Fang Nuonuo

Biodata

Background

Fang Nuonuo grew up in a wealthy family whose elders and older male cousins doted on her. Yu Liqi, the other girl in their generation, was repeatedly compared unfavorably with her. Fang Nuonuo reinforced this favoritism by displaying her accomplishments in front of their relatives and later spreading rumors that Yu Liqi dated boys and associated with men outside school. Their relatives believed Fang Nuonuo’s well-behaved public image rather than Yu Liqi’s denials 85 142 187.

She studied journalism but pursued entertainment instead. A month before joining the dating show, she signed with Lu Zhou’s company. Her seemingly spontaneous rise to fame was manufactured: promoters arranged her viral video, and she later revealed that she had endured being hit five times while filming its staged car-accident scenario 3 86.

The company planned to promote her by contrasting her considerate, undemanding persona with Su Mian’s reputation as a gold digger. Fang Nuonuo also knew beforehand that the male contestants were wealthy or powerful and regarded a relationship with any of them as potentially useful to her career 3 86.

Appearance

• Hair: Long enough to reach her waist when first introduced 2.
• Early presentation: White clothing, a gentle expression, and a soft-spoken manner reinforce her “goddess” image 2.
• Costume choices: Favors conventionally attractive roles and outfits, including a cat costume, Xiaolongnü’s flowing white robes, a female spy, and a nurse 33 72 73 142.
• Jaw muscles: Attributes her widening face to repeatedly clenching her teeth while suppressing anger at Su Mian; plans to have the muscles reduced 59.

Personality

Fang Nuonuo carefully separates her public behavior from her private motives. She presents herself as gentle, emotionally stable, uncompetitive, and uninterested in material demands. Privately, she treats the dating show as a career platform and resents other contestants receiving the attention she believes should belong to her 2 3 32 55.

Her preferred method of confrontation is indirect. She insinuates wrongdoing, portrays herself as hurt, and lets supporters attack on her behalf. During the walnut-allergy incident, for example, she appears to defend Su Mian while encouraging the impression that Su Mian deliberately harmed her 19 69 70.

She is willing to tolerate considerable discomfort for publicity. She endures Huang Han’s unwanted courtship, frightens herself on amusement rides to improve her heart-rate results, and returns to filming soon after hospitalization to promote her perseverance. Her manager recognizes both her ability to maintain a convincing front and her determination to prioritize career advancement over romance 54 55 72 86.

Her confidence depends heavily on superiority over others, especially Yu Liqi. She dismisses her cousin as a permanent foil and reacts badly when Yu Liqi succeeds where she fails. By the finale, the reversal of their fortunes and her family’s rejection drive her into seclusion 85 86 192.

Abilities & Skills

Public Persona and Social Manipulation

Fang Nuonuo cultivates sympathy through flattering remarks, restrained speech, tears, and apparent self-sacrifice 6 14 19.

• Encourages others to defend her without openly demanding confrontation 19 69.
• Tells Xu Qingyun and Su Mian incompatible versions of her views on Lu Zhou’s relationships 58.
• Uses family favoritism to pressure Yu Liqi through their relatives 103 109.
• Her approach becomes less effective when recordings, unedited footage, or direct questions expose the discrepancy between her claims and her actions 58 85 86 109.

Publicity Strategy

She actively monitors trending searches and coordinates promotional campaigns with her manager and company 13 33 75.

• Purchases coverage emphasizing her beauty, diligence, charitable work, and supposed superiority to other female guests 72 75 105 142.
• Maintains romantic performances with male contestants to generate couple-related attention 53 55.
• Uses alternate accounts to insult and spread insinuations about Su Mian 113 152.
• Pays for promotion herself after Lu Zhou refuses further publicity funding 75.

Performance and Auditioning

Fang Nuonuo pursues leading roles and receives a high score in the first round of Director Zhang’s heroine audition. However, Su Mian wins the role after the aerial-fighting test, and Fang Nuonuo’s manager acknowledges the gap between their performances 85 86.

• Performs a classical dance during the show’s cultural showcase 75.
• Deliberately withholds a pronunciation correction from a competing actress during rehearsal 84 85.
• Alters a shared fictional storyline to redirect other characters’ affection and achievements toward her own role 140.

Cooking

Her cooking improves during the show, but early attempts cause serious problems 36 65 102.

• Her “4G beans” cause vomiting and diarrhea among the guests who eat them 36.
• Subsequently chooses ingredients she believes will not be poisonous 65.
• Earns an average score of 7.9 in a later cooking competition, relying on rich, heavily seasoned fried dishes 102.

Equipment & Items

• Smartphone: Receives special permission to keep it while other guests surrender theirs. Uses it to monitor publicity and communicate with allies; later employs a privacy screen protector to conceal messages from cameras 8 13 55.
• Luxury watch: Worth more than three million yuan. Its appearance on camera reveals her wealthy background and helps restore her popularity 89.
• Heart-rate monitor: Exploits its inability to distinguish affection from anger or fear to manufacture apparently romantic results 53 54.

Relationships

• Su Mian — Principal professional rival and intended negative comparison. Fang Nuonuo repeatedly tries to undermine her, but the failed schemes frequently increase Su Mian’s popularity instead 3 58 86 109.
• Yu Liqi — Cousin and longstanding target of comparison, rumors, and belittlement. Yu Liqi eventually exposes her accusations and distances herself from their relatives 85 103 109.
• Lu Zhou — Employer and early promoter. He arranges publicity and a staged rescue for her, but becomes increasingly dissatisfied and eventually refuses additional promotional spending 8 9 33 75.
• Xu Qingyun — Childhood acquaintance and high-school classmate who recommended her to Starry Entertainment. Their alliance collapses when Su Mian exposes Fang Nuonuo’s double-dealing 58 145.
• Duan Xuanyu — Initially her preferred male contestant because of his appearance. He rejects her attempts at intimacy and remains firmly aligned with Su Mian 3 53 88.
• Lin Xi — Early defender and prospective romantic partner. His opinion deteriorates after she uses him as a shield during the wild-boar encounter 14 19 20.
• Huang Han / Aiden — Wealthy donor who joins the show to pursue her. She privately dislikes his courtship but sustains their pairing for money and publicity; his secret livestream damages her position during the allergy accusation 48 51 53 55 70.
• Gu Yichen — Later show partner. Her attempts to gain sympathy initially fail, but supporting his ambition to sing improves his opinion of her 89 129 157 161.
• Family — Initially indulgent supporters who defend her against criticism. After her career fails and Yu Liqi succeeds, they begin insulting her and telling her to remain at home 108 142 192.

Story Role & Major Arcs

Manufactured Fame and Early Setbacks

Fang Nuonuo enters the story with ten million followers and a public message that love matters more than material comforts. Behind that image, she expects the dating show to establish her entertainment career at Su Mian’s expense 2 3.

Her initial promotion encounters several setbacks. Duan Xuanyu frightens her when she touches his sword without permission, and his dangerous driving later sends her into Lin Xi’s arms. Possessive fans turn on her for the interaction, prompting Lu Zhou to redirect criticism toward Su Mian through paid comments 3 5.

Lu Zhou next stages a small fire so Fang Nuonuo can perform a rescue. She retreats without rescuing the assistant, leaving Su Mian to save her. The production team’s claim that Fang Nuonuo was injured during the rescue attracts ridicule, and her follower count falls from fourteen million to twelve million 8 9.

Exposed Favoritism and the Wild-Boar Dispute

Su Mian catches Fang Nuonuo checking a secretly retained phone, forcing the host to invent an explanation for her special treatment. During the forest challenge, Fang Nuonuo then falsely implies that Su Mian and Duan Xuanyu caught a boar using her trap. Lin Xi turns the insinuation into an open dispute, exposing her claim to scrutiny 13 17 18 19.

The encounter also damages her relationship with Lin Xi: he realizes that Su Mian protected him while Fang Nuonuo pulled him into danger as a shield. He rejects her subsequent offer to pay Su Mian on his behalf 20.

Huang Han and the Allergy Accusation

Huang Han’s arrival offers Fang Nuonuo a wealthy admirer and a new promotional pairing. Because he does not actually make her heart race, she provokes Su Mian and Duan Xuanyu and rides frightening attractions to inflate her monitor’s results 48 53 54.

During the parenting-show collaboration, she chooses Director Zhang’s son Xiaohu in hopes of gaining access to the director. The plan backfires when Zhang instead invites Su Mian to contact him about a wuxia heroine role 61 68.

Fang Nuonuo subsequently suffers a genuine severe allergic reaction while Huang Han accuses Su Mian of deliberately feeding her walnut powder. She privately regards the illness as useful cover for her performance, but Huang Han’s undisclosed livestream exposes the confrontation to viewers who accuse her of slander. She is taken to hospital and soon plans a return promoted as completing filming despite illness 69 70 72.

Audition Defeat and Conflict with Yu Liqi

At Director Zhang’s auditions, Fang Nuonuo deliberately allows another actress to rehearse a name incorrectly. Su Mian exposes the omission after Fang Nuonuo pronounces it correctly in her own audition. Although she reaches the heroine’s second round, Su Mian wins the part 84 85.

Fang Nuonuo releases a secretly recorded conversation suggesting Su Mian was favored in advance. Her manager later explains that the raw audition footage vindicates Su Mian and turns the accusation into publicity for her 84 85 86.

Yu Liqi’s arrival on the dating show brings their family conflict into public view. Fang Nuonuo accuses her of copying her education, appearance, and career choices, but Su Mian challenges the accusation. Fang Nuonuo then appeals to Yu Liqi’s parents, claiming that the other women are bullying her 87 103.

Failed Charity Campaign and Probiotic Scandal

Fang Nuonuo attempts to rehabilitate her image through volunteer teaching in an impoverished village. The activity initially earns praise, but its staged, commercialized nature is exposed after she spends an afternoon posing for photographs 105 106.

She then posts a video accusing Yu Liqi of drugging her. The powder is identified as a probiotic, and Yu Liqi produces proof that she drank the water herself. The controversy instead promotes Su Mian’s new ambassadorship for Daosheng Yuanhe 109.

A further rehabilitation attempt involves hiring a child to express attachment to her on camera. Her assistant brings Qiangzi rather than the requested girl. Fang Nuonuo later recruits him to interrupt Su Mian’s performance, including instructions to trip her while she dances 113 114 115 117.

Later Schemes and the Final Vote

Fang Nuonuo continues trying to seize attention through script alterations, cultivating Zhou Tian’s favor, and spreading insinuations about Su Mian’s relationships. Duan Hongxu exposes the matching IP addresses of her main and alternate accounts, undermining her attempted smear 140 145 152.

She also supports Gu Yichen’s desire to sing, eventually arranging professional equipment for a performance intended to attract votes. During the competition to reclaim a cultural relic, she tries to protect her lead by inviting an education expert to address an overseas school 157 179 182.

The expert’s guilt-based parenting lecture alienates the parents. Fang Nuonuo’s vote count stops growing, and Su Mian overtakes her on the final day 184.

Final Outcome

After Yu Liqi wins an award and Fang Nuonuo suffers repeated career failures, the family reverses its favoritism. Her relatives belittle her and tell her not to embarrass them in public. Having failed to establish herself in entertainment and long since abandoned journalism, Fang Nuonuo quits filming midway through and withdraws home, refusing visitors 192.

Original Storyline

Fang Nuonuo is the universally adored heroine of Yu Liqi’s original storyline, while Yu Liqi is its mistreated supporting character. Su Mian’s intervention helps Yu Liqi achieve professional success and escape the family dynamic 187.

In the original dating-show outcome described to Su Mian, all the male guests confess to Fang Nuonuo. She accepts none of them because the show is only a stepping stone for her career. Gu Yichen specifically credits her with supporting his dreams and helping him defy his mother 153.

Notable Quotes

“With love, even water fills your belly~” 2

“Copycat. But it doesn’t matter, cousin. You’ll always be my foil.” 85

“On the show, I swallowed my disgust and put on an act with those men!” 86