Bai Mo

Biodata

Background / History

Previous Life

Before the apocalypse, Bai Mo was a female college student. She subsequently survived for nearly ten years, awakening wood-element and space-element abilities early on. She usually sought safety in survivor bases and avoided attracting attention; although valued for her healing, she considered her combat strength ordinary among ability users 1 5 12.

When a zombie king besieged the base where she had lived for years, she chose to defend its familiar inhabitants rather than flee. Unable to defeat it, she killed both herself and the zombie king through self-destruction 1.

Transmigration and the Bai Household

Bai Mo transmigrated into a fictional matriarchal era, occupying the body of the Protector Earl’s seventeen-year-old eldest daughter. The original Bai Mo had lost her father young and been deliberately spoiled by her stepfather, Madam Chen, becoming notorious in the Capital as a beautiful but unruly good-for-nothing 1 2.

Her inherited memories included the original owner’s disastrous fate: after being discovered with Shen Qing under the influence of an aphrodisiac, she died outside the city, her corpse left exposed. The transmigrated Bai Mo escaped that immediate outcome by helping Shen Qing leave before the search party arrived and pretending to be drunk when questioned 1 2.

Despite her suspicion of others after years in the apocalypse, Bai Mo grew attached to Bai Peilan, Bai Jingyao, and Tang Xin’s genuine affection. She promised her mother that she would stop spending her days idly and begin applying herself 3 6.

Appearance

• Features: Willow-leaf eyebrows, exceptionally fair skin, a pert nose, vermilion lips, and a slender waist. Her beauty is described as surpassing that of many men in her new world 2.
• Preferred clothing: After transmigration, she replaces the original owner’s conspicuous taste with simpler, elegant outfits. An early example is a crescent-white outfit with a black sash and her hair tied high 3 4.
• Expressions: Shallow dimples appear when she smiles, giving her a playful look 20.
• Public impression: Guests at Princess Ping’an’s gathering initially mistake her for a beautiful young man 26.

Personality

Bai Mo prefers comfort and security to danger or public distinction. Her decision to study initially comes from wanting to understand her new surroundings, improve her circumstances, and stop being dismissed as useless—not from enthusiasm for scholarship. Even after displaying extraordinary aptitude, she admits that a month of intensive preparation has left her afraid of further studying outside class 7 30.

Her kindness is practical rather than indiscriminate. She redeems Yun Wu, defends him from harassment, and supplies medicine for his mother, but does not regard herself as obligated to become their physician. She also ends the original owner’s relationship with Biluo directly rather than continuing an attachment she does not share 8 9 12 14.

She is playful and openly appreciative of money, attractive men, and good food, but inexperienced in romance. Her feelings for Shen Qing become her first serious love, and his rejection exposes a much more vulnerable side beneath her casual manner 12 42.

Bai Mo can also be forceful and violent. She beats Pan Qinglian for insulting Yun Wu, strikes Bai Yuanshuang over her public interference, and briefly threatens to compel Shen Qing’s marriage through an imperial decree. Conversely, she initially refuses to marry Xiao Muzhi without mutual willingness, believing a forced marriage would humiliate him 13 35 42 45.

Abilities & Skills

Wood-Element Ability

Her wood-element ability survives transmigration and serves as her principal means of healing, detoxification, and manipulating vines 1 5 30.

• Detoxification: Removes aphrodisiacs and ultimately eliminates Shen Qing’s longstanding poison through repeated treatments over approximately a month 1 5 20.
• Healing: Treats her own body and repairs the wounds Shen Qing inflicts on his palms during a poison flare-up 3 16.
• Emergency support: Supplies vitality around Shen Qing’s heart when his breathing and heartbeat weaken after his final detoxification 20.
• Vine movement: Carries Shen Qing across a lake, pulls Bai Mo over walls, and helps her escape a locked room through its roof 1 11 30.
• Sobering: Clears the effects of alcohol when she consciously circulates the ability 44.
• Limits: Detoxification is not instantaneous. Heavy use causes fatigue, drowsiness, dizziness, and, after saving Shen Qing, unconsciousness 1 17 20 21.
• Medical limitation: Despite presenting herself as knowing some medicine, she privately acknowledges that she relies on her ability rather than medical knowledge 5 20.

Space-Element Ability

Bai Mo possesses a personal storage space containing supplies and valuables collected during the apocalypse 1 13 23.

• Retrieves towels, alcohol, and other treatment supplies from it 16.
• Stores ginseng roots aged from one hundred to one thousand years 13.
• Holds chests of antiques, jade, pearls, and gemstones gathered early in the apocalypse 23.
• Accesses and sorts its contents through her spiritual sense 23.

Mental Power and Memory

Her strong mental power gives her a memory comparable to photographic recall. She learns half an elementary dictionary in a single afternoon and masters the beginner’s books within two days 10 18 20.

• Can memorize difficult writing after one attentive reading 39.
• Rapidly studies the Four Books and Five Classics, poetry, and prose under Shen Qing 20.
• Initially cannot read the local script; her memory accelerates learning but does not supply knowledge she has never acquired 10 17.

Mobility and Physical Skills

Bai Mo combines supernatural assistance with agility and close-range attacks 13 30 32.

• Knocks out the man planted in Princess Ping’an’s trap with a hand strike 30.
• Uses a whip and vines to climb rockeries and cross rooftops 32.
• Carries Xiao Muzhi to a lakeside pavilion in a few leaps 32.
• Possesses hearing several times sharper than an ordinary person’s 31.
• Remains limited early on by her new body’s frail constitution, which she gradually treats with her ability 10 17 25.

Resonance with Shen Qing

After Bai Mo transfers internal energy to save Shen Qing, their energies begin to resonate 21.

• Creates a subtle connection through which either can sense traces of the other’s extreme emotional upheaval 41.
• Continues after their separation; Bai Mo feels Shen Qing’s distress while her marriage to Xiao Muzhi is being discussed 48.
• Does not ordinarily provide a strong or constant sensation 41.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Yun Wu’s Redemption

At Biluo’s request, Bai Mo bids for Yun Wu’s freedom, repeatedly raising a rival’s offer by just one tael. She ultimately redeems him for eight thousand taels and returns Biluo’s offered savings, treating the favor as the conclusion of his relationship with the original Bai Mo 8 9 12.

When Pan Qinglian later pursues Yun Wu, Bai Mo pretends to be his wife to protect him. After Pan insults him, Bai Mo forces her to apologize, sign a confession, and compensate the wonton stall. She subsequently sells Yun Wu a five-hundred-year-old ginseng root for 450 taels to help his ill mother 12 13 14.

Education and Public Recognition

Her poetry changes her public reputation from an “airhead beauty” to an exceptional literary talent. However, her private recognition of Tang Bohu’s frustrated ambitions shows that the gathering’s celebrated “Peach Blossom Immortal” draws on remembered material rather than her own experiences 28 39.

Princess Ping’an’s Gathering

After winning treasures at the poetry gathering, Bai Mo follows a maid leading Shen Qing away and is lured into a locked room containing a man dressed like him. She incapacitates the substitute, counters the drug affecting her, and escapes through the roof 30.

Xiao Muzhi helps her establish an alibi by claiming they have remained together at the lakeside pavilion. Bai Mo defeats the immediate accusation, but Princess Ping’an encourages speculation about her relationship with Xiao Muzhi. Rumors subsequently combine her literary success with allegations of several illicit romances 32 33 35 36.

Shen Qing’s Treatment and Separation

Bai Mo initially offers to cure Shen Qing to resolve the hostility arising from their drugged encounter. Their relationship develops through nightly treatments and lessons, and she offers to marry him and care for his recovery. He accepts and later gives her a double-heart jade pendant intended for his future wife 5 16 17 20.

After saving his life during the final treatment, Bai Mo prepares a formal proposal with her family’s help. Shen Qing abruptly rejects her, denying that they were ever together. Although she believes he has discarded her feelings, his private reasoning is that his damaged body would ruin her life 21 39 41 42.

Betrothal to Xiao Muzhi

Distraught after Shen Qing’s rejection, Bai Mo drinks with the Xiao siblings. During the journey home, she mistakes Xiao Muzhi for Shen Qing and kisses him; their families discover the resulting intimacy 42 43.

Once sober, she initially refuses marriage because she does not love Xiao Muzhi and will not force him. When he declares his love and willingness to marry, she agrees to take responsibility and later promises Xiao Yiliu that she will treat him well 45 48.

The families arrange a wedding for the ninth month. Bai Mo lets Xiao Muzhi choose their residence, and he selects a home beside the Protector Earl’s household. She also assures him that her mother, uncle, and aunt will become his family 49 50.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Whip: Used in confrontations and to assist rooftop movement 13 32.
• Basic potions: Drinks two before visiting Shen Qing at night, leaving her mental energy abundant 11.
• Low-grade potion: Gives Shen Qing a bottle while arranging his protection during the princess’s search 32.
• Medical supplies: Keeps anesthetic, disinfecting alcohol, and clean towels for treatment 16.
• Double-heart jade pendant: Shen Qing’s token for his future wife; Bai Mo puts it away after agreeing to marry Xiao Muzhi, intending to return it 20 45.
• Luminous pearl: A poetry-gathering prize that forms a matching pair with Shen Qing’s pearl 30.
• Paired diamond rings: Selects them for herself and Shen Qing while preparing betrothal gifts 40.
• Her father’s dowry: Recovered and organized with Bai Jingyao’s help; he gives her its inventory and warns her against surrendering its management again 25 46.

Relationships

• Bai Peilan — Her indulgent mother and the Imperial Academy’s chancellor. Supports her education and marriage plans, though initially fails to recognize Madam Chen’s interference 6 10 17 18.
• Bai Jingyao — Her maternal uncle. Arranges meetings with Shen Qing, defends her marriage aspirations, recovers her father’s dowry, and oversees betrothal preparations 4 25 46.
• Tang Xin — Her aunt by marriage and vice minister of war. Helps secure Elder Xiao as a matchmaker and guides the family through the consequences of Bai Mo’s intimacy with Xiao Muzhi 24 39 45.
• Madam Chen — Her stepfather. Deliberately spoiled the original owner and sabotages Bai Mo’s renewed education by driving away Teacher Zhang 2 17.
• Bai Yuanshuang — Her younger sister and household antagonist. Participates in accusations and publicly exposes Bai Mo’s private marriage intentions 1 25 35.
• Shen Qing / Young Master Qingya — Her patient, literacy teacher, first love, and former intended husband. Their energy connection persists despite his rejection 17 21 42 48.
• Xiao Muzhi — Her fiancé. Provides an alibi at the princess’s gathering and later chooses to marry her despite knowing she still loves Shen Qing 32 45 49.
• Xiao Yiliu — Her friend, fellow academy student, and future sister-in-law. Supports her while firmly asking her to cherish Xiao Muzhi 30 47 48.
• Great Master Xiao — Her teacher and Xiao Muzhi’s maternal grandmother. Accepts her as a personal disciple after testing her poetry 29 30.
• Elder Xiao — Tang Xin’s teacher and Great Master Xiao’s elder sister. Praises Bai Mo’s potential, agrees to act as her matchmaker, and later supports her betrothal to Xiao Muzhi 39 45.
• Yun Wu — A young man she redeems and protects. Later helps safeguard Shen Qing at her request 12 14 32.
• Biluo — The original owner’s former lover. Bai Mo ends their bond after fulfilling his request to redeem Yun Wu 7 8 9.
• Feng Zijin — The Fifth Princess, who quickly befriends Bai Mo and demands evidence when the Third Princess accuses her 26 27 32.
• Third Princess and Princess Ping’an — Rivals for Shen Qing’s affection who pursue accusations, traps, and damaging insinuations against Bai Mo 27 30 32 33.

Notable Quotes

“But people’s dispositions can change. This time I’m striving for love; next time I can strive for my family.” 39

“If I forced Muzhi to marry me, that would be a humiliation to him. I won’t do it.” 45

“Since I’ve said I’ll marry him, I’ll treat him well. Don’t worry.” 48