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 ~~boyfriend~~frenemy
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!