Xiao Bing

Biodata

Background / History

Family and Lu Yuan’s Return

Xiao Bing grew up alongside her older brother, Lu Yuan, but did not exist in the previous life he remembered. After returning to a changed world, Lu Yuan recognized her resemblance to a girl from his childhood dreams. He concluded that she was his biological sister, whose birth had been prevented by a policy in his former world 2.

While Xu Yongmei was hospitalized with Twilight Syndrome, Xiao Bing helped care for her brother during his entrance-exam preparations. She had been responsible for making his breakfast throughout the school year and worked weekends at Food Flavor Pavilion 3 4.

When Lu Yuan considered abandoning his Cultivation University application because of its 20,000-yuan fee, Xiao Bing gave him her savings of 8,455 yuan. She urged him to apply because ordinary treatment could only delay their mother’s illness, whereas cultivators might be able to cure it 3.

Dragon Boat Festival Fame

At Food Flavor Pavilion, Xiao Bing performed outside the restaurant and promoted its festival flatbreads. Her success attracted customers and earned commissions, explaining the savings that had initially made Lu Yuan worry about her workplace 6 7.

She subsequently helped sell the zongzi introduced by Lu Yuan, repeatedly explaining their connection to Earth’s Dragon Boat Festival and showing customers how to unwrap them. Local reporter Ding Lin interviewed her, and photographs of Xiao Bing holding two zongzi spread online under the name “Dragon Boat Festival Little Sister” 9 10 13.

Her popularity prompted Jia Shengnan to suggest signing her as Food Flavor Pavilion’s spokesperson. It also brought unfamiliar attention at school, where she initially blushed and lowered her head when other students recognized her 13 20.

Kidnapping and Rescue

Shortly after her rise to fame, cultists abducted Xiao Bing from her home and held her in an abandoned factory outside Ning City. Lu Yuan discovered her phone and shoes left behind, along with traces of an intruder, and sought help from the Internal Affairs Bureau 14 15.

The cult intended to use her in a Holy Descent Ceremony. Zhang Baocheng stated that she met the ceremony’s requirements and expected her to become a Holy Church protector afterward; the planned transformation never took place 17.

Despite her fear, Xiao Bing defied her captors, insisted that her brother would rescue her, and bit the woman searching her. When Lu Yuan was brought in and threatened with mutilation, she struggled against the people restraining her. Ji Yin and Bureau personnel stormed the factory before Zhang Baocheng could carry out his threat, and Lu Yuan freed her 14 17.

The kidnapping left her frightened enough to ask to sleep in Lu Yuan’s room that night. He gave her the bed and slept on the floor. Soon afterward, she accompanied him to Jiangzhou City First Hospital, where their mother received the lifesaving Xikangnuo treatment 19 20 22.

Finding Her Missing Brother

Before infiltrating the Holy Church in Jiangzhou, Lu Yuan entrusted Xiao Bing with his bank card and asked her to register him for the written entrance examination. She recognized that his requests sounded like preparations for a dangerous departure and begged him to stay. After hearing his account of a “dream” in which he lost his family, she agreed to support his ambition to enter the Four Greats 27.

Lu Yuan remained missing for more than a month. Xiao Bing eventually told their parents, and the family sought help from the police and Internal Affairs Bureau. Her continuing internet fame brought little comfort while his whereabouts were unknown 36.

A reminder from Ma Jin led her to check Lu Yuan’s examination registration. Finding that his admission ticket had already been printed, she deduced that he might be visiting his assigned venue, Guanghua School in Jiangzhou. She immediately traveled there by taxi and high-speed train 36 37.

At the school gate, Xiao Bing recognized from Lu Yuan’s eyes that he was in danger. Instead of acknowledging him, she pretended to be a distressed examinee arriving too late to inspect the venue. Their staged collision allowed him to pass her a note requesting that its finder contact the Internal Affairs Bureau, without alerting Guo Huai 37.

After Lu Yuan survived the cult operation and underwent surgery, Xiao Bing reunited with him and their parents. At the hotel arranged by the Bureau, she acted delighted by the luxurious suite to ease his worries, then stayed beside him all night once he fell asleep, concerned about his chest wound 42 43.

Ning City Ambassador

Xiao Bing’s popularity persisted beyond the festival, attracting talent agencies that contacted her school. Lu Wenkai declined their approaches because an entertainment career would interfere with her studies. Xiao Bing later accepted an invitation from the cultural bureau to become Ning City’s ambassador, announcing the appointment during a family banquet 36 47.

Appearance

• Strikingly beautiful face: Her looks draw attention even when her dancing is visibly unpracticed 6.
• Supple build: Her flexibility helps make her stage movements appear graceful 6.
• Stage presentation: At Food Flavor Pavilion, she wears a black-and-red performance outfit, blush, glossy lip color, and white safety shorts beneath her skirt 6.
• Everyday contrast: Lu Yuan notes that her made-up stage appearance differs markedly from the barefaced schoolgirl he sees at home 6.

Personality

Xiao Bing is affectionate, playful, and openly proud of her brother. She teases him about Jia Xuanxuan, roughhouses with him, and enthusiastically praises his cooking in front of the restaurant staff. Her admiration predates his return: she remembers him as the brother who could tie her shoelaces, braid her hair, and retrieve toys from high cupboards 3 8 9.

Her cheerfulness coexists with practical judgment. She works to support the family, gives up her savings for Lu Yuan’s application, and questions whether a businessman would really pay for a recipe that others could easily copy. Lu Yuan recognizes that she is clever and often chooses to act cute or play dumb around him 3 11 27.

She is defiant under threat but not untouched by fear. Her resistance during captivity is followed by a need for reassurance at home. Later, her response to Lu Yuan’s disappearance combines grief with decisive action, while her bedside vigil shows that his safety matters more to her than fame or luxury 14 17 19 36 37 43.

Abilities & Skills

Sales and Customer Relations

• Attracts crowds through outdoor performances and converts their interest into flatbread sales 7.
• Explains unfamiliar products patiently and demonstrates how to eat zongzi 9.
• Resolves a customer’s complaint about hair in her food when the manager’s apologies fail 7.
• Maintains friendly relationships with kitchen staff, management, and customers alike 7.

Performance and Publicity

• Sings and dances for restaurant promotions, though her dancing is explicitly described as unpracticed 6 7.
• Appears natural on camera and readily poses with members of the public 10.
• Sustains enough public interest to attract talent-agency approaches and a municipal ambassador invitation 36 47.

Observation and Improvisation

• Infers the danger behind Lu Yuan’s departure from his decision to entrust her with money and their parents’ care 27.
• Uses his printed admission ticket to identify a likely opportunity to find him 36.
• Understands his warning through a brief exchange of looks and improvises a cover story for their covert note exchange 37.

Relationships

• Lu Yuan — Older brother and her principal source of reassurance. She supports his university ambitions financially and emotionally, while he rescues her from the cult and takes care of her at home 3 17 19 27.
• Lu Wenkai — Father. He entrusts her with looking after Lu Yuan and later rejects entertainment-industry offers to protect her education 2 47.
• Xu Yongmei — Mother. Her Twilight Syndrome motivates Xiao Bing’s insistence that Lu Yuan pursue cultivation; Xiao Bing accompanies him to her treatment and stays with their parents in the ward 3 22.
• Chef Wang — Supportive coworker who treats her kindly and makes her meat-heavy fried rice. She proudly introduces Lu Yuan to him 7.
• Jia Xuanxuan — Schoolmate with whom she develops a teasing rivalry. Xiao Bing needles her over the phone and later displaces her as the school’s most admired girl 11 47 48.
• Ji Yin — Cultivator involved in her rescue. During Lu Yuan’s later disappearance, his meaningful look at the Bureau unsettles her 17 36.

Notable Quotes

“My brother is very capable.” 14

“Brother, I understand. I support you.” 27

“You're not allowed to dream of a world without me again.” 27