Wu Heng

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Wu Heng (巫珩) 373
Alias(es)	Lord Ghost Shaman; the great Puppeteer; Xiao Wu; Yao 495 499
Species/Race	Strange Creature; his Doll bodies are vessels rather than his true body 429 499 654
Gender	Male 391
Affiliation	Fog Mountain; formerly neutral, later actively involved with the Opposition Faction against the Red Moon Society 623 625 650
Occupation/Role	Puppeteer; creator of the Mist Shop passage; Su Bai’s protector and lover 586 637 645 648
Status	Alive; appears in his true form during the war and discusses a future with Su Bai afterward 654 658
First Appearance	As Xiao Wu in the supplied passages 8; introduced by the name Wu Heng 373

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Player status through a Doll body	429	Successfully makes his Doll vessel a Player, allowing him to enter games despite the restrictions on Strange Creatures.
Refined, lighter Doll vessel	517	Uses a new technique to create a lighter, more tightly sealed shell with finely sculpted features. Its joints and head connection are less stable, particularly after impacts.

Background / History

Wu Heng’s origins and the full extent of his power are unknown even to Su Xuan. He once had a family and made lifeless Dolls resembling them as they appeared in his last memories. When the young Su Bai found him seated among these figures, Wu Heng explained what they represented but told the child that he could not stay 627 637.

Wu Heng personally built a mirror passage to another world, though he initially had little interest in its inhabitants. Su Xuan repeatedly visited Fog Mountain, treated him as a friend, and brought photographs of his younger brother. This made Su Bai familiar to Wu Heng before their first meeting. Wu Heng subsequently erased Su Bai’s memory of that encounter 637.

Su Xuan entrusted his family’s safety to Wu Heng in both Su Bai’s previous life and the current one. In the earlier timeline, Wu Heng tried to protect Su Bai by keeping him ignorant of the Nightmare World’s deeper affairs. That approach failed: a special Contract led him into the Human-Faced Forest, but he arrived too late to save Su Bai. The loss made him recognize Su Bai as his only true attachment, rather than merely a responsibility or companion 622 627 640 641.

In the current timeline, Wu Heng takes greater precautions while gradually abandoning secrecy and neutrality. He hides Fog Mountain inside the Mist Shop, keeping his base within Su Bai’s reach, and eventually helps organize resistance to the Red Moon Society 623 625 650.

Appearance

• Cloaked figure: Tall and slender, with a cold, austere presence. His black cloak initially conceals his face completely 391 393.
• Early adult Doll: A featureless face with visible joints around the eyes and mouth. Wu Heng admits that making his own face feels strange to him 429.
• Refined adult Doll: Handsome, sharply defined features, extremely pale skin with a sculptural sheen, and dark-red pupils. Close inspection reveals seams and subtly unnatural movements 517 648.
• Child-sized forms: Xiao Wu has youthful, expressive features; Wu Heng also uses Yao’s little-boy shell. Neither form means that he is actually a child 495 622 627.
• Voice: Initially disguised as deep and hoarse. Without the disguise, it is slow and elegant, likened to an ancient melody 393 482.
• True body: Resembles his adult Doll but has more expressive features and eyes. Its presence alone inspires oppressive fear in nearby allies 654 658.

Personality

Wu Heng is reserved and often indifferent toward people other than Su Bai. He gives strangers brief, blunt answers and may ignore them altogether. Around Su Bai, that distance gives way to tenderness, careful attention, and occasional awkwardness—especially when explaining his intentions or admitting a problem with his Doll body 518 586 589 596 629.

His protectiveness does not normally become overprotection. He trusts Su Bai to complete dangerous work and expects the same trust in return. He takes high-rank assignments to uncover threats rather than passively waiting for danger, while recognizing that Su Bai’s temporary weakness does not make him helpless 596 601.

Wu Heng also shows jealousy: he dislikes Li Feiwen lingering around Su Bai and objects when Su Xuan continues holding his younger brother. His secrecy is more consequential than simple reticence, however; he conceals his identities to evade surveillance and initially withholds information because he believes it will keep Su Bai safe 424 482 495 627.

Abilities & Skills

Puppetry and Alternate Bodies

Wu Heng is a legendary Puppeteer who operates through several Doll vessels and identities 495 586.

• Player infiltration: A Doll body allows him to acquire Player status and participate in Nightmare Games 429.
• Identity switching: He can leave an adult shell inert and accompany Su Bai as Yao inside the Vengeful Ghost Puzzle. Xiao Wu’s apparent “sleep” can result from Wu Heng acting elsewhere under another identity, rather than a lack of power 609.
• Combat Dolls: The Dolls kept on Fog Mountain are powerful killing weapons; Su Xuan describes them collectively as an army with terrifying destructive potential 625.
• Limited vessel power: His ordinary adult shell stores only a finite amount of Red Moon power. Its recorded 1,000 points measure that Doll, not the Ghost Shaman’s true strength 589 590 596.
• Damage and repair: A depleted shell can develop cracks. Wu Heng says it repairs itself when its power recovers; Su Bai restores one such crack by transferring power during a kiss 596 597.
• Structural weaknesses: The lighter shell has fragile joints and can lose its head. Even a kiss later loosens its neck connection 517 629.

Power-Flow and Contract Manipulation

Wu Heng understands how power circulates through bodies and how Contracts interfere with that flow 415.

• Temporary freezing: Freezes Liu Yongzhi’s Contract power without breaking the Contract. Its effects will resume when the ice melts 415.
• Contract removal guidance: Teaches Su Bai to locate the “knot” formed by a low-grade Contract, then untie, freeze, or blast it apart 415.
• Control assistance: Uses a White Rope as a bridge between Liang Yuyan and her Straw Man, allowing her to reach a degree of control her own ability would attain in the near future 408.
• Limit: The rope does not change the recipient’s underlying ability, and Wu Heng’s Contract-breaking method is difficult for ordinary humans 408 415.

Spatial Passages and the Mist Shop

Wu Heng creates passages between spaces, including the mirror route to Fog Mountain and the Mist Shop itself 637 645.

• Mist Shop access: Helps Su Bai open the shop’s gate even when no ordinary door or doorknob is available 582.
• Connected spaces: The shop can link different spaces within Wu Heng’s reach. Su Bai becomes the master of that passage 645.
• Return to reality: After the shop’s restrictions are lifted, its Rest Room can return other Players to the Real World 645.
• Transport limit: The passage cannot evacuate tens of thousands of people in a short time 645.
• Hidden base: Conceals Fog Mountain within the shop. Transforming the Mist Shop into a Puzzle Piece consequently requires transforming Fog Mountain as well 650.

Perception and Qi-Blood Research

Wu Heng can recognize supernatural structures and power conditions that human Players cannot readily perceive 424 578.

• Eerie detection: Senses the Eerie hidden inside the Inn and determines a route toward them through its labyrinth 424.
• Power analysis: Identifies that the Mother Tree of Life is spending most of its strength keeping its infants alive, explaining its unusually slow attacks 578.
• Creature identification: Recognizes the imprisoned beings in the Nightmare Spiral Building as Blood Clan remnants 613.
• Qi-blood knowledge: Detects the Route 666 Bus draining human qi-blood and warns that depleted passengers may become too weak to leave 518.
• Research: Studies qi-blood in the Mist Shop and teaches Su Bai about it 527.

Recovery Assistance

Through Xiao Wu’s specially structured shell, Wu Heng links Su Bai more closely to the Mist Shop during recovery 585 586.

• Holding the shell allows the shop to organize newly absorbed power inside Su Bai’s body 586.
• The connection lets Su Bai sleep through the worst adjustment period after absorbing the Mother Tree’s power 585 586.
• The method specifically requires the shop-linked shell; Wu Heng cannot substitute another body at that time 586.

Physical Strength and Mist Defense

Wu Heng’s vessels possess formidable strength, while his true body can exert battlefield-scale power 424 657.

• Wall-breaking: Kicks person-sized openings through the Inn’s walls and repeatedly breaches its labyrinth 424.
• True-body combat: In the previous timeline, kills his way through the Human-Faced Forest at extraordinary speed 640.
• Protective mist: Stops an erupting tide of flames with a wall of fog, buying Su Bai time to evacuate others through Puzzle Piece passages 657.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Black cloak — Conceals his Doll body and its imperfections, reducing the trouble of prolonged scrutiny by human Players 391 606.
• White Rope — Contains a substantial concentration of Red Moon power. Used to assist Liang Yuyan’s Straw Man control and later lent to Su Bai during the attack on the Mother Tree’s fruit 408 578.
• Thread-Wrapped Doll — The Mist Shop vessel associated with Xiao Wu; remains on the counter when inactive 175 495 500.
• Red Marriage Contract — Establishes his bond with Su Bai. Wu Heng invokes it during his argument with Su Xuan and produces it again while discussing their future 627 658.
• Crimson crystal — A fist-sized crystal extracted from the Route 666 Bus’s motionless “heart” while the passengers focus on escaping 522.

Relationships

• Su Bai — Lover and partner bound to him by a Marriage Contract. Wu Heng initially protects him on Su Xuan’s behalf, then recognizes him as the central attachment of his own life. Su Bai openly introduces him as his nonhuman lover before the war 627 640 648.
• Su Xuan — Old acquaintance and reluctantly acknowledged friend. Su Xuan repeatedly entrusts his family to Wu Heng, but reacts angrily to his relationship with Su Bai. They nevertheless cooperate on resistance preparations 625 627 637.
• Liang Yuyan — Fellow Player whom he helps control a second Straw Man with his White Rope 408.
• Li Feiwen — Fellow Player whose interest in Su Bai visibly displeases Wu Heng 424.
• Pei Zhan — Initially treats Wu Heng as a rival because of his higher starting points. Their conversations reveal Wu Heng’s emphasis on mutual trust and proactive preparation 592 601.
• The Director — Initially outside Wu Heng’s dealings; later named as a prospective helper in expanding Su Xuan’s city into a resistance base 585 625.
• The Administrator — A participant in the opposition’s “deception.” Wu Heng knows of his suffering under the Red Moon Society and his willingness to serve as a useful pawn against it 622 623.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Arc	Wu Heng’s role
Happy Hotel / Inn	Appears as a mysterious cloaked Player, draws Su Bai’s suspicion, assists with control and Contract problems, and leads a group through the walls toward the hidden Eerie. Afterward, he reveals his Doll face and confirms his Player status 373 393 408 415 424 429.
Blood Moon Lake Villa audition	Plays Lian Xiangyu’s father while remaining free of the script’s control. His deliberate indifference destabilizes Lian Xiangyu’s emotions, helping expose a way to resist the script. He agrees to answer Su Bai’s questions after returning to the shop 479 482 492 493 494.
Red Moon Society revelations	Explains that the Red Moon preserved a dying world rather than causing its civilizations’ collapse. Reveals the Society’s plan to create a permanent fixed point in time and merge it into the Red Moon, along with its surveillance of beings capable of temporal or interworld travel 496 497 498 499.
Route 666 Bus	Boards through a shortcut, identifies its consumption of human qi-blood, works with Su Bai on an escape, and retrieves a crimson crystal from its heart 517 518 522.
Mother Tree of Life	Explains the Tree’s expenditure of power on its infants, lends Su Bai his White Rope, helps open the Mist Shop gate, and arranges recovery after the Tree’s power is absorbed 578 582 585 586.
Nightmare Spiral Building	Enters with the recovering Su Bai, repeatedly takes S-Rank Jobs to investigate higher floors, and secretly accompanies him as Yao. Helps identify the Blood Clan remnants and brings Su Xuan into discussions of the experiment and opposition 590 601 609 613 622 623.
Resistance preparations	Proposes turning Su Xuan’s city into both a communications base and a fortress supported by Fog Mountain’s Dolls. Reveals his hidden mountain when Su Bai attempts to transform the Mist Shop 625 650.
War and aftermath	Accompanies Su Bai into the Human-Faced Forest in his true body, confronts the Red Moon Society, and shields the evacuation from destructive flames. Afterward, he tells Su Bai that he wants to remain at his side 654 656 657 658.

Notable Quotes

“The only reason I keep entering games is to invent a plausible identity that allows me to appear beside you.” 482

“He trusts me to finish my work, just as I trust him to finish his.” 601

“What I want is to stay by your side.” 658

Trivia

• Wu Heng describes his name as something chosen merely to make addressing him easier. He clarifies that 珩 has “king” on the left and “walk” on the right, rather than being the character meaning “horizontal” 373.
• Despite his mastery of lifelike Dolls, he initially finds it difficult to reproduce his own face 429.
• His refined Doll’s head can be reattached by aligning it with the neck socket, pressing it into place, and turning it until it clicks—even Su Bai can do this without puppetry training 517.