Biodata
| Feature | Details |
|---|---|
| Name | Xu Xuejiao (徐雪娇) |
| Alias(es) | Sister Xuejiao; “Demoness Xu Xuejiao”; Divine Doctor Beauty Girl of the Northern Kingdom 26 854 |
| Species/Race | Human 1410 |
| Gender | Female |
| Affiliation | Houde Group; Ninth Pharmaceutical Factory; Xu Family 163 253 |
| Occupation/Role | Physician and surgeon; CEO of Houde Group; previously identified as Houde Group’s vice president 117 198 253 471 |
| Education | Still officially a university student when treating Hua Xuening’s injuries 197 |
| Business Holdings | Reports holding a 15% stake in Houde Group upon becoming CEO 254 |
| First Appearance | Chapter 4 |
Background / History
Xu Xuejiao first appears at the Chen Manor as an already renowned young medical practitioner. While examining Grandpa Chen, she employs a deliberately gentle needling technique and avoids two dangerous acupoints, surprising Lu Chengwen with her expertise. Lu initially believes she is fated to be drawn to Long Aotian after witnessing his medical ability. 4
When irregularities emerge at a pharmaceutical factory, Xu Xuejiao confronts Lu over suspected embezzlement. After studying his reaction, she concludes that he does not understand the scheme’s details and begins reassessing him. 5 She later develops an interest in Lu’s hidden motives and repeatedly interferes with his attempts to force events into the expected course. 6 26
His attempts to avoid her initially hurt her pride, as she is accustomed to admiration rather than rejection. She eventually announces that she wants to understand him better and will spend more time with him precisely because he finds her presence troublesome. 9 20
Xu Xuejiao becomes increasingly involved in the conflict surrounding Lu, Long Aotian, and Jiang Shihan. She uses Long Aotian’s protective instincts to force Lu to retain Jiang Shihan as his personal secretary, establishing her reputation as a difficult and highly calculating opponent. 26
Her relationship with Lu becomes publicly credible in part through her own performances. After staying at his home following a night of drinking, she convinces Lu’s parents that she is his devoted and mistreated girlfriend, leading them to favor an arranged marriage between the pair. 52 Although she often initially refuses Lu’s requests in anger, she still comes to assist him in urgent situations, including examining the unconscious Leng Qingqiu. 83
Her medical career remains central to her identity. She performs a nearly ten-hour successful operation on Jiang Shihan’s mother and later treats Hua Xuening’s injuries with her inherited medical skills. 117 197 By the time she assumes leadership of Houde Group, her authority rests on both her business control and the respect she commands from medical and pharmaceutical professionals. 252 471
Before becoming CEO, she openly defends her relationship with Lu after her father and hospital colleagues discover them together in her office. Rather than conceal their association, she rejects the suggestion that it is disgraceful, goes out with Lu, and tells staff that she will distribute wedding candy when they become engaged. 198
Her pursuit of Houde’s leadership involves cultivating Long Aotian’s support while resisting her father’s efforts to separate her from Lu. She accompanies Long to Seven Star Peak and remains with him after a dangerous confrontation, subsequently presenting herself as the woman who saved his life. Long promises to help make her CEO, while she encourages her father’s fear that an overseas medical institution and a rival female entrepreneur might attract Long away from Houde. 217 225 240 241
After securing leadership, she tells Lu that she has become Houde Group’s CEO and holds a 15% stake. Her supposed infiltration of Lu’s circle becomes part of a broader pattern of joint deception: Long later questions whether she and Lu are using the amusement-park project to scam him, and their use of her to obtain money is recognized by his associates. 254 353 357
After an extended business assignment in the Southern Kingdom, Xu Xuejiao returns to Xuecheng and confronts Lu over his failure to answer her 321 love letters. She subsequently seeks his help with business and product-testing matters, including a difficult Xishu deal involving ancient martial-arts forces. 2239
During the ensuing pharmaceutical-business conflict, she and Lu stage a falling-out to encourage Tang Xiaohao to approach her. His investigation of her activities establishes that she has spent the preceding months traveling for surgeries, academic exchanges, business events, and charity galas. His conclusion that she and Lu are merely using one another is an assumption their operation exploits, rather than evidence of a genuine separation. 2274
Appearance
Xu Xuejiao is petite, standing a little over 1.6 meters tall, but is described as proportioned in a way that makes her appear taller when dressed formally. 4 26 Her appearance shifts sharply between a deliberately youthful public style and a stern professional image.
- Frequently wears JK uniforms, pink dresses, lolita-style outfits, and other youthful casual clothing. 4 19 428
- Often styles her hair in twin ponytails and is associated with playful accessories such as headphones, lollipops, and hair clips. 5 19 428
- Has a youthful-looking face and a notably full bust, a contrast repeatedly emphasized in descriptions of her appearance. 85 197
- At work, favors tailored suits, glasses, and high heels, presenting herself as composed and authoritative. 112 252
- Her professional demeanor is sufficiently different from her private behavior that colleagues are shocked when they see her act openly affectionate toward Lu Chengwen. 198
- She can readily adopt more mature and glamorous styles, including trench coats, leather boots, long dresses, and formal business attire, without losing her characteristic blend of cuteness and confidence. 26 218 2239
- Uses clothing as part of her performances, including a backless evening gown when presenting a vulnerable image to Long Aotian and an elegant white princess dress when entertaining Chen Can. 435 865
Personality
Xu Xuejiao is exceptionally perceptive, theatrical, and willing to manipulate others’ assumptions. She quickly recognizes Long Aotian as leverage against Lu Chengwen, then engineers situations in which both men believe they are acting on their own initiative. 26 219 She is particularly skilled at switching between vulnerable innocence, romantic devotion, professional severity, and open hostility as a situation demands. 253 365 471
Her manipulativeness coexists with genuine professional dedication. She endures exhausting surgeries, takes responsibility for difficult patients, and is respected by staff for her medical ability rather than merely her family background. 117 252 257 She also refuses to be intimidated when captured by Jiang Xiaogou, immediately attempting to negotiate from a position of financial usefulness. 1410
As CEO, Xu Xuejiao is decisive and ambitious. She pursues major development projects, rejects unfavorable terms from Dayu Group, and exercises direct control over Houde’s operations. 307 471 Her father becomes increasingly unsettled by how completely she can alternate between a filial daughter, a ruthless executive, and an apparently naive young woman. 471 472
Her attachment to Lu is accompanied by pronounced jealousy. She is irritated by his closeness to other women, competes with Leng Qingqiu over their place in his life, and warns Zhang Shen’er that continued contact with him may lead to emotional entanglement. Nevertheless, she can recognize a rival’s accomplishments and cooperate for Lu’s sake: during his absence, she accepts Leng’s direction and acknowledges that Leng stabilized Great Sage Group and the Chengwen District projects. 76 112 165 203 418
Xu Xuejiao is also notably fearless when her interests are threatened. Rather than being cowed by Tang Xiaohao’s warnings about Lu Chengwen or the Tang Sect, she holds her ground and continues weighing the situation on her own terms. 2275 Her confidence in confronting powerful men is matched by a willingness to turn their assumptions about her loyalty, innocence, or dependence into weapons against them. 365 1136 2278
She takes pride in her ability to manipulate dangerous opponents, citing her success with Long Aotian and Huo Wendong when Lu objects to the risks of targeting Tang Xiaohao. She also responds warmly to Lu’s insistence that a humanitarian crisis should be met with medical care and assistance rather than exploitation, openly expressing her attraction to him during the meeting. 2250 2274
Abilities & Skills
Medical Expertise
Xu Xuejiao possesses inherited medical knowledge and works as a practicing physician and surgeon.
- Uses careful acupuncture techniques, including avoiding dangerous acupoints during diagnosis and treatment. 4
- Becomes solemn and highly focused when treating patients, despite her ordinarily eccentric and playful behavior. 22
- Successfully performs a prolonged operation on Jiang Shihan’s mother. 117
- Treats Hua Xuening’s injuries and recognizes the unusual restorative energy within her body. 197
- Is regarded throughout Xuecheng as a renowned “Miraculous Divine Doctor,” with patients and medical staff seeking her help. 257 854
- Applies medical knowledge in high-pressure situations, including inducing her father to expel black blood as treatment. 472
- Distinguishes apparent physical illness from possible mental interference, cautiously suggesting that a patient’s condition may involve an external mind-controlling technique rather than an ordinary disease. 119
- Maintains a demanding schedule of surgeries and academic exchanges alongside her business responsibilities. 2274
Acting and Psychological Manipulation
Xu Xuejiao’s strongest non-medical asset is her ability to construct convincing personas tailored to her target.
- Pressures Lu Chengwen by threatening to frame him before Long Aotian, securing Jiang Shihan’s continued employment. 26
- Manipulates Lu Chengwen’s parents into viewing her as his loving and wronged girlfriend, prompting them to support an engagement between the two. 52
- Continues cultivating his mother’s sympathy through gifts and carefully phrased claims of mistreatment, including a speakerphone conversation that makes Lu’s angry response audible to his mother. 69
- Pretends to be heartbroken and frightened to gain Long Aotian’s protection and political support. 219 241
- Exploits her father’s interest in retaining Long Aotian by describing an overseas female CEO as a potential competitor, connecting her own lack of corporate authority to the possibility of losing him. 241 252
- Uses displays of grief and devotion to sway Long Aotian, Zhao Ritian, and surrounding observers during confrontations. 365 435 1136
- Her performances can move even observers who know they are fabricated; Qi Meishao explicitly acknowledges this while watching her emotional appeal on Long Aotian’s behalf. 1136
- Deliberately presents herself as innocent and inexperienced to draw in Chen Can. 854 858
- Quickly understands Lu’s plan to turn rival investment groups against one another after hearing the participants and sums involved. 1130
- Fakes conflict with Lu Chengwen to create an opening for Tang Xiaohao, whom she and Lu intend to manipulate through a honey-trap operation. 2274
- Maintains a hostile façade toward Lu during negotiations over Sunshine Pharmaceutical Factory, helping preserve the appearance that Tang Xiaohao can recruit her against him. 2275 2278
Business and Financial Acumen
Xu Xuejiao is an aggressive executive and investor with detailed knowledge of financial markets.
- Offers to acquire Leng Qingqiu’s 40% stake in Qianfeng Group on favorable terms during the struggle over the company, giving Leng an alternative to a rushed sale. 112
- Seeks to establish a comprehensive hospital in Chengwen District and views the project as a route to securing Houde Group’s leadership. 242 253
- Elicits Long Aotian’s promise of a twelve-billion-yuan investment in the hospital project. 242
- Rejects Dayu Group’s terms and plans to independently develop an amusement-park project using Lu Chengwen’s resources. 307
- Presents Long Aotian and Huo Wendong with a supposed plan to cause a cash-flow crisis for Lu through the amusement park; Huo agrees to provide seventy billion yuan, backed by Long’s IOU. 308
- Provides crucial financial backing for Lu’s development projects when funds are most needed, a contribution Leng Qingqiu explicitly acknowledges. 472
- Demonstrates knowledge of funds, stocks, futures, foreign exchange, and price-difference trading; she multiplies a subordinate’s 300,000 investment within a day. 1410
- Uses a hostage situation to propose ways for Jiang Xiaogou to recover his losses through investment and debt management rather than violence. 1410
- Directs Houde Group’s product lines, investment plans, and expansion into high-end anti-cancer drug research. 471
- Consolidates her position through Houde’s extensive investment in Chengwen District, telling her father that removing her would cause the company to collapse. 471
- Signs, on Jiang Xiaogou’s behalf, a coercive agreement for Houde Group, Great Sage Group, and Qianfeng Group to develop the Huaguo Mountain project. 1412
- Pursues the acquisition of Sunshine Pharmaceutical Factory through Xishu negotiations, including the apparent use of a 20-billion loan provided by the Tang Sect. 2275 2278
Relationships
- Lu Chengwen — Initially a suspicious business associate and frequent adversary, then his girlfriend and strategic partner. Their relationship is marked by jealousy, mutual manipulation, repeated collaboration against outside threats, and Xu Xuejiao’s continued demand for attention and recognition from him. 26 197 362 2239 2274 Their conversation after Jiang Shihan’s mother’s surgery gives him a deeper appreciation of her dedication and personal struggles. Their relationship becomes sexual during the events surrounding the hotel confrontation, with the System subsequently confirming their first intercourse. 117 362 363
- Long Aotian — Former boyfriend and recurring target of her acting. She gains his support by presenting herself as devoted to him, though their relationship is repeatedly strained by doubt, betrayal, and competing interests. 219 366 865 1136 She privately recognizes that his pursuit of her is also a bid for control of the Xu Family and Houde Group. She later tells him that their relationship has changed, while Zhao Ritian asserts that she now regards him only as an older brother. 218 225 557
- Xu Zhiyun — Her father and Houde Group’s former leader. He supports her medical talent but becomes alarmed by her succession to power, complicated relationships, and increasingly forceful management style. 217 253 471 His attempts to oppose her relationship with Lu and later reconsider Houde’s leadership fail as she becomes financially and administratively indispensable to the company. 217 471 867
- Jiang Shihan — Professional acquaintance whose job Xu Xuejiao protects; Xu Xuejiao later saves Jiang Shihan’s mother through surgery. 26 117
- Hua Xuening — Lu Chengwen’s close companion and a patient Xu Xuejiao treats after she is wounded. 197 Their association also includes romantic rivalry: Xu Xuejiao is jealous of Hua’s attachment to Lu, while Hua describes Xu Xuejiao as too clever and admits disliking her. Xu Xuejiao nevertheless entrusts Hua with caring for Lu and later insists on taking her for a check-up. 227 240 340 369
- Leng Qingqiu — Lu’s fiancée and a business ally whose medical emergency Xu Xuejiao examines despite their rivalry. Leng Qingqiu later sends Xu Xuejiao to the Southern Kingdom to assist with the expanding business empire. 83 2239 Xu Xuejiao resents being ordered around but cooperates with Leng during Lu’s absence; Leng, in turn, recognizes the importance of her financial support while remaining wary of the consequences if she withdraws it. 418 472
- Chen Mengyun — Fellow romantic rival and occasional collaborator. Xu Xuejiao’s arrival at Lu’s home intensifies the competition among her, Chen, and Leng Qingqiu, but she and Chen later assist Leng in maintaining Lu’s business interests during his absence. 163 165 418
- Chen Can — A wealthy suitor whom Xu Xuejiao deliberately encourages to provoke Lu Chengwen’s jealousy and gain leverage for her plans. 854 858 864 Public reports linking them raise Houde Group’s stock price, while her father encourages the match without understanding the extent of her performance. 864 865
- Huo Wendong — Business rival and recurring target of her financial and emotional manipulation. She helps secure his funding for the amusement-park scheme and later exploits the confrontation involving him, Long Aotian, and Lu. 308 366
- Zhao Ritian — Another suitor who invokes an alleged engagement and competes with Long Aotian and Lu Chengwen for her. Xu Xuejiao repeatedly exploits his protectiveness. 425 435 464 She denies his claimed engagement and directs his attention toward Long Aotian by emphasizing her purported boyfriend’s strength. 425
- Zhang Shen’er — Acquaintance whom she warns to limit contact with Lu if she does not like him, anticipating that hostility toward him may turn into attraction. 203
- Jiang Xiaogou — Her captor during the hostage crisis. Xu Xuejiao turns their confrontation into a financial negotiation and later becomes a nominal signatory to his Huaguo Mountain development arrangement. 1410 1412
- Tang Xiaohao — A Tang Sect heir targeted by Xu Xuejiao and Lu Chengwen’s joint deception during a pharmaceutical-business dispute. He attempts to recruit her against Lu through the proposed Sunshine Pharmaceutical Factory acquisition. 2274 2275 2278 His belief that her relationship with Lu is purely transactional makes him susceptible to their staged quarrel. 2274
- Iron Tuo Wang — Encounters her alongside Lu at a restaurant, where Lu tricks him into kneeling and apologizing to her. Lu later assigns him to protect her. 44 181
Story Role / Major Arcs
- Pharmaceutical Factory Incident — Investigates corruption linked to the factory and begins questioning Lu Chengwen’s true role in the affair. 5 6
- Jiang Shihan Intervention — Uses Long Aotian’s hostility toward Lu to prevent Jiang Shihan’s dismissal. 26
- Restaurant Confrontation — Accompanies Lu during his encounter with Iron Tuo Wang, whose mistaken understanding of Lu’s identity allows Lu to obtain an apology on her behalf. 44
- Lu Family Marriage Deception — Exploits a misunderstanding at Lu Chengwen’s home to convince his parents that she is his devoted girlfriend, securing their support for a marriage arrangement. 52
- Medical Recognition Arc — Saves Jiang Shihan’s mother, reinforces her standing as a surgeon, and reveals the demanding nature of her work to Lu Chengwen. 117
- Hospital Relationship Disclosure — Refuses to hide her association with Lu after her father and colleagues discover them together, publicly treating their relationship as legitimate. 198
- Houde Group Succession — Pursues the CEO position, promotes the Chengwen District hospital project, and is formally prepared to take over Houde Group. 217 242 253 Uses Long Aotian’s support and her father’s concern about losing his medical talent to strengthen her succession campaign, then reports her appointment and 15% shareholding to Lu. 241 252 254
- Seven Star Peak Deception — Accompanies Long Aotian into the mountains, survives the ensuing conflict, and convinces him that she risked her life to save him, winning a promise of support for her corporate ambitions. 225 240 241
- Mole and Revenge Scheme — Offers to infiltrate Lu Chengwen’s circle under the stated goal of taking revenge on him and advancing the hospital project. 253
- Amusement-Park Financing Scheme — Presents an investment trap as a plan to ruin Lu, obtaining Huo Wendong’s commitment of seventy billion yuan with Long Aotian’s IOU as backing. Later confrontations expose suspicions that she and Lu are the ones benefiting from the arrangement. 307 308 353 357
- Hotel Confrontation and Romantic Consummation — Becomes sexually involved with Lu and then uses an elaborate emotional performance to counter suspicions about her loyalty during the confrontation with Long Aotian and Huo Wendong. 362 363 364 365 366
- Business Stabilization During Lu’s Absence — Cooperates with Leng Qingqiu and Chen Mengyun despite their rivalry, helping protect Lu’s business interests while Leng takes control of the crisis. 418
- Three-Suitor Conflict — Becomes the center of rivalry among Lu Chengwen, Long Aotian, and Zhao Ritian, who agree that the victor of their pursuit will gain Xuecheng City. 425 464
- Chen Can Deception — Cultivates Chen Can’s belief that she is a pure and sheltered doctor while using his interest to influence Lu Chengwen and public business sentiment. 853 854 864
- Emotional Intervention for Long Aotian — Stages a moving declaration of devotion that prevents Zhao Ritian from harming Long and leaves observers deeply affected, including those aware that she is acting. 1136
- Jiang Xiaogou Hostage Crisis — Remains composed after being captured, bargaining with Jiang Xiaogou through investment strategy and capital-market knowledge. 1401 1410
- Huaguo Mountain Agreement — Becomes entangled in Jiang Xiaogou’s forced development arrangement, with Houde Group joining Great Sage Group and Qianfeng Group in the Huaguo Mountain plan. 1410 1412
- Southern Kingdom Return — Returns from a prolonged Southern Kingdom assignment, confronts Lu Chengwen about her unanswered letters, and requests his assistance with an Xishu business matter. 2239
- Tang Sect Operation — Works with Lu Chengwen to bait and manipulate Tang Xiaohao amid conflict over a pharmaceutical-factory acquisition. 2274 2275 2278
Notable Quotes
“I've changed my mind. I want to understand you better.” 20
“I want to be a CEO.” 219
“Only a billion? I’ll help you earn it back.” 1410
“I, Xu Xuejiao, wasn’t raised to be scared.” 2275