Li Qing

Biodata

Background

Li Qing has held his job for twenty years despite being only twenty years old. His work takes him into instances with abnormal data to identify anomalies, eliminate vulnerabilities, and repair damage caused by rule-breaking “Children of Destiny” 2 5.

As Maintenance Team leader, he has higher-level administrator permissions than his subordinates. Those permissions also require more experimental backend features, leaving his console prone to faults that affect teleportation, identity recognition, and access rights 3 4 21.

Appearance

• Build and face: Tall and slender, with a pale complexion, smooth facial contours, and delicate features 1.
• Hair: Short, naturally white hair; Gong Yao notes that even the roots show no sign of dye 1 28.
• Eyes: Light-colored and glasslike, becoming almost transparent under bright light 1 13.
• Usual clothing: A light gray trench coat and hard-soled ankle boots; he also wears a white shirt with black trousers 1 2 5.
• Instance disguises: Wears red bridal clothing in Fortune Star Matchmaking, beige casual clothes and black-framed glasses as a stagehand, and a clinic-issued white coat as a medical intern 4 23 48.

Personality

Li Qing is composed, methodical, and strongly oriented toward code, numbers, and traceable causes. He processes danger through calculations and finds unfamiliar emotions difficult to explain: Gong Yao’s voice unsettles him, while their first confrontation leaves him measuring his elevated heart rate to understand the experience of nearly dying 3.

His professional neutrality can appear cold. He explicitly states that players, monsters, and instances are no different to him, and restores deadly systems when their behavior deviates from their intended operation. He awakens the Ancient God despite the danger to Long Aotian and refuses to help Gong Yao permanently destroy the roller coaster 1 3.

That detachment does not prevent practical acts of assistance. He gives a woman all his repellent and directions to an evacuation point, arranges a safer partner for Wu Nianfang, and helps extinguish the banquet-hall fire. He also insists that Yu Xiaohe has the right to choose whether to be kind rather than allowing others to dictate that choice 1 11 31 45.

Li Qing is polite but socially literal. He struggles to understand romantic behavior, indirect requests for comfort, and Gong Yao’s reasoning about human reactions. When he needs a convincing cover story, he deliberately constructs a “secret crush” persona rather than revealing genuine romantic interest in Yu Xiaohe 7 33 36.

His diligence has a concrete financial purpose: earning enough money to buy a house and retire early. He nevertheless refuses suggestions that he monetize his appearance through livestreams or Division One promotional material 2 21.

Abilities & Skills

Administrator Access and Instance Repair

Li Qing uses a console and command interface to inspect instance data, inject repairs, and restore malfunctioning systems 1 3.

• Activates the Ancient God’s boss-awakening protocol to complete repairs to Instance B1051 1.
• Repairs and restarts the Extreme Roller Coaster while defending against Gong Yao 3.
• Alters water-current parameters around his boat without making the change apparent to its occupants 9.
• Removes some NPC restrictions before Fortune Star Matchmaking’s data is wiped 20.
• Restores a building’s fire suppression system after others reopen its disabled control valves 45.

Coordinate Relocation

Li Qing can change his position through administrator commands, including teleporting between instance locations and issuing an early exit 2 3 20.

• Moves away from Gong Yao during their first encounter and teleports from the roller coaster to its control room 2 3.
• Reserves energy for an emergency departure while allocating the remainder to his shield 3.
• Begins a relocation command when Bai Cha strangles him, but An Ya intervenes before its result is shown 44.
• Faulty initial coordinates can place him directly in danger, as happens when he arrives on the moving roller coaster 2 3.

Defensive Energy

Li Qing generates a light-screen shield whose strength he adjusts through commands. His defenses consume a limited energy reserve 3.

• Calculates that a shield strength of 79.9% should counter Gong Yao’s attack for thirty seconds 3.
• Completes the roller coaster repair before the shield shatters; Gong Yao’s increasingly powerful attacks exceed his projected energy consumption 3.
• A barely visible white pixel cushions his impact with the ground after the prop-car explosion 28.

Detection and Data Analysis

His backend supplies terrain information, life-form readings, coordinates, player profiles, and abnormal-energy alerts 8 9 23 47.

• Detects hostile figures beneath the lake while blindfolded 8.
• Monitors changing life-form counts during the matchmaking instance 11.
• Reads player IDs, bound systems, and roleplaying status on the film set 23.
• Identifies Yuan Shiyan as an anomaly and analyzes his X-Ray Vision cheat 47 48.
• Detection is not infallible: the backend reports no nearby boss before Li Qing is struck unconscious by the night watchwoman 11.

Disguise and Investigation

Li Qing adapts his clothing and credentials to work undercover, then uses records, surveillance, and livestreams to investigate anomalies 23 28 34 49.

• Forges a Work ID and changes into casual clothing to pass as a new stagehand 23.
• Creates a supposed crush on Yu Xiaohe to give his otherwise conspicuous actions a role-compatible motive 32 33.
• Connects Yu Xiaohe to her former identity, Qin Lian, and reconstructs the circulation of a photograph used to provoke Bai Cha 31 43.
• Treats the clinic’s prescription task as a logic problem and examines earlier medical records for patterns in player performance 49.

Permission Limits

• NPC resets: Threatens Wu Nianfang with a status reset that would reduce her power to zero. A later attempt to reset Director Li to level 1 for sixty minutes is rejected by the instance despite initial permission confirmation 14 22.
• Core code: His request for permission to modify the Administrator Backend’s core code is refused 22.
• Cheat confiscation: Must obtain approval from the main system before modifying player data to remove an illegal ability 48.
• Instance restrictions: In the dynamic film instance, his tools remain present, but direct NPC alteration and many useful functions are unavailable 23.
• Mortality: Administrator status does not make him invulnerable; he can be injured, knocked unconscious, or threatened with death 3 11 44.

Equipment / Items

• Administrator Console / backend chip — His principal interface for commands, instance inspection, repairs, teleportation, and reports. Zhang Qin repeatedly services its malfunctioning versions 2 4 21 22.
• Employee badge — Used before departing for maintenance assignments 2.
• Forged Work ID — Establishes his stagehand cover on the film set 23.
• Black-framed glasses — Part of his production-assistant disguise 23.
• Room tokens and Heart-Knots — Matchmaking-instance items he exchanges to rearrange partners; Heart-Knots are said to help their holders find one another 11 18 19.

Relationships

• Gong Yao — Initially an ideological opponent who attacks Li Qing over the roller coaster repair, then a recurring partner. He protects Li Qing’s administrator identity, accepts his unusual memory-organizing habit, and later asks for his help saving the banquet guests. Their Fortune Star wedding is an instance ritual, not evidence of an established relationship outside it 3 5 20 45.
• Zhang Qin — Technical Team leader responsible for servicing Li Qing’s console. Their working relationship combines reliance, teasing, and frustration over unstable software. Zhang Qin calls himself Li Qing’s “loving old father” in a message; this is playful wording rather than a stated familial connection 2 21 22 32.
• Miaomiao — Division One’s Logistics Team head and fellow S-rank administrator. She teases Li Qing about his livestream popularity and encourages him to use his appearance to improve departmental performance 21.
• Wu Nianfang — Matchmaking-instance figure whom Li Qing offers a safer pairing with Gong Yao. He later negotiates with her using the secrets beneath the Fortune Lady Temple 11 14 19 20.
• Yuan Sisi — Seeks reassurance and protection from Li Qing after frightening encounters. He lets her stay with him when the rules permit and exchanges tokens with her 17 18.
• Yu Xiaohe / Qin Lian — A subject of his film-instance investigation. His claimed crush is a cover persona, but his insistence on her freedom of choice becomes meaningful to her; she thanks him and resolves to keep trying to be kind 31 33 41 45.
• Bai Cha — Anomaly whose suspicion of Li Qing escalates into an attack. After investigating his connection to the instance’s original story, Li Qing asks Zhang Qin to erase Bai Cha’s and his system’s memories of him before their return 33 44 46.
• Wan Yingjun — Approaches Li Qing as a potential partner and displays abnormal influence over NPCs. Li Qing reports him, but his colleagues tell him not to pursue the investigation further 17 18 21.
• Yuan Shiyan — Source of the Miraculous Healing anomaly. Li Qing identifies his unrestricted X-Ray Vision as an illegal cheat and requests its confiscation 47 48.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Ancient God Repairs

Li Qing joins Long Aotian’s group under the explanation that his navigation failed. After sending another participant toward evacuation, he reaches the tomb and restores the dormant Ancient God’s awakening protocol. Shadows kill Long Aotian while Li Qing remains untouched, then reports Instance B1051 repaired 1.

Extreme Roller Coaster

An investigation into an unusually high survival rate places Li Qing in seat thirteen—the round’s Death Seat. He discovers that stoppages have allowed players to escape and confronts Gong Yao, who wants the ride destroyed. Li Qing restores it while shielding himself from Gong Yao’s blade; Gong Yao spares him after the shield breaks 2 3.

The encounter also exposes Li Qing to public attention through Gong Yao’s livestream, creating an identity-security problem for later assignments 3 4.

Fortune Star Matchmaking

A backend timing error classifies Li Qing as a player and assigns him a bride’s role. Working alongside Gong Yao, he investigates the instance’s abnormal death rate, survives the lake trial, and uncovers the village chiefs’ use of the Fortune Lady legend to conceal the abduction of women 4 5 9 13.

He identifies suspicious NPC interactions involving Wan Yingjun, rearranges the final pairings, and completes the blood-wine wedding ritual with Gong Yao. Before leaving, he removes some NPC restrictions and files his report. Back at Division One, he is told to abandon further inquiries into Wan Yingjun 18 19 20 21.

The King of Hell Came and Went

Restricted administrator functions force Li Qing to investigate the dynamic film instance as a stagehand. He initially suspects Yu Xiaohe’s intended boss role, then focuses on Bai Cha’s interference with other characters’ destinies. To conceal his real purpose, he adopts the persona of someone secretly pursuing Yu Xiaohe 23 26 28 33.

When the cast abandons filming, an urgent assignment requires him to restore the disrupted plot. Bai Cha later starts a fire intended to kill everyone; Li Qing helps trigger the film’s wrap and restores the sprinklers with assistance from Gong Yao, Tao Lele, and Yu Xiaohe 39 40 44 45.

The subsequent investigation establishes Bai Cha’s connection to the instance’s original world and rebirth. Li Qing requests that memories exposing his identity be deleted, admits he enjoyed the assignment, and spends a month in Source Code Space assisting the investigation 46 47.

Miraculous Healing

Li Qing enters D0129 to investigate overlapping settlement rounds and a suspected cheat. Posing as a medical intern, he identifies Yuan Shiyan’s X-Ray Vision and applies to have it confiscated 47 48.

While reviewing the clinic’s records, he discovers that Gong Yao’s earlier group made no incorrect night-shift prescriptions. Despite checking beforehand that Gong Yao was in another instance, Li Qing sees him arrive with a newly loaded player group 47 49.

Notable Quotes

“Players, monsters, instances—to me, there’s no difference.” 3

“Eliminating vulnerabilities and correcting errors. That’s an administrator’s job.” 3

“How can I earn money if I don’t work? How can I buy a house without money? How can I retire early without buying a house?” 2

“You’re free to be kind, and you’re free not to be. That’s your own will. No one has the right to take it away.” 31

Trivia

• Before bed, Li Qing reviews every day since he began working, analyzing his memories until he finds nothing illogical. He has maintained this routine for twenty years 5.
• He develops an appreciation for restaurants, desserts, and video entertainment during the film assignment, although an idol drama’s characters leave him struggling to understand their behavior 28 39.
• He explicitly states that he is not a member of the Nine Luminaries 45.