Jiang Xiubai

Biodata

Background / History

Jiang Xiubai is the youngest son of the wealthy Jiang family. His parents had him relatively late; when he entered first grade, his eldest brother was already competing in an international mathematics olympiad. He grew up taking riding lessons, which he enjoyed enough never to skip, and also learned archery 47 227 232.

At twenty-two, he was under no parental pressure to marry. His decision to join the marriage reality show surprised his household: after returning from playing ball with friends, he stopped to watch a livestream featuring Yun Xi playing a game. When the broadcast unexpectedly ended, he announced that he wanted to join the show “for fun” 48.

His partnership with Yun Xi developed from teasing and mutual embarrassment into romance. By the parenting-show extras, they had married that year and had no children of their own, so they brought Jiang Xiubai’s nephew, Dian Dian, onto the program 241 257 258 263.

Appearance

• Physique: Well-built; Yun Xi describes his first impression as having a good physique and looking cool 47 177.
• Expression and bearing: Flirtatious eyes, a devil-may-care air, and a frequently cocky posture 47 185.
• Usual clothing: Trendy designer outfits, sunglasses, metal chains, and limited-edition sneakers 76.
• Special outfit: A custom-made modern Chinese-style ensemble commissioned by his mother for his nineteenth birthday. Although he originally disliked its lack of chains, he retrieved it for the ancient-town shoot 185.

Personality

Jiang Xiubai is confident, playful, and easily provoked into showing off. He casually calls ring toss easy after winning food for Yun Xi and eagerly presents riding and archery as competitions he can handle. His teasing frequently backfires: blowing petals into Yun Xi’s face earns him a broom-wielding chase, while withholding a carrot from a sheep gets him chased around its enclosure 48 117 227 240.

His bravado is especially fragile around Yun Xi. Being called “gege” or “Brother” makes him blush, accept difficult tasks, and visibly lose his composure. He enjoys praise so openly that the director has to interrupt his pleased reaction during their first-impressions interview. During the composure test, Yun Xi’s affectionate coaxing pushes his heart rate to 125 131 137 177 200.

Despite their bickering, he notices Yun Xi’s discomfort and tries to help. He exchanges suitcases when Yun Xi’s luggage is too heavy, stops himself from laughing at Yun Xi’s failed archery practice, and reassures him before grass sledding. Early attempts at tenderness are often awkward, but he gradually becomes more direct 131 229 241.

He is outgoing without being immune to embarrassment. Selling fruit to strangers leaves him red-faced and crouching behind the stall, despite his usual extroversion. He also stubbornly conceals pain, insisting that an acupressure mat does not hurt while sweating and speaking through gritted teeth 137 198.

Abilities & Skills

Archery

Jiang Xiubai learned archery before joining the show and demonstrates consistent accuracy during practice and competition 227 229.

• Nearly fills his practice target with arrows in roughly a dozen minutes 229.
• Suggests blindfolded archery to settle his tie with Gu Yunlan 231.
• Wins the ranked competition; Pei Yanchuan’s subsequent demonstration does not affect the standings 231.

Horseback Riding

Riding is a longstanding interest rather than a skill acquired for filming 227.

• Attended riding lessons enthusiastically as a child 227.
• Confidently offers to handle the riding competition for his team, before learning that representatives will be selected by lot 227.

Strength & Stamina

His endurance gives him an advantage in physically demanding partner challenges 48.

• Completes one hundred squats while carrying Yun Xi, maintaining steady breathing and finishing more than a dozen repetitions ahead of Leng Yifan 48.
• Supports Yun Xi during a coordination challenge and tells him to step on his newly purchased sneaker 89.
• Completes ten squats barefoot on an acupressure mat despite obvious discomfort 198.

Gaming

Jiang Xiubai regularly plays mobile games and shares this interest with Yun Xi 109 143 167.

• Uses the account name Brother, which is already on Yun Xi’s friend list when they play together during filming 143.
• Joins group sessions with Yun Xi, Xu Wang, and later Xia Yu 143 205.
• Uses a familiar game interface to help Yun Xi recognize him during a disguise-based date task 209.

Cooking & Food Preparation

His kitchen results are mixed rather than consistently proficient 136 233 295.

• Relies on Yun Xi to extinguish a pan fire caused by excessive oil 136.
• Is startled by a live tiger prawn and watches Xu Wang demonstrate how to clean it 233.
• Successfully whips cream on his first attempt, then shares it with Dian Dian instead of continuing their cookie-making task 295.

Relationships

• Yun Xi — Reality-show partner and eventual husband. Their relationship combines teasing, shy attraction, practical care, and increasingly open affection. Jiang Xiubai asks about Yun Xi’s future proposal preferences before they marry 48 131 241 254 263.
• Jiang Xiujin — Eldest brother. Corrects Jiang Xiubai’s manners, recognizes his growing feelings for Yun Xi, and adds him to Pei Yanchuan’s proposal-planning group to learn for the future 164 185 200 247.
• Su Nan — Brother-in-law and Jiang Xiujin’s husband. Gives him movie tickets and helps locate his custom-made outfit; he also notices the romantic motive behind Jiang Xiubai’s preparations 164 167 185.
• Dian Dian — Nephew, the son of Jiang Xiujin and Su Nan. Jiang Xiubai and Yun Xi care for him on the parenting show; uncle and nephew frequently become accomplices in mischief 263 282 295.
• Pei Yanchuan — Fellow cast member with connections to the Jiang family. Jiang Xiubai participates in his proposal-planning discussion and attends his wedding to Xu Wang 47 247 258.
• Xu Wang — Fellow cast member and gaming companion. Notices Jiang Xiubai’s interest in Yun Xi early and later teases him about their movie meeting 50 143 171.
• Jiang Jibai — Identified as an older brother who has business dealings with Pei Yanchuan in Jiang Xiubai’s introductory passage 47.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Early Partnership with Yun Xi

• Yun Xi admits that Jiang Xiubai is exactly his type and that his shyness around him is genuine, unlike his teasing with others 48.
• Jiang Xiubai crushes a soda can while visibly upset. Xu Wang strongly suspects that the reaction concerns Yun Xi, though Jiang Xiubai dismisses it as an accident 50.
• On his first fishing attempt, he uses all his bait at once and catches a huge octopus rather than a fish 61.

Castle Murder Mystery

Jiang Xiubai plays a Regimental Commander, with Yun Xi assigned as his subordinate. This is a game role, not an occupation outside the show 78.

• Identifies a photograph revealing that Yun Xi’s character is the old duke’s son 79.
• Becomes a suspect when the dagger at the crime scene bears the character “Jiang”; he suggests that someone stole it to frame him 81.
• Receives six votes, the highest number among the suspects, but is cleared when Xu Wang and Pei Yanchuan are revealed as the murderers. His apparent dagger is fake, while the real dagger had been hidden on Yun Xi 82.

Dates and Growing Attraction

• Flower Valley: Lets a bee crawl on his hand and is stung. Yun Xi removes the stinger with a supermarket gift card, and they return early for medical treatment 108 109.
• Gaming-account reveal: Introduces himself as “Brother,” expecting Yun Xi to recognize the account. Yun Xi discovers that they are already friends and immediately starts the match 143.
• Movie invitation: Uses tickets from Su Nan to invite Yun Xi out, explicitly offering to pay. At the venue, his nervous behavior allows Xu Wang to identify whom he is waiting for 167 171.
• Ancient-town filming: Retrieves his custom Chinese-style outfit after remembering Yun Xi’s fondness for old towns and looking up photographs of the location 185.
• Sugar-painting task: Struggles alongside Yun Xi to make recognizable designs. Fans deliberately request unrecognizable paintings, allowing them to earn 1,000 yuan in travel funds 192.
• Disguised reunion: First tries to identify himself by showing off his muscles, then succeeds by displaying their familiar mobile game 209.

Open Affection and Marriage

• Yun Xi enthusiastically jumps into his arms after the archery victory; Jiang Xiubai catches him, and both become visibly embarrassed 231.
• During grass sledding, he reassures Yun Xi, unfastens his seat belt afterward, and offers his hand to help him stand 241.
• Joins the proposal-planning group for Pei Yanchuan, becomes distracted imagining a proposal, and later quietly asks Yun Xi what he would want from one 247 254.
• After three glasses of wine at Pei Yanchuan’s proposal celebration, covers Yun Xi’s hand with his own. Yun Xi leaves his hand in place 257.
• Catches the bouquet at Xu Wang and Pei Yanchuan’s wedding and immediately gives it to Yun Xi 258.
• Marries Yun Xi before their participation in the parenting show; their own proposal and wedding are not detailed in the supplied passages 263.

Parenting Show

• Brings Dian Dian onto the program because he and Yun Xi do not yet have children 263.
• Initially recoils from Dian Dian’s caterpillar, Big Green, but loses his fear after touching it. He then pokes it so persistently that Dian Dian protects it from him 272 273.
• Is exposed as the person behind Dian Dian’s hot-pot shopping plans, prompting Yun Xi to chase him with a broom 281 282.
• Gets caught eating whipped cream with Dian Dian during the Butter Kitten Cookies task 295.
• Opens an unlocked treasure chest packed so full of Fairytale Coins that they spill onto the floor 299.

Trivia

• He is particular about being the “big brother,” yet Yun Xi repeatedly uses that preference to coax him into helping 131 133 137 143.
• A sudden filming wake-up leaves him wearing one red shoe and one green shoe. After noticing, he returns home and chooses black shoes to make any further mismatch less obvious 129.
• He secretly records Yun Xi delivering three affectionate “Brother” lines as a game punishment 178.
• He repeatedly challenges the production team’s stinginess, including asking to skip an overpriced drinks bill and trying to turn a supposed dream into a promised feast 131 135 235.