Su Qinghan

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Su Qinghan (苏清寒)
Alias(es)	Miss Su; Miss Qinghan; the Female Protagonist of the original plot 4 28
Gender	Female 2 6
Affiliation	Su Family of Yuyi City; Qingshan Academy; Dao Cang Sword Sect; Jiang Lan / Prime Minister's Manor; later the Wan Yang lineage 2 35 64 327
Occupation/Role	Eldest daughter of the Su Family; cultivator; disciple of Jade Green Sword Immortal; Jiang Lan's concubine; original female protagonist 2 64 66
Status	Alive; seen at the bronze palace beside Jiang Lan after his confrontation with the Wan Yang descendant 326 327
First Appearance	Confronts Jiang Lan with a sword at Snow Moon Pavilion while searching for Su Qingyao 1

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Fourth Realm — Illuminating Nether Realm	2	Breaks through while cultivating at Qingshan Academy; her breakthrough draws the attention of a Dao Cang Sword Sect elder later identified as Jade Green Sword Immortal, an Eighth Realm Sword Immortal who wants to take her as a personal disciple 2 63
Sovereign Maiden Star Praying Technique	67	Receives the technique from True Man Jade Green, along with protective divine sense imprints; its secret art, the Praying Nether Art, can control mind and spirit without a trace 67
Improved strength through medicinal cuisine	76	Jiang Lan notes that her strength has improved after eating luxurious medicinal cuisine; Su Qinghan warns that relying on it too often could destabilize her foundation 76
Mid-stage Fourth Realm — Illuminating Nether Realm	79	Reaches the mid-stage of the Fourth Realm; she is shown meditating at night and seizing time to cultivate whenever possible 79
Great Joy Technique	79	Begins learning Jiang Lan's dual-cultivation technique after their relationship deepens 79
Ancient sword recognition	153	Gains recognition from an ancient sword in the Myriad Sword Pool, triggering a vast phenomenon and proving her extraordinary talent and fortune 153
True Self Bright Heart Sword — sixth layer	211	Cultivates the True Self Bright Heart Sword to the sixth layer before preparing to journey to the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains 211
Supreme Sword Arts of the Wan Yang lineage	327	Receives cultivation experience and the complete Supreme Sword Arts of the Wan Yang lineage from Empress Wan Yang 327

Background / History

Su Qinghan is the eldest daughter of the Su Family of Yuyi City. Before the main conflict with Jiang Lan, she cultivates at Qingshan Academy in Jiangling Commandery and breaks through to the Fourth Realm, the Illuminating Nether Realm, attracting the attention of the Dao Cang Sword Sect 2.

Her first major confrontation with Jiang Lan occurs after Su Qingyao's disappearance. Believing Jiang Lan abducted her younger sister, Su Qinghan infiltrates Snow Moon Pavilion, threatens him with a sword, and is manipulated into appearing as an assassin when Jiang Lan calls for guards 1 3. Captured under the charge of attempted assassination, she endures humiliation, apologizes, and performs an improvised sword dance for him to protect her family 4 5.

After Lin Fan attacks Snow Moon Pavilion, Su Qinghan witnesses the hidden power around Jiang Lan and realizes she had underestimated him 10 11. When Su Qingyao reappears safely, the Su Family's accusation against Jiang Lan collapses, and Su Qinghan begins treating him with greater caution 16 19.

At Su Manor, Jiang Lan repeatedly pressures Su Qinghan through her family and sister. She initially resists with a willingness to die rather than submit, but she also recognizes that Jiang Lan is hiding his true nature behind a wastrel's reputation 27 28. After returning from the City Lord's Mansion unharmed, she shows her chastity mark to prove Jiang Lan did not violate her and tells Su Qingyao that Jiang Lan is not simply a bad person 35.

Under Su Family pressure and political necessity, Su Qinghan accepts Jiang Lan's proposal to become his concubine 64. On the night she is sent to him, she discovers Jiang Lan is not an ordinary man and that his strength is far beyond what she had assumed 65. Afterward, she follows him from Yuyi City and grows increasingly obedient, affectionate, and emotionally attached, while still continuing her cultivation 66 76 79.

Jiang Lan later brings Su Qinghan to meet his parents, Jiang Lintian and Li Qingshu, at the Prime Minister's Manor 100. He arranges for her to eventually go to the Dao Cang Sword Sect, though she fears being caught between her master and Jiang Lan because the sect belongs to the Imperial Loyalist side 101.

At the Dao Cang Sword Sect, Su Qinghan gains recognition from the ancient sword in the Myriad Sword Pool and later cultivates the True Self Bright Heart Sword to the sixth layer 153 211. When the sect uses her to lure Jiang Lan to Four Seasons Mountain's Cloud Gazing Pavilion, she is torn between gratitude toward her master and her feelings for Jiang Lan 221. Jiang Lan later brings her back to Su Manor in secret while the Dao Cang Sword Sect is besieged and annihilated 223.

Much later, Su Qinghan appears at the bronze palace tied to the Wan Yang lineage. Empress Wan Yang takes her as a disciple, teaches her cultivation experience, and passes down the lineage's Supreme Sword Arts, leaving Su Qinghan grateful despite the ulterior motives involved 326 327.

Appearance

Su Qinghan is repeatedly described as an exceptional beauty with a cold, snow-like presence. Her usual image is pristine and aloof, often associated with white clothing, snowy mountains, lotus imagery, and a solitary elegance 15 35 63.

• Picturesque brows and eyes, with beauty described as exquisite beyond compare 15
• Tall, balanced, and graceful figure with a slim waist and slender legs 15
• Often wears plain white clothing, making her resemble “a lotus blooming upon a snowy mountain” 15
• Has snow-white skin and a long, elegant neck compared to a swan’s 63
• When dressed in black gauze at Madam Su's urging, her normally cool temperament gains a more alluring edge 63
• Her coldness is compared to “the coldness of a solitary mountain snow,” contrasted with Jade Green Sword Immortal’s deeper, otherworldly iciness 36 66

Personality

Su Qinghan begins as proud, aloof, and principled. She is respected as a Heavenly Chosen Daughter and is unused to humiliation, but she is also inexperienced enough to act rashly when Su Qingyao is threatened 3 4.

Her strongest recurring trait is responsibility. She protects Su Qingyao, pleads for Lin Fan despite humiliation, and repeatedly sacrifices her own comfort for the Su Family's safety 21 25 27. Jiang Lan later identifies this as her tendency to care too much about kindness and place herself in the most humble position 221.

She is perceptive enough to see that Jiang Lan's lecherous wastrel image is partly deliberate. Her reading of him allows her to gamble on refusing him without immediately being destroyed, and Jiang Lan praises her as “brave and resourceful” 28 29.

Su Qinghan is cultivation-focused. Even after becoming Jiang Lan's concubine, she uses her free time to cultivate, studies the Sovereign Maiden Star Praying Technique, and avoids wasting time 74 77 79.

Her composure gradually softens around Jiang Lan. She becomes more affectionate, remembers his food preferences from Anyang City, grows reluctant to leave him, and openly worries about future conflict between her master and “her own man” 101 103 221.

Abilities & Skills

Sword Cultivation

Su Qinghan is a sword-oriented cultivator whose talent draws the attention of the Dao Cang Sword Sect soon after she reaches the Fourth Realm 2.

• Breaks through to the Fourth Realm, Illuminating Nether Realm, at a young age 2 35
• Improvises a sword dance despite never having studied dance, using footwork and sword movement to comply with Jiang Lan's demand 4
• Gains recognition from an ancient sword in the Myriad Sword Pool, causing a major phenomenon 153
• Cultivates the True Self Bright Heart Sword to the sixth layer 211
• Later receives the Wan Yang lineage's Supreme Sword Arts from Empress Wan Yang 327
• Limitation: despite being a Fourth Realm cultivator, she is completely suppressed by Jiang Lan's hidden power when she tries to mobilize spiritual energy 65

Sovereign Maiden Star Praying Technique

True Man Jade Green gives Su Qinghan the Sovereign Maiden Star Praying Technique after realizing the danger around her position beside Jiang Lan 67.

• Contains the Praying Nether Art, a secret art capable of controlling mind and spirit without obvious traces 67
• Intended by True Man Jade Green as a possible way for Su Qinghan to control Jiang Lan 67
• Works best on full-moon nights, but Su Qinghan's progress is slow at first 74
• No successful use against Jiang Lan is documented in the provided context

Great Joy Technique

Jiang Lan teaches Su Qinghan the Great Joy Technique after their relationship becomes more intimate 79.

• Used as a dual-cultivation method between Jiang Lan and Su Qinghan 79 86
• Associated with the rapid warming of their relationship rather than any explicitly stated realm breakthrough 79 86

Emotional Perception and Strategy

Su Qinghan is repeatedly shown reading motives and social pressure carefully, even when she lacks full information.

• Deduces that Jiang Lan's public wastrel image may be intentional self-soiling to hide his true competence 28 29
• Recognizes Chu Chan's deliberate clinging to Jiang Lan as a survival strategy, though she dislikes it 74
• Understands that entering the Dao Cang Sword Sect may place her between the Imperial Loyalists and the Prime Minister's Manor 101

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Longsword — Used to threaten Jiang Lan at Snow Moon Pavilion and later to perform an improvised sword dance 1 4
• Sumire Rings — Jiang Lan gives her Sumire Rings as part of his proposal; the rings contain cultivation resources, weapons, and manuals valuable enough to astonish Su Family elders 38 39 64
• Ancient sword of the Myriad Sword Pool — Recognizes Su Qinghan and triggers a large phenomenon; its name is not given in the provided context 153
• Sovereign Maiden Star Praying Technique — Technique granted by True Man Jade Green, including the Praying Nether Art 67
• Wan Yang Supreme Sword Arts — Complete sword-art inheritance taught by Empress Wan Yang 327

Relationships

• Jiang Lan — Begins as her captor and political threat; later takes her as his concubine, teaches her cultivation methods, and becomes the person she is emotionally attached to 1 64 79 101 221
• Su Qingyao — Younger sister; Su Qinghan protects her from Jiang Lan's attention, comforts her, and later warns her to cut ties with Lin Fan 16 25 35
• Su Changkong — Father and Su Family patriarch; worries for Su Qinghan but is politically helpless before the Prime Minister's Manor 6 27 35
• Madam Su — Mother; helps dress Su Qinghan for Jiang Lan and advises her to secure as many cultivation resources as possible 63 64
• Lin Fan — Husband in name at the start; he tries to rescue her and assassinate Jiang Lan, while Su Qinghan later pleads for his life and then warns Su Qingyao away from him 2 6 21 35
• True Man Jade Green / Jade Green Sword Immortal — Master from the Dao Cang Sword Sect; an Eighth Realm Sword Immortal who gives Su Qinghan protective measures and the Sovereign Maiden Star Praying Technique 63 66 67
• Chu Chan — Rival woman around Jiang Lan; Su Qinghan is wary of her beauty, cunning, and deliberate attempts to win Jiang Lan's favor 71 74 79
• Jiang Lintian and Li Qingshu — Jiang Lan's parents; Su Qinghan meets them at the Prime Minister's Manor and is treated with distant formality rather than hostility 100 101
• Empress Wan Yang — Later master connected to the Wan Yang lineage; teaches Su Qinghan cultivation experience and Supreme Sword Arts, earning her gratitude despite hidden motives 327

Notable Quotes

“Young Master Jiang, please conduct yourself with respect. Qinghan is a married woman.” 7

“Qinghan is not one to curry favor with the powerful. As for the things you speak of, Qinghan only wishes to strive for them herself.” 11

“If Young Master Jiang insists on forcing Qinghan, then Qinghan would rather end her life here.” 28

“Young Master Jiang is not a bad person.” 35

“Qinghan will obey Young Master’s arrangements in all things.” 66

“Of course, I’m reluctant to leave, Young Master.” 101

Trivia

• Jiang Lan repeatedly gains Qi Luck from Su Qinghan, treating her fortune as especially easy to “shear” for the Qi Luck Dao Fruit 35 66 76.
• The Su Family's status rises dramatically because Su Qinghan becomes tied to Jiang Lan; outsiders describe the family as having produced a “phoenix woman” who attached herself to the Prime Minister's Manor 222.
• Han Jing later researches Jiang Lan's preferences and specifically cites Su Qinghan as a precedent when trying to appeal to him 240.
• Su Qinghan remembers Jiang Lan's preferred pastries and preserves from Anyang City even though Chu Chan was the one who asked about them at the time 221.