Pei Guangji

Biodata

Background

Pei Guangji was born into the Pei family, one of the Federation’s major financial dynasties. As its eldest son, he was selected to inherit the Pei Corporation, while younger children were excluded from succession. The corporation controls the Shennong Pharmaceutical Company 2 6 8.

Appearance

Pei Guangji is a tall, broad-shouldered Alpha with a solid build and stern features 8 9 15.

• Dark phoenix eyes and thin lips 3 4.
• Short black hair, which he wears combed back for formal occasions 15.
• A low, hoarse voice 3.

Personality

Pei Guangji is cold, arrogant and accustomed to making decisions without consulting others. He initially regards Xin Hexue as a means of managing his rut and uses Xin Bao’s debt to pressure him into a contract. He is also severely fastidious about cleanliness 3 6.

His growing attachment to Xin Hexue makes him attentive but no less possessive. He arranges meals and medical care for him, yet conceals Xin Bao’s death and installs a tracker in Xin Hexue’s communicator. Their confrontation forces Pei Guangji to recognize that he has treated Xin Hexue as a possession rather than an independent person 10 16 17.

Abilities & Skills

Genetic modification

Pei Guangji’s modified body heals rapidly, though it cannot overcome every injury 6 17 18.

• His self-healing could not keep pace with the blood loss he suffered in the aircraft crash 17.
• His body continued repairing itself while he remained in a coma 18.
• He cannot suffer alcohol poisoning because of his modified body 50.

Business and leadership

As the Pei Corporation’s heir, Pei Guangji investigates problems affecting its pharmaceutical operations. He identifies the Sixth District’s false factory-fire report as a possible setup and recognizes that the official involved may be a disposable pawn 3.

• He took full control of the corporation after waking from his coma, removing his father and other relatives who had challenged his position 42.
• He invested in research into a rut suppressant, though it had not produced results at the time 16.

Alpha rut

Pei Guangji experiences particularly painful ruts associated with the genetic practices of powerful Core District families. He hates the loss of reason they cause 4 9.

• Before meeting Xin Hexue, he usually isolated himself for three to five days during a rut, sometimes as long as a week 9.
• His rut makes it difficult to remain rational; he apologizes after hurting Xin Hexue while under its effects 8 9.
• After losing his memories, he gets through another rut surrounded by clothes carrying Xin Hexue’s scent 46 49.

Relationships

• Xin Hexue — His lover under a one-year contract. Pei Guangji grows deeply attached to him and plans to propose, but their relationship fractures over his concealment of Xin Bao’s death and his controlling decisions. After the accident, Pei Guangji cannot remember their past together 6 16 17 42.
• Pei Ying — His younger brother. They are not particularly close, although Pei Ying has stayed at Pei Guangji’s villa 8.
• Jiang Jing — His special assistant, who advises him to communicate with Xin Hexue. After the accident, Pei Guangji cannot reach Jiang Jing or access the backup of his personal communicator without him 17 42 43.
• Xi Zhengqing — A childhood friend and heir to the Xi Group. While Pei Guangji is hospitalized, Xi approaches Xin Hexue using Pei Guangji’s identity and later pursues Xin under his own name 15 25 31.
• Zuo Yongyan — A childhood friend whose family controls Federation media businesses 16.
• Qiu Yuan — A childhood friend who invites Pei Guangji to the birthday party where he meets Xin Hexue again after waking 34 42.

Story Role

Meeting Xin Hexue

During an inspection in the Sixth District, Pei Guangji questions the local person in charge about a fabricated factory fire. Xin Hexue, who has been drugged, is pushed into the private room. After Xin leaves, Pei Guangji pays his bill and orders an investigation into his identity 3 4.

Pei Guangji pays Xin Bao’s one-million-star-coin debt and offers Xin Hexue a one-year contract requiring his obedience and help during Pei Guangji’s rut. Xin initially refuses, but later signs the contract after moving into the Halfway-Up-the-Mountain Villa 6 7 8 11.

Relationship and crash

Pei Guangji becomes increasingly attentive to Xin Hexue, arranging a chef and giving him a mechanical cat after refusing to let him keep a stray dog. His affection value reaches 67 and later rises to 90 10 15 17.

Xin Hexue confronts Pei Guangji after discovering that he concealed Xin Bao’s death, interfered with their contact and tracked his communicator. Xin asks to end the contract. After speaking with Jiang Jing, Pei Guangji decides to propose, but his hovercraft is tampered with and crashes before he can do so. Pinned in the wreckage, he sends a message asking others to care for Xin Hexue 16 17.

Memory loss

Pei Guangji spends months in a coma before waking and taking control of the Pei Corporation. At Qiu Yuan’s birthday party, he meets Xin Hexue again but cannot remember him. Doctors believe the crash may have damaged his temporal lobe 18 42.

He searches for clues at the villa and tries to recover his communicator records. Fragments of memory return, including his intention to marry someone, but he cannot identify his intended partner. Xin Hexue lets him believe he came between Xin and Xi Zhengqing, then rejects his attempt to salvage their relationship. Pei Guangji suppresses a resulting breakup rumor and mourns alone at the villa 43 45 49.