Ren Yexue

Biodata

Background

Ren Yexue told Su Yang that her parents died in an earthquake while on a business trip in the southwest. She initially cried alone, but gradually adjusted to living by herself. After moving to Muyang City, she bought a villa with the money they left her and hired a driver to take her to school 38 39.

The history surrounding Ren Yexue and Su Yang is complicated by altered reality and sealed memories. Su Yang initially remembered meeting her only a month earlier; Ren Yexue recalled two years as his deskmate. He later recovered memories of those two years 39 46.

Appearance

Ren Yexue is known as Muyang No. 2 Middle School’s school belle. She often wears red and attracts attention wherever she goes 3 23.

• Long, naturally wavy hair and fair skin 3 4
• Almond-shaped eyes, red lips, and a delicate nose 3
• A white spaghetti-strap nightdress when Su Yang visits her villa 37

Personality

Ren Yexue is friendly, hardworking, and unbothered by gossip about her wealth. She is also playful with Su Yang, teasing him when she catches him looking at her and persisting in her pursuit despite his attempts to keep his distance 3 4.

Her optimism coexists with an awareness of loss. She tells Su Yang that, although people control only a small part of their lives, they should use it to move what fate has already decided 38.

Abilities & Skills

Divine Kingdom and resurrection

Ren Yexue is the God of Fate and Reason. To resurrect Su Yang, she merged her Divine Kingdom with reality, rewriting events and memories 40 46.

• Heng Hong says the sacrifice would destroy her Divine Kingdom, exhaust her divine power, and leave her in endless slumber 46.
• She shares her authority with Su Yang; he concludes that the Sequence Ability he awakened is the same as hers 47 49.
• As her kingdom collapses, others devour fragments of her authority. She is unable to use her power to save the people of Muyang City 48.

Other skills

• Cooking: She prepares fries and a meal for Su Yang, and says she regularly cooks for herself 38 41 42.
• Piano: She plays the piano at home 36 38.

Relationships

• Su Yang — Her deskmate and the person she loves. She pursued him openly and promised to wait for him; he later learned that she had sacrificed her Divine Kingdom to resurrect him 4 46.
• Su Yang’s grandmother — In the rewritten history, Ren Yexue regularly bought her vegetables, refused change, and brought her gifts. Su Yang later concluded that this help had not occurred in the original world 15 41.
• Su Yang’s parents — They sent a message through Gai Fengyan saying they liked Ren Yexue. When Su Yang asked her about them, she said she did not know them 6 10.
• Uncle Zhang — Her driver, who takes her to and from school 4.

Story Role

Pursuit of Su Yang

After Su Yang named the hardships he said she would have to endure for them to be together, Ren Yexue wrote them in a pink notebook. She paid a student 100 yuan for the seat beside him on a crowded school bus and marked the ride as completed 3.

Su Yang was fond of her but feared exposing her to the strange dangers surrounding him. Ren Yexue nevertheless told him she would wait until he liked her too 4.

The altered past

Su Yang discovered entries in his grandmother’s notebook describing a year of help from Ren Yexue, although he believed he had met her only a month earlier. He later concluded that the notebook and its history were part of a gradual rewriting of reality 15 40 41.

After Ren Yexue took sick leave, she messaged Su Yang about a foul smell beneath her bed. Having found their teacher dead in a tentacle attack, he rushed to her villa, broke its lock, and searched her bedroom—only to find two dead rats. He stayed the night to guard her 23 34 36 37 38.

On the terrace, their conflicting memories of their teacher and friendship alarmed Su Yang. Despite his questions about their past, they promised they would still care for each other if their shared memories changed. Ren Yexue later told him about her favorite flower, the Two-Branch Blue Enchantress, asked him not to forget her, and pushed him from the terrace; he awoke at home 39 42 43.

The collapsing Divine Kingdom

Heng Hong told Su Yang that the God of Fate and Reason had resurrected him by merging the Divine Kingdom with reality. Su Yang realized the deity was Ren Yexue and recovered his sealed memories of their two years together 46.

As war devastated Muyang City and creatures consumed her authority, Ren Yexue watched, wounded and unable to intervene. Su Yang reached her villa with a Two-Branch Blue Enchantress and told her he remembered everything. She said her Divine Kingdom had shattered and that she had to leave 48 50.

Notable Quotes

“It’s okay, top student. I’ll wait until the day you like me too!” 4

“But we have to use that five percent to move the ninety-five percent fate has already decided, don’t we?” 38

“Be good, Su Yang. It’s time for you to go home. A Demigod of the Omniscience Sequence is waiting for you there. And... don’t forget me!” 43

Trivia

• Her favorite flower is the Two-Branch Blue Enchantress, whose flower language she describes as “predestined fate” 43.
• She keeps a pink notebook listing things she wants to do with Su Yang, including eating at a roadside stall and working a job together 3.