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Mad Dog

A rising new star of the Jianghu from the Beggar Sect, in charge of the dogs at the Dayi Branch.

Known as "Mad Dog." Do not be fooled by her small stature; once she starts fighting, she fights for her life. Not only do outsiders fear her, even the Beggar Sect's own people dare not provoke this crazy brat at will.

Biographies

A rising new star of the Jianghu from the Beggar Sect in recent years.

She firmly believes in the law of the jungle: the weak are destined to be oppressed, and only the strong can survive in this world. Do not be fooled by her small stature; in a fight she is like a mad dog, using fists, claws, knees, elbows, and teeth, fearing neither heaven nor earth, and vicious to the core.

No one knows where she learned her set of "Dog-Beating Fist." The name is crude, but there is skill within its clumsiness, and it holds to a single Mental Formula: "ruthless." Every move beats a man half to death.

Once, when an elderly Eight-Bag Elder got up in the middle of the night to relieve himself, she followed behind and beat him savagely, breaking his limbs and shoving him into a dung pit.

After that, even the Many-Bag Elders with seniority in the gang dared not pull rank in front of her, because this one is crazy. Never mind men and women, old and young; this one would likely even dare to strike the Emperor of the Great Song.

She does not fit in within the Beggar Sect either. She has no particularly close peers, and the people who can talk her down can be counted on one hand.

Because she could never sing the Lianhua Lao well since childhood, her begging always ended in failure. Had the Old Beggar "Uncle" not looked after her, she would likely have starved long ago.

Perhaps for this reason, she has only ever been willing to listen to Uncle. Before others she is a Mad Dog; at Uncle's side she is very obedient.

Though she is not close to people, she seems to like small animals. People often see her sharing food that was hard to come by with stray animals.

That business of beating the Eight-Bag Elder half to death had a reason behind it.

She is a descendant of the Khitan Liao, whose nation was destroyed a hundred years ago. Since birth, all she remembers is wandering the Central Plains with her parents, and those memories are very blurry now.

After her parents passed away, all they left her was an old dog named "A'Hua." A'Hua was very clever. She drove off mosquitoes and snakes for her when she was young, and kept her company day and night, like family.

One day she woke cold in the night to find A'Hua gone, and the old beggars holding bowls and sharing dog meat soup. She was lost and dazed, and only after a very long time did the tears fall.

From that day on, she had no kin in the world, and nothing left she could not bear to part with.

Her lovely name is "Fan Xiaoyan." Her mother, after learning Chinese, gave it to her in the hope that she would live without worry and smile brightly.

Yet she unfortunately ran into evil beggars who specialized in the vile trade of kidnapping and mutilating young girls. They carried off the young her, meaning at first to make her into a "human-dog,"
but since she was naturally beautiful, they changed their minds and kept her as a forbidden toy, hidden in the beggars' den to amuse themselves with, waiting only for her body to mature before they made their move.
Because Gang Leader Wang intervened, it never came to pass. Even so, being raised as a dog left her body and mind covered in wounds.

Perhaps there is a paradise in this world. Even with endless war on the frontier, there is a corner of peace; when night falls there are night markets, there is light, there is a home to return to. But nowhere was there a place she belonged. Until you appeared.

She believes in you, and is loyal and devoted to you. Only you are home.

The Beggar Sect's Mad Dog

• Uncle is an old beggar whose name is unknown, and he calls Mad Dog A'Gou.
• Because of Uncle, she was raised as an enforcer of the Beggar Sect's old guard. On the surface she is obedient, but she still wants revenge for A'Hua, her old dog who was eaten.
• She was taught a little martial arts by the Branch Leader, , and .
• She keeps many dogs. To help cover the cost of their feed, she once worked with Li Fugui at the Flying Stone Gang to earn money.
• On the Beyond Saving route, the Branch Leader, afraid she would go make trouble at the main headquarters for the Tang Clan's sake, gave her a nominal title called "Protector of the Dogs." She visits every branch of the Beggar Sect, opens stray dog shelters, and advocates that dog meat should no longer be eaten. She throws herself into it with great vigor.

Snow Mountain Sect

• If Zhao Huo is Xiahou Lan's disciple, there is a chance to take Mad Dog into the Snow Mountain Sect. This is the only route on which you can learn that Mad Dog is a woman.
• Before the journey to Snow Mountain, Xiahou Lan saw how Li Fugui looked after her with special care, and that she had a whole litter of dogs around her that could not all be brought along, so she did not call her.
• In the Snow Mountain Sect epilogue video from the official "Send Colored Paper to Your Beloved" poll event, she appears as a Snow Mountain Sect Junior Sister, roughhousing with Zhao Huo.^[1]

Notes

• If her Affinity with Zhao Huo is high, she can tell Zhao Huo and Chao He apart by smell alone. A faint medicinal scent always clings to Zhao Huo, while Chao He has a body odor mixed with heavy perfume.
• While studying at the Kongtong Sect, she was poached by the Iron Fist Gate with bone-in roast meat to be a fighter in the third round of the Seasonal Trial.
• If Mad Dog's Affinity is high, but the Beggar Sect does not support the Tang Clan and Li Fugui's Affinity is low, Mad Dog has a chance to join the Tang Clan's final battle.

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1. Original Bird Bear FB - Send Colored Paper to Your Beloved Results Revealed ↩︎