Jiang Nan

Biodata

Background

Previous Life

Jiang Nan grew up in an orphanage and never knew his biological parents. The director named him after he was found abandoned on South Street. Although sociable and popular among the children, he was adopted three times and returned each time 10 27 119.

The orphanage’s parasol tree became a lasting source of comfort: as a child, he could talk to it for hours, and it remained while people around him came and went. When he entered a top university, the director gave him a handwritten letter and a new phone 119.

Supported by the state and scholarships, Jiang Nan studied his way from a key high school into a prestigious university. He scored over seven hundred on his college entrance examination, became student council president, ranked first in his department, and won the National Endeavor Scholarship. He chose law partly because he hoped the profession’s connections would help him improve his circumstances 10 23 27.

After graduation, he worked at a Red Circle law firm for five thousand yuan a month, with more than a thousand going toward rent. His rented accommodation had no kitchen, so he relied on takeout 23 56 120.

The Original Jiang Nan

The body Jiang Nan occupies belongs to a wealthy young man with the same name and face. In the novel After the True Young Master Returned, the Whole Family Doted on Him, this Jiang Nan is a cannon-fodder “fake young master,” while Shen Anbai is presented as the Jiang family’s real youngest son 1.

The original owner had a bad reputation in the capital, attended Jingkou Vocational and Technical College, and had lived away from his family since middle school. His diary reveals an unrequited love for Fu Jinchuan and resentment over being made to marry Fu Jingzhou 27 31 33.

He entered entertainment hoping to prove himself, but his withdrawn manner and poor conversational skills hindered him. After rejecting Jiang Deliang’s advances, he was blacklisted for roughly six months 13 14 79.

Appearance

• Face: Youthful, with dark brows, round almond- or doe-shaped eyes, a high, straight nose, fair skin, and red lips. Fu Jingzhou notices his naturally pale, light-brown irises 1 3 11 87.
• Smile: His eyes curve into crescents, and shallow dimples appear beside his mouth 17 71 203.
• Build: Slender and straight-backed, with a slim waist, long legs, and lean abdominal muscles 4 58.
• Hair: His pink hair is a recognizable feature and can expose his identity even when he wears a cap. It is later shaved following a head injury 18 47 200 203.
• Clothing: Prefers loose clothes and frequently wears cartoon-themed items, including a GG Bond T-shirt, slippers, and accessories, as well as green frog pajamas 13 58 167 171.
• Ear piercings: Inherited from the original owner; Jiang Nan stops wearing studs, allowing the piercings to nearly close 133.

Personality

Jiang Nan is talkative, irreverent, and quick with insults or deliberately terrible pickup lines. He jokes with strangers, argues with online critics from his main account, and treats his own supposed handsomeness as an established fact. His improvisations can backfire: a fabricated murder story told to silence a taxi driver ends with police questioning him 13 36 58.

His apparent thick skin conceals a pronounced fear of embarrassment and rejection. He describes “social death” as one of the things he cannot accept, yet repeatedly becomes flustered when Fu Jingzhou praises or flirts with him. Even after recognizing his own attraction, he assumes Fu Jingzhou could not like him because he is “not that great” 7 75 103 133.

His childhood leaves him especially sensitive to belonging. Before transmigration, he habitually tried to get along with everyone and avoided burdening the orphanage director when bullied. Fu Jingzhou notices that beneath his cheerful manner, he fears causing trouble, feels guilt easily, and lacks a sense of security 61 124.

Jiang Nan is protective of people facing coercion or humiliation. He intervenes against Jiang Deliang partly because he knows performers without powerful families may have no way to resist abuse. He later offers Zhou Shanshan a discreet warning and time to process a potentially dangerous situation rather than demanding an immediate response 80 126.

Money strongly influences his everyday decisions. His earlier poverty makes financial security attractive, but he is also willing to spend lavishly on Fu Jingzhou, buying him a 149,999-yuan tie and later giving him a pink diamond ring 21 23 130 178.

Abilities & Skills

Legal Knowledge and Academic Ability

Jiang Nan retains the knowledge acquired through his previous education despite occupying a body known for poor academic performance 23 27.

• Graduated from a prestigious university and worked at a Red Circle law firm 23 56.
• Considers returning to law through further qualifications if entertainment work becomes untenable 80.
• Preserves an online accusation against Fu Jingzhou as evidence and obtains a lawyer through Jiang Qingye to pursue a defamation lawsuit 178.

Verbal Sparring and Variety-Show Presence

His blunt humor attracts attention that the original owner’s gloomy public persona never achieved 13 21.

• Outmaneuvers Chen Ting during an onstage exchange, earning enthusiastic audience and livestream reactions 21.
• Openly challenges Luo Hang’s repeated attention rather than accommodating their old dynamic 41.
• His impulsive replies to critics also create publicity problems, forcing Zhu Xia to intervene 36 52.

Social Adaptability

Jiang Nan deliberately builds relationships with Fu Jingzhou’s friends because he initially believes becoming the man’s close friend will secure his future 21 29.

• Exchanges contacts readily and draws reserved acquaintances such as Qin Feng into conversation 29.
• Befriends Uncle He over melodramatic fiction and plays games with household staff 6 8 36.
• Accepts ten thousand yuan from Tan Xu for relationship advice 137.

Physical Skills

• Self-defense: Trained during college; uses that experience when fighting Jiang Deliang 80.
• Running: Escapes quickly during a frightening variety-show segment, drawing notice from Luo Hang and viewers 41.
• Limitations: Injures his own nose on his first golf swing and initially cannot drive his gifted Lamborghini because he has no license 28 68.

Gaming and Practical Skills

• Honor of Kings: Fairly skilled but habitually reckless, often charging into fights against several opponents. When playing seriously beside Fu Jingzhou, he helps win a match with an 11.3 rating 103.
• Coffee preparation: Can grind coffee, froth milk, and pour layered leaf-shaped latte art 119.
• Cooking: Initially inexperienced; his first attempt ruins two pans and leaves heavily burnt scrambled eggs 119 120.
• Acting: Attends daily acting classes at Zhu Xia’s insistence, but remains poor at acting at that stage 126.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Fruit 15 Pro Max — His everyday phone, used for messaging, gaming, and social media 4 57.
• Gland patches — Used to calm or contain his active pheromones; Fu Jingzhou reminds him to wear them at home 28 52.
• Jinghe Garden gate key — Worn around his neck. He continues wearing it after the divorce despite no longer living there 132.
• Black Lamborghini — A gift from Fu Jingzhou, initially unusable because Jiang Nan lacks a driver’s license 59 68.
• Silver-gray tie — A 149,999-yuan gift for Fu Jingzhou 21.
• Pink diamond ring — Presented to Fu Jingzhou during a livestream 178.
• GG Bond merchandise — Includes clothing, slippers, a spoon, and a plush toy 13 126 171.

Relationships

• Fu Jingzhou — Husband and principal romantic partner. Jiang Nan initially calls him his “wife” and aims to become his close friend, only gradually recognizing his romantic feelings. Their relationship survives divorce, revelations about Jiang Nan’s identity, remarriage, and a temporary soul swap 5 21 104 139 152 200.
• 771 / Little Black Ball — His assigned system and constant companion. Their relationship involves mutual teasing, arguments, and physical slapstick, but develops into a familial bond. Both are deeply saddened when 771 leaves after mission completion 2 57 193 206.
• Jiang Qingye — The original body’s older brother. Their early quarrels include threats to freeze Jiang Nan’s cards, but Jiang Nan later acknowledges his care and asks him for legal help 8 122 178.
• Zhu Xia — Manager. Handles his work, publicity crises, acting classes, diet, and fitness; his unpredictability repeatedly frustrates her 13 36 52 68 126.
• Song Zhusheng — Close friend. Jiang Nan acts to protect him from Jiang Deliang and later receives reassurance from him when struggling with guilt over Meng Ran’s death 80 122 151.
• Fu Xingli — A teasing acquaintance who asks Jiang Nan to mediate with Song Zhusheng and later accompanies him on a secret wedding-ring shopping trip 68 113 161.
• Shangguan Feng — Doctor and member of Fu Jingzhou’s social circle. Examines Jiang Nan, exchanges jokes with him, and stages an extravagant hospital celebration for the couple’s remarriage 10 28 152.
• Uncle He — Butler, gaming partner, and fellow enthusiast of domineering-CEO fiction. Jiang Nan declares him his “very own uncle” after they exchange reading links 6 8.
• Fu Jinchuan — The original owner’s crush, whose advances Jiang Nan rejects. Fu Jinchuan repeatedly interprets those rejections as concealed devotion 33 70 100 106 136.
• Shen Anbai — Rival tied to the novel’s original protagonist and false-young-master storyline. Their conflict ends with Shen Anbai’s career collapsing; he later strikes Jiang Nan with a rock 190 193 200.
• Zhou Shanshan — Post-divorce roommate. Jiang Nan notices signs of possible abuse involving Cheng Feng and discreetly offers help 126 128.
• Orphanage director — The maternal figure who named and raised him. He calls her Mom and treasures her support, though he recognizes that her care was shared among all the children 119 124 144.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Transmigration and Assigned Missions

• After abandoning After the True Young Master Returned, the Whole Family Doted on Him and leaving an angry comment, Jiang Nan finds himself inside the novel in a character’s identical-looking body 1.
• System 771 assigns two tasks: keep cannon-fodder Jiang Nan alive and repair the book’s bugs by uncovering its hidden plot 2.
• The stated bug involves Shen Anbai transferring Jiang Group shares to Fu Jinchuan for love, enabling Fu Jinchuan to take over and rename the company 2.

Marriage and Return to Entertainment

• Neither Jiang Nan nor Fu Jingzhou attends their arranged wedding. Their first encounters are hostile, but Jiang Nan’s changed behavior gradually draws Fu Jingzhou’s attention 3 4.
• A viral roasting video revives his stalled career and brings variety-show invitations 13.
• He tries to secure a place in Fu Jingzhou’s circle while interpreting their growing intimacy as friendship 21 29 51.
• On November twenty-first, after secretly kissing Fu Jingzhou, he explicitly recognizes that he has someone he likes 104.

Jiang Deliang Confrontation

• Jiang Nan learns that Jiang Deliang was responsible for the original owner’s blacklisting 79.
• He confronts and beats Jiang Deliang, who has entered his hotel room, and is detained after Jiang Deliang refuses mediation 80 81.
• Expecting Fu Jingzhou to bail him out, he becomes hurt when help does not immediately arrive; Fu Jingzhou is overseas dealing with a business crisis and has been unreachable 81.

Divorce, Reconciliation, and Remarriage

• Believing Fu Jingzhou loves someone else, Jiang Nan raises divorce and leaves their home. Afterward, he rents a shared room rather than returning to the Jiang family 113 120 124.
• Fu Jingzhou reveals that he knows Jiang Nan is not the original owner. He explains that the old marriage certificate belonged to that original body and that the divorce did not mean he intended to let Jiang Nan leave permanently 138 139.
• Jiang Nan discovers that Fu Jingzhou is an Alpha rather than the Beta he had assumed. He subsequently experiences his first rut since transmigration and asks Fu Jingzhou to date him 139 141 142.
• The couple remarry, later discuss their marriage publicly on livestream, and exchange romantic gifts 152 168 178.

Young-Master Dispute and Soul Swap

• The Jiang Group publicly reveals Jiang Nan’s family identity, bringing his concealed background into the spotlight 183.
• After Shen Anbai’s confrontation, 771 explains that the false-young-master storyline was added after the world formed and confirms completion of Jiang Nan’s second mission 193.
• A supernatural soul swap separates Jiang Nan from Fu Jingzhou for three days. Fu Jingzhou recognizes his return when Jiang Nan calls his name 200.
• Fu Jingzhou’s fear of losing him leads to confinement with a chain. Jiang Nan understands the fear but remains angry about being restrained; Fu Jingzhou later removes the handcuffs 200 203.

Mission Completion

• Roughly a year after his arrival, Jiang Nan receives confirmation that he has completed his mission and cleared the game 206.
• 771 departs with a wish for Jiang Nan’s happiness and lasting love with Fu Jingzhou. Jiang Nan asks it to visit and wishes for it to become the Main System 206.

Birthday Extra

• In Fu Jingzhou’s vivid dream, he adopts Jiang Nan on the boy’s eighth birthday, promises not to return him, and buys him cola chicken wings and a GG Bond cake 226.
• The scene ends with Fu Jingzhou waking beside the adult Jiang Nan and wishing him a happy twenty-second birthday; the adoption sequence is presented within that dream rather than as a straightforward account of the main timeline 226.

Notable Quotes

“Out in the world, your identity is whatever you say it is.” 13

“Zhouzhou, let’s date. I’ll be good to you.” 142

“Fu Zhouzhou, you’re only this fearless because you know I spoil you.” 168

“Because the stars are in the sky, but you’re in my heart.” 204

Trivia

• Loves snacks but dislikes plain water, preferring flavored drinks or yogurt 71.
• Washes his hair every day despite his frequently disheveled appearance 61.
• Enjoys melodramatic romance dramas and domineering-CEO novels 6.
• Is a fan of Sun Wukong and uses the character to express his own pain at not knowing where he came from 119 133 226.
• Becomes unusually irritable while playing Honor of Kings, despite his generally laid-back manner 8.