Su Shengnan

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Su Shengnan (苏胜男)
Species/Race	Human; becomes an Ability User 291 292.
Gender	Female
Affiliation	Su Family; one of the Four Heroes of Jinling 145.
Occupation/Role	Businesswoman and auction host; later head of the Su Family 145 150 253.
Status	Alive and leading the Su Family during the three-family siege; pregnant by Chapter 407 407 411.
First Appearance	Chapter 144 in the provided passages 144.

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Ability User — Mind Control / psychokinesis	292	Fuses with an Ability Pearl given by Black and White Impermanence, activating it with a drop of blood. Her martial arts foundation helps her absorb its energy in less than an hour despite severe pain. Immediately demonstrates the ability by levitating a stone.

Background / History

Su Shengnan practices martial arts from childhood and becomes a major figure in the Su Family’s businesses. Before inheriting leadership, she already controls more than half of its commercial operations 145 294.

Her grandfather values her judgment, but her prospects face resistance from relatives who believe a woman should not lead the family. She initially interprets being excluded from important operations as a loss of his affection; he later explains that he is keeping her away from danger because she is the family’s last hope and his intended successor 162 163 223 242.

Appearance

• Build: Slender waist and a pronounced, curvaceous figure 144 145.
• Bearing: Elegant enough to leave the Qin estate’s guards momentarily distracted 274.
• Clothing: Wears a dress during the Su Family auction and high heels during the hospital succession confrontation 145 253.
• Under prolonged stress: Becomes visibly haggard as the rival families’ campaign wears her down 334.

Personality

Shengnan combines commercial caution with sharp political instincts. She researches unfamiliar treasures rather than accepting appearances, recognizes the danger behind the Jiang Family’s apparently generous treasure expedition, and argues that alliances depend on interests rather than lasting friendship 162 163 252.

As family head, she insists on formal rules even when dealing with older relatives. She uses punishment and confiscation to consolidate authority, but does not automatically side with her own family: when its spoiled juniors provoke the hired fighters, she disciplines the juniors instead 283 284 410.

Her public confidence often conceals exhaustion and uncertainty. She promises solutions she has not yet secured to prevent panic, yet also understands why paid guards would refuse to die for a failing employer. By the siege, she has prepared a financial fallback rather than relying entirely on victory 284 375 376 411.

Away from leadership, she is playful, competitive, and openly affectionate with Li Yichen. She treats her newly gained power like an exciting toy, pushes to accompany him on supernatural errands, and becomes jealous of his other girlfriends. Her attachment to her grandfather remains especially strong: she seeks an Underworld reunion both for comfort and for advice 289 291 293 298.

Abilities & Skills

Mind Control / Psychokinesis

Although first identified as Mind Control, Shengnan’s documented ability manipulates physical objects through thought. During her spar with Jiang Ruoyi, she explicitly calls it psychokinesis 292 335.

• Object movement: Levitates a stone immediately after awakening, then learns to accelerate it and redirect it through the air 292 293.
• Projectile attacks: Drives a stone into a foot-thick tree, leaving a deep hollow; later stops a flying fountain pen beside Li Yichen’s temple 293 298.
• Multiple-object control: Suspends dozens of stones around herself during a sparring match 335.
• Adaptive defense: Arranges stones into a Stone Wall against Jiang Ruoyi’s Ice Arrows, shifting surviving stones to fill gaps as others break 335.
• Weapon control: Sends a dozen throwing knives through an ornamental rock and recalls them 375.
• Mass disarming: Pulls blades from a hostile crowd’s hands and compresses them into an iron ball 409.
• Limits: Cannot hit Li Yichen during their early practice despite repeatedly adjusting her stone’s trajectory. Compressing the crowd’s weapons leaves her dizzy 293 409.
• Cultivation distinction: Has no cultivation during her first Underworld visit, making prolonged exposure dangerous. No named cultivation realm is subsequently established for her in the provided context 291.

Martial Arts

Trained since childhood, Shengnan is an accomplished close-range fighter even before receiving an Ability Pearl 294.

• Kicks away two relatives attempting to remove her from her grandfather’s hospital room 250.
• Fights numerous reassembling Little Stone Demons with a wooden club for roughly half an hour 287.
• Outmatches Jiang Ruoyi in the martial arts portion of their spar, catching her kick and evading her punches 335.
• Is driven backward by one of Jiang Tianyu’s hidden experts and recognizes that she cannot fight a Stone Demon over ten meters tall 263 288.

Business Management and Research

• Controls more than half of the Su Family’s businesses before becoming family head 145.
• Identifies the rare Youth-Restoring Pearl through extensive research and investigates Li Yichen’s background 162.
• Hosts the Specialty Auction, explains its uncertain lot values, and enforces the prohibition against fighting 145 150.
• Requires proof that the proposed scar-removal medicine works before committing to a larger partnership 294.
• Recognizes that Ouyang Xuanxuan growing Heavenly Star Grass personally cannot meet commercial demand, particularly because its usable stems and leaves have limited storage life 341.

Political Strategy and Covert Operations

• Predicts that the Jiang, Qin, and Shen families could profit by combining against the weaker Su Family 252.
• Commands Dark Shadow to initiate the Dark Ghost Plan, exposing damaging secrets within all three rival families 276.
• Uses family rules to turn Su Liang’s open defiance into a serious challenge to her authority 283 284.
• Arranges a capital-based fallback and entrusts her uncles with one-third of the family’s funds during the siege 411.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Ability Pearl — Gift from the Underworld’s Black and White Impermanence; consumed to awaken her psychokinesis 292.
• Space Ring — Prepared for her by Li Yichen and presented after the group notices she lacks one. Later used to retrieve the bank card holding the family’s emergency funds 341 411.
• Waters of the River of Forgetfulness and spatial bottle — Acquires both and is delighted with them after returning from the Underworld 302.
• Throwing knives — Controls a dozen simultaneously to demonstrate her ability to the Su Family’s guards 375.
• Wooden club — Uses against the Little Stone Demons at Hidden Dragon Manor 287.
• Handwritten succession document — Presents as her grandfather’s appointment naming her family head; her uncles reject it as a forgery 250.
• Hidden Dragon Manor — Former Su Family estate worth at least two billion including its land. Transfers it to Li Yichen under her grandfather’s instructions 253 264.

Relationships

• Li Yichen — Begins as an auction acquaintance and prospective ally, then becomes her protector and lover. She introduces herself to Meng Po as his girlfriend and later calls him “hubby.” She plans to join him as a wife and mother after resolving the family crisis; no completed marriage is documented 149 250 294 301 302 344.
• Old Master Su — Grandfather, mentor, and principal supporter of her succession. He secures her authority before his final death and later advises her in the Underworld to rebuild through pharmaceuticals 242 253 291 292.
• Second, Third, and Fourth Masters Su — Uncles who contest her inheritance and invoke tradition against female leadership. Old Master Su forces them to yield; by the siege, Second and Third Uncle acknowledge her foresight and accept her emergency mission 250 252 411.
• Su Changyuan and Su Liang — Relatives whose challenges she turns into a demonstration of family discipline, expelling them and reclaiming their shares and property 283 284.
• Su Changfeng, Su Changlin, Su Changhuo, and Su Changshan — Four elders initially unwilling to support her succession. Her grandfather compels their cooperation; during the siege, they openly defend her leadership and oppose surrender 250 253 411.
• Dark Shadow — Covert subordinate who executes the Dark Ghost Plan and reports developments around the pharmaceutical base 276 364.
• Steward Wang — Household steward who handles reports and instructions. Stands in front of her when angry fighters advance, despite his own fear 273 283 409.
• Huang Shan — Long-serving advanced Profound Grade guard. She respects his responsibility toward his men and wins a three-day reprieve by revealing her ability 375 410.
• Jiang Tianyu and Jiang Zhengshan — Hostile Jiang Family figures. She orders Tianyu’s men punished after their attempted manor seizure, then deliberately taunts Zhengshan about his son’s broken legs 264 274.
• Ouyang Hai — Pharmaceutical business partner whose proposed scar-removal venture offers the Su Family a possible recovery route 294 337.
• Ouyang Xuanxuan — Li Yichen’s girlfriend and a crucial helper in the pharmaceutical project through her plant-growing ability 337 341.
• Jiang Ruoyi — Fellow girlfriend of Li Yichen and friendly sparring opponent. Shengnan encourages her to include her ice ability rather than concede on martial arts alone 335.
• Mo Yurou — Competitive but supportive companion; advocates for Shengnan to receive a Space Ring 335 341.
• Black and White Impermanence — Underworld officials who facilitate her grandfather’s temporary revival and later reunion, repeatedly call her their “sister-in-law,” and give her the Ability Pearl. They are distinct from Jiang Tianyu’s martial artist allies bearing the same names 251 263 290 292.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Auction and Treasure Expedition

Shengnan establishes her authority at the Su Family auction by confronting Jiang Tianhao over forbidden fighting and formally declaring Li Yichen the winner of a wager. Afterward, she identifies the extraordinary treasures Li supplied and urges her family to cultivate his friendship instead of attempting to exploit him 145 147 150 162.

She authenticates the Jiang Family’s treasure map but warns that the expedition may be designed to eliminate rival experts. More than eighty percent of the Su council vote to participate, and Su Liang receives responsibility in her place. When she continues protesting the risk to the family’s fighters, her grandfather orders her confined 163 223.

Contested Succession

Old Master Su privately reveals that he intends Shengnan to succeed him and has excluded her from danger to preserve the family’s future. After his apparent death, her uncles dismiss her succession document and attempt to seize control. Li Yichen intervenes, restrains them, and obtains permission from Black and White Impermanence to return the old man briefly to consciousness 242 249 250 251.

During his remaining time, Old Master Su publicly confirms Shengnan as family head, disciplines the elders, and orders them to support her. He instructs her to gift Hidden Dragon Manor to Li Yichen and recommends a marriage alliance before dying again 252 253.

Three-Family Alliance and Counterattack

Shengnan oversees the manor’s transfer after Li Yichen defeats Jiang Tianyu’s hidden experts. She then seeks the Qin Family’s support against the Jiang Family, only to be refused as the Qin patriarch chooses cooperation with Jiang instead 264 273 274.

The Jiang, Qin, and Shen families suspend cooperation with the Su Family, prompting outsiders to withdraw and relatives to blame her. Shengnan retaliates through the Dark Ghost Plan’s public scandals, then faces financial attacks on Su-linked companies. At a family council, she punishes open insubordination while privately searching for a viable recovery strategy 276 283 284.

Underworld Reunion and Awakening

Seeking her grandfather’s advice, Shengnan visits Hidden Dragon Manor and accidentally fights its Stone Demon guards. Li Yichen rescues her from the giant guardian and agrees to arrange the reunion 287 288.

He takes her into the Underworld, where she discovers his connections to its officials and reunites with Old Master Su. Their discussion identifies pharmaceuticals as the family’s remaining advantage. On returning, she fuses with the officials’ Ability Pearl to gain psychokinesis, accepting the pain because supernatural strength could help protect her family 290 291 292.

Her relationship with Li becomes intimate shortly afterward. Despite her affection for him, she repeatedly returns to family business rather than abandoning her responsibilities 294 298.

Pharmaceutical Recovery Project

Shengnan pursues a scar-removal medicine venture with Ouyang Hai, using the Su Family’s pharmaceutical position as a potential answer to the three-family blockade. By this stage, she reports that the family’s assets have already shrunk by half 294 337.

Ouyang Xuanxuan’s ability solves the immediate Heavenly Star Grass germination problem. Shengnan orders clinical trials, while Li Yichen proposes spirit-enriched soil to address sustainable cultivation. When a Jiang agent reveals orders to destroy the facility, Li assigns Netherworld Soldiers to defend it; he refuses Shengnan’s suggestion to use them offensively against the rival families 339 340 341 343.

Guard Crisis and Siege

Repeated killings of Yellow and Profound Grade fighters threaten to leave the family defenseless. Shengnan publicly reveals her psychokinesis and persuades Huang Shan to give her three days to resolve the crisis, though she remains privately exhausted and uncertain 375 376.

As further disappearances occur, she considers seeking help from her unborn child’s father. The rival families then mobilize against the Su estate after three of their members are found dead near its experimental base. Before facing the external attack, Shengnan disarms angry fighters and punishes Su juniors who have aggravated the internal dispute 407 408 409 410.

With communications jammed and surrender being discussed, she tells the family that allies are coming. Privately, she sends one-third of its funds toward the capital and reveals that Eldest Uncle’s earlier departure was a staged fallback arrangement. She leaves the elders to safeguard the household and goes to the main gate herself; the siege’s outcome is not established in the provided context 411.

Notable Quotes

“There are no permanent enemies, only permanent interests. All they need to know is that swallowing up the Su Family would make them stronger than before.” 252

“I'm not afraid. For the Su Family, I can endure any pain.” 292

“Weakness is the original sin.” 334

“We need to prepare for the worst before it happens.” 411