svsss fic recs

considering svsss dethroned several long standing fandoms (and as of writing, is exactly 110 fics away from matching hp), I am very excited to make a #ficrecs for pumpkinpatch anon (and yes I know this effectively de-anons me). As usual, complete unless otherwise noted, sorted by rating, will denote main ship! I focus on SQQ (either) mostly, so I'll denote as either SJ, SY or it doesn't matter, ahah. As usual ☆s are the top fics I recommend. When in doubt? Find a fic you like, read everything else by that author, then read everything they publicly bookmarked!

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• Providence (65k over 4 fics, ongoing, LQG×SJ) - wherein the Liu family takes SJ away from the Qius and take him with them when they drop off their son to band camp CQMS
• ☆ (Somehow) We Got Married (5k, LQG×SJ) - amnesia + fake marriage that both parties desperately wishes was real

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• The Hidden Flower 隐花 (Yǐn huā) (283k, ongoing, multiship) - aka SJ reincarnates back into PIDW and decides he doesn't want to be a scum villain and fucks off only to accidentally make his own Sect.
• (Shen Yuan Might Die Often but His) Old Habits Die Hard (26k, ongoing, LBH×SY) - post-canon fic where a wife plot bodyswaps our couple only for LBH to find that his beloved husband deals with chronic pain. Identity reveal fic!
• The Shape of Water (110k, ongoing, eventual YQY×SJ but it hasn't gotten anywhere near established) - omegaverse where SJ hides his uh... not omega status (SVSSS fics is the first time I've seen a fandom use new terms for it which is pretty neat!), has a pup (transmigrated SY) and devises a way to get away for CQMS.
• Mini Shizun Adventures (55k over 3 fics, ongoing, LBH×SY, side MBJ×SQH) - aka the fic where, when SY goes into the plant body, the plant body is a kid. Lots of laughs.
• Oh god I’m raising the protagonist (40k, ongoing, eventual MBJ×SJ×SQH) - right before becoming peak lords, Airplane finds his protagonist, adopts him and then it goes downhill from there, all while a certain (almost) Demon lord and testy shixiong vies for his attention.
• ☆ The Grand Unified Theory of Shěn Qīngqiū (551k, ongoing, eventual YQY×LQG×SQQ) - SY is SJ and new game pluses back into the past and attempts to fix all the problems with PIDW/SVSSS. Hypothetical Derivations are missing scenes from the main fic
• The Secret Agent Idol (31k, ongoing, eventual LBH×SQQ, side QJL×SQQ) - the premise made me LOL but what if SJ is a secret agent trying to find crimes behind missing idols and goes undercover. Shenanigans.
• Azure Sword Burning Trail (16k words over 2 fics, ongoing, LQG×SJ, LBH×consequences) - xover with TGCF. okay so the concept of ghost!LQG deciding to become a fucking supreme to save SQQ is great and i love it and just. check it out!
• No Prayers for the Gods (38k words over 8 fics, complete, LQG×SJ) - wherein LQG is a god and SJ happens to be a believer... sort of. set somewhere in TGCF canon.
• The roundworm in my stomach (39k, ongoing, LQG×SJ) - disciple era. LQG falls for the shixiong he used to hate as he learns more about him.
• I dropped my head it was just around here somewhere, has anyone seen it (31k, ongoing, SQH×SJ, LQG×SY) - Shen Yuan leaves his notes about PIDW (including spoilers!) only for Shen Qingqiu to find them and try to decipher it.
• Next Time... (90k, ongoing, eventual LQG×SJ and assuming LBH×SY) - SQQ is the one to die in those caves... only to get reincarnated in a family full of troubles as his big bro Shen Yuan (transmigrator) also navigates this world. He is... very surprised to find out its actually PIDW!
• ☆ Dark Clouds (112k, ongoing, might be LQG×SJ and/or LBH×SJ) - what if Shen Jiu was blind. So far its disciple era only
• just another peerless cultivator (140k, ongoing, LQG×SY, YQY×SJ) - wherein SY transmigrated early into the body of SJ's little brother and becomes the darling of CQMS.
• scoop up flowers and hurts (28k, LQG×SJ) - hanahaki au. SQQ just can't stop falling in love (romantic, platonic) with people who will never return it.
• Unveiling his past (44k, ongoing, theoretically everyone×SJ) - SJ gets deaged in the Ling Xi caves and chaos ensues
• [ACTIVATION CODE: Cursed Novel, Cursed Comment] (x3) (194k, ongoing, LBH×SY, ZZL×LQG, MBJ×SQH, NYY×GYX) - what if the other Shen siblings also transmigrated :D
• Porcelain Gold (7k, QQQ×SJ) - SQQ explores his gender in the warm red Pavillion. Genderfluid!SJ
• turning frogs into green rice dumplings (10k, GYX×SJ main, with some mentioned past ships) - modern AU where tutor!GYX makes moon eyes at his student's milf. Er dilf.
• Talk with me (13k, LBH×SY) - the sower Arc ends differently because Shen Yuan doesn't run away from Binghe that night.
• poor spider (5k, YQY×SJ) - epistolary fic wherein QHT tried to find her SJ's Yue Qi.
• Into the mind of a scum villain (5k, vaguely YQY×SJ and LQG×SJ) - an artifact forces some of the peak lords into each other's memories
• Unorthodox (8k, SQH×SJ) - orig!SQH goes back to the past and decides to take SJ away
• open my lungs to let you in (10k, LBH×SY) - SQQ gets truth serum'd
• grief, hope, and other forms of sickness (14k, LBH×SY) - After Binghe falls into the Abyss, SQQ suffers another qi deviation
• With all Due Happiness (28k, LQG×SY, others) - modern au, VRMMO au
• ☆ Meet Cute (these dorks) (66k, LQG×SY, YQY×SJ) - LQG meets not!SQQ trying to do bodily harm with an instrument and decides to take him back to CQMS.
• Transmigrators and Time Travelers (45k over 4 fics, incomplete, no ships but kinda shippy) - a whole bunch of people think they're the only time traveler/transmigrator and SJ is kinda stuck being thr center of focus for so many of them
• Absolutely Ineffable (10k, Airplane & Cucumber brotp) - good Omens fusion
• ☆ honesty is such a lonely word (13k, LBH×SY) - identity reveal during SQQ's trial
• Entire Lifetime (And After) (14k, LQG×SJ) - you only meet your soul mate when one of you are dead

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• Mamajiu (38k, CQMS peak lords×SJ eventually, focuses a lot of LQG×SJ and YQY×SJ) - another omegaverse fic wherein SJ gets a baby and his fellow peak Lords scramble to become the baby daddy, until eventually thry compromise and all get married. Some drama, some implied gore.
• Bamboozled into Parenthood (29k words over 4 fics, incomplete-ish, LQG×SJ) - liu qingge and shen gingqiu bond over parenting a cubone.
• Latibule (210k, ongoing, LBH×SJ) - mpreg. SJ runs off after getting impregnated by LBH, in hopes of finding a life without that beast. It... uh... doesn't pan out the way he wants it to.
• The Only Way To End This Cycle (22k, ongoing, no real ships) - SJ is fed up by timeloops/reincarnation and dealing with the same shit and becomes the villain that everyone else always paints him as.
• Autumn Frost (13k, ongoing, MBJ×SJ) - what if instead of SQH on the fateful mission, it was Shen Jiu accompanying his martial siblings of An Ding instead? Includes amazing demonic Cultivation world building.
• My Dream Ended Here (3k, LBH×SJ-ish) - time loop when LBH visits SQQ in the water prison :)
• Heart Breaker, Heart Demon (13k. LBH×SY) - what if SY transmigrated into Xin Mo instead?
• Bamboo and Pine (12k, LQG×SJ) - another "sj gsts outed as an omega" omegaverse fic
• Spread your Wings (42k, TLJ×SJ) - SJ transmigrates and decides to avoid the cultivation world, looking for the freedom he always sought.
• Carry the Moon in Your Hands (7k, LBH×SQQ) - Courtesan SJ AU
• uh... you fight good. (18k, LQG×SJ) - fem!SJ, mulan au
• Everybody Knows (29k, SQH×SJ, eventual LQG×LBH) - omegaverse. Omega!SJ adopts a Bingmei, gets together with his shidi and fucks some kids up. Not necessarily in that order.
• uh oh! (bodies, can't you see?) (4k, SY×SJ×SY) - SY transmigrates into SJ's half brother, introduces the peak lord to alternative art scene and falls in love
• My Master Can't Be This Cute (101k, SJ gets a harem, TLJ×SXY) - uh... SJ gets a harem, courtesy of transmigrated TLJ.
• Trust is Earned (33k, LQG×SY+LBH×SY) - Shen Yuan transmigrates when SJ is still living with the Qius. It goes from there.
• to err is to be human, don't be one (3k, not shippy) - Yue Qi dies before Shen Jiu joins the sect.
• Finding Home in You (12k, LBH×SJ) - an AU where LBH's washerwoman mom doesn't die and SQQ learns about family.
• when i wake up, i see [you, with me] (20k, LQG×SJ) - Shen Jiu is Haunted by many ghosts.
• when at first i learned to speak (i used all my words to fight) (26k, no ships) - another deaged!SJ fic
• It Was All For The Greater Good! Trust Me! (37k over 5 fics, multiple ships, some are complete) - a series of unrelated fics where a character goes back in time to change things "for the better".
• may-june relationship (1k, LBH×SY) - lol.
• this point of pale light(18k, LQG×SQQ) - space au.
• ☆ shen!twins au (53k, LBH×SY) - shen jiu and shen yuan are twins who escaped together, became peak lords together and things go from there :) fic is complete, possibility of more side stories
• The Blood Remembers (50k, no ships but later part does have SJ×LQG) - so! It's part of a series which I did not continue because waves hand at ship tag absolutely a snake fujo here. But the first fic is amazing world and lore building, as well as well-written so it might be up yours, and others, alleys, just not mine.

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• 冰清玉洁 | Clear as ice, clean as jade (107k, ongoing, LBH×SY + MBJ×SQH) - yes I like omegaverse the first thing Binghe does after getting out of the Abyss is ask his shizun a few questions and put a bun in him. Things spiral from there as the System does not want to derail the plot further.
• How To Care For Your Omega Shixiong (113k, ongoing, LQG×SJ) - SJ gets outed as an Omega, LQG assists as best he can, and the two eventually fall in love while the other peak lords seethe.
• ☆ Married to the Wrong Cultivator (30k, ongoing, TLJ×SXY, qp!TLJ×SXY×SJ) - okay so! This story gets to me on so many levels. SJ gets married off to TLJ to divert a war with demons and he's a petty bitch who decides to troll the hell out of the Cultivation world with his husband and his husband's (eventual) baby mama.
• ☆ I Wish You Were My Husband (110k words, complete + ongoing side stories, mostly LBH×SY, side YQY×SJ and others) + Live While We're Alive (19k words, ongoing, main LQG×SJ, past YQY×SJ & YQY×LQG) which is an alternate take on it - i really enjoyed this fusion wuth The Dreamer in the Spring Boudoir and i recently got around to reading the side stories and just. wow
• And the Storm Rages Ever on (22k over 3 fics, YQY×SJ, LBH×SJ) - omegaverse. Unexpected labor, noncon (on so many sides)
• Your beauty never ever scared me (30k, LBH×SJ) - fem!SJ hiding her gender protecting LBH who's exploring hers
• Ghost Drum (20k, LQG×SJ) - au where a mysterious tragedy occurs to the rest of CQMS leaving LQG and SQQ alone together to investigate and reverse it. And also fall in different.
• Liujiu disciples-era marriage (81k over 2 fics, more might be coming but the parts that are written are complete, LQG×SJ) - SJ babytraps LQG (sans baby) and decides, fuck it, it's better than trying to fight to become head disciple.
• ☆ Master of Dual Cultivation (196k over 3 fics, ongoing, LQG×SY, YQY×SY, LBH×SY) - SQQ dies at Maigu Ridge, wakes up again for a second chance and may have accidentally created a new, fairly nsfw Cultivation method.
• spend the night (4k, LQG×SJ, mob×SJ) - SJ cums pearls
• Two for the Price of One (30k over 4 fics, YQY×SJ×SY) - SQQ splits into two and no one really minds even when the Shens play pranks.
• Winter Melon (35k, LBH×SJ) - intersex!SJ, LBH having a kink for his shizun's... uh everything. Gender dysphoria, feminization and eventual happy endings?
• Sweet and Sour (50k, incomplete, GYX×SJ, LBH&SJ) - omegaverse, GYX's alpha imprints of SQQ during his rut and obsconds from the water prison
• forever and ever and ever and ever (25k, LQG×SJ) - prostitute!SJ saves LQG and of course he doesn't let that debt go unpaid.
• ☆ voluntary victim (119k, LQG×SJ, eventual LQG×LBH×SJ) - Shen Jiu wakes up in the past with a Kindness System, attempts to run away, fails, but still makes the world a better place. Main fic is complete but thr author might add side stories.
• villainous thing (13k, TLJ×SJ, LQG×SJ) - SJ is married off to TLJ after his martial siblings accuse him of attempting to kill LQG in the caves
• When Tender Feelings Take Over(66k over 3 fics, possibly incomplete, LBH×SY) - "After all, sometimes a family is two husbands and an assortment of ex-wives"

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• the scholarly lord of qing jing can't communicate! (16k, ongoing, LBH×SJ + YQY×SJ) - I don't have a description that would fit this fic so just read the summary
• Bitter Pills (21k, ongoing, QHT&SJ, YQY&SJ) - identity porn. And YQY just... fucking off from his actual job lmao.
• The Grand General and the Jade Courtesan (84k, LQG×SY, with other ships) - AU. General LQG wakes up years in the past and tries to save his people, starting with the lowly prostitute that saved his life
• The Love Letter + Plum Blossom (8k, GYX×SJ) - a prank on SQQ scores GYX a date. And then another one. And another...
• Residing over autumn leaves (40k, ongoing, Everyone×SJ) - what if SJ actually had a qi deviation that erased his memories?

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• Liu Qingge Is A Doctor! (13k over 3 not really related fics, LQG×SY, SJ×SY vaguely LQG×SJ×SY) - modern omegaverse au wherein Shen Yuan is a comfort omega for his brother and his brother's boyfriendfrenemy
• Particular (30k, LBH×SY) - omegaverse. Vaguely monsterfucky
• Give Me Someone Blackened (2k, LBH×SY) - chronically ill trans boy SY gets kidnapped and fucked over and fucked up by LBH
• The Author's Just Rewards (5k, ongoing, Various×Airplane) - Airplane transmigrates into one of his underwritten sex fodder females... and enjoys it.
• shen yuan has a tiny pussy(hole) for his family to fuck (12k over 3 unconnected fics, ongoing, LBH×SY, TLJ×SY) - pretty self explanatory. Sometimes omegaverse, sometimes trans, depending on fic.
• cang qiong mountain's annual meeting (3k, LBH×SJ, others×SJ) - omegaverse, sect gangbang
• the cockwhore sqq fic (14k, ongoing, YQY×SY, MQF×SY, LQG×SY) - wherein there is an alternate treatment plan for Without a Cure for SQQ
• QINGQIU'S MAGICAL COCKSLEEVE (10k, various×sqq) - i... this is just crack. Smutty and funny
• Cang Qiong’s Secret to Intrasect Relations (3k, PLs×SJ) - LBH gets to see his omega shizun get wrecked by his martial uncles and aunts.
• bigger, not better (2.4k, LBH×SJ, Others×SJ) - SQQ rates thr sex he's had in quasi-academic papers and LBH is convinced he can show what he can do
• "my pleasure is at stake" (28k over 3 fics, incomplete, everyone×SJ) - porn with a facade of plot
• What Peak Lords Do After Meeting ? (3k, PLs×SJ PLs×LQG) - peak lord meetings become gangbangs of the sect omegas
• Never thought you could look so helpless (6k, Others×SJ, LBH×SJ) - noncon
• Young Disciple Seduces His Aloof Master With Cumgee! Click Here To Find Out More!! XXX (2k, LBH×SY) - the title amuses me so much. Omegaverse
• Offerings to an Unwanted God (8k, LBH×SJ) - vaguely tole reversal au where SJ gets fucked by monster god LBH to fix his Cultivation
• to feel your weight in arms (4k, SQH×SQQ) - romantic shenanigans + peeping disciple
• This Omega Shizun's Alpha (14k, LBH×SY) - omegaverse, underage
• A Treat (<1k, LBH×SJ) - less smut and more absolutely fucked up. Huge DDDNE, human stick!SJ, fem!SQQ, forced miscarriage, cannibalism and more!