Li Rui

Biodata

Power Progression

Background and History

Early Life and Unemployment

Li Rui comes from an ordinary rural family and is one of his village’s few university graduates. His parents could not afford his tuition, so his uncles pooled money to support his education; his fifth uncle, Li Yongguang, contributed the most. As a child, Li Rui particularly admired his fourth uncle, Li Yongde, who threatened to confront children who bullied him 1 9.

After graduating, Li Rui remained in Star City and worked several jobs, mostly in sales. His inability to boast or deceive customers left him earning only a small base salary. A month before obtaining the system, he beat his boss after being berated and became unemployed. With little more than one hundred yuan remaining, he avoided returning home for three years out of shame 1.

Return and Clan Reconstruction

After receiving the system’s beginner funds, Li Rui bought a McLaren P1 and hired twenty biological bodyguards. News that his niece Yiyi had leukemia prompted him to support his sister’s family with five million yuan. He then returned to his village with his bodyguards and a convoy of luxury vehicles 2 3 4 6 7.

Li Rui told his parents that he had made roughly ten billion yuan through financial trading, using the history arranged by the system as his explanation. He proposed rebuilding the ancestral hall and reuniting the scattered clan. At the subsequent clan meeting, he displayed fifty million yuan in cash to establish his credibility, then placed the reconstruction funds in a separate account overseen by his elders 8 10.

Through bank president Qin Baichuan, he gained access to county officials. He secured 2,000 mu of free industrial land and a four-year tax exemption in exchange for investing at least ten billion yuan within four years. County magistrate Ning Guoliang also helped obtain approval for a 3,800-square-meter ancestral hall and a 1,000-square-meter residence 10 12.

Conflict with the Gu Family

When Li Rui learned that Li Ru had been bullied at school, he accompanied the family to resolve the matter. He kicked Blondie through office furniture and slapped Gu Mengqi after they threatened his relatives. He subsequently paid the medical expenses and office damages and obtained leave for Li Ru and Li Tai 16 18 19.

More than one hundred armed gang members then surrounded the family’s vehicles. Li Rui purchased another 180 basic bodyguards, bringing his force to two hundred. His men overwhelmed Gu Tianlong’s gang, and a bodyguard shattered all four of Gu Tianlong’s limbs at his signal. Li Rui afterward arranged free daily security for the school through Umbrella Security Company 19 22.

Rather than await retaliation, Li Rui purchased intelligence agents to investigate Gu Tianlong’s backing. Their findings led him to Gu Yuanshan’s underground fighting arena, where he wagered ten billion yuan with the intention of stripping Gu of his available cash. After calling in more than one hundred bodyguards, he forced Gu to abandon the contest and transferred the money to his own account 24 39 41.

When warned that Gu Yuanshan planned to assassinate him, Li Rui purchased the advanced assassin An Yi and ordered him to eliminate threats. An Yi later reported success, while Gu Yuanshan’s death by electrocution led Lü Huairen and Master Tiger to suspect Li Rui’s involvement 41 42 44.

Supporting Friends and Family

Li Rui reunited with university roommate Shen Yong after three years apart and offered his McLaren P1 as a wedding car. When He Xiaozhu’s cousin disparaged the couple, he defended them and paid 600,000 yuan for forty banquet tables and drinks 31 33.

Following Yiyi’s successful surgery, he collected her from the hospital and discovered how cramped his sister’s rental home was. He bought two finished, 240-square-meter apartments for twenty million yuan and transferred another five million yuan for furnishings and appliances. He also encouraged Zhang Huaiyuan to establish a construction-materials company supplying the clan’s development projects 45 48 49.

Li Rui subsequently purchased Villa No. 1 at Xiang River Loulan for 215 million yuan, choosing it for its space for his cars, bodyguards, and hobbies. While he remained at the Sun Grand Hotel, construction advanced on the village ancestral hall and family residence, and the village road was widened from three meters to eight meters 49 50.

Appearance

• Initially has an ordinary appearance and a soft, slightly flabby abdomen; he does not consider himself especially handsome 14 32.
• Gains a stronger, conditioned physique and eight-pack abdominal muscles after integrating Advanced Fighting Technique 14.
• Prefers comfortable casual sportswear to suits. Even after becoming wealthy, he initially buys clothes costing only a few hundred yuan per piece 6 36.

Personality

Li Rui’s central motivation is repaying his family’s care. He feels ashamed of failing the elders who funded his education and guilty about never having given Yiyi gifts. Once wealthy, he resolves to become someone his family can rely on. Making his relatives happy matters to him even apart from system rewards 1 5 6 8.

His generosity is paired with a controlling approach to clan unity. He offers substantial business funding but keeps ownership within the group to prevent future fragmentation. He also refuses to excuse poor construction work merely because a relative’s company is involved 13 28.

Threats against his relatives provoke immediate anger and potentially brutal retaliation. Nevertheless, he values safety over martial pride: he delegates dangerous fights to bodyguards and uses overwhelming numbers rather than insisting on fair contests 18 19 20 21.

Li Rui enjoys supercars, luxury accommodation, and attention from attractive women, but remains a homebody who dislikes administrative work. He is awkward with unfamiliar people and official flattery, appreciates sincerity, and readily delegates business affairs to capable biohumans 2 8 28 29 36 37 50.

Abilities and Skills

Family Revival System

Provides rewards for improving the family’s unity, prestige, and honor 1.

• Rewards include money, skills, and advanced technology 1.
• Offers biohumans from numerous professions in basic, intermediate, and advanced tiers 1.
• Biohumans are completely loyal; the system arranges plausible legal identities and backgrounds for them 1 4.
• Technological rewards are delivered through specialists who possess the relevant knowledge, rather than requiring Li Rui to master it himself 1 29.
• Purchases consume money; personnel costs range from millions to tens of millions of yuan 1 22 41.

Advanced Fighting Technique

Grants combat knowledge comparable to a senior bodyguard’s barehanded fighting skills, supported by physical remodeling 14.

• Includes wrestling, boxing, sanda, military boxing, and knowledge of vulnerable and lethal points 14.
• Enables him to fight thirty ordinary adult men barehanded 14.
• His restrained kick against Blondie carries at least four hundred kilograms of force 18.
• His hearing appears sharper after the system’s modifications 16.
• Does not automatically grant a senior bodyguard’s weapon proficiency, threat assessment, intelligence-gathering expertise, or language skills 14.

Personnel and Security Network

Uses specialized biohumans for protection, intelligence, business administration, and covert retaliation 22 24 42.

New-Energy Vehicle Technology

Controls system-provided fast-charging and high-density battery technology through his technical staff 29.

• The battery technology supports twice the driving range at the same battery weight in the examples given 29.
• Li Rui understands only part of the technical explanation and relies on specialists for implementation 29.

Clan Initiatives

Business and Startup Fund

• Clan members can submit business plans for funding, subject to the group’s review 13.
• Businesses financed through the fund belong entirely to the clan group; founders receive dividend rights, not transferable ownership 13.
• Lu Yan handles business applications and receives full authority over business matters 28 29.
• Relatives’ construction companies must meet the group’s quality standards to receive projects 28.

Education Fund

Rewards academic achievement as a means of improving the clan’s future prospects and standing 13 14.

Equipment and Property

• Black McLaren P1 — Purchased for thirteen million yuan; later offered as Shen Yong’s wedding car 3 31.
• Purple Viper GT — Driven at the head of the convoy collecting Yiyi from the hospital 44 45.
• Supercar collection — Orders four limited-edition supercars after buying the McLaren; has five supercars by Chapter 50 25 50.
• Range Rover fleet — Buys ten initially, orders fifty for Umbrella Security Company, and later orders forty more for his bodyguards 4 25 36.
• Seven Lincoln Navigators — Purchased for his relatives 25 28.
• Village residence — Secures approval for a 1,000-square-meter home; its foundations are completed and main construction begins 12 50.
• Villa No. 1, Xiang River Loulan — Purchased for 215 million yuan 49.

Relationships

Family

• Li Yongzheng and Wang Sumei — Parents. Li Rui returns determined to repay their support; his father helps oversee the ancestral-hall funds 7 10.
• Li Xiaoshuang — Older sister who cared for him through much of his childhood. He supports her daughter’s treatment and buys homes for her family 5 6 48.
• Zhang Huaiyuan — Brother-in-law. Li Rui encourages him to stop working temporarily during Yiyi’s treatment, then helps him enter the construction-materials business 6 49.
• Yiyi — Four-year-old niece. He gives five million yuan toward supporting her during her illness and promises to make her the Li family’s “little princess” 6 48.
• Li Ru — Younger cousin. He protects her from bullying, funds an extensive shopping trip, and helps restore her confidence 18 23.
• Li Tai — Younger cousin and childhood follower. Li Rui protects him during the school conflict and entrusts him with watching the relatives in the car 16 19.
• Xu Dingxiang — Seventh aunt and Li Ru’s widowed mother. Her hardship strengthens his determination to support her children 13 16.
• Li Cong and Su Xueting — Eldest cousin and cousin-in-law. He supports their construction-company plans while insisting on professional quality standards 28.

Friends and Associates

• Shen Yong — University roommate and close friend. Li Rui supplies a wedding car and pays for his wedding banquet 31 33.
• Lü Yifan — Friend and second son of Speeding Group’s chairman. Their rapport develops over drinks; Lü introduces him to the underground arena 36 37.
• Lu Yan — Completely loyal business administrator entrusted with the group’s startup capital and full business authority 22 29.
• Li Yi, Li Er, Li San, and Li Si — His four original advanced bodyguards and regular close protection detail 9 20 21.
• Qin Baichuan — Agricultural Bank of China president who arranges the cash display and introduces him to county magistrate Ning Guoliang 8 10.
• Wang Zhongtian — Dealership manager who supplies his expanding vehicle fleet and introduces him to Lü Yifan 3 28 36.

Notable Quotes

“Sis, from today onward, I’m the pillar holding up this family. With me here, the sky won’t fall.” 5

“I want everyone in our Li family to have a chance to rise above the crowd.” 9

“I can play by the rules with people who follow them. But if someone doesn’t follow the rules, they can’t blame me for breaking them either.” 42