Su Fengzi

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Su Fengzi (苏凤子)
Alias(es)	Fengzi; Brother Fengzi; Player One 1 23
Gender	Male 1
Age	22 at his introduction 1
Affiliation	Survival-game team 12789, alongside Ye Chu, Wu You, Pei Yanchuan, and Lu Rui 37 108
Occupation/Role	Bilibili content creator and horror-game streamer with one million followers; also works as Jiang Lan’s assistant 1 111 132
Game Role	Seer in the opening Werewolf instance 2 9
Sexual Orientation	Gay; explicitly distinguishes his real-life orientation from his scripted character’s 73
Partner	Jiang Lan; reconciles with him during Amnesia Maze 112
Status	Alive in the real world. His death in the final instance is confirmed, but he subsequently awakens at the Rest House 126 128 130
First Appearance	Chapter 1, “Night falls, close your eyes (I)” 1

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Retained Seer ability	9	Following a system-space bug, receives the ability to foresee the future as compensation. The system permits him to keep it in subsequent instances; no numbered level or realm is specified.

Background / History

Childhood

Su Fengzi was abandoned at an orphanage’s gates as an infant during a freezing winter. The director discovered him while going out to buy groceries, saving him from freezing to death 109.

His delicate features and small frame made him a target for other children. They threw stones at him, planted insects in his bedding and clothes, locked him in a bathroom overnight, and pretended to be ghosts to frighten him. These experiences left him afraid of darkness, ghosts, and bugs. Grateful to the director for saving him, he avoided asking for further help 108 109.

University and Jiang Lan

At eighteen, Su Fengzi left the orphanage to attend university in Beijing. While exploring the unfamiliar city, he became lost on a winter night with a dead phone and inadequate clothing. Jiang Lan offered to escort him to campus, claiming it was on his way when it was not 109.

Concerned about the late hour and university curfew, Jiang Lan offered him somewhere to stay. Su Fengzi initially suspected a trap, but relaxed after seeing evidence of Jiang Lan’s “Outstanding Citizen” award. They later met again at the milk tea shop where Su Fengzi worked. Jiang Lan helped him find work and improve his finances without treating him as a charity case 110.

After spending over a year together, they became a couple. Su Fengzi continued studying while working as Jiang Lan’s assistant, gradually becoming more confident. Their relationship survived an impulsive breakup proposal during an argument, but Jiang Lan’s father later pressured them into separating. Su Fengzi refused a five-million payment, yet agreed to leave after being told that the relationship threatened Jiang Lan’s career, inheritance, and an important project 111.

Streaming Career

After the separation, Su Fengzi became a Bilibili horror-game streamer. He publicly described streaming as an attempt to overcome his fear of ghosts; privately, it was also a way to learn to live without Jiang Lan. His appearance and gaming skills helped him earn enough money to reduce his dependence on part-time work 112.

His first supportive viewer was Ye Chu. Su Fengzi remembered that viewer’s gifts as encouragement that kept him streaming, and later discovered Ye Chu’s identity through his profile. By the opening of the survival game, Su Fengzi had one million followers 1 112.

Appearance

Su Fengzi is introduced with medium-length hair, alluring phoenix-shaped eyes, and an amused smile despite the cabin’s ominous atmosphere 1.

• Eyes: Long and narrow, frequently curving when he smiles; Ye Chu and livestream viewers associate his expression with a sly, foxlike appearance 2.
• Hair: Long enough to tie into a small ponytail or pin up to evade the school instance’s hairstyle rules 31 57.
• Physique: Exercises regularly, though he openly admires Wu You’s more defined arm muscles 65.
• Scripted appearance: In Murder Mystery, his white-lotus character has entirely white, eyeless-looking eyes and uses colored contacts or sunglasses to conceal them. This is an instance role, not his ordinary appearance 74.

Personality

Su Fengzi is playful, theatrical, and fond of provoking reactions. He tries to scare Ye Chu during their first encounter, feigns heartbreak when Ye Chu questions his claims, and repeatedly teases Pei Yanchuan about his attachment to Ye Chu. His apparently untrustworthy expression initially makes Ye Chu label him a liar 2 3 32.

His humor coexists with genuine attentiveness. He checks whether Pei is seriously injured, helps comfort Lu Rui after she discusses her childhood, and downplays his own prophetic backlash to avoid worrying the group 23 31 41. He also refuses to excuse violence against unarmed people, condemning Meng Fan when liberation turns into collective punishment 62 63.

His childhood fears remain strong despite his horror-streaming career. Nevertheless, he accepts painful memory fragments rather than leave his memories incomplete, and eventually jumps into a crowd of ghosts during the final instance 108 128.

Su Fengzi is generous toward people he loves but reluctant to expose his own hurt. Before learning the full circumstances of his breakup, he praises his ex-boyfriend and largely blames himself. After the Town Chief’s wife dies, he acknowledges his grief while asking for time to recover 94.

Abilities & Skills

Precognition / Prophecy

Su Fengzi’s Seer ability provides visions of future events and otherwise inaccessible threats 9 39.

• Investigating monsters: Sees a ritual surrounding the school’s yellow-eyed boss, supporting his deduction that it wants followers rather than merely nourishment 39.
• Foreseeing danger: Receives fragmented images of Ye Chu’s concealed plan and the Town Chief’s wife being killed by her father 42 90.
• Sensing teammates: Detects an approaching group of five in Amnesia Maze, though their movement prevents him from pinpointing their location beforehand 116.
• Backlash: Powerful monsters can notice him observing them and attack him through the ability. The school boss leaves him pale, nauseated, and physically weakened; a later monster again injures him during the final instance 39 41 124.
• Limited interpretation: Some visions arrive only as unclear flashes. He initially dismisses the images concerning Ye Chu as hallucinations 42.
• Uncertain control over outcomes: His attempt to avert the wife’s death fails. He consequently suspects that foreseen events cannot be changed, but the text presents this as his conclusion rather than a confirmed universal rule 93 94.

Lie Detection

The Seer skill also allows Su Fengzi to sense whether someone is lying 17.

• Confirms that Tian Fuguo is truthfully claiming to visit his son 17.
• Makes Pei Yanchuan abandon an intended reassurance and admit that his injuries are serious 31.
• Has high stated accuracy against ordinary speakers, but may be unreliable against professional con artists 17.

Deduction and Rule Exploitation

Su Fengzi combines observation with practical loopholes rather than relying exclusively on prophecy.

• Notices that the opening instance’s trees cannot be scratched to leave navigation marks 2.
• Pins up his hair so the school teacher cannot identify an explicit hairstyle-rule violation 31.
• Recognizes that the school’s rituals and brainwashing are intended to create devoted followers 39.
• Escapes a Person-Eater by jumping a railing, exploiting the rule that pursuers cannot climb obstacles 57.
• Uses a remote-controlled paper effigy to impersonate the Town Chief’s bride and frighten him into fainting 93.

Gaming and Academic Limits

• Gaming: His excellent gaming skills help establish his streaming career 112.
• Horror games: Prefers games with strong stories, explaining that a compelling ending makes their frightening elements feel less important 10.
• Mathematics: Struggles with high-school problems despite his wider knowledge. He loses two credits for failing a classroom question and narrowly passes the school exam with 501, with help from Pei 26 37 39.
• Firearms: Initially admits that he does not know how to use guns; he later carries one during the uprising’s final confrontation 61 63.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Improvised sticks and broom handles — Uses found objects during the forest game and the Laboratory Building ordeal 2 43.
• Hair ties and pins — Keeps his hair out of the way and disguises it during the school’s appearance inspection 31 57.
• Gun — Readies it alongside Lu Rui when the group confronts both factions in Run for Time 63.
• Remote-controlled paper effigy — Creates the false bride used against the Town Chief 93.
• Memory fragments — Collects and exchanges fragments to restore memories and help clear Amnesia Maze 101 108.

Relationships

• Jiang Lan — Boyfriend and employer. His early care helps Su Fengzi overcome loneliness and build confidence. Their coerced separation ends when recovered memories reveal that both had believed they were protecting the other 110 111 112.
• Ye Chu — First supportive livestream viewer, later teammate and close friend. Their relationship develops from immediate suspicion into trust; Ye Chu comforts him after the wife’s death and accepts his prophetic guidance without questioning his honesty in the final instance 2 94 112 125.
• Pei Yanchuan — Teammate and frequent bantering partner. Su worries about his recklessness, while Pei helps him after prophetic backlash and forcibly wakes him from the Laboratory Building illusion 31 39 43.
• Wu You — Teammate who calls him “Brother Fengzi.” He supports her against stereotypes about muscular women, and she helps him rest after a dangerous vision 23 65 124.
• Lu Rui — Teammate and household companion. He joins the group in comforting her about her childhood and later helps wash vegetables during a real-world reunion 23 135.
• Town Chief’s Wife — Instance companion who shares pastries and conversation with him. She trusts him with her warning about the banquet murders and dies shielding him from her father’s knife 90 92 93.
• Meng Fan — Young Ordinary Person whom Su rescues and helps organize against the Person-Eaters. Their alliance breaks down when Meng Fan targets unarmed women and children 60 61 62 63.
• Jiang Lan’s Father — Uses financial and career pressure to force the couple apart; Su refuses his offered payment 111.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Opening Werewolf Game

• Appears as Player One and claims the Seer role, identifying Ye Chu as good and explaining that he checked him because he seemed the strongest player 1 2 3.
• Faces Wu You’s competing Seer claim; both later identify Yang Shu as a wolf 3 6.
• Survives the instance and learns that his role has become a transferable supernatural ability 8 9.

Illusion Paradox

• Occupies a version of his real-life streaming role, but with almost no followers. Communicates with Ye Chu through livestream chat and a posted hospital notice 12 13.
• Uses lie detection during the investigation and joins his teammates in attacking Tian Fuguo, directing his kick at the man’s abuse of hospital staff 17 22.

Rules of the Strange Tales

• Receives the school identity Su Dalang and struggles with its credit and examination system 26 37.
• Resists the Chinese teacher’s coercive essay assignment by writing “My Chinese Teacher, Who Dared to Swim the Butterfly in a Cesspit,” prompting another prohibition 38.
• Supplies the key deduction about the monster’s desired followers, at the cost of a dangerous prophetic backlash 39.
• Falls into the Laboratory Building’s illusion, then recognizes that Ye Chu used the group as a distraction while acting alone. After the escape, he joins the others in confronting Ye Chu over the undisclosed risk 43 45.

Run for Time

• Contributes evidence that Ordinary People include active resisters and helps the group contact Meng Fan’s community 60 61.
• Participates in the armory operation intended to enable rebellion 61.
• Opposes the rebels’ persecution of Person-Eater civilians, insisting that freedom and fairness do not justify replacing one oppressive hierarchy with another 62 63.

Murder Mystery

The instance assigns Su Fengzi a white-lotus spirit role; its biography and supernatural traits are scripted rather than real-world facts 72 73.

Scripted detail	Evidence
Financial director of Jiangnan Leather Factory	Huang He is his superior 68.
Harvard graduate	Ye Chu finds a degree certificate in his room 69.
Motives against Huang He	Factory wastewater destroys his river habitat; Huang He also plucks out his stamens 72.
Actions involving Pei	Gives him more than twenty laxative pills; Pei separately drugs Su with aphrodisiac powder 71 72.
Connection to Ye Chu	His character is Ye Chu’s ex and secretly rescues him 72.
Investigative clues	Possesses an infrared remote-control app and writes the note connected to Ye Chu’s father’s death 73.

Ghost Opera Singer

• Is abducted and prepared for forced marriage to the Town Chief despite repeatedly stating that he is a man 89 90.
• Befriends the Town Chief’s wife and receives a vision of her father killing her 90.
• After Ye Chu and Pei rescue him, supplies information about the murdered opera troupe and the father-in-law’s supposed longevity ritual 91.
• Relays the wife’s warning about the planned mass killing and participates in the group’s staged supernatural intervention 92 93.
• Survives the father-in-law’s attack because the wife takes the knife meant for him. Her death leaves him grieving and questioning whether prophecy can be escaped 93 94.

Amnesia Maze

• Exchanges memory fragments with other players and reluctantly relives the orphanage abuse behind his fears 101 108 109.
• Reunites with Jiang Lan, whose account restores their relationship memories 109 110 111.
• Learns the circumstances of their breakup and agrees to resume their relationship 112.
• Uses his restored prophetic ability to sense approaching teammates 116.

Final Instance and Return to Reality

• Suffers another monster’s retaliation while using prophecy 124.
• Conceals information while accepting that someone must remain behind. His death is subsequently confirmed; Wu You later describes him jumping into a crowd of ghosts 125 126 128.
• Awakens at the Rest House and learns that those who died in the instance also wake up afterward 128.
• Returns to reality, finds Wu You, and rejoins the others after Pei completes his entrance exams 130.

Bonus Stories

• Celebrates Pei’s provincial top-ten examination result with an impromptu livestream 131.
• Tries to keep his relationship with Jiang Lan private at work, but their reconciliation after an office dispute attracts coworker gossip 132.
• Cares for Jiang Lan during a fever, bringing home congee, side dishes, and canned peaches and feeding him 133.
• Continues attending group reunions and teasing Ye Chu and Pei about their relationship 135 136.

Notable Quotes

“Leaving him was my loss, but having had him in my life was also my greatest blessing.”
— On his former boyfriend 94

“They're just women and children who don't even have weapons! What have they done wrong?!”
— Confronting Meng Fan 62

“Could you stop showing off?”
— Interrupting Pei Yanchuan’s declaration of affection to Ye Chu 130