Xu Qing'an

Biodata

Background / History

Family and Relationship with Lu Cheng

Xu Qing'an was born from Father Xu’s affair with his first love while his wife, Qi Shengxue, was pregnant with Xu Qingran. The half-brothers’ birthdays are only seven or eight months apart. Six months after Qi Shengxue’s death, Father Xu married Qing'an’s mother and brought her into the household 4.

According to the system, Qing'an deliberately interfered in Xu Qingran’s relationship with his childhood sweetheart, Lu Cheng. His scheming led to Lu Cheng sleeping with him on Qingran’s nineteenth birthday. Qing'an had also secretly tested his own soul compatibility with Lu Cheng upon turning eighteen the previous year; after receiving an 88% result, he promptly leaked the news 4 11.

Engagement Scandal and Abduction

Qing'an staged the scandal at his engagement banquet to damage Qingran’s reputation among their relatives, friends, and the Lu family. He also hired men to seize and torment his brother. One of the hired men identified him as the employer, describing their instructions as a paid job to “scare” Qingran 2 4.

His plan was to leave Qingran suffering for several days before finding him. Instead, Qingran escaped and returned home independently, surprising Qing'an while the family was celebrating both his engagement and his acceptance into Grandis University. Qing'an reassured himself that, without evidence and with Qingran’s reputation already ruined, nobody would believe an accusation against him 4 5.

Soul-Matching Fraud

Before the engagement, Qing'an asked his aunt, a senior employee responsible for the soul-matching system at Silver Dragon Joint Hospital, to secretly test Qingran and Lu Cheng. Their compatibility proved to be 99%, substantially higher than his own result 8 11.

To keep Qingran from reclaiming Lu Cheng, Qing'an approached Zhang Hongyan, whom he called “Sister Yan.” He portrayed his brother as increasingly dangerous and claimed that arranging another partner would protect the family without hurting him. Hongyan selected Chen Shengfei, also known as Boss Chen—a wealthy man with a history of abusing a former partner—and altered Lu Cheng’s chip registration to use Chen’s code 10 11 45.

Qing'an feigned reluctance over Chen’s character while allowing the fraud to proceed. Unbeknownst to him, Qingran overheard the arrangement and subsequently had the system alter Shen Tingyu’s chip registration details 11.

Rumors and the Shen Family Connection

While Qingran was confined in the Evil Tower, Qing'an encouraged speculation that his brother’s rumored highly compatible partner was someone like Boss Chen. To his friends, he presented this as concern for a brother who was supposedly too “wonderful” to match with such people, while privately anticipating his humiliation 27.

Later, photographs of Qingran accompanying Shen Tingyu unsettled him. News identifying the men he had hired as missing led him to suspect that Shen had rescued Qingran during the District 13 operation—and might therefore know about the framing. His assumptions about Boss Chen were further shaken when Father Xu returned from an imperial summons and revealed that the matter concerned the Shen family 45.

Admission Banquet and Failed “Gift”

Qing'an’s admission banquet was reportedly postponed after his mother fell and was hospitalized. By Chapter 50, it was scheduled for the following Saturday at the seven-star Royal Silver Dragon Hotel in the Andromeda Galaxy. The extensive guest list included Xu relatives, classmates, other schoolmates, and teachers; Qingran had received neither an invitation nor notice 38 50.

The Shen family’s public announcement identified Shen Tianyi—not Boss Chen—as Qingran’s 99%-compatible match. Qing'an was upset by the outcome. Chen then confronted him over the promised “great gift” that had failed to materialize 50.

Appearance

• Height: Approximately 175 cm, according to Qingran’s visual estimate 5.
• Hair: Slightly darker than Qingran’s light-brown hair 5.
• Face: Delicate, gentle features, red lips, and white teeth, giving him a sensible, steady appearance 5.
• Eyes: Described as beautiful and fox-like 27.
• Voice: Mild and soft even when angry, capable of making a rebuke sound guilt-inducing rather than harsh 5.

Personality

Qing'an cultivates a polite, harmless image while arranging harm through others. With Hongyan, he uses flattering forms of address, tears, and claims of concern for his family to secure cooperation. Even after obtaining her agreement, he acts distressed by the cruelty of the plan; Qingran privately judges him better suited to acting than medicine 10 11.

He is jealous and vindictive toward Qingran, but usually conceals those feelings. He hides a scornful smile while discussing his brother with friends and maintains a magnanimous front when helping Lu Cheng explain his visit to Qingran. His composure slips when evidence of Qingran’s connection to Shen Tingyu prompts him to post an angry insult from a gossip alternate account 27 45.

Abilities & Skills

Social Manipulation

Qing'an relies on a gentle presentation to make others accept his account of events or act on his behalf 5 10 11.

• Uses tears and apparent vulnerability to depict Qingran as a threat to the household 10.
• Presents malicious requests as reluctant attempts to resolve family conflict 10 11.
• Benefits from Qingran’s damaged reputation, expecting accusations against himself to be dismissed without proof 5.

Covert Scheming and Reputation Attacks

Qing'an uses paid intermediaries, personal connections, and gossip rather than confronting his brother directly 2 8 10 45.

• Hires men to abduct and torment Qingran 2 5.
• Obtains secret compatibility testing through his aunt’s hospital position 8.
• Persuades Hongyan to falsify soul-sample registration records; the technical alteration is performed by her, not Qing'an 10 11.
• Disparages Qingran privately to friends and anonymously online 27 45.

Relationships

• Xu Qingran — Older paternal half-brother and the target of his engagement scandal, hired abduction, and soul-matching fraud 2 4 10 11.
• Lu Cheng — Fiancé, formerly Qingran’s boyfriend. Their 88% compatibility initially gave Qing'an grounds to publicize the relationship. Lu Cheng later treats him especially well after recognizing the impropriety of his continued involvement with Qingran 4 11 45.
• Father Xu — Father who openly praises Qing'an’s university admission and contrasts him favorably with Qingran 5.
• His mother — Qingran’s stepmother. Qing'an defends her during the family confrontation and later prepares to accompany Lu Cheng to collect her from the hospital 5 45.
• His aunt — Senior soul-matching employee at Silver Dragon Joint Hospital who arranges the secret test between Qingran and Lu Cheng 8.
• Zhang Hongyan / Sister Yan — His aunt’s longtime friend and his accomplice in falsifying the matching records 10 11 45.
• Lu Wennian — Lu Cheng’s father and a Grandis medical professor. He offers to teach Qing'an personally and encourages his ambition to serve alongside Lu Cheng as a military doctor 11.
• Chen Shengfei / Boss Chen — Intended recipient of the fraudulent match. After Qingran’s Shen family connection becomes public, Chen demands an explanation for Qing'an’s unfulfilled promise 10 50.