Tang Tang

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Tang Tang (唐糖)
Alias(es)	Tangtang; Little Candy 20 39
Species/Race	Human 152
Gender	Female 1
Affiliation	Tang family; Su family; associated with White Cloud Temple 1 50 97
Occupation/Role	Elementary-school student in her latest life; Tang company employee in earlier lives 134 146 147
Status	Alive; awakens after a prolonged coma and spends six months recovering 152
First Appearance	Chapter 1

Background / History

Abandonment and family betrayal

Tang Tang is the biological daughter of Tang Beichen and Su Xiajing. At birth, her paternal grandfather, Tang Zhilin, ordered her abandonment after a fortune-teller declared that she would bring disaster to the family. A sanitation worker found her and saved her life. She later learned that the story blaming a hospital doctor for switching and abandoning her was false 1 141.

Su Xiajing never accepted that her missing daughter was dead. Her grief and declining health developed into a severe mental breakdown. Tang Zhilin subsequently brought Tang Yue into the household as an adopted daughter. Tang Beichen began an affair with Su Xiajing’s sister, Su Chuchu, who eventually became his wife. Tang Tang’s post-death vision revealed that Tang Yue was Su Chuchu’s biological daughter 141.

Returning to the wealthy Tang household did not give Tang Tang a sense of belonging. She felt that the house and everything in it belonged to her father, while most relatives treated her as an outsider. Tang Ziyang was the notable exception among her cousins 38 138 139.

Earlier lives

Each rebirth initially returned Tang Tang to an earlier point in her life rather than to infancy. Across her first ten lives, she never survived to twenty-seven 20 145 147 148 151.

Life	Documented experiences	Outcome
First	Returns to the Tang family but feels alienated. Seeks photographs of her deceased mother and considers returning to school to escape the household 138 139.	After death, sees the truth behind her abandonment and her parents’ marriage 141.
Second	Awakens a year earlier in her rented apartment, retaining the revelations from her first death 141.	Dies young before her next rebirth 145.
Third	Returns at twenty-three. Learns from Su Zhihao, studies accounting, enters the Tang company, and builds professional connections to compete for the inheritance 145 146.	Drugged by Tang Yue’s fiancé and an accomplice; dies at twenty-four after falling down a stairwell while escaping their planned compromising recording 146.
Fourth	Returns at twenty-one. Studies for an accounting certification, exercises, and conceals her ambitions while preparing to turn Tang Yue and Tang Shengwang against each other 147.	Dies before twenty-four when an amusement-park pendulum ride crashes 1 147.
Fifth	Returns at twenty. Abandons revenge, avoids the Tang family, and plans to live in her adoptive family’s rural hometown 148.	Dies at twenty-one when the minibus carrying her home crashes into a ravine 1 148.
Sixth	Returns at nineteen and searches books, online communities, temples, and monasteries for an explanation of her repeated rebirths 149.	Her research does not produce an explanation 149.
Ninth	Encounters Taoist Master Yunlong at White Cloud Temple and begins returning for quiet companionship. Meets his lay disciple, Chu Yun 150 151.	Yunlong intervenes in her suicidal despair; the temple and Chu Yun provide moments of ordinary enjoyment 151.
Tenth	Returns while in eighth grade. Tells her adoptive parents about her previous lives, leaves school, grows vegetables at the temple, volunteers, and recites scriptures 151.	Collapses and reaches the hospital. When Yunlong asks whether she wants to live, she finally acknowledges that she does 151.

Yunlong’s intervention

Repeated deaths gradually changed Tang Tang’s goal from revenge to survival, and eventually to finding a way to stop reincarnating. Yunlong was the first spiritual teacher she encountered who understood her predicament. She credits him with making her final two earlier lives comparatively peaceful 20 148 150 151.

Although she calls him “Master,” he repeatedly refuses to formally accept her as a disciple in her latest life. At the finale, Yunlong acknowledges his involvement in her repeated rebirths. Tang Tang does not blame him; she thanks him for saving her and allowing her to return to her loved ones 99 100 152.

Appearance

Tang Tang strongly resembles Su Xiajing. As a baby, relatives praise her bright eyes and unusually lively appearance; at five, Tang Xia describes her as a delicate, adorable child resembling a porcelain doll 58 72.

• Bright eyes — singled out by Tang Shengying when Tang Tang is barely over two months old 58.
• Chubby infant hands and feet — frequently used to grab relatives’ fingers, pat faces, and protest 12 39 54.
• Resemblance to her mother — pronounced enough that she wears a mask in her fifth life to avoid recognition through photographs or videos 148.

Personality

Tang Tang’s outward quietness conceals a blunt, sarcastic inner voice. She ridicules relatives, gives her cousins embarrassing nicknames, and openly rejects the authority of the grandfather responsible for her abandonment. As an infant, she is also comically vain, reasoning that everyone should appreciate the opportunity to hold her 16 43 133.

She likes gold, valuable gifts, good-looking people, sleep, and an undemanding routine. Her affection for Tang Xianqi includes both admiration for his kindness and appreciation of the diamond watch he gives her. She resists noisy gatherings and unwanted activities, sometimes pretending to sleep or hiding her physical development to avoid expectations 12 15 30 64.

Her apparent laziness and detachment coexist with considerable persistence. She studies and builds connections when pursuing the Tang inheritance, searches for spiritual answers after repeated deaths, and spends months trying to locate her former adoptive family. Tang Xiancheng eventually recognizes that she is not incapable of socializing: she is often simply uninterested, while becoming warm and persuasive around people she deeply loves 145 146 149 68 71 76.

Tang Tang is especially protective of Su Xiajing. Despite believing herself emotionally numb after ten lives, spending time with her mother strengthens both her affection and her anger at those who hurt her 22 34.

Repeated early deaths leave her reluctant to trust happiness or believe she has a right to survive. Her latest family’s affection gradually challenges that belief: she comes to miss her cousins’ company, enjoys being her mother’s daughter, and ultimately expresses relief that she has not died 98 99 101 152.

Abilities & Skills

Reincarnation and retained memories

Tang Tang retains memories across repeated deaths and rebirths 1 145 151.

• Uses previous experience to revise her approach to revenge, inheritance, and survival 145 147 148.
• Recognizes relatives, locations, and Chu Yun in forms younger than those she remembers 16 38 97.
• Does not control when she returns or how far back she goes 145 147 149 151.
• Her accumulated experience does not remove the physical limitations of infancy or childhood 21 22 68.

Audible inner thoughts

Numerous relatives can hear Tang Tang’s unspoken thoughts, even while she is asleep or occupied with a bottle. Tang Tang does not initially know that they can hear her, while listeners often assume they alone possess the ability 27 28 31 77.

• Her thoughts expose family secrets, past-life experiences, and remembered future events 39 60 61.
• Tang Xianqi, Tang Xiancheng, Tang Jian, Tang Xingya, Tang Yiyi, Tang Ziyang, and both twins confirm their shared ability to hear her 133.
• Her cousins agree to remain discreet so she will not discover their secret 133.
• This is not demonstrated as Tang Tang reading other people’s minds or deliberately controlling telepathic communication 31 133.

Post-death visions and foreknowledge

After some deaths, Tang Tang’s soul sees events she did not witness while alive, including the circumstances of her abandonment and the Tang company’s eventual downfall 61 141 146.

• Warns indirectly of Tang Xianqi’s recurring death at twelve 12 20 21.
• Identifies Tang Shengwang as the future threat to the family company 60 61.
• Notices when events differ from her memories, including Tang Zhilin’s police investigation 134.
• Her information can be incomplete: she regrets never learning the precise circumstances of Xianqi’s death 21.

Learned practical skills

Tang Tang’s earlier lives leave her with knowledge beyond her apparent age 101 106.

• Accounting and business preparation — studies accounting, learns from Su Zhihao, and develops professional connections 145 146 147.
• Social strategy — conceals her intentions, cultivates alliances, and constructs a persuasive argument for Tang Xia becoming her godmother 147 72.
• Tea knowledge — studies tea ceremony while adapting to the wealthy Tang household and recognizes high-quality Iron Goddess of Mercy tea 151.
• Swimming — says she already knows how to swim when resisting further lessons 89.
• Gardening — spends six months growing vegetables in Yunlong’s courtyard during her tenth life 151.
• Small-scale trading — earns fifty yuan by selling arcade tokens to Su Zhihao at twice their purchase price 122.

Equipment / Items

• Little Wallet — a pouch she fiercely protects; she wakes and protests when Tang Xiancheng tries to move it for her comfort 21.
• Diamond watch — a gift from Tang Xianqi, stored by Su Xiajing in a box inside the safe 15.
• Gold necklace — given to her by Tang Yuan 38.
• Longevity Lock — worn around her neck during the family birthday gathering 43.
• Gold bars — gifts that briefly make her willing to pay attention to Tang Shengwang 61.
• Minion plush toys — Lu Hengyuan wins eighteen and gives them to Tang Tang and Xiao Xiang 122.

Relationships

• Su Xiajing — biological mother and Tang Tang’s strongest attachment within the Tang household. Tang Tang supports her divorce and wants to prevent the suffering she remembers 22 34 61.
• Tang Beichen — biological father. She distrusts him because of his earlier betrayals, while his latest self protects her, investigates threats, and prioritizes her happiness 6 12 60 101 125.
• Tang Xia — adoptive mother from Tang Tang’s earlier life, later her godmother. Tang Tang searches for her for months and engineers a meeting to reconnect 1 68 71 72 101.
• Xiao Xiang — brother from her former adoptive family. Her open affection and attentive care for him make her Tang cousins jealous 87 89 91.
• Taoist Master Yunlong — mentor, benefactor, and the person she calls Master. He offers refuge and guidance without pressuring her to explain her despair 20 151 152.
• Chu Yun — Yunlong’s lay disciple, her “Little Senior Brother,” and later her classmate. His quiet companionship and repeatedly interrupted amusement-park promise remain important to her 97 131 134 151 152.
• Tang Xianqi — eldest cousin, addressed as her eldest brother. His gentleness wins her favor, and her warning helps the family obtain the talisman credited with saving him 12 21 64.
• Tang Xiancheng — third cousin, initially nicknamed “Bowl Cut.” She teases him but accepts his difficulty speaking, encouraging him to practice communicating 15 16 64.
• Tang Jian — second cousin, nicknamed “Peacock.” His vanity makes him a frequent target of her criticism, though they also exchange affectionate teasing 27 28 106 133.
• Tang Ziyang — fourth cousin, nicknamed “Sweet Simpleton.” The only cousin consistently kind to her in earlier lives; she worries that his trusting nature invites exploitation 38 39 133.
• Tang Youzhen and Tang Youhao — twin cousins, nicknamed “Crybaby” and “Coward.” Their noise and rivalry irritate her, but both want her company 23 30 31 89 133.
• Tang Xingya and Tang Yiyi — older cousins who join family activities and share the secret of hearing her thoughts 101 133.
• Tang Dongcheng — eldest uncle. Seeks Yunlong’s help after hearing her warnings and openly supports Su Xiajing’s right to leave the Tang family 20 21 22.
• Su Zhihao — youngest maternal uncle. Offers support in her earlier lives and teaches her about business; she admires his warm personality 50 138 145 146.
• Tang Zhilin — paternal grandfather and architect of her abandonment. Tang Tang resents him and welcomes the consequences of his later investigation 43 134 141.
• Su Chuchu and Tang Yue — aunt/stepmother and replacement daughter responsible for much of her earlier suffering. Tang Yue’s fiancé participates in the plot that causes her third-life death 34 141 146.
• Lu Hengyuan — generous adult who later dates Su Xiajing. Tang Tang appreciates his gifts and eventually nudges him about proposing 122 152.

Story Role / Major Arcs

A childhood without abandonment

• Opens her eleventh life as a newborn, already exhausted by ten previous lives 1.
• Her parents resist Tang Zhilin’s attempt to discard her, and Beichen arranges round-the-clock bodyguards 6.
• Supports Su Xiajing’s divorce while gradually forming new relationships with the younger Tang relatives 12 22 61.
• Her recollection of Xianqi’s death leads Dongcheng to Yunlong. After Xianqi survives an accident, the family credits Tang Tang’s warning and the broken Peace Talisman 20 21 64.

Reconnecting with her former family

• At five, repeatedly visits Lovers’ Road Snack Street under the pretext of eating pancakes, searching for her former adoptive mother 68.
• Finds Tang Xia at a barbecue restaurant and stages a fall to justify asking her to become her godmother 71 72.
• Rebuilds her connection with Tang Xia and Xiao Xiang; her warmth toward them exposes how emotionally guarded she remains with the Tang cousins 76 91.
• Later checks on Tang Xia’s successful interview as the family’s circumstances improve 118.

Family life and education

• Begins accepting her cousins’ affection, organizes shared baking sessions, and realizes she misses them after they return to school 89 101.
• Kindergarten noise overwhelms her, prompting her parents to arrange leave and home tutoring 104 106.
• Subsequently settles into elementary school with Chu Yun, enjoys the lunches, and prepares to skip a grade 131 134.

Luck-borrowing and interrupted happiness

• Yunlong reveals that Xuanqing arranged for a wealthy overseas individual to borrow Tang Tang’s luck. Beichen delays action until Yunlong says it is safe 125.
• Even after the external threat is addressed, Yunlong cannot guarantee that she will survive or end the reincarnation cycle; the answer depends on Tang Tang herself 128 129.
• A car crash interrupts her planned amusement-park outing with Chu Yun. A month later, she awakens outside her body while it remains unconscious in hospital 134.

Awakening and recovery

• Her family dreams of her ten previous lives and confronts their earlier neglect 152.
• Yunlong says her awakening depends on her own wishes. She briefly wakes and expresses relief that she did not die 152.
• After six months of recovery, she thanks Yunlong and leaves with Chu Yun to finally fulfill their amusement-park promise 152.

Notable Quotes

“No matter how good someone looks, it's only skin-deep. An interesting soul is what makes someone truly charming.” 28

“How could I dare ask for something that doesn't belong to me?” 98

“You saved me. You're my benefactor. Why would I blame you?” 152

Trivia

• Tang Yuan claims a special connection because their names evoke candy and sweet rice balls. Tang Tang privately questions the pun but decides not to argue 39.
• Her cousins adopt her insulting nicknames as material for their own arguments once they discover that all of them can hear her thoughts 133.
• Tang Xiancheng changes his hairstyle after hearing her “Bowl Cut” nickname, determined not to resemble the adult she remembers 19 77.
• Despite regularly calling her cousins noisy pests, Tang Tang admits that prolonged quiet eventually starts to feel strange 98.