Xu Jingge

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Xu Jingge (徐景歌)
Alias(es)	President Xu 45 46
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Xu family; business partner of Chu Yilan and Hengtai 82 102 215
Occupation/Role	Entrepreneur; owner of a car company and extensive port-related businesses 48 267
Base of Operations	Lin City, with business interests extending through Lightsea and other cities 82 267
Partner	Chang Qing 92 215
First Appearance	Chapter 45, “What a Wild Taste” 45

Background / History

Xu Jingge first met Chu Yilan at a joint business conference between Lin City and Qu City three years before their conversation in Lightsea. Their early relationship was competitive: even while cooperating, Xu regarded Chu as a potential future rival 45 115.

After returning from abroad, Xu saw Chang Qing through a glass window while Chang was endorsing his company’s products. Xu describes the encounter as love at first sight. Chang had not previously been interested in men, but eventually became his partner. When the Xu family initially resisted their relationship, Xu resolved the opposition swiftly, before it could undermine Chang’s commitment 92 215.

Xu and Chu’s relationship improved through mutual assistance during Lin City’s flooding crisis. Shen Lian and Chang Qing’s friendship also helped bring them closer, turning their respective romantic relationships into a bridge for business cooperation 48 82.

Appearance

Xu is handsome, tall, and visibly well-built. His eyes combine a flippant expression with an aloof edge 45 266.

• Height: 185 centimeters 266.
• Build: An excellent physique attributed to regular exercise 266.
• Complexion: Fair skin 266.
• Hair: A textured fringe with a forty-sixty part 266.
• Dating-show outfit: White trousers, a loose light-brown shirt, and an extravagant gemstone accessory 266.

Personality

Xu’s playful, teasing manner contrasts sharply with his forcefulness in business. He enjoys watching confrontations, needles his friends about their love lives, and readily joins group-chat gossip. His appetite for entertainment backfires when Feng Yueshan subjects him to an exhaustive account of his relationship with Chen Mu 46 51 178 234.

He is openly lovestruck around Chang Qing. He worries that Chang will be exploited while away from him, resents Chang’s growing number of admirers, and complains while drunk that receiving only five messages means Chang no longer loves him. Despite his jealousy, he continues supplying career resources rather than expecting Chang to court influential people for work 83 84 115 215.

Xu holds grudges against people who mistreat those he protects. He retaliates against publicity that uses Chang’s name, confronts online critics with their old posts, and becomes coldly intimidating when faced with Pang Zhe. He can also accept blame and use deliberately shameless humor to placate an angry friend 99 101 216 267.

Abilities & Skills

Business Leadership

• Recognized as one of Lin City’s “outstanding entrepreneurs” and described as the city’s leading business figure 48 100.
• Owns a car company, only one operation among his broader holdings 267.
• By the dating-show arc, has all but monopolized port business from Lin City to Lightsea and several cities beyond 267.
• Pursues priority port access alongside Lightsea’s Qin family; his aggressive handling of port-use rights later creates trouble requiring Chu’s intervention 82 114.

Crisis Coordination and Intelligence

• Tracks Shen Lian’s phone and dispatches men after learning that Chang Qing has been abducted 98.
• Exchanges information with Sun Binghe to identify groups operating behind the kidnapping 100.
• Uses a contact in Country A to obtain a more comprehensive file on Jin Lei 102.
• Helps clear the port during the operation involving Chu Changqi’s yacht 178.

Publicity and Reputation Management

• Pays to remove trending topics, arrange publicity, and expose Zheng Ge’s scandals after the “Little Chang Qing” comparison appears 46 101.
• Threatens industry consequences for anyone spreading information that would upset Chang Qing 101.
• Publicly calls out livestream commenters using their previous insults against Chang and himself 267.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Gemstone accessory — Purchased at auction for an astronomical sum. Once a symbol of a powerful family, it features a central diamond surrounded by cobalt-blue gemstones 266.
• Plum-blossom copper coin collection — Owns several complete sets. Chang Qing wears a leftover coin on a red cord; Xu pawns it for 3,800 yuan during the dating-show challenge and offers to make Chang a necklace from other coins 269.
• Bodyguard detail — Accompanies him during dangerous situations and detains Pang Zhe on his orders. Xu jokingly claims that his guards mostly know how to slap people 98 215 216.

Relationships

• Chang Qing — Romantic partner. Xu supports his acting career and is intensely protective of him. He gives Chang a necklace whose interior he personally engraves with his initials 84 98 215.
• Chu Yilan — Formerly competitive business associate turned close ally. After Shen saves Chang, Xu calls Chu his “big brother” and promises to remove barriers to Hengtai’s business in Lin City 82 99 101.
• Shen Lian — Friend and frequent teasing partner. Xu considers Shen’s rescue of Chang equivalent to saving his own life; Shen later treats him to a meal in gratitude for his help clearing the port 91 99 178.
• Feng Yueshan — Friend and fellow lover of gossip. Feng physically pulls Xu away from the dating-show camera when his attacks on commenters threaten to derail the broadcast 234 267.
• Sun Binghe — Shares intelligence with him after Chang’s kidnapping. Sun tactfully tells Xu to stop talking when his attempts to appease Chu only worsen the situation 99 100.
• Xu Yang — His eight-year-old nephew, who joins the friends’ celebratory meal and readily greets the adults without introductions 178.
• Zheng Ge — Target of Xu’s hostility for benefiting from comparisons to Chang Qing. Xu warns him against spreading rumors about Chang’s private life 46 101.
• Pang Zhe — Business adversary from Lightsea who harasses Xu’s assistant. Xu initially spares him after his family intervenes, but orders him taken away when they meet again 215 216.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Shen Lian’s Introduction and the Flooding Crisis

• Chu asks Xu to look after someone, surprising him. Xu subsequently observes the attempt to remove Shen from an endorsement deal and explains the dispute to Aifur’s vice president 45 46.
• Xu works on the front lines during Lin City’s flooding crisis. Chu helps solve his difficulty coordinating supplies 48.
• His persistent questioning prompts Chu to explicitly introduce Shen as his boyfriend. Xu’s amusement at Shen being shipped with another actor vanishes when he learns that actor is Chang Qing 51.

Chang Qing’s Abduction

• Shen discovers Chang being transported in a van and calls Xu with its location. Xu tracks Shen’s phone and rushes to intercept the kidnappers 98.
• Xu urges Shen to stop pursuing and leave the rescue to his men, but Shen rams the van and frees Chang 99.
• Xu embraces Chang in visible panic, repeatedly saying that he scared him to death. At the hospital, he accepts responsibility and offers Chu substantial business concessions 99.
• While enduring Chu’s anger afterward, Xu investigates the concealed groups involved in the incident 100.

Business Alliances and Protection

• At dinner, Xu rejects Zhou Tangsi’s claim that Zhou Corporation has been promised participation in a development project. He makes clear that casual banquet conversation was not a commitment 101.
• He confronts Zheng over the “Little Chang Qing” publicity and declares that Chu’s enemies are now his own 101.
• He provides the Jin Lei dossier as his cooperation with Chu is finalized 102.
• His help clearing the port earns him an invitation to Shen’s celebratory meal after the yacht incident 178.

Confrontation with Pang Zhe

• Xu hurriedly joins Chang and Shen after discovering Chang is in Qu City, worrying about whether he has somewhere to stay 215.
• Their dinner is interrupted by Pang, who immediately tries to flee upon recognizing Xu. Xu’s guards bring him back and later take him away 215 216.
• Xu keeps the conversation light around Chang afterward, minimizing his guards’ methods with a joke 216.

*Destined* Dating Show

• Xu’s rapid-fire confrontation with past online critics attracts substantial attention during the livestream. Feng and Chang both attempt to restrain him 267.
• Trying to keep his wealth understated, he describes himself as running a car company and owning a fishing ship—concealing the scale of his port holdings 267.
• During the low-budget challenge, he raises 3,800 yuan by pawning Chang’s spare copper coin. He then orders a generous restaurant meal, includes the production crew, and competes with Feng to pay 269.

Notable Quotes

“Shen Lian saving Chang Qing's life was the same as saving mine.” 99

“Not before, but I do now. Your enemy is my enemy.”
— On whether he holds a grudge against Zhou Tangsi 101

“Nobody said we couldn't come to a pawnshop.” 269

Trivia

• Accidentally rear-ends Feng Yueshan’s car while driving a borrowed G-Class and promises to cover the repairs 101.
• Responds to jokes about Chang Qing’s fans wanting a “sister-in-law” by insisting that he can fill the role himself 215.
• Drops his half-eaten watermelon in surprise when Yang Bin and Sun Binghe reveal their relationship at dinner 263.