Lu Yuanqiu

Biodata

Background / History

Childhood and school reputation

At six years old, Lu Yuanqiu fell into a dry well in his rural hometown and remained trapped overnight. The experience left him with a persistent fear of darkness: he slept with the lights on, and the fear remained even into his thirties 20 21.

He attended No. 65 Middle School, where he defended an intellectually disabled man known as Overalls Uncle from student bullies. After publicly beating the students tormenting the man, Lu Yuanqiu acquired a delinquent reputation. He did not regret intervening, despite being judged for the violence rather than his reasons for it 16 72.

In high school, he was athletic but academically near the bottom and widely regarded as a troublemaker. During the election for PE representative, he received only one vote. That anonymous support became a source of encouragement he remembered for fifteen years 1.

Previous life

Lu Yuanqiu mistakenly believed Hu Caiwei had cast the vote. Her refusal to confirm or deny it encouraged his devotion, and he repeatedly supplied her with goods from his family's supermarket. He continued sending gifts after failing to enter university himself, only to discover during her sophomore year that she had already been dating an upperclassman for a year 4 5.

After the disappointment, he started a business using his family's savings. Taking advantage of the growth of online sales, he accumulated a net worth exceeding one hundred million by his early thirties. He later helped Hu Caiwei as a divorced single mother, although he no longer pursued her 5.

Gao Qiang eventually drew his attention to Bai Qingxia's handwriting, revealing that she—not Hu Caiwei—had supported him. Bai Qingxia had died fifteen years earlier, leaving him unable to thank her in that life 1 5.

Rebirth and changed priorities

Lu Yuanqiu returned to 2010, immediately before his final year of high school. Knowing Bai Qingxia was about to be struck by a car, he delayed her departure from the supermarket. Seeing her alive at school the following day confirmed that she had reached senior year 3 6 23.

Rather than immediately rebuilding his fortune, he decided to experience the youth and university education he had missed. His initial ambition to enter a good university later became a more personal goal: attending the same university as Bai Qingxia 8 23 51.

Appearance

Lu Yuanqiu has strong features, wheat-colored skin, and an athletic build developed through years of basketball. At seventeen, he considers himself not especially handsome 2.

• Hair: Buzz cut 2.
• Build: Tall and muscular, with particularly well-defined arms 2 47.
• School clothing: Blue-and-white uniform 6 125.
• Distinctive garment: Cargo pants repaired by Bai Qingxia with an embroidered patch of grass and small flowers, which he treasures 32 33.

Personality

Lu Yuanqiu is irreverent, boastful, and fond of crude jokes. He trades insults with friends, teases teachers, and turns sporting victories into performances, including an exaggerated ostrich walk near the 3,000-meter finish line. His apparent confidence nevertheless conceals sensitivity: the single vote he received as a teenager mattered deeply beneath his carefree expression 1 12 41.

His strong sense of justice predates his rebirth. He defended Overalls Uncle despite the social consequences and later used his foreknowledge to offer Cao Shuang an alternative to the criminal future he remembered. His father describes him as a troublemaker who is nevertheless kindhearted 48 60 72.

His greater maturity is especially apparent in his concern for Bai Qingxia's dignity. He avoids pressing her about her poverty and recognizes that caring for her father could restrict her educational opportunities. He wants her to experience life beyond Lucheng rather than simply remain dependent on him 26 48 100.

That consideration coexists with intrusive teasing and impulsive aggression. He handles Bai Qingxia's injured foot despite her protests, repeatedly draws disciplinary warnings over his behavior toward her, and physically assaults girls involved in bullying her. Bai Qingxia herself asks him not to act so rashly on her behalf 14 32 62 92 101.

Abilities & Skills

Rebirth and future knowledge

Lu Yuanqiu retains memories of his previous life, including business experience, personal relationships, and events that have not yet occurred 11 23 60.

• Uses his knowledge of Bai Qingxia's impending accident to delay her at the supermarket 3.
• Remembers Cao Shuang's future imprisonment and his mother's death, motivating his intervention 60.
• Recognizes Zhang Zhisheng as a future enemy in both business and personal affairs 93.
• His recollections are incomplete: he remembers no school blackout because he skipped evening self-study in his previous life 21.
• Rebirth does not restore the academic foundations he neglected as a teenager 11 17.

Enhanced physical ability

His rebirth increases his strength, jumping ability, stamina, and endurance. He first notices the change when he unexpectedly performs a dunk that surprises even his regular basketball companions 13 31 41.

• Sustains repeated bursts of speed during the 3,000-meter race 41.
• Throws a shot put 18.03 meters 48.
• Knocks the much larger Jiao Jiao down during a basketball collision 112.
• Remains vulnerable to injury: Sun Qiangsheng's brick attack leaves him with an external head injury and mild concussion 71 72.
• Lu Yuanqiu acknowledges that the enhancement does not put him on the level of national or world champions 50.

Basketball

Lu Yuanqiu is an all-round basketball player whose dunking becomes his most conspicuous skill 111.

• Combines fast drives, powerful dunks, fadeaway jumpers, and three-point shooting 13 122.
• Opens a tournament game with a dunk after taking off beyond the free-throw line 104.
• Scores ten consecutive baskets against Boss Liu 122.
• Later allows Boss Liu to score, turning a competitive encounter into a friendlier exchange 122.

Academic improvement

Although he spent two years ranked last in his grade, Lu Yuanqiu begins reviewing his neglected textbooks and accepting Bai Qingxia's tutoring after rebirth 16 17 52.

• His English paper impresses classmates as potentially worth 140 points; he subsequently receives recognition for perfect listening answers and a full-mark essay 60 65.
• Receives greatest-improvement awards in mathematics and physics, though neither score exceeds 60 65.
• Continues struggling with exam timing, rushing his Chinese essay and guessing remaining answers when time runs short 55.

Business experience

Lu Yuanqiu retains experience building an internet business and understands the advantages of his family's resources and his knowledge of future developments 5 11.

• Helps secure a partnership for the Lu Corporation by winning Boss Liu's basketball challenge 122.
• Is encouraged by his uncles to maintain the business relationship through shared basketball interests 123.
• Chooses not to involve Bai Qingxia in cultivating business connections, recognizing her existing burdens and discomfort with initiating friendships 123.

Music

Lu Yuanqiu sings well and began teaching himself guitar in sixth grade, a fact his high school classmates do not know 117.

• Sings for Bai Qingxia at Golden Voice KTV and encourages her to perform “Cloudy Day” 117.
• Despite knowing songs from the future, he explicitly rejects plagiarizing Jay Chou's work 23.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Protecting Bai Qingxia

• Supermarket encounter: Replaces her damaged backpack and gives her a pencil case and sanitary pads while keeping the incident private. She records the goods on an IOU 4.
• Classroom partnership: Becomes her deskmate, shares food when he sees her eating plain rice, and hires her as an evening cashier at his family's supermarket 7 18.
• Xu Yan confrontation: Stops Xu Yan from pushing Bai Qingxia down the steps again and takes the matter to grade director Ge Ritian. Xu Yan is expelled, while Lu Yuanqiu receives a public commendation 32.
• Encouraging confidence: Supports Bai Qingxia during the sports-meet procession. She subsequently pulls him to the front of the formation and refuses to let him leave her side 38.
• Retaliation against bullies: With Cao Shuang's assistance, confronts girls connected to Xu Yan and slaps Liu Jie and Sun Ruofei. He tells Sun Ruofei to send her brother to find him 60 62.

Sports meet

Liu Wei enters Lu Yuanqiu in five events without consulting him, arguing that he should contribute athletically if his studies are poor 31.

Assault and hospitalization

Sun Qiangsheng ambushes Lu Yuanqiu outside No. 65 Middle School in retaliation for his treatment of Sun Ruofei. Overalls Uncle carries him to Lucheng City First People's Hospital, where doctors diagnose a minor external injury and mild concussion 70 71 72.

The rescue reveals that Overalls Uncle is Bai Qingxia's father, Bai Songzhe. Lu Yuanqiu's uncles intervene after the assault, and Sun Qiangsheng is brought to the hospital ward. During his recovery, Bai Qingxia visits to care for him, while he also spends time with her father 75 76 77 79.

Family outing and growing intimacy

• Visits Bai Qingxia's home and learns from her neighbor Zhang Li about the hardships she endured while growing up 84.
• Takes Bai Qingxia to an amusement park with his family and discusses university plans with her on the Ferris wheel 89.
• Receives a notebook of copied and annotated study notes that she spent half a month preparing 92.
• Receives a pink basketball jersey she embroidered with his class, name, and the line “I once vowed to stand among the world's finest” 101.

Basketball tournament and the Zhang rivalry

Liu Yang's provocation draws Lu Yuanqiu's attention to Zhang Yifei, the son of his future enemy Zhang Zhisheng. Zhang Yifei later offers him up to twenty thousand yuan to withdraw from the tournament; Lu Yuanqiu refuses and challenges him to meet in the finals 93 109.

By the family business outing, Class 28 has reached the semifinals. Lu Yuanqiu then defeats Boss Liu in basketball to secure a Lu Corporation contract and reveals that Liu's daughter, Liu Jianqing, is dating Zhang Yifei 121 122.

Equipment / Items

• Bicycle — His regular transport to school and the supermarket; also used to take Bai Qingxia shopping and give her rides 6 23 114.
• Embroidered cargo pants — Retrieved, washed, and mended by Bai Qingxia after a high-jump mishap. Her repair becomes a treasured reminder of her concern for him 31 32 33.
• Annotated notebook — Bai Qingxia's painstakingly prepared study gift 92.
• Pink basketball jersey — Embroidered by Bai Qingxia with his identifying details and an encouraging quotation 101.
• Fake mustache — Used while posing as Lu Yidong's uncle at her parent-teacher meeting 27.

Relationships

• Bai Qingxia — His sole supporter in the PE-representative election, later his deskmate, tutor, supermarket employee, and developing romantic interest. Their care is reciprocal: she helps him during a blackout, repairs his clothes, and supports his studies 4 7 18 21 32 51.
• Lu Tian — His stern father and the supermarket's owner. Their relationship features frequent arguments and coat-hanger threats, though Lu Tian recognizes his son's kindness and welcomes Bai Qingxia as a prospective daughter-in-law 6 48 87.
• Su Xiaoya — His affectionate mother, who defends him from Lu Tian's harsh criticism and notices his growing sensitivity toward Bai Qingxia 6 16 100.
• Lu Yidong — His fourteen-year-old younger sister. Their teasing relationship becomes warmer after his rebirth; he supports her protection of Overalls Uncle and reluctantly covers for her at parent-teacher meetings 5 17 27 70.
• Lu Cheng — His eldest uncle, a powerful businessman who treats him almost as a son and closely monitors his academic progress 48 51 72.
• Lu Xuan — His second uncle, protective of him and involved in introducing him to the family's business dealings 72 121 123.
• Lu Yuan — His third uncle, whose influence helps the family respond to Sun Qiangsheng's attack. He also insists that Lu Yuanqiu sustain his academic improvement 74 77.
• Bai Songzhe / Overalls Uncle — A man Lu Yuanqiu defended in middle school who later saves his life. Lu Yuanqiu learns during his hospitalization that he is Bai Qingxia's father 72 75.
• Hu Caiwei — His former crush and the mistaken beneficiary of Bai Qingxia's vote. After rebirth, he stops giving her free goods and rejects her attempts to command his attention 4 5 6 10 18.
• Cao Shuang — A loyal admirer whom he urges to abandon gang activity. Knowing Cao Shuang's previous fate, Lu Yuanqiu promises him legitimate employment after graduation 52 60 79.
• Zhong Jincheng — A childhood acquaintance, rival, and basketball teammate; their friendship is marked by insults and practical jokes 7 12 98.
• Zheng Yifeng — A classmate and teammate who becomes increasingly interested in Lu Yuanqiu's changed character and willingness to oppose injustice 46 97 98.
• Liu Wei — His homeroom teacher, who disciplines his classroom behavior, recruits him for sports events, and enthusiastically celebrates his victories 7 31 50 92.
• Zhang Yifei and Zhang Zhisheng — Rivals connected to White Rhino Food. Lu Yuanqiu remembers Zhang Zhisheng as a mortal enemy from his previous life and openly opposes his son in the basketball tournament 93 109.
• Boss Liu — A prospective business partner won over through basketball. Lu Yuanqiu's victory secures a contract for the Lu Corporation 121 122.
• Song Xuanxuan — A childhood acquaintance who enthusiastically calls him “Brother Qiu.” He remembers her unwanted childhood kisses and finds her affectedly cute manner uncomfortable 120 121.

Notable Quotes

“Old man, when you're a student, everyone has an invisible protective shell around them. Some have one, some don't. Some are thick, some are thin. They protect the vulnerabilities each person cares about. Get too close, and once the shell breaks, the person breaks with it.” 48

“Bai Qingxia's future shouldn't be confined to Lu City because of her dad. She needs a chance to see a wider world, to see all the wonders it has to offer.” 100

“Don't play the rich guy in front of me. I don't care how important this basketball tournament is to you. You're exactly who I'm out to beat. Understand?” 109