Lord Purple

Biodata

Background / History

Zhao Yan grew up in a wealthy family and excelled in both academics and conduct. Through high school, she was regarded as a gentle, beautiful model student. Her college boyfriend’s infidelity changed her demeanor: she became emotionally guarded and devoted herself to building her business after graduation 3.

By age twenty-seven, she owned Beauty Like Jade Cosmetics Company. In the year before her introduction, she expanded the company to its largest size and earned 3.35 million yuan. She also became Tang Xiaoxiao’s top female donor, sending gifts because she had romantic feelings for the streamer 3.

Appearance

Zhao Yan is described as beautiful and captivating, with a mature, commanding presence. Viewers repeatedly associate her appearance and confidence with a queenly image 3 20.

• Fair complexion: Viewers describe her as rich, fair-skinned, and gorgeous 3.
• Natural appearance at her debut: She states that she is wearing no makeup and using neither beauty effects nor filters during her first video call with Xiao Yu 3.
• Expressive manner: Her challenging stare gives way to visible embarrassment when Xiao Yu reveals her feelings for Tang Xiaoxiao; later, she openly flirts through smiles and winks 3 20.

Personality

Zhao Yan is confident, outspoken, and initially skeptical of fortune-telling. She enters Xiao Yu’s livestream intending to expose him as a fraud and dismisses his knowledge of her company as information available online. Once he reveals private details she cannot explain away, she admits defeat and pays the agreed gift without hesitation 3.

Her guarded attitude toward romance coexists with a willingness to pursue someone openly. Although she expresses bitter resentment toward her unfaithful former boyfriend, she becomes increasingly direct about wanting Xiao Yu as her partner. Her generosity also extends beyond courtship: she supports his criminal-investigation work, seeks protective talismans for her family, and contributes heavily to the donation drive for Cao Yuan’s family 3 20 22 39.

Partner Preferences

After Xiao Yu exposes Liu Xing’s past, Zhao Yan asks whether she can find a husband meeting her specific requirements. Xiao Yu predicts that she will eventually meet such a man if she lets events take their course 12.

• Age: Younger than her 12.
• Ability and income: Genuinely capable, earning at least as much as she does, without relying on his parents’ wealth or status 12.
• Character: Upright and honorable rather than deceitful 12.
• Appearance: Pleasant-looking; exceptional handsomeness is unnecessary 12.
• Commitment: He must continue to cherish her. She says she could accept flirtation or multiple partners, but not the abandonment of his feelings for her 12.

Abilities & Skills

Business Management

• Expanded Beauty Like Jade Cosmetics Company and earned 3.35 million yuan in the preceding year 3.
• Offers Tang Xiaoxiao a sales-manager opportunity with a year to learn the work, a base salary of 10,000 yuan plus commission, and food and accommodation 12.

Observation and Planning

• Recognizes that Xiao Yu’s phrase “Lofty Mountains Inspire Reverence” refers to the calligraphy behind Qi Zihong, helping Qi understand how it could secure his business deal 10.
• Devises a pretext for Sun Luo to lure Wang Dandan’s fugitive boyfriend into public without warning him: Sun Luo should claim she needs company while meeting an online boyfriend, prompting Dandan to bring her own boyfriend for protection 17.

Livestream Community Support

• Defends Xiao Yu’s right to earn money from his abilities and calls for disruptive, insulting viewers to be removed 16.
• Uses her standing as a customer who has spent hundreds of thousands on the platform to pressure its management after Xiao Yu’s suspension 24.

Equipment / Items

• Imperfect Heart-Clearing Talisman: Allocated to her for free by Xiao Yu. He states that the imperfect talismans will remain effective for at least a year and a half, with their effects disappearing after three years 23.
• Protective jade: Promised alongside gifts for Liu Shan and Qi Zihong; Zhao Yan thanks Xiao Yu for the gift in the following chapter. The supplied passage does not specify the grade of her piece 39 40.

Relationships

• Xiao Yu — Initially a suspected scammer, later her trusted fortune-teller and romantic interest. She repeatedly asks to become his girlfriend or wife, but no relationship is confirmed 3 20 23 27 36.
• Tang Xiaoxiao — The streamer she financially supports and initially has feelings for. Zhao Yan later offers her employment at Beauty Like Jade Cosmetics Company 3 12.
• Quan Min — Her mother. Quan Min initially criticizes Zhao Yan for trusting Xiao Yu and bringing him home; both react angrily when he exposes Liu Xing’s past 11 12.
• Qi Zihong / A Lifetime Together — Fellow wealthy donor and recurring rival for the top donor position and scarce talismans. Their exchanges mix competition with familiar “big brother” and “little sister” forms of address 13 22.
• Liu Shan / Yi Shuihan — Fellow supporter and rival in the viewers’ romantic teasing. Their gift competition during the Cao-family donation drive ends with Zhao Yan conceding first place 39.
• Liu Xing — Her company’s sales manager. She tells him to resign after Xiao Yu exposes his sordid past 12.
• Former boyfriend — His college infidelity left her deeply resentful. She asks Xiao Yu when he will suffer misfortune or die 3.

Story Role / Major Arcs

From Skeptic to Supporter

• Arrives with Tang Xiaoxiao’s fans to challenge Xiao Yu. His disclosure of her feelings for Xiaoxiao convinces her, and she sends him a Rocket 3.
• Returns for a joint reading with Xiaoxiao. Following Xiao Yu’s instructions, Xiaoxiao visits room 212 at Dile Bar and shows Zhao Yan’s first love with an older woman 5.
• Sends ten Super Rockets after Xiao Yu reassures her about finding a suitable husband. She sends another ten while competing with Qi Zihong, then concedes the top donor spot to him 12 13.

Supporting Investigations and the Livestream

• Defends Xiao Yu against accusations that his readings are scripted and demands the removal of viewers who insult him or stir up arguments 16.
• Supplies the plan that helps bring Wang Dandan’s wanted boyfriend to the school gate, where he is arrested 17.
• Sends a Super Rocket in support of Xiao Yu’s effort to identify Jiang Qing’s killer 20.
• Attempts to obtain three Heart-Clearing Talismans for her mother and grandparents, arguing against Qi Zihong taking the entire supply 22.
• Joins the effort to pressure the broadcasting platform after Xiao Yu is banned for alleged superstition and fraud. The company subsequently lifts the ban and apologizes 24.

Pursuing Xiao Yu

• Confesses that she wants Xiao Yu as her husband. He declines to read his own fortune and instead predicts that her career will stabilize with Tang Xiaoxiao’s help 20.
• Offers to become his girlfriend and cook for him every day 23.
• Asks about naming their future child, then withdraws the question when he warns that the answer may disappoint her. She requests a health reading instead; he says that she and her mother are healthy 27.
• Announces that she will send him a Super Rocket daily until she wins him over. Xiao Yu says he cannot see himself in her future, though the narration clarifies that he cannot see himself in anyone else’s future either 36.

Cao-Family Donation Drive

During the fundraising for Cao Yuan’s family, Zhao Yan calls herself Xiao Yu’s “wife-to-be” and sends fifty Super Rockets, worth 100,000 yuan. When Liu Shan challenges her donor ranking, she adds another hundred Super Rockets. She ultimately concedes first place to Liu Shan and retains second; Qi Zihong declines to join what he calls the women’s jealousy contest 39.

Notable Quotes

“I've spent hundreds of thousands on this platform. Surely that buys me a little consideration?” 24

“I'll just send you a Super Rocket every day and see how long it takes to win you over and make you my boyfriend.” 36