Miao Ruijia

Biodata

Appearance

• Clothing: Wears red at her introduction 82.
• Insignia: Carries a second lieutenant’s rank insignia on her right shoulder 83.
• Bearing: Introduced with a cold expression, one foot planted on an iron pot; rests her large saber on her shoulder during the ensuing fight 82.

Personality

Miao Ruijia is hot-tempered and fiercely protective of her team’s dignity. When He Yingjie dismisses logistics personnel as people who merely supply frontline fighters, she orders her subordinates to drive his group out by force. Their clashes are frequent enough that a patrolling officer treats mediating between them as routine 82 83.

Her pride in logistics extends beyond personal arguments. Before the demonic beast assault, she rallies her soldiers against the notion that they are only healers, supports, or cooks who must hide behind others. She subsequently fights the beasts herself, continuing to charge despite blood covering her face 88 91.

With students, she combines sympathy with practical limits. She recognizes her own youthful desire to play the hero in Xu Jintang, but tells her to wait until graduation before entering the battlefield. When a major battle becomes imminent, she cancels the interns’ assignment rather than promise protection she cannot provide 88 91.

Abilities & Skills

Blade Combat

Miao Ruijia fights directly with a large magical blade rather than remaining exclusively in a rear-line command role.

• Splits the ground with a downward strike, producing cracks that spread outward 82.
• Throws her blade at He Yingjie to interrupt his confrontation with the interns 85.
• Fights in the demonic beast assault on Area S 91.
• Leads an attack against Scale Snakes inside the underground tomb 94.

Command and Field Judgment

• Assigns logistics interns according to their support abilities, distinguishing battlefield buffs from supplies that can be produced safely in the rear 83.
• Organizes emergency briefings and prepares more than a hundred logistics personnel for combat 87 88.
• Agrees not to divide her scouting force further when another fork would leave each group too small 94.
• Rejects smashing through a blocked tunnel because the disturbance could collapse the unstable passage 95.
• Entrusts navigation to Xu Jintang after learning that her Domain Detection can locate routes and traps through stone walls 95.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Magical saber / machete — A large blade described as wreathed in laser arcs when first drawn. Its strikes can crack the ground; Miao Ruijia also throws it during combat 82 85.
• Communicator — Uses messages to recall Luo Yingtong to the barracks for an emergency meeting 87.

Background / History

Conflict with He Yingjie

According to Zhu Xiangming, He Yingjie once pursued Miao Ruijia romantically. After she rejected him, their conflict escalated into repeated confrontations between his frontline personnel and her logistics team 85.

Xu Jintang first encounters Miao Ruijia during one of these brawls. Rather than letting the newly arrived interns watch, Miao Ruijia calls on them to help. After a patrolling second lieutenant stops the fighting, she takes the students inside, explains their assignments, and warns them to avoid He Yingjie 82 83.

When He Yingjie later attempts to seize Xu Jintang and Yan Yuting, Miao Ruijia intervenes with her blade, checks whether the students were hurt, and promises to report him. He subsequently receives a week of camp-cleaning duty 84 85.

Defense of the Logistics Team

After Xu Jintang defeats a first-tier Flowing Fire Lizard, Zhou Yu and He Yingjie accuse logistics personnel of drugging the beast. Miao Ruijia rejects the accusation before Captain Song and mocks He Yingjie’s insistence that an undetectable drug must have been used after the medical tests return negative 86.

He Yingjie offers a Tongbao Spirit Realm token as compensation. Miao Ruijia authenticates it and tells Xu Jintang to keep it. She later explains that the compensation spared He Yingjie a punishment that could have cost him his rank 86.

Demonic Beast Assault

Following satellite reports of beasts leaving the Extreme Cold Forest, Miao Ruijia briefs the logistics team on the level-one alert. She warns that the horde could reach Area S within two days and arranges for the academy interns’ evacuation 87 88.

During the assault, she fights alongside Luo Yingtong as the undermanned border defenses struggle to hold. When told that Xu Jintang is missing, she prioritizes defeating the immediate wave of beasts before searching 91.

After the beasts retreat, she finds Xu Jintang back in the logistics area. She accepts the student’s account of an extraordinary encounter involving spirit plants and is astonished to learn that her mental power has reached peak third tier. Learning that Xu Jintang’s support ability has evolved into wide-area ice manipulation later makes her regret that logistics may lose a promising future recruit 91 93.

Underground Tomb Expedition

Captain Song orders Miao Ruijia and He Yingjie to investigate a newly exposed underground passage. Miao Ruijia permits Xu Jintang to accompany the mission, provided she follows orders and stays with the team 93 94.

After a statue trap nearly kills several members, Miao Ruijia agrees to withdraw and seek support. Blocked passages prevent a simple retreat, so she places Xu Jintang at the front to navigate using Domain Detection. The group reaches the central burial chamber, recovers treasure chests, and escapes to report its findings 95.

Miao Ruijia then brings Xu Jintang back to locate He Yingjie’s trapped group. When he objects to following an academy student, she points out that Xu Jintang’s detection ability is the reason her own team escaped safely 95 96.

Xu Jintang’s Recognition and Departure

When Xu Jintang declines magical treasures and pills as a reward, Miao Ruijia proposes converting her contribution into military merit. Captain Song awards one thousand merits, enough for promotion to soldier. Miao Ruijia undertakes to register the merits and update her rank, while warning her not to abuse her new authority outside the army 96.

Before Xu Jintang leaves, Miao Ruijia hands her the rank insignia. Military reviews prevent her from seeing the student off, but she reminds Xu Jintang to prepare an explanation for secretly remaining behind during the evacuation 97.

Relationships

• Xu Jintang — An academy intern under her supervision. Miao Ruijia protects her, comes to trust her field abilities, and advocates for formal recognition of her contributions. Xu Jintang promises to visit after graduation 85 95 96 97.
• Luo Yingtong — A logistics subordinate who fights beside her and whom she leaves in charge locally when summoned to a meeting 91 92.
• He Yingjie — A rejected suitor and rival of equal military rank. Despite their hostility, Miao Ruijia participates in rescuing his team from the tomb 83 85 95 96.
• Captain Song — Her superior, to whom she reports misconduct and mission findings, and from whom she receives investigation orders 86 93 95.
• Yan Yuting and Xue Zhongqi — Academy interns assigned to her logistics team. She explains their duties and arranges their withdrawal when the combat zone becomes too dangerous 83 88.

Notable Quotes

“We can fight and kill the enemy too!” 88

“It's good that you have the heart for it, but if you want to go onto the battlefield, wait until you've graduated from military academy.” 91