Li Xian

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Li Xian (黎闲) 5
Alias(es)	Li Xiaojuan — assigned bride role in Stone River Village; Lin Yaoyao — false identity used to approach Deng Hanyu 1 141
Species/Race	Human 122 385
Gender	Male 5
Age	22 at the beginning of the game 5
Affiliation	White Night Guild; later cooperates with an organization researching the Weird 123 391
Occupation/Role	Game player; later assists with interpreting his parents’ research and decisions concerning the Weird 1 391
Family	Li Yuanqing — father; Song Zhi — mother; both deceased 175 195
Partner	Ji Xie — boyfriend and eventual fiancé 369 391
Status	Alive; returns to ordinary life after the system’s collapse 386 391
First Appearance	Chapter 1 1

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Beginner player — Novice Zone	1	Enters Stone River Village with 25 HP after cutting his own throat. Assigned a bride role that normally ends in death.
Marriage Bond established	5	His skill binds him to Ji Xie through a Marriage Certificate. Shared HP changes his health display to “???”; the contract also prohibits them from harming one another.
Advanced Zone instance access	56 57	Receives and uses the SSS-grade SVIP Promotion Card, bypassing the usual transition and entering the S-rank No. 48 Asylum.
Advanced Zone player	90	Clears the asylum’s true ending and arrives in the Advanced Zone. Abnormal-instance and promotion-card multipliers bring his payout to three million points.

Background / History

Li Xian grew up with Li Yuanqing and Song Zhi in a home where he lived for nearly twenty years. After their deaths, he moved out and rarely returned because he could no longer sleep there 195. His relatives claimed that his parents had died in a car accident, but he knew their deaths were connected to the game 1. At their memorial service, his accumulating doubts drove him to lift the lid of their coffin 196.

He entered the game after cutting his carotid artery, arriving in his first instance already severely injured 1 197. His investigation eventually revealed that his parents had worked on the Control Room, a system originally developed from a small “Chip” placed in the world of the Weird. Human researchers used it to catalogue the Weird and construct simulated instances intended to teach them human language, civilization, and morality 386.

When the system became corrupt and resisted its creators, Li Yuanqing and Song Zhi left clues and imported their son’s data. If Li Xian entered an instance, that data would grant him the corresponding items and permissions. Ji Xie’s simultaneous attempt to infiltrate the system accidentally intertwined their information, influencing Li Xian’s skill and bringing Ji Xie into his first instance 386.

Appearance

• Face: His features are not particularly angular. Jiang Qiuyue’s makeup work removes most visible masculine qualities when he disguises himself as a woman 138.
• Distinguishing details: Thick eyelashes, a pale nape, and fair skin are specifically described 36 108 250.
• Build: A resident comments on his thinness and urges him to eat more meat 306.
• Bridal presentation: His first instance equips him with bridal clothes, a red veil, and makeup, including deep-red lip color 1 4.
• Child form: In Toy Factory, he resembles his six- or seven-year-old self, with bright eyes and a face rounded by baby fat. His childhood appearance makes his gender difficult to distinguish 178 180.
• High-school form: The ship instance restores his younger appearance, though the change is small enough that other players still recognize him 243 247.

Personality

Li Xian is composed, observant, and willing to use disturbing methods when ordinary survival routes fail. He deliberately engineers Zhou Shan’s stabbing attack to escape captivity, relying on his shared health while accepting the pain and blood loss that follow 21. At Mingyan University, he cuts his palm and exploits the students’ fear of blood to break an encirclement, then uses the same incident as leverage to obtain a key 160 161.

His willingness to take risks does not make him careless about rewards or unfamiliar rules. He distrusts the promotion card’s sales-like description, worries about entering the Advanced Zone without preparation, and spends little on accommodation despite his growing wealth 31 56. He also dislikes the friend requests and scrutiny brought by his success 31 92.

Li Xian values principled cooperation. Lin Shiming’s willingness to offer a Peace Agreement to guilds regardless of their strength is a major reason he joins White Night 123. He warns Song Qingzhang that teaming up with him increases the danger, and later refuses to accept Lin’s apparent sacrifice without searching for a way everyone can survive 178 363.

Away from immediate danger, he is dryly humorous, sometimes lazy, and easily embarrassed by intimacy. He lets Ji Xie tidy his room while directing where things belong, but also confides in him about grief and insomnia 195. His eventual confession marks his recognition that affection for Ji Xie is not merely dependence created by their contract 300 301.

Abilities & Skills

Marriage Bond

Li Xian’s cooperative skill produces Marriage Certificates and establishes a contractual bond with Ji Xie 5 240.

• Shared HP: The bond gives Li Xian an unmeasurable health display and allows him to survive a chest stabbing 5 21.
• Mutual non-harm: Its clauses prevent the partners from inflicting harm on one another 5 146.
• Exceptional priority: Ji Xie needs considerable effort to obtain an item capable of nullifying the skill; an ordinary human skill would not affect him at all 22.
• Unusual authorization: Ji Xie identifies its ability to cooperate with a supernatural entity as practically unheard of. He suspects its authorization may permit access to the Source Instance 122.
• Termination condition: A system notice states that the bond ends if both Marriage Certificates are damaged. Li Xian tears his own certificate during his rejection of Ji Xie, then later obtains a replacement 240 300 301.
• Limits: Shared health does not prevent pain, exhaustion, bleeding, or loss of consciousness 21.
• After the system: The surviving certificate loses its active function but retains enough of their connection for Ji Xie to locate him 387.

Investigation and Deduction

Li Xian reconstructs instance mysteries through physical evidence, discrepancies in testimony, and the behavior of items 19 36 380.

• Identifies the village chief’s plan to use him as a living substitute by matching a mark on his ankle to one on a wooden figure 19.
• Connects Feng Tao’s facial wounds to cuts on his portrait and notices that its painted figure has disappeared 36.
• Confirms “Zhang San” is Ji Xie by marking a varnish bottle and checking whether it was actually opened 54.
• Notices excess luggage and gaps in passengers’ memories aboard Death Train 105.
• Decodes Lin Shiming’s changing betting odds as a clue to the mirror maze’s incline 376.
• Uses the Utility Knife’s spent once-per-instance effect to deduce that the entire Player Center has always been a single instance 380.

Deception and Roleplay

Li Xian adapts his identity and behavior to exploit an instance’s assumptions 6 128.

• Abandons the runaway-bride identity and presents himself as an outsider sheltering from rain 6 7.
• Pretends a patient’s feigned punch connected, avoiding the appearance that he initiated violence near the Head Nurse 60.
• Uses vague questions about “that incident” to gather information without revealing that he lacks his assigned classmate’s knowledge 128.
• Approaches Deng Hanyu as Lin Yaoyao, supported by makeup, feminine clothing, and a voice-changing necklace 138 140 141.

Combat and Improvisation

Li Xian generally compensates for stronger opponents through timing, tools, and the environment rather than superior strength 20 231 365.

• Feigns death and pulls Zhou Shan into the river when Zhou attempts to dispose of him 21.
• Burns hostile portraits with matches after coordinating their pursuit 54.
• Uses his own blood to scatter a hostile crowd 160.
• Lures the Doll Rabbit onto machinery, then restrains it with the River God Doll after Li Yuanqing traps its arm 231.
• Kills a dangerous fishman using a knife and showerhead despite having his normal items disabled 243 294.

Leadership and Coordination

Li Xian frequently directs investigations and assigns complementary tasks to teammates 54 134.

• Splits the portrait-gallery group between searching for a solution and drawing the pursuing swarm away 54.
• Limits the academy investigation to one public forum post while other players contact students privately 134.
• Recognizes how Song Qingzhang’s answer-giving coin complements his own questioning and Jiang Qiuyue’s mental-value restoration 178.
• Coordinates Lin’s structural diagram, Jiang’s support, and Song’s confirmation to locate the Source Instance 380.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Marriage Certificate — Records his bond with Ji Xie. The preserved, inactive certificate later serves as the connection Ji Xie follows into the real world 5 387.
• River God Doll — S-quality — Restrains a living creature for five seconds, once per instance. Requires the River God’s approval; unauthorized use risks punishment 31.
• SVIP Promotion Card — SSS-quality — Sends its owner directly into an Advanced Zone instance and grants five times its clearance rewards. Cannot be traded or gifted and disappears after advancement 56.
• Sharp Utility Knife — A-quality — Its first use in each instance grants a “Sharp” effect that ends after cutting through an object. Remains useful as a readily retrievable weapon afterward 57.
• Veil of Eternal Night — S-grade — A small, black, irregularly triangular glass shard. Reveals “the memories of time” during instance closure, when the system’s weakened control allows its normally blocked function to operate 91 175 177.
• Vitamin Gummies — Slightly improve an instance character’s favor if that character willingly eats them 92.
• Potent Tranquilizer — Single-use item that makes a target sleepy or unconscious 92.
• This Road Is Mine — A-quality — A rescue hammer capable of opening a new path. Has three uses and disappears once they are exhausted 92.
• Plastic Bullet — C-quality — A passenger’s gift in return for candy. Explodes under sufficient pressure with only bang-snap force; its reward notification produces unusual static 121.
• Jadeite Rough — A-quality — Lin Shiming’s gift. Turns green and warms near danger at the cost of durability; reacts to Ji Xie’s presence 124.
• Voice-changing pearl necklace — Supplied by Jiang Qiuyue for the Lin Yaoyao disguise; gives Li Xian a convincing feminine voice 140.
• Bow Hairpin — A-quality — Xie Zhi’s gift. Reduces his presence for three minutes, once per instance. Attention-drawing actions weaken or cancel the effect 177.
• Fan the Flames — A-quality — Single-use item causing living beings within five meters at activation to fight indiscriminately for ten seconds. Used to break the toys’ encirclement in Toy Factory 177 231.
• Multifunctional Videotape — S-rank — A Toy Factory reward; its video function helps him verify the mirror maze’s incline 236 376.
• Misfortune Toe Bone — B-rank — Special reward received after Toy Factory 236.
• Overwrite USB Drive — N-rank — A Toy Factory reward used to initiate the data overwrite that destroys the system 236 384.
• Happy Honey Shadow — Acquired before his final wager instance 369.

Relationships

• Ji Xie — Contract partner, protector, boyfriend, and eventual fiancé. Their initially antagonistic bond develops into mutual trust; Li Xian openly confesses his feelings and later introduces him to the guild as his boyfriend 5 22 301 369 391.
• Li Yuanqing — Father. Left clues and permissions for Li Xian before his death. His simulated counterpart in Toy Factory helps Li Xian escape and is associated with the reward “Li Yuanqing’s Sacrifice” 231 236 386.
• Song Zhi — Mother. Initially opposes burdening their underage son with the project’s dangers, then agrees that he should have access to the truth while retaining the right to choose 175.
• Song Qingzhang — Loyal friend and teammate. Helps retrieve crucial village evidence, credits Li Xian with saving his life, and chooses to team up again despite the additional danger 23 31 178.
• Jiang Qiuyue — Guildmate and recurring teammate. Restores his Mental Value, assists with his feminine disguise, and joins his investigations and later team 69 140 178.
• Lin Shiming — Guild president, adviser, and trusted collaborator. Gives him Jadeite Rough, prepares him for the Advanced Zone, and entrusts him with responsibility for the guild’s assets if its leaders cannot protect them 90 124 238.
• Cheng Xin — Guildmate and protective ally. Recruits him for provisional cooperation in the asylum and later enters the newly opened route toward the Source Instance with him 60 90 380.
• Qian Chen — Commission client and investigative companion during Mingyan University; supports the disguise operation and worries about Li Xian’s safety 140 149 177.
• Deng Hanyu — Information source approached under the Lin Yaoyao identity. Li Xian cultivates his trust while doubting his account and investigating what he has concealed 143 145 171.
• The system — Principal adversary. Restricts Li Xian’s teamwork, memories, and item access, then admits it targeted him and Ji Xie as potential threats to control or eliminate 238 243 384.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Stone River Village

• Enters as Li Xiaojuan, a male player forced into the role of a doomed bride. His bond with Ji Xie gives him the shared health needed to survive otherwise fatal injuries 1 5 21.
• Escapes the bride’s confinement by changing identities, then investigates the village chief’s substitute scheme and notebook of unfamiliar names 7 19 24.
• Engineers his escape from Zhou Shan through an apparent death and river ambush. His contribution to the true ending makes him a widely discussed newcomer 21 31 56.

Miss Dolly’s Portrait Gallery

• Enters with Song Qingzhang and investigates portraits linked to mutilation, disappearance, and animated human skin 31 36.
• Finds a hidden storage room using the code 19980909, retrieves a booklet from the burned woman’s portrait, and later burns the pursuing portraits 46 54.
• Exposes Ji Xie’s “Zhang San” disguise. Following the gallery’s closure, Li Xian receives a record 15,399 tip points and the SVIP Promotion Card 54 56.

No. 48 Asylum and Advanced Zone Entry

• Uses the promotion card to enter an S-rank mixed instance whose objective is to find the only sane character and take them out 57.
• Works with Cheng Xin and Jiang Qiuyue, deliberately seeking isolation to investigate another building and extracting a rescue hammer from 309A’s body 60 70 88.
• Clears the true ending, earns three million points, and joins White Night after learning more about its principles 90 123.

Death Train and Mingyan University

• Enters Death Train with Jiang Qiuyue. Investigates disappearing passengers and detects Guo Yuanmiao’s concealed emotional manipulation 92 105 120.
• Earns 1,830,582 points after the train closes. Ji Xie begins accompanying him into the Player Center in a concealed tentacle form 121.
• At Mingyan University, uses the Lin Yaoyao disguise to investigate Deng Hanyu and the history of Class 32, Xie Zhi, and Teacher Shang 141 158 171.
• Completes “Atonement.” During closure, the Veil of Eternal Night shows his parents discussing whether to leave him clues 173 175.

Toy Factory

• Returns to a reconstruction of his childhood home in his six- or seven-year-old body. Investigates whether the assigned parents are modeled on real people 178 187.
• Other players mistake Ji Xie for a valuable tentacle-producing item and attempt to seize him; their scheme fails 199 200 206 208.
• Learns the factory contract requires either parent or child to die before leaving town. Li Yuanqing’s simulated counterpart assists his escape, and Li Xian receives the Overwrite USB Drive 231 233 236.
• Finds his team function disabled under his agreement with the system. He rejects Ji Xie’s pursuit and tears his certificate because he does not want to keep exposing him to danger 238 240 241.

Ship Instance and Romantic Commitment

• The system reverts his memories to high school and disables his items and skills. Despite this, he instinctively feels close to Ji Xie 243 245.
• Investigates fog-induced hallucinations, overlapping time, skin loss, and fishman transformations. Survives combat without his usual inventory support but becomes badly weakened 288 293 294.
• After recovering his memories, recognizes that his younger self’s trust reveals genuine affection. Renews the Marriage Certificate and tells Ji Xie, “I like you” 300 301.

Honey Shadow, Final Wager, and Source Instance

• Identifies Honey Shadow’s emotional influence and works with Lin Shiming despite their apparently conflicting objectives. Rejects Lin’s resignation to death and seeks a joint solution 341 359 363.
• Returns with twenty-seven million points as instance access closes and countdowns become question marks. Publicly introduces Ji Xie as his boyfriend 369.
• In the final wager’s mirror maze, decodes Lin’s betting signal and discovers that the maze is inclined rather than flat 371 376.
• Deduces the Player Center’s true structure and opens a route beneath the Advanced Zone with the rescue hammer 380.
• Recognizes that the system is watching his hand rather than the keypad, bypasses the apparent code requirement, and inserts the Overwrite USB Drive 384.
• Returns to the real world after the overwrite separates him from Ji Xie 385.

Life After the Game

• Studies his parents’ files for a month while waiting for Ji Xie, buying paired household items in preparation for a shared home 386.
• Reunites with Ji Xie, who preserved his memories at considerable cost and located him through their surviving certificate 386 387.
• Publicly introduces Ji Xie as his boyfriend during a date at his former high school 388.
• Negotiates with a new Weird-research organization, secures Ji Xie a legal identity, and helps interpret the USB drive’s contents. Ji Xie later proposes at a beach at sunset, and they exchange declarations of love 391.

Notable Quotes

“The Xian in ‘idle layabout.’”
— Explaining the character used in his name 8

“You should tell him yourself.”
— Refusing to deliver Lin Shiming’s final apology to Cheng Xin 363

“I’m saying there’s always a possibility that everyone can survive.”
— Challenging the apparent conflict between clearance objectives 363

“He’s my boyfriend—Ji Xie.”
— Introducing Ji Xie to his guildmates 369