Tang Beichen

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Tang Beichen (唐北琛)
Alias(es)	“Scumbag Dad” by Tang Tang; “Fifth Uncle” by Tang Xianqi; A-Chen by Tang Dongcheng 11 102 125
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Tang Family; Tang Family company 61 102
Occupation/Role	Business executive; later the official head of the Tang Family 61 102
Parents	Tang Zhilin and Xie Yazhi 6
Siblings	Two older brothers, Tang Dongcheng and Tang Xifeng, and an older sister, Tang Nanzhou 23
Spouse	Su Xiajing, later divorced in the current lifetime; Su Chuchu becomes his wife in Tang Tang’s previous lives 60 61 141 152
Children	Tang Tang, biological daughter; Tang Yue, adopted daughter in previous lives 141 152
Status	Alive at the end of the novel 152

Background / History

Upbringing and Marriage

Beichen grew up in a wealthy, traditional family with strict rules and an emphasis on loyalty, affection, and responsibility. Although cousins could officially compete to inherit the business, Tang Zhilin favored his own children and placed Beichen in charge of the core business as soon as he joined the company. His capable sister, Nanzhou, was transferred overseas under their father’s patriarchal management 15 61.

Beichen secretly loved Su Xiajing for nearly ten years. He later described their first proper meeting, courtship, his father’s opposition, and their eventual marriage to Tang Tang. Xiajing retired from acting at the height of her career to marry him and have their daughter 8 15.

Conduct in Tang Tang’s Previous Lives

Tang Tang’s memories establish a sharp distinction between Beichen’s present intentions and the harm his earlier selves caused. She accuses him of betraying Xiajing across all ten previous lifetimes; later flashbacks document his affair, remarriage, and unequal treatment of his daughters 11 141 143 152.

Lifetime / Event	Beichen’s actions	Consequences
After Tang Tang’s disappearance	Dismissed Xiajing’s insistence that their daughter was still alive. Initially cared for his wife while managing the company, but increasingly avoided home as her condition worsened 141.	Xiajing’s grief and isolation developed into a severe mental breakdown 141.
Affair and remarriage	Began an affair with Su Chuchu after she moved in to help care for Xiajing; asked Chuchu to keep it secret and eventually married her 141 142.	Xiajing discovered the betrayal during a period of worsening illness. Chuchu’s biological daughter, Tang Yue, had already been adopted into the household 141.
First life: reunion with Tang Tang	Tried to reconnect through visits and money. When Tang Tang asked for records of her mother, he supplied photographs and videos only from before her birth 136 138.	Tang Tang felt like an outsider in his villa and questioned how they could become close after so many years apart 138.
Second life	Admitted failing Xiajing and Tang Tang, but justified staying with Chuchu through claims about her pregnancy. Accepted Tang Tang as his secretary while grooming Tang Yue as his successor 142 143.	Tang Tang challenged his explanation and used the secretarial position to study the company rather than as a sign of restored trust 142 143.
Third life	Supported Tang Tang’s return to the company but remained more closely aligned with Tang Yue. Approved Yue’s engagement and wanted her to inherit after Tang Tang died 146.	Tang Zhilin opposed Yue’s succession and backed Tang Shengwang, who took control and sold the company. Beichen, Chuchu, and Yue lost everything 146.
Fourth life	Encouraged Tang Tang’s accounting studies and promised her a job. Monitored her contact with Shengwang and warned her away from him 147.	Tang Tang discovered that both men were watching her movements and continued concealing her intentions 147.
Tenth life	Approached Tang Tang after noticing her resemblance to Xiajing 151.	She refused to identify herself and confronted him indirectly about the late actress he claimed to remember 151.

Appearance

Beichen is described as handsome, tall, and broadly built 12 151.

• Business attire: Appears in a suit when returning from a work trip 69.
• Carefully styled hair: A later visit shows his hair slightly disheveled despite having been styled earlier 69.
• Visible fatigue: Business travel leaves him noticeably exhausted 69.

Personality

Beichen is protective and openly affectionate toward Tang Tang in the current lifetime. He defies his father over her abandonment, learns newborn care, prioritizes her calls over business engagements, and argues that she should be free to enjoy life rather than shoulder unnecessary expectations 6 8 101 111.

His affection initially comes with defensiveness and self-serving optimism. He feels wronged when relatives condemn him for actions his current self has not committed, interprets Xiajing’s courtesy as evidence of lingering affection, and teases Tang Tang by insisting that she must love and miss him 32 54 55.

His understanding of accountability gradually deepens. He comes to accept that avoiding a future affair does not erase the suffering Xiajing and Tang Tang experienced before, and that his love does not entitle him to reconciliation. By the time Xiajing begins seeing someone else, he withdraws rather than intrude 56 69.

Against threats to his daughter, Beichen is patient but vengeful. He spends more than five years preparing to act against Xuanqing, yet delays when Yunlong warns that intervention could endanger Tang Tang 125.

Abilities & Skills

Hearing Tang Tang’s Thoughts

Beichen can hear Tang Tang’s internal monologue, including her judgments, memories, and knowledge of previous lives 8 11.

• First heard her thoughts on the day he returned to the country and met her for the first time 55.
• Initially believed he was the only person with this ability; later confirmed that Xiajing could hear her too 55.
• Uses conversational prompts to draw out information without telling Tang Tang that he can hear her 11 60 61.
• Learns about his previous betrayal, Shengwang’s future takeover, and threats to the family through her thoughts 33 61.
• Limit: Her information can be incomplete or cryptic. He initially cannot identify the aunt involved in his affair and later investigates Shengwang rather than acting solely on her memories 11 61.

Business Management and Succession Planning

Beichen is a capable executive who expands the family business while contending with resistant shareholders and directors 60 61.

• Tang Tang acknowledges that the company grows stronger year after year under his leadership 60.
• Strips Tang Zhilin of power over more than five years and becomes the official head of the family 102.
• Identifies Xianqi as his strongest potential successor and discusses university study, overseas education, and professional networks with him 102.
• Limit: Initially underestimates Shengwang because of his apparently carefree, unambitious behavior 61.

Investigation and Protective Planning

Beichen uses his secretary, staff, and bodyguards to investigate threats and protect his family 6 61 128.

• Arranges live-in, round-the-clock bodyguards after confronting Tang Zhilin 6.
• Commissions an investigation into his own conduct to check for anything suggesting infidelity 11.
• Quietly investigates Shengwang and uncovers his true parentage much earlier than Tang Tang expects 61 62.
• Monitors Xuanqing for years and continues surveillance of Louis and his company after Xuanqing disappears 125 128.
• Limit: Lack of evidence initially prevents a decisive response to Tang Zhilin’s attempt to abandon Tang Tang 31.

Childcare

• Learns to feed newborn Tang Tang under Sister Wang’s guidance 8.
• Continues feeding, holding, and visiting her after separating from Xiajing 54 60.
• Shows fair judgment during the twins’ fight by reassuring Youhao that defending himself was not wrong 26.
• Adjusts Tang Tang’s schooling to her comfort rather than insisting she endure an overwhelming environment 102 104.

Relationships

• Su Xiajing — Former wife and the woman he continues to love. He initially resists divorce, later accepts her reasons, and eventually stops pursuing her when she moves on. Their relationship is not restored by the finale 23 56 69 152.
• Tang Tang — Biological daughter. He becomes devoted to her safety and happiness, but her memories of repeated neglect leave their relationship restrained. Her polite gratitude often falls short of the closeness he hopes for 11 69 129.
• Tang Zhilin — Father and former family patriarch. Beichen openly defies him over Tang Tang’s abandonment, later removes his authority, and provides evidence during a bribery investigation 6 102 152.
• Xie Yazhi — Mother. She supports Xiajing’s divorce and warns Beichen that Tang Tang’s welfare comes first 11.
• Tang Dongcheng — Eldest brother. Challenges Beichen’s treatment of Xiajing, offers her access to a divorce lawyer, and later helps relay Yunlong’s messages concerning Tang Tang’s safety 15 22 125.
• Tang Xifeng — Older brother. Initially questions the accusations against Beichen, but refuses to support him at the expense of Xiajing and Tang Tang 25 32.
• Tang Nanzhou — Older sister. Directly confronts his failure to protect his wife and daughter and supports Xiajing’s right to leave 31 32.
• Tang Lin — Same-age relative, childhood companion, and schoolmate. Knows Beichen well enough to doubt the family’s rumors about him 40.
• Su Chuchu — Xiajing’s younger sister; his affair partner and later wife in previous lives. Learning her identity shocks his current self, who had overlooked family members while examining possible sources of betrayal 33 141.
• Tang Yue — Adopted daughter in previous lives and Chuchu’s biological child. Beichen favors her as a successor, intensifying Tang Tang’s sense of exclusion 141 143 146.
• Tang Shengwang — Tang Family relative whose future takeover is revealed through Tang Tang’s thoughts. Beichen shifts from trusting his assistance to investigating him privately 61 62.
• Tang Xianqi — Nephew and preferred successor. Beichen discusses his options without requiring an immediate commitment; Xianqi eventually joins the company and decides to take over 102 152.
• Taoist Master Yunlong — Spiritual adviser concerning Tang Tang’s luck and reincarnation. Beichen follows his warnings and later visits him seeking assurance that his daughter can survive 125 128 129.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Protecting His Newborn Daughter

• Confronts Tang Zhilin after learning that Xuanqing’s prediction prompted the patriarch to abandon Tang Tang 6.
• Declares that his father may fire or expel him, but will not be allowed another chance to hurt his daughter 6.
• Installs live-in bodyguards, though the unresolved threat contributes to Xiajing’s determination to leave the Tang family 6 31 32.

Divorce and Recognition of Past Harm

• Learns from Zhang Zhang that Xiajing wants a divorce and initially treats the situation as a misunderstanding 8.
• Investigates his own possible infidelity, but Tang Tang rejects his present innocence as an answer to ten lifetimes of betrayal 11.
• Begins reconsidering divorce after recognizing that keeping Xiajing in the marriage may be selfish 23.
• Takes a new divorce agreement seriously after learning that Chuchu is the woman involved in his previous affair 33.
• Confirms his shared mind-hearing ability with Xiajing and acknowledges that their past suffering outweighs his complaint of unfair treatment in this life 55 56.
• Is explicitly divorced by the period covered in Chapters 60–61. He continues visiting Tang Tang, but later stops using those visits to pursue Xiajing 60 61 69.

Preventing the Company’s Collapse

• Probes Tang Tang’s memories while discussing business pressures, expecting the future threat to come from directors or shareholders 60.
• Learns that Shengwang is the real danger and orders a quiet investigation 61.
• Uncovers Shengwang’s parentage and plans to inform Tang Zhilin, partly to undermine the patriarch’s attempts to groom alternative heirs 62.
• Eventually removes the patriarch’s power and begins planning a less coercive succession through Xianqi 102.

Supporting Tang Tang’s Choices

• Argues against forcing Tang Tang into school because she already possesses the relevant knowledge 101.
• Compromises with Xiajing on ordinary schooling, with flexibility for absences or grade-skipping according to Tang Tang’s wishes 102.
• Arranges leave immediately after her first kindergarten day proves overwhelmingly noisy 104.
• Intends to leave her his shares so that she can collect income without having to run the company 103.

Xuanqing and the Luck-Borrowing Scheme

• Receives Yunlong’s warning that an overseas wealthy individual is borrowing Tang Tang’s luck through Xuanqing 125.
• Delays his long-prepared retaliation until Yunlong sends the message, “The time has come” 125.
• After Louis’s bodyguards take Xuanqing from a casino, declines to involve the police and orders continued monitoring of Louis’s business 128.
• Visits Yunlong and learns that protection from the scheme does not guarantee an end to Tang Tang’s reincarnation cycle; that outcome depends on Tang Tang herself 128 129.

Final Reckoning

• Transfers the gold and money accumulated for Tang Tang into her control after her sixth birthday. Her unusually formal thanks leave him uneasy 129.
• Joins the family at her bedside after dreams reveal the suffering she endured across her previous lives. Xiajing refuses his help, and his remorse does not resolve their estrangement 152.
• The finale reveals that he cooperated with the bribery investigation into Tang Zhilin and supplied evidence. His father died after suffering a heart attack during questioning 152.
• Xianqi has joined the company and chosen to succeed him; Tang Yiyi is also working under him as an intern 152.

Notable Quotes

“Tang Tang is my daughter. I won't give you another chance to hurt her.”
— To Tang Zhilin 6

“Fire me or kick me out of the Tang Family. Do whatever you want.”
— Refusing to submit to his father over Tang Tang’s safety 6

“You might have wondered whether it was unfair to me in this life, but what about you and Tangtang in the previous ten?”
“You suffered so much. Who was ever fair to you?”
— To Su Xiajing 56

“Tangtang will have my shares someday. She can just sit back and collect the money. Why should she have to work herself to the bone?”
— On why he does not want Tang Tang to inherit the burden of managing the company 103