Zhao Xiaowen

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Before the Abyss

Zhao Xiaowen shared an apartment with Lin Hao and a young couple. She occasionally teased Lin Hao, but they were only passing acquaintances. Years of disciplined exercise helped her build a fitness livestreaming career with more than 100,000 followers. She had shifted her attention toward streaming after experiencing harassment at the gym 4.

Although a wealthy top donor repeatedly hinted at keeping her as a mistress, she rejected the prospect. Her upbringing made her uncomfortable with that arrangement, and she preferred the comfortable, independent life she already had 4.

Survival in the Apartment Building

After the building fell into the Abyss, Zhao Xiaowen barricaded herself in her bedroom with a cabinet and bed. She had stored water and fitness foods, but feared the mad roommates outside. When Lin Hao knocked, she initially suspected that he had also gone insane. She opened the room only after he began chopping through the door and then learned that he had killed the couple 3 4.

She offered him her attribute-bearing yoga outfit, then proposed a partnership based on her training, nursing, massage, and archery skills. Her additional gift of a dumbbell substantially strengthened his equipment setup. Lin Hao agreed to let her stay with him and promised to help her survive as long as she did not betray him 4 5.

While Lin Hao cleared nearby rooms, she watched the apartment and stood ready to let him back inside during an emergency. She later helped clean him up, relieved his muscle soreness, and supplied ibuprofen for Zhou Feng’s feverish son. The medicine exchange secured a cleaner base in Room 2318 6 11 12.

She became Lin Hao’s fitness coach and relayed university-town radio reports about Lizardmen, Great Qi, and possible hidden dangers. Over their first month in the Abyss, their practical partnership developed into a romantic and sexual relationship 16 19 20.

Training in Great Qi

Zhao Xiaowen traveled through the Teleportation Point with Lin Hao, Nie Yi, and Yi Feng. She wore an ancient-style dress and later dirtied her face to attract less attention. At Westwater Village, her offer to pay persuaded an initially unresponsive farmer to answer their questions. The group then headed to Dam Market and enrolled at the Wu Family Martial Arts School for protection and self-defense training 21 23 24 26.

At the school, she studied under Wu Xin and incorporated traditional treatment methods into her rehabilitation knowledge. After Luo Jing’s hostile spar with Lin Hao, she publicly suggested that the newcomers were being targeted for ulterior motives. Her remarks helped turn the apprentices’ suspicions toward the Luo brothers 27 32 34.

By the County Examination departure, she met the ability requirements for a Martial Student. She wanted to accompany Lin Hao, but he considered her too weak for the journey and asked her to remain behind, train, and continue using the supplied medicine 45.

Appearance

Zhao Xiaowen is tall, with delicate features, fair skin with a healthy rosy complexion, and a curvaceous figure developed through years of exercise. She stands about half a head shorter than Lin Hao 4 5.

• Usual clothing: Yoga outfits and tracksuits during the group’s early survival period 3 5 19.
• Glasses: Occasionally wears rimless glasses while reading 6 11.
• Great Qi clothing: Initially wears a blue ancient-style dress; later wears a white training outfit matching Wu Xin’s style 21 32.
• Training marks: Develops small calluses on her hands despite using a protective thumb ring for archery 43.

Personality

Zhao Xiaowen is cautious without being unwilling to act. Although terrified of the dangers outside, she volunteers to watch for ambushes and help Lin Hao fight if necessary. She repeatedly emphasizes safety and prevents him from overtraining 6 19.

She is pragmatic about her vulnerability and makes a deliberate choice to trust Lin Hao. His ability to kill Madmen matters to her, but so does his restraint: he neither assaults her nor takes her food when he has the opportunity. She offers useful skills and equipment rather than relying solely on his protection 5.

Her livestreaming experience also makes her socially perceptive. She consciously uses her charm to deepen her relationship with Lin Hao and worries about other women seeking his attention. During the dispute with the Luo brothers, she adopts a tearful, aggrieved manner to expose their possible motives without making a direct accusation 6 20 34.

Abilities & Skills

Fitness Coaching

Zhao Xiaowen holds a personal trainer certification and has completed substantive professional coursework. She understands muscle function, resistance training, and injury prevention 5 19.

• Designs Lin Hao’s early training around core strength, stamina adaptation, and controlled exertion 12 19.
• Corrects posture and supplies hands-on resistance when equipment is limited 19.
• Stops sessions before overexertion causes strains and finishes with cooldown exercise 19.

Nursing and Rehabilitation

A nursing graduate with rehabilitation training, she provides the group’s early medical support 5 11.

• Can perform basic wound cleaning and suturing when suitable tools are available; this is stated expertise rather than a demonstrated procedure 5.
• Uses massage to relieve Lin Hao’s muscle tension and fatigue 11.
• Identifies his bruised back as a likely soft-tissue contusion 16.
• Distinguishes symptom-relief medicine from supplies needed for infection prevention and wound care 11.
• Learns additional ointment-application techniques from Wu Xin 32.

Archery

She placed third in the women’s thirty-pound, twenty-meter category of a city amateur compound-bow competition 5.

• Offers to assist in combat if the group finds a suitable bow 5.
• Holds a drawn bow while investigating a nighttime disturbance at the martial arts school 40.
• Continues archery practice in Great Qi, using a thumb ring for protection 43.

Martial Arts

Zhao Xiaowen receives personal instruction from Wu Xin and also practices with Madam Wu 27 44.

• Is introduced to the school’s conditioning methods and Wu Xin’s Twin-Dagger Force demonstration 27.
• Practices footwork and uses equipment to support her training 32 36.
• Reaches Martial Student–equivalent ability, but no Bright Force breakthrough is documented 45.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Authentic Yoga Outfit — white quality: Valued at 38 Wish Power and weighing 0.3 kg; enhances physical training and agility. She gives both pieces to Lin Hao, whose equipment slots allow their agility bonuses to stack 4 5.
• Dumbbell Substitute — gray quality: A 10 kg dumbbell valued at 12 Wish Power, with a strength-training enhancement. She gives it to Lin Hao, who uses its weight to increase his attack force 5.
• First-aid supplies: Ibuprofen, two boxes of cephalosporin antibiotics, topical erythromycin, povidone-iodine, and sterile gauze. She recommends trading only the ibuprofen rather than casually surrendering the other supplies 11.
• Bow and protective thumb ring: Used during her Great Qi archery practice; the bow’s grade and exact specifications are not stated 40 43.
• Fitness provisions: Chicken breast, protein powder, konjac snacks, oats, and stored tap water sustain her initial isolation 4.

Relationships

• Lin Hao — Former roommate, survival partner, trainee, and lover. She supplies his early equipment and physical conditioning; he protects her and later explicitly identifies her as his woman 4 5 19 20 46.
• Nie Yi — Fellow survivor and martial arts student. Zhao Xiaowen recognizes her talent and dedication, reporting that she may unify her force within a month 12 27 33.
• Wu Xin — Senior sister and personal instructor. Teaches her martial arts and additional treatment techniques 27 32.
• Madam Wu — Provides medicine to the women and supervises their practice in the rear courtyard 33 44.
• Yi Feng — Fellow survivor who addresses her as “first sister-in-law”; she laughs without correcting him 16.
• Zhou Feng — Neighbor whose son receives ibuprofen from her supplies. His family provides the cleaner room used as the group’s new base 11 12.
• Luo Jing, Luo Wei, and Luo Hong — Hostile fellow apprentices. Her comments after Luo Jing’s spar expose their possible ulterior motives and contribute to the school’s distrust of them 32 34.