Jiang Xingye

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Jiang Xingye (江星野) 4
Alias(es)	Engineer Jiang; Pollen 109 183
Gender	Female 6
Affiliation	Skyvault Technology; the Coordination Group; the Butterfly Contingency Plan in several future branches 4 183 210
Occupation/Role	Team lead and aerospace engineer; later an operations coordinator and Lin Xu's representative during his absences 4 183 187
Status	Active in the main-world narrative; deceased in several documented Bracelet World branches 135 210 561
First Appearance	Chapter 4

Background / History

Skyvault Technology

Jiang Xingye is Lin Xu's senior colleague at Skyvault Technology: she is one year older than him and joined the company two years earlier. She initially looks after him as a junior colleague, later describing this care as the starting point of their relationship. 140

As a team lead, she helps secure opportunities for Lin Xu, presses him to answer company messages, and invites him onto the space-tourism project. Her own work includes aerospace testing, including a low-altitude recovery test that helps secure further investment. 6 9 31

Pollen

Before Lin Xu tells her the truth, Jiang Xingye is unaware that she is being affected by higher-dimensional information. In Bracelet World, however, future versions of her warn Lin Xu before the apocalypse and transmit information through technological systems. 6 45

Lin Xu eventually identifies her as Pollen: a key factor capable of carrying Butterfly's influence across worlds. After learning this, Jiang Xingye quickly accepts the premise, recalls prior conversations with unusual clarity, and begins helping determine the times and locations at which higher-dimensional passages appear. 109 113

Mars and Future Branches

In several future branches, Jiang Xingye becomes a major figure in the Mars projects. One reported version is connected to Planetary Reincarnation, establishes a Mars colony, seizes multiple bases with a twenty-person team, and builds a mobile defense system from return rockets. 61 69

Her trajectory is exceptionally difficult to trace. National Security can identify her links to Planetary Reincarnation and Mars, but not the reasoning behind her choices; Lin Xu concludes that she is being guided by a form of higher-dimensional influence distinct from that affecting others. 89

In one branch, Jiang Xingye dies after preparing a coded message for Lin Xu ten years in advance. In another, she is reported to have died fifteen years before the failure of the Ascension Plan, shortly after the Butterfly Contingency Plan began. 135 210

Appearance

Jiang Xingye presents herself very differently at work and off duty. Lin Xu first knows her as a polished professional, while her late-night appearance is far more casual. 6 245

• At home, she wears fluffy pajamas, leaves her hair loose, removes her makeup, and carries an oversized water bottle. 6
• During intensive testing, her loosely tied ponytail comes undone and strands of hair stick to her forehead. 31
• In a later 2027 branch, she wears sharp professional clothing with her hair pinned up, reflecting her more senior position. 245

Personality

Jiang Xingye is teasing, outspoken, and quick with inappropriate jokes around Lin Xu, but she is generally serious and professional around other people. 4

She values rest as a practical requirement for good work rather than an indulgence, arguing that people who do not rest properly cannot work efficiently. 116 Her humor does not prevent her from taking difficult decisions seriously: she shows genuine concern when Lin Xu appears to be under official scrutiny, and she remains composed during emergencies. 59 272

Lin Xu repeatedly associates her with clarity. Unlike more radical allies, Jiang Xingye is able to consider a problem without losing sight of its practical limits, though she can become uncompromising when Lin Xu is in danger. 143 373

Abilities & Skills

Pollen Information Reception

As Pollen, Jiang Xingye receives higher-dimensional information through her subconscious and can access knowledge that she was never conventionally taught.

• She experiences detailed déjà vu at Beishan Laboratory, recognizing its layout and realizing that she was meant to locate a high-dimensional passage. 112
• She receives the location, time, and probable entry conditions of a high-dimensional passage, allowing the group to verify and use the information. 113
• She understands that apparent spatial displacement in a high-dimensional passage is fundamentally caused by time rather than movement. 149
• In some branches, she actively transmits information to others, including conditions attached to messages received by Su Yuchen. 94
• Information injections can cause severe physical distress, including convulsions, loss of focus, hypothermia, and violent eye tremors. 326 437

Aerospace Engineering

Jiang Xingye is a capable aerospace engineer with hands-on project experience.

• She participates in flight-control work at Skyvault Technology and is recognized by company leadership as an outstanding young employee. 4
• She conducts low-altitude recovery tests and helps secure investment for subsequent project stages. 31
• She continues pushing Star Traveler One forward even after becoming involved in higher-dimensional investigations. 109
• She has sufficient technical understanding to discuss deep-space observation facilities, cross-world communication, and the practical applications of high-dimensional technology. 41 464

Strategy, Intelligence, and Organization

Jiang Xingye combines information analysis with patient long-term planning.

• After receiving the truth from Lin Xu, she develops a method for predicting higher-dimensional passage appearances by treating time as a fixed higher-dimensional coordinate. 109
• In a future branch, she waits nine years for Lin Xu, builds a secure base, and gathers Bai Mo, Qi Yuan, Su Yuchen, and other allies before his return. 217
• She establishes a licensed private-security company and quietly tracks Yu Changwen for two years before acting, using her connections to reach National Security directly when necessary. 218 280
• She organizes usable higher-dimensional passages as strategic resources and prioritizes their datafication for long-term planning. 314
• She leads independent operations against the Correctors, including the attempt to capture Ayana at Lop Nur. 235

Field Operations

Jiang Xingye is willing to participate directly in dangerous missions despite not being the group's strongest combatant.

• She selects personnel for the assault team aboard Vermilion Bird One. 155
• During the Jinling Observatory operation, she accepts responsibility for suppressing a sniper while Lin Xu and Qi Yuan breach the perimeter. 267
• She is shot during that mission and becomes unable to move, but still provides Lin Xu with the passcode needed to access the main control room. 267 268
• Her field role is limited by her comparatively lower combat ability; she compensates through planning, communications, and technical support. 267

Relationships

• Lin Xu — Former junior colleague, romantic partner, and principal collaborator. Jiang Xingye initially treats him as a younger colleague, then recognizes their relationship becoming romantic; she later learns that he is Butterfly while she is Pollen. 6 109 140
• Bai Mo — Ally in the Coordination Group. They work together in future branches, including preparations for Lin Xu's return and the Strategy-Fitting System update. 217 525
• Qi Yuan — Trusted operative and ally. Jiang Xingye recognizes his importance across worlds and later works with him during security and combat operations. 183 217
• Qin Feng — Task-force and security partner. He provides protection for Jiang Xingye and Lin Xu, while Jiang Xingye works with him during higher-dimensional emergencies. 112 272
• Ayana / Aishwarya — A person Jiang Xingye considers crucial to understanding Pollen-related information transmission and Mnemosyne Technology. 183 285
• Jiang Huai — Her father. He is wary of Lin Xu's confidential work but ultimately entrusts Jiang Xingye to him. 263
• Xu Jing — Her mother, who attends the family meeting with Jiang Huai and supports the practical arrangements surrounding Jiang Xingye and Lin Xu. 263

Story Role / Major Arcs

Revelation of the Apocalypse

Jiang Xingye begins as Lin Xu's supervisor and confidante, unaware of her higher-dimensional role. Her future warnings and anomalous behavior become one of Lin Xu's earliest reasons to investigate the connection between the real world and Bracelet World. 6 9

Pollen and the Passage Investigation

After Lin Xu reveals the apocalypse, their divorce in a future branch, and her role as Pollen, Jiang Xingye becomes an active member of the investigation. She helps plan the capture of Zhou Yue, verifies higher-dimensional-passage data, and uses her unusual memories as evidence that the information she receives is genuine. 109 112 113

Contingency Leadership

Across later branches, Jiang Xingye develops from an engineer into an independent organizer. She builds networks, tracks threats such as Yu Changwen, gains official cooperation, and leads operations against the Correctors while maintaining the Butterfly Contingency Plan. 217 218 235

Higher-Dimensional Civilization Work

Jiang Xingye assists Lin Xu in assessing the effects of higher-dimensional “spells,” adapting civilizations to lower-dimensional humans, and investigating the Boundary and its flaws. Her analysis is central to decisions involving civilization integrity, dimensional ascension, and the risks of accelerated technological development. 340 368 384

Alternate-World Variants

Not every version of Jiang Xingye receives higher-dimensional information. In one world, she considers herself an ordinary aerospace worker with no unusual dreams; Lin Xu identifies this absence of Pollen information as the reason she failed to become the Jiang Xingye known in other worlds. 495

In another Mars-based world, she appears stiff and robotic due to brain-computer-chip influence, yet retains enough self-awareness to recognize that the society's goal may be wrong and to form a fragile alliance with Qi Yuan. 468

Notable Quotes

“I remember you at all times. I just don't know it.” 220