Qin Fang

Biodata

Background / History

Family and Esports Career

Qin Fang grew up accustomed to his family providing whatever he wanted. When he chose to enter professional esports, the Qin Family supported him and bought him a team specifically to help him pursue a championship. By his appearance on Love 5, fans describe him as a champion three years running 33 34.

Despite his privileged upbringing, he initially knows little about the hierarchy among powerful families. After discovering Xie Zhuzhou’s connection to the Ji Family, he hurriedly studies their relationships and realizes that the Qin Family cannot compete with the Ji Family’s nationwide influence 85.

Connection to the Original Xie Zhuzhou

Before the transmigration, the original Xie Zhuzhou befriended Qin Fang online through gaming. He promoted Qin Fang, organized his fans, spent money supporting his reputation, and traveled abroad to watch his matches without formally meeting him. He also trained with him and hired a physical therapist when Qin Fang’s hand hurt 33 41.

Qin Fang regarded this attention as ordinary friendship and largely took it for granted. Identifying himself as straight, he dismissed the original owner’s confession as a joke and called it disgusting. After Xie Zhuzhou stopped responding to him, Qin Fang began wondering whether those remarks had genuinely hurt him 15 41.

Rumors about their relationship damaged Qin Fang’s reputation after viewers saw him eagerly watching Ride the Wind’s stream. His manager blamed him for failing to clarify matters, while Qin Fang pointed out that the manager had instructed him to remain silent 15.

Appearance

• Build: Over 1.8 meters tall, with a confident bearing 33.
• Face and eyes: Strikingly handsome, with clear, bright azure-blue eyes 33.
• Ancestry: Mixed ancestry; the specific backgrounds are not identified 33.
• Eyesight: Mildly nearsighted, with particular difficulty seeing at night 207.

Personality

Qin Fang is proud, impulsive, and accustomed to getting his way. He initially interprets Xie Zhuzhou’s withdrawal as something he should be able to reverse, rather than a boundary to respect. His attempts range from reminiscing and bargaining to investigating Xie Zhuzhou’s relationships and trying to have his car followed. He also fantasizes about confinement, although Xie Zhuzhou’s security, strength, and family backing prevent him from acting on those thoughts 41 53 65 190.

His attachment combines affection, resentment, jealousy, and wounded pride. He admits that liking Xie Zhuzhou does not stop him from disliking him, and struggles to accept that someone he wants might remain beyond his reach. Zhang Yin’s advice prompts him to declare that he will become more mature, but he still refuses to abandon his pursuit 190.

Qin Fang favors directness and finds other people’s schemes exhausting. He can also defend Xie Zhuzhou against outsiders: on Sunset Island, he warns Zhan Tongfei against plotting against him and angrily condemns an apparent attempt to trade his secrets 205 207.

Abilities & Skills

Professional Gaming

• Has won championships three years consecutively, according to his fans 33.
• Receives substantial family support, including a team purchased for his esports career 34.
• Remains subject to training and competition commitments, which Xie Zhuzhou questions him about during his prolonged stay on the dating show 65.

Physical Strength

• Stronger than an ordinary person; breaks free while Zhang Yin and Zhuang Xingye are restraining him 69.
• Lifts Wen Nan by the back of his collar during the dating show’s final race 77.
• Is decisively outmatched by Ji Wangyun and Xie Zhuzhou despite his confidence 69 77 220.

Live-Action Shooting

• Reacts to Wen Nan’s ambush and eliminates him with a submachine gun 192.
• Takes cover quickly after sensing someone watching his group at night 207.
• Cooperates with An Xinian to eliminate members of Team D during the final-circle fighting 220.
• Has difficulty navigating dark terrain because of his nearsightedness, eventually using a stick to probe the path 207.

Equipment / Items

• Competition submachine gun — Used to eliminate Wen Nan and exchange fire with Zhan Tongfei 192 207.
• Binoculars — Carried during the Sunset Island competition; he looks for a climbable tree to improve his view 193.
• Flare gun — Fired to startle attacking geese and redirect them toward Ling Zhenyang 219.
• Island supplies — Brings snacks, a flashlight, and mineral water; realizes that multifunctional equipment would have been a better use of the allowance after seeing Chu Yanzhang’s smartwatch 186.

Relationships

• Original Xie Zhuzhou — Online gaming friend and admirer whose extensive support Qin Fang took for granted. Qin Fang rejected his confession without recognizing its seriousness 15 33 41.
• Xie Zhuzhou — The transmigrated protagonist and the focus of Qin Fang’s persistent, unreciprocated pursuit. Xie Zhuzhou explicitly ends their former connection and repeatedly refuses reconciliation 41 54 65.
• Chu Yanzhang — Romantic rival whom Qin Fang resents for receiving Xie Zhuzhou’s affection and protection. Their exchanges often conceal insults beneath polite wording 186 198 199.
• An Xinian — Romantic rival and Group A teammate. They argue frequently, but An Xinian saves him from a sniper shot, and Qin Fang acknowledges the rescue despite resenting the painful kick used to move him 192 193 216.
• Zhang Yin — Fellow dating-show guest and confidant. Listens to Qin Fang’s frustrations and advises him that affection cannot be forced 40 190.
• Ji Wangyun — Beats Qin Fang while impersonating Xie Zhuzhou. Qin Fang later speaks to him without recognizing him as the person responsible 68 69 85.
• Ling Zhenyang — Rival and temporary ally on Sunset Island. Their cooperation deteriorates into gunfire, insults, and a chase 207 216 219.
• Li Yankai — Mistaken for a romantic competitor; Qin Fang offers him fifty million to leave Xie Zhuzhou 88 93.
• Lin Shu — Li Yankai’s cousin. Attacks Qin Fang with her diamond-set handbag after hearing him put a price on Li Yankai 88.
• Zhan Tongfei — Antagonistic acquaintance whom Qin Fang suspects of plotting against Xie Zhuzhou. Zhan Tongfei retaliates by insulting his intelligence and questioning the value of his family-supported championships 205.
• Grandfather — Qin Fang becomes anxious when he learns his grandfather is visiting the Sheng estate and tries to warn him away from a potentially troublesome encounter with Xie Zhuzhou 113.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Pursuit on *Love 5*

• Unexpected arrival: Joins the dating show and meets Xie Zhuzhou in person. The contrast between their warm online conversations and Xie Zhuzhou’s current distance unsettles him 33 34.
• Explicit rejection: Offers to accept the original owner’s feelings if Xie Zhuzhou will return to him. Xie Zhuzhou answers that it is too late and refuses even the proposed return to friendship 41.
• Skiing humiliation: Hopes to reconcile by teaching Xie Zhuzhou to ski, only to discover that he has a private instructor. Qin Fang subsequently charges toward him and slides between his legs on livestream 42.
• Jealous confrontation: Questions Xie Zhuzhou about An Xinian, including why An received white roses while he received primroses. Xie Zhuzhou eventually states that he is seeing someone and refuses to restore their old relationship 53 54.
• Failed final appeal: Asks Xie Zhuzhou to choose him at the show’s conclusion, even if the pairing is fake, and offers to agree to anything in return. Xie Zhuzhou refuses 65.

Impersonation and the Final Race

• Mask confrontation: Notices something wrong with Ji Wangyun’s impersonation, including the apparently shorter trouser legs. During truth or dare, he becomes enraged by the answers about Xie Zhuzhou’s love life and demands that the impostor remove his mask 68.
• Defeat and discovery: Attacks Ji Wangyun and is badly beaten. The Ji Family emblems on the attending medical team subsequently reveal Xie Zhuzhou’s family identity to him 69 71.
• Final race: Is tripped by Wen Ruohuai and knocked aside by Zhang Yin. After grabbing Wen Nan while Wen Ruohuai bites his arm, he is kicked out of the pavilion by Xie Zhuzhou, taking both men with him 77.

Birthday Banquet and Sheng Estate

• Reassessment of Xie Zhuzhou: Witnessing further displays of strength makes Qin Fang deeply embarrassed about his earlier threats and confinement fantasies 85.
• Fifty-million offer: Tries to pay Li Yankai to leave Xie Zhuzhou, provoking Lin Shu’s handbag attack 88.
• Petty retaliation: Wants Xie Zhuzhou to learn that people are gossiping about him because he cannot defeat him physically or verbally 97.
• Errand duty: At the Sheng estate, Xie Zhuzhou puts him to work moving the grill and chairs, then sends him to recruit Elder Sheng and the butler to help. Qin Fang obeys despite his resentment 112 113.
• Abandoning revenge: After another display by Xie Zhuzhou at the gathering, Qin Fang gives up thoughts of revenge 115.

Sunset Island Competition

• Renewed pursuit: Jealous of Xie Zhuzhou and Chu Yanzhang’s closeness, Qin Fang consults Zhang Yin and resolves to win Xie Zhuzhou back rather than give up 186 190.
• Temporary alliances: Fights alongside An Xinian and later Ling Zhenyang while searching for Xie Zhuzhou. He also helps drive off Zhan Tongfei 192 207.
• Punishment for disturbing the camp: Xie Zhuzhou ties him and three others to a tree; Chu Yanzhang tapes his mouth shut. Qin Fang eventually gains release from the tape when he urgently needs the bathroom 208 209.
• On-camera snack sales: His enthusiastic eating of chicken feet boosts livestream sales, prompting Xie Zhuzhou to supply him with more packets 199.
• Final-circle defeat: After fighting Team D, Qin Fang confronts Xie Zhuzhou but finds himself hopelessly outmatched. He ends the encounter on the ground, considering the absence of further punches an act of mercy 220.

Notable Quotes

“I like him, but that doesn't mean I can't dislike him, does it?” 190

“I don't know. But I just can't accept it. I've always gotten whatever I wanted since I was little. Why does he have to be the exception?” 190

Trivia

• Claims that Qin Fang is bald, wears fake hair, or is thirty-three originate in an exchange of insults with Ling Zhenyang, not established biographical facts. Viewers escalate the joke until he is supposedly eighty-three 216.
• His blue Ultraman boxers are exposed when Ling Zhenyang accidentally pulls down his trousers while saving him from a fall. Qin Fang had worn an extra layer beneath his athletic pants because he worried sweat would make them revealing 219.
• His recollection of Xie Zhuzhou owning a cat that could do backflips comes from a fabricated story the original owner told him during a Mid-Autumn Festival phone call 212.