Living Person Apartment

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Living Person Apartment (活人公寓)
Alias(es)	Xu Yuan; Jialan Society group owner/president 15 20 40
Species/Race	Vengeful Ghost; formerly human 18 26
Affiliation	Jialan Society — group owner 1 8
Occupation/Role	Former Ghost Hunter; founder of Jialan Society 19 20
Status	Active as a chat-group ghost; his physical body is deceased 18 26
First Appearance	Chapter 1 1

Background / History

Early life

Xu Yuan possessed the Ghost Eye from childhood. It let him see ghosts and events beyond the perception of ordinary people; after he spoke of the deaths he foresaw, others treated him as a bringer of misfortune. His parents died, his remaining relatives rejected him, and he was eventually taken in by a figure he called Teacher, who identified him as a born Ghost Hunter. 19

His Ghost Eye was exceptionally powerful: it could perceive people from different eras. While Gao Tian investigated Sapphire Mall more than twenty years later, the child Xu Yuan pulled him into a Space-Time Vortex and conversed with him across time. 19

Ghost Hunter career and the Living Person Apartment

As an adult, Xu Yuan founded the Jialan Society, recruited Ghost Hunters, and handled numerous supernatural incidents. He entered the Living Person Apartment, completed ten Green Text Missions, and became the only known resident to escape it alive. 20

Before leaving, Xu Yuan reportedly promised that he would return and find a way to end the residents' ordeal. Later accounts conflict over whether he returned to ordinary life or died in an unrelated supernatural incident, but he ultimately became the Vengeful Ghost now using the name Living Person Apartment. 14 26

The username came from his experience at the apartment. A 2018 Jialan Society forum post credited to Living Person Apartment was titled: “In the ‘Living Person Apartment’ supernatural incident, discovered some essence of ghosts.” 8

Death at Sapphire Mall

Xu Yuan died at Sapphire Mall and used supernatural means to preserve his corpse there. His body remained hidden for two years, but its head was removed; a female-star ghost later parasitized the headless body. 15 18 26

Fearing that a survivor from the Living Person Apartment could identify his corpse and trace it to the pot hidden in his old home, Xu Yuan issued a Black Packet request for someone to handle both matters. 15

Personality

Xu Yuan is calculating and intensely risk-averse about his own secrets. He insists that even the smallest possibility of his identity, corpse, or pot being discovered must be eliminated. 15

His long existence as a ghost has eroded his concern for human life. After Gao Tian completed the Sapphire Mall task, Xu Yuan casually suggested using the Ghost Transformation Spear on living people to turn them into ghosts. 26

Despite this cruelty, he remains attached to possessions and arrangements from his life, particularly his preserved corpse and the pot at his old home. 15 39

Abilities & Skills

Ghost Eye

Xu Yuan's innate Ghost Eye lets him perceive supernatural entities and phenomena inaccessible to normal humans. 19

• Sees ghosts and foresees deaths or supernatural events. 19
• Perceives people who do not belong to the current era. 19
• Drew Gao Tian into a Space-Time Vortex across more than twenty years. 19
• Was unaffected by Gao Tian's Memory Ghost ability during their encounter in the vortex. 19

Ghost Hunter expertise

Before his death, Xu Yuan was regarded as an exceptional Ghost Hunter whose experience enabled him to establish Jialan Society and survive all ten Living Person Apartment missions. 20

• Founded and led Jialan Society. 20
• Resolved multiple supernatural-location incidents during his life. 20
• Became the only known person to complete ten Green Text Missions and escape the Living Person Apartment. 14 20

Associated Items

• Ghost Transformation Spear — Xu Yuan's former primary weapon, given to him by his Teacher. Anyone killed by it becomes a ghost with certainty; Gao Tian later receives and keeps it. 16 26
• Old Home's Pot — A red pot formerly hidden at Xu Yuan's old home. Xu Yuan believed its secret had remained unsolved even after his Teacher studied it for fifty years; it later displays a possible future to Gao Tian. 15 42
• Preserved corpse — Xu Yuan concealed his own body at Sapphire Mall through supernatural means. Its reaction to the Ghost Transformation Spear allowed Gao Tian to suppress the corpse transformation. 15 25

Relationships

• Gao Tian — Gao Tian contacts Xu Yuan while posing as Memory Ghost, accepts his Sapphire Mall request, and receives the Ghost Transformation Spear as payment. Xu Yuan later believes Gao Tian's Zhao Qiang identity stole his pot. 16 26 40
• Teacher Lin Nan'an — Xu Yuan's childhood Teacher identified his Ghost Eye and gave him the Ghost Transformation Spear; the full nature of their relationship remains unknown. 16 19 32
• Ghost Infant — Fellow Jialan Society member who mocks the Ghost Transformation Spear's seemingly useless effect and discusses Xu Yuan's concerns over his corpse and pot. 15 16
• Ghost Cave — High-status Jialan Society member whom Xu Yuan asks for assistance with the Sapphire Mall matter. 15
• Infinite Floors — Jialan Society member who openly questions Xu Yuan's competence and threatens to test his patience. 40

Story Role / Major Arcs

Jialan Society mystery

Living Person Apartment is one of the first unusual usernames Gao Tian sees in Jialan Society. The name later becomes a key clue connecting the group's owner to the physical apartment and to Xu Yuan's past. 1 7 8

Sapphire Mall corpse incident

Xu Yuan's Black Packet request brings Gao Tian to Sapphire Mall to locate the former Ghost Hunter's body. Gao Tian uses the Ghost Transformation Spear to pin the transformed corpse, resolving both Xu Yuan's request and the Green Text Mission. 16 24 25

The pot and retaliation

After Gao Tian retrieves the red pot from Xu Yuan's old home while disguised as Zhao Qiang, Xu Yuan identifies Zhao Qiang as the thief and prepares retaliation against anyone associated with that name. 39 40

Notable Quotes

“Even the smallest possibility must be nipped in the bud.” 15

“Whichever living person you find pleasing to the eye, kill them with the spear. That way, they'll directly become a ghost and join you down here.” 26

Trivia

• The Living Person Apartment username refers both to Xu Yuan's defining supernatural case and to the actual apartment complex. 8 11
• Xu Yuan's Ghost Eye allowed him to meet Gao Tian before either of them belonged to the same era. 19