Shen Qingqiu (Original)

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## Shen Qingqiu

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## Debut

**Donghua**
Episode 1
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*TBA*
**Novel**
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*This page is about **Shen Jiu**. If you are looking for the transmigrator and main character of SVSSS, please go to the **Shen Yuan** page.*
Shen Qingqiu 「沈清秋 (Shěn Qīngqiū)」 (Originally named Shen Jiu 「沈九 (Shěn Jiǔ)」) is the original owner of the body that Shen Yuan transmigrated into after his death. It is unknown what happened to Shen Jiu after the transmigration took place.

## Overview

Shen Qingqiu is a part of Cang Qiong Mountain Sect and is the Peak Lord of the scholarly Qing Jing Peak. Due to the ranking of the twelve peaks, he is the second highest authority in the sect and acts as the Sect's tactician (chief strategist).

In the original in-universe novel Proud Immortal Demon's Way, he is written as the main villain. He is known to have abused the protagonist, Luo Binghe and he later threw him into the Endless Abyss, which in turn sparked Luo Binghe's **blackening**, along with the growth of his hatred and desire to seek revenge. Using the help of Qiu Haitang and the Huan Hua Palace Master, Luo Binghe orchestrates a trial for his alleged crimes. Although he is successful in imprisoning and torturing him following the trial in Proud Immortal Demon's Way, the majority of these accusations are later disproved throughout the course of the novel. Shen Yuan’s access to Shen Qingqiu’s memories reveal his time in the Qiu household to be filled with both physical and implied sexual abuse rather than Qiu Haitang’s claims that he was ungrateful following her family’s “kindness”. It is also revealed in the novel's Extra Chapters that he was unsuccessful in saving Liu Qingge from his qi deviation rather than attempting to murder him and that his motivation for visiting brothels was due to his discomfort around men rather than lechery.

## Appearance

In the novel, Shen Qingqiu is described as being a particularly elegant and handsome man with black hair and eyes. As he has successfully cultivated to mid-core formation, Shen Qingqiu retained a youthful visage that is described to be beautiful by Shen Yuan. He is commonly seen wearing green robes befitting of his station and a fan that he uses to hide his expression.

## Personality

Shen Qingqiu's personality is described at the beginning by Shen Yuan as being trash of the lowest caliber. He is ambitious and aggressive, proud and arrogant. He also has a propensity for being a sore loser, even going as far as secluding himself for three months before demanding a duel rematch. Much about Shen Qingqiu is speculation from information gleaned in the extra and his memories. As a young child, Shen Qingqiu was possessive of what he perceived to be his, including Yue Qingyuan. He was demanding and petulant, sullen if he didn't get his way, and he was prone to violent threats if he believed something of his was being claimed by someone else.

His cultivation is rather low compared to the other peak lords, logically due to his late start and his time with Wu Yanzi. Despite his late start making cultivating difficult, he is tenacious and hard working, making it to the core formation stage of cultivation in ten years, though a side effect of his late start is that he is prone to qi deviations. His qi deviations led him to be paranoid of Luo Binghe's natural aptitude, leading to him singling him out for the harshest punishment and even going so far as to encourage bullying within his Peak. Shen Qingqiu also shows an incredible capacity for loyalty, especially toward Yue Qingyuan, and a willingness to help without asking for gratitude. As a proud, effective member of the sect, he resents those he thought to be ineffective in their work and held everyone to an impossible standard.

Shen Qingqiu is not above using tricks in combat, which earned him the ire of the young master Liu Qingge. This could be a remnant of the days he spent fighting to survive on the streets, where he wouldn't hesitate to poke out an opponent's eyes when fighting the children that would gang up against him, combined with his discipleship under Wu Yanzi.

When falsely accused of malicious acts, such as when he was accused of trying to kill Liu Qingge as a disciple, Shen Qingqiu is not prone to defending his reputation. Instead he becomes withdrawn, sulking and pretending to read to keep up appearances, unaware that his book is upside-down. When embarrassed, he reacts defensively, pulling his sword on Shang Qinghua when he points out the book.

Due to his childhood as a slave, Shen Qingqiu grew a distrust for men, and found comfort and protection from an older slave 'sister'. This behavior continues as a slave of the Qiu household with him finding safety in Qiu Haitang's room, and as a disciple, often going to the brothel women of the Warm Red Pavilion, and eventually becomes the basis for the rumor that he is a lecherous man.

## History

### Proud Immortal Demon Way

The original *Proud Immortal Demon Way*, was supposedly planned to be much more complex. However, due to money problems, Airplane Shooting Towards The Sky, scrapped the original plotline and wrote a novel with the fan's preferences in mind ("shameless fanservice" as quoted by Shen Yuan in chapter 92). Due to the unreliability of both Shen Yuan and (the Original) Luo Binghe, along with the ambiguity of Airplane Shooting Towards The Sky, it is unknown how much of Shen Qingqiu's actions were performed simply to paint him into the perfect 'scum villain'.

Shen Qingqiu took Luo Binghe as his disciple, but there were nothing but negative feelings towards Luo Binghe's exceptional talent even at a young age. Because of this, he tormented Luo Binghe, and quite possibly, encouraged the other disciples to bully him. The extent of Shen Qingqiu's sabotage of Luo Binghe's development was unknown to others, but it was revealed in the extra that Shen Qingqiu tried to kill Luo Binghe but was incensed when his attempt with the faulty cultivation manual failed to do as he hoped.

At the Immortal Alliance Conference, when Luo Binghe turned seventeen and unlocked his demonic heritage, Shen Qingqiu discovered the truth and pushed him into the Endless Abyss.

Luo Binghe, however, survived and removed the seal on his demonic blood, giving him immense power. He returned with vengeance to kill Shen Qingqiu, accompanied by Qiu Haitang and Liu Mingyan, who each bore a grudge against him.

Luo Binghe captured Shen Qingqiu and cut off his arms and legs, using them to set a trap that killed Yue Qingyuan. Shen Qingqiu was tortured further, including having his tongue torn out, and eventually died of his wounds.

### Scum Villain Self-Saving System

During some point in time after Luo Binghe became his disciple, Shen Qingqiu fell into a fierce qi deviation accompanied with high fever for apparently no reason. It is unknown what happened to him after Shen Yuan transmigrated into his body. However, pieces of his memories still remained in his body and Shen Yuan could access them with the help of Meng Mo.

## Trivia

* Despite his late coming and having inferior foundation than other disciples, Shen Qingqiu was favored by the Lord of Qing Jing Peak, due to his nimble wits. He was named as the future successor of the Peak and was given the name of generational "Qing" along with the character "Qiu", much to Shen Qingqiu dissatisfaction since the character "Qiu" was the same character as "Qiu" in "Qiu Jianluo".
* Shen Jiu was a popular character that make him have many ships.

## References

1. ↑ MXTX Weibo Reply of Character Heights
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Chapter 1: Scum Villain (Web Novel)
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Extra: Yue Qingyuan and Shen Qingqiu (Web Novel)
4. ↑ Chapter 19: Shen Jiu (Light Novel)
5. ↑ Chapter 10: The Demon's Provocation (Web Novel)
6. ↑ Chapter 2: Mission (Light Novel)
7. ↑ Extra: Airplane's Fortuitous Encounter 3 (Web Novel)
8. ↑ Chapter 26: Airplane's Fortuitous Encounter (Light Novel)
9. ↑ Chapter 24: Yue Qingyuan and Shen Qingqiu (Light Novel)
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Chapter 72: The Person Named Shen Jiu (Web Novel)

## Appearances

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### Donghua

**Shen Qingqiu (Original)** has not appeared in any episodes of *The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System Wiki*.

### Webnovel

**Shen Qingqiu (Original)** has made 17 appearances.

* Chapter 19 (Novel)
* Chapter 24 (Novel)
* Chapter 11 (Webnovel)
* Chapter 15 (Webnovel)
* Chapter 17 (Webnovel)
* Chapter 18 (Webnovel)
* Chapter 2 (Webnovel)
* Chapter 21 (Webnovel)
* Chapter 25 (Webnovel)
* Chapter 26 (Webnovel)
* Chapter 27 (Webnovel)
* Chapter 28 (Webnovel)
* Chapter 29 (Webnovel)
* Chapter 3 (Webnovel)
* Chapter 31 (Webnovel)
* Chapter 5 (Webnovel)
* Chapter 9 (Webnovel)