Lu Xingluo

Biodata

Background

Lu Xingluo is Li Yi’s older sister and a favored child of Lu Hongshen and Qiao Xinyue. According to Lu Shixuan, she was born after their parents’ initially unhappy marriage developed into love, which contributed to their indulgence of her 13 141.

Before becoming widely known, Xingluo was an obscure celebrity supported by her family’s money. Her breakthrough came after an agency-arranged charity visit to a nursing home: a fan published high-resolution photographs and dozens of articles about her volunteer work, while elderly residents praised her kindness in media interviews. The publicity established her image as the “Nation’s Daughter” 13.

That fan, None of Your Peace, continued organizing events, funding fans’ travel, editing promotional videos, and countering negative publicity. Her following increased by several million in less than a year, and her agency began securing more endorsements and acting opportunities. By her first appearance, she had become a second- or third-tier actress without knowing that her influential supporter was Li Yi 13 59 65.

Appearance

• Face and expression: Introduced as pretty and innocent-looking, but with a haughty gaze and a habit of raising her chin when addressing Li Yi 13.
• Clothing: Wears a white haute couture gown at her first appearance and later chooses a miniskirt and high heels to attract attention during a marathon broadcast 13 57.
• Beauty maintenance: Spends hundreds of thousands of yuan each month maintaining her face and uses a medical facial mask costing over one thousand yuan after Li Yi slaps her 13 15.

Personality

Xingluo is proud, status-conscious, and accustomed to being indulged. She treats Li Yi’s former obedience as something she is entitled to: before his change in behavior, she could slap him when unhappy and receive concern rather than resistance. Even after her reputation deteriorates, she initially refuses to consider reconciling with him 13 52.

Her public sweetness contrasts with calculated attempts to redirect criticism. She deliberately likes and unlikes a comment to encourage fans to blame Li Yi for her injuries, then stages a tearful explanation and orders false sexual rumors about another actress. She also accepts public credit for compensation that a fan paid out of his own pocket 14 15 17.

Her loyalty to Lu Junjia weakens when defending him damages her own interests. After the scandal escalates, she blames him for suggesting the injury photographs and accuses him of using her fans against Li Yi. She is also deeply affected by the online abuse she previously tried to direct at others, becoming afraid to look at her phone 17 18.

Abilities & Skills

Chinese Painting

• Has some grounding in traditional Chinese painting and completes a lotus painting during the nursing-home variety show 45.
• Her technique is visibly less accomplished than Professor Wang Lin’s, whose monochrome lotuses overshadow her performance 46.
• Her painting sells for 1,000 yuan at the charity sale, compared with two million yuan for Wang Lin’s work 47.

Publicity and Image Management

• Uses carefully selected photographs, suggestive social-media interactions, and a protective fan base to seek sympathy and direct criticism toward others 13 14.
• Stages an emotional apology using makeup and eye drops, then uses her PR team to spread fabricated allegations against a rival actress 17.
• Relies heavily on outside support: after None of Your Peace leaves, her team struggles to organize fans or suppress damaging material 15 16.
• Is not credited with the hacking that previously protected her reputation; those interventions were performed by None of Your Peace 14 16.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Conflict with Li Yi and the Fan Exodus

Xingluo confronts Li Yi for hitting Lu Junjia and demands that he apologize. When she attempts to strike him, he slaps her twice. Hoping to turn the injuries into favorable publicity, she selects a photograph that makes them appear especially severe and posts that she may be unable to attend an upcoming variety show 13.

Her attempt to mobilize her fandom fails when None of Your Peace openly says she deserved the slaps, deletes his posts, and leaves her fan communities. Her team tries to acquire his accounts and threatens him when he refuses. It subsequently releases a statement portraying him as a fan who turned against her after failing to obtain a private meeting 14 15 16.

Li Yi releases evidence of her bullying minor celebrities, insulting elderly people, and taking other performers’ opportunities. Several prominent fans abandon her, including Light of Xingluo, and replacement hackers cannot contain the circulating videos 16.

Fabricated Apology and Lost Variety-Show Contract

Xingluo has Lu Junjia record an apology video in which she minimizes her conduct and denies stealing another actress’s opportunity. Her PR team then claims that the actress obtained her variety-show place by sleeping with an assistant director 17.

Li Yi counters with home-surveillance footage showing Xingluo preparing her performance and ordering the fabricated rumors. Further reporting reveals that she had targeted the actress after a dispute over a restaurant’s last private room, damaging her acting prospects and later taking her variety-show slot. The director terminates Xingluo’s contract and reinstates the original performer; Xingluo loses hundreds of thousands of followers overnight 17.

She agrees to withdraw from public view for a month as endorsements begin to disappear. At home, her hostility toward Li Yi continues: he secretly serves her and other family members coffee contaminated with cat feces, and later retaliates when she and Lu Junjia enter his room at night. During that confrontation, she sprays insecticide at him before being knocked down and struck with the can 18 23.

Nursing-Home Comeback Attempt

Her manager arranges a charity variety show at South Mountain Nursing Home to restore her reputation. Li Yi joins through his longstanding relationships with the residents, surprising Xingluo when she arrives. On the livestream, she claims that they barely know each other 39 43.

Her painting performance becomes another embarrassment. Director Sen mistakenly believes viewers want to buy her work, prompting her to offer the anticipated proceeds to charity. The viewers actually want Professor Wang Lin’s painting; the eventual sales expose the enormous difference in demand for their work 46 47.

A later video shows Xingluo attempting to collide with Li Yi in the cafeteria, with Shi Yan intervening. The footage triggers renewed criticism and trending discussions about her treatment of an ordinary participant. At home, she offers Li Yi one million yuan or minor entertainment opportunities if he will claim responsibility for staging the incident; her parents support pressuring him to accept blame 50 51 53.

Exposure of Her Treatment of Li Yi

During the show’s marathon activities, Li Yi recounts buying a cake for his older sister that ended up in the trash and creating a Weibo account to support her. Xingluo recognizes details associated with None of Your Peace and begins to suspect his identity. Viewers connect the account, the nursing home, and their family relationship 59 61.

Li Xu then leaks footage of Xingluo splashing hot tea on Li Yi while others laugh. Li Yi follows with a public post containing abuse videos, recordings of the family’s threats, and an account of his work supporting her career. His evidence confirms that the fan responsible for much of her success was the brother she mistreated 62 65.

Xingluo suffers facial scratches while trying to separate her fighting parents and withdraws from the charity show before its final filming day. Endorsements, variety shows, films, and television productions subsequently cancel contracts, with some endorsers demanding compensation. By Chapter 83, she has uninstalled Weibo 66 70 72 83.

Song Family Marriage Talks and the Inheritance

As the Lu family’s finances deteriorate, a marriage alliance with Song Li of Donghui Group is discussed to obtain the Song family’s help. During a watch-shopping encounter, Xingluo blames Li Yi for the family’s troubles and insults his mother. Li Yi slaps her and warns that he will claim his grandfather’s bequest on December 25 149.

Xingluo attempts to reassure Song Li that the family has suffered only a manageable business loss, but he privately decides to investigate its finances 150.

When the will is executed, Xingluo inherits several houses and angrily objects that Li Yi receives company shares instead. After Li Yi takes control of the Lu Corporation, she pleads with him to prevent the sale of the Lu residence and asks him to secure more repayment time from Shi Yan. He refuses to intervene in the family’s two-billion-yuan debt to Huanxing Group 151.

Previous-Life Outcome

In Li Yi’s previous life, the variety show she loses in the current timeline helped Xingluo gain further fame and become a regular variety-show guest. She eventually became a nationwide star, while fans misled by her harassed Li Yi at school and through late-night calls. His actions after rebirth prevent that career trajectory from repeating 17 52.

Relationships

• Li Yi — Younger brother, former devoted supporter, and eventual opponent. As None of Your Peace, he built much of her public following; after withdrawing his support, he exposes her abuse and publicity schemes 13 14 65.
• Lu Junjia — Adopted brother whom she habitually defends against Li Yi. Their alliance becomes strained when she blames him for the injury-photo scandal; she later encourages his hopes of attracting Shi Yan 13 18 53 61.
• Qiao Xinyue — Mother. Indulges Xingluo and supports making Li Yi accept blame for the livestream incident 13 52 53.
• Lu Hongshen — Father. Backs the attempt to buy Li Yi’s false confession and increases the proposed payment to two million yuan 53.
• Lu Shixuan — Eldest brother. Xingluo’s discovery of an old photograph in their mother’s album provides a lead in his investigation into Lu Junjia’s origins 141.
• Lu Chuzhou — Older brother and fellow entertainer. Resents the reversal between Xingluo’s ruined reputation and Li Yi’s growing popularity 83.
• Fangfang — Assistant who monitors the fan community, reports None of Your Peace’s departure, and proposes mobilizing fans against the resulting criticism 15.
• Light of Xingluo — Wealthy former fan who personally compensates purchasers of counterfeit food promoted by Xingluo. She takes credit without thanking him; he later leaves her fandom 15 16.
• Shi Yan — Li Yi’s protector. Intervenes during the cafeteria incident and intimidates Xingluo during their later confrontation in the watch shop 50 51 149.
• Song Li — Prospective marriage-alliance partner from Donghui Group. Becomes suspicious of the Lu family’s financial condition despite her reassurances 149 150.

Notable Quotes

“Me, take the initiative to get on good terms with Li Yi? … In his dreams! I’ll never bow my head to him as long as I live.” 52

“Li Yi, we were wrong before, but we’ve already been punished. Can you please not sell the Lu residence?” 151