#BingJiu abo with omega shen twins where shen yuan is the pinnacle...

they are the peak lords of qing jing, one a sought after omega, the other... not.
unlike his brother and the rest of the lofty immortals, the women understand him and support shen jiu.
eventually, all his caution is for nothing.
of course it is one of the hundreds of aphrodisiac flowers that gets him, resistant to the suppressants.
his heat addled mind only wants the comfort of his twin, of their home and it's familar scents.
but shen yuan isn't home. gone, to a "romantic date" with that brute liu qingge.
he is alonealonealonealone
in his distress and heat pulsing through him, he pulls at his robes, leaving a trail of discarded layers all over.
the forest through which luo binghe was walking, with a present for his shizun shen yuan.
the young man almost breaks down the door in his haste. and is presented with shen jiu, dressed only in a loosened inner robe.
binghe immediately zeroes in on the pink fruit of a nipple being revealed.
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come morning, shen jiu wakes alone.
he's in his bed, sheets and clothing rumpled around his naked form. he remembers it all.
how he moaned and plead for the beast to fill him
how good it was, to be with someone so intimately.
and how the beast, his brothers favourite disciple, had called out for his shizun.
shen jiu doesn't cry. what use would it be?
he gathers himself and the scattered clothes around the hut. ignores the way something inside him breaks even further - of course the beast... luo binghe wouldn't want him. the lesser twin. the hated shrew.
he takes the first few nighthunts and requests he finds.
then he leaves.
not when the hunts are done, the requests fullfilled.
he wanders. as he begins to feel nauseous in the mornings, or when he smells foods he usually eats.
as his belly grows into a small bump.
as he has long realised what has happened.
shen yuan is there. the one the peak lords actually like. the one the disciples look up to.
the one the father of shen jius' child loves.
the letter he sends claims he has decided to retreat from the world and the sect.
no one comes for him. no answering letters are sent.
it stings. to know not even his a-yuan or qi-ge will look for him. but it was that way before, until shen jiu stumbled upon them. two cultivators and a scum.
it's far enough from all major towns that no sect will truly interfere in it's business.
the people are friendly, but they pity him. the lone omega without a mate, his belly heavy with child.
when he gives birth, only a midwife and one or two other omegas from the village are there. people he knows from the market, where he sells talismans and teaches children some letters.
but by the end, he is holding a small bundle in his arms. a little girl, her tiny form curling around him as she feeds. a little red mark emblazoned on her brow.
the midwife had ushered the others out when she saw the child.
a knobby hand brushes the childs' head, then touches shen jius' shoulder.
"you're lucky you found our village. most have at least a bit of demonic blood flowing in them."
"i didn't know her father to be a demon. that's all. but she's mine and only that matters."
the entire village dotes on her and through this shared love, shen jiu grows ever fonder of his home.
his first real home.
a-yuan has gotten married to his brute. a grand wedding to recover from the disaster of the immortal alliance conference.
shen jiu ignores the twinge of sadness that he was never even invited.
but he contends with his lot. he has a-xue now to care for and smother with love. he was never a good brother, but he would do his best to be a decent mother.
shen jiu can only shake his head, glad to be away from it all. no war would reach their remote village.
the sought after omega was a peak lord of cang qiong, the already wed and mated lord shen!
it is this that makes shen jiu send a letter after so long.
but no call comes.
shen jiu accepts that his help is not wanted or needed and goes on with life, his a-xue now a bright little girl.
as they take a break, they happen upon a missshapen creature.
shen jiu barely refrains from killing the thing as it stares at her. or rather at the sigil on her forehead.
they share some of their lunch with it and lixue insists on smearing it's wounds with her a-niangs' special ointment.
when they leave the forest with the sun and moon dew flower seed, they leave some for their new friend.
it takes hours for shen jiu to calm lixue to distraught sniffles and days for them to stop searching the forest.
months later, she has accepted that "scaly" is gone.
tianlang jun is a broken man, but when zhuzhi-lang shows him to shen jiu and lixue, he has a light in his eyes.
a number of threats, stories of lost and betrayed love and lixue adopting he grampa and scaly, shen jiu has to set up a new room in their house.
his dream of humans and demons together had long been reality.
and, so he told shen jiu on a drunken night "i see so much of my xiyan in your child. and if what you say is true... i have a son. if i have a son, xiyan cannot have hated me"
life goes on.
and then the letter comes.
ming fan almost bawls as he sees shen jiu, and then does bawl as he sees shen lixua on his hip.
the letter is in yue qingyuans' hand, the achingly familiar script bringing tears to shen jius' eyes.
"it's fine. it's my brother. and my sect. they want me to come back. there is need of me."
the back and forth is long and ardous. tianlang jun and zhuzhi lang warn for danger.
at this, ming fan scoffs. "that traitor. he doesn't deserve shifus' care!"
that piques shen jius' interest and he gets the whole story.
and now, he was threatening the rest of the cultivation world, unless his demands were met.
probably the demand for shen yuans' hand.
but duty calls. if not as a peak lord, then as a brother.
so he does leave his village, his home and his child to the care of his demonic family.
ming fan escorts him not to qing jing but qiong ding peak. right into a meeting of the peak lords and the demons' leaders.
more perfect and more powerful then shen jiu remembered him.
and he hurts so deeply. because the demon barely spares him a glance, even though he faces him. instead, he stares at the peak lords.
before shen jiu can blink, shen yuan has caught him in a too-tight hug.
"jiu-ge, you're home"
shen jiu shakes his head and pulls away. "no, a-yuan. i've left home because i was called here"
"this one has returned to heed the call of his martial siblings."
shen yuan looks aghast next to him, then slinks over to liu qingges side. shen jiu tries not to feel the loss, but it hurts more to be close to his brother.
it takes what feels like an eternity, until the demoness at luo binghes' side can't contain herself anymore.
"you're to marry junshang and you better be grateful for it!"
is that it? he can't have shen yuan, so he'll take the lesser twin? the one he already had but didn't want in the end?
anger simmers and boils in shen jius' gut. he wants to say no. he wants to.
and how can he just ignore those lives?
he might've. long ago. before he had his a-xue
so he forces himself to say yes. but under the condition that he is given the lands where his village is. and under the condition that luo binghe. and only he come with him. to meet their child.
the demons are equally enthusiastic. except for binghe, who stares at shen jiu like he's grown a second head
"one night, but junshang fucked this one more than once. enough for his seed to take." he cocks his head "our daughter has your nose"
she loves him already.
their little family moves to a grand palace and shen lixue goes from little girl to the little princess of a grand realm. she still plays with her village friends and rides her uncle scaly in his giant snake form.
it is only with shen yuans' gift for stories that he wins her over.
when shen jiu asks him of his letters. why no one ever came for him, he finds the truth.
how his letters and offers of aid, of coming back, seemed forced. and how they had been too scared and foolish to try and fight for him. to fight for their place in his life.
it feels like a silly excuse. he still feels like he is wrong. how he is not enough.
but they're talking.
luo binghe spends time with him. between the court and dealing with and entire realm, they find time for themselves and their family.
still, the fear of being no more than a substitute nags at shen jiu
the last time is a lingering scar. how he woke to find himself alone and stayed alone until he found his home.
it starts with touches. with lingering gazes turned to kisses, to hiding away and stealing moments.
when they tumble into bed, shen jiu knows he has to ask.
"am i my brothers' substitute to you? am i here because you cannot have him?"
"do you wish lixue was his child with you instead?"
he has to squeeze his eyes shut, scared of what he might see. how binghes' true feelings might show to break him fully.
the answer is "i love you and i was a fool and i will spend my life - our lives - making up for it"