Shen Qingqiu (Original)/Relationships

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## Yue Qingyuan

Yue Qingyuan and Shen Jiu has a difficult relationship stemming from their past. Their relationship is so bad that any conversations they tried to have would end on bad terms within 5 phrases. Despite Shen Jiu's apparent hatred of Yue Qingyuan, he kept favoring Shen Qingqiu above his other martial sibling to the point of giving him preferential treatment and expressed a willingness to involve Cang Qiong in a war if needed to protect him.

During their childhood as slaves who lived in the streets, he was extremely close with Yue Qi whom he affectionately referred to as 'Qi-ge' to the point of exploding if any other children called him by that moniker. Later, after Yue Qi failed to save him from the Qiu family, Shen Jiu decided he would no longer wait and followed Wu Yanzi. During this period he would imagine searching for Yue Qi even to the end of earth, saving him if he was alive in peril or crying while burying his bones. But when they met again, Yue Qi has become Yue Qingyuan, a celebrated cultivator in his own right. Believing that Yue Qi didn't come back for him intentionally, Shen Jiu lashed out to him and Yue Qi's lack of explanation widened the distance between them.

The rift between them remained until Shen Qingqiu was captured by Luo Binghe in the Water Prison. Yue Qingyuan came to visit him and Shen Qingqiu realized that Yue Qingyuan has been very lenient and gentle toward him all this time. He decided to forgive Yue Qingyuan but he expressed this by pushing him away, believing Yue Qingyuan would abandon him and thus be safe from Luo Binghe. However, contrary to his believe, Yue Qingyuan came rushing for him when Luo Binghe sent his legs alongside a letter of blood. Yue Qingyuan went into Luo Binghe's trap and died from thousands of poisoned arrows, leaving only a broken Xuan Su as remains.

## Luo Binghe

Shen Jiu mistreated Luo Binghe very poorly. He would beat him without reason and encouraged his other disciples to bully him as well. He also gave Luo Binghe a fake cultivation manual to slow him down. Shen Jiu's torment ultimately became the reason Luo Binghe came after him and exacted his revenge.

## Qiu Haitang

The Qiu family buys Shen Jiu as a child slave. They position him as a servant and later on he becomes Qiu Haitang's fiancé. It is a ploy by her older brother Qiu Jianluo who is too possessive of his sister to allow her to marry into another man's family. He plans to keep her within the Qiu Estate by marrying her to Shen Jiu.

Shen Jiu displays a fondness for Qiu Haitaing, giving her a shy smile despite being bought and sold into the Qiu Household and experiencing her brother's unpleasantness shortly before meeting her. She is fond of him in turn calling him fun and being happy with her initial engagement to him. To escape the abuse of Qiu Jianluo, Shen Jiu often hides in Qiu Haitang's room, which was his only safe haven in the household.

When he gives up on Yue Qingyuan coming to rescue him, he snaps and burns down the Qiu residence, killing every man he sees, but sparing the women; he deliberately rescues Qiu Haitang. When she wakes, she does not understand what happened and feels intensely betrayed. In the in the original timeline, this crime against her house is one of the charges leveled against Shen Jiu that lead to him being turned into a human stick.

When Shen Yuan has his romantic fate read by Madam Meiyin, she reports a cut red thread. Shen Yuan assumes that this refers to Qiu Haitang as Shen Jiu's ex-fiancé.

## Qiu Jianluo

As a child, Shen Jiu was bought by the Qiu family as a servant, and later on became Qiu Haitang's fiancé. He was badly mistreated by the men of the family, especially by the Qiu family's young master, Qiu Jianluo. He is very cautious to not show the questionable side of him towards his sister, which results in Shen Jiu hiding in Qiu Haitang's room as an escape.

## Wu Yanzi

Shen Jiu's first master, a rogue cultivator who picked up Shen Jiu after witnessing him kill the Qiu. During his discipleship to Wu Yanzi, he was taught to rob and murder, learning the tricks and dirty ploys he would incorporate into his fighting style even during adulthood.

## Liu Qingge

The relationship between Liu Qingge and Shen Jiu can be summed up as absolute rivalry. In the original, people believe it was enough to kill. In spite of their infamous terrible relationship however, Shen Qingqiu has been noted to successfully save Liu Qingge once in their disciple period, though Liu Qingge mistakenly accuse it as backstab action instead, thus worsening their relationship onwards. Another one was at the incident of Liu Qingge's Qi Deviation in LingXi Cave. As it was mentioned in the extra chapters of Shang Qinghua , in his later attempt, Shen Qingqiu failed to save Liu Qingge as the Bai Zhan Peak Lord died, and was described by Shang Qinghua to fall into despair and guilts, unable to wash the feelings even if he were to jump to the Yellow River.

## Ning Yingying

Ning Yingying is Shen Jiu's favored disciple. Proud Immortal Demon Way portrays his affection for her as perverted and his jealousy over Luo Binghe's potential as, in part, due to her feelings for the protagonist. While listing Shen Yuan's most notable traits as a Proud Immortal Demon Way commenter, Shang Qinghua notes that he called for Shen Jiu's castration after finding out what he "wanted to do" to Ning Yingying. As Shen Yuan laments his loss of reputation, prior to being taken to the water prison, he thinks that he never molested Ning Yingying, something that Shen Jiu had been written as such in Proud Immortal Demon Way.

Qiu Haitang in her youth has a similar temperament to Ning Yingying, creating a possibility that Shen Jiu's fondness for her stems from his past affection to Qiu Haitang.