History Fanfic / TheGrandUnifiedTheoryOfShenQingqiu

* ApatheticTeacher: One of the symptoms of Shen Qingqiu's depression before his qi deviation was increasing disinterest in his duties as peak lord of Qing Jing, leading to many of his educational standards being allowed to slip due to his inattention.

* 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.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: In addition to the canonical cast of ''Literature/RenZhaFanPaiZiJiuXiTong'', the ''Grand Unified Theory'' adds the canonically unnamed peak lords, and a wide variety of disciples from all the various peaks, as well as characters outside the sect, including a few characters and sects borrowed from ''Literature/MoDaoZuShi'' necessitating a dedicated FAQ page to keep everyone straight.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: In addition to the canonical cast of ''Literature/RenZhaFanPaiZiJiuXiTong'', the ''Grand Unified Theory'' adds the canonically unnamed peak lords, and a wide variety of disciples from all the various peaks, as well as characters outside the sect, including a few characters and sects borrowed from ''Literature/MoDaoZhuShi'' necessitating a dedicated FAQ page to keep everyone straight.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: In addition to the canonical cast of ''Literature/RenZhaFanPaiZiJiuXiTong'', the ''Grand Unified Theory'' adds the canonically unnamed peak lords, and a wide variety of disciples from all the various peaks, as well as characters outside the sect, necessitating a dedicated FAQ page to keep everyone straight.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: In addition to the canonical cast of ''Literature/RenZhaFanPaiZiJiuXiTong'', the ''Grand Unified Theory'' adds the canonically unnamed peak lords of peaks other than Qiong Ding, Qing Jing, Bai Zhan and An Ding, and a wide variety of disciples from all the various peaks, as well as characters outside the sect, necessitating a dedicated FAQ page to keep everyone straight.

* AlternatePersonalityPunishment: Shen Qingqiu subtly bullies and inconveniences Shang Qinghua as punishment for the first timeline's Shang Qinghua's utter botching of the Sun and Moon Seed and subsequent decision to reveal Shen Qingqiu's survival to Luo Binghe.

* DemonicPossession: In both timelines, it is initially assumed by his peers that Shen Qingqiu has become possessed by a demon, and repeated tests are done to make sure that he isn't. The reason for this is made hideously clear in the second NG+, where Shen Qingqiu and his fellow succeeding disciples stumble on a case of demonic possession that led to the deaths of an entire small village.

* SustainedMisunderstanding: Due to his elegant demeanour and high-quality clothing and accessories, Liu Qingge assumes that Shen Qingqiu is a spoilt young master from a wealthy family and seems to regard him as his personal PrivilegedRival. In fact, Shen Qingqiu is an ex-slave who makes all his 'extravagant' clothes himself in order to keep up appearances as a PennyAmongDiamonds.

!! Tropes unique to the second arc of ''The Grand Unified Theory of Shen Qingqiu'

!! Tropes unique to the first arc of ''TheGrandUnifiedTheoryOfShenQingqiu'':

* PennyAmongDiamonds: Downplayed during the second New Game Plus, as Shen Qingqiu gets a small stipend for his teaching duties and his teacher, Shen Anwei, offers a reasonably generous travelling allowance for his favourite student, but he still can't call upon the same sort of financial resources as his fellow students, with the exception of Yue Qingyuan, and his elegant appearance is mostly the result of his embellishing all his clothing himself in order to keep up appearances.

!Tropes in ''The Grand Unified Theory of Shen Qingqiu'':

* 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'.

* HanlonsRazor: Ming Fan is proven to be responsible for Luo Binghe's first, flawed cultivation manual, not out of any malicious intent, despite his bullying, but because he sincerely believed that he was helping by giving Luo Binghe a 'more efficient' manual, with all the exercises that didn't seem to do anything removed. Those exercises were, in fact, designed to smooth the flow of qi and prevent deviations and blockages. The lack of active malice is the only reason Ming Fan is not expelled from Cang Qiong outright, though he is still punished with two years of probation before being considered for head disciple duties or being allowed to try for his sword.
* 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 Qinghua 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.
* 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.

* 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. When the truth is revealed anyway due to the Old Palace Master's machinations, this fear is proved to be entirely founded, as Qiu Haitang goes into a qi deviation at the news.]]

* ParentalSubstitute: Old Master Shen Anwei and his husband Zhao 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.
* ParentsAsPeople: A mentorly version. Shen Anwei and Zhao Yunlan clearly love Shen Qingqiu as their own, but Shen Anwei being very close to ascension, and under a time crunch from his martial siblings to get his succeeding disciple trained up in time for them to ascend within the century meant that, in the original timeline, Shen Anwei focused on Shen Qingqiu's cultivation and artistic skills to the exclusion of any form of social development, leaving him desperately isolated and without a support system and leading him to slide into depression after his teacher ascended, eventually leading to his withdrawing from all teaching and externalising his self-loathing onto Luo Binghe, which would, if not for his qi deviation awakening his memories of his previous life as Shen Yuan, have led to the destruction of the Cang Qiong Mountain Sect and, eventually, the whole cultivation world. To his credit, after Shen Qingqiu returns to his time as head disciple, Shen Anwei is quick to realise his mistake, and starts trying to encourage Shen Qingqiu to build up closer bonds with his fellow succeeding disciples to prevent it from happening again.
* PennyAmongDiamonds: Downplayed during the second New Game Plus, as Shen Qingqiu gets a small stipend for his teaching duties and his teacher, Shen Anwei, offers a reasonably generous travelling allowance for his favourite student, but he still can't call upon the same sort of financial resources as his fellow students, with the exception of Yue Qingyuan, and his elegant appearance is mostly the result of his embellishing all his clothing himself in order to keep up appearances.

* TrueCraftsman: Shen Qingqiu takes a great deal of pride in his artistic abilities, to the point where he's often accused of having extravagantly expensive tastes (most often by Liu Qingge) for wearing his own embroidery, and is deeply offended at the implication that he should compromise his standards for any reason.

* 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.

* SurpriseIncest: [[spoiler: While Shen Qingqiu never had feelings for her, he is still horrified that he was nearly forced into marrying his twin sister.]]

* AlternatePersonalityPunishment: Shen Qingqiu subtly bullies and inconveniences Shang Qinghua as punishment for the first timeline's Shang Qinghua's utter botching of the Sun and Moon Seed and subsequent revealing of Shen Qingqiu's survival to Luo Binghe.

* 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.]]

* 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.

* AccidentalIncest: [[spoiler: While Shen Qingqiu never had feelings for her, he is still horrified that he was nearly forced into marrying his twin sister.]]

* 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.