Bai Ruanruan

Biodata

Background

Bai Ruanruan is the Bai family’s biological son, switched at birth with Nan Qing. He grew up with Nan Qing’s biological parents: loving, highly educated, middle-class professionals who treated him as their only child. His adoptive mother spoiled him, leaving him unaccustomed to practical work. Both adoptive parents later died in an accident 34 75 77.

Since childhood, Bai Ruanruan knew that he was the protagonist of a book. His foreknowledge promised recognition by the Bai family at twenty, a celebrated return, and Nan Qing’s death after the welcoming banquet. He deliberately revealed clues to his birth family and approached Huo Yuzhou in anticipation of the advantages described in the plot 4.

Before his identity was revealed, he befriended Bai Yanxiu, attracted Qin Mubai’s attention, and received financial support after his adoptive parents’ deaths. He moved into the Bai household after the Bai parents overheard his account of Nan Qing bullying him. His tearful displays subsequently helped turn the household against Nan Qing 17 77.

Appearance

• Build and features: Delicate-looking, with thin limbs and long, slender fingers that he carefully maintains 31 78.
• Public presentation: Uses makeup, soft expressions, and a practiced shy smile to reinforce his innocent “little white flower” image 30 55.
• Clothing: Favors expensive branded outfits and accessories. His fashion-gala ensemble includes an SN tailcoat, Givenchy belt and shoes, and a six-figure watch 80.
• Later injuries: Suffers retinal damage, loss of his tongue, and a crushed leg. After confinement in the Bai home, he uses a prosthesis and a specially made contact lens to conceal aspects of his condition 135 138 139.

Personality

Bai Ruanruan presents himself as gentle, vulnerable, and considerate. He practices expressions intended to inspire tenderness and frequently follows provocation with tears or claims of self-sacrifice. Within the Bai family, he uses filial behavior and references to his adoptive mother’s wishes to win sympathy and opportunities 17 55 78.

Privately, he treats his protagonist status as proof that admiration, wealth, and romantic devotion belong to him. He wants Nan Qing to witness his success and takes pleasure in the prospect of humiliating him. When events diverge from his expectations, he blames Nan Qing for stealing his life and the affection intended for him 18 46 126 127.

His relationships are strongly transactional. Although he prefers Xi Juan, he continues pursuing Huo Yuzhou for his influence and resources. He also distinguishes between potential contacts by status, showing interest in entrepreneurs and ambassadors while dismissing writers and artists 55 86.

His compassionate persona contrasts with his private cruelty: he kicks the puppy used to support his image, mistreats staff, and publicly humiliates Xi Juan. Even after losing his system, he continues insisting that he was born to be the protagonist 79 119 135 139.

Abilities & Skills

Plot Foreknowledge

Bai Ruanruan receives knowledge of the original storyline through dreams and understands his intended position within it 4 34 86.

• Anticipates his return to the Bai family and uses clues to facilitate recognition 4.
• Attempts to recreate a variety-show highlight seen in his dream 34.
• Expects Xi Juan to become his husband and Huo Yuzhou to remain devoted to him 49 86.
• Limit: His knowledge describes the original plot, not an unchangeable future. The wine tasting, for example, was absent from his prophetic dreams 86.

System Assistance

System 087 supports his efforts to become a universally adored “white moonlight” figure 62.

• Identifies influential guests and their positions, helping him select people to approach 86.
• Helps him establish rapport with an executive during an apology meeting 78.
• Limit: It cannot directly interfere with supporting characters’ life trajectories. After finding no system in Nan Qing, it cannot submit an anomalous-data report or destruction request against him 70.
• Termination: It unbinds after declaring his mission failed and his protagonist privileges lost 139.

Restorative Healing

System-assisted treatment can repair injuries far beyond normal recovery, including fractured hand bones and facial wounds 103.

Heartthrob Halo

The Heartthrob Halo targets the protagonist gong, Xi Juan, and the villainous major figure, Huo Yuzhou 139.

• Xi Juan’s abrupt public declaration of love, shortly after denying any relationship, leads Nan Qing to recognize the use of a protagonist halo 115 116.
• Bai Ruanruan uses its influence to obtain declarations of love and apparent agreement to leave the country with him 139.
• Resistance: Xi Juan visibly struggles against his control, including shoving Bai Ruanruan away and resisting an order to insult Nan Qing 119 139.
• Failure against Huo Yuzhou: Huo explicitly reassures Nan Qing that Bai Ruanruan’s aura has not affected him 121.
• After unbinding: Bai Ruanruan gambles that the already-activated effect on Xi Juan remains, but Xi Juan turns their final encounter against him 139 140.

Publicity Manipulation

• Uses injury photographs, ambiguous posts, bought trending topics, and selective footage to attract sympathy or attack rivals 45 70 122 124 128.
• Orders a front-desk employee to publish photographs of his humiliating treatment of Xi Juan 119.
• Sends material about Nan Qing and Qin Mubai to an entertainment paparazzo in an attempt to destroy their reputations 128 131.

Entertainment Career

Public Following

Major Story Arcs

Return to the Bai Family

• A fall down the stairs exposes his biological identity. Accounts of the incident also describe serious damage to his arm and fingers, with doctors saying he will never play the piano again 77 109.
• Nan Qing is expelled from the Bai household. Bai Ruanruan later admits that he and Bai Yanxiu worked together to drive him out 109 127.
• Expecting Huo Yuzhou to punish Nan Qing, Bai Ruanruan approaches Huo’s room with supporters. Instead, Huo protects Nan Qing and has Fu Hai taken away; Bai Ruanruan faints during the commotion 4 5 6.

Hello, World and Mount Pingqiao

• His insinuation that Nan Qing and Yu Xingyan have an improper relationship ends with Nan Qing pressing a dung-covered basket into his face 32.
• He refuses to contribute properly to apple picking and stages a compassionate objection to Nan Qing killing fish, alienating other participants and the director 34 35 36.
• Paired with Nan Qing on Mount Pingqiao, he dismisses Nan Qing’s storm warning. During the evacuation, he slips, grabs Nan Qing’s trouser leg, and pulls them both down a cliff 36.
• After rescue, he assumes Nan Qing has died and uses recovery posts to rebuild his image. He later tells Huo Yuzhou that he fell while saving Nan Qing; after the meeting, Huo orders his hands crippled 45 55.

Failed Endorsements and the Wine Tasting

• After Nan Qing slaps him for spreading sexual rumors, Bai Ruanruan posts misleading footage portraying himself as the victim 70.
• His attack on Nan Qing’s fashion-gala clothing backfires when SN confirms the outfit is bespoke couture. Givenchy subsequently terminates its agreement with him 81 86.
• At the Gu family wine tasting, Nan Qing publicly exposes his explicit messages and photographs to Huo Yuzhou and declares that Huo is his boyfriend 89.
• Bai Ruanruan obtains an aphrodisiac from his system and attempts to exploit Huo Yuzhou. Huo and Gu Xingchen anticipate the scheme, and a bodyguard knocks him unconscious 92 97.
• His unusually rapid healing draws their attention, but subsequent injuries reveal that the ability cannot be used without restriction 97 103.

Control of Xi Juan

• Xi Juan abruptly acknowledges Bai Ruanruan as his lover despite privately denying that anything happened between them 115 116.
• Bai Ruanruan leads him through Huading Entertainment by a ribbon attached to a collar and slaps him when he resists. Publication of the incident triggers fan backlash and contract terminations for Xi Juan 119 121.
• While Xi Juan’s career collapses, Bai Ruanruan gains millions of followers and uses further injury photographs to strengthen public sympathy 122 124.
• He threatens to subject Qin Mubai to similar treatment unless Nan Qing betrays Huo Yuzhou. Nan Qing beats him, and Qin Mubai intervenes 127.

Exposure, System Loss, and Imprisonment

• Bai Ruanruan prepares a scandal involving Nan Qing and Qin Mubai, hoping to ruin them and position himself to inherit the Qin and Bai families’ assets. Before publication, he is attacked and dragged away 131.
• He is later found severely injured near an abandoned dump. The Bai family suppresses the news and confines him at home, while leaked evidence of his mistreatment of staff destroys much of his following 135.
• System 087 declares his mission failed, explains why his lasting injuries cannot be healed, and unbinds despite his pleas 139.
• He attacks the attendants who enter his room, disguises his condition, and goes to Xi Juan seeking a way abroad. During their confrontation, Xi Juan pushes him away and deliberately falls from the building; footage prompts public suspicion about Bai Ruanruan’s control over him 139 140.
• After a case lasting nearly a month, Bai Ruanruan is convicted of misappropriating an enormous amount of another person’s property and refusing to return it. His sentence is four years in prison, a fine, and lifelong deprivation of political rights 141.

Relationships

• Nan Qing — The boy switched with him at birth and his principal rival. Bai Ruanruan regards Nan Qing’s survival, relationships, and success as theft of his destined life 4 126 127.
• Huo Yuzhou — A powerful figure he expects to adore him. Bai Ruanruan repeatedly seeks his resources and attention, but Huo protects Nan Qing, counters his schemes, and remains unaffected by his aura 55 97 121.
• Xi Juan — His intended husband in the original plot. Xi Juan initially rejects him and protects Nan Qing; Bai Ruanruan later subjects him to halo-assisted control and public humiliation 49 82 119 139.
• Qin Mubai — His eldest brother within the Bai family. Qin sees through his lies, threatens to expel him for targeting Nan Qing, and becomes another target of his threats and scandal-making 78 96 127 131.
• Bai Yanxiu — His second older brother and an early supporter. He comforts Bai Ruanruan, defends him against Nan Qing, and participates in driving Nan Qing from the family 45 75 127.
• Qin Jingzhu — His biological mother. His affectionate behavior satisfies her desire for a close mother–son relationship; his later injuries frighten her badly enough that she develops a fever 79 135.
• Zheng Ming — His manager, who arranges industry opportunities but reprimands him when scandals jeopardize endorsements and company resources 78 80 86.
• System 087 — His supernatural assistant. He berates it and threatens complaints when it cannot remove Nan Qing; it ultimately condemns his conduct and abandons him after mission failure 70 139.

Notable Quotes

“Of course. I’m the protagonist of this world!” 62

“What right do you have to strip me of my rights as the protagonist?” 139