Jiangyang

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Jiangyang (江洋)
Alias(es)	“Squinty Jiangyang” 14
Species/Race	Human; resident of the Living Person Apartment 13
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Living Person Apartment; one of its three administrators 13 15
Occupation/Role	Apartment Administrator; experienced Green Text Mission participant and guide 14 43
Status	Alive 44
First Appearance	Chapter 13

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
2 Green Text Missions completed	31	His first two newcomer missions went smoothly, leaving him overconfident enough to explore the Fourth Floor. He obtained his first—and only—Black Card there, but the experience frightened him into never ascending again.
5 Green Text Missions completed	14	Tied with Shata for the highest documented mission count among the apartment’s administrators at the time.
Fifth Mission: Pagoda Elementary School	44	Survived a mission whose true objective lay inside Pagoda Elementary School; his fiancée died there saving him.

Background / History

Jiangyang entered the Living Person Apartment before Gao Tian and passed his first two Green Text Missions without major trouble. Believing himself unusually capable, he voluntarily explored the Fourth Floor. Although he returned with a Black Card, the experience left him wary enough that he never went upstairs again 31.

By the time Gao Tian arrived, Jiangyang had completed five missions and served alongside Shata and Yusheng as one of the apartment’s administrators 13 14. During his own fifth mission, he traveled through Bus 444 to Pagoda Elementary School with his fiancée. She was the more capable partner in earlier missions and ultimately remained behind in the school so that Jiangyang could live 44.

Appearance

Jiangyang is a silver-haired young man who habitually keeps his eyes narrowed, giving him a sleepy, half-awake appearance 13 15.

• Dyed silver hair, described as “old man’s hair” 13
• Narrowed eyes that appear unable to open fully 13
• Usually wears a black jacket 15

Personality

Jiangyang often appears languid and playful, greeting Gao Tian with a sly smile and joking about the dangers of living near the Fourth Floor 15. Beneath this relaxed demeanor, he is cautious from personal experience; he does not romanticize exploring the upper floors after barely surviving his own attempt 31.

As an administrator, he is practical rather than sentimental. During the Sapphire Mall mission, he and Shata were prepared to delay the transformed corpse long enough to escape with their Black Cards, even if that meant abandoning the clients they had been hired to protect 24. However, he takes the survival of promising residents seriously, carefully briefing Gao Tian on Bus 444’s rules and personally entrusting him with a final message for his deceased fiancée 43 44.

Abilities & Skills

Green Text Mission Experience

Jiangyang has survived five missions and possesses firsthand knowledge of the Living Person Apartment’s upper floors and Inner World routes.

• Knows that the Fourth Floor is exceptionally dangerous despite its Black Card reward 31
• Has firsthand experience with Bus 444 and Pagoda Elementary School from his fifth mission 43 44
• Explains that Bus 444 can only safely function as a three-time mission if humans maintain a voting majority over vengeful ghosts 44
• Warns that ghost killing rules may still activate if passengers voluntarily meet their conditions 44

Mission Coordination

Jiangyang can organize searches and act quickly on deductions during supernatural incidents.

• Led Su Jiu and Li Jin in sweeping Sapphire Mall for Xu Yuan’s corpse pieces 17
• Identified “people” as the answer to the clue “Hide Leaf in Forest,” helping locate the corpse pieces hidden among mall personnel 21
• Immediately understood Shata’s deduction that the female celebrity displayed on the mall screen was the missing head 24
• Assisted Shata in attempting to stall the completed corpse transformation 24

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Black Card — Jiangyang’s only Black Card, obtained during his early exploration of the Fourth Floor; it permits return to the Living Person Apartment, though Bus 444 forbids using it while aboard 31 44.
• Engagement Ring — An old ring intended for his fiancée. He gives it to Gao Tian and asks him to leave it at Pagoda Elementary School’s entrance 44.

Relationships

• Shata — Fellow Living Person Apartment administrator. They jointly guide residents, escort paying clients on missions, and coordinated the Sapphire Mall response 13 16 24.
• Yusheng — Fellow administrator and the most experienced resident of their group by mission count 13 14.
• Gao Tian — New resident whom Jiangyang shows around the apartment, guides through Bus 444’s rules, and trusts with his fiancée’s engagement ring 15 43 44.
• Unnamed fiancée — His former mission partner. She saved Jiangyang during their Pagoda Elementary School mission and never returned; the engagement ring was meant for her 44.
• Boss Jin — Wealthy resident who hired Jiangyang and Shata to escort him during the Sapphire Mall mission 16.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Living Person Apartment Introduction

Jiangyang is introduced as one of the three apartment administrators. He helps explain the Living Person Apartment’s living-person floors, ghost-inhabited upper floors, and room arrangements to Gao Tian 13 15.

Sapphire Mall Mission

Hired alongside Shata to protect Boss Jin, Jiangyang leads part of the search for Xu Yuan’s scattered corpse. He helps identify the corpse’s hidden pieces, recognizes the female star screen as the missing head, and prepares to stall the awakened corpse transformation 17 21 24.

Ascend Team Proposal

When supernatural phenomena begin affecting the Third Floor, Jiangyang supports Gao Tian’s proposal to form a team that will proactively investigate the Fourth Floor rather than wait for the danger to spread 30 31.

Pagoda Elementary School Mission

Jiangyang and Shata brief Gao Tian’s group before its Bus 444 mission, stressing the bus’s voting system, passenger limit, prohibited escape methods, and the dangers posed by voluntary contact with ghosts 43 44. Privately, Jiangyang asks Gao Tian to leave his overdue engagement ring at the entrance to Pagoda Elementary School in memory of the fiancée who died there 44.

Notable Quotes

“The horrors within far exceed the imagination of newcomers like you.” 43

“This Ring, a year late, was originally meant for her.” 44