Su Qingyun

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Background / History

School Years

Su Qingyun came from an exceptionally wealthy family. Her first encounter with Fang Weiyan occurred during middle school, when her period unexpectedly began on the sports field and stained her trousers. Mistaking the bleeding for an injury, he carried her out of school toward a hospital. Embarrassed by the public incident, she transferred schools, but remembered the boy who had tried to help her 6 67.

During high school, she tracked down his name and university choice, then secretly enrolled at the same university. They became close through group outings, although he did not recognize her as the girl from middle school. She frequently brought him pastries, milk tea, and small gifts, sometimes explaining skincare products away as surplus purchases 67 186.

Supporting Weiyan

When An Weiyan first asked her for financial help, Su Qingyun immediately offered one million. Although he clarified that he needed only ten thousand, she transferred one hundred thousand through Alipay and told him there was no rush to repay it. He used the money to purchase rice for starving people in the other world 6 7.

She also agreed to help him find an unoccupied Taoist temple, though his request worried her because it followed his sudden need to borrow money. Later, when he considered bringing golden-thread nanmu to Earth, she warned him that it was a nationally protected Class II tree species, prompting him to abandon the plan 11 28.

Family Business Crisis

Company responsibilities repeatedly interfered with Su Qingyun’s plans to visit Weiyan. By their meeting in Cloudwater City, her father’s company was in severe trouble after her uncle’s mismanagement, with bankruptcy a possibility. She downplayed the crisis to Weiyan because she did not want him to worry 67 99 100.

Her father accompanied her to Cloudwater City to meet the young man she liked. Su Qingyun agreed only after insisting that he neither say anything inappropriate nor mention their middle-school encounter 99.

Establishing Starlight Pharmaceuticals

Weiyan gave Su Qingyun medicinal rootlets and proposed that she arrange testing and establish a pharmaceutical company, while he supplied the raw material. She initially cautioned him about the enormous cost of drug development, but accepted the proposal 100.

Testing by her close friend Fan Mengqi revealed extraordinary healing potential. Recognizing both the opportunity and the danger of attracting outside attention, Su Qingyun sought her father’s help. He arranged a meeting with Old Zhan at a research institute, where further testing secured promises of state funding, land support, and protection against investigations 104.

At the celebration banquet, Su Qingyun publicly introduced Weiyan as a major shareholder. This also helped discourage men who hoped to gain influence over Starlight through pursuing her. Afterward, she raised the need to expand the rootlet supply before additional drug projects outgrew their existing allocation 166 167.

Becoming Weiyan’s Lover

Su Qingyun’s feelings remained unspoken for years because she feared rejection would cost her their friendship. She tried indirect questions about girlfriends and carefully prepared for their meetings, but Weiyan repeatedly failed to understand her intentions 99 100 143.

Weiyan eventually used divination to identify her as the girl from middle school and reconsidered her behavior toward him at university. When he brought up their first encounter, she hurriedly covered his mouth in embarrassment. In their subsequent conversation, she acknowledged why she had treated him so well, and accepted his playful suggestion that he repay her by pledging himself to her 186 187.

After dinner and a riverside walk, they returned to her villa and became lovers. The following morning, she was reluctant to see him leave so soon after making their relationship official 187.

Appearance

• Build: Long, slender, shapely legs are repeatedly emphasized 6 99.
• Facial features: Delicate brows and phoenix-shaped eyes 6 155.
• Styling: For the Cloudwater City meeting, she wore intricately braided hair with turquoise-dyed strands and carefully applied makeup 100.
• Clothing: She deliberately wore black stockings to attract Weiyan’s attention during a later meeting 155.
• Apparent rejuvenation: After eating the peach he gave her, she noticed smoother skin, the disappearance of a facial blemish, and a more youthful appearance; her secretary also remarked on the change 155 159.

Personality

Su Qingyun usually appears aloof around other people, but becomes affectionate, anxious, and easily flustered around Weiyan. She keeps his conversation pinned above her many unread messages and becomes delighted whenever he initiates contact. His slow replies and abrupt departures sometimes provoke private outbursts against nearby cushions 6 7 15 187.

Her generosity toward him is paired with strong trust. She lends more than he requests, objects to his prompt repayment, and later arranges substantial research funding without hesitation. Nevertheless, she is protective rather than indiscriminately agreeable: she warns him against handling protected timber and initially resists his request for an overseas arms contact 6 28 122 162.

Despite being open with her father about liking Weiyan, she struggles to confess to Weiyan himself. Her fear is not simply embarrassment—she understands his insistence on earning his own living and worries that her wealth cannot guarantee his affection 99.

Abilities & Skills

Business Management

Su Qingyun handles Starlight Pharmaceuticals’ financing, development coordination, and public-facing business affairs 104 122 166.

• Reviews available funds and instructs finance staff to make large transfers 122.
• Coordinates testing, registration applications, publicity, and pharmaceutical supply requirements 104 160 167.
• Builds connections with business figures and officials through company events 166 167.
• Plans ahead for increased raw-material demand as the company develops more medicines 167.

Networking and Risk Management

• Uses her father’s contacts to obtain a state research evaluation and support 104.
• Requests confidentiality for the initial test results and protection against investigations, partly to shield Weiyan from unwanted scrutiny 104.
• Finds an overseas arms-dealer contact through acquaintances, despite having no direct connection herself 162.

Scientific Knowledge — Limitations

• She is not a pharmaceutical specialist and cannot independently interpret the technical reports. She relies on Fan Mengqi, Old Zhan, and the research staff for scientific explanations and assessments 104 160.
• Her work centers on organizing development rather than personally creating or analyzing the medicines 104 160.

Notable Items and Supernatural Effects

• Photograph of young Weiyan: Keeps a middle-school photograph of him close by, including on her office desk 67 159.
• One-yuan coin: Temporarily held a coin that Weiyan later retrieved as part of changing her luck. After narrowly avoiding a speeding dump truck, she initially credited good fortune; accounts of Cloud-Stilling Temple’s coin wishes later convinced her that he had protected her 100 104 132.
• Gifted peach: Ate a peach given to her by Weiyan, who retained its pit. She subsequently noticed a more youthful appearance 155 159.

Relationships

• Fang Weiyan / An Weiyan — University friend, pharmaceutical business partner, and eventual lover. Her affection began with their middle-school encounter, long before he recognized her 6 67 186 187.
• Su Chuanyun — Father. He meets Weiyan out of concern and curiosity, and later helps secure state support for her pharmaceutical venture 99 104.
• Fan Mengqi — Close friend who helps her prepare for meetings with Weiyan, conducts the initial rootlet testing, and offers advice about her stalled romance 99 104 132.
• Old Zhan — Research supporter who validates the medicinal samples, promises funding and protection, and takes an active role in drug development 104 107 109.
• Unnamed uncle — His mismanagement leaves her father’s company facing a potential collapse 99.