qijiu role reversal au where it’s yue qingyuan who thinks shen jiu hates him, and shen jiu who’s desperately trying to figure out why his brother is acting like he doesn’t love him anymore.
obviously as we all know, sj is under the impression that yqy didn’t come back for him when he was left with the Qiu household. so what if instead of getting mad, he just wonders why? clearly there must be something wrong with sj himself, since his perfect, righteous qi-ge felt the need to leave him behind to suffer. clearly sj is the problem here, and yqy must have made the right decision in leaving him behind, but… he’s getting a second chance to prove that he’s worthy of yqy’s love and attention now, isn’t he? yqy brought him into the sect personally, so he must have wanted him around, but if that’s the case, why is he so avoidant? why does he treat sj like a chore and nothing else? why doesn’t he love sj anymore?
on yqy’s side of things, however, it is QUITE the opposite. he took so long in coming to rescue his xiao jiu that he thought xiao jiu was dead when he finally arrived. it was only later that he learned sj had survived, and not only that, yqy had done such a terrible job of rescuing him that he’d had to save himself. yqy is convinced that he’s lost the right to be sj’s qi-ge after how badly he messed up. if yqy tries to force sj to stay by his side, then he’ll only end up hurting his xiao jiu in his incompetence, so he tries his best to push him away. better that sj become self sufficient than rely on someone useless.
in short, I think these two are incapable of adequate communication in any word, but I imagine it would be fun to see the dynamic reversed, with sj chasing after yqy for once.
