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Bai Qian

Bai Qian/Si Yin/Seventeenth/Su Su

Played by: Yang Mi

Voiced by: Ji Guan Lin

Youngest child of the Fox King. The current queen of Qing Qiu. She used to be Mo Yuan's student, and goes to great lengths to bring him back after his soul is destroyed.

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• Action Girl: A disciple of the God of War, Bai Qian is able to decimate dozens of enemies on a battlefield and take on a horde of mooks even with damaged sight.
• Amnesiac Lover: As Su Su she forgets her memories of being Bai Qian. Then she remembers she's Bai Qian but forgets she was Su Su. This leads to the awkward situation of her falling in love with Ye Hua twice.
• The Baby of the Bunch: She's the youngest child of the Fox Emperor, and also the most junior of the disciples in rank (age difference is unclear). As such, she is often spoiled and protected by her older siblings and the older disciples.
• Badass Boast: Her statement to Xuan Nu during their confrontation can be translated thus: "Let me tell you something, Xuan Nu. As a high goddess, even if I close my eyes, I'll still be able to wipe out these useless people at your side." She then proceeds to kill the last of them standing in her way.
• Beautiful Dreamer: Ye Hua often watches her sleep and it seems to be part of the reason why he becomes attracted to her (as Su Su).
• Brilliant, but Lazy: Seems to be a family trait. Whilst she spent most of her time at Kunlun being The Slacker, she was noted to be talented in terms of combat and power potential (likely the result of her lineage). When she decides to apply herself, she proves rather capable and in fact is the first of the disciples to achieve high god status.
• Character Tics: Bai Qian taps her hand in a particular way, and also tends to tap fans on her nose. Both of these tics clue Ye Hua onto the fact that she and Su Su are the same person.
• Combat Hand Fan: Wields one as her weapon.
• Cool Aunt: Is this for Feng Jiu, who practically worships her.
• Distinguishing Mark: As Su Su, she suffered a crimson fire burn on her right arm that can't be healed. Ye Hua realises that Bai Qian really is Su Su when he sees the same burn on her arm.
• The Dog Bites Back: After Su Jin tries to convince her that Ye Hua doesn't love her, and then regaining her memories of her time as Su Su wherein Su Jin psychologically abused her and took her eyes, Bai Qian snaps. She storms into the Nine Heavens, takes her eyes back from Su Jin and forces her to choose between voluntarily guarding the Bell of the East Emperor or having something worse happen.
• Drowning My Sorrows:
  • She gets drunk after she catches Li Jing cheating on her.
  • Gets drunk again when she believes that Ye Hua sees her as a replacement for Su Su. Mi Gu says she's drunk all the wine in the cellar over the past 7-8 days.
  • Spends just another week on a bender after remembering she is Su Su and questioning if Ye Hua's love is, or ever was, real in any way. Immediately after the above bender. Basically, she was drunk for over two weeks straight.
• Dude Magnet: Has many male admirers.
• Eye Scream: She has her eyes removed as "punishment" for supposedly blinding Su Jin. Later she returns the favour and takes her own eyes back from Su Jin.
• Facial Markings: As Su Su, she has a red mark between her eyebrows which is the result of Qing Cang sealing her memory and her powers, rendering her mortal.
• Fantastically Indifferent: As Su Su, she is not phased when her black snake (Ye Hua) turns into a giant dragon - she's more concerned he can't fit in her house so she can take care of him. After Ye Hua restores her burning home, she ends up more concerned he's a monster and they need to flee rather than actually caring about the magic or monster parts.
• First Love:
  • Li Jing is hers and she is his. It doesn't work out.
  • She is Ye Hua's first love as Su Su, and thus his only love.
• Friend to All Living Things: As Su Su, she spends her time taking care of injured animals, which is how she meets Ye Hua.
• Handicapped Badass: Bai Qian ends up injured when fighting to retrieve A-Li and Mo Yuan's body from Xuan Nu largely because her eyes are damaged (due to Su Jin having them taken when she was Su Su). She still handily wins the battle against dozens though.
• Heroic BSoD:
  • Upon Su Su's jump into Zhuxian Terrace, she regains her memories as Bai Qian and utterly shutdowns over the traumatic experience. She erases her memory of her trial just to get over it.
  • Ye Hua's death leaves her holding his body, mumbling blankly and refusing to let anyone near her. Even after Mo Yuan gets her to remove the barrier, she still refuses to give up Ye Hua's corpse for a week and spends the better part of three years preferring to be asleep and dreaming.
• The High Queen: The reigning Queen of the East in Qing Qui.
• I Have Many Names: In addition to Bai Qian, she goes by Si Yin while at Kunlun and Su Su while in the mortal realm.
• Imperiled in Pregnancy: Bai Qian, as Su Su, is taken effective hostage in the Celestial Palace where she gets thrown around by the soldiers and maids, in spite of her condition. After she survives a legitimately accidental fire (well, the culprit was trying to free her), she's still in danger from Su Jin and the Heavenly Emperor actively scheming to kill her, even though she's pregnant with Ye Hua's child.
• I Need a Freaking Drink: Bai Qian jumps off Zhuxian Terrace, becomes a high goddess, and regains her memories of everything she's gone through before and after becoming mortal. Unsurprisingly, a drink is the first thing she asks for.
• It's All My Fault: Bai Qian blames herself for the war with the Ghost Tribe and Mo Yuan's death. Bai Zhen points out that there were other factors involved, though she still spends 70,000 years making up for her mistake.
• Lady of War: Grows into one.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia:
  • She loses her memories as Bai Qian after her fight with Qing Cang, and thus becomes the mortal eventually called Su Su.
  • Upon regaining her memories as Bai Qian, she deliberately takes Zhe Yan's amnesia medicine to forget her time at Su Su due to the psychological trauma.
• Lethal Chef: Bai Qian relies on others to cook for her (specifically her niece, Feng Jiu). When she's forced to live as the mortal Su Su, she survives on what she collects (such as fruit) and what she manages not to burn. Ye Hua wonders how she survived before he showed up and is later almost dumbstruck when she finally manages to set her hut on fire attempting to roast something.
• Like a Son to Me: Inverted. Whilst in the series (the books are a different matter) it's rather obvious Mo Yuan fancies Bai Qian, she doesn't seem to understand what her own feelings towards him are. Lots of people assume she loves him given the lengths she goes to to restore him to life. However, after she realises she loves Ye Hua, she states that her feelings for her master are the same as those she has towards her father, basically considering herself like a daughter to Mo Yuan.
• Mama Bear: Whilst Bai Qian doesn't remember that A-Li is her son, she still becomes quickly protective of him, unwilling to make him sad. When Xuan Nu abducts him (along with Mo Yuan's body), Bai Qian immediately charges into the Ghost Realm to save him. She later tells Nai Nai that she would immediately attack Su Jin to get A-Li back from her if the consort took him.
• Manic Pixie Dream Girl: As Su Su, Bai Qian serves as this for Ye Hua, who is introverted, serious and lives a very regimented life until she find him in his snake form. By just being kind, having simplistic life philosophies, and a few odd quirks, she considerably lightens his life.
• Mistaken for Gay / Lover and Beloved: Several people comment how close Mo Yuan and his Seventeenth disciple are. Given that Bai Qian/Si Yin is disguised as a man, it invokes these tropes, especially with the gossip that they ran away together and are living out their days in seclusion.
• No Sense of Direction: Bai Qian is known for easily getting lost, a trait she herself is aware of. As Su Su, she once got lost in the forest near her home for eight days which nearly makes Ye Hua Facepalm.
• Nurse with Good Intentions: As Su Su she tends to injured animals, one of which is Ye Hua in his snake form. Unfortunately, she has no knowledge and is merely using random herbs. The one she applies to Ye Hua makes his injury worse. She also feeds him raw meat (good for a snake, not a person). Ye Hua is understanding enough to know she was trying to help, which endears her to him.
• Oblivious to Love: Bai Qian suffers this a lot.
  • She is completely unaware that her master Mo Yuan clearly has feelings for her (in the series anyway), explaining why he favoured his Seventeenth disciple so much. What's more incredulous is that Bai Qian is also oblivious to the fact that her own feelings for Mo Yuan were not strictly those of a student either, something that her parents, brothers, Zhe Yen, Li Jing, and Ye Hua all pick up on.
  • She was oblivious to the fact Bi Fang liked her.
  • Is generally oblivious to the fact Ye Hua's feelings are sincere or that she's starting to reciprocate, until it's spelled out for her by her brother Bai Zhen.
• Old Maid: Other women who are interested in Ye Hua often point out that Bai Qian is much older than him and refer to her as "old". Zi Lan playfully teases her about it as well. Bai Qian herself seems to flit between feeling insulted and using her status as an old maid to try and keep Ye Hua at bay. Ye Hua doesn't care.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: As Xuan Nu finds out. Bai Qian isn't a high god for nothing. Even with damaged eyes, she slaughters the horde of Ghost Tribe soldiers protecting Xuan Nu, who would have been killed along with them if she didn't use A-Li and Mo Yuan as human shields at the last moment.
• Rebellious Princess: She herself notes she was naughty as a child, so she was sent to Kunlun to refine herself.
• Rescue Romance: How she meets Ye Hua as Su Su. Initially, she takes care of him when he's injured in his snake form. To get her to fall for him as human, Ye Hua stages a scenario where he's injured outside her hut so she can take care of him.
• The Slacker: During her time at Kunlun, she was frequently noted as being lazy when it came to her studies and preferred to mess about to get out of studying.
• So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Practically a literal curse too. Bai Qian mentions that her mother told her that she was so beautiful that it was likely that the heavens would cause her to experience a lot of pain to balance the books. She agrees with her mother after the trial of love she goes through with Ye Hua as Su Su.
• Spurned into Suicide: Or rather, inadvertent suicide. Su Su is not aware that jumping into Zhuxian Terrace will kill her as a mortal, but she is tricked into believing that Ye Hua doesn't actually love her by Su Jin which is why she jumps.
• Suddenly Sober: After what amounts to a 14-16 day bender, Bai Qian is told by Si Ming that Qing Cang is breaking free. She immediately sobers up to go and face him.
• Sweet Polly Oliver: She disguises herself as a boy to attend Kunlun.
• Talking Your Way Out: Si Yin is noted as being good at this, which is why she tries it on Qing Cang (unfortunately, he already recognised her and Ling Yu). Bai Qian later talks her way out of trouble at the banquet in the Eastern Sea. She's also good at talking people into doing things...
• Too Dumb to Live: As Su Su, she is told by Ye Hua not to leave the area around her hut otherwise his family will find her, however, she does it any way in a panic about Ye Hua even though she has no idea where he is. Later, Ye Hua tells her not to trust anyone in the Celestial Palace, but she keeps trusting Su Jin despite it getting her into worse and worse trouble. It's also unclear if she was intending to actually suicide or if she believed jumping from the Zhuxian Terrace would take her back home to her hut, or where she belonged as Su Jin told her it would. Given she saw how the energy of the terrace burned Su Jin's eyes, it's hard to explain why she's believing her enemy's words about being sent back home.
• True Blue Femininity: Bai Qian tends to lean towards wearing blue/turquoise most of the time.
• Two Aliases, One Character: Several characters comment on the resemblance between the female Bai Qian and the male Si Yin, without it ever occurring to them they're the same person, especially as gods can disguise themselves and Bai Qian is suspiciously said to have never left Qing Qiu. Later on, it is noted that Su Su looks just like Si Yin by Die Feng, or looks like Bai Qian by Zhe Yan. Still later, Bai Qian looks exactly like Su Su. Only Ye Hua seems smart enough to figure out they're all the same person.
• Undying Loyalty: To her master, Mo Yuan. Whilst she tells herself she is being like the other disciples when it comes to her actions towards him, or that she is repaying the fact he protected her from her trial, this is open to debate. Several characters note that feeding Mo Yuan's corpse a bowl of her blood every day for 70,000 years with no guarantee of his resurrection is going beyond what a typical student would do.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: She can turn into a nine-tailed fox at will.
• World's Most Beautiful Woman: According to the gossips of the Celestial court, Bai Qian is the most beautiful woman in the heavens.
• You Are Number 6:
  • As the fifth child of her parents, she is often referred to by her order of birth, being known as "Fifth Daughter"/"Fifth Sister" or affectionately as "Little Fifth".
  • She's called "Seventeenth" during her time in Kunlun because she's Mo Yuan's seventeenth disciple.
• Youngest Child Wins: She's Bai Zhi's youngest child. She's also the protagonist and the queen of Qing Qiu.

Ye Hua

Ye Hua/Jin Lian/Zhao Ge

Played by: Mark Chao (adult), Shiyue An Xi (child)

Voiced by: Bian Jiang

Crown Prince of the Nine Heavens and Mo Yuan's identical twin — though he was technically born long after Mo Yuan. Falls in love with Bai Qian in the mortal world.

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• The Ace: Many people laud him for his accomplishments in academics and in martial ability.
• Advice Backfire: Ye Hua may be sarcastic more than serious when he tells Su Jin to give him no choice but to marry her, but she takes it to heart in increasingly desperate and insane ways which causes him (and his love Su Su/Bai Qian) copious problems and an exceeding amount of pain.
• Always Second Best: Zigzagged. Due to his uncanny and inexplicable resemblance to Mo Yuan, Ye Hua was constantly compared to the dead God of War from childhood. This is why he strove to do even better to prove he wasn't Mo Yuan, such as achieving the high immortal rank at only 20,000 years old (Mo Yuan was 25,000). He definitely feels this way once he realises how close Bai Qian was to Mo Yuan.
• An Arm and a Leg: Loses his right arm to one of the four divine beasts that guard the fungal grass. Zhe Yan makes him a prosthetic.
• Armor-Piercing Question:
  • When he asks Bai Qian if there is a place in her heart for him. Though she seems confused, when she goes to her room she keeps thinking about it, showing that what he said bothers her.
  • Asking Bai Qian if she'd be so blase about A-Li being drunk if he was her biological child (at this point, she doesn't remember that he is). As she tells Bai Zhen, it bothered her a great deal.
• Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Ye Hua technically wins the war against the Merpeople Clan, and later (also technically since Li Jing seems to have done most of the damage) wins against the Ghost Realm rebellion. Because of this, the Celestial Tribes petition to have Ye Hua officially recognised as Crown Prince and future Emperor.
• Born Winner: Whilst Ye Hua did work hard, he was already unusually powerful and capable as a child compared to most immortals. By the time he's a young adult immortal, his power is already said to be comparable to Dong Hua Dijun, who is vastly older. This is because of his true parentage and even the way he was born: Mo Yuan explains that Ye Hua got a chunk of Heavenly Father's power when he was saved as the golden lotus, in addition to whatever he naturally inherited as the son of progenitor god.
• Breaking the Cycle of Bad Parenting: Ye Hua's childhood was... less than ideal. He was kept from his mother, made to study constantly and given praise that was tinged with warnings and expectations. However, when it comes to his own son, it is clear that he gives A'Li unconditional attention and love, and does not weigh the boy down with expectations.
• Can't Kill You, Still Need You: What he basically says to Su Jin after her ploy against Yuan Zhen for his attention. The only reason he didn't go through with killing her the day he stabbed her was because she is carrying Su Su/Bai Qian's eyes. However, he warns her that he now has someone for those eyes so there's nothing saving her from death if she keeps digging her own grave...
• Chick Magnet: Ye Hua is the number one crush of women across the heavens partly because he's the crown prince and partly because he's handsome. He doesn't like it.
• Child Prodigy: Was one, which is evidenced by the fact he ascends to high immortal at the very young age of 20,000, breaking Mo Yuan's record (of 25,000).
• Cultured Badass: Well read, good strategist, plays Go, paints, cooks, writes poetry... known to win every battle he's in.
• Dark Is Not Evil: He always wears black, but he's as far from evil as anyone could possibly be.
• Deadpan Snarker: When he's free to be himself, his thoughts and some comments can be rather dry.
• Death Glare: Has a very impressive one when he's truly angry (usually directed at Su Jin).
• Declaration of Protection: Ye Hua does everything he can to protect Su Su, although it ultimately fails. When he later gets her back as Bai Qian, he's even more (understandably) protective of her.
• Died in Your Arms Tonight: Dies in Bai Qian's arms after sacrificing himself to stop Qing Cang. He gets better after three years.
• Dogged Nice Guy: To get Bai Qian to fall (back) in love with him, he devotes his attention to her, cooks for her, helps her, protects her, risks his life to fulfill her dearest wish... It works.
• Driven to Suicide: Implied. Whilst he was trying save Su Su, Ye Hua makes no attempt to save himself falling into Zhuxian Terrace. Though Zhe Yan heals his body, he shows no signs of waking or even wanting to wake up. His mother even calls it a suicide attempt because his family wouldn't allow him to marry the woman he loved and thus he wanted to die with her.
• Drowning My Sorrows: Once he believes that Bai Qian doesn't reciprocate his love because she's in love with Mo Yuan, he's seen by her on his fifth jar of wine.
• Express Delivery: His mother was pregnant with him for only a few days.
• Faking the Dead: Plans to fake his death so he can be with Bai Qian.
• Good Parents: Ye Hua is a better father to A-Li than his own father and grandfather were to him. Several people note that he's had to be A-Li's father and mother and commend him for it.
• Heroic Ambidexterity: Ye Hua is notably able to use both hands when wielding brush or sword.
• Heroic BSoD: Upon Su Su's "death", Ye Hua loses his will to live and takes a long time to recover. The only reasons he does so are because of his infant son and because he finds a way to bring Su Su back to life (in a fashion). It returns briefly when the Soul-Gathering Lamp is extinguished until Lian Song convinces him to keep going for A-Li's sake.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Gives his life to stop Qing Cang once and for all, as well as destroy the Bell of the East Emperor.
• I Have Many Names: In addition to Ye Hua, he's called Jin Lian during his time as the lotus spirit and Zhao Ge in his mortal reincarnation.
• I Just Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Aside from the fact that his actions are to protect Bai Qian from a situation that is likely too much for her, Ye Hua is willing to sacrifice his life to restore Mo Yuan simply because it's Bai Qian's wish.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: It's rather clear that part of Ye Hua's attraction to Su Su is that she doesn't love him because he's the crown prince of the Nine Heavens - she loves him for himself. Given the strict upbringing he had, being forced to be perfect and taken from his mother, and the fact women want him for his looks and position, it's hardly a wonder that he just wants someone to see him and love him for himself.
• Informed Attribute: Nai Nai tells Bai Qian that Ye Hua is a lightweight when it comes to alcohol, however she sees him polishing off his fifth bottle of wine and he looks barely affected, just depressed.
• I Will Wait for You: Uses the Soul-Gathering Lamp to try and recover Su Su's soul and give her a new body, and he waits 300 years for her to come back.
• Manly Tears: Ye Hua is fine with crying, mostly when he's alone. He does cry in front of his uncle, Lian Song, who is one of the few privy to his real feelings, as well as Bai Qian.
• Made of Iron: Ye Hua takes a lot of punishment and yet still manages to both survive and get back to normal within an absurdly short time frame despite what the healers say.
• The Mourning After: Ye Hua mourns Su Su for 300 years and never thinks about another woman. He gets better when he discovers she's alive and is Bai Qian.
• No Guy Wants to Be Chased: Despite the many women who profess feelings for him, Ye Hua only falls for Su Su/Bai Qian, partly because she's not chasing him.
• Not So Stoic: Ye Hua opens up and shows he's more emotional than he lets on after falling for Su Su/Bai Qian, although hints that he wasn't as stoic as believed were evident before hand when he manoeuvred to protect Sang Ji and confinded in Lian Song.
• Only Mostly Dead: Ye Hua is seemingly dead after stopping the Bell of the East Emperor, although it turns out that (through complicated means) he was only in a near-death state and needed some time to heal his damaged spirit.
• Papa Wolf: Protective of his son, and willing to set the celestial troops on the Ghost Realm due to Xuan Nu abducting him (amongst two other reasons).
• Past-Life Memories: Though he doesn't strictly remember being a spirit in the form of a golden lotus, he does have at least one dream of that time where he recalls Si Yin (Bai Qian). He later identifies Si Yin with Su Su, though he doesn't understand why.
• Prince Charming: Despite being The Stoic and seemingly disinterested in women, later other women besides Su Su/Bai Qian, Ye Hua is noted as being charming, decent and handsome, gaining the attention of a number of female admirers.
• Poor Communication Kills: He would have spared both Bai Qian and himself a lot of misery if he'd only told her why he was acting so cold towards her. Or been more clear to his servants about letting Su Jin anywhere near her.
• Rescue Romance: Ye Hua meets Su Su when she finds him in his snake form as he's resting due to being injured by the Golden Lion Beast. He becomes attracted to her due to her kindness (even if her medical care was "unhelpful"). When he wants to meet her as a human and get her to fall for him, he stages a scenario where he's injured outside her hut so she can take care of him.
• Ridiculously Cute Critter: In his snake form, Ye Hua is very cute, especially with his big blue eyes and little horns.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: Ye Hua takes active part in Heavenly affairs due to his position as crown prince, particularly the physical side of things. His grandfather is getting on in years and losing strength, so Ye Hua not only reads reports, he oversees and leads troops. Ye Hua's dedication and military prowess wins him a lot of praise.
• Second Love: He is Bai Qian's second love (after Li Jing), and this time it turns out much happier likely because they're each other's One True Love.
• Secret Legacy: The reason why Ye Hua's birth comes with great omens, why he's particularly strong, and why he looks identical to Mo Yuan is this.
• Skilled, but Naive: Ye Hua is very good at a lot of things he does, especially being a rather badass warrior, however his rigid and sheltered court up-bringing, complete with lack of emotional support, makes him incredibly naive when it comes to emotion and romance. He has to get his uncle Lian Song's advice a lot, and he tends not to tell Su Su/Bai Qian things, thinking it's protecting her when really it makes the situation worse.
• The Stoic: Ye Hua initially comes across as this - cool, calm and collected, he is reserved in his emotions, barely reacts to big events like his own sudden engagement, and speaks only really when necessary unless he's with someone he trusts. He shows that this is perhaps more of an act when he falls for Su Su/Bai Qian.
• Supreme Chef: Ye Hua is a surprisingly good cook, though he only uses his skill to take care of Bai Qian (first as Su Su, later as her real self). A-Li even notes that his father never cooked for him until Bai Qian came back into his life.
• Synchronization: A mild variant. Ye Hua is connected to Mo Yuan, and vice versa (likely because they're twins, but also possibly because Mo Yuan spent millennia caring for the golden lotus). When Mo Yuan's spirit makes its presence known, Ye Hua doubles over in pain; when Ye Hua gives his life, Mo Yuan in turn feels it.
• Tears of Joy: When Bai Qian says she loves him and wants to marry him, he's so happy that she's finally fallen (back) in love with him that he cries.
• Think Nothing of It: Ye Hua tries to do this to Bai Qian when claiming that getting the divine fungal grass was an afterthought and fairly easy, whilst making the exilir was no big deal. Given she can see that he's not using his left arm, she knows he's lying.
• Trauma Button: Su Su's suicide is Ye Hua's. The memory of losing her tends to send him into tears one way or another, like when the Soul-Gathering Lamp goes out. Similiarly, when he sees Bai Qian entering into the lake (because it's hot and she wants to cool off), he flashes back to her suicide as Su Su, panics, and uses magic to pull her back into his arms, whereupon he kisses her, hugs her and starts shaking as he says he's not letting her go.
• Unknown Relative: Ye Hua is unaware he is (via complicated means) actually the son of Heavenly Father, and thus the twin brother of Mo Yuan.
• Unwanted Harem: Figuratively and literally. Has many women vying for his attention, but he only wants Su Su/Bai Qian. As a prince, he's also expected to have an actual harem of concubines, but, again, he only wants the one woman.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: He can turn into a dragon (or a snake in his smaller form).
• Warrior Prince: Crown Prince of the Nine Heavens and victorious in every battle.
• Worf Had the Flu: By the time he fights Qing Cang, Ye Hua's been through a lot, such as fighting the four beasts and having his arm ripped off, giving up most of his cultivation to revive Mo Yuan, having a mortal trial and standing in the rain for days. He probably would have won the fight more easily if he hadn't already been put through the ringer, and his apparent death after sacrificing his life might have been avoided, or his revival time may have been shortened.
• Younger Than They Look: A godly variant. Everyone knows how old he is, but they also comment how he acts much older than his age. Bai Qian notes he seems to act older than Dong Hua, who is older than Ye Hua's grandfather. There is something of an explanation for this as given that he is Mo Yuan's twin, his spirit is actually likely close in age to Dong Hua's.

Qing Qiu

Bai Feng Jiu

Bai Feng Jiu/Consort Chen

Played by: Dilraba Dilmurat

Voiced by: Qiao Shi Yu

Bai Qian's niece. Falls in love with Dong Hua.

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• Drowning My Sorrows: She starts drinking after she's sent back to the Fox Kingdom.
• Dude, She's Like in a Coma: She kisses Dong Hua (somewhat chastely) on the nose when she thinks he's asleep after drinking too much.
• Facial Markings: Has a unique red birthmark on her forehead in the shape of a cockscomb flower/phoenix feather. People can identify her as the princess of Qing Qui based on how widely known it is.
• I Owe You My Life: When Dong Hua saves her, she uses this justification to follow him around and then become his servant to repay that debt.
• Immortal Immaturity: In this series, she's 70,000 and thus the same age as Ye Hua. However, whilst he acts older than his years, she acts like giddy, spoiled teenage girl with a crush.
• Love Martyr: Feng Jiu won't give up trying to get Dong Hua to reciprocate her love, whether it's being his servant, helping out in his mortal trial, cutting off one of her tails so she can restore his destined love with her...
• Rescue Romance: A one-sided version. She falls for Dong Hua because he saved her life.
• Spoiled Sweet: Indulged by her family and not a bad bone in her body. Paradoxically however, it means she often doesn't think about the consequences of her actions since other people bail her out, and thus leaves her incapable of thinking before she acts or maturely realising when to give up.
• Starcrossed Lovers: She and Dong Hua (in the series at least). As it turns out, they were supposed to end up together, but Dong Hua removed his name from the Rock of Three Lives so as to keep serving the realm. This causes Feng Jiu a lot of pain.
• Subordinate Excuse: Insists on becoming Dong Hua's servant to be close to him.
• Supreme Chef: Her family notes that she's typically their go-to cook.
• Taking the Bullet:
  • When she's in the mortal realm as Honourable Lady Chen, she takes an arrow to protect the Emperor, Dong Hua's mortal identity.
  • She later takes a lightning blast from Qing Cang's power for Dong Hua.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: Like the rest of her family she can turn into a nine-tailed fox. She also once turns into Su Jin in order to steal the Soul-Gathering Lamp.

Zhe Yan

Played by: Ken Chang

Voiced by: Chen Hao

A phoenix immortal and close friend of the Bai family.

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• Happily Adopted: Zhe Yan was raised by the Heavenly Father, and thus grew up as Mo Yuan's foster brother. When Heavenly Father died, Zhe Yan gave up his weapon and decided to live in retirement, an indication of his respect for his adoptive father.
• Healer God: Known throughout the heavens for his medical capabilities. Indeed, he's responsible for saving Ye Hua's life (twice) and figuring out how to bring Mo Yuan's soul together (and save the Crown Prince of the West Seas).
• Honorary Uncle: Acts as one to the children of the Bai clan, particularly Bai Zhen, Bai Qian and Bai Feng Jiu.
• Retired Badass: Zhe Yan sealed his magical weapon away millennia ago and went into retirement in his Peach Tree Woods. He prefers not to get involved in the problems of the world.
• Secret Secret-Keeper: Its clear that Zhe Yan basically figured out Bai Qian and Su Su were the same person after her finds her unconscious in the woods, although he seems inclined to keep Plausible Deniability on his side for several hundred years until Ye Hua questions him. He does this because he realises how traumatised Bai Qian was and decided to let her choose what was best for her at the time.
• Those Two Guys: Most of the time, he's seen with Bai Zhen or looking for him.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: He can turn into a phoenix.

Bai Zhen

Played by: Yu Meng Long

Voiced by: Yang Tian Xiang

Fourth son of the Fox King and Bai Qian's older brother. Spends most of his time with Zhe Yan.

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• Big Brother Instinct: Pretty protective of his younger sister, Bai Qian. He gets involved in the war with the Ghost Tribe to save and aid her (even though the Fox Tribe is pretty passive). Later on, he (playfully) threatens Ye Hua about the engagement between the prince and Bai Qian, saying he'll personally deal with Ye Hua if he hurts his sister. He also immediately rushes to her aid when Qing Cang is finally about to break free.
• Big Damn Heroes: Arrives at the battle at Ruo River just in time to save his sister and Ling Yu (though the latter is already close to death/dead).
• Brilliant, but Lazy: Bai Zhen is a great god himself, a hard feat to achieve, with enough power to lead part of Mo Yuan's army and easily survives the war against the Ghost Tribe. However, he prefers to lounge around in Peach Tree woods with Zhe Yan.
• Cool Uncle: To Feng Jiu.
• If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...: When he's trolling Ye Hua, he basically invokes this. Even when sending a message along with the delivery of a map, he threatens to "personally reason" with Ye Hua should he cause Bai Qian harm when they're married.
• Pretty Boy: His mother states he's even better looking than his sister, Bai Qian, who is the World's Most Beautiful Woman.
• Shipper on Deck: For Bai Qian and Ye Hua. He recognises Ye Hua's good character and love for Bai Qian pretty quickly, and even helps his sister realise that she reciprocates.
• Those Two Guys: Most of the time, he's seen with Zhe Yan.
• Troll: When Ye Hua comes to ask him for aid against the Ghost Tribe rebels (specifically a map of Bai Zhen's territory in the North), Bai Zhen takes the opportunity to playfully threaten the crown prince over his engagement to Bai Qian. Even Zhe Yan notes that it was funny to see him play up this way.
• You Are Number 6: Called "Fourth Brother" as per his birth order.

Bai Zhi and Fox Empress

Played by: Zhang Gong (Bai Zhi), Ma Rui (Fox Empress)

Voiced by: Liu Cong(Bai Zhi), Ren Yi Jie (Fox Empress)

The overall ruler of Qing Qui and the Fox Tribe, and his wife. They are the parents of Bai Yi, Bai Zhen and Bai Qian (as well as two other unseen sons).

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• The Emperor / The Good King: He's the overall ruler of the Fox Tribe, and thus of the five far lands of Qing Qui sitting higher up than his five children who are the direct monarchs of those lands.
• Good Parents: Their children love and respect them greatly.
• Hands-Off Parenting: Aside from Bai Qian being sent to Kunlun to refine herself, Bai Zhi and his wife seem to have let their children do as they wanted. Their children often leave home whenever they like and Bai Qian recalls that her parents did not mind when she drunk herself into a five-day long sleep when she was a child.
• Marry for Love: Bai Zhi and his empress did this, and despite arranging marriages for their daughter, seem inclined to let their children do the same, even willing to let Bai Qian out of these agreements.
• Massive Numbered Siblings: They have five children, four sons and one daughter.
• Modest Royalty: Despite their high ranks (more or less equal to the Heavenly Emperor), Bai Zhi and his wife dress in a less flashy style compared to some of the Celestial royals. In fact, you'd be hard pressed to think Bai Zhi is so high ranked considering he dresses only slightly better than his subjects. On top of this, they live in Fox Dens (large caves) rather than palace complexes and don't tend to have many servants.
• No Name Given: The Fox Empress' name is never revealed, unlike that of her husband.
• Papa Wolf: Bai Zhi battles the four divine beasts (powered by the essence of a Creator God) in order to get the divine fungal grass to save Bai Qian's life.
• Parental Favoritism: The Fox Empress is said to blatantly favour her daughter, not that her sons seem to mind.
• Universally Beloved Leader: Bai Zhi seems to be universally liked and respected within Qing Qui and outside of it.

Bai Yi

Played by: Leng Haiming

Voiced by: Unknown

The second son of Bai Zhi, older brother to Bai Zhen and Bai Qian, and the father of Bai Feng Jiu.

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• Corporal Punishment: He beats Feng Jiu to punish her when she acts irresponsibly. Whilst his siblings and Mi Gu take pity on her when he does, nobody thinks he's brutal or wrong for doing so.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Bai Yi is the responsible compared to the lazier Bai Zhen and Bai Qian.
• Hidden Depths: Feng Jiu reveals that Bai Yi is a closet romantic when it comes to his wife, as he will use his magic to ensure she doesn't get wet whilst he carries her on his back in the rain just to make her happy.
• No Sense of Humor: People tend to avoid him because he's so serious and unyielding.
• Tough Love: Whilst he does love his daughter, Bai Yi is the only one in his family who is inclined to discipline Feng Jiu when she's done something wrong.
• You Are Number 6: Generally called "Second Brother" in line with his birth order.

Mi Gu

Played by: Zhang You Hao

Voiced by: Su Shang Qio

A tree spirit who's served the Bai family for many years.

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• Battle Butler: Effectively the housekeeper/butler of Bai Qian's fox den and often in charge of protecting it. He attacks Xuan Nu when he realises who she is and would have beaten her if she didn't use an enchantment to dull his senses.
• Kill It with Fire: As he's a tree spirit, he's naturally very afraid of fire and thus it's the reason why he can't cook.
• Nature Spirit: He's a tree spirit.
• No-Sell: Su Jin sends Xin Nu to give Bai Qian a lesson in Celestial etiquette which is designed to humiliate Bai Qian into calling off the engagement to Ye Hua. Xin Nu's way with words usually helps her mistress, but she never gets by Mi Gu. Despite her best smug, condescending tone, the tree spirit just listens with pleasant amusement. Then, without a care for this crap, lectures Xin Nu about how Qing Qui culture is simpler and she's just a low immortal who has insulted a high goddess and queen, in front of her people. This sets the mob off and Mi Gu happily watches them drive the insolent maid out of Qing Qui.
• Out-of-Character Alert:
  • Mi Gu figures out that Xuan Nu is impersonating Bai Qian after she doesn't bow to Mo Yuan's body as a respectful student does.
  • Bai Qian figures out that Mi Gu is under an enchantment when he's far too laid back than he usually is.
• Secret-Keeper: As Bai Qian's housekeeper, he's privy to her secrets, such as the fact she was Si Yin and is hiding Mo Yuan's body.
• Shipper on Deck: After seeing how well Ye Hua treats Bai Qian and that she seems to like him, he supports their marriage and tease her about it.
• Undying Loyalty: To the Bai clan.

Shao Xin

Played by: An Yuexi

Voiced by: Xu Chang Fan

A snake spirit adopted by the Bai clan, she marries Sang Ji, the Second Prince of the Nine Heavens.

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• Adopt-a-Servant: Bai Qian rescues her and sends her to be taken in by Bai Zhen, who in turn takes her to his mother. The Fox Empress takes her in and she serves at the fox den, eventually as Bai Qian's maid or lady-in-waiting. It's made clear she was well-treated and she regards them as her family, even after she runs off with Sang Ji. In fact, the Bai clan don't actually hold much emnity for her over this, except in terms of public image.
• I Owe You My Life: Bai Qian saves her from abuse so she effectively indentures herself to her rescuer.
• Mama Bear: Whilst she can't physically fight to protect Yuan Zhen, she uses the favour Bai Qian grants her to get the high goddess to protect him from the effects of his heavenly trial in the mortal realm. This is a powerful favour as Bai Qian is the only person who could interfere in the trial without repercussions due to many debts the Celestial Tribe owes Qing Qui.
• Marry for Love: Falls for Sang Ji and both ruins her reputation in Qing Qui and risks her life to be with him.
• Undying Loyalty: To Bai Qian, mostly. Though she ruins the engagement between Sang Ji and Bai Qian by falling for the former, she still refuses to give up her mistress' secrets even when pressured by Dong Hua. Hell, she doesn't even tell her own husband these secrets. She also stops her husband from suspecting Bai Qian's motives or protecting her from Feng Jiu's chidings, which she accepts she deserves.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: Can turn into/was born as a little blue snake.

Nine Heavens

Dong Hua Dijun

Played by: Vengo Gao

Voiced by: Zhang Jie

The former Heavenly Emperor.

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• Abdicate the Throne: He abdicated long before the series began.
• Actually Pretty Funny: When he learns that Bai Feng Jiu switched the summoning bells he gave to the earth deity watching the Bell of the East Emperor for a flute, Dong Hua finds this amusing rather than being annoyed.
• Always Save the Girl: Is clearly protective of Feng Jiu and always goes to her rescue (despite the damage it causes to himself), which may be because of a guilty conscience over their intertwined connection.
• Didn't Think This Through: In contrast to everything else he does, Dong Hua doesn't seem to consider that humouring Feng Jiu's desire to pay back her Life Debt or being openly proective of her will do any damage to her. This is despite easily realising she's in love with him. Even after he sends her away, he decides he'll allow himself to reciprocate her feelings 300 years later whilst he's undergoing a human trial. This ends up reigniting the feelings she spent those centuries trying to get over, makes them much stronger because she correctly figures out that this means he does love her, and she goes to increasingly desperate lengths to get him to openly recriporcate, up to endangering her own life. And all of this is a result of him removing his name and thus destined love from the Rock of Three Lifetimes without thinking of the effect it would have on the woman he was supposed to end up with, which is, of course, Feng Jiu. As Bai Qian angrily points out, he should have simply told Feng Jiu to go away when she first showed up if he wanted to be without romance in his life.
• Love Ruins the Realm: He devoted himself to the realms so firmly that he removed his destined love from the Rock of Three Lifetimes (which basically shows who is supposed to end up together) in order to prevent having his judgment clouded by romance.
• Mysterious Past: Nobody knows where Dong Hua came from. The accepted rumour is that he was born from a rock.
• Mystical White Hair: Dijun stands out amongst most immortals because of his unusual silver-white hair.
• Not So Stoic: A lot of outsiders, and some insiders, have the impression that Dong Hua is a majestic, stone-faced god who doesn't gossip and can't love, and he does act like it in public. However, he's also a Troll to those around him and is capable of coercing gossip from others whilst acting disinterested (often using it to advantage in some way), and he clearly has feelings for Feng Jiu.
• Older Than They Look: Dong Hua was conquering and ruling the realms around the same time Bai Zhi, the Fox Emperor, was raising his kids. He's also the predecessor to the current Heavenly Emperor's father, yet he looks he could pass for the same generation as the Emperor's sons such as Lian Song.
• Purple Is Powerful: Tends to wear purple and he's the strongest god alive (when he's at full power anyway).
• Retired Badass: Prefers to not get involved and lounge in his palace, only offering wisdom when he feels like it. That being said, he will act for the sake of the realm, it's just usually by roundabout methods rather than physically getting involved.
• Secret Secret-Keeper: It's clear Dong Hua knows, or figures out, more than he lets on. Sometimes he admits it, such as eventually telling Zhe Yan he knows that Bai Qian and Si Yin are one and the same. Other times, he keeps it to himself because he realises that revealing it will mess with fate (ie. that Su Su is Bai Qian undergoing a heavenly trial). And some times, he uses the secrets to provoke an outcome, such as helping Le Xu become pregnant with Ye Hua (it is implied he knew the golden lotus at Kunlun was Mo Yuan's twin in the series anyway).
• Starcrossed Lovers: He and Bai Feng Jiu (at least in the series). It's revealed that he removed his name from the Rock of Three Lives, which records who people are fated to be with. He did this for the betterment of the realms by keeping himself above it all. However, part of that original fate lingers on as Feng Jiu still falls in love with him and it's clear he still ends up caring for her and seems to feel guilty.
• Tranquil Fury: Happens twice.
  • First, when he learns that Feng Jiu was thrown into the Evil Sealing Pagoda by Zhi Yue, he arrives with full crimson aura on display and a clearly angry expression, all the while chiding the sealing beast for daring to snarl at him.
  • Second, when he finds Feng Jiu (in her fox form) injured and being manhandled by Su Jin and her maid Xin Nu. He plays this to the hilt when cowing Su Jin into begging for forgiveness. Su Jin has to tell Xin Nu that he was clearly pissed.
• Troll: Dong Hua seems to have some fun teasing Feng Jiu, especially when she thinks she's tricking him. He does mess with other people a little as well, usually to confirm theories he has.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Bai Qian lets him have it for effectively stringing Feng Jiu along, despite the fact he removed his name and fated love from the Rock of Three Lifetimes, meaning she could not be with him. What's worse, is that Feng Jiu and he were fated before he removed his name, so he changed fate without thinking of the consequences for the feelings of his intended.
• Worf Had the Flu: Dong Hua, the oldest and strongest god around, conqueror of the realms, likely could have defeated Qing Cang rather easily when at full power. However, by the time Qing Cang breaks free, Dong Hua's cultivation had taken a massive hit due to having fought the beast in the Evil Sealing Pagoda, and because his mortal trial backfired and he was punished for it by having what culvitation he regained fractured again. In fact, he's not got enough power to even do soul-tracking magic, which is such a simple technique that Feng Jiu, who is not even a high immortal yet, can do it and she ends up having to protect him at one point.
• You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry!: Dong Hua subtly points this out to Su Jin after she injures a nine-tailed fox (actually Feng Jiu) he claims as his pet. It frightens her into punishing herself.

Heavenly Emperor

Heavenly Emperor/Hao De

Played by: Jiang Kai

Voiced by: Tang Shui Yu

Ruler of the Nine Heavens. Ye Hua's grandfather.

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• Didn't Think This Through: The Emperor, when it comes to Ye Hua in general. The way he has his grandson raised stifles all the love in Ye Hua's life, as Lian Song later points out. He is also in-line with Su Jin's thinking for getting rid of the mortal Su Su, and thus tactically supports Su Jin undermining the relationship to the point Su Su effectively suicides. However, the Emperor severely underestimates Ye Hua wanting and needing love in his life, and the love he has for Su Su. This results in Ye Hua going to extreme lengths to protect Su Su, injuring himself severely several times, and ultimately almost dying after he jumps off Zhuxian Terrace after her. It's only after this near-death, and Lian Song's honest answer, does the Emperor feel any regret at pushing Ye Hua too hard and too far.
• Education Mama: A male-version. Typical of Chinese society, particularly in monarchies. The Heavenly Emperor ensured that his sons and first grandson were highly educated, particularly his favoured second son Sang Ji and then his grandson, Ye Hua. With Ye Hua, he had him sitting in the library as soon as he could sit (even when he couldn't read), ensured he had the best tutors, and any praise was effectively tempered with "be better than Sang Ji".
• The Emperor: Supposed to be benevolent kind. How he treats his family and his reaction towards Su Su shows that whilst he does think of the good of the kingdom, he leans into Knight Templar when it comes to projecting the power and image of his dynasty.
• Fantastic Racism: He will send Ye Hua to stop the Golden Lion Beast harming mortals, but he holds humans in extremely low regard, even if they're ignorant of the celestial rules. The Emperor treats Su Su like she's a bug, and is in league with Su Jin to a degree in getting rid of her. Even when Su Su is trying to ask for an inquest, he gives her testimony no regard even though a truly good ruler would and should do so. However, when he discovers that Su Su was actually Bai Qian, suddenly her word holds more weight than Su Jin's.
• Horrible Judge of Character: His favouring of Su Jin comes from a number of places (her family's sacrifice, her status as a celestial, and possibly not having his own daughter). However, whilst his knowledge of what exactly she does to Su Su is up for debate, even he's rather surprised just how far she's gone in trying to have her way.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: Though the Emperor favours Su Jin, and is somewhat aware of her schemes, once Dong Hua suggests he sit out Su Jin's trial, he immediately realises he cannot protect Su Jin as his predecessor's position carries too much force.
• Light Is Not Good: He usually wears bright colours and lives in a palace in the clouds. But he also has Shao Xin locked away because she wants to marry his son, and he refuses to let Ye Hua see his mother unless he completes an Impossible Task. And then there's the way he treats Bai Qian...
• Love Is a Weakness: He firmly thinks that indulging in any sort of love is a hinderance to ruling (which he curiously seems to have in common with Dong Hua to a point). He wouldn't let Ye Hua's own mother raise him because a loving mother creates a weak child, and when Ye Hua is in love with Su Su, the Emperor thinks it's both a fancy that will fade and a distraction that must be removed. As a result, Ye Hua grows up lonely and starved of affection, and ends up utterly shattered when Su Su is forced into suicide. Only when Ye Hua himself nearly perishes does the Emperor consider he was wrong.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Only after Ye Hua nearly kills himself over Su Su's (apparent) death does the Emperor even begin to regret being a strict grandparent and consider that he's at fault.
• Parental Marriage Veto: He doesn't approve of Sang Ji's love for Shao Xin.
• Parental Favoritism: He favoured his second son, Sang Ji, until that son disappointed him by breaking the engagement to Bai Qian for love. When Ye Hua was born, he doted on his first grandson as well. However, his favouritism comes with a price.
• Top God: As the Heavenly Emperor. It can be debated by the fact that even he diverts to the wisdom of former Emperor, Dong Hua Dijun, quite a bit of the time.
• Tough Love: A strict father and grandfather, bordering on abusive. His sons and grandson have to be perfect princes, and they have to marry for the good of the celestial throne. Whilst this is in-line with the way monarchies used to work, the fact he made Ye Hua sit in the study for hours the moment he learned to do so, and before her could even read, is excessive. Moreover, the Heavenly Emperor immediately tries to have Shao Xin and Su Su killed when he gets hold of them as they're in the way of the marriages he arranged for Sang Ji and Ye Hua. He ends up suceeding with Su Su (in a roundabout way), but Ye Hua's reaction to this makes him regret his behaviour.

Su Jin

Played by: Huang Meng Ying (adult), Wu Yu Jue (teen), Ling Cen (child)

Voiced by: Yang Meng Meng (adult)

The only surviving descendant of her tribe. The Heavenly Emperor adopted her after her family were killed. Falls in love with Ye Hua.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: Whilst Ye Hua initially regarded her as he would his brush stand (that is, not at all), once she makes her feelings known and becomes incresingly desperate to gain his affection, to the point of murder, he truly comes to hate her.
• Batman Gambit: Her plans to deal with Su Su rely on everyone reacting as she knows they will. Particularly seen in how she frames Su Su for pushing her off Zhuxian Terrace: Ye Hua will save her (because that's who he is), nobody will believe Su Su because she's a mortal, the other clan leaders will demand Su Su's life, and the Emperor will take her life out of favouritism for Su Jin and wanting Su Su dead anyway.
• Believing Their Own Lies: A part of Su Jin's increasing instability when it comes to her "love" for Ye Hua. She is convinced he loved/loves her, that she can "get back" his love or make him love her, that she will treat him better than Su Su and that she loves him more than Su Su. She also claims she never wanted him to herself. Her actions however show just how deluded she is, given that Ye Hua outright proves he never loved her and comes to loathe her, she effectively chases off other women around him and murders Su Su which breaks his heart and nearly causes his death. But sure, this is what love looks like...
• Berserk Button: Absolutely loses her composure and begins shouting when Xin Nu reports that the people of Qing Qiu called her nothing but a "mistress".
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Pretends to be demure and friendly to Su Su in order to tear her and Ye Hua apart.
• Break Them by Talking:
  • One of her ploys has her talking into a communication mirror so Su Su can hear her claiming that she and Ye Hua are in love and only circumstance got in the way. Poor Su Su buys it.
  • She breaks Bai Qian's confidence by talking about how Ye Hua truly loved Su Su and implying Bai Qian is only an identical replacement. Both of them are, as yet, unuaware this is not the case, so Bai Qian ends up drinking her sorrows away and questioning Ye Hua's love for her, threatening their upcoming marriage.
• Determinator: No matter how much Su Jin is told that Ye Hua won't love her, she won't take the hint. Ye Hua says she's like an aunt to him. Le Xu, Lian Song and the Heavenly Emperor all tell her to give up at some point. She still won't give up even after Ye Hua stabs her in the chest, or when he flat out says he's only keeping her alive because she has Su Su's eyes and her time enforcing her presence on him in childhood meant nothing. It merely drives her to do crazier things.
• Didn't See That Coming: That the mortal Su Su, whom she manipulated into suicide, was actually the high goddess Bai Qian. When it's revealed to her, Su Jin quickly begins losing her composure as things go From Bad to Worse for her.
• Didn't Think This Through: Her accusation against Yuan Zhen. Whilst initially it works, once Dong Hua gets involved, he exposes the critical evidence that Su Jin set the boy up: Yuan Zhen had never been to the Celestial Palace prior and had no idea where Su Jin's hall was, thus he couldn't have simply marched straight into her hall to attack her unless he was led there. When this comes out, her expression makes it clear she realises this massive mistake.
• Dramatically Missing the Point: When Ye Hua tells her that she should be like Bai Qian and give him no choice but to marry her, Su Jin takes it as a challenge to scheme and manipulate her way into being his side consort with every ounce of intellect she has regarding how to get ahead in a highly competitive royal court. She doesn't stop to consider that Ye Hua doesn't care about her, that he doesn't even want to, and that his advice was actually about her being like Bai Qian in the sense of being extremely high ranked in the world as a respected ruling Queen in her own right and having achieved high immortal status with the likelihood she'll become a high god pretty soon. Given she comes from a warrior clan, Su Jin probably could have been capable of ascending in power if she put her mind to it, but instead she focused on petty pursuits in court and a comfortable, spoiled existence, which ends up causing absolute havoc in everyone's lives, including Su Jin's herself.
• Entitled to Have You: Su Jin seems to believe that because she grew up with Ye Hua, helped care for him, and thinks she knows him best, that he should love her and only she should get to be with him. This is despite knowing that his position means he has to marry a woman of equally auspicious background. She also never once takes his feelings into account at all, even what he flat out says "no", and does everything she can to force her way into being his side consort.
• Eye Scream: She manipulates the situation to have Bai Qian's eyes cut out. Years later, Bai Qian does the exact same to her.
• False Rape Accusation: In an attempt to keep Ye Hua home and away from Bai Qian, she sets up Sang Ji's young son, Yuan Zhen, to make it look like he tried to rape her.
• Gone Horribly Right: Her plan to get Su Su killed works (well, sort of), but as a result, Ye Hua almost ends up dying when he follows Su Su off Zhuxian Terrace. Su Jin is upset, though she never admits to feeling any guilt.
• Hopeless Suitor: A fact she refuses to realise.
• Ignored Epiphany: She briefly states aloud to Xin Nu that getting into conflict with Bai Qian will not help herself, at which she tries to indirectly get Bai Qian to cancel the engagement. However, when this doesn't work, she immediately gets into direct conflict with Bai Qian which ultimately blows up in her face.
• It's All About Me: She never stops to think about anyone but herself and how she wants to be Ye Hua's wife, regardless of whether he wants it or not. When becoming his consort by decree, she thinks he'll be bothered she was technically his grandfather's side consort instead of the fact her actions resulted in the suicide of the woman Ye Hua actually loves. After Ye Hua stabs her in rejection she seems legitimately confused as to why, and later has to say she can save Su Su, so long as Ye Hua lets her move into his palace to be his consort. This is all the while having a small tantrum about Su Su overshadowing her wedding to Ye Hua even in death, and how she's always had things go right for her until now, never mind the fact it's clearly upsetting the man she claims to love.
• Last of His Kind: Su Jin is the last member of her clan, as they all died in the war with the Ghost Tribe. She was given the clan name "Su Jin" as her own.
• Love Makes You Crazy / Love Makes You Evil: Her love for Ye Hua drives her to do utterly insane things like becoming his grandfather's concubine and trying to murder Su Su/Bai Qian. She's also convinced that Ye Hua did love her, or would have loved her, if Su Su didn't come along, and often mentions getting his heart back even though it's made clear this was never the case. There's also the fact that half the time she doesn't seem to understand why Ye Hua is rejecting her, even after she caused Su Su's death. The only thing that stops her from being as Ax-Crazy as Xuan Nu is that she never gets her own hands dirty due to being more subtle, though her clearly crazed eyes sometimes give away that she's not quite right in the head.
• Loving a Shadow: Despite growing up with him and thinking she knows Ye Hua, Su Jin never actually seems to really understand him as exemplified by the fact she utterly refuses to accept he doesn't love her.
• Murder by Suicide: Gets rid of Su Su by manipulating her into jumping off Zhuxian Terrace, which is death for a mortal.
• Murder the Hypotenuse: She's so in love with Ye Hua that she's convinced that if she just gets rid of Su Su, he'll love her back, so she keeps manipulating and tormenting her rival until Su Su leaps off Zhuxian Terrace, believing it'll take her back to the mortal realm as Su Jin told her. In fact, it kills mortals (Su Su survives because she's really the goddess Bai Qian).
• Not Good with Rejection: Ye Hua tells her that he thinks of her as an aunt, so she schemes to rise in rank enough to become his side consort, and it gets worse from there. The more he tells her that he doesn't like her, the more she can't handle it.
• Not Me This Time: Ye Hua is told that Su Jin stole the Soul-Gathering Lamp from his hall and angrily confronts her. However, she is actually innocent of this crime, and she is able to convince him she wouldn't be stupid enough to do it (barely). It was actually Bai Feng Jiu.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • She utterly loses her composure when she claps eyes on Bai Qian for the first time and sees her startling resemblance to Su Su.
  • Absolutely freaks when Bai Qian asks her how she feels about using Bai Qian's eyes, making her realise that the high goddess is actually Su Su.
• Pink Means Feminine: Always wears a soft pink colour, which is likely to contrast her to Bai Qian.
• Relationship Sabotage: Her attempts to get rid of Su Su/Bai Qian revolve around causing misunderstandings between them, particularly on Su Su/Bai Qian's side. She succeeds most of the time, getting Su Su to inadvertantly kill herself (so everyone believes) and then getting Bai Qia to think Ye Hua only loves her because she looks like Su Su (until Bai Qian remembers, at which point the issues with Su Su come back).
• Rejection Affection: Ye Hua rejects her continually - nicely at first, and then with increasing annoyance and disdain - but she won't accept that he will never love her.
• Royal Brat: Su Jin herself says her life went pretty okay for her over 70,000 years due to the Emperor favouring her immensely in respect of the sacrifice her entire clan made. The only thing she never got was Ye Hua's attention, which absolutely can't handle admitting.
• Selective Obliviousness: Su Jin absolutely refuses to listen when Ye Hua says he thinks of her like an aunt, that he didn't know of her feelings, that he doesn't want to marry her, that their shared childhood meant nothing, that she's a vessel for Su Su's eyes, that he doesn't care if she dies... For a moment, she'll cry about his rejection, then she'll go right back to schemeing to regain his affection.
• Spanner in the Works: Ye Hua's plan to hide his feelings for Su Su would have gone better if Su Jin hadn't of decided to fight in the battle against the Mermaid clan and thus found the copper communication mirror he used to talk to Su Su after he dropped it. Why he took it with him is unclear, however her discovery meant she realised that Ye Hua cared for Su Su and was able to tell the Heavenly Emperor, meaning neither believed the facade he put on and were able to keep bullying her until she killed herself as they wanted.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: Whilst the Emperor is taken in, Ye Hua and Lian Song are not convinced by Su Jin's act when she claims Yuan Zhen assaulted her. She dramatically and specifically asks for white silk to hang herself with to prove her innocence several times whilst sobbing. Later, she's still crying dramatically and specifically asks if a woman would damage her own reputation/purity just to frame someone, to which Ye Hua coldly points out she's done a similar thing before.
• This Cannot Be!: When Bai Qian storms into her hall and reveals she is Su Su, Su Jin cannot comprehend that a mortal was really a goddess.
• Unwanted Spouse: Or side consort/concubine. Ye Hua does not want anything to do with her, but the Heavenly Emperor's edict means he hasn't got much choice except to let her live in his palace with the official status as his concubine. Su Jin's acceptance of this "unwanted" status is vague at best.
• Villainous Breakdown: Once Bai Qian storms into her hall and reveals she is Su Su, Su Jin begins to lose it. Though she temporarily regains composure to try and plead before the Heavenly Emperor, Dong Hua's intervention to prove her many crimes leaves her a sobbing, pleading mess on the floor.
• Villain with Good Publicity: Su Jin relies on the fact that her entire clan was wiped out in the war with the Ghost Tribe, which gave her the favour of the Heavenly Emperor. She even tells her servant at one point that she'll get off lightly if caught in one of her schemes because of this. Su Jin also carefully crafts her image to make people think she has more favour with Ye Hua than she actually does.
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Injures herself in order to frame Su Su for attempted murder and get her executed. Whilst Su Su is spared death, her eyes are removed in order to heal Su Jin's.
• Yandere: She'll do anything to make Ye Hua love her. Anything.
• Yamato Nadeshiko: A Chinese variety. Also a subversion. She appears to be a prim, proper and demure princess, and she does have a certain toughness of character as well as subtle intelligence. However, she is actually an insane Bitch in Sheep's Clothing who is using these traits to try and make a man love her and remove any obstacle in her path.

Si Ming

Played by: Wang Xiao

Voiced by: Wang Xiao

Lord of the South Dipper. He's in charge of life and fate in the human realm.

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• Gossipy Hens: A male version; he spends most of his time gossiping with Lian Song and Cheng Yu.
• Shipper on Deck: He ships Feng Jiu and Dijun.

Yang Cuo

Played by: Mou Fengbin

Voiced by: Unknown

First son of the Heavenly Emperor and Ye Hua's father.

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• Bumbling Dad: Yang Cuo basically comes across as this to Ye Hua. At best, he's just a stand in for the Emperor, who acts much more like he's Ye Hua's father than Yang Cuo is. Doesn't help that he is more or less his father's Yes-Man. It's telling that Ye Hua never much acknowledges his father save for polite custom, and he confides in his uncle Lian Song.
• Education Mama: A male version, and more as a proxy for his father. Yang Cuo clearly took part in the way Ye Hua was raised, but seemingly because he was ordered to do so.
• Extreme Doormat: Basically one to this father and doesn't seem to mind being so. Despite being the eldest son, he isn't the heir to the throne - that's his son. He exists mainly to support whatever his father wants and know the laws and regulations of the Celestial Tribe.
• Yes-Man: Goes along with whatever his father says. Even when Ye Hua's life is in danger, he can't offer a solution and has to be pushed into going along with Lian Song's idea of getting the divine fungal grass.

Sang Ji

Played by: Wang Ruolun

Voiced by: Ling Zhen He

Second son of the Heavenly Emperor and Bai Qian's former fiance who marries her maid Shao Xin instead. Becomes the King of the North Sea as result.

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• Gracefully Demoted: On his end, anyway. His father exiles him to be the King of the North Sea after he chooses to marry Shao Xin instead of Bai Qian.
• Marry for Love: Opts to go with his heart after he falls for Shao Xin. He succeeds although at a cost, which he doesn't seem to mind.
• Papa Wolf: Though he cannot stand up to his father when Yuan Zhen is falsely accused of molestering Su Jin, he sends a servant to look out for his son during his heavenly trial in the mortal realm. When Shao Xin gets Bai Qian to save Yuan Zhen from his mortal fate, Sang Ji risks his powers backfiring on him to aid the plan.
• Parental Favoritism: Was his father's favourite son until he broke his betrothal to Bai Qian for the sake of love.

Lian Song

Played by: Li Dong Heng

Voiced by: Zhao Yi

Third son of the Heavenly Emperor. Ye Hua's uncle and confidante.

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• Amicable Exes: He and Cheng Yu used to be in love. They broke it off, but remain good friends.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: Lian Song is actually rather competant when he needs to be. He attends court on Ye Hua's behalf sometimes, is well aware of the problems of the heavens, is able to give exceedingly good advice, and he's the one who led the Celestial army to victory against the Mermaid Clan when Ye Hua was injured. On the flip side, he would prefer to not be in charge and often only acts because he cares about his nephew.
• The Casanova: Has a reputation as a playboy prince, which his father considers a deficit in his character.
• The Confidant: Lian Song is the uncle Ye Hua is the closest too and as such, he is privy to Ye Hua's true personality and feelings. When Ye Hua needs help getting Su Su to fall for him, or to help with plans to keep her safe, etc., he goes to his Third Uncle.
• Cool Uncle: To Ye Hua.
• Gossipy Hens: A male version; he spends a lot of time gossiping with Si Ming and Cheng Yu.
• Honest Advisor: Within the confines of the rigid etiquette anyway. Lian Song is much more blunt when advising Ye Hua, and usually more circumspect with his father. When his father asks him to be honest as to whether he was too strict on Ye Hua, Lian Song flat out tells him "yes".
• Secret-Keeper: He's the only one of Ye Hua's family that knows about Su Su for a while.

Le Xu

Played by: Liu Xiaoye

Voiced by: Zhang Ai

Yang Cuo's consort and Ye Hua's mother.

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• Doting Parent: Deliberately averted by the Heavenly Emperor who feared that a doting mother would make Ye Hua weak, so her son was taken from her when he was born.
• Express Delivery: Was only pregnant for a short time before giving birth to Ye Hua, although the labour itself took about a week.
• Good Parents: Ye Hua clearly loves her as she doesn't ask anything of him except for him to be happy and safe. When he appears before her bloodied from his ascension to high immortal, she's horrified and expresses her wish that he wasn't the heir just so he could normal.
  • Her parenting of Su Jin on the other hand...
• Horrible Judge of Character: Never sees anything wrong in Su Jin until her crimes are brought to light by Bai Feng Jiu.
• Hypocrite: Of the Never My Fault variety. She lays into Bai Qian after Ye Hua's death, saying that Ye Hua was the one always getting hurt for her and Bai Qian/Su Su never did anything for him. Whilst she may not be aware of how the two actually met, she never takes into account that she and the rest of Ye Hua's family (save Lian Song) treated Su Su like dirt and some were actively trying to kill her, and this was actually the reason Ye Hua suffered, not anything Su Su did. Nor does she understand that the thing Bai Qian did for Ye Hua was love him unconditionally and make him happy, which is something Le Xu actually wanted for him.
• Law of Inverse Fertility: Le Xu was under a lot of pressure to have a child, but could not get pregnant. It takes a literal miracle for her to give birth to Ye Hua who is her only child.
• Mama Bear: As much as she can be in her position amongst the rules of the Celestials. It makes sense since she was seemingly barren and Ye Hua is her only child, born from a miracle. Although, she doesn't necessarily go about it the right way.
  • This goes for A'Li, her grandson. After Ye Hua's death, Le Xu basically keeps her grandson locked up in the palace, presumably not wanting to lose what she has left of her son.
• Mystical Pregnancy: Touches the golden lotus and within a short time span, gives birth to Ye Hua.

Cheng Yu

Played by: Wang Ting

Voiced by: Chu Jun

A mortal who ascended to the Nine Heavens.

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• Amicable Exes: She's still friends with her former lover, Lian Song.
• Gossipy Hens: Spends a lot of time gossiping with Si Ming and Lian Song.
• Immortal Immaturity: Acts a lot younger than she looks (and likely is). It's always in a fun, childish way however, especially when it comes to spending time with A'Li.
• Shipper on Deck: Helps Feng Jiu in her pursuit of Dong Hua.
• Wholesome Crossdresser: She often dresses as a man.

Zhi Yue

Played by: Liu Meilin

Voiced by: Zhang Xue Ling

An immortal from Fang Xu Mountains, and Ye Hua's cousin.

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• Green-Eyed Monster: She's jealous of Feng Jiu because Dong Hua pays her attention, and often bullies her whilst she's a maid at Taichen Palace. Zhi Yue is even jealous of the fox (who is also Feng Jiu) that Dong Hua takes care of, to the point she locks it inside the Evil Sealing Pagoda.
• Hopeless Suitor: To Dong Hua, a fact she refuses to understand even when Lian Song flat out explains it.
• Love Makes You Crazy: She's not evil, just incredibly bratty and entitled, which prompts her to bully Feng Jiu and get jealous of a fox.
• My God, What Have I Done?: She regrets locking the fox (who is Feng Jiu) in the Evil Sealing Pagoda and cries about it.
• Pet the Dog: To her credit, even she is clearly shocked at the injuries Feng Jiu got after being attacked by a demonic phoenix.
• Shipper on Deck: Apparently supports Su Jin and Ye Hua, even gleefully wanting her cousin to stop the Emperor from taking Su Jin as his concubine.
• Sticky Fingers: Steals the Cloud-Clearing fan from Yuan Zhen.

Tian Shu and Jia Yun

Played by: Yu Wentao (Tian Shu), Yu Xuan Hong Hao (Jia Yun)

Voiced by: Qi Si Jia (Tian Shu), Zhang Xin Yu (Jia Yun)

Ye Hua's servants. Tian Shu is his bodyguard and Jia Yun is his civil assistant.

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• Bodyguarding a Badass: Whilst he's clearly skilled, Tian Shu is still protecting the Crown Prince of the Nine Heavens, who is a noted warrior and general with power enough to defeat four beasts that carry half the power of a Creator God. When he fights off demon puppets, Ye Hua saves him with a single attack.
• Those Two Guys: Often seen together.
• Undying Loyalty: Incredibly loyal to Ye Hua and he trusts them completely.

Xin Nu

Played by: Zhang Ranyi

Voiced by: Unknown

Su Jin's personal maid.

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• Haughty Help: Acts above other maids and tends to order the soldiers on her lady's behalf.
• Sycophantic Servant: Does everything she can to bolster Su Jin's ego and delusions, despite how much trouble they would both be in if Su Jin's schemes were exposed.
• Undying Loyalty: To Su Jin, willing to feed her beliefs that she's the best person to marry Ye Hua as well as aid in her schemes to make it so.
• Yes-Man: Xin Nu only ever once, briefly, questions Su Jin's schemes (when she's planning to frame Yuan Zhen). Otherwise, whatever Su Jin asks of her, she'll agree to.

Nai Nai

Played by: Yang Anqi

Voiced by: Xu Jia Qi

Su Su's personal maid.

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• Naïve Newcomer: Ye Hua chooses Nai Nai to be Su Su's maid because she's new and thus totally loyal to him. Unfortunately, it also means she doesn't know the rules or the palace well, and thus gets tricked twice in plots by Sun Jin to defame Su Su.
• Parental Substitute: Helps Ye Hua raise A-Li, sort of as a nanny, and basically becomes the only mother he knows.
• Undying Loyalty: To Su Su. Le Xu even comments that Nai Nai is exceedingly loyal after she tearfully pleads to remain with Su Su despite the order for all maids in Ye Hua's palace to be replaced.

A Li

Played by: Zhang Yi Han

Voiced by: Unknown

Bai Qian and Ye Hua's son.

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• Affectionate Nickname: Bai Qian nicknames him "Tuan Zi", which is usually translated as "Riceball".
• Can't Hold His Liquor: A'Li is a child mind you, but he passes out from two sips of fruit wine and is asleep for about a day. According to Nai Nai, he is a light weight, like Ye Hua, whereas Bai Qian has an extremely high tolerance which she's possessed since childhood.
• Children Are Innocent: He occasionally speaks about adult things, such as how a book told him that a pregnant woman wasn't allowed to hold a child for fear of disturbing her unborn baby. He gets these ideas from Cheng Yu a lot of the time. He also innocently wanders into a brothel.
• Motor Mouth: The kid can really talk when he wants to, which he seems to have gotten from his mother.
• Missing Mom: Is raised by Ye Hua after Su Su jumps from Zhuxian Terrace and is believed dead. He hopes his mother will come back one day, and luckily, his wish comes true when he recognises Bai Qian.
• Parental Abandonment: Su Su leaves A-Li to his father's care due to her crushing depression causing her to jump from Zhuxian Terrace.

Kunlun Mountains

Mo Yuan

Played by: Mark Chao

Voiced by: Bian Jiang

The God of War, Master of Kunlun, and Bai Qian's mentor. He's also Ye Hua's older twin brother, although he was born long before Ye Hua.

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• The Ace: He's held up as an idealised standard amongst the gods, and most especially to Ye Hua, who looks uncannily like him.
• And I Must Scream: Mo Yuan sacrifices himself to seal the Bell of the East Emperor, which basically means having his soul blown it to millions of pieces. Whilst he does get better, it's implied that on some level he was conscious as he has to pull himself back together.
• Badass Teacher: To his disciples. When Si Yin and Ling Yu are held hostage by Qing Cang he immediately breaks his seclusion to rescue them.
• Big Good: Seems to function as one, especially to the Celestial Tribe. They turn to him when Qing Cang threatens war and his death loses them much prestige.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Mo Yuan easily dispatches the ghost soldiers that try to stop him saving Si Yin and Ling Yu.
• Expecting Someone Taller: Upon meeting him, Bai Qian is disappointed to find he's a Pretty Boy and not a tall, fierce god with three heads and six arms.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Sacrifices himself to win the war against Ghost Tribe.
• Mentor Occupational Hazard: He's Si Yin/Bai Qian's mentor, so of course he can't survive for long. Although, as a god, he can always, eventually, come back...
• Mistaken for Gay / Lover and Beloved: Several people comment how close Mo Yuan and his Seventeenth disciple are. Given that Si Yin is disguised as a man, it invokes these tropes, especially with the gossip that they ran away together and are living out their days in seclusion.
• Not So Stoic: As good as he is at being The Stoic, Mo Yuan's facade can slip. Si Yin/Bai Qian calling him a "pretty boy" surprises and amuses him (or anything she gets up to honestly), and Die Feny notes that the calmer he is, the more deeply troubled he is on the inside.
• Only Mostly Dead: Mo Yuan is declared dead after his Heroic Sacrifice, although it's slightly more complicated, especially because he tells Bai Qian to wait for him. As it happens, his soul was scattered and it took him 70,300 years to pull it back together (with help).
• Pretty Boy: Upon seeing him for the first time, Bai Qian comments that he is one. Mo Yuan finds it amusing.
• The Stoic: Very little seems to ruffle Mo Yuan, and he tends to say little unless necessary, keeping a straight face even during the discussion of war or being threatened with the idea of the Bell of the East Emperor. Few people are even able to read his emotions, especially when he's hiding them, save for Zhe Yen.
• The Strategist: Mo Yuan's battle formations are recognised across the realms as being almost unbeatable.
• Synchronization: A mild variant. Mo Yuan is connected to Ye Hua, and vice versa (likely because they're twins, but also possibly because Mo Yuan spent millennia caring for the golden lotus). When Mo Yuan's spirit makes its presence known, Ye Hua doubles over in pain; when Ye Hua gives his life, Mo Yuan in turn feels it.
• Taking the Bullet: Or rather, taking the holy lightning bolt. Mo Yuan protects Si Yin from her heavenly trial, consisting of three bolts of lightning, which leaves him injured. He did so because he felt she was not strong enough to take them without serious injury due to her lack of preparation.
• Tranquil Fury:
  • He is extremely furious with Yao Guang for kidnapping Si Yin and locking her in a water dungeon, but his face remains coldly stoic.
  • He is clearly enraged when he goes to the Ghost Realm to rescue Si Yin and Ling Yu, especially when confronted by Qing Cang.
• War God: Whilst he is calm, composed and reasonable Mo Yuan won't hesitate to go to war. In fact, Qing Cang counts on this in order to start a war with the Celestial Tribe.

Die Feng

Die Feng/Senior

Played by: Lai Yi

Voiced by: Wei Chao

Mo Yuan's senior disciple. Second Prince of the Western Seas.

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• Adaptational Backstory Change: In the series, the Senior Disciple is made into the Second Prince of the Western Seas, which isn't the case in the book.
• Adaptation Name Change: Die Feng wasn't his name in the book.
• Big Brother Instinct: Towards his fellow disciples. He notably attacked Li Jing to avenge Ling Yu and Si Yin having been abducted by the Ghost Tribe.
• Canon Foreigner: Whilst there is a Senior disciple in the book, it was not Die Feng. In fact, Die Feng was basically created for the series, partly over copyright issues with the second book (The Pillow Book, or Eternal Love of Dream). This led to...
• Composite Character: The senior disciple of the book Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms is combined with the Second Prince of the Western Seas from the second book, whose actual name is Su Moye. Su Moye was friends with Bai Zhen, which is what resulted in Zhe Yan finding Mo Yuan's spirit recovering inside the Crown Prince, Die Yong.
• I Will Find You: Die Feng spends over 70,000 years either fighting for his uncle or searching the realms for Si Yin and Mo Yuan's body. He only suceeds when he comes across Bai Qian nursing his ill brother and she reveals she is Si Yin.
• The Leader: All the other disciples defer to him as their senior.
• Warrior Prince: Second Prince of the Western Seas, he is a disciple of the God of War and uses his training to help his uncle, the King of the Chang Sea, to fight off the Mermaid Clan's attacks for millennia.

Chang Shan

Chang Shan/Second

Played by: Song Hai Jie

Voiced by: Unknown

Mo Yuan's second disciple.

Ling Yu

Ling Yu/Ninth

Played by: Zhang He

Voiced by: Su Shang Qing

Mo Yuan's ninth disciple.

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• It's Personal: Chooses to fight directly against the Ghost Tribe due to the indignities he was subjected to whilst Qing Cang's prisoner.
• Human Pincushion / Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Gets impaled with multiple arrows.

Zi Lan

Zi Lan/Sixteenth

Played by: Liu Rui Lin

Voiced by: Lu Zhi Xing

Mo Yuan's sixteenth disciple.

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• Star-Crossed Lovers: He falls in love with Yan Zhi, but they can't be together.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: The other disciples note that Zi Lan and Si Yin constantly bickered, but it simply meant they were close.

Ghost Tribe

Qing Cang

Played by: Lian Yi Ming

Voiced by: Unknown

First king of the Ghost Tribe. Father of Li Jing, Li Yuan, and Yan Zhi. Mo Yuan sealed him in the Bell of the East Emperor.

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• Abusive Parents: Towards Li Jing at least. Outwardly, he favours Li Yuan and Yan Zhi, however it's subverted by the fact that he cursed his children to be vessels for his own power. If they die, he becomes stronger.
• And I Must Scream: He's sealed up in the Bell of the East Emperor, a void of raging hell fire, for over 70,000 years. The two times he's re-sealed show that doing so causes him pain.
• Bad Boss: Is willing to send his soldiers to their deaths, and even sacrifice them, if it means he gets to rule the realms.
• Big Bad: He's the villain of the first and last arcs.
• Bullying a Dragon: Qing Cang plans to start a war by aggravating Mo Yuan, the God of War. It turns out... poorly.
• Defiant to the End: When his army is routed and he's at sword point, Qing Cang refuses Mo Yuan's offer for him to surrender to spare his children, soldiers and people. Instead, he unleashes the Bell of the East Emperor to Set the World on Fire in an attempt to take control instead. Even when he's imprisoned, he's still pretty sure of himself, and when Ye Hua beats him, he's still defiant and decides on Taking You with Me.
• Didn't Think This Through: Whilst he intends to start a war with the celestials, someone has to point out that Mo Yuan's strategies always give him the victory. It's only the luck of Xuan Nu falling into his lap that allows his forces to evenly match the celestial army. Even his back-up plan of using the Bell of the East Emperor isn't well thought out, as he doesn't consider that it's maker (that is, Mo Yuan) knows how to stop it. This is how the Ghost Tribe loses the war, is brought under the thumb of the Celestial Tribe, and Qing Cang himself is sealed inside the weapon for over 70,000 years.
• Domestic Abuse: Bordering on The Bluebeard. Qing Cang killed Li Yuan and Yan Zhi's mother for the sake of Li Jing's (it's never stated why). However, it is implied he allowed Li Yuan to kill Li Jing's mother because she found out a dark secret. He also abuses his second son.
• Horned Humanoid: He sometimes has horns growing out of his face.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Gets sealed in the Bell of the East Emperor three times — first by Mo Yuan, then Bai Qian, then Dong Hua.
• Taking You with Me: After he's defeated by Ye Hua, Qing Cang sacrifice his spirit to the Bell of the East Emperor to make it destroy the world. This forces Ye Hua into an Heroic Sacrifice.

Li Jing

Played by: Vin Zhang

Voiced by: Vin Zhang

Second king of the Ghost Tribe. Qing Cang's son and Xuan Nu's husband. He fell in love with Bai Qian, then cheated on her with Xuan Nu.

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• All Love Is Unrequited: He stays in love with Bai Qian even after cheating on her and marrying Xuan Nu. At the same time he doesn't return Xuan Nu's increasingly obsessive love for him.
• Anguished Declaration of Love: Gives one to Bai Qian.
• Big Brother Instinct: Is protective of Yan Zhi.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: Li Jing is said to be unfit to be ruler due to preferring to indulge himself (which is likely due to depression), although he's a much better choice than his brother. However, when he applies himself, Li Jing is rather capable, as the ghost realm has 70,000 years of peace under his rule, and when he goes to war against his brother, he makes excellent use of his army and allies to deliver a crushing defeat to the rebels.
• Can't Kill You, Still Need You: Li Jing spares his half-brother from death for over 70,000 years and in spite of a rebellion. Not because he cares for Li Yuan, but because killing him will make their dreaded father more powerful.
• Dark Is Not Evil: He's Prince (and later King) of the Ghost Tribe, has horns growing from his face, and usually wears dark colours. But he isn't truly a villain; he's just weak and selfish.
• The First Cut Is the Deepest: Si Yin/Bai Qian is his First Love and he never gets over it, which is what affects his marriage to Xuan Nu.
• First Love: He is the first man Bai Qian loved (well consciously anyway). It didn't end well.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Li Jing became jealous of how close Si Yin is to Mo Yuan, which causes him insecurity about her feelings and leads to him sleeping with Xuan Nu. When Si Yin comes and asks for the soul jade, he figures she needs it to preserve Mo Yuan's body and doesn't hand it over due to this jealousy.
• Hidden Depths: First appears as a lazy, playboy prince. However, he's a protective big brother to Yan Zhi, knows what's going on in the palace, understands his father's plans, knows that war is a bad idea for their people, can write poetry, and make little figures from paper and wood. He would also be classified as a pretty good king and general, if he wasn't overly inclined to mourning his failed relationship with Si Yin.
• Love at First Sight: He falls in love with Bai Qian the first time he sees her.
• Mistaken for Gay: Or bisexual given his harem. He falls for Si Yin whom most people believe is a man, thus some assume he's at least attracted to one man, including his own sister and his wife.
• Puppet King: Dong Hua helps him into power because he's the best option in keeping the Ghost Tribe suppressed and loyal.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: This is why he gains enough support to stop his brother becoming Ghost King. Li Jing actually cares about his people and realises that war with the Celestials will just cause the bodies to pile up. He'd actually qualify for The Good King, despite what the Celestials think of him, if he was a little less stuck in his depression and indulgences.
• Warrior Prince: A slightly more heroic one than Li Yuan.
• You Killed My Father: One of the reasons why Li Jing goes ahead with the coup against Li Yuan is because Li Yuan murdered his mother (as revenge for Li Yuan's mother being killed by Qing Cang for the sake of Li Jing's). Li Jing can't outright kill his brother to complete the revenge however, for other reasons.

Li Yuan

Played by: Du Jun Ze

Voiced by: Unknown

Li Jing's older half-brother.

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• Cain and Abel: He absolutely hates Li Jing.
• Smug Snake: Thinks greatly of himself and his position, which he holds over Li Jing, especially when he takes the throne. Li Jing immediately wipes the smugness off his face with a pre-planned coup.
• Thanatos Gambit: Gets Xuan Nu to kill him because his death will give Qing Cang more power.
• Warrior Prince: A villainous example.

Yan Zhi

Played by: Dai Si

Voiced by: Bai Xue Cen

Li Jing's half-sister and Li Yuan's full sister.

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• Braids of Action: Wears her hair in several braids.
• Break the Cutie: Her father being sealed away starts it off, but Yan Zhi is clearly broken after Li Yuan's rebellion fails and she goes into exile. Her whole story arc basically exists to leave the poor girl unhappy.
• Easily Forgiven: Yan Zhi frees Li Yuan from prison, despite knowing that he hates their brother, Li Jing. He immediately plots rebellion and she goes along with him. Whilst she keeps trying to talk him out of it, and tries to keep him from killing Li Jing, she still basically ends up in a revolt that she caused. Li Jing doesn't punish her, the Celestial Tribe seems unaware she was responsible, so she gets off scott-free. She does exile herself however.
• Elective Mute: When living in the mortal realm, Yan Zhi chooses to remain mute so she doesn't have to deal with people.
• Facial Markings: She has black marks on her face.
• Loved by All: Amongst the Ghost Tribe she's univerally liked because she's just plain nice. Even those who hate the Ghost Tribe, like disciples of Mo Yuan who have an understandable grudge, still end up helping her and admit the problem is solely with her family and not against her.
• Nice Girl: Not a bad bone in her body, despite the general problems with her family members.
• Star-Crossed Lovers: She and Zi Lan fall in love, but can't be together because he's from Kunlun and she's from the Ghost Tribe.
• Sweet on Polly Oliver: She falls in love with "Si Yin", unaware "he" is really Bai Qian in disguise.
• Token Good Teammate: For the Ghost Tribe royal family, particularly at the start.

Xuan Nü

Played by: Zhu Xu Dan

Voiced by: Qiu Qiu

Bai Qian's cousin and childhood friend. She becomes a spy for the Ghost Tribe.

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• Appearance Angst: In her youth, she was always unhappy that she was not as beautiful as Bai Qian. It turned into full-blown jealousy.
• Arranged Marriage: Her mother wanted to marry her off to an old, black-bear spirit. She fled from this, first to her older half-sister (the wife of the eldest Bai brother), who sent her to Bai Zhen, who sent her to Bai Qian/Si Yin at Kunlun.
• Ax-Crazy: Saying she's slightly unhinged is like saying water is a little bit wet. She does things like arranging to be badly beaten, kidnapping Mo Yuan's body and A Li, and blinding herself when she loses her ability to shapeshift.
• Bed Trick: Uses her ability to take on Bai Qian's appearance in order to get her husband to sleep with her.
• Blatant Lies / Believing Their Own Lies: Xuan Nu states that every thing she's done has been out of love for Li Jing, but even he calls her out on this. Further, she seems convinced she's the one who made him Ghost King and that Bai Qian and she have been on bad terms since childhood and she's out to have her killed. The truth is that Dong Hua put Li Jing into power, Bai Qian always liked Xuan Nu until she betrayed her, and the reason why Xuan Nu is going to be executed isn't due to the feud but her own stupid actions. Then again, she's not quite in her right mind...
• Bullying a Dragon: Doesn't seem to consider that angering a high goddess like Bai Qian will result in any serious threat.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: Frequently clings to Li Jing and does everything to keep other women away from him.
• Defecting for Love: Follows Li Jing to the Ghost Tribe as she believes herself in love with him and that she has nowhere else to go. This turns her against the Celestial Tribe, her home and family in Qing Qiu, and Kunlun Mountain.
• Died in Your Arms Tonight: She dies in Li Jing's arms.
• Didn't Think This Through: Though it's likely due to her Sanity Slippage, she clearly doesn't seem to think she'll receive any retribution for her abduction of Mo Yuan's body or A-Li, and her intentions to sacrifice them for her sick/dead child, despite the fact Mo Yuan is a well-respected god and A-Li is the son of the crown prince of the Nine Heavens as Ye Hua points out. And this comes with her belief she could defeat a high god like Bai Qian, to say nothing of the fact she had no plan to combat Ye Hua.
• Driven by Envy / Green-Eyed Monster: Her jealousy of Bai Qian is one of the reasons she turns traitor.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: When Yan Zhi offers to get the divine fungal grass to save Xuan Nu's child, Xuan Nu can't figure out why Yan Zhi would do this and thinks it's a plot of some kind.
• Evil Costume Switch: She starts out wearing bright colours, but switches to darker clothes after marrying Li Jing.
• Eye Scream: Blinds herself after Bai Qian takes away her shapeshifting powers.
• Freudian Excuse: Xuan Nu is the daughter of her father by his concubine, as opposed to her older sister who is by his main wife. Due to this, her mother seems to have been hard on her and thus tried to force the marriage to the old bear spirit that Xuan Nu rejected. This seems to be why Xuan Nu is so desperate for love, trying to attach herself to Mo Yuan or Die Feng, then going for Li Jing, and jealous of someone like Bai Qian who gains people's affections easily.
• God Save Us from the Queen!: Queen of the Ghost Tribe, and she's not nice to anyone. Frankly, she cares about the position for what it does for her rather than what she's supposed to use the position for (ie. for her subjects).
• Good Girl Gone Bad: She's not that bad when she's young, just a little jealous. Unfortunately, that jealousy goes out of control and she ends up turning evil and ruining many lives, including her own.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: Xuan Nu likes that she's beautiful, but she's not as beautiful as Bai Qian/Si Yin, which is what set her on the path of irrational jealousy and hatred. The fact that nobody gives her a glance, and Li Jing only gets tricked to be with her because of the resemblance, just drives her off the deep end. She gets married to Li Jing, becomes a princess then queen, but her husband still loves Si Yin and can't look at Xuan Nu without being reminded of what happened. Xuan Nu holds her power and position over everyone, holds to her looks, and hates it when told she's not a powerful as she thinks, when Li Jing reminds her that he really doesn't love her and she's selfish. She especially hates it when Bai Qian, or anyone who looks like her, pops up just to drive the point home she's not as great as she wants to be.
• It's All About Me: Xuan Nu is extremely concerned about how situations are always against her. Die Feng won't marry me, Li Jing prefers Si Yin over me, the Celestial Tribe hates me, my mother disowned me, it's unfair! Li Jing even points out that all her schemes were for her own ends rather than for his benefit despite what she says. She even has the gall to think that the entire Ghost Tribe should be put at risk in a war with the Celestial Tribe simply because she's the Ghost Queen and Li Jing should protect her. This is despite the fact she had high immortals assassinated, stole Mo Yuan's body, kidnapped A-Li and tried to kill future empress Bai Qian.
• Laser-Guided Karma: The explanation for why Xuan Nu is unable to bear healthy children. Because of her deep betrayal of Kunlun and the Celestial Tribe, as well as her increasingly tyrannical behaviour, the forces-that-be cursed her to be unable to have living children as punishment for her crimes. Apparently, it's happened before, in the past with another woman...
• Love Makes You Evil: She betrays Kunlun after she falls in love with Li Jing.
• Murder Is the Best Solution: Xuan Nu largely tries to solve her problems with murder. A maid sleeping with her husband? Kill her. Husband loves Bai Qian? Kill her. Need to revive a dead child? Kill anyone for their divine essence no matter who they are.
• Never My Fault: Xuan Nu will absolutely not admit she's caused all the problems in her own life. Specifically, her jealousy of Si Yin/Bai Qian, which made her seduce Li Jing, and the millennia of fall out from this. When she's imprisoned, she rants to Li Yuan that it's all Bai Qian's fault.
• Obfuscating Insanity: When Li Jing questions her about Si Yin being a woman from the Fox Tribe, it's clear she's realised he's talking about Bai Qian, but she pretends to go back to fawning over her dead/sick child as if it's alive.
• Sanity Slippage: Xuan Nu becomes increasingly unstable over the millennia when Li Jing doesn't return her love. It becomes much worse after she births a sick/dead child (who is cursed because of her actions, or due to the genetic problems between a celestial and ghost tribe match, or both). Xuan Nu finally jumps off the slope once Bai Qian takes her shapeshifting ability.
• Smug Snake: Xuan Nu becomes extremely smug when she gets a hold of Mo Yuan's body and A-Li, planning to sacrifice them to wake her child. She also plans the confrontation with Bai Qian, constantly smirking at how she'll rid herself of her rival. Then she spends a lot of time gloating to Bai Qian... until Bai Qian slaughters all the soldiers and Ye Hua shows up.
• The Unapologetic: Xuan Nu never once apologises for the damage she's caused. Her one apology to Si Yin about stealing Li Jing was faked, and she immediately ranted to herself how she's exacting revenge for the perceived slights she's gotten over her life. When Li Jing finds that she gave the military seal to Yan Zhi, she never says sorry for the problems this causes. She gets caught red-handed with Mo Yuan's body and the abducted A-Li and just gloats over them and to Bai Qian, before being smug about punishment when Ye Hua arrives until he makes it clear he'll sic the Celestial army on her. Even then, she doesn't apologise, she just wants Li Jing to go to war for her actions so as to make sure she's not punished for them. Later on, she rants to Li Yuan and Yan Zhi about how she's done all these things for Li Jing (they were for herself) and never admits her own fault or apologises.
• Too Dumb to Live: Or perhaps insane, it's hard to tell. Suffice to say that she doesn't take the advice from Ye Hua and Li Jing to get the hell out of Yingzhou and away from the four mystical beasts. Instead, she tries to kill Ye Hua when she senses he's burning the divine fungal grass, his arm gets ripped off by one of the beasts, which then injures her so badly she dies soon after.
• Ungrateful Bitch: Xuan Nu is taken into Kunlun to stop the marriage she doesn't want. She is never grateful for this, as she promptly gets jealous that none of the men are attracted to her, seduces Li Jing away from Si Yin/Bai Qian, and betrays them all even when they treat her injuries. Millennia later, she even notes to Mo Yuan that he took her in and now she's going to use his body to restore her dead/sick child without a hint of irony.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: Was granted the ability to make her face look just like Bai Qian's. She uses it to seduce Li Jing and taunt Bai Qian herself.
• Would Hurt a Child: She kidnaps A Li and tries to use him to revive her dead baby. Then there's the fact she has her husband's mistress killed in order to get rid of her husband's unborn child...
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Pulls one to get herself accepted back into Kunlun after leaving with Li Jing. This allows her to steal Mo Yuan's battle plans for Qing Cang.
• Yandere: Does increasingly insane things to make Li Jing love her.

Golden Lion Beast

Played by: Ren Tao

Voiced by: Unknown

Qing Cang's personal mount.

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• Breath Weapon / Playing with Fire: Can breathe the powerful crimson hell fire, a type of fire that causes untreatable scarring.
• I Have Your Wife: He took the wife of the Emperor of Zong Rhong State.
• Implied Rape: It's never flat out said, but Ye Hua implies that this is what the Golden Lion Beast did to the emperor's wife.
• Madeof Iron: Takes a full blast of Ye Hua's dragon breath and looks perfectly fine a few days later.
• Pet the Dog: He's on the bad side and does bad things, but he's unquestionably nice to and protective of Yan Zhi.
• Rape, Pillage, and Burn: After Li Jing takes the throne, the Golden Lion Beast goes on the run for 70,000 years. He spends a lot of that time carving out territory in the Far East of the mortal realm and going about this trope intermittently. Nobody goes up Mt Junji because of him.
• Taking the Bullet: After Li Yuan charges Li Jing with his sword, Yan Zhi steps in to protect Li Jing, at which point the Golden Lion Beast takes the sword to protect her, costing him his life.
• Undying Loyalty: To Qing Cang, and by extension the royal family. He has a particular soft-spot for Yan Zhi and ultimately dies protecting her.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: Transforms into a lion beast.

Fire Qilin

Played by: Huang Tianqi

Voiced by: Huang Tianqi

Li Jing's mount and companion.

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• Kirin: A fire-based one.
• The Nose Knows: He smells a familiar peach blossom scent, which he associates with Si Yin, whilst at the Celestial Palace. He finds Su Su locked up in a hall as a result.
• Older Than They Look: Has the appearance of a pre-teen, but during the main story, he's over 70,000 years old. Su Su is a bit unnerved by this.
• Playing with Fire: Can use crimson hell fire, though not skillfully as he ends up setting fire to a palace hall trying to free Su Su.
• Shipper on Deck: Supports Li Jing's love for Si Yin, and is used by him to deliver poems and gifts whilst they stay at Kunlun.
• Undying Loyalty: To Li Jing.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: Transforms into a qilin.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Li Jing tells him to take Yan Zhi and his daughter Li Ying away to safety. However, whilst those two are seen again, the qilin isn't.

Four Seas

Lu Xiu

Played by: Jin Feng

Voiced by: Li Shi Meng

Second Princess of the Chang Sea.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: She is not pleased when the second prince of the Mermaid Clan takes a liking to her.
• Arranged Marriage: Her father wants to pacify the Mermaid Clan, which puts her in position to marry the chief. She is aghast at the idea.
• Hopeless Suitor: To Ye Hua.
• Innocently Insensitive: Even though Lu Xiu is told that Ye Hua (or Hua Ye, a mortal) is married to a mortal, she wants to marry him anyway. Unknown to her, said wife is standing right in front of her as she says she'll make him an immortal but he has to divorce his mortal wife. She then hastily says she isn't prejudiced against mortals, but those are the rules. Lu Xiu also clearly doesn't take Ye Hua's feelings into consideration at all.
• Love at First Sight: Towards Ye Hua, though he's posing as a mortal at the time named Hua Ye.
• Loving a Shadow: She loves the idea of the crown prince, because he's said to be handsome and courageous and he'll be the Emperor one day. Even when she finally meets him, she doesn't actually know him.

Miao Qing

Played by: Wang Xiuzhu

Voiced by: Zhang Zhe

Princess of the Eastern Sea.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: Increasingly becomes one to Ye Hua.
• Didn't Think This Through: Her attempted murder of Bai Qian. Ye Hua points out that it would anger both Qing Qui and the Celestial Tribe, as well as implicate the Eastern Seas and her brother the Water King. Miao Qing herself would also end up being sentenced to being reborn as an animal.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Wants to be with Ye Hua and is jealous of Bai Qian because of this.
• Hopeless Suitor: To Ye Hua, and she won't accept that he wants nothing to do with her.
• Love at First Sight: Instantly falls for Ye Hua after seeing him.
• Love Makes You Crazy: Doesn't come across as evil so much as desperate to make the object of her affection reciprocate her feelings.
• Love Potion: In a desperate act to get Ye Hua to marry her, she tries to drug him with an aphrodisac that Su Jin gives her. Ye Hua doesn't fall for it.
• Murder the Hypotenuse: Due to her desire for Ye Hua, she tries to push Bai Qian into the water whilst she's in the mortal realm and her powers are sealed.
• Subordinate Excuse: Uses the favour Ye Hua offers for saving A-Li's life to ask to serve him as a maid in order to be close to him.
• Yandere: Walks into this trope when she tries to kill Bai Qian and use a Love Potion on Ye Hua.

Yuan Zhen

Played by: Chen Kefan

Voiced by: Qian Wei Qing

Sang Ji and Shao Xin's son.

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• False Rape Accusation: Su Jin drugs him and makes it seem as if he tried to molest her, which causes his grandfather the Heavenly Emperor to banish him to the mortal realm for a trial as punishment.
• The Unfavorite: As a result of his parents offending the Heavenly Emperor, Yuan Zhen is not a favourite of his grandfather.

Other

Yao Guang

Played by: Li Xinyi

Voiced by: Zhang Ai

A high goddess and comrade of Mo Yuan.

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• Green-Eyed Monster: She's jealous of the attention Mo Yuan is said to give to Si Yin, prompting her to abduct the disciple in question and try and force them to leave Kunlun.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Chooses to lead a suicidal charge against Qing Cang's forces in order to make it believeable and give the Celestials a shot at victory.
• Hopeless Suitor: To Mo Yuan. She's been in love with him for millennia and forcibly moved her residence to Kunlun to be near him, but he sees her only as a comrade.
• Killed Off for Real: During the war with the Ghost Tribe.
• Lady of War: Beautiful, refined and took part in Mo Yuan's wars of conquest eons past.
• Water Torture: How she tries to "convince" Si Yin to give up being Mo Yuan's disciple.

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