Su Qingxiao

Biodata

Background

Su Qingxiao met Yang Chenyu while camping during a vacation in their first university year. He had forgotten to bring food, and she helped him out. After discovering that they attended the same university, they began camping together regularly, gradually developed feelings, and became a couple 13.

By their third year, the two were spending their vacation camping in different places, with Jiangcheng as their final stop. An earlier trip had been spoiled when Yang Chenyu’s excessive helpfulness made strangers mistake him for a scammer, explaining her alarm when he brought Lin Yu and Firefly to their campsite 13.

Appearance

• Wears her hair in a ponytail 13.
• Wears medium-framed glasses, which she adjusts before explaining kissing to Firefly 14.

Personality

Su Qingxiao is outspoken and quick to scold Yang Chenyu, but she distinguishes his good intentions from his tendency to overwhelm strangers. When meeting Lin Yu and Firefly, she apologizes on his behalf and assures them that he is a good person. She later explains that much of her anger toward him is playful, and that he understands and willingly plays along 13 14.

Other people’s romances excite her intensely. She eagerly questions Firefly about Lin Yu and becomes especially enthusiastic after learning that they live together. Despite her appetite for gossip and teasing, she stops questioning Firefly when she seems unwilling to answer 13.

She is patient with Firefly’s social difficulties, softening her voice, finding conversation topics, and explaining things Firefly does not understand. She values Firefly’s innocence and straightforwardness, preferring her company to relationships involving scheming and mutual suspicion 13 28.

Relationships

• Yang Chenyu — Her boyfriend and regular camping partner. Their frequent bickering contrasts with her openly expressed affection: she considers him dependable, appreciates his care and tolerance, and wants to continue sharing her life with him 13 14.
• Firefly — Her new friend and an eager recipient of her romantic advice. Su Qingxiao becomes Firefly’s first friend in this world apart from Lin Yu, maintains contact through WeChat, and patiently accommodates her limited conversational skills 14 15 28.
• Lin Yu — A friend met through Yang Chenyu during the camping trip. She enthusiastically supports his apparent relationship with Firefly, unaware that his initial explanation of “boyfriend” and “girlfriend” was misleading 13.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Meeting Lin Yu and Firefly

• Welcomes the inexperienced campers into the shared campsite after initially reprimanding Yang Chenyu for bringing strangers over 13.
• Helps Firefly become comfortable talking to someone other than Lin Yu by taking the lead in their conversation 13.
• Shares lunch and stories about her relationship with Yang Chenyu. During the lakeside photography session, she playfully embraces Firefly from behind, producing a candid photograph of her laughter and Firefly’s startled reaction 13.

Introducing Firefly to Romance

• Explains kissing as an expression of love through mouth-to-mouth contact, emphasizing that the people involved should like each other 14.
• Uses her feelings for Yang Chenyu to describe affection: safety, closeness, companionship, and enjoying activities together. Her explanation helps Firefly begin considering these feelings for herself 14.
• Witnesses the firefly swarm gathering around Firefly. Although astonished and initially suspicious, she and Yang Chenyu ultimately accept the event as a coincidence 14.
• Her advice prompts Firefly to kiss the sleeping Lin Yu. The following morning, she listens privately to Firefly’s account and reassures her that feeling shy after a first kiss is normal 14 15.

Friendship After the Camping Trip

• Exchanges contact information with Firefly before their departure and asks her to chat often 15.
• Lin Yu later asks Yang Chenyu to tell Su Qingxiao not to mention the viral camping footage and its online discussion to Firefly 16.
• Sends Firefly campus photographs featuring herself and Yang Chenyu when their semester begins. Firefly’s wish to send photographs back leads her to insist that Lin Yu appear in a picture with her 28.
• Mistakes Firefly’s black wig for her natural hair, believing the earlier silver-haired appearance was cosplay because of Lin Yu’s explanation 28.

Notable Quotes

“Watching other people fall in love is the sweetest thing, and a classy male god paired with a soft, adorable little kitten is such a feast for the eyes!” 13

“When it comes to liking someone, I don't think there's an absolute definition. Everyone has their own theory, and no one person's is necessarily right.” 14