Xiao Yan

Biodata

Background / History

Transmigration and husband selection

Xiao Yan transmigrates from a world where Xavier, Zayne, Rafayel, Sylus, and Caleb are male leads in a romance game she has played. Her arrival follows the original Xiao Yan’s car accident and head injury; she pretends to have amnesia to conceal her changed identity and unfamiliarity with the world 1 2.

Her eighteenth birthday makes her eligible to choose husbands. Initially intending to reject every candidate, she changes course upon recognizing Xavier and ultimately fills all five marriage slots with the game’s male leads. They are now beastmen with established lives in this world and show no memory of their former connections with her. Her selection makes the city’s headlines 1 2.

Life in the marital villa

Despite registering their marriages, all five husbands stay away from the villa for over a month. Xiao Yan continues attending university during the week and spends her free time alone, supported by a butler, servants, a chef, and bodyguards 2.

When Xavier returns with work-related paperwork, she gives him control of the bank card receiving his income rather than keeping his earnings. She adopts similar arrangements with the others and shields them from pressure to abandon their careers or merge their assets with the Xiao family 2 3 5 6 10 15.

Rather than tell the men about memories they do not share, Xiao Yan decides to build new experiences with them. She accepts that these relationships might fail, but chooses to prioritize their present and future over the past she alone remembers 18.

Appearance

Xiao Yan is described as exceptionally pretty, youthful, and radiant, with sweet features and a small face 3 5 7.

• Family resemblance: Her father, Cheng Yuyun, shares roughly thirty to forty percent of her facial features 9.
• Hair: Long enough for Sylus to dry, comb, and arrange into an elaborate hairstyle 7 41.
• Distinguishing features: Lively eyes, a small, pert nose, and slender fingers 41.
• Clothing: Often wears T-shirts and short skirts casually, changing into formal gowns for social occasions 1 3 5 40.
• Makeup: Usually prepares her own makeup rather than calling in a makeup artist 34.

Personality

Xiao Yan is affectionate, playful, and deliberate in her courtship. She studies how each husband responds to attention and adjusts her approach: patience with Xavier, sincerity with Zayne, sensitivity with Rafayel, and spirited resistance with Sylus. Her familiarity with their game counterparts helps her understand them, but also creates suspicion when Xavier notices how precisely she caters to him 18 28 29.

She generally favors mutual affection over the privileges granted to wives in this female-dominated society. She lets her husbands retain their earnings, apologizes when Xavier avoids her touch, and tells him he need not compete with anyone or accommodate her at the expense of his happiness 3 23. Her conduct is not consistently free of coercion, however: she invokes her marital authority and the potential consequences for Caleb’s military work to pressure him into intimacy, later admitting that she forced her way through his defenses 15 17.

Although outwardly cheerful, Xiao Yan often hides distress. During her estrangement from Xavier, she acts as though everything is normal while struggling to eat and sleep. She tends to process hurt privately rather than direct it at the household 29 33.

Her loyalty extends beyond romance. She protects her friends during an armed confrontation, defends her husbands against intrusive scrutiny, and helps Jiang Miao host her husband-selection banquet 21 47 49.

Abilities & Skills

Martial Arts

Xiao Yan retains the original body’s childhood mixed martial arts training, discovering this unexpectedly while sparring with Sylus 6 7.

• Uses rapid combinations, powerful kicks, joint control, and acrobatic takedowns 7 21.
• Knocks Sylus sideways with a back kick, though he subsequently pins her in less than three minutes 7.
• Disarms an armed fugitive and brings him down with a scissor hold before he can take her hostage 21.
• Her performance impresses Bai Yang, who compares her favorably with several new SWAT recruits 21.

Swordsmanship and Firearms

Her inherited self-defense training includes swordsmanship, while her encounter with the fugitive demonstrates practical firearm handling 6 21.

• Spars with Xavier using practice swords 28.
• Recognizes Xavier’s stance and sword movements in footage of Lightseeker 32.
• Chambers a captured pistol and removes its magazine one-handed before surrendering it to Xavier 21.
• Xavier describes her as a suitable, evenly matched sword-practice partner 32.

Athletic and Survival Training

Xiao Jue required the original Xiao Yan to study several disciplines so she could protect and rescue herself 6 27.

• Her training schedule includes rock climbing, swimming, diving, and skydiving 6.
• Swimming confirms that she has retained the original owner’s athletic abilities 14.
• Following her injury, Xiao Jue permits the classes to be reduced from weekly to monthly 6.

Art and Personal Presentation

• Drawing: Creates a chibi portrait of Xavier, which he saves and posts on Moments 3.
• Journaling: Prints photographs and decorates a journal documenting shared experiences 22 23.
• Makeup: Is skilled enough to prepare herself for events without professional assistance 34.

Relationship Management

Xiao Yan actively monitors competition within her marriage and tries to give each husband distinct reassurance 23 26.

• Uses exclusive nicknames and individualized attention to affirm each relationship 18 26 39.
• Gives Xavier and Zayne space to establish their own relationship rather than directing every interaction 25 26.
• Recognizes that their willingness to coexist does not eliminate jealousy or competition for priority 26.
• Her carefully tailored courtship can backfire: Xavier initially interprets it as manipulation rather than sincere affection 29 31.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Personalized bank cards: Provides cards for her husbands’ income, including Xavier’s starry-sky card, Zayne’s snowflake card, and Sylus’s crow card. She lets them keep and use the cards themselves 2 3 5 6.
• Phone and Moments account: Uses messaging, photographs, stickers, and the family group chat to maintain contact with her husbands 3 14 25.
• Photo journal: Collects and decorates pictures from time spent together 22 23.
• Marital villa: A courtyard property of just over five hundred square meters, deliberately kept relatively small at her request and staffed by Xiao Jue 2.

Relationships

Husbands

• Xavier — Her first registered husband, a white fox beastman and city SWAT officer. Their fugitive capture gives new meaning to the shared nickname “partner.” His suspicion of her tailored courtship causes an estrangement before her direct confession reassures him 1 2 21 22 29 31 32.
• Zayne — A white sheep beastman and deputy director of surgery who becomes an important emotional confidant. He calls her “Little Jasmine,” while she calls him “Sweet Pear.” He supports her efforts to build the marriage while reminding her that the other husbands have independent wills 2 14 17 18.
• Rafayel — A merfolk beastman and famous painter. Their relationship develops through teasing and mutual sniping. Xiao Yan recognizes his sensitivity, respects his boundaries, and tells him that he is her weakness 2 14 18 39.
• Sylus — A dragon beastman and underworld boss who calls her “Little Tabby.” Their dynamic combines sparring, provocation, and caretaking. She repeatedly challenges his reluctance to acknowledge the feelings behind his jealousy 2 7 18 41.
• Caleb — A black wolf beastman who becomes fleet commander and the first husband scheduled to serve as principal husband. Xiao Yan calls him “brother” because of their game relationship, not an established sibling bond in this world. His guardedness and demands for answers make their relationship especially difficult 14 15 36 46 49.

Family and Household

• Xiao Jue — Her protective mother and Xiao family head. Arranges her training and marital home, initially questions her husbands’ commitments, and later welcomes Zayne’s more equal model of marriage 1 2 6 10 11.
• Cheng Yuyun — Her biological father and Xiao Jue’s principal husband. Affectionately welcomes her home and is reassured by Zayne’s care for her 9.
• Chen Qian — One of her fathers; attentive to her comfort and relieved when she becomes livelier after the accident 9 10.
• Yu Xiang — One of her fathers; tests Zayne with a forceful handshake during the family visit 9.
• Uncle Sang — Her villa’s butler. Manages meals, training arrangements, clothing preparations, and household care 2 6 8 18.

Friends and Social Circle

• Jiang Miao — Her best friend. Shares information about the new world, helps her locate Xavier, and relies on her support during her husband-selection banquet 13 14 20 33 49.
• Tang Qi and Xing Xiaowan — Friends who join her for board games and social gatherings 22 47.
• Jiang Zhao — Jiang Miao’s mother. Appreciates Xiao Yan’s help welcoming guests and her generous treatment of the Jiang family 46 49.
• Tang Yi and Fang Xinlei — Social rivals. Xiao Yan challenges Tang Yi’s remarks about Caleb, while Xavier and Rafayel help counter Fang Xinlei’s hostility 47 49.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Building a Shared Household

• Xiao Yan’s first efforts focus on turning five distant legal marriages into personal relationships through meals, messages, drawings, and invitations to return home 3 5 7 8 14.
• Her visit to the Xiao estate with Zayne exposes the gap between the affectionate marriage she presents to her family and the household’s actual state 9 10.
• After Caleb’s departure leaves her distressed, Zayne becomes a partner in discussing the different needs and temperaments of the five husbands 17 18.

Xavier’s Distrust and Reconciliation

• Helping capture an armed fugitive brings Xiao Yan and Xavier closer through a genuinely shared experience rather than game memories 21 22.
• Xavier later questions her inexplicable familiarity with him and fears that their apparent compatibility is a scripted strategy. Their confrontation leads to five days without contact 28 29 31.
• News of Lightseeker’s injury prompts Xiao Yan to seek him out. She admits that her courtship is deliberate but insists that planning does not make her love false 30 31.
• They reconcile, and she brings him home when she discovers his fever 32.

Principal-Husband Rotation

• The husbands’ reluctance to assume the principal-husband role hurts Xiao Yan. Xavier initiates a discussion about sharing that responsibility 36.
• They agree on thirty-day turns in the order Caleb → Zayne → Xavier → Sylus → Rafayel, while leaving the final decision to her 36 37.
• For outside events, the agreed order of representation is Caleb, then Zayne, Xavier, and Sylus if those ahead are unavailable 36.
• Their willingness to contribute moves Xiao Yan, marking a shift from her managing the marriage alone toward shared household responsibility 36 37.

Caleb’s Awakening and Unanswered Questions

• Xiao Yan witnesses Caleb control gravity and immediately recognizes the ability as his Evol from the game 46.
• Caleb says it appeared the day after they slept together. She wonders whether all five husbands might regain their game abilities, but the timing does not establish that intimacy caused the awakening 46.
• Her recognition intensifies Caleb’s questions about what she knows, why she calls him “brother,” and why their reunion affected her so strongly 46 49.
• By their later confrontation, Xiao Yan openly challenges his refusal of emotional closeness and argues that avoiding feelings cannot erase his need for affection 49 50.

Notable Quotes

“We just caught a fugitive together. Of course he's my best partner!” 22

“You don't need to compare yourself with anyone or accommodate me. What matters most is that you're happy.” 23

“I like you, and I want you to like me too, so I play my cards according to your preferences. Is there something wrong with that?” 31