Lu Xinyi

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Lu Xinyi (陆心怡)
Gender	Female
Affiliation	Community No. 3
Occupation/Role	Leader and strategist of Community No. 3
First Appearance	16

Background / History

Lu Xinyi enters the Blood Poker game as the spokesperson for four players from Community No. 3. She initially approaches Community No. 17 amicably, proposing that the two groups combine their judgment and strategy. She identifies the Gallery’s games as tests of human flaws: Redemption Roulette tests selfishness, while Blood Poker tests greed. She warns that repeated blood exchanges and attempts to recover gambling losses can lead players to collapse or die from blood loss. 16

She agrees in principle to Jiang He’s plan for players to take turns winning the ante, calling its reliance on luck fair. However, when Qin Yao asks Community No. 3 to send only three players for an even match, Lu Xinyi refuses, citing the rule that every player must complete ten games against another community or lose 10,000 minutes of Visa Time. 16 17

At the gambling table, Lu Xinyi abandons the cooperative arrangement and exploits Community No. 17’s lack of gambling experience. With Lu Mingxuan and the other Community No. 3 players, she uses coordinated raises, folds, and time pressure to force Jiang He, Qin Yao, and Su Xiucen into unfavorable decisions. 18 19

Lu Xinyi later accepts Lin Sizhi and Qin Yao’s two-versus-four challenge, judging that gambling against them is more profitable than continuing to lose to the Chip Exchange Machine. Although she initially reads Lin Sizhi as a reckless bluffing gambler with a limited chip pool, she eventually realizes that he has found a loophole in the machine and has deliberately prolonged the game to deny her time to investigate it. 20 21 22 23

Forced into Lin Sizhi’s “ransom” arrangement, Lu Xinyi and Lu Mingxuan wager and surrender their remaining chips in exchange for being allowed to leave the table and pursue the loophole. Before departing, she tells Lin Sizhi that she will remember him. 24

Appearance

Lu Xinyi is a young, beautiful woman with shoulder-length hair, fair skin, and a pale complexion attributed to blood loss. She wears little makeup, yet presents herself with a gentle smile and an energetic, youthful impression. 16

• Shoulder-length hair. 16
• Fair skin and a slightly pale face. 16
• Usually maintains a gentle, friendly smile before revealing a more aggressive demeanor during play. 16 18

Personality

Lu Xinyi is intelligent, observant, and highly pragmatic. She quickly identifies Blood Poker as a trap centered on greed, understands the risks of excessive blood exchange, and recognizes that players’ temperaments and chip reserves are as important as their cards. 16 19

Her initial friendliness is strategic rather than binding. Once the game begins, she disregards the cooperative plan, applies psychological pressure to less experienced opponents, and treats Community No. 3’s numerical advantage as an asset to be used without hesitation. 18 19

She remains composed under pressure and is willing to fold rather than risk total elimination when Lin Sizhi’s apparent chip supply exceeds her estimates. Her authority within Community No. 3 is strong enough that older members, including Lu Mingxuan, follow her instructions without objection. 20 23

Abilities & Skills

Gambling Strategy

Lu Xinyi combines chip management, probability awareness, and controlled risk-taking to dominate multiplayer Blood Poker games.

• Began the game with more chips than Community No. 17 expected and understood that a deeper chip pool provides a decisive advantage. 19
• Drew 400 ml of blood and played four rounds against the Chip Exchange Machine in an attempt to build her initial chip reserve, though she lost all four rounds. 20
• Preserved 38,000 chips by folding when Lin Sizhi’s raises made continued play too dangerous. 23
• Recognized that a player with limited chips can be forced out through repeated raises even without revealing cards. 22

Psychological Reading and Manipulation

Lu Xinyi assesses opponents through their risk tolerance, behavior, chip counts, and reactions under pressure.

• Correctly identifies Jiang He, Qin Yao, and Su Xiucen as conservative players unwilling to risk their remaining chips. 19
• Infers that they exchanged only the minimum 20,000 chips and withdrew from the Chip Exchange Machine after the required games. 19
• Uses coordinated betting with Community No. 3 to pressure Su Xiucen and undermine Jiang He’s decision-making. 18 19
• Reads Lin Sizhi’s repeated aggressive bets as a bluffing pattern and attempts to force him to expose his hand by calling increasingly large raises. 21 22

Leadership and Coordination

Lu Xinyi has established “absolute authority” in Community No. 3 despite their short time in the New World. 20

• Directs Lu Mingxuan’s folds and raises as part of a coordinated table strategy. 18 21
• Orders Sister Liu, a low-chip Community No. 3 member, to see a hand through to the end in order to expose Lin Sizhi and Qin Yao’s cards. 21 22
• Sends Community No. 3 members to investigate the Chip Exchange Machine immediately after deducing that Lin Sizhi is exploiting a loophole. 23
• Her community’s internal consensus allows its members to support decisions that may appear individually disadvantageous, making them a difficult opposing group. 37

Equipment / Items

• Poker chips — Uses 1,000- and 2,000-point chips during Blood Poker; her available chip stack is central to her strategy. 17 19 23
• Blood drawn for chip exchange — Exchanges 400 ml of blood before gambling against the Chip Exchange Machine. 20

Relationships

• Lu Mingxuan — Community No. 3 ally who follows her betting strategy and instructions; their coordination is a major component of her table control. 18 20 23
• Jiang He — Initially appears to be a cooperative partner, then betrays the shared turn-taking plan and exploits Jiang He’s inexperience and conservatism. 16 18 19
• Qin Yao — Opponent from Community No. 17; Lu Xinyi recognizes Qin Yao’s uncertainty and later misjudges her willingness to fold rather than reveal Lin Sizhi’s hand. 19 21 23
• Lin Sizhi — Primary rival during the second Blood Poker match. Lu Xinyi repeatedly attempts to read and counter his bluffs, but he outmaneuvers her through the Chip Exchange Machine loophole and game stalling. 20 21 22 23 24
• Community No. 3 — Its members accept Lu Xinyi’s leadership and cooperate with her even when her decisions appear to cost them chips. 20 37

Story Role / Major Arcs

Blood Poker: Initial Alliance and Betrayal

Lu Xinyi presents Community No. 3 as a rational potential ally and supports a low-risk plan for distributing antes. Once the match begins, she rejects the spirit of that agreement and leads her community in systematically stripping chips from Community No. 17. 16 17 18 19

Blood Poker: Duel with Lin Sizhi

Facing Lin Sizhi and Qin Yao, Lu Xinyi relies on superior chip depth, bluff-reading, and Community No. 3’s coordination. Her calculations are disrupted when Lin Sizhi and Qin Yao display an apparently inexhaustible supply of chips. 20 21 22

Discovery of the Chip Exchange Loophole

Lu Xinyi deduces that Lin Sizhi’s chips originate from an exploit in the Chip Exchange Machine and realizes that he has deliberately consumed the remaining game time. She accepts his ransom terms, forfeits her remaining chips, and leaves to investigate the loophole. 23 24

Notable Quotes

“You have no chance of winning in this game. Any form of resistance will only lead to greater losses.” 18

“Lin Sizhi... I’ll remember you.” 24