Nie Xiguang

Biodata

Background and History

Nie Xiguang is the daughter of Jiang Yun and Nie Chengyuan. When her parents divorced, she chose to live with her mother. She learned only later that her father had been unfaithful, and kept her unhappiness to herself 3071.

She and Wang Yue grew up together and became a couple. Early in their relationship, she intervenes when his mother, Jiang Pingping, threatens to punish him over something he said about Xiguang 3042 3080. She later helps at Wang Yue’s game-development company, Guangyue Technology, and invites her friend Xie Xiaofeng to work there 3063 3064.

Personality

• Kind and easily flustered: Wang Yue observes that she has difficulty lying or handling a misunderstanding after she accidentally challenges Bei Weiwei in a game 3070 3071.
• Respectful of earned work: She objects to Zhuang Xu’s insistence on paying for her meal, but regards money earned through honest work as something to be proud of 3049.
• Increasingly assertive: She challenges gossip from former roommates, confronts her father over his treatment of her, and chooses to attend a difficult classmate gathering without Wang Yue 3104 3106.
• Values close friendships: She tells Wang Yue that one or two true friends matter more to her than having many friends 3096.

Work and Finances

• Guangyue Technology: She offers Xie Xiaofeng a job, represents the company at an industry summit, and is identified as its vice president 3063 3081 3091.
• Financial training: Recognizing that the company is growing faster than her own experience, she proposes hiring Sister Qian as financial manager so she can learn from her. She later stabilizes Yunxi Financial’s Nanjing branch 3070 3090.
• Property investment: She discusses buying houses to rent out as a stable use for money obtained from Nie Chengyuan, with Wang Yue’s help 3061 3062.
• Shuangyuan Photovoltaics: She takes an accounting job there and becomes close to dormmates Yin Jie and Wan Yuhua 3110 3132.

Relationships

• Wang Yue — Childhood sweetheart and boyfriend. They work together at Guangyue Technology and initially conceal their relationship while helping sort out matters at Shuangyuan Photovoltaics 3080 3133.
• Jiang Yun — Mother. Xiguang lives with her following her parents’ divorce and seeks her advice on finances 3062 3071.
• Nie Chengyuan — Father. Their relationship is strained by his past actions and his favoritism toward Ma Nianyuan; Xiguang leaves his house after learning he gave Ma Nianyuan a company 3104 3121.
• Jiang Rui — Younger brother. She gives him pocket money when he visits her and Wang Yue 3084.
• Jiang Pingping — Wang Yue’s mother, who is fond of Xiguang 3042 3061.
• Xie Xiaofeng — Friend and colleague who supports Xiguang during disputes with their former roommates 3064 3106.
• Yin Jie and Wan Yuhua — Shuangyuan dormmates and close friends; they learn about her relationship with Wang Yue after it becomes public 3110 3133.

Story Role

• Campus and company: Her relationship with Wang Yue develops alongside her work at Guangyue Technology. Her first public presentation for the company receives warm applause 3049 3064 3081.
• Family conflict: Discovering Nie Chengyuan’s support for Ma Nianyuan prompts her to leave his house. She later focuses on her grandparents’ welfare when debt collectors harass them at a hospital 3104 3121.
• Shuangyuan Photovoltaics: She starts work as an accountant, builds new friendships, and eventually tells her dormmates why she and Wang Yue had pretended not to know each other at work 3110 3133.