Chapter Text
Shen Yuan had finally reached his wit's end (though some would argue he had jumped off that precipice a long, long time ago).
His evening had begun as per usual. Chopsticks for instant ramen in one hand, a computer mouse in the other, and his PC monitor proudly displaying the bright whites and greens of www.JJWXC.net before him.
Peak, as Shen Yuan would call it.
It wasn't long before he absent-mindedly clicked his way to the latest chapter of "Proud Immortal Demon Way," though it appeared Airplane had spared his readers another papapa-filled post. Instead, he was graced with... an event announcement?
Greetings, Dearest Readers (▀U ▀-͠)
No new chapter today (although you can definitely look forward to one tomorrow~), though I do have some exciting news!!
I am delighted to announce (drumroll please)...
.
.
.
.
Shen Yuan blankly stared ahead as he scrolled down through pages of blank space.
.
.
.
.
*PIDW's very first User-Submitted Fan-Created Writing Competition!!1!1!!! ٩(●ö●)۶
Yes, yes, your Lord Airplane has heard your cries! Your clamors! Your computer-busting, screen-shattering shouts for community events!
Please visit www.pidw-contest.com for more extensive information!
Very excited to see what you call cook up! AND YES, the top-rated submission's author will be writing a GUEST CHAPTER for Proud Immortal Demon Way!! ∑(ΦдΦlll
I will also be announcing upcoming changes to my posting schedule once the event has ended! Stay tuned! ⁀⊙﹏☉⁀
-Airplane Shooting Towards The Sky ⋆===✈
"What the fuck?!"
Quickly, Shen Yuan clicked his way to the aforementioned "www.pidw-contest.com" and was met with a garishly constructed website straight from Squarespace hell. Besides the assortment of ads for the PIDW store's Binghe Harem Body Pillows and other such paraphernalia (so shameless, Airplane!), the site was exactly as the domain entailed. In blocky, bold, demon-red letters, PIDW USER-SUBMITTED FAN-CREATED WRITING COMPETITION headlined the site. The creator was clearly too ashamed of saying "fanfiction."
The rules of the competition seemed to be simple enough. All one had to do was post a "user-submitted-" (fuck it, it's a FIC) of 1,000-15,000 words to the PIDW competition AO3 collection, and the highest-voted fic on the competition website would be given the most glorious opportunity of writing an official PIDW chapter. Anything was on the table, it seemed, as long as it contained PIDW characters and no crossovers (Airplane was notoriously fearful of copyright infringement after the "Proud Immortal Jedi Way" incident on a previous May 4th.)
Shen Yuan stared in astonished silence.
This could finally be his opportunity to show that hack author Airplane what real fiction looks like! His would be the first non-pornographic chapter in... 150 chapters!
Ideas frantically flooded Shen Yuan's mind. Character development for some of the wives? An introspective study on the stallion protagonist himself? Perhaps both?
Maybe his chapter would be so awe-inspiring that Airplane would change the course of the webnovel- giving Luo Binghe the character development and genuine plot that he deserves! Peerless Cucumber would go down in internet history as a savior, a scholar, a-
Shen Yuan's thoughts came to a screeching halt.
First, he would need to actually win this competition to submit the PIDW chapter of his dreams, and even then, the most experience in creative writing Shen Yuan had was his long tirades in the comments of each chapter Airplane posted. Additionally, a fic containing any of his above ideas would certainly not win in this popularity contest style. Knowing the average PIDW reader, some erotica orgy sludge would beat out his masterfully subversive piece of literature any day. If Shen Yuan truly wanted to help PIDW change for the better, he would have to bait-and-switch by stooping to the lowest common denominator. His poor keyboard would have to be sullied with the typing of the most shameless and jaw-dropping smut imaginable, so unabashedly horny that even the most prudish of PIDW readers would have their airplanes start to rise!
Save for Shen Yuan, of course, since he was most clearly above that.
Peerless Cucumber, purveyor of literary justice, was admittedly an untouched and pure body. In other words, a virgin.
By choice, of course! No lovely lady he had met had yet to match his intellect, and of course, his "freak," as his meimei would say.
Well, these readers wouldn't be looking for accuracy anyway. The countless pornographic chapters of PIDW itself would have to be Shen Yuan's teacher. Though his ramen had already gone cold, he couldn't be bothered to reheat it, and instead plugged away at his fanfiction-writing research. Shen Yuan already had a registered AO3 account (as created by his meimei), and made his way over to the PIDW competition collection. Though Airplane had only just made the announcement earlier that evening, the collection already had over a dozen fics posted to it. Fascinating.
Shen Yuan didn't want his erotically artistic vision spoiled by the competition, so he promptly closed out of the collection.
By the time he finished his ramen and took notes of particularly inspirational PIDW chapters, the sun had already set and begun to rise again. Whoops!
Shen Yuan's chronically ill body couldn't handle such an outburst of productivity, and so he promptly fell asleep at his desk, computer still glowing white and green. Tomorrow, he would begin his draft and write his way to stardom.
And thus began the tale of one Shen Yuan's descent into the depths of Proud Immortal Demon Way fanfiction.