Jiang Wanrong

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Jiang Wanrong (姜婉蓉)
Alias(es)	Rong’er; Fifth Miss Jiang; “Little Fairy,” Xie Ciyan’s name for her 2 358 388
Gender	Female
Affiliation	Jiang family; Poison Heart Valley 2 69
Occupation/Role	Physician and poison specialist; investigator of evil incense; co-owner of a tavern with Jiang Yourning, later known as Chu Youning 69 265 391
Residence	Bright Azure Courtyard at the Jiang Residence upon returning to her family 3
Parents	Jiang Huai’an and Lin Xiangyin; raised by the master of Poison Heart Valley 2 69
Spouse	Xie Ciyan 392
Children	One child with Xie Ciyan; name and gender are not specified in the supplied passages 392
Status	Alive; married and a mother by the end of her romantic side story 392
First Appearance	Reunion with her biological parents 2

Power Progression

• Wanrong’s documented percentage progression measures departure from her original character persona, not cultivation strength. The resulting points, skills, and items are awarded to Jiang Yourning/Chu Youning’s system, not to Wanrong 5 27 255.

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Persona collapse: 3% → 23%	6	Yourning’s irreverent thoughts encourage Wanrong to imagine standing up for herself.
Persona collapse: 58%	10	Recorded on Yourning’s system panel.
Persona collapse: 80% — passing threshold	27	Her disgust toward Chu Haoze triggers rapid persona collapse. Yourning receives one Beginner Skill Book and 10,000 points.
Persona collapse: 90% — good threshold	27	Yourning receives another Beginner Skill Book, ten intermediate lottery draws, and 100,000 points.
Persona collapse: 95%	27	The surge stops at 95%; the two skill books subsequently give Yourning suona mastery and Jinx.
Persona collapse: 99%	55	Recorded during Yourning’s nighttime system check.
Complete character breakdown: 100%	255	Following Chu Haoze’s death, the system confirms that Wanrong’s life course has changed entirely. Youning receives an S+ draw, five skill upgrade cards, a Thousand Mechanisms Whip, a system upgrade card, and 500,000 points.

Background / History

Wanrong was switched with Jiang Yourning at birth and subsequently abandoned. The master of Poison Heart Valley rescued and raised her. She traveled widely, meeting people from many walks of life, before discovering a longevity lock connected to her biological identity 2 69.

Before learning who her family was, Wanrong had already saved two people who would become important to her. Three years before their reunion, she persuaded her senior sisters to help Jiang Yunzhou escape assassins and recover from poisoning, unaware that he was her eldest brother. She also rescued an injured Xie Ciyan, initially presenting herself as a young man; his stay became an exchange in which she treated him while he helped improve her disguise 281 387.

Her journey to the capital was driven partly by her master’s condition. Poison Heart Valley was suspected of creating evil incense because of its expertise in poisons. Seeking to disprove those suspicions and find a remedy, her master repeatedly tested treatments on herself and fell into an unending sleep. Wanrong intended to uncover the incense’s origins, avenge her master, and prevent its spread from devastating Great Yu 69.

Appearance

• Beauty and bearing: Described as beautiful, with a graceful bearing and a generally gentle, dignified manner 13 115 278.
• Male disguise: Sometimes travels dressed as a man; Xie Ciyan helps her refine the disguise during their first encounter 387 388.
• Later appearance: Returns home wearing a fluffy cloak, noticeably taller and seemingly thinner than before 358.

Personality

Wanrong initially approaches her biological family with caution. She hopes for kindness but struggles to adjust when it arrives, requesting time alone after entering her new courtyard. She had planned to use the family’s influence and then leave; their unexpected warmth makes her feel guilty and gradually changes that intention 3 5.

Her soft speech does not make her passive. She stages a sorrowful confrontation after Xie Ciyan breaks their engagement, uses poison during interrogations, and bluntly tells him when his interference has made an operation harder. Her practical, forceful behavior repeatedly overturns his idealized image of a delicate “Little Fairy” 13 389.

Her strongest attachment is to Ningning. She comforts her, protects her secrets, worries about her safety and romantic future, and eventually decides to teach her etiquette personally. Marriage and motherhood do not displace that devotion: when Xie asks whom she would rescue first, Wanrong chooses Ningning and reasons that he should be able to save himself 101 134 308 360 392.

Wanrong can acknowledge someone’s strengths without excusing their harm. After learning more about Chu Zhaohua, she admires her ability and imagines that she might have brought Great Yu a golden age as a monarch, but refuses to forgive what she did to the sisters 286.

Abilities & Skills

Medicine and Acupuncture

Wanrong treats poisoning, internal injuries, fever, and other serious conditions using medicine, pulse diagnosis, and acupuncture 217 281 387.

• Pulse diagnosis: Assesses patients including Chu Yunfeng, Wen Jiuliang, and Emperor Chu Wenzong 217 252 374.
• Acupuncture: Relieves Xie Ciyan’s discomfort and treats Chu Yunfeng’s fever; Yunfeng regains consciousness and shows visible improvement during treatment 106 217.
• Recovery advice: Recommends sunshine and exercise for Yunfeng, and replenishing qi and blood after Wenzong’s blood loss 217 375.
• Medical study: Recognizes the long-lost Nine-Turn Soul-Returning Needles manual as a possible means of awakening her master 161.

Poison and Antidotes

Her training in Poison Heart Valley supports both healing and offensive uses of medicine 69.

• Incapacitation: Uses medicinal powder to disable opponents, including Xie Ciyan when they mistakenly attack each other in a mist formation 154.
• Interrogation: Uses poison to force information from a red-clad captive about formation exits and her sister’s whereabouts 389.
• Prepared traps: Participates in the Jiang Residence’s defense with nets that scatter medicinal powder over attackers 180.
• Contact precautions: Carries poison on her body and gives Ningning an antidote after an unexpected embrace 281.
• Cultivation of plants: Grows poisonous plants and leaves poison ingredients and recipes for Jiang Yunzhou’s forces 283.
• Limit: Her powders can affect allies; she immediately administers an antidote after accidentally poisoning Xie 154.

Evil-Incense Research

Wanrong investigates the incense’s distribution and works on treatments for its victims 69 265.

• Research partnership: Collaborates with Ye Tianque to develop a slower-acting antidote using Snow Wolf blood 265.
• Suppressant: Helps create a medicine that suppresses evil-incense effects without requiring Snow Wolf blood 265.
• Large-scale application: Their work prompts the capital’s relevant medicinal ingredients to be sent to the Imperial Medical Academy for mass production 265.
• Treatment assessment: Confirms that Wen Jiuliang’s pulse and condition improve after a treatment attempt, without declaring him completely cured 252.

Jialan Insect Art

Wanrong receives a book containing Jialan’s venomous insects, secret arts, and antidotes, later applying that knowledge to Wenzong’s illness 286 374.

• Identification: Recognizes small rove beetles that implant eggs beneath the skin and are easily mistaken for an ordinary illness 374.
• Parasite removal: Uses Little Yuanbao’s blood and medicine to draw worms out through cuts in Wenzong’s palms; they fall into hot water and die 375.
• Aftercare: Explains why the infestation appeared late and warns that the emperor needs time to recover from blood loss 375.

Martial Arts and Lightness Skills

Wanrong possesses martial-arts training and lightness skills before Yourning obtains her own movement skill 152.

• Transport: Carries her younger sister while using lightness skills and offers to take her onto a roof 152 193.
• Combat: Uses blades and medicinal powder together in the Azure Cloud Temple formation 154.
• Physical strength: Uses Xie as a projectile to knock down a captive, then supports him while dragging the prisoner out of the maze 389.
• Limit: Exchanges a few moves with Jiang Yunzhou before swiftly conceding their spar 282.

Hearing Ningning’s Thoughts

Wanrong begins hearing Yourning’s unspoken thoughts during their first reunion and identifies the unexplained voice as belonging to her 2.

• Forewarning: Pieces together the original fate involving her confinement and Xie’s death from her sister’s internal commentary 12.
• Political information: Learns that Little Wukong is the empress’s son and questions the risks of bringing him into the household 27 30.
• Social awareness: Notices reactions that suggest other people may also hear Ningning, including Qing Qianxue 57.
• Scope: The supplied context establishes access to Ningning’s thoughts, not general mind-reading 2 57.

Cooking and Domestic Skills

• Cooking: Prepares a table of dishes to comfort Yourning after a palace visit; her later meal for Xie is only her second attempt at cooking 80 103.
• Poor needlework: Yourning’s thoughts expose her lack of embroidery skill when Xie requests handmade gifts 162.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Longevity lock — Clue that leads her toward discovering her biological identity 2.
• Welcome gifts — Hair ornaments from Lin Xiangyin, deeds to two shops from Jiang Huai’an, and a jade whistle from the dinner guest later introduced as Zhao Yi 3 4.
• Pearl ornaments — A set made with East Sea Mermaids’ Pearls, presented among Xie’s gifts in a top-grade rosewood case 33.
• Medicinal powders and antidotes — Carried for combat, treatment, and protection against accidental exposure 154 281.
• Sword — Used to threaten the red-clad captive during the formation escape 389.
• Nine-Turn Soul-Returning Needles — Ancient acupuncture manual given by Xie Ciyan 161.
• Medical-formula book — Gift from Youning containing unfamiliar anesthetic, painkiller, and wound-treatment formulas useful to border troops 283.
• Jialan insect-art book — Compensation left by Chu Zhaohua, containing records of venomous insects, secret arts, and antidotes 286.
• Jade pendant — First-meeting gift from Jiang Yunzhou when they discover their sibling relationship 281.
• Little Wooden Fish — Tapped alongside Yourning to ward off perceived ghosts and monsters after Xie appears in alarming makeup 140.

Relationships

• Jiang Yourning / Chu Youning (Ningning) — Raised in Wanrong’s place and treated as her beloved younger sister. Helps secure Wanrong’s welcome, supports her investigation, and remains her first priority after marriage 2 69 392.
• Jiang Huai’an — Biological father. Gives her two shops, rejects Xie’s attempt to reverse the broken engagement, and later participates in approving their marriage 3 13 391.
• Lin Xiangyin — Biological mother. Welcomes her with gifts and affection, and is deeply moved by her later homecoming 3 358.
• Jiang Yunzhou — Eldest brother and former patient. Wanrong and her senior sisters saved him years before discovering their kinship; she later supplies medical and poison resources for his troops 281 283.
• Jiang He — Second brother. Welcomes her warmly, scrutinizes Xie’s attention, and works with her against the evil-incense threat 115 161 253.
• Jiang Li — Third brother. Offers gifts at her welcome dinner; Ningning recommends his investigative expertise for her incense inquiry. Wanrong also encourages his courtship of Lin Qingrao 3 69 101.
• Jiang Heng — Fourth brother. Gives her a small box that she postpones opening after hearing Yourning’s suspicions about insects 3.
• Master of Poison Heart Valley — Rescuer, guardian, and teacher. Her unending sleep drives Wanrong’s search for the evil-incense source and a cure 69 161.
• Bai Zhi — Female senior fellow disciple presented as Wanrong’s “senior brother” during Youning’s unsuccessful jealousy test for Xie 243.
• Xie Ciyan — Rescued patient, childhood betrothed, persistent suitor, and eventual husband. Their relationship combines teasing, medical care, family approval, and his recurring jealousy of Ningning 387 391 392.
• Ye Tianque — Medical collaborator in developing the evil-incense antidote and suppressant 265.
• Chu Yunfeng — Patient and admirer. Withdraws his bracelet gift after recognizing Wanrong’s connection with Xie 217 261.
• Chu Haoze — Threat associated with her original tragic fate. Wanrong comes to despise him and joins the confrontation that ends with his death 12 27 253 255.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Return to the Jiang Family

Yourning persuades their parents to recognize Wanrong properly as Fifth Miss rather than acknowledge her while keeping her at a distance. Wanrong receives Bright Azure Courtyard beside Yourning’s residence and is welcomed at a family meal. The affection gradually replaces her intention to remain detached 2 3 5.

Hearing Yourning’s thoughts also reveals that the future is not as harmless as the welcome suggests. Wanrong learns of an original storyline in which Chu Haoze would drug and confine her in the palace, preventing her from investigating evil incense, while Xie would die attempting to rescue her. These are forewarned events, not her eventual outcome 12 69.

Evil-Incense Investigation and Changed Fate

Wanrong discloses her master’s condition to Yourning, who promises family assistance and recalls a palace-maid lead involving a red mole. Wanrong pursues palace contacts, records maids’ details, and obtains Chu Lange’s help in bringing a suspected maid to the Jiang Residence. Later clues lead into the Azure Cloud Temple investigation 69 89 93 150 152.

She joins Jiang He and Youning in confronting Chu Haoze once an antidote lead emerges. After his death, the sisters and Jiang He feel as though heavy shackles have been lifted. The system marks Wanrong’s fate as completely changed 253 255.

Treatment Work and the Border Troops

Wanrong’s collaboration with Ye Tianque produces medicines that can be manufactured for evil-incense victims. She accompanies Wu Qingyuan to Jiangnan and later travels toward West Pass Mountain, where she reunites with Jiang Yunzhou 265 266 278 281.

Moved by the condition of injured soldiers, she studies Youning’s medical-formula book and leaves plants, ingredients, and recipes for medicines and poisons at the General’s Residence 281 283.

Homecoming and Imperial Treatment

Wanrong returns to an emotional family welcome before Jiang Li’s wedding. She comforts Youning over hurt experienced during her absence, exchanges stories with her, and helps with the wedding preparations 358 360.

Later, she diagnoses Wenzong’s rove-beetle infestation and removes the parasites with Youning’s assistance, explaining the delayed symptoms and necessary recovery care 374 375.

Courtship, Marriage, and Motherhood

Xie breaks their childhood engagement before realizing that Wanrong is the rescuer he has been seeking. She accepts his apology but does not immediately restore the match, insisting on respect for her parents’ authority 13 388.

His courtship proceeds through gifts, visits, shared danger, and jealousy. Wanrong eventually answers his insecurity with a kiss beneath a marriage tree. She agrees that he may seek permission to marry her on her Hairpin Ceremony, provided he wins over her parents, brothers, and Ningning 390 391.

After marriage, Wanrong becomes pregnant during their first winter together and later gives birth. Xie eventually abandons his attempt to outrank Ningning in her affections and takes satisfaction in their life as a family of three 392.