Xiao Tuantuan

Biodata

Background / History

Before meeting Lin Fan, Xiao Tuantuan had experienced no major calamities or bereavements; her parents and grandparents were all alive. Despite hosting relationship-advice streams, she had never had a real romantic relationship. Her three online romances ended after she was scammed out of several hundred thousand yuan 21.

Her fortunes deteriorated during her zodiac year, which Lin Fan described as a year of offending Tai Sui. Within one month, she made ten streaming mistakes and received two channel suspensions, sharply reducing her popularity. She also began arguing frequently with her family and nearly angered her elderly father into a heart attack. Hoping to rebuild her audience, she switched to outdoor streaming and visited Lin Fan’s shop to capitalize on his growing fame 21 22.

Personality

Xiao Tuantuan is candid about pursuing popularity. She pays for Lin Fan’s expensive talisman partly because the purchase might put her on trending searches, changes her broadcast title to showcase its creation, and promises to keep streaming so viewers can test his predictions. She later openly admits that broadcasting Lin Fan during his suspension brings her more viewers than she had at her own peak 22 23 43.

Her trust in close relationships can override her caution. Although Lin Fan accurately predicts A Jing’s invitation and visit, Xiao Tuantuan refuses to believe that her longtime best friend would hurt her. She hides her streaming phone to demonstrate A Jing’s good intentions and opens the door against his warning 23.

After the betrayal, her initial skepticism toward Lin Fan becomes deep admiration. She angrily challenges accusations that their encounter was staged and readily assists with his later investigations. Her respect does not prevent her from voicing viewers’ questions, including whether a prediction four years into the future might be unreliable 35 36 37.

Abilities & Skills

Livestreaming and Audience Coordination

• Large audience: The police identify her as an internet celebrity with a million followers. Her visit to Lin Fan’s shop draws three million actual viewers 23 24.
• Platform contacts: She contacts platform staff to establish why Lin Fan’s account was suspended and explains their response to his displaced audience 32.
• Live communication: She relays police messages from chat and provides the broadcast through which Lin Fan sends urgent evacuation and talisman instructions 36 40 42.
• On-location reporting: She follows Lin Fan’s directions to investigate Zheng Dan at the Cloudjoy Hotel and document Bai Xiaobai’s fate on Taihe Street 37 46.
• Observation limit: She sees black mist around Bai Xiaobai through her phone camera but cannot see it with her unaided eyes 46.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Streaming phone and mount — Her principal broadcasting tools. She conceals the phone with its camera facing her living room during A Jing’s visit, allowing viewers to witness the crime and contact police 23 24.
• Natal Tai Sui Protective Talisman — A Yang-form talisman purchased from Lin Fan for 100,000 yuan. Its strokes briefly appear to move like a dragon when completed 22.
  • Stored in a sachet and required to remain within three meters of her, even while she showers 23.
  • Produces a warm sensation, immediately relieves her migraine, and gradually disperses the dark aura associated with her bad luck 23.
  • Does not immediately remove her remaining calamity; Lin Fan still warns her to avoid A Jing 23.
• Peace Talisman — Given to her by Lin Fan after the disaster-relief incident. She later takes reassurance from carrying it while filming the black mist around Bai Xiaobai 43 46.
• Sports car — Used to take Lin Fan to the hospital when he decides to protect the officers assigned to Tubaocun Village 40.

Relationships

• Lin Fan — Fortune-teller, benefactor, and frequent subject of her broadcasts. She becomes a vocal defender after his warning helps expose A Jing’s plot. He credits her broadcasting assistance as essential to reaching people during the Tubaocun disaster. When she expresses a wish to live in his shop, he refuses because of the potential damage to her reputation 24 35 43 44.
• A Jing — Longtime best friend whom she regarded as a sister. A Jing drugs her and conspires with her boyfriend to obtain an explicit video for blackmail, destroying their friendship 23 24.
• Wu — A Jing’s boyfriend and accomplice. He attempts to assault Xiao Tuantuan before police interrupt and arrest him 24.
• Xia Xinyu — Initially clashes with her after accusing Lin Fan of fraud. She later helps establish his girlfriend’s betrayal by livestreaming from the hotel identified by Lin Fan 35 37.
• Wandering Geomancer — Fellow admirer of Lin Fan. They accompany him to dinner and witness the golden glow surrounding him during a Daoist recitation at a reburial 47 50.

Story Role / Major Arcs

First Fated Visitor

• A viewer’s gift of one hundred rockets prompts Xiao Tuantuan to approach Lin Fan’s shop. The Seven-Star Soul-Confusing Formation initially sends her back from the entrance 21.
• On her second attempt, she reaches the door and becomes the first fated visitor admitted after the formation is established. Her phone suffers interference at the doorway but resumes working inside 21.
• Lin Fan reveals her personal history and diagnoses her worsening luck. She broadcasts him creating the protective talisman she purchases 21 22.

A Jing’s Betrayal

• Xiao Tuantuan declines A Jing’s invitation to sing but ignores Lin Fan’s instruction not to admit her into her home 23.
• A Jing gives her drugged herbal tea, then calls Wu to record an assault and blackmail her into paying their two-million-yuan debt 24.
• Livestream viewers alert police, who interrupt the attempted assault, arrest the pair, and revive Xiao Tuantuan. The subsequent police bulletin confirms the gambling-debt motive and credits assistance from a citizen surnamed Lin 24.

Broadcasting During Lin Fan’s Suspension

• When Lin Fan receives a three-day platform suspension, over a million viewers immediately enter Xiao Tuantuan’s stream. Her channel becomes the main place his audience follows his activities 32 35.
• At his direction, she travels to room 306 of the Cloudjoy Hotel on Seven Star Street. Her broadcast confirms that Zheng Dan is with another man, giving Xia Xinyu the proof he requested 37.

Tubaocun Disaster Relief

• Her livestream carries Lin Fan’s demand for an immediate village evacuation and his later warning that the relief workers must hold their Peace Talismans 40 42.
• The evacuated villagers escape a flash flood, while the talismans protect twenty people caught in a mudslide. Lin Fan explicitly acknowledges Xiao Tuantuan’s help in making those rescues possible 41 43.

Bai Xiaobai and the Moonrise Restaurant

• Xiao Tuantuan follows Bai Xiaobai with her camera after Lin Fan predicts consequences for her refusal to repent. The broadcast shows the black mist surrounding her and the ensuing collision involving her father 46.
• At the Moonrise Restaurant, she enjoys dishes prepared with bottled water despite other customers reporting rotten flavors. She later vomits upon seeing the decomposing kitten discovered in the rooftop water tank 47 48.
• She continues filming during the restaurant owner’s father’s reburial. The following morning, she visits Lin Fan without her streaming phone out and reminds him that his suspension has ended 50.

Notable Quotes

“Don't worry, everyone. A Jing would never hurt me.” 23

“It wasn't scripted! … I swear, if it was scripted, may I never be popular again!” 35

“I can't help it. Your livestream has been banned lately, and streaming you brings in a lot of viewers.” 43