Li Xiao

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Li Xiao (李骁)
Alias(es)	Old Li 122 256
Species/Race	Human 39
Gender	Male 38 39
Affiliation	Shen Bing; Phantom Immortal Technology; Rongcheng liaison for the Blade Mercenary Corps 47 496
Occupation/Role	Personal driver, bodyguard, and confidential aide; former mercenary leader; human-controlled NPC in Firmament 39 47 1055
Spouse	Wang Yatong 817
Status	Alive; continues serving Shen Bing in the later documented chapters 1055
First Appearance	Named in the provided Chapter 37 passage; appears directly in Chapter 38 37 38

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Gene-Enhancement Drug recipient	346	Confirmed to have taken the drug by this chapter. Despite his enhancement, Shen Bing can fight seven or eight similarly enhanced experts simultaneously. The administration date and Li Xiao’s individual gains are not specified.
Immortal Peach enhancement	496	Eats a peach from Shen Bing’s tree and soon reports increased strength and energy. No numerical improvement or cultivation realm is given.

Background / History

Li Xiao was separated from his family as a child, abducted, and sold. He eventually reached Africa, where years of street life developed his powerful physique. At fifteen, he joined a mercenary organization and gradually became a minor leader 39.

At twenty, he discovered where he came from. He faked his death during a mission to escape the organization, returned to his home country, and spent five or six years searching for his family. By the time he found them, his younger sister had died from a drug overdose, and his parents had subsequently died from grief. His investigation identified Chen Dejun as the man who had tricked his sister into taking drugs 39.

Li Xiao retaliated by deliberately giving Chen Dejun a lethal methamphetamine overdose. The resulting hallucinations drove Chen into the road, where a car struck him. Li Xiao acknowledged that his actions amounted to premeditated murder, but maintained that he would do it again. The incident also caused the car accident involving Wang Yatong 38 506.

Shen Bing connected Li Xiao to the death through familiar handwriting and Wang Yatong’s description of a large man at the scene. He sent Little Doudou to track Li Xiao, but the kitten instead subdued him and declared him its subordinate. After hearing Li Xiao’s history, Shen Bing chose not to report him and offered him employment, replacing Li Xiao’s plan to return to mercenary work in Africa 37 38 39.

Appearance

Li Xiao has a hulking, heavily muscled build that initially intimidates Shen Bing 46 207.

• Large frame: Described as burly and compared to a gorilla in build 38 46.
• Extensive scars: More than a dozen scars cover his exposed body during a full-strength sparring match 207.
• Weathered face: His hardened appearance contrasts with the visible blushes that betray his embarrassment over romance 513.

Personality

Li Xiao is taciturn, composed, and accustomed to danger. He recovers quickly after seeing Lu Xian imitate his entire appearance, and exposure to Little Doudou and Lu Xian leaves him relatively untroubled by Shen Bing’s later displays of extraordinary ability 97 256.

Family is especially important to him. His prolonged search for his relatives and determination to avenge them shape Shen Bing’s favorable judgment of his character. That attachment can also cloud his judgment: he initially urges Yuan Wei to acknowledge Liu Zhenggang as her father before Shen Bing learns the full history of Liu’s cruelty 39 168 170.

He regards personally controlled force as the most dependable thing in the world. His reverence for Shen Bing grows partly from witnessing the overwhelming abilities of Little Doudou and Lu Xian, though his loyalty becomes more than fear or admiration: he stays behind to protect Shen Bing during an attack 104 188 205.

Li Xiao enjoys challenging fights rather than effortless victories. In Firmament, he finds ordinary players too weak and AI opponents unsatisfying because fighting them feels like fighting data. Outside combat, his courtship of Wang Yatong reveals a shy side that Shen Bing and Yun Xue readily tease 506 513 1055.

Abilities & Skills

Close-Quarters Combat

• Draws on years of mercenary experience and combines a powerful physique with refined fighting technique 39 207.
• Claims that seven or eight special-forces soldiers would not necessarily defeat him; this is his own assessment, not a demonstrated match 46.
• Is tested against captured operatives: Bernie is approximately his equal, while Thorne can defeat him 207.
• Spars with Shen Bing and is entrusted to discipline a boastful young challenger without seriously injuring him 256.
• Remains far below Little Doudou’s strength, a limitation he openly acknowledges when the kitten interrupts his boasting 46.

Protective Reflexes and Threat Assessment

• Warns Shen Bing during a sudden New Year’s Eve attack and kicks a coffee table upward to intercept two incoming impacts 201.
• Recognizes an apparent professional hitman by examining scars, a gunshot wound, and the man’s bearing 63.
• Notices that Zhou Changlin’s personal warning likely signals the involvement of an important figure 125.
• Can misidentify unfamiliar guests: he binds Yun Xue as a suspected thief until Shen Bing identifies her 219.

Covert Operations and Contacts

• Establishes an offshore company and account, and returns with their documents and a custody-team contract 39 46.
• Uses his mercenary connections to promise Lu Xian an airtight registered identity by the following day 97.
• Quietly moves a captured assassin into Shen Bing’s car and restrains him in a basement room 63.
• Claims to know at least five ways to make a person disappear without leaving traces; the passage does not demonstrate those methods 63.

Security Recruitment and Coordination

• Helps recruit former Huaxia special-forces personnel who later worked as mercenaries abroad 199.
• Selects recruits with complementary specialties and escorts the protective team into the Underground Base 228 229 230.
• Coordinates with the Blade Mercenary Corps from Rongcheng; Difu commands its African operations 496.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• SUV: Owns the vehicle in which Little Doudou subdues him and slices the steering wheel 38.
• Company vehicles: Drives Shen Bing’s cars and helps select a special-edition Bentley Bentayga costing 7.23 million yuan 48 63.
• Immortal Carriage, Old Ban: Travels with Shen Bing in the carriage while it is disguised as a Wuling Hongguang 215.
• American Express black card: Holds Shen Bing’s unlimited-spending-limit card after Shen Bing entrusts it to him 788.
• Spirit Water bottle: Uses Shen Bing’s supply to water the Immortal Peach Tree; substantial water remains when Shen Bing takes it for analysis 1055.

Relationships

• Shen Bing — Employer and trusted confidant. Shen Bing first checks his loyalty through Little Doudou’s surveillance, later verifies it with the Consciousness-Reading Device, and explicitly values him as someone who can offer advice and correct mistakes rather than merely obey 46 214 215.
• Little Doudou — Initially his supernatural captor and self-appointed superior. Li Xiao calls it “Cat Lord,” fears its claws, and later trusts it to keep sparring with dangerous prisoners under control 38 46 207.
• Wang Yatong — Wife. He says guilt over causing her accident prompted his first approach; helping her when thugs harassed her at a bar brought them closer. Shen Bing suspects his romantic interest began earlier 506 817.
• Wang Dong — Colleague and eventual brother-in-law. Their security work overlaps, and Li Xiao frequently spends time in Wang Dong’s department after dropping Shen Bing at the company 506 817.
• Lu Xian — Fellow operative whose shapeshifting abilities repeatedly astonish him. Li Xiao arranges identity documents for him and participates in an operation that exposes more of his capabilities 97 214.
• Wei Yu and the recruited mercenaries — Long-standing acquaintances whom he recommends to Shen Bing. He treats their entry into the Underground Base as joining a family and warns that he will personally pursue any traitor 229.
• Yuan Wei — Member of Shen Bing’s household. His regard for family initially leads him to defend her father’s position, before Shen Bing orders action against Liu Zhenggang after learning the truth 168 170.
• Yun Xue — Initially mistakes her for an intruder; later accompanies her and Shen Bing on outings. She teases him about his inability to conceal his romance 219 513 759.
• Chen Dejun — Revenge target whom Li Xiao blames for his sister’s addiction and death 38 39.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Becoming Shen Bing’s Confidential Aide

• Completes the offshore arrangements and passes Little Doudou’s initial loyalty check before settling into work as Shen Bing’s driver and bodyguard 46 47.
• Handles practical errands ranging from housekeeper recruitment to transport and sensitive identity arrangements 69 97 134.
• Receives access to the Underground Base after remaining with Shen Bing during the kidnapping-related danger 205.

Retaliation and Security Expansion

• Accepts a dangerous assignment to the United States. His arrival in Los Angeles alarms Herman after intelligence staff explain who he is 205 209.
• Returns from an operation carrying Lu Xian in furnace form, having witnessed additional supernatural capabilities 214.
• Brings selected mercenaries into Shen Bing’s hidden facilities, helping establish a team intended to protect Shen Bing and his loved ones 228 229 230.
• Reports on the Blade Mercenary Corps and the search for Ghst following threats against Fang Yuanming’s daughter 496.

Courtship and Marriage

• Reveals his relationship with Wang Yatong while preparing for a date; Wang Dong has not introduced them and does not yet know about it 506.
• Progresses from dating to engagement, taking opportunities away from driving duties to spend time with his fiancée 513 719.
• Marries Wang Yatong at the Nancy Building. Officials, colleagues, and her relatives attend; Secretary Jiang comes on the Chief’s instructions because of Li Xiao’s importance to Shen Bing 817.
• His standing is explicitly compared to Wang Sheng’s: Wang Sheng operates publicly, while Li Xiao works behind the scenes 817.

Human-Controlled NPC in *Firmament*

• Plays a powerful NPC whose strength exactly matches his real-world capabilities 1055.
• Declines to acquire in-game strengthening items, instead anticipating the day players become strong enough to challenge him 1055.
• Prefers tending the Immortal Peach Tree to fighting weak players or opponents he perceives as mere data 1055.

Notable Quotes

“Force! Force that's entirely under your own control.”
— His answer to what is most dependable in the world 104.

“Once you pass through here, we're family.”
— Addressing the mercenaries before entering the Underground Base 229.

“It feels... different. I always feel like I'm fighting a pile of data. There's no thrill to it.”
— Explaining why virtual opponents do not satisfy him 1055.