Shan Meirong

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Shan Meirong (单美容)
Species/Race	Human; later fuses with Xiang Yu into a Two-Headed Corpse Gu 38 39.
Gender	Female 13.
Age	Around fifty at her introduction 13.
Affiliation	Fenglan Group; later the Night God Church 13 38.
Occupation/Role	Chairwoman of Fenglan Group 13.
Family	Mother of Xiang Yu; her husband died when their son was young 16.
Status	Deceased; consumed by Meng Huai’s summoned ants 39.
First Appearance	Chapter 13 13.

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Ordinary human	13	Initially a businesswoman afflicted with bone-attaching gu, rather than a gu practitioner. Meng Huai later confirms that she and Xiang Yu were originally ordinary people 50.
Novice gu practitioner	37 38	After joining the Night God Church, demonstrates control over Xiang Yu’s walking corpse and blood-corpse gu. Meng acknowledges her rapid development but says her cultivation remains below his; no formal rank is stated.
Two-Headed Corpse Gu	38 39	Activates the Luo Fu Drum with blood from her bitten-off tongue, merging herself and Xiang Yu into a two-headed creature whose protective blood dissolves Meng’s ordinary gu insects.

Background / History

Family and Business

After her husband’s early death, Shan raised her only son, Xiang Yu, through considerable hardship. She later tells him that she never required great achievements from him—only that he become a decent person. Her company, Fenglan Group, ranks among Dian City’s foremost businesses 15 16 27.

Shan initially admires Yun Zimo’s determination, seeing something of her younger self in her. Their relationship becomes strained after a disastrous fashion show threatens Fenglan’s brand and leaves Yun’s company facing compensation claims 13.

Poisoning and Xiang Yu’s Death

During their business meeting, Shan rejects Yun’s explanation that Xiang Yu arranged a gu attack. Meng Huai changes her mind by accurately describing her own symptoms: poor memory, morning pain around her seventh and eighth vertebrae, and nightmares of insects biting above her knees. He identifies bone-attaching gu and introduces another insect into her body, provoking a territorial fight that causes her to expel both worms 13 14.

With Yun and Meng hidden nearby, Shan confronts Xiang Yu about unexplained company withdrawals. She freezes his access to funds, excludes him from company affairs, and plans to send him abroad. He responds by demanding control of the business and trying to activate the gu inside her; the attempt fails because Meng has already removed it 14.

After Meng strips Xiang Yu of his gu power, Shan drops the fashion-show dispute and asks that her son’s wrongdoing remain secret. She accepts his subsequent apology and hopes they can manage the business together. Shortly after Xiang Yu reveals the Night God Church’s location, he falls to his death from the third floor. Shan cradles his body in despair, while Meng suspects the Church used a spell to silence him 15 16.

Apparent Recovery

Shan later presents herself as having accepted her loss. At a charity reception, she reveals that she offered Yun a position intended to lead to taking over Fenglan Group, which Yun declined 27.

When Chang Yanping’s associates shut down Yun’s foundation and seize its funds, Shan explains to Qin Xiuying that meaningful redress is necessary before Meng will help Chang. She accompanies Qin to Yun’s villa and claims that she has prepared documents leaving all her assets to the foundation. Her composure about Xiang Yu’s death unsettles Meng, who privately warns Yun to keep her distance 29 30.

Factory Confrontation and Death

At Fenglan’s factory dormitory, Shan appears with Xiang Yu’s bloodied walking corpse. She reveals that she joined the Night God Church after an envoy promised to resurrect him, defending the organization even when Meng points out its responsibility for his death. She also demands that Yun remain with Xiang Yu and bear him a son 37 38.

Shan has turned her factory workers into vessels for blood-corpse gu, using their flesh to rebuild Xiang Yu when Meng destroys his body. Refusing to surrender, she merges with her son through the Luo Fu Drum. During the ensuing fight, Xiang Yu resists the fusion, allowing Meng’s Golden Silkworm Gu to extract and devour the blood-red life-bound gu sustaining it 38 39.

Separated and defeated, Xiang Yu crawls into Shan’s arms. She pats his back and hums a lullaby before Meng summons ants to consume them and the other corpses. The ants destroy the dormitory, and authorities conceal the incident as a structural collapse 39.

Appearance

• Human appearance: A woman of around fifty, with an exceptionally capable bearing and an air of wealth and elegance 13.
• Final transformation: Merges with Xiang Yu into a single two-headed body after both dissolve into masses of flesh and blood 38.

Personality

Shan’s early conduct combines business authority with maternal indulgence. She challenges Xiang Yu’s misuse of company funds and refuses to surrender the business to him, yet shields him from public exposure once his crimes are uncovered. Her forgiveness reflects her attachment to the son she raised alone 14 15 16.

Her apparent acceptance of his death conceals possessive grief. She insists that Xiang Yu must never leave her, excuses his wrongdoing, and blames herself for not helping him obtain Yun. She treats the workers’ sacrifice as repayment for the employment she provided, refusing to recognize their suffering as a consequence of her actions 37 38.

Even at her most violent, Shan remains tender toward Xiang Yu. That tenderness coexists with coercion: he actively struggles against their fusion while she insists that everything she has done was for him. Afterward, Meng suggests that Xiang Yu joined the Church partly to escape her control 39.

Abilities & Skills

Business Leadership

• Heads one of Dian City’s leading business groups 13 27.
• Exercises control over company finances and succession, including freezing Xiang Yu’s access to funds and removing him from business affairs 14.
• Recognizes the grievance behind Meng’s refusal to treat Chang and helps explain the need for restitution 29.

Walking-Corpse Control

• Uses the Luo Fu Drum to command Xiang Yu’s corpse, including moving it while its head is detached 38.
• Keeps Xiang Yu in a state where his soul remains bound to his dead body; Meng explicitly distinguishes this from ordinary Corpse-Control Gu 37.
• The preservation is not genuine resurrection: Meng warns that it leaves Xiang Yu neither human nor ghost and prolongs his suffering 37.

Blood-Corpse Gu

• Turns factory workers into cultivation vessels 38.
• Uses blood-red worms to gather flesh from the dormitory and reconstruct Xiang Yu’s destroyed body into a stronger form 38.
• Her summoned worms can be trapped in Meng’s spiderweb and eaten by his spiders 38.

Two-Headed Corpse Gu

• Fuses herself and Xiang Yu through a blood-activated drum ritual 38.
• Produces protective blood that dissolves Meng’s ordinary gu insects 39.
• Depends on a blood-red life-bound gu exposed at the creature’s necks. Xiang Yu’s resistance and Shan’s attempt to shield him from fire give Meng the opening needed to remove it and break the fusion 39.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Counterfeit Luo Fu Drum — Commands Xiang Yu’s corpse and enables the fusion ritual. Although called the Luo Fu Drum during the confrontation, Meng later identifies the mother and son’s drums as counterfeits 38 50.
• Blood-red life-bound gu — Sustains the Two-Headed Corpse Gu; extracted and swallowed by Meng’s Golden Silkworm Gu 39.

Relationships

• Xiang Yu — Her only son. She forgives his attempt to kill her, then pursues his resurrection after his death. His resistance during their fusion exposes the conflict between her devotion and his desire for freedom 14 15 16 38 39.
• Yun Zimo — Initially an admired younger businesswoman and potential successor. Shan later tries to force her into a relationship with the dead Xiang Yu and threatens to kill her to unite them 13 27 38 39.
• Meng Huai — Saves her from gu poisoning and helps expose Xiang Yu’s betrayal. Later distrusts her apparent recovery, confronts her at the factory, and kills her after breaking the fusion 13 14 30 39.
• Night God Church — Exploits her grief with a promise to resurrect Xiang Yu. She becomes a follower despite Meng’s warning that the Church caused his death 38.
• Factory workers — Employees whom she sacrifices as blood-corpse gu vessels, rationalizing their fate as repayment for her support 38.

Notable Quotes

“My son is my precious, sweetest baby. He'll never leave my side.” 37

“Everything I've done has been for you! Ever since you were little, I've fulfilled every wish you had. You can't treat Mommy like this!” 39

Trivia

• Meng suspects Shan’s possessiveness was responsible for the misfortunes of Xiang Yu’s former girlfriends; this remains his interpretation rather than a confirmed account 39.
• Her and Xiang Yu’s use of counterfeit Luo Fu Drums later leads Meng to warn Zhao Zhen about a possible connection between the Night God Church and the Luo Fu Ghost Domain 50.