Xu Qingran

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Previous Life

Xu Qingran survived for years in an apocalyptic world before being targeted for his excessive strength and dying. He possessed a lightning ability that protected him against repeated attempts at coercion, assault, and exploitation. He killed those who tried to harm him through such methods 1 18.

He had a younger sister, Xu Qingyao, who shared his birthday. A remembered exchange shows her urging him onward after their parents’ deaths, warning that he would lose her too if he refused to keep moving 34.

After death, he met the system and transmigrated into the weak protagonist of an interstellar melodrama. His lightning ability accompanied him, but the system sealed it because of the new world’s laws and his current constitution 1 3 7.

The Original Xu Qingran

The original owner was the son of Father Xu and Qi Shengxue, a gifted soul researcher from the Qi family. His father resumed a relationship with his former lover while Qi Shengxue was pregnant; Xu Qing’an, his paternal half-brother, was born only seven or eight months after him 4 24.

Qi Shengxue reportedly died by suicide when her son was around seven. Father Xu married his lover six months later. According to Qi Heqian’s investigation, Father Xu and the stepmother had instigated the acts behind her death. Qi Heqian also reported that the stepmother arranged for repeated drugging during Qi Shengxue’s pregnancy, damaging Xu Qingran’s Spiritual Pool before birth and undermining his mother’s health 4 24.

Unlike the transmigrated Xu Qingran, the original owner was kind, inarticulate, and prone to tears. He deeply loved his childhood sweetheart, Lu Cheng, but Xu Qing’an interfered in their relationship and staged an engagement-banquet scandal to destroy his reputation 4.

Appearance

• Build and features: Tall and slender, with fair skin and delicate, seemingly harmless features; Qi Heqian remarks that he resembles his mother 12 23 28.
• Hair: Light brown, described as soft and fluffy 5 28.
• Eyes: Beautiful, peach-blossom-shaped eyes whose expression can shift from alluring to cold and vicious 39 43.
• Spirit Mark: A blue mark on the back of his hand. Its exposed placement attracts prejudice because Spirit Marks are considered private and intimate 4 15 38.
• Early injuries: Initially has a badly injured neck and hoarse voice. His arena battle leaves extensive wounds and makes him noticeably thinner 2 12 28 30.

Personality

Xu Qingran is confrontational, ruthless, and largely indifferent to respectability. Rather than correcting every accusation against him, he welcomes a frightening reputation because it makes others hesitate to provoke him. He rejects family seniority, wealth, and factional boundaries as reasons to submit to someone else’s demands 4 33 39.

His apparent recklessness coexists with practical judgment. He postpones exposing Xu Qing’an because he wants his brother to rise before bringing him down, and he recognizes when an opponent is beyond his current strength. During his confrontation with the students who destroyed his belongings, he lowers his fist when Shen Tingyu intervenes, acknowledging both the power gap and a favor he owes him 5 39.

Food is particularly important to him because he remembers prolonged hunger in the apocalypse. He refuses to waste meals, eats despite a forty-degree fever, and reacts violently when another prisoner disrupts his meal and wastes food 6 20 23.

Beneath his abrasive behavior, he shows curiosity about the original owner’s fate and becomes increasingly comfortable with Shen Tianyi. He does not regard the five-year-old as a romantic partner; their daily relationship develops more like that of brothers 36 43.

Abilities & Skills

Mental Power

His B-grade Spiritual Pool supports combat and the operation of technology powered by Mental Power 3 23 39.

• Channels Mental Power through a short blade to activate it 26.
• Uses Mental Power against Tower 4’s prisoners and security doors, sustaining injuries in the process 23.
• Drives Mental Power into an opponent’s body through physical contact, severely damaging muscles and bones 39.
• After the upgrade, his physical wounds heal faster, but replenishing his expanded Mental Power reserves takes longer 28.
• Repeatedly refuses MT Agent injections, choosing slower recovery instead 7 28.

Close-Quarters Combat

His experience in the apocalypse makes him far more dangerous than his current body’s frail appearance suggests 1 18 28.

• Uses improvised weapons, including a rusty iron rod 1.
• Employs throws, joint dislocations, kicks, restraint, and targeted strikes 20 39.
• Wins Tower 3’s one-against-many arena battle with a short knife and no protective bracelets 26 28.

Pain Tolerance and Conditioning

He continues fighting despite the electric shocks delivered by his monitoring bracelets and deliberately treats the pain as conditioning for his weakened body 20 21.

• Remains expressionless while medical staff treat wounds that visibly disturb onlookers 23.
• Maintains an early-morning exercise routine, including running and striking homemade punching bags 36 43.
• Breaks several homemade punching bags within a week 36.

Lightning Ability — Sealed

His former lightning ability remains preserved inside the system rather than available for immediate use 7 18.

• Previously served as protection against people attempting to drug, trap, or assault him 18.
• The system promises its complete restoration upon completion of the assistance mission, with the possibility of combining it with Mental Power 7.
• Recovering it is the decisive reason he accepts the mission to pursue the designated admiral 7.

Cooking and Livestreaming

He begins livestreaming food preparation using an Asteroid borrowed through Shen Tianyi 45.

• Initially broadcasts through Shen Tingyu’s account, provoking its viewers with remarks about living in the admiral’s home 47.
• Later receives his own device and livestream account with Shen Tingyu’s assistance 49.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Rusty iron rod — Improvised weapon used against his tormentors in the abandoned factory; discarded afterward 1 2.
• Health-monitoring wristwatch — Displays information including his MT level and undetermined Soul Spirit Type 4 5 12.
• Monitoring bracelets — Evil Tower restraints that track his condition and administer electric shocks when violent behavior is detected. A second bracelet is added after he attacks another prisoner 19 20.
• Arena short blade — His sole weapon during Tower 3’s survival battle; he drops it upon emerging victorious 26 28.
• Protective bracelets — Offered before the arena to shield vital areas and block Mental Power penetration below S-rank; he removes them before entering 26.
• Fifth-generation Asteroid — A multifunctional device given to him by Shen Tingyu, used for livestreaming, communication, and researching alien invasions 49.

Relationships

• Shen Tingyu — The system’s conquest target and Xu Qingran’s principal romantic counterpart. Initially his Evil Tower examiner, Shen Tingyu orders stricter supervision and sends him into the arena. Their antagonism continues after Xu Qingran moves into his home, though both recognize something familiar in the other 1 7 19 25 31 43.
• Shen Tianyi — Five-year-old assigned fiancé from the Shen family. Xu Qingran treats him as a younger-brother figure rather than a romantic partner; they grow closer during Shen Tingyu’s absences 35 37 43.
• The system — Facilitates his transmigration, upgrades his Spiritual Pool, and holds his sealed lightning ability. It provides technical help and romantic coaching, much of which Xu Qingran finds absurd 3 5 7 11 36.
• Xu Qing’an — His current body’s younger paternal half-brother and an active enemy. Frames him at the engagement banquet, hires men to seize him, and attempts to redirect his soulmate match to Boss Chen 4 10 45.
• Lu Cheng — The original owner’s childhood sweetheart and former boyfriend, later engaged to Xu Qing’an. Xu Qingran rejects his interference, punches him, and orders him to stay away 4 33.
• Father Xu — His current body’s biological father. Favors Xu Qing’an, berates Xu Qingran, and participates in plans to take the inheritance left by Qi Shengxue 4 5.
• Stepmother — Xu Qing’an’s mother and a major enemy. Qi Heqian implicates her in prenatal poisoning and the circumstances of Qi Shengxue’s death 24.
• Qi Shengxue — The original owner’s deceased mother, a soul researcher who left him a substantial inheritance 3 24.
• Qi Heqian — Adoptive older cousin whom the original owner and Qi Shengxue rescued as a child. Brings Xu Qingran food in Evil Tower and shares his investigation into Qi Shengxue’s death 23 24.
• Xu Qingyao — His younger sister from his previous life; memories of her briefly soften his demeanor 34.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Transmigration and the Matching Scheme

• Factory escape: Xu Qingran brutally attacks the men tormenting him in South District 13, then leaves in a flying vehicle with the system’s assistance 1 2 3.
• Return to the Xu household: Learns that Xu Qing’an staged the engagement scandal and that his own medical-college admission has been revoked following an accusation arranged by Lu Wennian 4 5.
• Assistance mission: Accepts the system’s mission after learning that completing it can restore his lightning ability 7.
• Records-room intervention: Overhears Xu Qing’an arranging to disguise Lu Cheng’s 99%-compatible sample as Boss Chen’s. Afterward, Xu Qingran takes Shen Tingyu’s sample chip and has the system alter its registration details 10 11.

Evil Tower

• Detention: Taken to Queen Star for observation as a prospective Type E Extremist, despite his Soul Spirit Type remaining unknown 12 13.
• Assessment and confinement: Challenges Shen Tingyu during interrogation, receives shock-monitoring restraints, and later subdues the noisy prisoners in Tower 4 18 19 23.
• Family revelations: Qi Heqian tells him that his poor aptitude and his mother’s death resulted from deliberate harm within the Xu family 24.
• Arena victory: Survives nearly two days in Tower 3’s arena without protective bracelets, becomes its sole victor, and qualifies for direct military-academy admission 26 27 28.
• Departure: Receives his formal invitation and leaves with someone sent by Shen Tingyu before Lu Cheng can collect him 29.

Life with the Shen Family

• One-year arrangement: Agrees to reside at Shen Tingyu’s home while the admiral observes him and awaits a new collection of soul information 31.
• Break with Lu Cheng and the household: Rejects Lu Cheng’s attempt to take him away, then returns to pack and announces that he is moving out to live with his fiancé 33 35.
• Retaliation at school: Discovers that his academic certificates and award-winning artworks have been damaged. He beats the students responsible and challenges the teachers who ignored their actions 38 39.
• Public controversy: His cooking broadcast on Shen Tingyu’s account fuels rumors about their relationship. A later Shen-family announcement confirms a 99% match with a child of the family—not a publicly confirmed match with Shen Tingyu 47 50.

Notable Quotes

“Everyone would have to think twice before messing with him. The world would be a lot more peaceful that way.” 4

“Can an apology restore those things?” 39

“Don't worry, I have money. I can afford your medical bills.” 39