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* KidnappedScientist: Shen Qingqiu is a talented cultivator in making and breaking arrays and a revolutionary librarian. The Huan Hua Palace master attempted to have Shen Qingqiu arrested and jailed in his sect's Water Prision to force the latter to break the array locking the Huan Hua Palace library.
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* LyingToProtectYourFeelings: [[spoiler: Shen Qingqiu and Qiu Haitang's teacher Lu Zhiguang find out the truth of Shen Qingqiu's blood relation to Qiu Haitang. They both come to conclusion to hide the truth until Qiu Haitang is more mentally stable to not risk her going into Qi Deviation.]]
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* AccidentalIncest: [[spoiler: While Shen Qingqiu never had feelings for her, he is still horrified that he was nearly forced into marrying his twin sister.]]
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* AlternatePersonalityPunishment: Shen Qingqiu subtly bullies and inconveniences Shang Qinghua as punishment for the first timeline!Shang Qinghua's utter botching of the Sun and Moon Seed.
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* IAlwaysWantedToSayThat: Shen Qingqiu introduces the ThereIsNoTry phrase when advising a student, partially out as geniune advice and mostly because he always wanted to use that phrase.
* ItAmusedMe: When Shen Qingqiu finds out Shang Qingqiu going nuts trying to find the origin of the ThereIsNoTry phrase, Shen Qingqiu dedicates himself introducing Star Wars as a folktale simply to mess with him.
* ItAmusedMe: When Shen Qingqiu finds out Shang Qingqiu going nuts trying to find the origin of the ThereIsNoTry phrase, Shen Qingqiu dedicates himself introducing Star Wars as a folktale simply to mess with him.
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* PromotionToParent: Yue Qingyuan essentially raised Shen Qingqiu since he found the latter as a newborn foundling as a street kid.
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* SeparatedAtBirth: [[spoiler: Shen Qingqiu and Qiu Haitang turn out to be twins. Qiu Jianluo's mother had the midwife drug their mother, a concubine, so Shen Qingqiu would be left out to die.]]
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* AdoptTheFood: After Liu Qingge brings Shen Qingqiu an unidentified short-furred monster as a thank-you gift for saving his life, Luo Binghe accidentally-on-purpose lets the creature go, leading to it being adopted as the Qing Jing Peak classroom pet and named 'Porkchop'.
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* ChangelingFantasy: For his original life, Shen Qingqiu believed that he was simply an abandoned foundling turned into a slave. [[spoiler: It turns out he was the shu son of the Qiu family. His mother was forced to abandon him as the primary wife, Qiu Jianluo's mother wanted him out of the way so he wouldn't compete with her son.]]
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* ChangelingFantasy: For his original life, Shen Qingqiu believed that he was simply an abandoned foundling turned into a slave. [[spoiler: It turns out he was the a shu son of the Qiu family. His mother was forced to abandon him as drugged by a midwife on the orders of the primary wife, Qiu Jianluo's mother wanted him out mother, so that she was unaware of having given birth to more than one child, allowing the way primary wife to discard Shen Qingqiu so that he wouldn't couldn't grow up to compete with her own son.]]
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* RapidDNATest: [[spoiler: In both timelines, mixing samples of Shen Qingqiu's blood and Qiu Haitang's blood with a talisman proved they were full-blooded siblings. It only took testers to stir the blood with his qi and the result was immediate.]]
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* RapidDNATest: [[spoiler: In both timelines, mixing samples of Shen Qingqiu's blood and Qiu Haitang's blood with a talisman proved they were full-blooded siblings. It only took testers to stir the blood with his qi and the result was immediate.]]]] This is based on a genuine superstition in which it was believed that mixing two blood samples could determine consanguinity.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: How Qiu Jianluo's fate appears in hindsight. [[spoiler: His mother forced Shen Qingqiu's mother to abandon him to not compete with him. Then Qiu Jianluo knowingly enslaves his half-brother with the intention of stealing Shen Qingqiu's cultivation through TheDarkArts. To make it worse, he tricks their sister Qiu Haitang into an engagement with Shen Qingqiu to control the latter and enact his own incestous desires. That Shen Qingqiu killed him is seen as just: the more righteous brother killing his corrupt and evil brother before he drags down their lineage into disgrace as opposed to the very illegal act of a slave turning against his master. ]]
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* LaserGuidedKarma: How Qiu Jianluo's fate appears in hindsight. [[spoiler: His mother forced paid off a midwife to abandon Shen Qingqiu at birth, leading Shen Qingqiu's mother to abandon him to not believe that she had only had one child, Qiu Haitang, so that Shen Qingqiu couldn't compete with him. Then his older half-brother. Then, later in life, Qiu Jianluo knowingly unknowingly enslaves his half-brother with in order to use him as a test subject for his experiments in harvesting cultivation from others in order to open his own spirit veins. To make matters worse, he also uses memory charms on his half-sister to conceal their parents' deaths and the intention diminishment of stealing the household as he sells off other household slaves to afford cultivation manuals and artefacts. Shen Qingqiu eventually kills him in self-defence, and by the time the murder is revealed to the cultivation world, Shen Qingqiu's cultivation through TheDarkArts. To make it worse, he tricks their sister subsequent rise to power and fame and Qiu Haitang into an engagement with Jianluo's own actions mean that Shen Qingqiu to control the latter suffers no legal consequences, and enact his own incestous desires. That Shen Qingqiu killed him is seen as just: the more righteous brother killing his corrupt and evil brother before he drags down their lineage into disgrace as opposed to the very illegal act of a slave turning against his master. only minimal social repercussions.]]
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* ShipperOnDeck: A great many Qiong Ding disciples ship Yue Qingyuan and Shen Qingqiu, because it makes Yue Qingyuan happy and arranging time with Shen Qingqiu is one way to make the Sect Leader stop and take a break, although this is far from universal, and other disciples disapprove of the relationship due to Shen Qingqiu's previous coldness towards Yue Qingyuan.
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* ChangelingFantasy: For his original life, Shen Qingqiu believed that he was simply an abandoned foundling turned into a slave. [[spoiler: It turns out he was the shu son of the Qiu family. His mother was forced to abandon him as the primary wife, Qiu Jianluo's mother wanted him out of the way so he wouldn't compete with her son.]]
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* LaserGuidedKarma: How Qiu Jianluo's fate appears in hindsight. [[spoiler: His mother forced Shen Qingqiu's mother to abandon him to not compete with him. Then Qiu Jianluo knowingly enslaves his half-brother with the intention of stealing Shen Qingqiu's cultivation through TheDarkArts. To make it worse, he tricks their sister Qiu Haitang into an engagement with Shen Qingqiu to control the latter and enact his own incestous desires. That Shen Qingqiu killed him is seen as just: the more righteous brother killing his corrupt and evil brother before he drags down their lineage into disgrace as opposed to the very illegal act of a slave turning against his master. ]]
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* RapidDNATest: [[spoiler: In both timelines, mixing samples of Shen Qingqiu's blood and Qiu Haitang's blood with a talisman proved they were full-blooded siblings. It only took testers to stir the blood with his qi and the result was immediate.]]
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* SelfMadeMan: It is a major shock to the public when it is revealed that Shen Qingqiu was a former slave after [[spoiler: the Old Palace Master attempts to take him captive by publicly revealing his history and his role in the death of Qiu Jianluo]]. Going from a slave to second-in-command of Cang Qiong Sect is a considerable feat.
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* SelfMadeMan: It is a major shock to the public when it is revealed that Shen Qingqiu was a former slave after [[spoiler: the Old Palace Master attempts to take him captive by publicly revealing his history and his role in the death of Qiu Jianluo]]. Going from a slave to second-in-command of Cang Qiong Sect is a considerable feat.feat, and it's mentioned that, if Shen Qingqiu were a civil official instead of a cultivator, he would be in a great deal of trouble because of this revelation.
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* SelfMadeMan: It is a major shock to the public when Shen Qingqiu reveals that he was a former slave. Going from a slave to second-in-command of Cang Qiong Sect is a considerable feat.
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* SelfMadeMan: It is a major shock to the public when it is revealed that Shen Qingqiu reveals that he was a former slave.slave after [[spoiler: the Old Palace Master attempts to take him captive by publicly revealing his history and his role in the death of Qiu Jianluo]]. Going from a slave to second-in-command of Cang Qiong Sect is a considerable feat.
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* TheNeedless: Due to trauma of Luo Binghe lacing his cooking with his Blood Parasites, Shen Qingqiu rarely eats preferring to practice inedia.
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* TheNeedless: Due to trauma of Luo Binghe lacing his cooking with his Blood Parasites, Shen Qingqiu rarely eats preferring to practice inedia.
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* SelfMadeMan: It is a major shock to the public when Shen Qingqiu reveals that he was a former slave. Going from a slave to second-in-command of Cang Qiong Sect is a considerable feat.
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* ReincarnationRomance: Two of them, in the background. In the first New Game Plus, Ruan Qingruan and his husband Zi Dan were separated by Zi Dan's early death, until Zi Dan reincarnated ten years later and grew old enough to remember his previous life. In both timelines, Old Master Shen and his husband Zhao Yunlan went through a similar situation long before the events of the story.
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* ParentalSubstitute: Old Master Shen Anwei for Shen Qingqiu, and his husband Zhao Yunlan, the only positive parental figures Shen Jiu had in his life (although Shen ''Yuan'' is implied to have had quite a good relationship with his own parents), who are only mentioned in the first part, but become prominent characters in the second New Game Plus.
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* ParentalSubstitute: Old Master Shen Anwei for Shen Qingqiu, and his husband Zhao Yunlan, Yunlan for Shen Qingqiu, the only positive parental figures Shen Jiu had in his life (although Shen ''Yuan'' is implied to have had quite a good relationship with his own parents), who are only mentioned in the first part, but become prominent characters in the second New Game Plus.
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* ParentalSubstitute: Old Master Shen Anwei for Shen Qingqiu, and his husband Zhao Yunlan, the only positive parental figures Shen Jiu had in his life, who are only mentioned in the first part, but become prominent characters in the second New Game Plus.
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* ChekovsArmory: Any detail mentioned in any given chapter is liable to come back later in the fic, often in a much more serious - or more comedic - context.
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* ChekovsArmory: Any detail mentioned in any given chapter is liable to come back later in the fic, often in a much more serious - or more comedic - context.
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* FullBoarAction: Zi Dan, the husband of Peak Lord Ruan Qingruan and one of the more prominent side-characters, has a spirit boar companion named Xiao Dou.
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* TheAce: '''Shen Qingqiu'''.
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* TheAce: '''Shen Qingqiu'''. As Shen Jiu, he was a BrokenAce, but thanks to his memories as the much better-adjusted Shen Yuan, he now fully qualifies as this trope. This becomes even more apparent after he new-game-pluses back to his disciple days with the memories of his time as a Peak Lord, when it becomes almost a RunningGag that his fellow disciples are driven to distraction by how talented he is.
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It can currently be divided into two parts, with a third forthcoming - the first beginning with Shen Qingqiu's New Game Plus to the beginning of the events of ''The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System'', and the second with his jumping back again to his days as Succeeding Disciple to the previous Qing Jing Peak Lord.
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* TheAce: '''Shen Qingqiu'''.
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* CompositeCharacter: In-universe, the New Game Plus Shen Qingqiu is a composite of his original 'Shen Jiu' personality, the 'scum villain' of ''Proud Immortal Demon Way'', and his previous incarnation of Shen Yuan.
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* CompositeCharacter: In-universe, the New Game Plus Shen Qingqiu is a composite of his original 'Shen Jiu' personality, the 'scum villain' of ''Proud Immortal Demon Way'', and his previous incarnation of Shen Yuan.'Shen Yuan'.
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''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/21057866/chapters/50092532 The Grand Unified Theory of Shen Qingqiu]]'' is a ''Literature/RenZhaFanPaiZiJiuXiTong'' (more commonly known in English as ''The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System'' fanfic, written by 00janeblonde.
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''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/21057866/chapters/50092532 The Grand Unified Theory of Shen Qingqiu]]'' is a ''Literature/RenZhaFanPaiZiJiuXiTong'' (more commonly known in English as ''The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System'' System'') fanfic, written by 00janeblonde.
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''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/21057866/chapters/50092532 The Grand Unified Theory of Shen Qingqiu]]'' is a [[Literature/RenZhaFanPaiZiJiuXiTong]] (more commonly known in English as ''The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System'' fanfic, written by 00janeblonde.
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''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/21057866/chapters/50092532 The Grand Unified Theory of Shen Qingqiu]]'' is a [[Literature/RenZhaFanPaiZiJiuXiTong]] ''Literature/RenZhaFanPaiZiJiuXiTong'' (more commonly known in English as ''The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System'' fanfic, written by 00janeblonde.
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* DoNotCallMePaul: Shen Qingqiu retains Shen Jiu's hatred for his original given name, and the nickname 'Xiao Jiu'. He justifies this by pointing out that it isn't, strictly speaking, a name. It's just the number he was given as a designation as a slave, and explicitly compares this, and Qiu Haitang's habit of naming all her maids after flowers, with the way people name dogs.
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* DoNotCallMePaul: CompositeCharacter: In-universe, the New Game Plus Shen Qingqiu retains Shen Jiu's hatred for is a composite of his original given name, 'Shen Jiu' personality, the 'scum villain' of ''Proud Immortal Demon Way'', and the nickname 'Xiao Jiu'. He justifies this by pointing out that it isn't, strictly speaking, a name. It's just the number he was given as a designation as a slave, and explicitly compares this, and Qiu Haitang's habit his previous incarnation of naming all her maids after flowers, with the way people name dogs.Shen Yuan.
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* DoNotCallMePaul: Shen Qingqiu retains Shen Jiu's hatred for his original given name, and the nickname 'Xiao Jiu'. He justifies this by pointing out that it isn't, strictly speaking, a name. It's just the number he was given as a designation as a slave, and explicitly compares this, and Qiu Haitang's habit of naming all her maids after flowers, with the way people name dogs.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: It is heavily implied that Shen Qingqiu suffered from severe depression before the qi deviation that cost him his memories, leading to his neglect of his disciples and abuse of Luo Binghe.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: It is heavily implied that Shen Qingqiu suffered from severe depression before the qi deviation that cost him his memories, leading to his neglect of his disciples and abuse of Luo Binghe.Binghe.
* SternTeacher: Post-New Game Plus Shen Qingqiu is much stricter with his disciples than he was as Shen Yuan, but lacks Shen Jiu's cruelty towards them. This is best illustrated by an incident early in the fic, in which a visiting disciple comes to him asking for a reduction in teaching duties, after he cracks down on the practice of cutting lessons short to free up time for the teachers' own research. Questioning quickly reveals that the true problem is an unreasonably broad research topic, which Shen Qingqiu deals with by [[CruelToBeKind reducing the teacher's library access by one section for every week, until she can come up with an outline based on the remaining sections available to her.]] When the teacher reappears in a later chapter, it is revealed that this was actually very helpful in refining her research proposal.
* SternTeacher: Post-New Game Plus Shen Qingqiu is much stricter with his disciples than he was as Shen Yuan, but lacks Shen Jiu's cruelty towards them. This is best illustrated by an incident early in the fic, in which a visiting disciple comes to him asking for a reduction in teaching duties, after he cracks down on the practice of cutting lessons short to free up time for the teachers' own research. Questioning quickly reveals that the true problem is an unreasonably broad research topic, which Shen Qingqiu deals with by [[CruelToBeKind reducing the teacher's library access by one section for every week, until she can come up with an outline based on the remaining sections available to her.]] When the teacher reappears in a later chapter, it is revealed that this was actually very helpful in refining her research proposal.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: It is heavily implied that Shen Qingqiu suffered from severe depression before the qi deviation that cost him his memories, leading to his neglect of his disciples and abuse of Luo Binghe.
* AmbiguousDisorder: It is heavily implied that Shen Qingqiu suffered from severe depression before the qi deviation that cost him his memories, leading to his neglect of his disciples and abuse of Luo Binghe.
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''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/21057866/chapters/50092532 The Grand Unified Theory of Shen Qingqiu]]'' is a [[Literature/RenZhaFanPaiZiJiuXiTong]] (more commonly known in English as ''The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System'' fanfic, written by 00janeblonde.
Shěn Qīngqiū new game pluses himself into a happy ending and unlocks some premium content along the way.
The story begins with Shen Qingqiu, having died at Maigu Ridge after a qi deviation, being informed by his System that he has earned enough points for a New Game Plus, allowing him to start the story over...and also giving him the option to regain his memories of having been Shen Jiu, the 'original goods' scum villain of ''Proud Immortal Demon Way'', before the fever and qi deviation that restored his memories of his previous lifetime as Shen Yuan at the cost of his memories of his current life.
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Shěn Qīngqiū new game pluses himself into a happy ending and unlocks some premium content along the way.
The story begins with Shen Qingqiu, having died at Maigu Ridge after a qi deviation, being informed by his System that he has earned enough points for a New Game Plus, allowing him to start the story over...and also giving him the option to regain his memories of having been Shen Jiu, the 'original goods' scum villain of ''Proud Immortal Demon Way'', before the fever and qi deviation that restored his memories of his previous lifetime as Shen Yuan at the cost of his memories of his current life.
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