Xiao Xiao

Biodata

Background

Xiao Xiao is Xiao Qiujun’s youngest child and only daughter, with three older brothers: Xiao Zhentong, Xiao Fengyang, and Xiao Zhiyan. Her family is a prominent clan in Guanhai Province, and her father is a retired general whose service earned him considerable standing 16.

After graduating from university, she started her own business and established a successful jewelry company. She built her career in Lingnan and lived alone. Her high standards for a partner led her to reject many sons of prominent provincial-capital families, leaving her father concerned about her marriage prospects 16 19.

Appearance

• Youthful appearance: Despite being around thirty, she is described as looking twenty-five or twenty-six because she takes good care of herself 34.
• Hair: Beautiful black hair, worn tied behind her shoulders during the trip to her father’s birthday celebration 34.
• Clothing: On that occasion, she wears a white sweatshirt, short black skirt, high heels, and light makeup; she later wears sunglasses in the car 34.

Personality

Xiao Xiao is independent and career-focused, having founded her own company rather than simply remaining within the family’s established affairs. She is also conscious of the value of connections: after selling Su Ye’s watermelons, she explains that the favors earned by the Xiao Family matter more than the money 16 31.

Her manner with Su Ye becomes playful and affectionate. She asks him to call her “Sister Xiao,” teases him about exchanging jade for his protection, and blushes when his trust in her financial judgment sounds like a husband leaving household accounts to his wife. These moments suggest attraction, but no romantic relationship is confirmed 22 24 34.

When threatened by armed kidnappers, she prioritizes survival and offers money in exchange for their freedom. After Su Ye rescues her, she checks whether he is injured and openly admires his strength 25 26.

Abilities & Skills

Jewelry Trading

Xiao Xiao purchases jadeite for processing into jewelry and ornaments, explaining that finished products can sell for several times the raw material’s price 24.

• Understands jade-shopping terminology and explains to Su Ye what it means when cutting a rough stone exposes “green” 23.
• Buys revealed jadeite when its quality and price suit her, rather than relying solely on purchasing uncut stones 23 24.
• Uses her family connections to hire Xiantian-level escorts for earlier trips to Myanmar’s dangerous jade market 23.

Crop Business Management

Her father appoints her to help oversee the Lingnan County crop research laboratory and act as Su Ye’s contact for his produce 19.

• Organizes transport and collection crews for his watermelon harvest 22.
• Handles sales reporting and negotiates the division of proceeds with him 31.
• Maintains contact about the readiness of later vegetable and watermelon harvests 49.

Limitations

• She has no martial arts cultivation or documented combat abilities 22.
• Although she feels a warm current throughout her body after eating Su Ye’s watermelon, no cultivation breakthrough is recorded 22.

Relationships

• Xiao Qiujun — Father. She hosts his treatment at her villa and thanks Su Ye with a gift afterward. Qiujun deliberately places her near Su Ye, hoping affection will develop between them 16 17 19 37.
• Su Ye — Business partner, hired protector, and increasingly close friend. He treats her father, supplies the crops she helps distribute, and saves her during the Myanmar trip. She rewards him with a sports car and invites him to her birthday 17 19 26 27 49.
• Xiao Zhentong — Eldest brother, a politician. He teases her when she arrives at the family home with Su Ye, prompting a blushing explanation that Su Ye cured their father 16 34.
• Xiao Fengyang — Second brother, who works in business 16.
• Xiao Zhiyan — Third brother, described as an idle troublemaker protected by the family’s prestige 16.
• Xiao Xitong — Niece, who addresses her as “Auntie” and brings Su Ye to her villa 16 17.
• Li Wanjun — Close friend and car-dealership manager who helps arrange Su Ye’s reward 27.
• Li Yue — Li Xin’s granddaughter, whom she introduces to Su Ye during the birthday gathering 37.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Meeting Su Ye and Establishing Cooperation

• Xiao Xiao initially questions whether the young man her father encountered could really be a Grandmaster. After meeting him, she respectfully greets him as “Grandmaster Su” 16 17.
• She gives him a red sandalwood box as thanks for treating her father. Su Ye later finds a purple bank card inside 17 18.
• At dinner, she explains that the vegetables she bought for 6,666 per jin benefit martial artists below Xiantian. Su Ye recognizes them as his own produce and reveals that he grew them, leading to his laboratory-and-distribution partnership with the Xiao Family 17.

Watermelon Sales

• She arranges collection of approximately one thousand watermelons, with Su Ye leaving the pricing to her judgment 22.
• She later reports sales exceeding 130 million, excluding the watermelons retained by the family. Although the family initially offers him all the proceeds, their negotiations establish a 70% share for Su Ye and 30% for the Xiao Family, without deducting costs 31.

Myanmar Jade Trip and Ambush

• Xiao Xiao hires Su Ye as her bodyguard for a buying trip to Jade City. Her purchases include a bean-type jadeite piece for 510,000; by the end of the trip, she has spent more than 100 million Hua Country yuan and filled nearly two suitcases 22 23 25.
• On the return journey, eight armed men intercept and abduct them, demanding their valuables and one billion in ransom. Su Ye shelters her in the Immortal Spirit Space and kills the attackers while she is unconscious, so she does not witness his techniques 25 26.
• After reviving her with spiritual energy water, Su Ye gives her a snake-engraved iron token found on the gang leader and asks her to have her father investigate it 26.
• Back in Lingnan, she insists that Su Ye stay at her villa. She then rewards him with a silver Porsche 918, after explaining that she had originally considered paying him twenty million 26 27.

Family Celebrations and Later Contact

• She brings Su Ye to Guanhai City for her father’s birthday and prepares antique paintings and calligraphy so that he can present one as a gift 31 34.
• During Su Ye’s extended cultivation period, she invites him out, but he declines. When she finally reaches him again, she asks about his crops and insists that he attend her December 2 birthday, giving advance notice because he keeps disappearing 47 49.