Phoebe

Biodata

Power Progression

Appearance

• Hair and complexion: Long brown hair, fair skin, bright eyes, and curved brows 62 197.
• Build: Tall and slender, with an elegant bearing and long, straight legs 124 192.
• Formal clothing: Wears carefully fitted dresses and light makeup at social engagements, including navy and pale-blue dresses 124 135.
• Training clothing: Practices in a white warrior’s outfit with her hair tied into a ponytail 276.
• Physical refinement: The Nirvana Pill noticeably improves her complexion and appearance. Five years later, she shows no visible signs of aging 276 590.

Personality

Phoebe initially presents a cold, proud, and guarded manner. That reserve softens once she trusts someone: Han Shuo comes to recognize that she is approachable and unpretentious toward those she accepts as friends. She also takes that trust seriously, promising to protect his undead-refinement secret even under threat of death 98.

Her business dealings are marked by composure, sharp judgment, and independence. She can maintain a courteous façade with enemies, bargain without revealing her intentions, and distinguish commercial relationships from personal obligations. She refuses Prince Haige’s preferential tariffs rather than encourage his unwanted courtship 63 194 590.

Phoebe is deeply attached to Han Shuo but strongly possessive. Sharing him conflicts with her expectations of a relationship, and the discovery of additional partners repeatedly provokes anger and distress. Her independence does not prevent emotional vulnerability: the prospect of separation causes her to faint, while their later argument over Lisa leaves her in tears 421 625.

Her acceptance of the other women develops unevenly. She forgives Emily after learning the circumstances of her relationship with Han Shuo, becomes close to Fanny during his absence, and eventually joins the others in welcoming Lolth into the household 395 625 1011.

Abilities & Skills

Swordsmanship and Battle Aura

Phoebe studies under Carola Ascot and displays exceptional swordsmanship at a young age 63 277.

• Concentrated sword aura: Uses a dagger to release a lotus-like mass of milky-white sword aura that kills an attacking assassin 63.
• Cross-shaped attacks: Breaks through an Archmage’s earthen enclosure with a cross-shaped sword-aura attack, allowing herself and Candice to escape 85.
• Great Swordmaster techniques: Produces silver cross-shaped attacks that shatter rocks and cut a tree into hundreds of sections 276.
• Starry Sky: Wields the divine artifact to unleash a large Cross Slash against Crespo 412.
• Limits: Her strength does not prevent Crespo and Aubrey from overwhelming her through coordinated melee attacks, spatial binding, barriers, and ranged support 412.

Agility and Infiltration

Her martial training includes stealth, concealment, and assassination methods, although she rejects Han Shuo’s suggestion that she has worked as a professional killer 72 73.

• Moves quickly and silently through Buster Trading Company while avoiding patrols 72.
• Uses an overhead chandelier and surrounding shadows as a hiding place 73.
• Shows enough flexibility and coordination to dance skillfully with Han Shuo once their movements synchronize 138.
• Has greater resistance to cold than the physically frailer Emily 192.

Commerce and Procurement

As head of Buster Trading Company, Phoebe provides Han Shuo with access to goods and markets across the empire 98.

• Identifies unfamiliar materials from their appearance and properties, even when Han Shuo uses different names for them 98.
• Recognizes materials’ true prices and bargains effectively with merchants 194.
• Procures large quantities of grain, daily necessities, and rare ingredients for undead and demonic refinements 98 139 173.
• Converts gems and jade into funds, retains money for Han Shuo’s future needs, and supplies substantial financial support 206 293.

Management and Leadership

Phoebe applies her trading-company experience to Celestial Pivot Pharmacy despite initially knowing nothing about potions 738.

• Evaluates ingredient procurement, storage, potion production, sales, and personnel rewards and discipline 738.
• Helps administer the pharmacy while Emily handles recruitment, freeing Han Shuo from routine business affairs 738.
• Distributes cultivation resources to the Han Family’s core members from Qio Continent 887.
• Commands more than seven hundred Han Family guards during Ralph’s ambush, ordering them to disembark, form ranks, and engage the Second Division 883.

Physical Enhancement

• Nirvana Pill: Undergoes bodily refinement and credits the pill with accelerating her breakthrough to Great Swordmaster 251 276.
• Han Shuo’s energy: Discovers that he has been transferring an unfamiliar energy into her body after their intimate encounters, improving its toughness and recovery 389.
• Supernatural vulnerability: Suffers bleeding under the Bloodwater Demons’ influence. Han Shuo removes her from the courtyard before she can be fatally harmed 195.

Equipment & Items

• Starry Sky — A divine-artifact sword given to her by Han Shuo. Carola cautions her not to depend on its power at the expense of developing her own abilities 376 421.
• Longsword — Her regular weapon during the early struggle against Glover and Phantom Shadow 72 79 85.
• Dagger — Used both to channel battle aura at close range and to kill a fleeing assassin with a thrown strike 63.
• Spatial Ring — Stores weapons, medicines, bandages, supplies, and refinement materials 77 80 85 173.
• Black gold ore — Initially reserves a thumb-sized piece for a sword intended for her master; later gives it to Han Shuo as part of their agreement 71 77.

History

Struggle for Buster Trading Company

Phoebe comes from a wealthy family and receives an education in noble etiquette. By her early appearances, her father is dead and her uncle Glover controls much of Buster Trading Company through his supporters. After assassins attack her inside the company, she moves out and seeks the Elders’ backing to remove him 63 64.

Han Shuo’s intervention against Phantom Shadow begins their working relationship. Phoebe subsequently recruits him for an operation against Darnell and Yuna, who had previously attempted to assassinate her. Both are killed, but Phoebe and Han Shuo are exposed to an aphrodisiac during the operation. He carries her away and uses cold stream water to clear their heads; she awakens distressed by her torn clothing and attacks him 63 71 72 74.

Their next meeting begins with another argument but ends in reconciliation and a renewed alliance against Glover. At a company banquet, Phoebe introduces Han Shuo as her boyfriend to justify his presence. When the dispute over leadership becomes open, she declares herself capable of running the company 77 78 79.

Glover’s faction subjects her to escalating assassination attempts, leading her to hire protection from the Warfire Mercenary Group. Following Glover’s defeat and death, she officially takes control of Buster Trading Company 83 85 87 98.

Han Shuo’s Supplier and Partner

Phoebe becomes a trusted supplier for Han Shuo’s increasingly unusual projects. After witnessing Little Skeleton’s abilities, she learns that he uses a secret method to refine undead and agrees to gather thirteen materials for an extraordinary zombie. She later secures ingredients for Yin Demons and other refinements 98 139 173.

Their business relationship broadens into financial support. She agrees to exchange his gems and jade for gold and provide thirty thousand gold coins to establish the Soul Annihilation Mercenary Group. Later, she gives him rare materials and a Crystal Card containing three hundred thousand gold coins while remaining behind to strengthen Buster Trading Company 206 293.

Relationship with Han Shuo

Their public presentation as a couple precedes their acknowledged romantic relationship. During a nighttime encounter, Phoebe initially mistakes Han Shuo’s presence for a dream. After she awakens and confronts him, he forcibly kisses and restrains her despite her resistance; later in the encounter, she accepts his declaration that they are together 172.

In Sun Radiance Valley, Phoebe firmly rejects Florida’s pursuit and tells him that their commercial dealings give him no right to interfere in her personal life. She and Han Shuo later consummate their relationship. Phoebe explains that her feelings began around their assassination mission, when her anger gradually gave way to persistent thoughts of him 199 277.

Discovering his relationship with Emily leads Phoebe to confront her. After hearing Emily’s explanation, Phoebe forgives her and places the blame on Han Shuo. Accepting Fanny proves more difficult, but Phoebe ultimately chooses to remain with him rather than separate 389 390 395 421.

Attacks on the Company

Cameron attempts to draw Buster Trading Company into his Trade Alliance, but Phoebe refuses. His faction later encroaches on the business with Duke Ashiburn’s backing. When Han Shuo intervenes, she urges him to let Cameron and Aubrey leave to avoid provoking the duke 135 251.

During the struggle for the imperial succession, Ashburn’s soldiers and Charles’s experts overrun the company. Phoebe leads the surviving guards toward the rear gate but is captured by Aubrey and Crespo, who intend to use her as leverage against Carola. Han Shuo arrives, breaks her restraints, and enables her escape through an underground passage opened by the Earth Armor Zombie 412 413 414.

Five-Year Absence and Reunion

During Han Shuo’s five-year absence, Phoebe advances to Sword Saint and continues managing Buster Trading Company. She remains devoted to him despite rumors of his death, rejecting Prince Haige’s courtship and favorable trade terms. Emily’s letter announcing his return transforms her grief into excitement 590 592.

The absence also brings Phoebe, Emily, and Fanny closer through their shared memories of Han Shuo. Nevertheless, his acknowledgment of Lisa as another partner triggers a fresh confrontation. Han Shuo leaves with Lisa after telling Phoebe to leave if she cannot accept him; he later apologizes and comforts her 625 638.

Celestial Pivot Pharmacy and the Han Family

On the Continent of the Gods, Han Shuo assigns Phoebe and Emily to help run Celestial Pivot Pharmacy. Phoebe’s management experience quickly proves valuable, and she advances to Lower God during the following seven years 737 738 748.

She later takes an active leadership role during the Han Family’s withdrawal from Shadow City, rejecting Ralph’s demand that they return and directing the guards against his ambush. After regrouping in Ethereal City, she learns from Han Shuo that their pursuing enemies are dead and that the family will relocate to the Chaos Lands 883 918.

At Demon-Hidden Valley, Phoebe and the other women reveal that Han Shuo has postponed having children until the dangers surrounding them have passed. She later joins Emily and the others in persuading Lolth not to leave the valley 962 1011.

Relationships

• Han Shuo / Brian — Business partner and lover. Their bond develops through shared danger, material support, repeated rescues, and recurring conflict over his other relationships 63 98 172 421 625 638.
• Carola Ascot — Master. Phoebe fiercely defends his reputation and initially regards him as unsurpassable; his connection to her also affects Ashiburn’s political calculations 73 277 427.
• Glover — Uncle and rival for control of Buster Trading Company. She suspects his faction of arranging attacks against her and questions him about her father’s death 64 74 87.
• Fubin’en — Trusted subordinate who handles trade, supplies, and household arrangements. His standing improves after she takes control of the company 64 98 131.
• Candice — Longtime friend and deputy leader of the Warfire Mercenary Group, which Phoebe hires for protection 83 84.
• Lawrence — Senior fellow disciple under Carola. Their shared master connects them before Lawrence’s rise to the throne 135 421.
• Emily — Initially the focus of Phoebe’s anger over Han Shuo’s concealed relationship; later a close friend and fellow pharmacy administrator 390 395 625 738.
• Fanny — Another of Han Shuo’s partners. Early tensions give way to close friendship during his prolonged absence 421 625 638.
• Lisa — Phoebe initially rejects her as another partner for Han Shuo, provoking a serious argument 625.
• Florida — Unwanted suitor associated with her business dealings in Sun Radiance Valley. Phoebe explicitly rejects his interference in her private life 198 199.
• Prince Haige — Persistent suitor whose courtship and preferential tariff offer she refuses during Han Shuo’s absence 590.

Notable Quotes

“Even if someone threatens my life, I won't reveal our secret.” 98

“Business is business, but you have no right to interfere in my life.” 199

Trivia

• Phoebe turns the rockery where she and Han Shuo once hid into a private retreat for sunshine, tea, and flowers. Five years later, she still returns to the spot and remembers their time together 72 98 590.
• Before giving Han Shuo black gold ore for his own weapon, she had intended to use it toward forging the finest possible sword for her master 71 77.