Murong Xue

Biodata

Background / History

Conflict in the Withered Bone Forest

Murong Xue is the daughter of Murong Feng, a guild director in Jiangcheng. Raised with considerable privilege, she was accustomed to others fearing, flattering, or avoiding her; even her parents had never struck her 56.

She first encounters Luo Li while he is escorting Lu Jingheng to the site of an attack on a survey team. Emerging from the dead trees, she fires a blast near Lu Jingheng and orders the group out of the sealed area. When Luo Li demands an apology, she invokes her father's influence and attacks him with a stronger fireball. Luo Li evades it and slaps her, prompting her to vow that she will make him kneel and beg for mercy 56.

Retaliation and the Murong Family's Decline

Murong Xue uses her family's connections to block Luo Li from worthwhile official guild missions. The scheme fails when he switches to private bounties, a market the family cannot control, and continues earning substantial rewards 57.

She then investigates his personal connections and selects his parents, Luo Mingyuan and Zhou Wan, as vulnerable targets because they are ordinary teachers without abilities or influential backing. She sends thugs to intimidate them, provoking Luo Li into attacking the perpetrators at a pool hall linked to her family. Police and guild enforcement officers arrest him for assault while she watches from a luxury sedan 58.

Castorice retaliates by entering the Murong estate, dismantling its defenses, and overpowering Murong Feng. Murong Xue initially denies responsibility and appeals to her father and the guild, but breaks down after Castorice summons Pollux. She reveals that Luo Li is held at the East District No. 7 Ability Detention Center and offers to withdraw the complaint. Castorice spares the family but threatens to eliminate its presence in Jiangcheng if Luo Li is harmed again 60.

The family makes no further complaint or retaliation. Its businesses contract, its core members become reclusive, and former associates distance themselves. By the time Murong Xue reaches the frontline, Kong Yan'er reports that the family's holdings have shrunk by more than half 62 67.

Frontline Service

At Ironwall Fortress, Murong Xue serves in an ability-user squad. Her initial reunion with Luo Li is silent and tense, marked by hatred, fear, and resentment. She later confronts him after training, only to flee angrily when he repeatedly suggests that her fixation means she has a crush on him 67 68.

In the Rotting Swamp, her squad is surrounded by corrosive venom spiders and three B-rank Boneblade Hunters. Luo Li intervenes when a Hunter's blade is about to pierce her heart, slowing the attack and killing the creature. His explanation—that he will not stand aside while fellow humans die—forces her to reconsider the pettiness of her earlier actions 70.

Her exhausted squad subsequently struggles under the Venom Queen's poisonous mist before Chen Zihan kills the mutant. After returning to base, she becomes unusually withdrawn, and most of her followers drift away 71 72.

Luo Li later finds her alone at an abandoned radar station with a deep left-arm wound inflicted by elite Shadow Bats. She first refuses assistance, then asks for help. He cleans and bandages the injury, leaves her medicine, and helps her stand. Her thanks are more sincere than before, and her hatred becomes entangled with confusion and attraction. Afterward, she largely avoids him 72 73.

Apology at Deep Clouds Café

After returning to Jiangcheng, Murong Xue invites Luo Li to a private meeting at Deep Clouds Café. She apologizes for targeting him and his parents, calling her previous conduct headstrong and immature. Luo Li neither explicitly accepts nor rejects the apology, instead emphasizing whether she understands her wrongdoing and will stop repeating it 88.

She gives him a copy of an ancient family record concerning spatial energy anomaly points. Although she presents it as restitution, her motives remain mixed: the narration describes jealousy, curiosity, resentment, and an increasingly obsessive attraction. Luo Li accepts the scroll but remains suspicious, while she privately refuses to regard their involvement as finished 88.

High School Side Story

In the high school side story, Murong Xue is a wealthy, haughty classmate at Jiangcheng No. 1 High School. She disparages Castorice and Polyxena's association with a funeral home and resents the attention they receive. During cultural festival preparations, she mocks Castorice over coffin props, but Polyxena's retort leaves her unable to answer 81 82 84.

Appearance

Murong Xue is described as pretty, with long hair, carefully styled grooming, and elaborate makeup at her first appearance 56.

• Initial attire: Pink clothing, styled hair, and exquisite makeup 56.
• Frontline appearance: A standard Dragon Scale Type III combat suit, hair simply tied back, and a pale, haggard face without her usual makeup 67.
• Café meeting: A tailored cream suit, understated makeup, and pinned-up hair 88.

Personality

Initially arrogant, class-conscious, and vindictive, Murong Xue treats her family background as protection from consequences. She calls Luo Li and his companions “lowlifes,” dismisses a guard's attempt to restrain her, and escalates from an argument to physical violence. When direct intimidation fails, she resorts to economic pressure and targeting his parents 56 57 58.

Her pride persists even when she is vulnerable. At the radar station, she initially refuses help despite a serious injury, but ultimately chooses survival over saving face. Luo Li's repeated assistance unsettles her belief that he is merely rude and overbearing 72.

Her later restraint does not amount to an unambiguous change of heart. She becomes quieter and apologizes, yet retains jealousy toward Castorice and an obsessive desire to remain involved with Luo Li. The narration explicitly leaves the sincerity of her apology uncertain 73 88.

Abilities & Skills

Fire Projection

Murong Xue can form flames in her hand and launch fireballs 56.

• Uses a blast to intimidate people away from a sealed area.
• Launches a substantially stronger fireball when angered.
• Fails to hit Luo Li decisively; he evades the attack without using Enma or his Spacetime ability 56.

Armed Combat

She fights with an energy sword during frontline service 70.

• Attempts to defend herself against a B-rank Boneblade Hunter.
• Cannot block or evade its final thrust and survives through Luo Li's intervention 70.

Family Influence

Murong Xue draws on the Murong Family's guild connections, subordinates, and investigative resources 57 58.

• Arranges restrictions on Luo Li's official mission access.
• Investigates his relatives and associates to identify vulnerable targets.
• Cannot extend the family's blockade to independent private bounties 57 58.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Energy sword — Wielded against a Boneblade Hunter in the Rotting Swamp 70.
• Dragon Scale Type III combat suit — Standard frontline uniform 67.
• Private armed off-road vehicle — An expensive vehicle used to leave the Withered Bone Forest with her guards 56.
• Ancient spatial-anomaly record — A copy from her family's collection, previously studied by her father without much progress; given to Luo Li as purported restitution 88.

Relationships

• Murong Feng — Father and source of much of her institutional protection. He attempts to shield her from Castorice but is overpowered 56 60.
• Luo Li — Initially her enemy and the target of repeated retaliation; later saves her twice. Her hostility develops into conflicted attraction, but he remains wary and does not reciprocate 58 70 72 88.
• Castorice — Confronts and terrifies her over Luo Li's imprisonment. Murong Xue later envies the tenderness Luo Li shows Castorice 60 88.
• Kong Yan'er — Knows her reputation for holding grudges, warns Luo Li about her, and frequently mocks her pride 67 68 72.
• Polyxena — Opposes her disparagement of Castorice during the high school side story 84.