Liang Chen

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Liang Chen (良辰)
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Miracle Squad; Liang Family by birth 130 144 146
Occupation/Role	University student; instance player 32 50
Family Position	Illegitimate son and only child of Liang Shi; identified as the Liang Family’s sole prospective heir 144 146
Status	Alive; appears again after his apparent death during the Linmu school judgment 32 50 152
First Appearance	Chapter 17

Background / History

Childhood in the Psychiatric Hospital

Liang Chen was born to Sun Yan and Liang Shi. According to Butler Qian, Liang Shi paid Sun Yan to terminate her pregnancy before his marriage to a woman of equal social standing. Sun Yan instead went abroad, gave birth, and later tried unsuccessfully to use Liang Chen’s parentage to secure a place in the Liang Family 144.

Sun Yan called her son a monster and placed him in a psychiatric hospital, where he grew up without attending school. Her infrequent visits concerned money or paternity tests rather than his welfare. A sympathetic nurse cared for him and regarded him as a polite, good-natured child; he spent time reading anatomy books beside the hospital’s flower bed 142 143 144.

When Sun Yan called to arrange his departure, Liang Chen recognized her fear of him and suspected that his value to her lay in his status as Liang Shi’s son. Nevertheless, he smiled and played the part of a child delighted to be going home 143.

Hospital Fire and the Liang Estate

A deliberately set fire engulfed the hospital before the planned pickup. Liang Chen watched a burning patient with fascination and considered allowing the flames to consume him too. The nurse pulled him to safety, but recoiled when he sincerely described the victims’ suffering as an exquisite experience 143 144.

Butler Qian collected him that night while pretending to have been sent by Sun Yan. Liang Chen correctly identified both the deception and Qian’s involvement in the fire. At the Liang estate, the mistress admitted arranging the blaze and specifically ordering Qian to spare his room 144 145.

The mistress abused Liang Chen and insisted that only her own son could inherit. He subsequently deduced that she and Liang Shi had no children. Qian confirmed that Liang Shi was gravely ill and that whoever controlled Liang Chen’s custody would effectively control the family 145 146.

Rescue by Moon Shadow

Moon Shadow entered Liang Chen’s bedroom disguised as a maid while investigating him for Sun Yan. Her explanation of private investigation immediately interested him—not because of wealth or prestige, but because the profession frequently involved mortal danger 146 147.

When armed attackers entered the estate, Moon Shadow hid him beneath the bed, explained firearms to him, and helped him escape through a window using an impact-absorbing device. She took him in afterward, leaving Sun Yan’s commission incomplete. Newspapers reported the family’s destruction and the arrest of a maid accused of assisting the attackers 147.

Appearance

• Build and face: Handsome and muscular; described as burly, with powerful biceps 50 133 139.
• Eyes: Slightly rounded, usually bright and moist, with light-brown irises resembling colored glass. Yin Chao compares them to a small animal’s eyes 26 145.
• Childhood appearance: Fluffy hair, a plump face, and large, watery eyes 143 145.
• Palace-maid disguise: Wears a lotus-pink skirt, two small braids at his temples, and carries a handkerchief during Peach Blossom on a Human Face 133 134.

Personality

Liang Chen’s cheerful, polite manner conceals an intense fascination with death, bodily injury, and violence. He praises the precision of a fatal gunshot wound, studies anatomy, and imagines how a human body would look under crushing pressure. He regards burning bodies as art rather than reacting with ordinary horror 19 143 144.

His fascination extends to his own potential death. As a child, he welcomes the prospect of dying in the hospital fire; later, he shows no visible fear when burned during judgment. His interest in becoming a private investigator likewise centers on the excitement of life-threatening danger 32 144 147.

Family rejection and insults rarely upset him. He treats revelations about his birth as interesting information and even welcomes Butler Qian’s attempt to shame him as a novel experience. His unconventional compliments can sound like deliberate mockery, although he genuinely considers the mistress’s malicious eyes beautiful 143 144 145 146.

Around friends, he is talkative, theatrical, and prone to teasing. He dramatically complains when Yin Chao pretends not to recognize him and exaggerates his palace-maid mannerisms. His reckless curiosity also prompts him to consider eating poisonous roots, but An Nian’s tearful warning makes him apologize and promise to stop eating random things 50 134 142.

Abilities & Skills

Close-Quarters Combat and Mobility

• Carries Yin Chao to the classroom where Linmu is trapped and engages the Rat-Headed Man directly 21.
• Ambushes the rabbit-headed creature with a kick that knocks it to the floor 29.
• Runs especially quickly during the escape from the Dragon-Headed Man 30.
• Limit: The Rat-Headed Man overwhelms and badly injures him; Yin Chao’s chalk distraction enables his escape 21.

Firearm Use

• Uses a silver-white rifle to shoot the Rat-Headed Man in midair, interrupting its pursuit of Yin Chao 22.
• Limit: The shots are loud, and another hunter appears shortly afterward. Liang Chen then signals Yin Chao to remain quiet 22.

Observation and Deduction

• Recognizes that Butler Qian is not Sun Yan’s intended escort and identifies him as the hospital arsonist 145.
• Deduces that the Liang mistress has no children before Qian confirms it 146.
• Recognizes that Moon Shadow does not resemble the estate’s regular maids 146.

Hunter Role

• Holds the Hunter role in the Linmu school judgment game 32.
• When the judgment hall identifies him as the night’s deceased player, he invokes his role’s privilege to take Skinny Monkey with him 32.
• Scope: This is a documented instance role, not an established permanent combat ability 32.

Susceptibility to Mental Influence

• Falls into a guilt-focused, brainwashed state, repeating that everyone deserves to die. Yin Chao’s questioning helps him begin resisting it 27.
• The rabbit-headed creature’s Mirage causes confusion, pain, and loss of balance. He recovers after Luo Lingyue kills the creature 29.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Silver-white rifle — Used against the Rat-Headed Man 22.
• Anatomy book — Read during his childhood in the psychiatric hospital 142 143.
• Bloodied jade earring — Given to him after the Liang mistress tears it from a maid’s ear; he discards it because it does not interest him 146.

Relationships

• Yin Chao — University acquaintance, fellow player, and friend whom he calls “Chaochao.” Yin Chao helps him escape the Rat-Headed Man and resist brainwashing; Liang Chen later helps arrange a thank-you meal 21 27 50 130.
• Midnight — Friend and object of enthusiastic admiration for his violence. Liang Chen once offers him dog food because he appears uninterested in human food, earning a beating 19 30 50.
• Moon Shadow — His childhood rescuer and the private investigator who takes him in. She formerly handled the task of discouraging his dangerous experiments 147 142.
• An Nian — Teammate whose distressed warning persuades him to abandon an attempt to eat poisonous roots 142.
• Sun Yan — Mother and Moon Shadow’s client. She fears him and repeatedly seeks financial advantage through his relationship to Liang Shi 143 147.
• Liang Shi — Absent father who rejects Sun Yan’s attempt to enter the Liang Family; his failing health makes Liang Chen’s custody politically valuable 142 144 146.
• Hospital nurse — Childhood caregiver who rescues him from the fire, then withdraws in fear after hearing his response to the victims’ suffering. Liang Chen says he had been fond of her 144.
• Skinny Monkey — Target of Liang Chen’s Hunter privilege. Liang Chen says he chooses him simply because he dislikes him, regardless of his claimed allegiance 32.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Linmu No. 2 Middle School

• Enthusiastically greets Midnight and later admires a student’s fatal gunshot wound, prompting alarm from the surrounding students 17 19.
• Helps Yin Chao rescue Linmu, suffers injuries fighting the Rat-Headed Man, and subsequently shoots the monster to protect Yin Chao 21 22.
• Reappears among bound captives with a bruised, bloodied mouth. After struggling against brainwashing, he helps confront the rabbit-headed creature 26 27 29.
• Escapes the Dragon-Headed Man with Yin Chao, Luo Lingyue, and Anna, then rejoins Midnight’s group 30.
• Uses the Hunter privilege to eliminate Skinny Monkey. Yin Chao observes that the decision weakens Moqi Xinzhi’s faction and helps maintain the voting balance 32.
• His burning during judgment is not a lasting death; he later meets Yin Chao at their university 32 50.

University Reunion

Liang Chen approaches Yin Chao after class, updates him on the Ares Guild’s loss of Mad Dog, and brings him together with Midnight for hot pot as thanks for the earlier S-rank instance 50.

Peach Blossom on a Human Face

• Joins the Miracle Squad expedition and receives the role of a palace maid serving Midnight’s Eldest Princess persona 130 133 134.
• Objects when removing a corpse causes its peach-blossom growth to wither, despite the removal being necessary for an autopsy 135.
• Travels with the investigation group to Peach Blossom Town and pounds on the closed inn door to gain entry 141.
• Admires Yin Chao’s violent extraction of the blossom from the innkeeper’s throat, then nearly tries the poisonous roots himself 142.
• His childhood is revealed through Yin Chao’s dream. The following morning, Xu Yuan and the innkeeper no longer remember Liang Chen or the other missing companions; he appears with the group again by the instance’s completion 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 152.

Notable Quotes

“A perfect wound! Smooth edges! Even the brain tissue inside is pristine!” 19

“I don't care what your role is. I just don't like you!” 32

“Look, Auntie Nurse. Those people struggling desperately in the flames—what an exquisite experience they're enjoying!” 144