Lu Keyan

Biodata

Background / History

Family and Revenge Motive

Lu Keyan is an illegitimate son of the Lu Family. During his unhappy years within the family, a neighboring boy whom he called his brother was his only source of warmth. That boy died at twenty after jumping from a cliff in front of him. Finding Gu Xiao’s name throughout his brother’s diary, Lu Keyan blamed Gu Xiao for the death 1 8.

After investigating Gu Xiao for three days, Lu Keyan entered Aisili Noble Academy disguised as an impoverished beta dependent on scholarships and financial aid. He initially intended to kill Gu Xiao or make him experience the loss of someone important. Meeting him changed that objective: Lu Keyan instead wanted to bring the academy’s untouchable “king” to his knees. He also concluded that he would need control of the Lu Family to stand before Gu Xiao as an equal 1 8.

Red Card and Apparent Submission

Lu Keyan’s roommate, Murong Xuan, maneuvered him into offending Gu Xiao in hopes of driving him out of the academy. Under a red card, Lu Keyan endured public humiliation, including a wine bottle smashed against his forehead, kicks, and forced kneeling. Rather than retaliating with his concealed power, he caught Gu Xiao’s ankle and offered to clean his shoe 1 2 3.

His apparent surrender concealed a growing fixation. After the crowd left, he inhaled Gu Xiao’s lingering iris scent from the silk scarf used to wipe the shoe. He later collected winnings from an anonymous bet on how quickly he would submit, but became frustrated when Gu Xiao stopped targeting him. When Murong Xuan received a red card, Lu Keyan reacted with jealousy over the attention rather than relief for himself 2 3.

During Gu Xiao’s visit to the honors dormitory, Lu Keyan grabbed his waist while falling after Feng Ji kicked him. Gu Xiao punished him and offered to revoke his red card if he seduced an unnamed person. Lu Keyan accepted, then became so visibly affected by Gu Xiao’s exposed arms that he developed a nosebleed. Gu Xiao subsequently ordered Murong Xuan to serve him 5 6.

Gu Xiao’s Birthday and Alliance with Ji Chuan

At Gu Xiao’s nineteenth-birthday celebration, Lu Keyan offered him an alpha suppressant and claimed to have undergone secondary differentiation. Gu Xiao recognized the explanation as a lie, smashed the vial, and made him collect its fragments by hand. Ji Chuan intervened, arranged for a robot vacuum to finish the cleanup, and invited Lu Keyan to be his dance partner. Ji Chuan was the person Gu Xiao had intended him to seduce 8 9.

Lu Keyan later drank on Gu Xiao’s behalf at the birthday gathering. Hoping to remain beside him, he volunteered to finish ten additional glasses. Gu Xiao watched him drink, then allowed Ji Chuan to take him away despite having agreed that he could stay 12.

Away from Gu Xiao, Lu Keyan abandoned his timid manner. When Ji Chuan threatened to force him away, he used SSS-rank mental pressure to make Ji Chuan kneel and threatened his alpha gland. He proposed an alliance: Ji Chuan would maintain an apparent interest in him, giving Gu Xiao a reason to keep watching him 13.

Ji Chuan’s initial agreement was reluctant. Lu Keyan later renewed the proposal by pointing out that Fu Huai and Feng Ji had already joined forces. Ji Chuan again agreed, though he privately continued to regard Lu Keyan as unworthy of Gu Xiao 20.

Revocation and the Aisili Twins

Gu Xiao revoked both Lu Keyan’s and Murong Xuan’s red cards when the Aisili twins became his new interest. Lu Keyan was angered rather than relieved, interpreting the decision as a loss of Gu Xiao’s attention. His Lu Family identity had become public, attracting students who had previously dismissed him 35.

Lu Keyan violently punished an A-rank alpha who had photographed Gu Xiao, repeatedly holding his head underwater until he could no longer struggle. A recording reached Feng Ji, who showed it to Gu Xiao. Gu Xiao remained unimpressed, knowing that Lu Keyan possessed far greater mental power than his victim 35.

Lu Keyan also sought cooperation with Hill and Shelley Aisili. During their encounter with Gu Xiao, he willingly knelt in Hill’s place and accepted Gu Xiao’s insults. Gu Xiao crushed his hand hard enough to break two fingers, but Lu Keyan treated the attention as praise and offered to clean his shoes again. After Gu Xiao left, Lu Keyan put the broken fingers into his mouth and described the sensation as Gu Xiao’s taste, alarming Shelley 41 42.

Interference with Ji Chuan’s Surveillance

Ji Chuan sought Lu Keyan’s technical assistance when Fu Sinian began investigating hidden cameras in Gu Xiao’s bathroom. Lu Keyan helped conceal Ji Chuan’s involvement, but then destroyed the cameras instead of preserving the surveillance arrangement 45.

He rejected Ji Chuan’s demand to name his terms, saying that they were already allies and that he did not want anyone spying on Gu Xiao that way. When Ji Chuan threatened him with exposure, Lu Keyan suggested that Gu Xiao might already understand his true nature 45.

Appearance

• Height: Approximately six feet two inches; slightly taller than Ji Chuan 5 9.
• Face: Exceptionally beautiful, compared to a hibiscus blossom and later to an exquisite doll 1 42.
• Hair: Meticulously styled curls at his first appearance 1.
• Bearing: Can deliberately make his tall frame appear timid and submissive, sharply contrasting with his fearless demeanor when confronting Ji Chuan privately 5 13.

Personality

Lu Keyan’s submissiveness is selective. Before Gu Xiao, he apologizes meekly, flatters him, and accepts treatment he could physically resist. In private, he is calculating, confrontational, and willing to threaten others to secure an advantage. His concealed alpha identity and staged relationship with Ji Chuan are deliberate attempts to gain access to Gu Xiao 1 9 13.

His desire for revenge becomes entangled with attraction and possessiveness. He resents others receiving Gu Xiao’s attention, keeps Murong Xuan away from him, and interprets humiliation as a form of personal recognition. By the encounter with the Aisili twins, his pleasure in Gu Xiao’s cruelty is genuine enough to unsettle both Gu Xiao and Shelley 3 8 12 35 42.

He is also exacting about substitutes for Gu Xiao. A doll’s inaccurate expression, texture, and scent provoke him to destroy it, while a later model with only a partial resemblance is valuable enough to spare 3 35.

Abilities & Skills

SSS-Rank Mental Power

Lu Keyan possesses SSS-rank mental power from his introduction; his later disclosure is not a power advancement 1 13.

• Forces Ji Chuan to his knees through mental pressure alone 13.
• Threatens to destroy Ji Chuan’s alpha gland if he continues resisting; the threatened injury is not carried out 13.
• Can overwhelm SS-rank pheromones, including the scent remaining on Gu Xiao’s discarded shirt 8.
• Conceals his rank while maintaining the appearance of a powerless scholarship student 1.

Technical Intrusion and Surveillance Interference

Lu Keyan is sufficiently skilled for Ji Chuan to seek his help against Fu Sinian’s camera investigation 45.

• Helps keep Ji Chuan from being discovered as Gu Xiao’s watcher 45.
• Destroys the hidden cameras, cutting their feed to static 45.
• Is selected by Ji Chuan specifically because the task requires someone more technically capable than Fu Sinian 45.

Deception and Coercion

• Passes as an impoverished beta despite being an alpha from the Lu Family 1.
• Uses a false secondary-differentiation explanation when his alpha status becomes apparent 9 11.
• Pressures Ji Chuan into an alliance designed to draw Gu Xiao’s attention 13.
• Physically overpowers an A-rank alpha without allowing him an effective chance to resist 35.

Equipment / Items

• Silk scarf: Used to clean Gu Xiao’s shoe; afterward, Lu Keyan inhales the iris scent left on it 2.
• Gu Xiao’s discarded shirt: Kept for its lingering pheromone scent despite Lu Keyan knowing that Gu Xiao had merely thrown it away 5 8.
• Knife: Used to cut an unsatisfactory resin replica of Gu Xiao into pieces 3.
• Gu Xiao replica dolls: Orders multiple life-sized substitutes. More than a dozen destroyed versions are stored in a locked room; a later BJD has an internal iris fragrance, a diamond-studded iris ring, and an electric cat tail 35.
• Alpha suppressant: Offers a vial to Gu Xiao, who smashes it rather than using it 8 9.

Relationships

• Gu Xiao — Initially his revenge target, later the focus of an obsessive desire to possess him. Lu Keyan willingly submits to his cruelty while privately imagining reversing their positions 8 13 42.
• Unnamed brother figure — A neighboring boy who supported him during his difficult family life. His death motivates Lu Keyan’s enrollment and revenge plan; Lu Keyan’s belief that Gu Xiao caused it comes from the boy’s diary 8.
• Murong Xuan — Roommate, initial instigator of his conflict with Gu Xiao, and later servant by Gu Xiao’s order. Murong continues offering service after the red cards are revoked because he hopes to benefit from Lu Keyan’s family position 3 6 35.
• Ji Chuan — Rival for Gu Xiao and uneasy ally. Lu Keyan coerces their first agreement, uses Ji Chuan’s apparent interest to attract Gu Xiao, and later interferes with his surveillance 13 20 45.
• Hill Aisili — Prospective ally who mistakenly interprets Lu Keyan’s kneeling before Gu Xiao as a sacrifice made for him and Shelley 41 42.
• Shelley Aisili — Prospective collaborator who recognizes Lu Keyan’s ambition but becomes disturbed by his enjoyment of Gu Xiao’s abuse 42.
• Lin An — Rival for a place beside Gu Xiao. Lin An assaults him and later protests his offer to clean Gu Xiao’s shoes, seeing it as an attempt to take his position 2 9 42.
• Fu Huai and Feng Ji — Members of F4 who distrust or belittle him. Fu Huai questions his concealed identity, while Feng Ji treats his red-card punishment as entertainment 2 3 11 35.

Role in the Original Novel

• In the novel known to the reborn Gu Xiao, Lu Keyan is another male lead associated with the universally adored protagonist. The identity of that protagonist’s main partner remained disputed between Lu Keyan and the original “Gu Xiao” 1 12.
• Gu Xiao recalls that Lu Keyan and He Shuyu joined forces against his original counterpart. He suspects additional help behind Lu Keyan’s ability to become a genuine opponent, but does not identify that support 14 35.