Shen Qingqiu Husbando

In the novel, Shen Qingqiu is described as being a particularly elegant and handsome man with long black hair and black eyes. As he has successfully cultivated to mid-core formation, Shen Qingqiu retained a youthful visage described to be beautiful by Shen Yuan.[2] He is commonly seen wearing green robes befitting of his station and holding a fan that he tends to use to hide his expression. Shen Yuan thinks that using the fan is just a way to be pretentious but continues using one even after he died and resurrected in another body further on in the novel.[3] In some illustrations (Thai, Japanese and Russian), Shen Qingqiu sports a cinnabar mole (朱砂痣, zhushazhi).[4][5] He also wears a xiao guan headgear. Unlike the cold, arrogant air the original Shen Qingqiu exudes, post-transmigration Shen Qingqiu's temperament has been remarked to be extremely gentle and warm with a flawless mannerism.[6] When Shen Qingqiu creates a substitute body from the Sun and Moon Dew Flower Seed its described as having Shen Yuan's original face covered with a scraggly beard but being "eight points in ten similar to Shen Qingqiu" and "...80% similar to the dead man".[?] Shen Qingqiu is an extremely elegant man with scholarly air. He can come across as being somewhat distant and cold, but he occasionally will slip out from the distant immortal persona into a warmer, caring man toward his disciples. This treatment was so different from the original Shen Qingqiu that he remade the entirety of Qing Jing Peak, changing the young scholars into a 'trusteeship for ADHD children'.[7] Shen Qingqiu also possesses a thin face (that is, gets embarrassed easily), and would typically withhold affectionate gestures so as to not sully his good name and to act out of character. He's very self-conscious about his word choices and mannerism which mostly carried over from the original Shen Qingqiu. He strictly followed the code of decorum and would be angered if forced to deviate.[?] And yet, contrasting to the refined aura he tried to project, most of Shen Qingqiu's thoughts during the story consist of him freaking out at various plot developments and sarcastically commenting on the situation. He has a colorful internal dialogue consisting of criticism directed at the world and cursing the author, Shang Qinghua, and this part of his personality often slips out around him as he will berate him for writing the ridiculous plot points they now have to deal with.[8] That said, in both the novel and the animated series tends to portray him as a calm, introverted and aloof Shizun on the outside, but a nervous, needy and a mess of a person on the inside. Shen Yuan began his transmigration while looking through the lenses of a reader where everything that happened was merely plot developments and the people were nothing but characters. As his character developed, he began to bond with them and realize that the people around him were actual people and treated them as such rather than mere caricatures.[?] Shen Yuan was the third son of a rich Chinese family who spent his days idling about.[2] He had two older brothers who carried over the family's business and a little sister whom he spoiled,[6] giving him ample free time and money to squander on the internet. Shen Yuan mostly spent his time reading webnovels, particularly a famous stallion erotica by the title of Proud Immortal Demon Way by Airplane Shooting Toward the Sky. He was truly passionate about the plot and worldbuilding but hated it for squandering all its potential in favor of cheap plot development and pornographic material.[2] This drove him to faithfully follow the story but criticize it with deep, thorough analyses, becoming an anti-fan so well-known even the author himself recognized his internet handle[7]. As his favorite novel drew to a close, Shen Yuan was so incensed by the ending that he died while cursing the novel. This activated the mysterious System, which transported him to the world of Proud Immortal Demon Way as Shen Qingqiu, Luo Binghe's teacher and the master of the scholarly peak, Qing Jing Peak.[2]