Wang Xiaoming

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Wang Xiaoming (王小明)
Alias(es)	Professor Wang; Professor Bruce Pi 116 287
Species/Race	Human; not a ghost wielder 506
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Ghost Wielder Headquarters 116
Occupation/Role	Professor, supernatural-event researcher, experimental developer, and Headquarters strategist 235 476
Status	Deceased; beheaded by Yang Jian after attempting to avenge Wang Xiaoqiang 1267 1268
First Appearance	Chapter 116

Background & History

Wang Xiaoming entered the Huanggang Village aftermath as a high-ranking Headquarters representative. He admitted that he had removed files related to Yang Jian's mission and argued that the recovery of the ghost coffin outweighed the lives lost in the incident. When Yang Jian demanded proof that he would apply this principle to himself and his own side, Wang Xiaoming took Yang Jian's gun and shot Wu Yue without hesitation; Yang Jian stopped the execution before the final shot. 116 117

He treated the ghost coffin, Feng Quan, and other supernatural assets as resources for research rather than financial commodities. He accepted Yang Jian's demand for “everything” in exchange for Feng Quan because Feng Quan's knowledge of Huanggang Village was more valuable to his work than money. 118

Wang Xiaoming was the elder brother of Wang Xiaoqiang. He used laboratory methods to create Wang Xiaoqiang's stitched, artificial body, allowing him to function alongside a ghost despite not being a conventional ghost wielder. When Yang Jian pursued Wang Xiaoqiang, Wang Xiaoming attempted a helicopter extraction and later offered any price for his brother's life. After Wang Xiaoqiang died, he grieved openly but refused to retaliate against Yang Jian through official channels, believing Wang Xiaoqiang's death would ultimately benefit Dachang City. 148 213 214 216

During the Starvation Ghost Incident, Wang Xiaoming analyzed the ghost infant's successive stages, personally entered the hospital operation, and repeatedly placed himself in danger to obtain data or enable a solution. He helped formulate plans against the source ghost, proposed support for Yang Jian's development, and recommended him for the Captain Plan. 235 238 246 254 273

His attempts to use the ghost coffin to create a human with a ghost's body and retained consciousness failed. The resulting anomaly connected to Wei Jing escaped the laboratory and developed into the Ghost Messenger crisis. Wang Xiaoming accepted responsibility for the disaster, considered suicide, then isolated himself to lure the Ghost Messenger back toward the coffin with a death-substitute doll. 436 437 442 476 477

Later, he borrowed Yang Jian's human skin paper for thirty minutes and incorporated its information into an experiment involving Guo Fan's spirit tablet, Yang Jian's body, and the ghost coffin. The experiment became an escalating anomaly, forcing him to reassess the paper's guidance and Guo Fan's condition. 506 621 652 654

By the time Headquarters prepared another captains' meeting, Wang Xiaoming was terminally ill with late-stage cancer. He sought to make Yang Jian the Enforcement Captain, offering access to Headquarters' resources and the secret of the human skin paper. After explaining his conclusion that the paper was a conscious being acting according to ghost-like behavior, he admitted that he still wanted revenge for Wang Xiaoqiang and shot Yang Jian seven times. Yang Jian then executed him. 1233 1237 1238 1267 1268

Appearance

Wang Xiaoming was initially a young man in a white lab coat, around twenty-five or twenty-six years old, with a straight-backed and composed bearing. During his terminal illness, he became emaciated and pale, with sunken cheeks, a shaved head, a persistent fever, and reliance on an electric wheelchair and medical equipment. 116 436 1234 1237

• Usually wore a white research lab coat. 116 436
• Maintained a calm, analytical expression even during supernatural crises. 436 476
• His late-stage cancer visibly transformed him into a frail, severely weakened patient. 1233 1234

Personality

Wang Xiaoming viewed supernatural disasters through an uncompromising utilitarian lens. He considered individual deaths acceptable when they produced a meaningful advantage for humanity's survival, and he was willing to include himself, subordinates, and politically valuable figures in that calculation. 116 117 571

His methods were usually open rather than deceptive: he stated the benefits and costs of a proposal, then applied pressure until the other party accepted the practical conclusion he had already reached. His discussions with Yang Jian repeatedly took the form of probing questions, high-value offers, and carefully framed choices. 436 1238

Despite his detachment, Wang Xiaoming was not emotionally empty. Wang Xiaoqiang's death devastated him, the Ghost Messenger incident filled him with guilt, and his final revenge attempt exposed the resentment he had suppressed for years. 214 442 476 1267

Abilities & Skills

Supernatural Event Analysis

Wang Xiaoming could derive patterns from incomplete observations and turn them into workable response plans.

• Deduced the ghost infant's developmental stages through its sensory progression, identifying sight and touch as documented stages and anticipating hearing as the next one. 235
• Assessed the Ghost Messenger's repeated resets, attack timing, and movement patterns closely enough to act at the precise moment it reached him. 476
• Identified the ghost coffin entity's ability to suppress three ghosts in a wielder and recognized that its suppression could grow after killing ghost wielders. 446
• Determined that the human skin paper was not merely an item, but likely a conscious existence whose behavior followed ghost-like rules. 1266 1267

Experimental Research & Development

Wang Xiaoming developed and studied some of Headquarters' most important supernatural tools and theories.

• Developed ghost candles and contributed to methods of controlling vengeful ghosts; his work also established gold as a key material for containing supernatural items. 476
• Researched the ghost coffin as a means of transforming human bodies into ghosts while preserving consciousness; the experiment failed because its subjects lost their emotions and became ghosts. 436 437
• Shaped a ghost nurtured in the ghost coffin into a coffin nail, a supernatural restraint capable of decisively suppressing ghosts. 437
• Created the conditions that produced the Ghost Messenger/Wei Jing anomaly, then continued studying it despite the danger and ethical cost. 447 540

Strategy & Negotiation

Wang Xiaoming combined research findings with institutional authority to direct operations and secure cooperation.

• Led ghost wielders into the hospital during the Starvation Ghost Incident, bringing a prepared gold container for confinement. 238
• Recommended Yang Jian for the Captain Plan and offered resources, ghost-control assistance, and classified information in exchange for his participation. 254
• Proposed the Enforcement Captain position for Yang Jian, intending to create a figure capable of restraining unruly captains and stabilizing Headquarters. 1237 1238
• Pressured Guo Fan to surrender the spirit tablet needed for his survival, showing that Wang Xiaoming would coerce even allied ghost wielders when an experiment demanded it. 621 622

Equipment / Items

• Ghost Coffin — Central focus of Wang Xiaoming's research; used in experiments involving human-to-ghost transformation and containment. 436 477
• Coffin Nail — A black, rhombus-shaped ghost formed into a nail after being nurtured in the ghost coffin. 437
• Ghost Candles — Research product associated with Wang Xiaoming; used to resist or lure supernatural threats. 240 476
• Death-substitute doll — A rag doll stored in a gold box and used to lure the Ghost Messenger toward the ghost coffin. 476
• Gold containment boxes — Used to isolate and transport dangerous supernatural objects. 238 476

Relationships

• Yang Jian — Research subject, bargaining partner, and eventual killer. Wang Xiaoming recognized Yang Jian's value early, supported his advancement, and later tried to recruit him as Enforcement Captain; he ultimately attempted revenge for Wang Xiaoqiang's death. 254 436 1237 1267
• Wang Xiaoqiang — Younger brother. Wang Xiaoming created his artificial body, attempted to rescue him from Yang Jian, mourned him after his death, and eventually acted on his desire for revenge. 116 148 213 214 1267
• Li Jun — Special Forces captain and close operational associate. Li Jun guarded Wang Xiaoming, assisted during major crises, and worried over Wang Xiaoming's guilt and safety. 116 442 474 476
• Zhao Jianguo — Headquarters captain and adviser who frequently mediated between Wang Xiaoming, Yang Jian, and other personnel; he also warned Wang Xiaoming about the risks of the ghost coffin. 116 118 438
• Wei Jing — Subject of Wang Xiaoming's failed ghost-transformation research and later a major anomaly under Headquarters observation. 447 540 652
• Guo Fan — Ghost wielder whose spirit tablet Wang Xiaoming sought for an experiment intended to address Yang Jian's music box curse. 621 652 654
• Cao Yanhua — Headquarters deputy minister who relied on Wang Xiaoming's expertise but questioned his willingness to sacrifice valuable personnel and manipulate Yang Jian. 500 615 1234

Notable Quotes

“In peacetime, individual sacrifices are insignificant, as long as the sacrifice is worthwhile.” 116

“Death can be lighter than a feather or heavier than Mount Tai. Everyone has a time to sacrifice.” 117

“It would be a shame if I did become a ghost wielder.” 235

“A person is a person if they act like one, even if they don't exist in human form.” 1267