Guagua

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Guagua (瓜瓜)
Alias(es)	Gossip System; self-styled “all-powerful Lord Guagua” and “great Guagua” 1 58 241
Species/Race	System; manifests physically as a Little Spirit 22
Affiliation	Jiang Nuan; a group of older system “brothers and sisters” 1 21
Occupation/Role	Jiang Nuan’s bonded system, gossip gatherer, and companion 1
Status	Active; reaches the highest level available to newborn systems 173 246
First Appearance	Bonds with the ten-year-old Jiang Nuan upon her return to Great Xia 1

Power Progression

Guagua upgrades by converting currency into world energy, not by gathering gossip. Exchange rates differ between worlds 22.

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
First upgrade	22	Costs 10,000 taels of silver. Purchased together with the next two upgrades; no separate benefit is identified.
Second upgrade	22	Costs 50,000 taels of silver. Part of Jiang Nuan’s combined investment of 160,000 taels.
Level three	22	Costs another 100,000 taels of silver. Unlocks physical manifestation; Guagua appears before Jiang Nuan and embraces her.
Highest newborn-system level; numerical level unspecified	172 173 174	Funded through commissions from selling gathered gossip to the Intelligence Pavilion. Unlocks the ability to link another person to Jiang Nuan and Guagua’s mental conversations; Cen Xue becomes the additional participant.

Background / History

Guagua is a freshly manufactured, second-generation system with powerful older system siblings. It initially keeps those connections secret because its siblings warned it not to tell its host about them. When Jiang Nuan needs help recovering a box from her modern life, Guagua reveals its network and defends her against the other systems’ suspicion that she is exploiting it 21.

It identifies itself as the first Gossip System in the System World. That novelty leaves it unsure what upgrades will provide, so it initially avoids asking Jiang Nuan to spend her hard-earned money. Gossip Systems occupy a low position in the System World’s hierarchy, something Guagua briefly laments when compared with more popular system types 22 231.

Appearance

Guagua’s physical form is a tiny humanoid Little Spirit with blue hair and green eyes 22 28.

• Manifestation: Can emerge from Jiang Nuan’s head or body and perch on her shoulder 28 57.
• Movement: Flies and hovers beside its host 87 190.
• Decorative appearance: Adopts a soft pink, peach-blossom look with little wings at a poetry gathering 130.
• Visibility: Works unseen during Jiang Nuan’s staged miracles, then deliberately becomes visible to the villagers 187 190.

Personality

Guagua is cheerful, boastful, and deeply attached to Jiang Nuan. It readily praises her abilities, encourages her ambition to change the world, and comforts her when she feels lonely. Its loyalty is mutual: Jiang Nuan treats it as family and spends her savings on its manifestation despite the lack of any promised practical return 1 15 22 184.

Its confidence coexists with naïveté and a strong need for reassurance. After watching a palace-intrigue drama, it fears that Jiang Nuan’s growing circle of friends will make it irrelevant. It begins competing for attention through fresh gossip and entertaining presentation methods. Compliments quickly appease it—even Jiang Yunsheng can turn its teasing hostility into an enthusiastic promise of protection through flattery 58 87 161 241.

Although it enjoys scandals and treasure, Guagua also develops a strong dislike of wrongdoing. It urges Jiang Nuan to stop trafficking and exposes violence against vulnerable people. It can exercise discretion: it withholds upsetting gossip during a happy family moment and later conceals a birthday surprise, though pretending ignorance makes it uncomfortable 16 45 181 231.

Abilities & Skills

Gossip Gathering

Guagua retrieves private information about people, including their identities, relationships, crimes, motives, and future or previous-life experiences 3 31 130.

• Identification requirements: Knowing someone’s name reveals most of their gossip; seeing the person in the flesh is necessary to obtain the whole story 43.
• Hidden identities: Exposes Jiang Nuan’s true parentage, Han Xingzhou’s identity beneath his guard persona, and Xia Gaoyang’s birth family 3 31 140.
• Investigative intelligence: Reveals accomplices, escape routes, trafficking buyers, and spies’ purposes 46 81 112.
• Foreknowledge: Supplies precise warnings about a northern raid, an impending flood, and assassination attempts 5 169 190 216.
• Live updates: Reports developments elsewhere, including a scout’s conversation with Jiang Yunsheng and changes to a planned meeting 106 192.
• No gathering quota: Explicitly states that there is no limit to how much gossip it can uncover. Its cry of “Ah! My eyes!” results from disgust, not overuse 152.

Knowledge Retrieval

Guagua can extract useful knowledge through a person’s experiences, but it is not a universal technical encyclopedia 21.

• Technical limitation: Cannot supply a gunpowder formula unless it encounters someone who has made gunpowder or will make it in the future 21.
• Experimental records: Retrieves the alchemists’ furnace-explosion recipes, although Jiang Nuan rejects them as impractical for mass production 21.
• Medical information: Identifies a mild antidote formula suitable for poison accumulated in Mu Zhiye’s daughter’s meridians, to be combined with acupuncture 58.
• Historical context: Explains the Black Earth School’s persecution and its distrust of Great Xia’s imperial family 64.
• Material appraisal: Recognizes the rare colored gold used in Chi Hengji’s jointed doll 53.

Mental Communication

Guagua communicates directly with Jiang Nuan in her mind. Its highest newborn-system upgrade allows it to add another person to their private conversations 1 172 174.

• Additional participant: Links Cen Xue after she agrees to join, enabling her, Jiang Nuan, and Guagua to exchange mental messages 174.
• Accidental exposure: A system bug created upon entering the world allows some people to hear Jiang Nuan’s thoughts and her exchanges with Guagua 237.
• Not an intended function: Guagua is initially unaware of the leak and panics when Jiang Nuan asks for an explanation 237.
• Repair and control: Contacts the main system, which fixes the bug and gives Jiang Nuan control over the thought-broadcasting effect as compensation 237.
• Human understanding: Sometimes struggles to understand human thoughts and emotions as well as a human companion would 169.

System Storage

Guagua provides access to System Space for storing belongings and valuables 23 45.

Documented capacity	Use / Circumstances
10 cubic meters	Jiang Nuan fills the space with recovered gold and silver at Pure Brahma Temple 45.
1,000 cubic meters	Granted to Jiang Nuan as compensation after the main system addresses the thought-leak bug; not presented as a normal level upgrade 237.

• Stores Jiang Nuan’s recovered modern-world trunk after its early upgrades 23.
• Keeps selected treasures in its own little space while exploring a former-dynasty hoard 198.
• Can retreat into System Space; it cites this option when dismissing Jiang Yunsheng’s ability to threaten it 241.

Physical Interaction

Even before gaining a visible body, Guagua can move small objects. After manifestation, it can interact with people, food, and its surroundings 5 22 28.

• Object placement: Produces a written warning and slips it into the emperor’s book 5.
• Physical companionship: Hugs Jiang Nuan and eats food she secretly passes beneath a table 22 28.
• Staged miracles: Hoists and pours a bucket of water while unseen, then scatters silver during another divine performance 187 190.
• Pranks: Supplies a breeze that extinguishes a candle while helping Jiang Nuan frighten a boy who has been staging hauntings 207.
• Energy cost: Having Guagua copy material consumes energy, so Jiang Nuan copies the gunpowder formula herself to save money 22.

System Network

Guagua maintains a group chat with its older system siblings and can seek assistance beyond its own specialty 21 172.

• Cross-world retrieval: Arranges for the Tycoon System to recover Jiang Nuan’s modern-world supply box 21.
• Protective gifts: Its bond with Jiang Nuan prompts the Check-In System to give her an Invisibility skill. The skill belongs to Jiang Nuan and comes from the visiting system, not Guagua’s normal abilities 173.
• Travel assistance: Obtains magical candy from a system big sister to relieve Jiang Nuan’s carriage discomfort 216.
• Administrative contact: Reaches the main system when the thought-leak bug is discovered 237.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Gossip handbook and spinning wheel — Alternative ways to select investigation targets. The wheel chooses Zhuang Zhenghao, exposing his mutilation of scholars 87.
• System entertainment gadgets — Gifts from older siblings that let Guagua binge-watch dramas; after staying up late, it enters sleep mode 47.
• Magical travel candy — Receives an entire bottle, though it initially gives Jiang Nuan only one candy. A single candy’s effect lasts a lifetime 216.
• Health-nourishing stone — Carefully selected as Jiang Nuan’s birthday gift. Guagua says regular wear will keep her free from illness and calamity and allow her to live to one hundred 233.

Relationships

• Jiang Nuan — Host and chosen family. Guagua promises lifelong companionship, defends her to other systems, and reassures her that their happiness together is personal—not merely a consequence of their bond 1 21 22 240.
• Cen Xue — Additional participant in the mental gossip link. Guagua initially becomes jealous of Jiang Nuan’s attention to her, but later connects them for shared conversations 161 174.
• Jiang Yunsheng — Beneficiary of Guagua’s intelligence and frequent target of its teasing. After the thought-leak revelation, they converse openly; Guagua promises to protect him from Miao County’s dangers for Jiang Nuan’s sake 5 241.
• Tycoon System — Older system sister. Investigates Guagua’s host out of concern, delivers the modern-world box, and concludes that host and system are equally naïve 21 22.
• Check-In System — Older system sister who celebrates Guagua’s advancement and rewards Jiang Nuan for treating it well 172 173.
• Rebate System — Protective older sibling who suspects Guagua is being deceived and helps arrange the Tycoon System’s investigation 21.
• Main system — System authority Guagua contacts to investigate and remedy the accidental thought leak 237.
• Zhou Youjia — Judicial official who recognizes the investigative value of Guagua’s revelations and uses them to identify rebel connections and intercept fleeing accomplices 81.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Arc	Guagua’s contribution
Palace secrets and family reunion	Reveals a clandestine palace affair and the infant-switch scheme that concealed Jiang Nuan’s identity as Xiao Xiao’s daughter. Later reports the empress’s investigation and discovery 1 3 7.
Warning against the northern raid	Predicts the slaughter of 110,000 people and a costly retaliation, then delivers detailed attack intelligence through a note hidden in Jiang Yunsheng’s book 5.
Former-dynasty treasure	Finds the lost palace hoard and guides Jiang Nuan to it. Their supposedly private exchange inadvertently supplies Jiang Yunsheng and Wang Dehai with the clues needed to claim it first 7 8.
Recovery of modern resources	Uses its sibling network to retrieve Jiang Nuan’s books, seeds, and supplies, opening access to resources beyond gossip alone 21.
An Yan’s departure	Alerts the sleeping Jiang Nuan that An Yan has severed family ties and intends to shelter in a cave, urging her to intervene before An Yan develops a lingering illness 25.
Pure Brahma Temple investigation	Helps uncover trafficking, warns of a planned handoff, identifies buyers, and explains Yun Shining’s abduction and circumstances 44 45 46.
Court investigations	Introduces game-like target selection and exposes serious crimes, arbitrary promotions, and concealed identities among officials and examination candidates 87 88 140.
Imperial inspection tour	Supports Jiang Nuan emotionally, uncovers Song Quan’s intended sacrificial substitution, and helps stage divine appearances to persuade villagers to prepare for disaster 184 187 190.
Recruitment and assassination warnings	Encourages the gathering of talented people, urges Tuoba Ran’s rescue, and warns of Zhang Liang’s assassination plan while recognizing his potential usefulness 200 201 216.
Birthday surprise	Conceals the preparations, then lures Jiang Nuan to the pond with the promise of major gossip involving her brothers 231 232.
Thought-leak discovery	Consults the main system, secures an explanation and compensation, and helps reassure Jiang Nuan that her loved ones’ affection is genuine 237 240.
Approach to Miao County	Warns that Jiang Yunsheng suffered Gu poisoning connected to Miao County in his previous life, then promises him protection 241.

Notable Quotes

“Don't be sad, host. Guagua will always stay by your side.” 1

“Waaah~ Host, you're so good to me! Guagua wants to stay with you forever!” 22

“I'm just an ordinary gossip system! How had something like leaking thoughts even happened?” 237

“As my darling host's Imperial Father, your little life is under the protection of the great Guagua.” 241