Shangguan Ying
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Miss Shangguan
"I know, it's a matter of insufficient funds. I'll contribute fifty taels of silver."
The only daughter of the Shangguan family, one of the Wulin's Three Great Families, long settled in Fuzhou, and a beauty famed throughout the Wulin today.
Proud and strong-willed, though she is a wealthy young lady of good name, she will not suffer herself to be raised in the inner chambers, and at a young age took over the Shangguan family business in her father's stead.
A woman who yields nothing to any man, and shrewd with it, she has built the vast family estate into a thriving enterprise.
Biographies
She studied under the Fujian Branch of the Songshan Sect, steeped in Buddhist teaching from childhood,
and learned some fists and kicks for self-defense. Her martial arts are not especially fine,
but her Talent is extraordinary: she is a rare woman who can bring the Sorrowful Fist to a power beyond twelve tenths,
so you had best keep your eyes open and not make her too angry.
Since childhood she has been betrothed to the Eldest Young Lord of the Nangong Family,
and though she has put her heart into the relationship, they have never quite gotten along.
She was once a fellow student of [[Wei Ju]] of the Kongtong Sect, and holds her as her closest friend;
as a child she often paid little Ju to do her homework for her.
Now grown, she returns the favor, visiting Kongtong from time to time
to give her family's tribute tea, and both of them hold the legendary Apricot Blossom Immortal in awe.
and learned some fists and kicks for self-defense. Her martial arts are not especially fine,
but her Talent is extraordinary: she is a rare woman who can bring the Sorrowful Fist to a power beyond twelve tenths,
so you had best keep your eyes open and not make her too angry.
Since childhood she has been betrothed to the Eldest Young Lord of the Nangong Family,
and though she has put her heart into the relationship, they have never quite gotten along.
She was once a fellow student of [[Wei Ju]] of the Kongtong Sect, and holds her as her closest friend;
as a child she often paid little Ju to do her homework for her.
Now grown, she returns the favor, visiting Kongtong from time to time
to give her family's tribute tea, and both of them hold the legendary Apricot Blossom Immortal in awe.
Business
- Her money power is the strongest of all; she alone holds up the Shangguan Family business, and her view of money is anything but ordinary.
- What she earns is not only money but good faith and connections, rooting the Shangguan Family deep in the Song Kingdom.[1]
- Since taking over the family business she has gone peddling through the Jianghu. Monopolizing for profit she does, but the words she speaks and the goods she sells have never been short of weight or measure; she insists on good faith above all.
- There is much work, her family does not understand her, and strangers disapprove of her besides, with nothing but gossip and curses for her. Yet to keep harmony and make money she must force a smile, and the pressure is immense, and so her Sorrowful Fist reaches twelve tenths of its power.[2]
- Her native tongue is the Central Plains accent. Yet to make a good impression on trading partners, she often deliberately uses their language or dialect; even without mastering them, she can converse in many dialects.[2:1]
The Shangguan Family
- The daughter of a corrupt official who lacks compassion, by Xiahou Lan.
- She has never known a father's love since she could understand, and when Shangguan Sun carried her away from the poisonous smoke at Fengyu Mountain, tears welled in her eyes despite herself.
- Every effort from childhood to adulthood has been to win 's approval, and she will do even wicked things for it. The Tang Clan's decline is partly her sin too.
- She goes to the Tang Clan and tries to persuade the Sect Leader to submit to the Imperial Court, offering to buy up their debts as the price.
- When the Tang Clan of Guangzhou invades, she and Shi Ming back up Tang Shan.
- To send away, she secretly works on the merchant guild's bosses so that he can form a caravan and travel far. She feels guilty, and all she can do is keep him alive.
- The Cang Gang men around her look like bodyguards, but in truth they watch the daughter for Shangguan Sun.
Nangong Shen
- Her engagement to Nangong Shen was arranged single-handedly by . The two were childhood sweethearts and took to each other at once, and went together to study at the Gengyang Reading Studio, where they became fellow students with Wei Ju.
- During a cold war with Nangong Shen, she hears that Nangong Shen and Nangong Qian were attacked by a Masked Man. Forgetting her sulking, she rushes over in a fluster to see the wounds. She had thought up plenty of comforting, intimate words, but what comes out of her mouth is nothing but complaints and scolding.
- After the Battle of Jiangling, Nangong Shen breaks off the engagement. By the time of the Wulin Assembly, Nangong Shen already regrets it, but Shangguan Ying's mind is made up: wherever she goes in the future, she will never return to the Nangong Family.
- She is all for pauldrons, thinking a pauldron looks imposing, and even tries to brainwash her own seamstresses: the richer the customer ordering clothes, the more outrageous the pauldron they get.
The Ying Demon
- After the v1.0.5000.0 update, a scene was added of her [going down the mountain with the and Ye Yunshang](/en/event/simple/1-09-2-down-the-mountain-outing), and her image as a lolicon has been etched into people's hearts ever since.
- fears she has ill intentions and keeps his guard up. But it is not King Yue's Treasure or the Tang Clan's techniques she covets: it is and Ye Yunshang themselves.
- She loves small, delicate things most, and upon seeing and Ye Yunshang she is beside herself with delight. She would love to grab them on the spot and force them to change their surname to Shangguan and call her their own elder sister, so that she could openly hold one in each arm, sit them on her lap and kiss their cheeks every day, and buy them brightly colored clothes to change into daily for her own appreciation.
Run for your lives - She shows open hostility toward Tang Fang, who administers acupuncture to Ye Yunshang.
- Anyone who dares stand in the way of her buying sweets for and Ye Yunshang gets Cang Gang disciples set on Zhao Huo at once.
- Even the official Christmas art draws her as a Santa Claus kidnapping little girls.[3]
: How do you plan to spend Christmas Eve?
Shangguan Ying: Giving joy and gifts to cute people, and spending it with the person (or people) I like
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Shangguan Ying: And then this bag, once the gifts are all given out, is for KIDNAP! - In the official birthday video, the Junior Martial Sister's new look is so cute that she kidnaps her straight to Fujian. It turns out , whose inner theater is just as rich, adopts the Junior Martial Sister and renames her Tang Ying.[4]
Notes
- Tough outside, soft within: deep down she still hides the ordinary dreams of an ordinary girl. She wants to marry a considerate, ideal husband, wear gorgeous clothes, keep cats and dogs in the courtyard, loves shiny gold and silver ornaments, and has no resistance to small, delicate things.
- Her signature Hidden Weapon is the Heavy Coin Dart: she simply throws whole strings of copper coins at people, and paired with the Sorrowful Fist, none can stand against her.
- She was once kidnapped by Liu E.
- She had a betrothal arranged in the womb with Xiahou Lan, but because she cried and fussed without end, she was sent to the Fujian Branch of the Songshan Sect to learn fists. Later the Snow Mountain Sect was wiped out, and the matter came to nothing.
Otherwise a union of two women would have been fine too - If no bond is formed, she will in the end cross the eastern sea and marry into the Hojo Family of Japan.
- The event art of her beating Zhao Huo is posed like the 427th Style · Iron Rake of Kyo Kusanagi from The King of Fighters, and together with her going to Japan,
it is clear she is an ancestor of the Kusanagi family. - She has never cooked a meal, and always travels with her own personal chef.[5]
- When traveling, her household servants bring the tribute tea reserved for the imperial house, Dragon-Phoenix Tea Cake, which is granted only by imperial favor and hard to come by at any other time. It was stolen and chiseled out to be presented to the Shangguan family.
- A newborn calf fears no tiger: she actually calls an old mother hen.
- When first meets Shangguan Ying at the birthday banquet, she finds her dazzlingly beautiful, and even as a woman secretly feels admiration stir in her heart.
- During her time at the Tang Clan she dotes on to an extreme, which is why the Junior Martial Sister finds it rather hard to accept that Nangong Shen would not marry her but wants to marry herself.
- "Hmph... it's not as if I came all this way just for you" is not something Shangguan Ying would ever say. Though she seems overbearing, she is in truth someone who values fate and connection. But toward people she is dissatisfied with, she shows no mercy at all.[2:2]
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