Su Muzhi

Biodata

Feature	Information
Name	Su Muzhi (苏慕织)
Alias(es)	Little Su
Gender	Female
Affiliation	Xingnan University; Badminton Club 9
Occupation/Role	University student; Jiang Linyuan's frequent collaborator, rival, and romantic partner
Status	Alive; undergoes successful heart surgery 299
First Appearance	Chapter 5

Background / History

Su Muzhi is the daughter of the Xingnan University Vice Principal and a wealthy Shanghai family. Her father married into the family, which is why she bears her mother's surname. Her family owns a villa and can reserve entire hotels and supply private-kitchen staff for a meal. 14 27 73

She was often ill as a child and made frequent hospital visits. Her poor stamina persists into adulthood; after the Purple Gold Mountain hike, she enters a sanatorium, later requiring repeated treatment for a serious heart condition. 44 101 118 299

Her relationship with her mother is strained. Su regards her mother as controlling and uses that disapproval to her own advantage, including arranging Jiang Linyuan's meeting with her. Despite this conflict, the two later communicate more openly about Jiang and her treatment. 44 74 237

Su attended Xingnan University by her own decision. She initially approaches Jiang Linyuan partly to observe his relationship with Shen Wanyu, then becomes his nominal “wingman” while pursuing her own understanding of him. 9 102

Appearance

Su Muzhi is a slender young woman with willow-leaf eyebrows, large expressive eyes, long dark hair, and a notably narrow waist. She carries herself with deliberate confidence, whether in casual clothes, formalwear, or traditional dress. 16 123 178

• Often wears short skirts and fashionable casual outfits. 16 57
• Wore a wine-red shirt with a black ball gown to her family banquet. 123
• Wore a red-and-gold phoenix crown and robe for the Lantern Festival. 171
• Is described as physically frail and has poor endurance despite her outward poise. 101 172

Personality

Su Muzhi is clever, provocative, and highly competitive. She habitually smiles while needling others, enjoys engineering uncomfortable situations, and treats social conflict as entertainment. Her early interactions with Jiang Linyuan are defined by mutual schemes: she agrees to help him approach Shen Wanyu while planning to learn more about him herself. 9

She is intensely self-assured and rarely conceals her sense of superiority. She can be bluntly dismissive of people she finds unimportant, using her family’s influence as an implied threat when challenged. 124 137 Her own assessment of high school is that most classmates either disliked her personality or sought to curry favor because of her family background. 170

Beneath that confidence, Su struggles to recognize and articulate affection. She initially treats people as toys or sources of amusement, including Shen Wanyu, but becomes unsettled by jealousy whenever Jiang Linyuan pursues other women. She eventually acknowledges that this discomfort is connected to her feelings for him. 161 164

Her possessiveness remains a defining trait. Su wants Jiang to be emotionally focused on her and openly asks him to try to fall in love with her, even while accepting that he has complicated relationships with others. 170 192 283 She nevertheless shows loyalty and care for him, supports his efforts to seek treatment for her condition, and values sincerity when it is genuinely offered. 237 285

Abilities & Skills

Mind Reading

Su Muzhi states that she possesses Mind Reading, using it to judge others' intentions and emotions. 182

• Claims to infer character from a person's gaze. 182
• Notices Zhao Qiuluo's attention repeatedly shifting toward her despite Zhao primarily interacting with Jiang Linyuan. 182
• Jiang Linyuan notes that she can conceal her thoughts by focusing on unrelated matters while speaking. 121
• The exact scope, reliability, and limitations of her Mind Reading are not established.

Social Manipulation

Su is highly skilled at exploiting jealousy, status, family pressure, and incomplete information.

• Arranges Jiang Linyuan's meeting with her mother while remaining deliberately vague about their relationship. 74
• Uses Jiang to provoke Yu Songsong and Shen Wanyu, including participating in staged jealousy tactics. 86 183
• Investigates people connected to Jiang, including his family background and Haile Bio. 151 223
• Uses her social standing to intimidate rivals such as Qian Yan. 124 137

Equipment / Items

• Paper-strip music box — A gift from Jiang Linyuan that she keeps at the sanatorium. 119 121
• Wheelchair — Used during periods of exhaustion and medical recovery. 118
• Private car and driver — Used for travel to her family banquet in Shanghai. 123

Relationships

• Jiang Linyuan — Initially allies with him as his “wingman” while both conceal ulterior motives. Their teasing rivalry develops into affection, intimacy, and an increasingly possessive romantic bond. Su supports his attempts to find treatment for her illness; they take wedding photographs after her successful surgery. 9 118 170 237 299
• Shen Wanyu — Former friend and long-standing rival. Their relationship deteriorated after a high-school public confession involving Xiao Ling; Su holds Shen responsible for driving the girl to confess. Despite frequent hostility and competition over Jiang, they later begin confronting their resentment directly. 86 161 263
• Mother Su / Sachima — Her wealthy, controlling mother. Their relationship is tense, but Mother Su funds research into Su's condition and eventually recognizes Jiang as a prospective son-in-law. 74 237 289
• Vice Principal — Her father, who married into the Su family. He is protective of Su and wary of Jiang's influence, but later accepts Jiang's care for her. 14 101 228
• Jiang Zhiyao — Jiang Linyuan's sister. Their relationship begins with mutual suspicion and competition over Jiang's attention. 24 137 160
• Yu Songsong — A romantic rival for Jiang Linyuan. Su frequently provokes and belittles her, though she also entrusts Yu with watching over Jiang when she fears Shen Wanyu may hurt him. 86 160 257
• Zhao Qiuluo — A former high-school acquaintance who challenges Su over Xiao Ling's treatment. Their conflict centers on Zhao's accusation that Su lacks empathy and treats others as objects. 176 183

Story Role / Major Arcs

Early Campus Schemes

Su enters the story through a badminton match involving Jiang Linyuan and Liu Tingting. She pushes Liu aside to challenge Jiang herself, then offers to arrange a meeting with Shen Wanyu in exchange for cooperation. 5 7

She joins Jiang in the Badminton Club and becomes an information source in his pursuit of Shen. Their partnership is marked by constant flirtation, testing, and competing attempts to read the other's motives. 9 20 34

Family Pressure and Health Decline

Jiang learns that Su is from an exceptionally wealthy family and meets her mother after Su engineers the encounter. Her family background and troubled maternal relationship become a central source of pressure around their relationship. 44 73 74

After collapsing from exhaustion following the Purple Gold Mountain trip, Su stays at a sanatorium. Jiang repeatedly visits and takes her out to enjoy autumn scenery, deepening their relationship. 101 110 118

Romance and Conflict with Shen Wanyu

Su openly competes with Shen Wanyu for Jiang's attention while refusing to abandon her own unresolved connection to Shen. She travels with Jiang to Yanjing and reveals that her hostility toward Shen stems from both jealousy and the old public-confession incident. 161 163 166

Her jealousy becomes increasingly explicit as she asks Jiang to focus on loving her, while still wrestling with her inability to feel or define love in a conventional way. 164 170 192

Illness, Treatment, and Commitment

Su's heart condition worsens, leaving her fearful of hospitals, mortality, and an uncertain future. Jiang invests in Haile Bio in pursuit of treatment options, an effort Su discovers and appreciates. 193 237 299

She ultimately undergoes successful heart surgery. Before the operation, she and Jiang take wedding photographs and discuss obtaining a marriage certificate afterward. 299

Trivia

• Su uses “hehe” as a recurring verbal mannerism, especially when teasing, threatening, or concealing her real feelings.
• She dislikes public confessions and considers unsolicited confessions—particularly Xiao Ling's—as invasive rather than romantic. 183
• Despite claiming that scenery is meaningless, she rarely had opportunities to travel because of her childhood health and later enjoys outings with Jiang. 118
• She openly admits that she acts according to her preferences rather than fixed principles. 259