I Wanna read PIDW
Honest to god my feed has been full of so many analyses of the scum villain characters, who are detailed and roundabout, however, we see it threw the lens of the scum villain and Shen Yuan's knowledge of budget cut version PIDW. LIKE DON'T GET ME WRONG To me scum villain is a masterpiece at exploring characters and motives. Still, SCUM VILLAIN IS THE SURFACE, its detailed but our narrator is completely unreliable Shen Yuan doesn't even know himself or his own sexuality, for pretty much the whole story almost until the end not only does he still perceive everybody as a "Character" undermining of the feelings of the man who he fell in love with Luo binghe but he's too dense to actually see more around him, Shen yuan is smart, he was going into university and read hundreds of chapters of PIDW in one sitting (and probably other books too) however he was obviously still young, he was 21 when he transmigrated and he doesn't have enough common sense to perceive the emotions of real people to a deep extent, he was also a sheltered child who spent most of his time inside, HE NEEDED LUO BINGHE TO KISS/ASSAULT HIM TO REALISED HE LOVED HIM yet scum villain (in my opinion) is still a masterpiece of a novel.
Scum Villain ends with the readers knowing the glimpse into Shen Yuan and Luo binghe's lives is over yet their lives characters are still continuing so:
my thoughts are what happened next and what would happen if Scum Villain never happened? and PIDW (the real story) happened?
Honestly, it doesn't have to be a danmei or love story for me to fall in love with it. THERE IS SO MUCH GOING ON IN SCUM VILLIAN we don't even see!!
What happened with Zhuzhi Lang and Luo Binghe all we know is that they fought randomly BUT THERE is MORE TO AND WE KNOW IT, ZHUZHI LANG PROBABLY REACTED BADLY TO SEEING SOMEONE HER FACE we know that Zhushi Lang is a bit stupid and morally gray and luo binghe can be toxic and cruel so what exactly happened?
LIU QINGE FOUGHT FOR 5 YEARS WITH LUO BINGHE FOR SHEN QINGQIU BODY but you telling me he was doing it for honor and not love, that he never saw binghe cry? that he never got close to getting his body?
TIANLANG JUN FOUGHT TOOTH AND NAIL FOR 20 YEARS TO STAY CONSCIOUS IN HIS ROTTING BODY YOUR TELLING ME HE DIED OFF-SCREEN AND JUST DISAPPEARED THAT ZHUZHI LANG HEAVENLY DEMON HALF-BREED JUST FADED AWAY WITH HIM? I understand Luo binghe has the main character Halo/plot armor but Tianlang Jun is supposed to be a challenge and heavenly demons don't just die like that.
and all these questions are from scum villain setting imagine the REAL PIDW:
Luo binghe a child who had lost both his mom's birth and adoptive gets taken in and abused by his Shizun projecting his abuse onto someone who reminds him of his abuser after years of dealing with this he meets Meng Mo who teaches him demonic cultivation in secret, later at the immortal alliance conflict he is discovered to be a half breed and is thrown into the abyss (practically hell) in there he learns how to master his powers and starts to head out as he is now a true demon lord.
without the half-baked harem and romance subplots it sounds like an interesting but normal story OKAY NOW ADD ALL THE CONTEXT AND STORY IMPLICATIONS FROM SCUM VILLIAN WITHOUT THE ROMANCE AND TELL ME THIS ISN'T THIS MOST INTERESTING THING YOU EVER HEARD?
SHANG QINGHUA WAS A GENIUS who was held back by a horrible fanbase and need for money HE HAD A GREAT STORY AND A CAST OF 3 DIMENSIONAL CHARACTERS AND THE FACT THAT LUO BINGHE ENDED UP ALONE in his original story BOGGLES MY MIND CAUSE WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN CAUSE FROM MY UNDERSTANDING:
the beginning of the story is kinda the same (at least that's what I'm assuming I don't know what he was cooking ) but then he just ends up going threw a different path NOT TO MENTION binghe is unstable in most universes (when I say most mean them two we saw in the story but nonetheless) his childhood trauma; abandonment issues and feelings of responsibility towards his adoptive mother's death shapes the luo binghe's mindset and depending on how Shen Qingqiu treats him shows the fate of the world and his understanding of himself what he went threw and how he sees people so what was the difference (and just so you know I'm gonna ignore all romance because it doesn't matter as binghe didn't give a fuck about his wives in the first place they were just playing things for binghe amusement and give him affection and attention)
What was the thing that made the REAL Luo Binghe go down a path of despair and complete loneliness? instead of searching for love or replacements.
