Yu Xiaomei

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First Encounter

Flying Heaven Direct Disciple

"Whatever animal Sister Lan wants me to be, that's what Xiaomei will be!
I—I can even be a crane!"

A Direct Disciple of the Flying Heaven Gate of the Kongtong Sect in this generation, an innocent, lively and cheerful young woman in the bloom of youth.

Little known in the Jianghu, yet among the Direct Disciples of the sect's four gates she is the most favored, and the position of First Lady is as good as hers.

Biographies

She wears a red and white dress, like plum blossoms in the snow, pure and peerless.

Young as she is, her station is high, more precious than even the Eldest Disciple of the Flying Heaven Gate. Apart from the Four Sect Leaders, Xiaomei holds the most honored place.

For all that, she puts on no airs. Every day she runs all over Kongtong Mountain, eager to help, lively and cheerful, fond of joking and laughing, good at making friends.

She keeps an immortal crane named Fire Lightning.

She is the most renowned of this generation's Kongtong Four Maidens. That she will one day marry the Kongtong Sect Leader and become First Lady seems already settled.

They say Xiaomei's birth mother was a demoness of the Supreme Bliss Cult.

After her mother escaped the demon's clutches, she married, bore a daughter, and lived content in poverty,
But good times do not last. Fire Dragon Immortal Monarch, calling it the rooting out of evil,
cruelly tore the family apart,
forcibly took the orphaned Yu girl as his disciple and renamed her Xiaomei,
raising her with purpose, aiming at the position of First Lady to shore up his own power.

So Xiaomei, innocent and cheerful as she seems, in truth harbors hatred for the Kongtong Sect,
always smiling as she pulls the threads, steering matters toward the worst outcomes in revenge.

She even secretly taught her sect's Secret Manual, the Immortal Crane's Elusive Fist, to Fire Lightning,
forcing a bird to learn martial arts with no regard for Fire Lightning's feelings. It is simply unreasonable.

Even her pitiful origins are false,
nothing but a fabricated, arranged false family to win the Kongtong Sect's trust.

Her true identity is a cold-blooded assassin carefully raised by the secret organization the "Thousand Lantern Tower",
a candidate for the new Thousand-Faced Demon, skilled in Face-Changing, Poison Technique, scheming and rhetoric, and able even to bewitch the mind with the Mind-Entrancing Technique.
In secret she divides the Four Gates of Kongtong, using her beauty to lure countless talented men of Kongtong to their deaths,
waiting only for the right moment to bring the mighty Kongtong down under her hand, to claim the credit and inherit the name of Thousand-Faced Demon.

All of this too is illusion, a smokescreen laid to win the trust of her watcher, Soul-Hooking Elder, and trick the antidote to the Corpse Heart Gu out of him.
The hatred Xiaomei keeps buried deep is aimed at one person alone, the Master of the Thousand Lantern Tower. There is no love in her heart; she has clung to life only to kill that one person.

Whenever you are near, a contradictory stirring of love and hate rises in Xiaomei's heart,
She would love to stab you a few times, yet in the end cannot bear to; she calls you ugly to your face, yet cannot let you go.
At least you are only bad to look at, unlike everyone else with their one bland face, so dull you cannot tell who is who.

Though she hides it well, Xiaomei's fixation on you has grown almost pathological.
If you were unfaithful and meant to take three wives and four concubines, she would agree with a smile,
then find a chance to push you down the stairs and leave you half dead,
confine you with the Mind-Entrancing Technique so you can go nowhere and must lean on her for the rest of your life.
But if you are single-hearted and trusting, she would give her life for you and count it sweet.

The direction of your gaze is her future,
and however far the ends of the earth, she will go with you to the end, as companion in life and death, and as partner.

Romance Route

See "Yu Xiaomei Romance Guide"

Personality

• Lively and cheerful, fond of joking and laughing.
• Social skill Lv9.^[1]
• Suspected severe yandere.

Martial Arts

Face-Changing

• To change her face she uses the Bone-Shrinking Skill, waist wraps, shoulder pads, stilts and other Equipment, which makes it hard for her to bring out her full strength.
  • The face masks she uses for Face-Changing are made of pigskin, smeared with powder and pigment, and stifling to wear for long.
  • She can change her voice, but her male voice sounds subtly off.
• People she has disguised as: A'Hua, , Tang Buyi.

Qinggong

• Her Qinggong is extremely high and she knows Kongtong's terrain well; even with Qinggong 100 you cannot outrun Xiaomei.
• The Flying Kick and the dagger are both martial arts of the Flying Heaven Gate, and Xiaomei actually prefers the Flying Kick.
• She has Mastered the Flying Heaven Kick and the Immortal Crane's Elusive Fist, and says the former is a simplification of the latter.

Heartburn Seal

• Xiaomei also has a Heart-Burning Fire Seal that kills the user once used.
• The Heartburn Seal she trained is a method of rapidly building Internal Skill by taking Fire Scorpion Poison. The price of that speed is a lasting illness: every time she circulates qi, her lifespan burns away. When the poison flares, she must rely on Fire Dragon Immortal Monarch lending his palm to digest the fire, and so pass through death's door.
• If Zhao Huo obtains the Heartburn Seal at the Flying Heaven Gate Seasonal Trial, Xiaomei advises against training it, and tells him its risks and price, and Fire Dragon Immortal Monarch's true aim.
• Xiaomei is exceptionally gifted and did not drop dead outright; with Fire Dragon Immortal Monarch again circulating qi to guide the fire, she at last brought the art to completion.
  • But her organs are already damaged and the ills are endless. Every time she circulates qi her heart burns with agony beyond bearing; in the long run it shortens her life, in the short run she risks sudden death. She cannot use it in real combat at all, and so when fights someone she never once circulates the Heartburn Seal.
  • During the assassination of Tang Buyi, when Xiaomei, as the Lady Thief, faces Zhao Huo, she rarely does circulate the Heartburn Seal in real combat.
  • Xiaomei trained the Heartburn Seal not only to raise her Power quickly, but in the hope that it might destroy . Sadly, the latter never came true.
• During the struggle for the position of Sect Leader, Xiaomei tries to circulate the Heartburn Seal in a tree high on the mountain opposite Banyu Terrace, and leap down with the Blazing Flying Heaven Kick to die together with Venerable Golden Crow.
• During the visit to Jinxiang Palace, Painting Immortal risks giving her the Mysterious Candle Heart Sutra in private, hoping Xiaomei can counter the Fire Scorpion Poison.
  • Painting Immortal says that if Xiaomei trains it herself, the Power she built so quickly through the Heartburn Seal will scatter away with it.
  • If Zhao Huo trains the Mysterious Candle Heart Sutra in Xiaomei's place, he can use dual cultivation to transfer and balance the Fire Scorpion Poison. Xiaomei resents that undressing is not a necessary condition for the transfer.

Formless Divine Skill

• A skill every Thousand-Faced Demon must learn: it can imitate and perform martial moves the user does not understand.
  • The third-generation Thousand-Faced Demon mentioned that running the Formless Divine Skill shortens one's lifespan.
    • For Xiaomei, who burns her lifespan training the Heartburn Seal, the Formless Divine Skill is to be avoided if at all possible.
    • Shentu Long orders Xiaomei to imitate the Iron Arm Divine Fist with the Formless Divine Skill, but Xiaomei is weak from her injuries and coughs blood, unable to imitate it.
  • To prove that Shentu Long is Li Renyou, Xiaomei imitates Qingcheng's secret art, the Secret Pact, before with the Formless Divine Skill, and denounces Shentu Long as the Thousand-Faced Demon.

Cooking

• Her Cooking is superb; she can turn Zhao Huo's disastrous creative dishes into creative delicacies.
• The pastries she invents win rave reviews from the locals.
• Three-time consecutive champion of the Pingliang Special-Class Cooking Contest; even the palace chef known as the Old Master praises her without end.
  • She claims she won the cooking championship by kidnapping the judges' daughters and threatening them, but since Xiaomei lies as a habit, Zhao Huo does not quite believe it.
  • She deliberately uses her own fame to snatch snacks made by street vendors, stirring up their business.
• She can turn rot into wonder: through plating and re-seasoning, she has Zhao Huo eat rotten vegetable leaves without ever knowing.
• Using the way lime gives off heat when it meets water, she developed a medicinal hotpot delivery service at the Tang Clan.
• She steams noodles, fries them into dried noodles, and stores them in bamboo tubes and bamboo staves; boil water and they are ready to eat.
• While staying with the Tang Clan, she spoiled the Disciples' palates, so that even the dishes of Tang Niu, a chef himself, paled by comparison.
• When camping in a Ruined Temple, using only mushrooms and fresh meat gathered on the spot, she improvised a wild game stew to rival any restaurant's fine dishes.

Dishes

• For Zhao Huo before he leaves for Jiangling, she specially prepares keepable flatbreads, Jerky, and candied plums.
• She uses her cooking to poison Fire Dragon Immortal Monarch and takes the chance to slip out of Kongtong.
• She reworks Zhao Huo's disastrous creative dishes:
  • Egg dish: A'Huo's Mixed-Up Egg.
  • Flower dish: A'Huo's Cruel Hand on Flowers.

Thousand Lantern Tower & the Thousand-Faced Demon

• She likes running partly to vent stress, and partly to survey Kongtong's terrain for the sake of her assassinations.^[2]
• When Kongtong comes under attack she escapes in the chaos, disguises herself as the ugly woman A'Hua and takes shelter with the Tang Clan, accusing Zhao Huo of betraying her heart. She and probe each other for a while before she finally reveals her true face.
• Though the Thousand Lantern Tower ordered her to kill many people, she never actually killed them, secretly sending them all to a Paradise on Earth.
• According to the dialogue of Ending 11, if she has no bond with you, she will in the end become the Master of the Thousand Lantern Tower.
• Even when Zhao Huo grows old, Xiaomei still looks like a young woman.

Relationships

Fire Lightning

• Xiaomei often dresses it in her own clothes, sometimes for pranks, sometimes to create an alibi.
• Because Xiaomei promised that if it could just finish off she would stop forcing it to learn martial arts, it has set its sights on Zhao Huo and wants his life.
• When Xiaomei spars with Zhao Huo at the Tang Clan, she drags Fire Lightning into the fight. Xiaomei has no martial honor.
• Xiaomei is both strict with it and kind, and especially respects Fire Lightning's independence, which is why she gives it pocket money.^[3]How does a crane spend pocket money?
  • She also pays out of her own pocket to buy Fire Lightning Equipment.

Fourth Senior Brother

• At ten she bought Poison from , trying to poison Fire Dragon Immortal Monarch and Venerable Golden Crow, but was tricked into receiving a laxative, and still holds a grudge against him to this day.
• Though she has a history with Fourth Senior Brother, she is still willing to prepare a great feast to see him off.

Xiahou Lan

• She calls her Sister Lan, and the other calls her Little Lunatic.
• As a child she was thrown by Xiahou Lan as a living projectile, and has been terrified of Xiahou Lan ever since. What a Hidden Weapon.
• She prepares a lunchbox for Xiahou Lan: rice balls with pickled plums, orchid tripe shreds, and soy-braised bamboo shoots, which go perfectly with chrysanthemum tea, but there is no chrysanthemum tea anymore.
  • The lunchbox dishes refer to the old Kongtong Four Maidens; the missing chrysanthemum tea points to Huyan Ju, daughter of the former Kongtong Sect Leader.
    • Xiahou Lan has always borne Xiaomei a grudge and always deliberately ignores Xiaomei's lunchbox. The dishes are deliberately chosen to provoke Xiahou Lan.
  • The pickled plum rice balls are deliberately made to taste worse, meaning that she herself is a nasty person.

Yu Zhu

• She and were once good friends, but because she tricked her into eating a spiritual medicine back then, is still angry with her. She truly wants to make peace, but fears the Thousand Lantern Tower business would drag her in.
• The first time the two met, was crying in the Colorless Square, limp in hands and feet, saying she wanted her mother. Xiaomei gave her a stick of candied hawthorn, and after two licks she stopped crying.
• As a child Xiaomei once dressed up as a hanged ghost, a drowned ghost and a starved ghost and chased Yu Zhu around.
• Xiaomei's Weapon is the most perfect work has made to date: a pair of thick-bladed twin daggers named "Jade Sky Divine", blades five inches and seven fen long and three and a half inches wide, shaped like cleavers, made for chopping meat, breaking armor, and snapping blades and swords. That year Xiao Zhu was desperate to make peace, and cut her own palm to forge the blades with her blood, fainting from it.
• She helps in many ways without her knowing, and stands up for her.

Kongtong Expedition Team

• She forms the Kongtong Expedition Team with Zhao Huo, Rui Sheng and Nangong Qian, and calls herself Survey Captain.

Zhao Huo

• While Zhao Huo studies at Kongtong, she approaches him on her own and often asks Zhao Huo to run with her.
• She longs to roam the Jianghu with companions, but her station keeps her from traveling far.
• At first she approached Zhao Huo only because she was too lonely, yet feared harming others, and so wanted someone whose death would be no loss to play with her and talk with her.

Romance

Her verdict on Zhao Huo:

Unprecedentedly ugly, peerlessly handsome!

• The romanceable female character with the most bad endings and death rates.
• Second only to Ruixing in ugliness fetish, what she has always set her heart on is never Zhao Huo's station,
• Her Face-Changing skill is so great that handsome men leave her cold, while she is utterly infatuated with Zhao Huo's ugliness.
• She is fiercely jealous: any woman who grows close to Zhao Huo or takes a liking to him makes her jealous, and fearing Zhao Huo likes the gentle, lively her, she is even jealous of herself.

Notes

• Though she became an inner disciple of the Tang Clan, she is the exception who neither changed into the Tang Clan Uniform nor took the Tang surname.
• She claims the soul of Hero A'He resides in her right hand. Believe it or not!

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