Xie Mi

Biodata

Background / History

The Original Xie Mi

The original Xie Mi lost her mother young and grew up with her father, stepmother Li Meiyan, and younger stepbrother Xie Lian. The novel initially describes her father as uncaring and her stepfamily as abusive. After returning to the household, the transmigrated Xie Mi concludes that her father actually loves his daughter but expresses it poorly, while Li Meiyan deliberately undermined their relationship 33 34.

In high school, Xiao Jingxi let the original Xie Mi have the cafeteria’s last serving of sweet-and-sour ribs. She interpreted this small kindness as salvation from her unhappy home. After pursuing him for five years, she became his girlfriend; their relationship lasted two years but remained secret. She also entered the entertainment industry against her family’s wishes to follow him, severing ties with the household 1 33 34.

When paparazzi captured her phone wallpaper—a photograph with Xiao Jingxi—he publicly declared that they were “not close.” His shippers branded her a delusional fan, subjected her to a month of online abuse, and one extremist stabbed her. In the novel’s original plot, she would later be dumped and stabbed to death on the day Xiao Jingxi and Xu Shuangrong announced their relationship 1.

The estrangement from Xie Zhengde developed through repeated misunderstandings: his daughter believed that he did not understand her, while he regarded her behavior as an immature rebellious phase. Li Meiyan’s interference helped deepen that divide 490.

The original owner’s later whereabouts remain unknown to the transmigrated Xie Mi. On December 5, she privately wishes the original Xie Mi a happy birthday and hopes that she might be living a happier story elsewhere, without claiming to know whether she has also transmigrated 640.

Transmigration

Before entering the novel, the current Xie Mi was an outspoken critic of Xiao Jingxi and had written a hundred-entry thread attacking him. She transmigrates at the time of the stabbing and awakens in hospital to find him blaming her rather than expressing concern 1.

She immediately rejects the original character’s submissive behavior: she beats Xiao Jingxi, throws him out of the hospital room, and reports his shouting to security. After publicly confronting his shippers, she breaks up with him by text and blocks his number 1.

Her initial understanding of herself as an ordinary reader entering fiction later proves incomplete. Xu Shuangrong finds a different novel containing a painting student named Xie Mi, whose butterfly painting matches one Xie Mi gave Shen Yeqing. Hearing the book’s contents restores Xie Mi’s memories of her own world and its imposed storyline 595 596.

Previous World and Recovered Identity

Xie Mi originally comes from an ordinary family with loving parents. Although her appearance encouraged them to cultivate her artistic talents, she was naturally restless and preferred climbing trees and catching fish to painting lessons. Her parents eventually allowed her to follow her own inclinations 596.

Her previous world was also governed by a novel’s plot. In that story, she was a college student majoring in painting and the designated “main wife” of Mu Yihe, a male lead who maintained relationships with numerous women. The author explicitly designed her emotional stability to make her tolerate his behavior. The gentle, selfless woman described in that book sharply contrasts with her freely expressed personality after transmigration 595 596.

Recovering her memories explains several inconsistencies she had previously noticed, including her reluctance to return to an apparently happy home and her unusually steady heart rate. Her memories of her family were real, but so was her experience of being constrained by the story’s characterization 596.

When she is later back in Mu Yihe’s world, she retains control of her own body and consciousness rather than returning to her former plot-controlled existence. She treats this freedom as grounds for hope and deliberately works to create further deviations from the prescribed story 619 621.

Appearance

• Natural appearance: Described as pretty, with expressive eyes that curve into crescents when she smiles 31 36.
• Usually bare-faced early in filming: She normally skips makeup on the show to gain an extra half hour of sleep. Her agency initially cannot afford a makeup artist, and viewers find little difference between her usual appearance and comparison screenshots. Her assistant Diao Mao later reveals that he studied fashion styling and takes responsibility for her hair, makeup, and outfits 46 135.
• Three-pronged hairstyle: In South Sea City, she wears three upright spikes hardened with three bottles of hair gel. She later uses them during a charging attack against the production team 39 40.
• “Tan bombshell” styling: Wears a ponytail, straw hat, green eyeshadow, wavy eyeliner, red M-shaped lips, and foundation several shades darker than her skin. Multiple people mistake her for locally hired staff 46 47 48.
• Garden-fair makeover: Diao Mao styles her in a pale jade-green halter dress with ink-like accents, long loose waves, and light makeup. The resulting appearance astonishes the other guests and draws an explicit compliment from Shen Yeqing 136.
• Athletic styling: Wears a white-and-pink tracksuit, a fluffy side ponytail, and a pink cherry-blossom hair clip during a later show segment 255.
• Masquerade styling: Diao Mao prepares a dark, gothic look that he believes will make her difficult for the other guests to recognize 293.
• Crime-boss disguise: Uses a bald cap, sunglasses, a facial scar, special-effects makeup, and a chunky gold chain. Shen Yeqing still recognizes her distinctive manner despite the disguise 308.
• Black-suit styling: Appears at an obstacle challenge in a casually styled black suit, sneakers, sunglasses, and loose waves, prompting viewers to praise her cool appearance 520.
• Cold sensitivity: Inherits the original owner’s chronic cold-sensitive legs and wears thermal leggings beneath a dress rather than prioritizing an uninterrupted glamorous image 365.

Personality

Xie Mi is confrontational, irreverent, and largely indifferent to the polished image expected of a celebrity. She answers harassment with insults, absurd jokes, and sometimes physical retaliation. Rather than endure humiliation, she makes the situation uncomfortable for everyone else—for example, singing loudly when the other guests stare at her 1 24 26.

Her chaotic behavior coexists with sharp observation. She notices inconsistencies in Shen Yeqing’s interest, studies servants’ reactions and household clues, and distinguishes her own preferences from those of the body’s original owner. Although attracted to Shen Yeqing, she does not accept his explanations uncritically 13 21 34 43.

She openly enjoys handsome men, food, money, and getting something for nothing. Her initial goal is to meet an athletic man with eight-pack abs; later, she enthusiastically accepts payment for helping Lai Bingxuan walk and celebrates receiving five million yuan from her father. Wealth does not make her less frugal: she offers Shen Yeqing a thank-you meal at Shaxian Delicacies 2 36 44 47.

She also recognizes the original Xie Mi’s vulnerability beneath her obsessive romance. Learning more about the household makes her reconsider how a neglected girl could mistake Xiao Jingxi’s small kindness for life-changing affection 34.

Her apparent fearlessness predates her arrival in the dating-show world. She recalls examining a horror-film ghost out of curiosity, chasing a flying cockroach with a slipper, and becoming sleepy while waiting to bungee jump. Her stated approach to danger combines irreverence toward death with an unusually resilient outlook 221.

Despite her self-interested humor, she repeatedly stands beside friends who are being manipulated or isolated. She publicly challenges the injustice done to Lai Bingxuan, interrupts Xu Shuangrong’s attempts to use Liu Woxing, and later joins Lai in responding when Liu needs help 120 131 140 511.

Freedom and self-determination become increasingly central to her actions after she recovers her past. Even when trapped in a rule-bound world and subjected to electric-shock punishment, she refuses to surrender control of her choices 596 619 623 624 625.

Her affection is often expressed through small preferences rather than conventional declarations: she seeks Shen Yeqing as a game partner, shares food with him first, and looks toward him when laughing. Later fan compilations identify these repeated choices as signs that her feelings have developed alongside his pursuit 610.

Abilities & Skills

Knowledge of the Novel

Xie Mi remembers characters, planned dates, production segments, and the original story’s outcomes 1 2 27 47.

• Uses this knowledge to join the dating show in pursuit of You Hongxuan 2.
• Recognizes Xu Shuangrong’s intended campaign against Lai Bingxuan 47.
• Knows obscure gossip about the show’s crew and threatens to expose an embarrassing secret about Qiu Chengye 7.
• Identifies a connection between scenes resembling the original plot and Xu Shuangrong’s awakening progress after hearing a notification in the fields 91.
• After recovering her own history, reconstructs Mu Yihe’s upcoming plot points on a whiteboard, recording their times, locations, participants, and events to plan interventions 621.
• Limits: The novel barely covered her family, Shen Yeqing did not appear in it, and her arrival changes events she expected to unfold 6 9 33 34.

Physical Combat and Agility

She repeatedly demonstrates forceful hand-to-hand fighting and unusually nimble movement 1 5 43.

• Evades Xiao Jingxi’s attempts to grab her and escapes using a sliding tackle 2.
• Knocks four guests over with a sliding entrance and reaches the villa roof unnoticed 5 9.
• Wins a three-legged race by running on all fours while dragging Xiao Jingxi behind her 14.
• Uses leg sweeps, a scissor hold, and punches during a fight between shop mascots 43.
• Spots and avoids Yu Jinche’s campsite traps, then attacks opponents with a paintball gun in each hand. Her indiscriminate shooting also hits Xiao Jingxi, who is on her team 152.
• Reuses her Charging Bull attack against Xiao Jingxi while wearing an iron protective helmet beneath a film wig 179.
• Carries the considerably taller Shen Yeqing in her arms while running to complete a fifty-meter task 249.
• Sees through a staged rescue encounter, punches Xiao Jingxi unconscious, and catches and whips him and Yu Jinche after discovering their photographic setup 283.
• Fights off thugs with two baguettes while calling out an extravagant assortment of attack names 383.
• Climbs a wall corner by bracing all four limbs against it and repeatedly evades several pursuers before voluntarily allowing Qiu Chengye to count her as captured 482.
• Clears a wet rotating balance beam by clinging to it, then advances between giant pendulums by hugging and swinging from them 520.
• Gnaws through restraints to escape a hospital in her previous world 620.
• Limits: Fighting reopens her stab wound, and her head-first “Charging Bull” attack leaves her concussed and unconscious. She also loses control when demonstrating a treadmill at its highest setting and abandons a planned throw against Xiao Jingxi when she fears nearby bodyguards will intervene 1 40 381 561.

Volleyball

Xie Mi displays superb volleyball skills after challenging Xiao Jingxi and Qiu Chengye’s dismissal of the women’s athletic ability 41.

• Switches positions with Shen Yeqing and takes a more active role in the match.
• Deliberately targets the assistant director with her shots.
• Encourages Liu Woxing’s spontaneous celebration rather than her usual restrained composure 41.

Verbal Sparring and Improvisation

Her rapid replies turn accusations, sexual insults, and awkward social situations into comic confrontations 12 24 26.

• Counters a hater’s sexual proposition by pretending to sell funeral services 24.
• Publicly challenges Ruan Feng’s seniority-based intimidation and recounts his misconduct 12.
• Exploits imprecise game rules, noting that owning fifty buildings can include virtual property 7.
• Dismantles Xu Shuangrong’s evasive apology by distinguishing her responsibility for Lai Bingxuan’s public vilification from the conduct of the people who later attacked Lai 131.
• Uses exaggerated gestures and mime to obtain directions during an overseas shopping task, despite knowing only a few words of the local language 356.
• Turns a proposed men’s-health referral into additional leverage over Qiu Chengye by saving a screenshot of his agreement 414.
• As an undercover player in a food-stealing game, eats not only her assigned target’s fries but every dish on the table before openly revealing her role 606.

Acting and Tactical Deception

She uses performance to distract others, manipulate show tasks, and investigate suspicious behavior 10 21.

• Pretends not to notice Xiao Jingxi before unexpectedly feeding him a cookie for a hidden mission 10.
• Performs fear in an extreme-horror escape room, then takes a ghost actor’s costume, frightens other performers, and finds secret passages 20 21.
• Pretends to accept Shen Yeqing’s romantic explanation while planning to investigate him 21.
• Exaggerates Xu Shuangrong’s shove into a ten-meter flight, multiple rolls, and an apparent loss of consciousness 70.
• Conceals her ability to hear Xu Shuangrong’s private exchanges through repeated tests until Xu correctly deduces the truth 293 304 324 341.
• Frightens trapped guests by pretending to be possessed in a cavern 324.
• Performs sword swallowing, fire breathing, and flaming-spear tricks during a street act. For the apparent chest-boulder-breaking stunt, she and Shen Yeqing use realistic foam props rather than a genuine stone slab and iron hammer 543.
• Claims to identify particular people from their footsteps during a maze challenge, then admits that she invented those identifications 573.

Hearing Systems and Private Thoughts

Xie Mi can hear Xu Shuangrong’s system conversations and private thoughts, as well as awakening notifications associated with the novel’s leads. This is distinct from possessing a personal system 90 91 120 304 341 378.

• Hears the system describe her as the world’s true Female Lead and claim that an outsider disrupted her intended romance with Xiao Jingxi 108.
• Learns that Xu Shuangrong’s system cannot identify Shen Yeqing in the original plot or detect him as an outsider 109.
• Overhears plans to turn Liu Woxing into a pawn and to engineer a crisis that will make Liu grateful to Xu Shuangrong 120 140.
• Hears Xiao Jingxi’s awakening notifications, including a rise to eighty percent while he watches her interaction with Shen Yeqing 304 341.
• Limits: She initially conceals the ability, but Xu Shuangrong eventually exposes it by comparing their reactions to the same awakening notification. System L explicitly states that Xie Mi does not have a system of her own 341 378.

Time-Travel Anomaly

Xie Mi is drawn into past timelines when Xu Shuangrong uses system-assisted time travel. She encounters younger versions of Shen Yeqing during multiple visits 143 285 373 374.

• Appears in a ventilation duct at an abandoned factory during the first documented displacement 143.
• Recognizes young Shen Yeqing again during a later visit, when he addresses her as “Sister Liu” despite her covered face 285.
• Guards the adolescent Shen Yeqing against Xiao Jingxi’s plan to kill him in the past and thereby erase his future existence 374 378.
• System L attributes her ability to follow others through time to her anomalous nature as a transmigrator—a “bug” in the novel’s world—rather than to a system she controls 378.
• Limits: She does not control the return mechanism herself. To end one prolonged visit, she threatens Xu Shuangrong directly, forcing the person with access to that mechanism to respond 387 388.

Lockpicking and Escape

Xie Mi can improvise lockpicks and bypass intended escape procedures 573 624.

• Opens a show cage with a hair tie and bobby pin after eating the fruit intended to serve as a clue 573.
• Her parents recall that she has been picking locks since childhood, including car locks, establishing that the skill predates her transmigration 624.

Painting

Xie Mi possesses genuine painting ability. A butterfly painting she gives Shen Yeqing becomes evidence linking her to the painting student described in the novel from her previous world 595.

• The book describes her examination work as lifelike butterflies with vivid colors and fluidly rendered wings 595.
• Her artistic background coexists with a childhood preference for physical play over formal painting lessons 596.

Cooking

Her culinary ability develops unevenly, and an impressive performance in the kitchen does not always establish the quality of the result 516 538.

• Passes the first dish of a cooking test with smashed cucumber after six of ten staff members judge it acceptable; the required standard is ordinary edibility rather than excellence 516.
• Later operates three pots simultaneously, displaying greater kitchen confidence and coordination 538.
• Previously participates with Shen Yeqing in a baking attempt that blows up the baking room 270.

Resistance to Plot Enforcement

After returning to her previous world, Xie Mi retains independent control despite the surrounding plot’s restrictions. Attacking Mu Yihe triggers electric-shock punishment, but she discovers that the shocks cause pain without otherwise damaging her body 619 623.

• Endures repeated shocks while continuing to strike Mu Yihe 623.
• Deliberately escalates her defiance to force the world’s system to reveal itself 624.
• Becomes functionally unmanageable through that system’s electric punishment; its description of her as immune reflects the failure of the shocks to control her, not an established immunity to all electricity 623 625.
• Holds Mu Yihe’s survival hostage to obtain permission to leave for Shen Yeqing’s world 625.

Electronic Wristband

An electronic wristband engraved with 666 becomes a potential connection to Shen Yeqing while Xie Mi is separated from him in her previous world 621 622 623.

• Shen Yeqing has taught her how to uncover its concealed power button 622.
• Normal activation attempts fail to launch the connection 622.
• She discovers that the electric punishment triggered by attacking Mu Yihe can activate the game through which she sees Shen Yeqing 623.

Power Progression

Xie Mi has no stated cultivation ranks. Her progression concerns anomalous access to systems and timelines, recovery of her identity, and resistance to narrative control 91 143 378 596 619.

Relationships

• Xiao Jingxi — The original Xie Mi’s secret boyfriend and the current Xie Mi’s ex. She rejects him decisively, but he repeatedly interprets her hostility as an attempt to regain his attention and later tries to win her back. Their former relationship eventually becomes public, and he confirms it on Weibo; she regards it as an embarrassing chapter rather than a romance to revive. His later attempts include a staged photographic ambush and a compulsory strawberry-farm date enforced by production security. She also opposes his attempt to kill the younger Shen Yeqing in the past 1 2 24 31 43 239 240 241 283 378 560 561.
• Shen Yeqing — Fellow contestant, neighboring room occupant, and eventual reciprocated romantic interest. He defends her against Xiao Jingxi and explicitly says he joined the show to fall in love with her. She is initially attracted to him but suspicious of his unexplained familiarity. Her encounters with his younger self establish that their history extends into the past. Their hot-pot date includes mutual admissions of fluttering hearts, and she later publicly takes his hand in a context signifying “together forever.” During her separation in her previous world, reaching him becomes her explicit condition for departure 10 11 20 21 183 285 374 495 610 623 625.
• You Hongxuan — Her favorite character in the original novel and initial romantic target. His absence from the show disrupts her plan; Shen Yeqing occupies the sixth guest position instead. Later, he is part of her close circle in the Apricot Blossom Street Quintet and helps celebrate her birthday 2 6 8 640 642.
• Xu Shuangrong — The novel’s original female lead. Xie Mi recognizes her manipulative strategies and warns her against using her as a shield in the conflict with Lai Bingxuan. Their antagonism expands into system awareness and time travel: Xu attempts to make Xie Mi a pawn, eventually discovers her ability to hear private exchanges, and later confronts her with the novel describing her previous life. Xie Mi rejects Xu’s justification for exploiting people who never wronged her 47 49 242 341 345 346 595 596.
• Xie Zhengde — Father of the original Xie Mi. Their renewed contact confirms affection beneath his stern manner; he helps her up from the floor and later transfers her five million yuan. Xie Mi subsequently sends him evidence of Li Meiyan and Xie Lian’s involvement in a photo-leak scheme against her 34 35 36 510.
• Li Meiyan — Stepmother who tries to frighten her away from the family home. Xie Mi reverses their power dynamic by threatening to expose her actions to Xie Zhengde. When Li and Xie Lian later attempt to damage her reputation through leaked photographs, Xie Mi exposes their involvement rather than accepting their friendly facade 33 34 36 490 510.
• Xie Lian — Younger stepbrother with no blood relation to her. He attempts to intimidate her with a hidden room containing torture devices and preserved organs, then joins his mother’s nighttime scare attempt. Their interactions are not uniformly hostile—he later locks Yu Jinche out at her request—but she ultimately uncovers his role in the leaked photographs and sends his recovered deleted chat logs to Xie Zhengde 34 35 36 183 510.
• Qiu Chengye — Fellow contestant whom she beats and pressures into calling her “Dad.” Their comic “father–son” dynamic becomes a recurring public joke, though he resents the humiliation. They later appear on Friends’ Gathering as purported longtime friends, and she continues to gain leverage over him, including a screenshot of his request for a men’s-health specialist referral 5 8 9 45 180 414.
• Liu Woxing — Fellow contestant whose restrictive upbringing Xie Mi knows from the novel. Xie Mi encourages her unguarded smile during volleyball and later supports her against humiliation and manipulation. Liu repeatedly defends her with the assertion that “Teacher Xie must have her reasons,” inspiring popular fan edits and a ship between the two women. She becomes part of Xie Mi’s close circle and birthday celebrations 27 41 70 71 140 511 640 641.
• Lai Bingxuan — Wealthy guest who pays her ten thousand yuan for help walking. Xie Mi calls her a “god of wealth” and becomes unwilling to let Xu Shuangrong turn her into everyone’s target. Their alliance develops into genuine friendship: Xie Mi believes her, publicly exposes the injustice of her school-era vilification, and receives enthusiastic support from her in return. Lai later arranges a birthday outing themed around good luck 47 69 70 131 241 640.
• Ruan Feng — Actor and former collaborator whom she publicly accuses of sexual misconduct and retaliatory smear campaigns. His reputation collapses after their confrontation 12 13.
• Jiang Huaiting — The original Xie Mi’s professional rival, who repeatedly used her as a foil and competed for her roles. Their shopping encounter ends with Jiang Huaiting confronting Xie Mi’s newly revealed family wealth 37 38.
• Yu Jinche — Xie Lian’s classmate, whom she recognizes as the original novel’s villain. He later sets traps for her, pursues her attention, and helps Xiao Jingxi stage an ambush meant to produce compromising photographs. She repeatedly evades or retaliates against him and tells Xie Lian to keep him out of the house 38 152 183 283.
• Diao Mao — Her assistant and later hair, makeup, and wardrobe stylist. His professional makeovers reveal a side of her appearance that her usual self-styling obscures, while she restrains her own more eccentric suggestions to avoid undermining his confidence 135 136 293.
• Old Bai — The Xie family’s butler, who accompanies her shopping, announces the family’s ownership of the mall, and later produces the camera memory card used to expose Xie Lian’s photo leak 35 37 510.
• Mu Yihe — Male lead of her previous world, whose prescribed relationship with her required her to tolerate his numerous other partners. After regaining autonomy, she refuses that role, repeatedly attacks him despite electric punishment, and uses the threat to his life to force the system to negotiate 596 619 620 623 624 625.
• Parents in her previous world — Loving parents whose memories and existence remain real despite their world’s fictional nature. They remember her authentic mischievous childhood, including her lockpicking, even while urging her to return home during her later rebellion 596 624.
• An Jin — A person in her previous world whose changing behavior gives Xie Mi evidence that the prescribed story can develop a second variable beyond herself 620 621 622.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Dating-Show Disruption

• Joins Human Love Observation Room despite not participating in the original plot, entering under a salted-fish mask 2.
• Converts hostility toward her into viral spectacle through her entrance, gossip disclosures, and “Dad” dynamic with Qiu Chengye 5 7 8 9.
• Her exposure of Ruan Feng earns her greater recognition. Her violent three-legged-race victory then prompts viewers to reexamine unsupported claims that she is pursuing Xiao Jingxi or interfering with his promoted pairing 13 14.
• A growing fanbase calls itself the Xie Bros. She later places first in a supertopic interaction activity after personally answering fans and humiliating a hater 15 24.
• Continues disrupting planned tasks at the Temple of Severed Love, including completing work that effectively satisfies the tests intended for all four groups 71 73.
• During a later food-stealing game, openly turns her undercover assignment into an opportunity to eat the entire table’s food 606.

Shen Yeqing’s Unexplained Interest

• Investigates his repeated attempts to approach her after their escape-room date, pointing out that they supposedly do not know each other 20 21.
• Learns that his business dealings with Xie Zhengde—and his account of her difficult circumstances—helped bring about her return home 36.
• Later questions whether he really called her “Liuliu” while she was drinking. She regards the possibility that someone inside the novel knows her real life as deeply suspicious 47.
• Directly asks whether they have met before. His evasiveness continues, but while drunk he says she has not changed and embraces her beneath the stars 90.
• Hears Xu Shuangrong’s system admit that he does not belong to the original plot and cannot be identified as an outsider 109.
• Suspects that she is the particular person from his past whom he is describing and questions him openly, without obtaining a direct denial 137.
• Encounters younger versions of him during time travel, including one who recognizes her as “Sister Liu” 285.
• In a later conversation, learns that his jealousy over her interaction with You Hongxuan dates back eight years 495.

Return to the Xie Household

• Discovers the family’s wealth while personally struggling to pay even a small overdue food installment 33.
• Rejects Li Meiyan’s intimidation, returns to the estate, and uses household clues to reassess the original character’s relationship with her father 33 34.
• Receives five million yuan from Xie Zhengde and pays off her debts. When Li Meiyan and Xie Lian climb toward her window disguised as ghosts, she blinds them with a powerful flashlight, causing Li Meiyan to fall 36.
• Outsmarts Jiang Huaiting’s attempt to humiliate her during a shopping trip; Old Bai’s announcement that the Xie family owns the mall overturns Jiang’s assumptions about her finances 37.
• Later confronts Li Meiyan and Xie Lian over photographs leaked to damage her reputation. With Old Bai’s assistance, she obtains the camera memory card, recovers Xie Lian’s deleted chat logs, and forwards the evidence and full account to Xie Zhengde 490 510.

South Sea City and the Aquarium

• Returns to filming with an agency-hired assistant and increasingly extravagant styling. Her hardened hairstyle becomes an improvised weapon during a team contest 38 39 40.
• Avoids becoming trapped in Xiao Jingxi and Shen Yeqing’s competition over her, choosing barbecue over their romantic overtures 43 44 45.
• Is shoved into the aquarium pool while Xu Shuangrong immediately blames Lai Bingxuan. A beluga turns the incident into a chaotic performance, derailing the intended confrontation 49.
• Afterwards, she directly warns Xu Shuangrong not to use her again and threatens to take a side if provoked 49.

Friendship and Opposition to Xu Shuangrong

• Explicitly believes Lai Bingxuan when Lai expects everyone to side against her, then joins forces with her rather than allowing Xu Shuangrong to isolate her 69 70.
• Liu Woxing’s repeated defense of Xie Mi sparks fan compilations, revealing how often Liu has watched her with concern and admiration 70 71.
• Uses overheard system conversations to recognize attempts to turn Liu Woxing into a useful pawn 120 140.
• Publicly confronts Xu Shuangrong over her failure to correct the false belief that Lai Bingxuan bullied her in school, exposing the gap between an apparently apologetic performance and meaningful accountability 131.
• After Xiao Jingxi’s reputation suffers, Xu Shuangrong approaches Xie Mi as a potential replacement pawn. Xie Mi hears the calculation behind her outwardly sincere approach 241 242.
• Xu Shuangrong eventually confirms that Xie Mi can hear private thoughts and system notifications. Xie Mi stops pretending otherwise and openly defends her closeness with Shen Yeqing 341.
• Challenges Xu’s claim that her ambition justifies exploiting others, emphasizing that Liu Woxing, Lai Bingxuan, and the original Xie Mi never deserved the outcomes she inflicted on them 345 346.

Entertainment Career Expansion

• Chooses to play a maid rather than accept an unwanted attempt to secure the more prominent Female Hero role for her 99.
• Selects the Six Spirits At A Loss medicated-oil advertising offer and turns its mosquito-themed commercial into a viral spectacle 178.
• Films a psychiatric-patient cameo in a suspense movie, using the opportunity to subject Xiao Jingxi to an exceptionally physical improvised performance 178 179 180.
• Behind-the-scenes footage of the cameo trends, expands the range of scripts offered to her, and reinforces her reputation for bizarre but memorable entertainment 180.
• Appears on Friends’ Gathering, where Qiu Chengye is introduced as her friend 180.

Xiao Jingxi’s Exposure and Continued Pursuit

• Xu Shuangrong publicly questions whether Xiao Jingxi was single while promoting their pairing, drawing attention to his hidden relationship with Xie Mi. Xie Mi does not defend him and jokes about having been blind in that relationship 239.
• Public sympathy embarrasses her because it also exposes the original owner’s former lovesick behavior 240.
• Xiao Jingxi confirms their relationship in a lengthy Weibo statement, while Lai Bingxuan openly criticizes his belated claims of love 241.
• Sees through a later attempt by Xiao Jingxi and Yu Jinche to stage an intimate-looking encounter for photographs and retaliates against both men 283.
• Is later compelled by show rules and security to attend Xiao Jingxi’s strawberry-farm date. She rejects his nostalgic overtures and repeatedly evades his attempts to grab her 560 561.

Time Travel and Protecting Young Shen Yeqing

• Is unexpectedly pulled into the past after overhearing Xu Shuangrong’s system disclose its time-travel ability 143.
• During another visit, rescues a boy from would-be robbers and recognizes him as young Shen Yeqing 285.
• In a later school-era timeline, notices that Shen Yeqing’s sociable appearance masks emotional detachment. After an injured student is initially mistaken for him, she stays close to Shen and praises him for admitting that he thinks he is sick 373 374.
• Her presence obstructs Xiao Jingxi’s plan to murder Shen Yeqing in that timeline and erase his future self 378.
• Threatens the time-traveling Xiao Jingxi rather than pursuing his absent younger counterpart, and later teaches the boys basic fighting and escape techniques 379 381.
• Fights attackers with baguettes, then moves to end the prolonged time-travel episode by threatening Xu Shuangrong, who controls the means of return 383 387 388.

Reciprocating Shen Yeqing’s Feelings

• Goes on a hot-pot date with Shen Yeqing and admits that his behavior makes her heart flutter; he confesses a similar reaction 183.
• Repeatedly chooses him as a partner in tasks and joins him in playful performances, including their foam-prop street act 249 543 610.
• Breaks out of her own cage during a maze challenge and seeks him out for a rescue task whose reward is a twenty-four-hour pairing 573.
• Deliberately takes his hand after confirming a local legend’s association with staying together forever. The action is widely understood as a public, indirect confession 610.
• Fan edits then emphasize that her affection has long appeared in her choices to share food, laughter, games, and absurd behavior specifically with him 610.

Recovering Her Past and Pursuing Freedom

• Xu Shuangrong confronts her with a novel describing a different Xie Mi, using the matching butterfly painting as the link between its character and the woman before her 595.
• The account of the character’s imposed emotional stability restores Xie Mi’s memories of Mu Yihe’s world and her former lack of autonomy 596.
• Back in that world, she remains free of its direct bodily control, refuses Mu Yihe’s expected romance, and begins deliberately interfering with his story 619 620 621.
• An Jin’s deviation from the expected course gives her hope that other characters can also become variables 621.
• Discovers that the electric punishment for attacking Mu Yihe can activate her electronic game connection to Shen Yeqing 622 623.
• Continues defying the plot despite repeated shocks, deliberately forcing the world’s system to reveal itself 623 624.
• Threatens Mu Yihe to compel the system to permit her departure. She accepts the warning that her existence in that world will gradually be erased and that return will become impossible, but insists on going to the world where Shen Yeqing lives 625.

Holiday and Birthday Extras

• Celebrates New Year in a boldly patterned floral padded jacket matching Shen Yeqing’s, continuing their familiar combination of food, teasing, and exaggerated antics with friends 636.
• Receives a living room full of gifts and widespread birthday wishes on December 5, the original owner’s birthday. She celebrates publicly while privately wishing the original Xie Mi well 640.
• Joins Lai Bingxuan, Liu Woxing, You Hongxuan, and Shen Yeqing for a birthday outing planned in four turns by the Apricot Blossom Street Quintet 640.
• Lai’s portion centers on luck: staged surprises include a net lottery profit of one hundred thousand yuan, free desserts, amusement-park benefits, merchandise, and signed movie photographs 640.
• Liu Woxing leads a food-focused portion of the celebration, while the group jokingly discourages Shen Yeqing from learning to reproduce a dish for Xie Mi 641.
• After the gymnasium portion, Shen Yeqing announces his own theme. The other three arrange to leave the pair alone together 642.

Notable Quotes

“Let's break up. Your fans say you'd never give me a second glance.” 1

“With no man in my heart, my sword strikes like a god!” 14

“Take another look. Who's being forced here?” 49

“You know how unhinged I can be~” 49

“I believe you.” 69

“Has it occurred to you that it's only helping if I want the role? If I don't, you're just making trouble.” 99

“Yes, we're bonding. Got a problem with that?” 341

“When you meet someone shameless, be even more shameless than they are!!!” 379

“Shock me! Go on, keep shocking me!” 623

“I accept, but on one condition. I have to return to the world Shen Yeqing is in.” 625