Fanfic / Feynites Aftermath

Aftermath is a The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong fanfic by Feynite, from SV Wishes fame.

In the wake of Bingge's visit to the altered canon, more than a few people are left to ponder over what it means to live in a multiverse. It has... consequences.

Currently dormant since 2019.

Contains the following tropes

• Awful Truth: Luo Binghe wondered for a long time why Shen Qingqiu behaved so strangely around him. His Evil Counterpart helps him to understand that Shen Qingqiu mainly acted out of fear.
• Bed Trick: Bingge tries to exploit his physical likeness to Bingmei in order to make Shen Qingqiu have sex with him. It fails when Shen Qingqiu asks him for the Trust Password.
• Breaking Speech: Shen Qingqiu delivers a thoroughly brutal one to Bingge, telling him that no matter what, he's unable to force the answers the tyrant craves so much out of his victim because he already has done the worst he could imagine to the original Shen Qingqiu.
• Children Are Innocent:
  • Bingge's children mainly seem unaware of their father's less than glorious habits, believing Shen Qingqiu is a new teacher instead of a prisoner.
  • Ning Yingying muses her original shizun was beloved by his disciples because he was beautiful and mysterious-looking, with the kids unable to see how nasty and aloof he was underneath.
• Doppelgänger Gets Same Sentiment: Zigzagged.
  • Both Shen Qingqiu and Bingge are fully aware the other isn't the version they are familiar with, and as such interact in the opposite manner as they would behave with the version they know.
  • Ning Yinying feels rather ambivalent towards Shen Qingqiu, as she can see he's a rather decent person and still carries some attachment towards her original shizun.
  • Bingmei is horror-struck when he stumbles upon a version of Shen Qingqiu fresh off the human stick treatment. Even if the man isn't his beloved, he still can't bring himself to leave him behind and cares for the tortured wretch in his last hours of life.
• Driving Question: What could make Shen Qingqiu stop loathing Luo Binghe and love him instead? Bingge wants to find the answer so badly, he abducts the nice shizun he briefly met in the hope to hear it.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Bingge is so obviously superior to this simpering weakling, why would Shen Qingqiu refuse to fall into his arms? It miiight be caused by the abduction, the unwanted lusting and the lack of objection to Domestic Abuse...
• Evil Me Scares Me: Bingmei already was pretty unnerved by the existence of a version of him coveting his husband, but he straight-out panics after learning the existence of versions of him who have killed his husband's counterparts.
• Florence Nightingale Effect: Bingge breaks Shen Qingqiu's legs and refuse to heal them to force his shizun to depend on him, hoping that tenderly nursing the man would soften him. It completely fails as Shen Qingqiu refuses to forget Bingge is responsible for his injuries.
• For Want Of A Nail: The basis of the multiverse. Ning Yingying utilizes a butterfly metaphor to explain it to her husband.
  "A butterfly switches course and flutters its wings in a different direction. The wind moves another way, and a thousand miles down the road, a leaf that would have flown into the eye of a traveler’s horse doesn’t do that. So the horse, which would have bolted in alarm before, stays on its course. The rider isn’t thrown and injured, where he otherwise would have been. Because he remains hale, he marries his childhood sweetheart, and they have many children, and so this changes a lot of things, but the only reason why it changed is because a butterfly flew in a different direction."
• Friend to All Children: Shen Qingqiu utterly melts in front of Bingge's sons and daughters, telling them about monsters and playing ball with them. The kids adore him in turn.
• Gaslighting: Accidentally done by Shen Qingqiu. Bingmei was so confused by his shizun switching from hatred to love to (seeming) hatred that he genuinely doubted his own sanity, and still feels a bit unsure of his perceptions.
• Godzilla Threshold: In order to rescue Shen Qingqiu from his evil counterpart's clutches, Bingmei decides to ally with Liu Qingge. Cang Qiong Mountain is left flabbergasted by the move.
• Good Is Not Soft: Bingmei is fully alright with killing his evil counterpart right after he first broke into the altered canon universe.
• Groin Attack: Shen Qingqiu's answer to Bingge trying to pull a Bed Trick is to mightily kick him into the heavenly pillar. Twice.
• Guile Hero:
  • Shen Qingqiu is very much able to think on his feet, exploiting his knowledge of Bingge's palace to find an escape and pushing on his captor's buttons to make him retreat.
  • Shang Qinghua discreetly recalibrates the array looking for Shen Qingqiu in order to finally open a portal to the right dimension, without Luo Binghe being the wiser.
• Hidden Depths: Ning Yingying is far from being the ditzy, oblivious homemaker Bingge paints her as being, since she's the one to first understand and explain that the multiverse relies on the For Want Of A Nail principle and is secretly uneasy with Luo Binghe's more ruthless and unhinged behaviour.
• Love Hungry: Bingge's weakness. He just won't stop adding women to his harem because he craves pure, unconditional attachment, and grew obsessed with Shen Qingqiu because the man is his only opportunity to finally know love from the shizun who so cruelly abused him.
• Master Actor: Bingge manages to impersonate his good counterpart twice. However, Shen Qingqiu never is fooled very long as he can feel something wrong even if he can't really peg it.
• Morality Chain: If Shen Qingqiu would happen to die, Luo Binghe would be rather likely to destroy the world.
• My Sister Is Off-Limits: Shen Qingqiu muses that Liu Qingge's brain would melt from learning his baby sister's counterpart married Luo Binghe's counterpart, and that the War God would probably assault Bingmei for this.
• Never Hurt an Innocent: Bingmei relents in unleashing a horde of monsters against Bingge's palace as it would probably endanger vulnerable women and children.
• Never My Fault: Bingge feels guilty until he remembers why exactly his victims asked for him to hurt them. Shen Qingqiu's broken legs? The man ought to have left Bingge fuck him instead of struggling and trying to flee, they wouldn't have been broken!
• Psychopathic Manchild: Bingge breaking Shen Qingqiu's legs is compared to an angry child destroying a toy. He also appears startingly juvenile as he swears to slaughter his counterpart on the belief it will finally prompt Shen Qingqiu to give him the answer he covets.
• Sex Equals Love: Bingge fully believes Shen Qingqiu will forget Bingmei and enter his harem if he was to be seduced by the tyrant. It's implied this mindset is caused by his immature understanding of genuine romantic love and relationships.
• Shared Family Quirks: Liu Qingge's nephew is just as blunt and agressive as the man he never got to meet. Shen Qingqiu thinks it's positively adorable.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Luo Binghe's genes are strongly dominant within his children, except for his eldest son who's very much his uncle Liu Qingge's miniature carbon copy.
• Tragic Villain: Bingge is a tyrannic ruler who will avenge the slightest wrong against him with oceans of blood and doesn't shy away from Domestic Abuse... and inside, he's still that abused kid who can't understand why he wasn't good enough for his shizun to love him when another version of him was. And the worst is, there's nothing he could have done to cause this shift — Shen Qingqiu himself had to change.
• Trust Password: Shen Qingqiu asks his husband to tell him "Peerless Cucumber" to confirm he's not his evil counterpart. It kinda works in spite of Bingge learning it: Shen Qingqiu being uneasy enough to ask for the password informs Bingge that his Bed Trick failed.
• Uniqueness Value: In the whole multiverse, there's one iteration of Shen Qingqiu who decided to love Luo Binghe instead of hating and abusing him. Bingge immediately fixates on said iteration.
• What Does She See in Him?:
  • Bingge's decision to abduct Shen Qingqiu is met with general confusion in his world, a couple of demons wondering why he would bed some human unable to give him heirs and Ning Yingying pointing it feels rather counterproductive to seduce a man after you killed his counterpart.
  • Bingge himself is annoyed by Shen Qingqiu's steadfast devotion to Bingmei, posing himself as the obviously worthier candidate to love.
• Wrong-Name Outburst: Bingge mentions he mastered the art of not calling the wrong name when he's spending time with his wives. It would disturb the harem's harmony otherwise.
• Yandere:
  • Bingge grew obsessed by his deceased shizun's good counterpart to the point he abducted him with the delusion he can force Shen Qingqiu to fall in love with him. He also fondly remembers how excited he occasionally was when torturing his former shizun, and is bent on murdering his own counterpart to ensure Shen Qingqiu won't be able to escape or continue to deny him.
  • Even Bingmei dips into worrying straits, as Shang Qinghua would rather hide the fact that he has a special bond with Shen Qingqiu, something that surpasses even Luo Binghe's love for his husband. Mobei-jun's panic in front of this tidbit of info confirms the cultivator isn't merely paranoid.