion where Zhuzhi-lang saves teen Shen Jiu by killing Wu Yanzi, and when SJ asks what he can do to repay him, Tianlang-jun jokes about SJ marrying ZZL, only SJ thinks he's serious and agrees 😾
Cue 15-year-old SJ gamely working himself up to be the bride of a naive, mysteriously aged snake demon lord and going "It's fine, I can do this!! 😾" while TLJ goes "holy shit I'm a genius 😎" and ZZL dies inside 🤣
"Anything you want," Liu Qingge said. "What you had for breakfast, what cute cafes you went to lately, what's going on in your job and who's pissing you off right now. I want to hear it all."
"You're serious," SJ said in disbelief. "And that's all? You just want to talk?"
"Yes," LQG said.
"... alright, then." SJ studied him, as if trying to see through him. "Well," he added, clearing his throat. "I'm pretty busy nowadays, so I don't know if I can make time right away. You can... give me your number first."
(dubcon/noncon elements) Modern dogblood romance #liujiu where fuerdai Liu Qingge is drugged at a party and somehow ends up in bed with Shen Jiu, whom LQG despises because he's always used underhanded tactics working for his employer, the Qiu Corporation.
Anyway, LQG wakes up the morning after and is horrified to see how mauled and hurt SJ looks, and both out of shame towards his own behaviour and a need to do right by the other man (cameras caught them leaving the hotel looking a hot mess ofc) LQG offers to marry SJ...
Thinking the man will refuse and he'll have to pay him a settlement instead... but to his surprise, SJ agrees and quits his job before they have a quick impromptu wedding.