Han Dong

Biodata

Background / History

Han Dong grew up in Northeast China with an attentive, highly practical mother and a less talkative father. During the summer after graduating from high school, he worked at a barbecue stall for a month to earn spending money. His mother accompanied him to university and packed more than a hundred jin of luggage, while his father had taken him to the station early that morning 15 17.

In Lu Chuan's previous life, Han Dong remained kind after Lu Chuan's pretense of being a wealthy heir was exposed. Although he did not understand why Lu Chuan had maintained the deception, he did not attack him when he was disgraced. When Lu Chuan dropped out, Han Dong carried his heaviest suitcase downstairs—a kindness Lu Chuan still remembers after rebirth 15.

Appearance

• Build: Tall and burly, described as six feet tall, with a broad back and sturdy shoulders 19 28.
• Face: Rugged rather than polished 36.
• Voice: Exceptionally loud, with a pronounced Northeast China accent. His military-training instructor praises his powerful voice and soldierly potential 15 28.

Personality

Han Dong is outspoken, enthusiastic, and quick to treat people as friends. On meeting Lu Chuan, he immediately declares that their shared dorm makes them family. He readily shares food, starts conversations, and draws more reserved roommates into discussions. His direct questions about Chen Ziang's expensive watch come from genuine curiosity rather than envy or calculation 15 17 18.

His rough manner conceals considerable sensitivity and loyalty. Lu Chuan remembers him as someone who can usually recognize others' feelings, while Chen Ziang comes to value his wholehearted defense of friends. Han Dong's admiration for expensive possessions does not make him contemptuous of people without them: he supports splitting meal bills and explicitly rejects belittling Lu Chuan over a supposedly secondhand car 15 19 36 44.

Food, gaming, and romance dominate much of his conversation. His stated university goals are to avoid failing classes, stay fed, and find a girlfriend—or, failing that, lose twenty jin before graduation. He repeatedly mistakes Lu Chuan's good mood for romantic success and openly admires Shen Zhiyi 20 21 22 29 31.

Abilities & Skills

League of Legends

Han Dong is a capable player whose jungle play carries Chen Ziang's team to victory 36.

• Repeatedly ganks the opposing top laner after the player mocks Chen Ziang.
• Coordinates attacks, offers to absorb damage, and helps Chen Ziang secure kills.
• Forces the opposing team into surrender in less than twenty minutes.
• His exact competitive rank is not stated 36.

Strength and Heavy Lifting

Han Dong's size is matched by a demonstrated ability to move heavy loads 15 22.

• Hauls more than a hundred jin of luggage up five floors when his baggage cannot fit into the elevator 15.
• Offers to carry water jugs for classmates during his self-introduction 22.
• Describes himself as a slow runner and repeatedly struggles with Jiangcheng's heat 22 26 28.

Equipment / Items

• Arrival luggage: Two stuffed woven sacks and an enormous suitcase containing clothing, hangers, vacuum-packed food, and at least twenty pairs of socks 15.
• Medicine box: Packed by his mother with cold medicine, antidiarrheal medicine, and bandages 15.
• Regional snacks: Red sausage and pine nuts, which he shares with his roommates. His second uncle collected the pine nuts in the mountains 17 18.
• Improvised shoe cushioning: Uses sanitary pads purchased by Lu Chuan to soften his military-training shoes, enthusiastically praising the result 32.

Relationships

• Lu Chuan — Roommate and friend. They establish an easy rapport while unpacking Han Dong's luggage. Han Dong teases him about dating but also remembers his practical kindnesses and refuses to judge him by his vehicle. Lu Chuan privately treasures Han Dong's support in the previous timeline 15 21 22 44.
• Chen Ziang — Roommate and gaming companion. Han Dong's frank enthusiasm gradually breaks through Chen Ziang's aloofness. Defending him during a League of Legends match earns his trust; Chen Ziang subsequently buys him drinks and accepts his arm around his shoulders 17 35 36.
• Zhao Yifan — Roommate. Han Dong welcomes him with sausage and pine nuts, though Zhao Yifan's reserved bearing makes him instinctively moderate his usual boisterousness 18.
• Mother — Doting and prone to overpreparing. Han Dong complains about her enormous packing list while openly acknowledging how well she treats him 15.
• Father — A man of few words who wakes Han Dong shortly after five and takes him to the station for his university journey 15.
• Second uncle — Collects the mountain pine nuts Han Dong brings to share at university 18.
• Shen Zhiyi — A senior he admires. He excitedly points her out during military training and later bluntly tells her she is pretty 29 37.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Settling into Room 504

• Arrives sweating under his oversized luggage load and introduces himself to Lu Chuan. His joking complaints about his mother's packing immediately enliven the previously quiet room 15.
• Welcomes Chen Ziang and Zhao Yifan with regional snacks, helping the roommates move beyond their initially guarded introductions 17 18.
• Proposes the dorm's first shared meal. When the recommended clay-pot restaurant has a two-hour wait, the group follows Lu Chuan to a small Sichuan restaurant instead; Han Dong eats four bowls of rice 17 18 19 20.

Military Training and Dorm Life

• Presses Chen Ziang about his father's promised air-conditioner replacements during a sweltering day. After a new unit is installed, he notices the outside contractors and unusual nighttime timing, prompting Lu Chuan to supply an explanation that protects Chen Ziang's story 26 27.
• Impresses the training instructor with a thunderous response after being singled out 28.
• Readily adopts Lu Chuan's sanitary-pad shoe inserts. He later catches Chen Ziang secretly using the same solution after publicly rejecting it, nearly exposing him before Lu Chuan intervenes 32 33.
• Reacts with astonishment when Shen Zhiyi offers Lu Chuan her WeChat code after refusing Chen Ziang's request 37.

Gaming with Chen Ziang

• Persuades Chen Ziang to visit the Interstellar Spacetime internet café and promises to carry him 35 36.
• Answers an opponent's mockery with rapid-fire insults and relentless ganks. His defense turns the outing into an important step in their friendship 36.

Hot Spring Club Outing

• Enthusiastically accepts Chen Ziang's invitation, particularly after learning that the club has high-end gaming suites. He rides there in Chen Ziang's Porsche 718, photographing and filming the experience 38 42 44.
• Compares the exclusive club with large Northeastern bathhouses, showing more interest in its seafood and wagyu buffet than its membership hierarchy 45.
• Worries that private bathing cubicles will prevent proper back-scrubbing until Lu Chuan arranges individual scrub rooms and attendants 47.
• Orders thirty portions of M9 wagyu, twenty portions of foie gras, and two whole king crabs as the opening buffet order. The shared meal helps the four roommates shed their remaining wariness toward one another 48.

Notable Quotes

“We're living in the same dorm from now on, so we're all family.” 15

“What else was I supposed to do? Nobody gets to bully my brother.” 36

“We're all brothers in the dorm, so what is there to show off about or put him down for?” 44

Trivia

• On arrival, he declares that he cannot tolerate nighttime snoring; he is later shown snoring himself 15 33.
• He describes his excessive luggage as “a mother's love that weighs a ton” after a train passenger asks whether he is enrolling in university or entering the clothing wholesale business 15.
• He considers body scrubbing the soul of a bathhouse and believes a buffet loses half its soul if diners cannot collect food themselves 47 48.