Number Two

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Number Two (二号); identified by a company code name rather than a personal name 2.
Alias(es)	The company’s “second boss” 49.
Gender	Male 3 25.
Affiliation	White Jade Capital Company 30 31.
Occupation/Role	Funeral-services salesman; senior executive and core insider responsible for recruitment and disaster-response coordination 2 21 31 39.
Status	Alive; confirmed to be a living person by Zhang Youzhi’s ghost 30.
First Appearance	Chapter 2, “If I Die, What Happens to My Girlfriend?” 2.

Background / History

Number Two belongs to the small circle that knows White Jade Capital’s core secrets; even several company directors are ordinary people without that knowledge. Its funeral business is part of a broader mission to prevent emotional disasters—extreme, contagious emotions capable of producing catastrophic consequences 31.

In explaining the company’s origins, he describes seventeen people who came from the legendary White Jade Capital and founded the organization in 1957. They cannot return, and only six remain after repeated losses during rescue work. Preventing a third SSS-rank emotional disaster is the company’s highest purpose, a mission Number Two discusses with visible resolve to face death 35.

His approach to Zhang Youzhi is not motivated by the funeral fee. The company spends almost a year tracing a predicted individual S-rank disaster before identifying Li Douyu as its source and Zhang as the person central to it. By the time Number Two reaches Zhang, his cancer has spread beyond the company’s ability to treat it 31.

Appearance

• Build: Tall and extremely thin, with a gaunt face 3 25.
• Complexion: Unnaturally pale, without a healthy flush 25.
• Eyes: Deeply sunken, with dark circles suggesting prolonged sleeplessness 25.
• Hands: His handshake is ice-cold 3.
• Sunglasses: Usually worn during client meetings; he removes them for the formal handshake after Zhang signs his funeral contract 2 3.

Personality

Number Two presents disturbing services with relaxed salesmanship, explaining engineered relationships, impersonation, and hypnosis as practical solutions. He shifts easily from casual humor to formal contract language, repeatedly closing negotiations with “A pleasure doing business with you” 2 3 25.

His professional detachment does not eliminate concern. He dreads clients’ despair, becomes visibly anxious when Zhang is abducted, and urgently mobilizes assistance rather than accepting a six-hour reinforcement delay. Chronic overwork and the company’s staffing shortage leave him exhausted and short-tempered 2 21 40.

He is persistent and manipulative in recruitment. After Zhang repeatedly refuses employment, Number Two uses the prospect of resurrection—and Zhang’s fear for Li Douyu—to make withdrawal harder. His dedication also manifests as intrusive management: Si Weizhe describes him as tireless but prone to meddling even in dangerous operations 31 42 43 49.

Abilities & Skills

Soul Perception

Number Two can see and converse with Zhang’s disembodied soul when ordinary people cannot 30 31.

• Locates Zhang’s wandering soul after dealing with the failed Li Douyu operation 39.
• Refers to scanning for souls and detecting Zhang in the Songjiang River 42.
• Understands that the Supervision Regulations preserve a client’s soul until the company completes its contracted services 31.

Operational Command

His authority extends across company departments and allows him to coordinate with local authorities 21 39 40.

• Dispatches Funeral Directors and authorizes intelligence-sharing with police during Zhang’s abduction 21.
• Orders Zhang’s location broadcast company-wide when nearby reinforcements cannot arrive quickly enough 21.
• Secures the five emotional-services experts’ release, reprimands their leader, and orders a sincere apology to Li Douyu 39.
• Redirects Si Weizhe and the Hypnotist toward Songjiang’s missing-child investigation, with Combat Department support 40.
• Has personally participated in two S-class rescue operations and several A-class operations, but admits uncertainty about handling a diffuse C-class crisis 40.

Emotional-Risk Assessment

Number Two interprets the company’s predictions and explains its disaster classifications; the forecasting system is a company capability, not an established personal power 31 35 43.

• Gives Zhang an estimate of approximately thirteen days remaining to live 9.
• Explains that disaster predictions identify general areas rather than exact locations 43.
• Suspects Zhang is the second S-rank carrier detected during the trafficking crisis 46.
• Regards Zhang and Li together as a stable “binary star system,” believing the loss of either could destabilize the other 46.
• Acknowledges that sudden disasters can escape prediction, requiring response after the event 50.

Client Services and Recruitment

Number Two negotiates funeral arrangements and interventions intended to keep bereaved partners from remaining in extreme grief 2 3.

Approach	Service he offers
Romance	A specialist helps the partner recover through a temporary relationship while teaching practical skills and protection against exploitation 2.
Friendship	Specialists enter the partner’s social circle, then retain a smaller group as close friends; romantic attachment may require changing approaches 2.
Career	An approximately 200,000-yuan deposit funds a teaching placement and support, with most of the money ultimately returned to the girlfriend 2.

• Accepts Zhang’s request for a 6,888-yuan romance service for He Min on credit, even offering to cover the cost if necessary 14.
• Repeatedly tries to recruit Zhang as a rare core employee 31 35 42.
• Eventually enrolls Zhang for hazardous missions while assigning Li Douyu a spectator agreement that excludes dangerous work 50.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Sunglasses — Screen out the distressing emotions Number Two encounters during client work 2.
• Company painkillers — Gives Zhang ten pills and offers additional doses at 1,000 yuan each. Their effects last no more than six hours; he later refuses another dose because it could cause fatal heart palpitations 2 26.
• Golden Pill — Gives Zhang the company’s only unfinished revival pill without charge. It can return him to the living and temporarily grant extraordinary capabilities, but is not a completed resurrection solution 42 46 50.
• Corpse Floaty Yogurt — Supplies it when another revival pill is unavailable. It makes Zhang visible to others without restoring normal life functions; Number Two claims another bottle can restore him even after bodily destruction 50.
• Company phones and accounts — Issues Zhang and Li phones, 10,000 points each, and access privileges equivalent to those of a regional director 50.

Relationships

• Zhang Youzhi — Initially his funeral client, later his recruitment target and employee. Their exchanges develop into teasing, bargaining, and mutual frustration; both eventually express a desire to beat the other up 14 31 42 49 50.
• Li Douyu — The actual target of the initial intervention. Number Two first relies on Zhang’s inaccurate description of her, then recognizes her ability to deceive and outmaneuver the company 31 38 42.
• He Min — Accepts Zhang’s referral to arrange professional romantic support after her suicidal crisis 14.
• Si Weizhe — A subordinate whom he disciplines after the failed Li Douyu operation, then assigns to the missing-child investigation 39 40.
• The Hypnotist — A specialist he orders to remain in Songjiang awaiting instructions, then deploys to investigate the child disappearances 39 40.
• Unnamed female adviser — Promotes her to work beside him after she recommends reviving Zhang to stabilize Li Douyu; agrees to a raise of six hundred 38.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Funeral Arrangements and Early Interventions

• Meets Zhang at KFC, explains bereavement services, and finalizes a pared-down funeral package costing 12,888 yuan 2 3.
• Oversees the attempted romance intervention for Li Douyu. After Kailin’s staged parachuting encounter fails, he apologizes and arranges another specialist 9.
• Discusses deception and subconscious suggestion; company staff subsequently impersonate Zhang through his online accounts 10 12.
• Reveals that company satellites track Zhang in real time when Zhang calls to request help for He Min 14.

Abduction, Final Hours, and the Afterlife

• Mobilizes company personnel after Zhang and He Min are abducted, despite severe shortages of local support 21.
• Presents the Gold Medal Support Plan, intended to temporarily erase Li Douyu’s memories of Zhang while providing romantic, social, and career support 25.
• Pushes Zhang through a cemetery during his final hours, refuses further medication, and eventually leaves after repeated anxious questions 26.
• Reappears at Zhang’s funeral, reveals that he can see his ghost, and explains the company’s real purpose. Zhang refuses both employment and the proposed possibility of resurrection 30 31 35.

Songjiang Crisis and Recruitment

• Changes strategy after Li Douyu has the five specialists arrested, approving an attempt to revive Zhang instead of continuing the failed intervention 38 39.
• Takes responsibility for the missing-child crisis before resuming his search for Zhang 40.
• Gives Zhang the Golden Pill, then leaves confident that concern for Li will eventually compel him to use it 42 43.
• During the armed trafficking crisis, trusts the pill to protect the couple while focusing on the wider emotional disaster 46.
• Supplies Corpse Floaty Yogurt and secures both partners’ employment agreements, finally obtaining Zhang’s services for hazardous rescue work 50.

Notable Quotes

“We could not bear to watch any longer. So we came.” 35

“Eat this, return to the living, and let me beat you up.” 42

“You're already dead. What have you got to fear from dying?” 50