Auntie Wang

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Auntie Wang (王婶); her surname is Wang, but her personal name is not given 57.
Gender	Female 57.
Species/Race	Human-origin instance NPC; instance NPCs were once humans who died in reality 87.
Affiliation	Happy Community and its residents 86 87.
Occupation/Role	One of Happy Community’s Dungeon Bosses; caregiver to her bedridden son, Li Zihao 57 80.
Residence	Building E, apartment 408, Happy Community 61.
Status	Remains active in Happy Community after Chu Qingjiu and Qi Wu leave 87.
First Appearance	“Happy Community (3)” 57.

Background / History

Auntie Wang brought Li Zihao to Happy Community when he was seventeen; before then, he had lived in their home village. His legs had been impaired since birth. After her husband died following their move, she supported herself while caring for her bedridden son 57 58.

Li Zihao’s novel, which Chu Qingjiu and Qi Wu interpret as drawing on his life, depicts a family bankrupted by treatment expenses and loan sharks. Its protagonist’s illiterate father becomes trapped in mounting interest while borrowing money for his son’s treatment. The community’s final revelation establishes that malicious people destroyed Auntie Wang’s once-happy family 82 86.

Auntie Wang and other suffering residents pooled their resentment to construct a false Happy Community. Within this shared dream, they could retaliate against those who had harmed them. Its bright, well-maintained surroundings concealed the decay and filth of the real community 82 86.

Appearance

• Middle-aged woman whose face bears fine wrinkles 57 79.
• Frequently smiling, with her eyes crinkling when she looks fondly at Chu Qingjiu 69.
• Worn complexion during the nightmare investigation; Chu notices that she looks worse than on his previous visit 61.

Personality

Auntie Wang is hospitable and attentive: she welcomes Chu Qingjiu into her home, offers meals, and keeps apartment 408 spotless. Her initial eagerness to talk reflects prolonged loneliness; having someone listen to her troubles makes her noticeably more animated 57 59.

Her kindness to Chu is genuine despite her concealed role in the dungeon. She favors him because his aloof, withdrawn temperament reminds her of Li Zihao’s former self. Rather than insisting that he remain with the community, she ultimately argues that he should be allowed to leave 79 81.

Her warmth coexists with unsettling composure. She handles Yu Nian’s severed head as a protective offering without treating it as extraordinary, yet becomes apprehensive when discussing the entity watching the community. Her willingness to help Chu has limits imposed by surveillance and the dungeon’s rules 69 70 81.

Abilities & Skills

Spider Baby and Stolen Fortune

• Turned the unborn child of the woman from apartment 602 into the gu creature known as the Spider Baby 79.
• Benefits from the creature’s ability to steal other residents’ luck, explaining why her family avoids further misfortunes 79.
• The Spider Baby can turn against someone attempting to exploit it; Zhang Shan’s assumption that he controls it proves fatal 76 83.

Awareness of Puppet Control

• Recognizes Chu Qingjiu’s presence through Li Zihao while Chu is remotely controlling her son 79.
• Addresses Chu directly through Li’s body and offers to make him happy if he stays with her 79.

Assistance with Retribution

• Helped Yi Shi arrange Chi Chenxuan’s death as punishment for his betrayal 79 81.
• Acts within a community where victims can punish their abusers; she is not its only Dungeon Boss 80 86.
• The supplied account does not identify the specific person she herself punished 81.

Knowledge of the Community’s Threats

• Knows that leaving human remains outside a door can appease the flesh creature and protect the occupant 69 70.
• Knows enough about the community’s central entity to call it both the community’s “key” and its “vessel” 81.
• Cannot freely explain everything: an unseen presence monitors the community, and disclosing forbidden information risks punishment 81.

Equipment / Items

• Yu Nian’s severed head — retrieved from Auntie Wang’s refrigerator in a black plastic bag and given to Chu as an offering to leave outside his door 69 70.
• Soul Puppet Thread — found by Chu in her bedside cabinet near the end of the instance; the passage does not explain how she obtained it 86.
• Small flesh fragments — received from the tentacled mass feeding on the Fortune Ghost, then distributed to residents for transport elsewhere 87.

Relationships

• Li Zihao — Her son, whom she meticulously cares for despite his lifelong disability. Memories of his former personality explain her affection for Chu 57 78 81.
• Her husband — Died after the family moved to Happy Community. Their family’s destruction is later linked to other people’s schemes 57 86.
• Chu Qingjiu — A visitor she feeds, warns, and protects. Her favorability toward him rises from 50 to 70 after she offers information about the community’s core 57 69 78 81.
• Yi Shi — A grateful neighbor whom she once helped financially and later assisted in killing Chi Chenxuan. He relays her warning to Chu and follows her instructions to carry flesh fragments outside the community 78 79 87.
• The pregnant woman from apartment 602 — Previously received her help and remembers her fondly; Auntie Wang nevertheless turned the woman’s child into the Spider Baby 78 79.
• Happy Community’s residents — Fellow participants in the shared dream of retaliation. Auntie Wang stands at their head during the final confrontation and directs several of them afterward 86 87.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Host and Source of Historical Clues

• Meets Chu while he is investigating the community’s residents, welcomes him into apartment 408, and introduces him to Li Zihao 57.
• Cooperates when Chu poses as a feng shui master. She reports that her nightmares began two years earlier and gradually became almost nightly 61.
• Identifies an earlier resident of apartment 404 who feared abandonment in dreams. She also traces the community’s first known death to eight years earlier: a man in Building A, apartment 309, who hanged himself after keeping a murdered person’s corpse in his refrigerator 61.

Protective Warnings and Growing Suspicion

• Encounters Chu after midnight while supposedly buying “ingredients” for the coming week. Her gift afterward is revealed to be Yu Nian’s head 68 69 70.
• Sends a warning through Yi Shi that Chu must not return to apartment 404 that night 78.
• Her knowledge of the flesh creature, unusually precise appearances, and composure lead Chu to identify her as the Dungeon Boss. He later revises this conclusion: she is one of several bosses, not the sole boss 78 80.

Concern for Chu and the Community’s Truth

• Meets Yi Shi and other residents beneath the Fortune Ghost, which drains their happiness. When Yi asks why she spared Chu, she says he is a good boy who should be allowed to leave 79.
• Offers to explain the community’s unhappiness if Chu leaves immediately, warning that no one can survive ten days without understanding its central entity 81.
• Helps Chu recognize that human cruelty—not the Fortune Ghost alone—is the underlying cause of the residents’ suffering 83.

Final Revelation and Aftermath

• Leads the gathered residents when Chu exposes Happy Community as a dream constructed from their resentment. As its false appearance falls away, she tells him it is time to go 86.
• After Chu and Qi Wu leave, the collapse stops. Auntie Wang distributes fragments shed by the tentacled mass parasitizing the Fortune Ghost, ordering residents to carry them to the Urban District, Suburbs, and Remote Mountains 87.
• Because NPCs can move between locations when their instances are not running, those fragments can spread into other instances 87.

Notable Quotes

“Xiao Chu is a good boy. We’re already so miserable. Let him leave.” 79

“No one can make it through ten days, child, because you have no idea what kind of entity it is.” 81

“Ah... it is the key to this community’s existence, the vessel that holds it.” 81