Tang Youxin

Biodata

Background / History

Tang Youxin comes from a poor family and has been classified as a financially disadvantaged student throughout high school. She commonly eats steamed buns for lunch, initially hiding over her desk while eating grayish-black buckwheat buns. Her family operates Fangyuan Pastries, and the buns she eats come from their own stock 3 23.

Her home is in an urban village near the school, in a neighborhood of old, low houses, makeshift sheds, and tangled streets. Although dilapidated, the area has an active community of neighbors and small businesses 22 23.

Before Xia Xu approaches her, she goes to and from school alone and has little interaction with classmates. Despite their having been classmates for three years, Xia Xu’s original body retains almost no impression of her. Her attribute panel records her strongest preoccupation as studying hard and earning money 2 3.

Appearance

Tang Youxin has a delicate, youthful, girl-next-door appearance rather than a glamorous or attention-demanding beauty. Xia Xu finds that even the features visible beneath her hair justify her five-star Peerless Beauty destiny 4.

• Hair: Long and black, with bangs and sidelocks concealing much of her face 3 4.
• Complexion: Fair, smooth skin with a healthy rosy glow; slightly baby-rounded cheeks 4 22.
• Posture: Usually keeps her head lowered and avoids meeting other people’s eyes 3.
• Clothing: Her bulky school uniform helps her go unnoticed. Outside school, she wears a simple, somewhat worn white dress without unnecessary embellishments 3 23.
• Makeup: Wears none when Xia Xu first closely observes her 4.

Personality

Tang Youxin is introverted, insecure, and easily embarrassed. She usually spends school breaks reading, solving problems, or resting at her desk rather than socializing. When Liu Xiulan sees her eating with Xia Xu, she panics at the possibility that their teacher will think they are dating 3 5 9.

Her timidity coexists with strong self-respect. She dislikes owing favors, attempts to repay Xia Xu for lunch, and repeatedly refuses his offers to sponsor her education. When offered paid work, she proposes a lower wage and even offers to help for free, provided it does not interfere with classes. She accepts the job only after Xia Xu emphasizes that he needs an employee rather than someone to receive charity 8 16 22.

She is more comfortable and expressive around people she trusts. As her friendship with Xia Xu develops, she begins teasing him quietly, recognizes his attempts to frighten her, and approaches him out of concern despite classmates watching. She considers many classmates childish and is drawn to Xia Xu’s unusually mature bearing 17 28 38 39.

Abilities & Skills

Programming Potential

Her attribute panel identifies five-star programming talent, but this is innate potential rather than demonstrated professional skill 2 6.

• Xia Xu points to her strong logical thinking and perfect mathematics scores as signs of her aptitude 21.
• She initially doubts that she has any programming talent, but eventually agrees to try learning 21 22.
• She declines Xia Xu’s proposed arrangement to fund her education in exchange for working for him after graduation 22.
• Her panel lists no corresponding programmer career potential. Xia Xu considers several explanations, including an early death, but none is confirmed 21.

Husband’s Blessing

Husband’s Blessing is a five-star destiny that improves the fortune of people close to her whom she loves. Its description gives her wedded husband a much greater enhancement, including a chance to trigger good fortune 2.

• Xia Xu hopes that becoming closer to her—and adding an employer–employee connection—will strengthen the benefit he receives 16.
• He suspects her blessing helped bring Yang Bowen, an exceptionally talented tracking candidate, directly to his storefront after unsuccessful recruitment searches 18 19.
• He also considers his discovery of The Dying Man storyline a possible result of her influence 6 16.
• These connections are Xia Xu’s interpretations. He concludes that luck does not grant every wish or remove the need to recognize and seize an opportunity 19.

Peerless Beauty

Her five-star Peerless Beauty destiny describes beauty capable of toppling a city or nation. Xia Xu initially doubts the rating because she is so inconspicuous at school, then accepts it after seeing her face closely 2 4.

• Her lowered head, concealing hair, loose uniform, and withdrawn behavior explain why classmates rarely notice her appearance 3 4.
• No active supernatural application of this destiny is demonstrated in the provided chapters 2 4.

Equipment / Items

• Worn black wallet — Its surface is peeling, but it holds several thousand yuan in newly received financial aid. Zhuo Ren steals it, and Xia Xu recovers it from beneath the books in his backpack 8 9 10.

Relationships

• Xia Xu — Classmate, employer, and developing romantic interest. He shares food with her, recovers her stolen wallet, encourages her programming studies, and escorts her home. Her displayed affinity/affection toward him rises from 10 to 60 after their first lunch; she later privately calls him handsome and wonders whether their amusement-park outing counts as a date 2 6 9 17 22 39.
• Liu Xiulan — English teacher and homeroom teacher. Tang Youxin fears her disapproval, while Liu Xiulan handles her financial aid and regards the college entrance examination as especially important to her future 4 5 8.
• Yang Bowen — Fellow employee whom she addresses as “Uncle Yang.” She welcomes him into the storefront before Xia Xu discovers his talents. He later leaves her and Xia Xu alone at the amusement park and offers to take her home with his family 18 21 39 40.
• Zhuo Ren — Classmate who steals her financial-aid money; Xia Xu identifies him and retrieves her wallet 9 10.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Friendship with Xia Xu

• Xia Xu discovers her three five-star potentials, then approaches her during lunch and finds her secretly eating buckwheat buns. He eats her remaining food and insists on treating her to noodles 2 3.
• Their encounter with Liu Xiulan leads to a misunderstanding about dating. Tang Youxin subsequently receives her financial aid and tries to leave ten yuan in Xia Xu’s desk to repay him; he refuses and asks to copy her homework and notes instead 4 5 8.
• After Xia Xu recovers her stolen wallet, she musters the courage to buy him malatang as thanks. He persuades her to share the food 9 10.

Part-Time Employment and Recruitment

• Tang Youxin accepts work at Xia Xu’s new storefront for 100 yuan per day, after suggesting fifty yuan, thirty yuan, or no payment 16.
• While cleaning the premises, she welcomes Yang Bowen and keeps him there long enough for Xia Xu to discover his tracking, reconnaissance, and intelligence-gathering potential 17 18.
• Xia Xu credits her with the recruitment and offers a wage plus bonus totaling 600 yuan. After her objections, she accepts 300 yuan, while he retains another 300 as her meal allowance 22.
• She arrives before opening time the following morning and brings Xia Xu buns, continuing to bring him breakfast afterward 23 26.

Celebratory Dinner and Amusement Park

• Following Xia Xu’s first million-yuan business success, she joins him and Yang Bowen’s family for dinner and hears Yang Bowen’s account of the deal 38.
• At Star City Amusement Park, Yang Bowen takes his family to the carousel, leaving her alone with Xia Xu. She becomes embarrassed about the date-like situation but gradually relaxes and enjoys the attractions 39.
• Xia Xu ends the outing at seven because of the danger associated with Hunter. When he pursues Luo Hongyun as a possible bodyguard, Yang Bowen offers to drop Tang Youxin at her doorstep 39 40.