The name Huang Xu had been chosen by his grandpa before Huang Ji was born.
After he was born, his father went to register him. But his father ignored the old man and directly chose a name according to his own wishes. From then on, he was called Huang Ji.
Grandpa had no choice but to use "Xu'er" as Huang Ji's nickname.
Yuan Shen knew about this.
But it was merely an insignificant episode in Huang Ji's glorious life.
Puppet Characteristic Kill required observing the target, creating a puppet, and knowing the other party's true name. Then, one could directly erase them through information.
Moreover, the erasure could be activated with a silent thought. Of course, if the name or appearance was wrong, the erasure would fail.
Yuan Shen's mistake was that it did not know the concept of an Information True Name... It was the first true name authenticated by information, completely unrelated to registrations with some civilized institution or secular forms of address.
When a person was born, they contained countless pieces of information, such as their name, race, mass, and so on. Among them, the true name was necessarily the first name they received.
If they later acquired other names, the information they belonged to would differ. Those might be titles, commonly used names, former names, nicknames, aliases, and the like...
Yuan Shen did not know this. It thought that any name distinct from an alias was a true name. Huang Ji had used many aliases throughout his life, such as Hua Xu, Ji Hua, Shadow Long, and so on. Only when he finally laid everything bare did he say, "My name is actually Huang Ji." Yet he had never said, "My name is actually Huang Xu."
"Huang Ji" was the name he truly used in the