Song Yaoyao

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Song Yaoyao (宋瑶瑶)
Alias(es)	Little Lord Song; Xiao Yaoyao, a traveling identity used while posing as Chen Yixiao’s younger sister 63 218
Titles	Princess Jiahe; First-Rank Princess Who Protects the Nation; Imperial Preceptor; Little Martial Aunt within the Carefree Sect 268 910 911 1005 1025
Species/Race	Human; later becomes a cultivator 3 1025 1026
Gender	Female 2
Age	Twelve at her first palace banquet 1
Family	Youngest child and second daughter of Song Xiuyuan and Ning Wanying; younger sister of Song Qingyu, Song Qinghui, and Song Qingling 2 3 131
Affiliation	Song household; Heavenly Phoenix Kingdom; Imperial Medical Academy; Carefree Sect 3 301 1025
Occupation/Role	Former military doctor; Court Recorder; Imperial Physician and medical mentor; weapons-development supervisor; Imperial Preceptor; Ancestor Wuchen’s final disciple 3 9 188 301 562 1005 1025
Cultivation	Late Foundation Establishment; rare chaos spiritual root 1025 1026
System	Guagua, a gossip system bonded to her before her birth into the Song family 3 6
Status	Alive; returns to the Cultivation World with her family and selected travelers in the final extra chapter 1031
First Appearance	Chapter 1, “The Palace Banquet” 1

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Begins cultivation; starting realm unspecified	1025	After accidentally entering the Cultivation World, she becomes Ancestor Wuchen’s final disciple. Testing reveals a chaos spiritual root with exceptional purity across every elemental attribute; Wuchen closely supervises her training.
Late Foundation Establishment	1026	Reached fifteen years later. She still cannot return to her original world unaided and requires Wuchen to transport her through the Void Mirror.

Official Appointments

Position / Honor	Chapter	Responsibilities and privileges
Subordinate Sixth-Rank Court Recorder	8 9	Records the emperor’s words and actions during court and ministerial discussions, but not his activities at other times. Becomes the first woman permitted to attend court.
Weapons-development supervisor	188 189	Oversees firearm and cannon production with the Ministry of Works. Receives authority to act independently during emergencies.
Princess Jiahe	268	Awarded for designing and helping develop cannons and fire lances.
Imperial Physician at the Imperial Medical Academy	301 562	Works at the academy and teaches physicians. Director Li initially gives her time to settle in before on-call duties.
First-Rank Princess Who Protects the Nation, honorary name Jiahe	910 911	Receives a fief, substantial wealth, and permission to participate in state affairs on equal footing with imperial princes.
Imperial Preceptor, beyond First Rank	1005	Authorized to travel on the emperor’s behalf, investigate injustice, and execute offenders before reporting back.

Background / History

Previous Life

Song Yaoyao was abandoned outside an orphanage and raised by its director, whom she called “Mom.” The director gave her the surname Song and the name Yaoyao, meaning brightness and hope. Determined to earn what she wanted through her own efforts, she consistently ranked first in her grade and entered her preferred military medical university 3 131.

After completing an eight-year integrated bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral program, she served as a military doctor for ten years. She also studied traditional Chinese medicine with an elderly practitioner. During a border clash, she collapsed from exhaustion while treating wounded soldiers and died without waking again 3.

Rebirth into the Song Family

She regained consciousness as a baby in Ning Wanying’s womb, shortly before birth, and bonded with Guagua. Her new father, Song Xiuyuan, was a Principal Fourth-Rank Assistant Minister of Revenue; her mother came from the Protector-General’s Estate. Their household had no concubines or concubine-born children 3.

Her father initially named her Song Qingyao, following her siblings’ naming pattern. She cried whenever the family tried unwanted names and laughed when they called her Yaoyao. Keeping her previous name became a source of continuity and reassurance: hearing it from her new family made her feel loved and safe 131.

The Songs could hear her thoughts from birth and knew that Guagua’s revelations repeatedly proved accurate. Fearing that exposure of dangerous secrets would endanger her, they kept her inside the estate until an imperial decree required her attendance at the Mid-Autumn banquet at age twelve 1 6.

Appearance

At twelve, Yaoyao has a rounded, childlike face with slender, elongated eyebrows, rosy lips, and two small pointed canine teeth visible when she smiles. Her demure appearance contrasts with her irreverent thoughts 2.

• Previous-life appearance: Bright, striking features, ear-length short hair, and a clean-cut bearing; wore camouflage while training and working alongside male soldiers 296.
• Travel disguises: Uses altered facial appearances and men’s clothing. In Sunset Glow City, she carries a white jade fan and attracts attention while dressed as a handsome young man 865 1016.
• Court clothing: Wears princess’s court robes following her ennoblement, with new attire prepared for her welcome banquet 559 911.
• After cultivation: Returns after more than a decade looking almost unchanged, but with a noticeably ethereal bearing 1027 1029.

Personality

Yaoyao is cheerful, outspoken, and fond of food, sleep, romance novels, and gossip. Having spent her previous life studying and working relentlessly, she initially wants her second life to be comfortable and free of unnecessary effort. She dislikes conventional accomplishments such as embroidery and formal verse composition, and repeatedly complains about early court mornings 4 8 268.

Her public composure conceals a lively, frequently crude inner monologue. She readily admires attractive people, boasts about her own charm, and trades sarcastic insults with Guagua. When directly insulted, however, she can be just as sharp aloud: she publicly rebuffs Yan Kuan’s demand that her father discipline her 2 9 104 131.

Her attachment to family is especially strong because she was an orphan in her previous life. She fiercely defends her siblings, shares gifts with relatives, and considers gratitude unnecessary between family members. Her playful vanity gives way to genuine distress when prolonged separation leaves her mother gravely ill 131 137 268 1026.

Despite her aversion to work, Yaoyao becomes diligent when lives or public welfare are at stake. She spends months developing weapons, offers measured medical judgments rather than unconditional promises, and donates treatment earnings to earthquake relief. She is also ruthless toward assassins and other serious threats, rejecting the idea that she owes would-be killers a “fair” fight 27 189 420.

She values women’s independence and distrusts marriage arrangements that leave them vulnerable to abusive households or unfaithful husbands. Her resistance to her own matchmaking pressure is not merely comic reluctance: she explicitly prefers remaining single to risking conflict with a husband’s family 375 942 996 1004.

Abilities & Skills

Audible Inner Thoughts

Yaoyao’s thoughts and conversations with Guagua can be heard by selected people around her, without her speaking aloud 1 10.

• Her family has heard them since her birth; the emperor, senior imperial women, and some banquet guests discover the phenomenon at her first outing 1 6.
• Attempts to openly name the phenomenon as “inner thoughts” or “mind reading” cause listeners to choke and cough 6.
• The emperor orders listeners to conceal their knowledge from Yaoyao, threatening execution for disobedience 6.
• More officials become able to hear her after Guagua’s upgrade 30.
• The ability exposes crimes and political schemes, but Yaoyao generally remains unaware of her audience. Even Wuchen secretly hears her thoughts 25 146 1025.

Guagua-Assisted Intelligence

Guagua supplies hidden information that Yaoyao uses for investigation, protection, and military planning 4 25 469.

• Historical knowledge: Guagua knows past events rather than predicting the future. Early listeners nevertheless mistake Yaoyao’s knowledge for foresight 4.
• Visual displays: Following upgrades, it provides videos and illustrations that other listeners can also see 30 137 146.
• Navigation: Its moving 3D map locates guards, concealed passages, and storerooms 144 145.
• Battlefield intelligence: Identifies the weak point between Feiye’s puppets’ eyebrows, allowing Yaoyao to warn the army 469.
• Limits: Guagua becomes unavailable while upgrading. Yaoyao also needs access to new gossip to replenish energy 6 26 268.

Medicine and Surgery

Yaoyao retains her previous-life knowledge of both Chinese and Western medicine, including military medical experience 3 26.

• Saves a drowned child and freely teaches the lifesaving method to bystanders 90.
• Treats Song Qinghui’s leg injuries; he later confirms full recovery 135 268.
• Examines young men with severed hand and foot tendons, confirms their injuries are treatable, and arranges supervised surgery and recovery at the Marquis’s Residence 420.
• Teaches through surgeries, dressing changes, and written surgical manuals 301 422.
• Safely delivers Song Qingling’s twins, Liu Jinyi and Liu Jingyuan 1005.
• Continues treating serious injuries during her travels, including spending hours caring for Duanmu Rui 891.

Poison-Making

Her medical knowledge includes poison research carried out in her previous life. She turns to it because her ordinary fighting ability is inadequate against powerful martial artists 26.

• Prepares incapacitating poisons, lethal compounds, antidotes, and emergency medicines 27.
• Defeats more than a hundred assassins with Ten Fragrance Soft Bone Powder and gives her defenders precautionary antidotes 27.
• Uses poison repeatedly while infiltrating Xiaoxiang Pavilion 144 145.
• Distributes immobilizing powder by drone to subdue a Dragon Abyss military camp without open battle 807.

Transforming Weapons and Marksmanship

A system-rewarded pistol changes form at her will, giving her access to weapons far beyond the capabilities of the original dynasty 188 517.

• Documented forms include submachine guns, a rifle, an RPG launcher, a cannon, a Gatling gun, and a net gun 98 145 188 469 538 809.
• Switches weapons to engage attackers beyond the initial gun’s effective range and uses a flash gun against fleeing assassins 98.
• Demonstrates weapons ranging from a roughly 100-meter fire lance to a 500-meter gun and a cannon effective at approximately 1,500 meters 188.
• The transforming weapon works only for her. Liu Zheheng and Song Qinghui cannot fire its launcher form 480.
• Separate modern weapons obtained through Guagua can be issued to allies, whom she trains in their use 517 778.
• Firearms are not universally decisive: bullets cannot penetrate the Red-Winged Tiger’s protective barrier in the Cultivation World 1025.

System Protection

Guagua’s protective mechanism can block attacks and turn them back on their originators 98 145.

• Deflects hidden weapons and prevents assassins from lassoing Yaoyao 145.
• During the Red-Winged Tiger attack, golden force erupts from her body and reflects its strike, killing a beast equivalent to the Nascent Soul stage 1025.
• The tiger’s death is caused by system protection, not by Yaoyao’s cultivation level 1025.

Storage Space

Yaoyao possesses a concealed storage space that Madam Song describes as “Heaven and Earth in the Sleeve” 119.

• Stores food, valuables, medicines, weapons, and vehicles 119 145 1016.
• Provides a hidden means of transporting military supplies intact to the frontier 189 464.
• Allows her to conceal the origins of unusual goods, though Guagua warns her to keep the ability secret 119.
• Hidden wealth has practical limits: she cannot openly use untraceable treasures to raise legitimate earthquake-relief funds 420.

Technical Knowledge and Military Planning

Yaoyao applies remembered modern knowledge to production, infrastructure, and warfare 119 188 402.

• Contributes refined-salt production, cement, and epidemic treatment to the kingdom 119.
• Presents waterwheel plans and explains their operation 402.
• Works with the Ministry of Works for months to produce fifty cannons, one hundred guns, and ammunition 189.
• Uses reconnaissance tools, drones, poison, and military credentials to take control of enemy forces 807.
• Balances distributing firearms with concealing their origin during preparations for a palace operation 778.
• Recognizes manufacturing limits: more advanced modern weapons exceed the kingdom’s production capacity 188.

Artistic and Scholarly Skills

Her previous-life education supplies talents that surprise people accustomed to her lazy manner 151 152 154.

• Drawing: Learned comic art privately and selects sketching for a competition against Lou Shuyu 151.
• Music: Deliberately sings badly on some occasions but later performs a beautiful modern song; also gives an acclaimed instrumental performance 89 152.
• Mathematics: Answers all twenty difficult competition problems correctly 154.
• Literature: Wins poetry rounds by adapting Huang Chao and Zheng Banqiao’s works. She recognizes the dishonesty of presenting remembered poems as her own 154.
• Publishing: Adapts Journey to the West, which becomes popular in the capital and earns her money 128.
• Clothing design: Adds ruffles, pleats, and asymmetry to contemporary garments 958.

Cultivation

Yaoyao’s chaos spiritual root gives her exceptional potential, but the supplied chapters document only her eventual late Foundation Establishment realm 1025 1026.

• Wuchen warns her to conceal her spiritual-root quality and prevents her entourage from disclosing it 1025.
• Uses an enlarged sword to carry Eunuch Wang to the palace by flight 1028.
• Explains spiritual roots, scarce spiritual energy, and basic cultivation to people in her original world 1029 1030 1031.
• Her cultivation is insufficient for independent travel between worlds; Wuchen’s Void Mirror makes her return possible 1026 1027.

Limitations

• Before cultivation, she has only rudimentary combat training and cannot match skilled martial artists 26.
• She lacks martial-arts lightness skills and must be carried across a dangerous mountain rope route 195.
• Severe seasickness leaves her bedridden for two days after the lake outing 89 90.
• She cannot freely explain her most extraordinary resources and often relies on cover stories or discreet family cooperation 119 189 480.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Transforming pistol — System-rewarded weapon with multiple firearm, artillery, and capture-tool forms; exclusively usable by Yaoyao 188 480 517 538.
• Separate firearms and explosives — Stored modern weapons distributed to selected allies 517 778.
• Ten Fragrance Soft Bone Powder — Weakens victims and prevents use of internal energy 27.
• Corpse Dissolving Powder — Harmless on intact skin but lethal upon contact with blood 27.
• Hemostatic powder, antidotes, and Hundred Poisons Pill — Among the emergency medicines she prepares before the first major courtyard attack 27.
• Itching powder — Nonfatal poison supplied to the Fifth Prince for use on Fan Muqing and Teng Lingfeng 128.
• Telescope and night-vision equipment — Used for distant observation and reconnaissance; one telescope is described as having a range of 40,000 meters 264 807.
• Drone and amplifier/loudspeaker — Used to deliver incapacitating powder and broadcast battlefield information 469 807.
• Buddhist prayer beads — Given by Master Liaoran, who says they ward off evil spirits and hostile witchcraft 459.
• Spatial Ring — Given by Wuchen upon accepting her as his disciple, initially to store the group’s vehicles 1025.
• Flying sword — Enlarged to transport Eunuch Wang to the palace 1028.
• Great Restoration and Youth-Preserving Pills — Cultivation-world medicines she brings home to heal and rejuvenate relatives and the emperor 1027 1028 1029.
• Jade bracelets and pearl-and-ruby hairpin — Gifts from the Empress Dowager and Empress at her first palace banquet 2.

Relationships

Family

• Song Xiuyuan / Lord Song — Father, initially Assistant Minister of Revenue and later Marquis of Eternal Peace. Protects her, supports covert plans, and persuades Madam Song to stop forcing marriage on her 3 26 119 1004.
• Ning Wanying / Madam Song — Mother. Affectionate but protective, repeatedly confines Yaoyao for safety. Eventually accepts her right to remain unmarried; Yaoyao later saves her from the consequences of prolonged grief 3 128 1004 1026 1027.
• Song Qingyu — Eldest brother. Helps publish her adaptation of Journey to the West, accompanies her into Xiaoxiang Pavilion, and urges caution with her weapon 128 144 146.
• Song Qinghui — Second brother and frequent traveling partner. Credits Yaoyao with restoring his future after his leg injuries and prioritizes guarding her over joining battle 268 469.
• Song Qingling — Eldest sister. Yaoyao closely scrutinizes her suitors, shelters at her home during the matchmaking dispute, and delivers her twins 375 1003 1005.
• Liu Zheheng — Qingling’s husband, Yaoyao’s brother-in-law, and trusted military companion. Initially called her “dream man,” but later became the subject of her protective scrutiny over his intentions toward Qingling 368 375 480 1005.
• Maternal Grandfather Ning — Protective frontier commander. Values her weapons and medicines while arranging escorts for her dangerous excursions 195 248.

Companions and Patrons

• Guagua — Lifelong system companion, intelligence source, and teasing confidant. Their frequent arguments coexist with deep familiarity and practical cooperation 3 104 1006.
• The emperor — Appoints, protects, and rewards her; keeps the thought-hearing phenomenon secret from her. Eventually gives her extraordinary authority and supports her access to the Cultivation World 6 10 910 1005 1031.
• Chen Yixiao — Sixth Prince and traveling ally. Yaoyao initially dislikes him over his treatment of Ou Ruoxuan, then admits her bias and accepts him as a cover-story elder brother 105 218 778.
• Bi Tao — Long-serving maid who prepares her for work and accompanies outings. Remains in the capital when Yaoyao leaves for her fief because she is married and has a child 8 996 1006.
• Ying Huiyan — Loyal follower whom Yaoyao protects from a hostile crowd and offers medical help. Travels with her to the fief 238 248 1006.
• Song Yi — Hidden Shadow Guard and loyal protector; accompanies her into the Cultivation World 942 1025.
• Master Liaoran — Monk who considers her a “lucky star.” Encourages her to support unification and good governance, gives protective prayer beads, and later asks to accompany her to the Cultivation World 347 459 1031.
• Eunuch Wang — Imperial messenger who becomes more sincerely supportive after her thoughtful gift of warm jade. Later receives a rejuvenating pill and a frightening sword-flight to the palace 910 911 1028.
• Kong Siyu — Hired to pose as her suitor. Declines extra payment after the deception fails; a flash-forward states that he later becomes Chief Minister 1004 1005.
• Princess Fu’an — Receives Yaoyao’s forceful support against her abusive household and encouragement to reclaim her authority 942.

Teachers and Disciples

• Ancestor Wuchen — Cultivation master who identifies Yaoyao as his destined final disciple. Protects her talent, supervises her training, and enables her reunion with her family 1025 1026.
• Li Mingyu — Imperial Physician formally accepted as her disciple. Receives surgical textbooks and her promise to teach him everything she knows if he studies diligently 301.
• Xia Wanyun — Disciple whose father’s name Yaoyao helps clear. Yaoyao offers medical training rather than accepting her merely as a maid 562.
• Sima Yifeng — Divine Healer Valley master and Yaoyao’s disciple. Publicly declares that the valley will follow her leadership 922.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Arc	Chapters	Major developments
Palace debut and exposed thoughts	1 2 4 6	Her first outing reveals her audible thoughts to the imperial household. Gossip about Liu Guangxu prompts a secret investigation, while the emperor orders the phenomenon concealed from her.
First female court official	8 9 10	Receives the Court Recorder appointment, confronts Yan Kuan at the palace gates, and begins work under Lord Jiang despite opposition to women serving at court.
Conspiracy exposure and self-defense	25 26 27 30 98	Helps expose Sikong Ce’s hidden identity and wealth, sends intelligence through her father, prepares poisons, and defeats successive assassination attempts. Guagua later locates the fugitive Xuanyuan Che.
Rescue work and personal recognition	90 105 119 128	Saves a drowned child, identifies a living woman inside a funeral coffin, contributes practical innovations, and begins profitable storybook publishing while confined after an abduction.
Xiaoxiang Pavilion and Lou Shuyu	144 145 146 151 152 154	Infiltrates a hidden assassin base, survives overwhelming numbers with poison and system weapons, and reveals the Nether Abyss Pavilion’s leadership. Separately defeats Lou Shuyu in an academic and artistic competition.
Firearms and frontier service	187 188 189 195 248 268	Responds to enemy fire lances by developing superior weapons, secures their transport, participates in the frontier campaign, and returns to receive the Jiahe title.
Medical mentorship and public service	301 368 420 422	Takes Li Mingyu as a disciple, shares treatment rewards with collaborators, donates earnings to earthquake relief, and treats young men disabled by Lou Shuyu.
Feiye and the dark-arts stronghold	469 480	Warns troops about puppet weaknesses, shoots Feiye while she attacks General Han, and bombards her valley base with Qinghui and Liu Zheheng.
Operations abroad	562 564 778 807 910 911	Helps overturn threats in the Night Central and Dragon Abyss Kingdoms, exposes possession of Bai Jue’s body, organizes armed operations, and takes command of a military camp. Returns after a year away to exceptional imperial honors.
Marriage autonomy and Imperial Preceptor	942 996 1003 1004 1005 1006	Defends Fu’an, stages a false romance to escape matchmaking, and gains her mother’s acceptance of remaining unmarried. After delivering Qingling’s twins, receives the Imperial Preceptor appointment and departs for her fief.
Final mortal-world travels	1016 1019 1021	Travels in disguise, confronts Chu Jiayu over rebellion, and faces Lan Jinyi’s retaliation after destroying the Fuyang Sect.
Arrival in the Cultivation World	1025	Accidentally enters the Mist Forest with her entourage. System protection kills a Red-Winged Tiger; she joins Wuchen and begins cultivation at the Carefree Sect.
Reunion and shared departure	1026 1027 1028 1029 1030 1031	Returns after fifteen years, heals her mother, shares cultivation-world gifts, and arranges places for her family and other travelers. Leads the selected group through Wuchen’s Void Mirror into the Cultivation World.

Notable Quotes

“I like that sense of affection when my family calls my name. It makes me feel that I'm not all alone, that I have a home, that I'm a child loved by her parents, brothers, and sister.” 131

“You're only allowed to kill people, but I'm not allowed to resist! Where in the world is such logic?” 27

“You have powerful people backing you. Why should you swallow your anger? Why should you make your own life so miserable?” 942

Trivia

• Her siblings share the generational syllable Qing; she deliberately retained Yaoyao from her previous life instead 131.
• The emperor initially mistakes her modern reference to an airplane for a chicken that can fly 6.
• Her first question upon receiving the Jiahe title is whether becoming a princess means she can stop attending court 268.
• Her family interprets her competition success as deliberate concealment of her abilities, while Yaoyao internally disputes that explanation 154 156.
• She becomes the first princess from outside the royal clan, another precedent her father invokes when defending her freedom not to marry 1004.
• Her position as Wuchen’s disciple gives her seniority over the Carefree Sect’s sect master, who must address her as “Little Martial Aunt” 1025.