Wang Erzhuang

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Gang Leader of the Beggar Sect, the greatest gang under heaven. The moment he took office he acted with thunderous vigor: he promoted the new-school disciples, sidelined the old-school elders, and used the spirit of chivalry to cajole the gang's young members into reclaiming their dignity, making them believe that being a beggar is a choice.

Biographies

Lazy-eyed, passive, and decadent, with a fondness for fishing.

He claims not to like drinking, but often gets dead drunk.

Wang Erzhuang is the key to the Beggar Sect's turn from black to white. Since taking command of the gang, he has vigorously preached chivalry, putting light back in the eyes of the young Beggar Sect Disciples, who are willing to believe that even mired in mud, they can rise from it unstained.

So long as one holds chivalry in one's heart, one can be proud even in rags patched a hundred times over. Aren't the most incorruptible officials the very picture of empty sleeves and clean hands?

The rise of the new school swept away the Beggar Sect's old bad habits. All their deeds are open and aboveboard, no more sneaking about stealing chickens and dogs; they can't wait to right wrongs.

The old school is still strong in numbers, scolding the new school as a freakish mongrel lot, saying that having sunk to begging they still fancy themselves pure and lofty, while all the while enjoying the fair name the new school has earned.

His real name is Wang Chunxiao. His forebears were military officers for generations, and Wang Chunxiao inherited the family's grace, being granted the title of Commandant Dingyuan.

But he was gentle and refined, fonder of reciting poetry and playing chess than of martial arts. As for military texts, read them he had, but the thought of going to the battlefield to defend the realm set him trembling.

It was not until he met Nangong Yuan and encountered Su Yingxiang that, to win the beauty's favor, he reluctantly entered the Jianghu to make his way.

He was better than Nangong Yuan in every way, yet in Su Yingxiang's eyes she favored only Nangong Yuan. Wang Chunxiao was heartbroken over it, weeping and wailing, giving himself up for lost, and once even ran in tears to Donglin Temple wanting to shave his head and become a monk, and so met the turning point of his life.

He bowed at the knee of Master Chunmian, wanting only to study Buddhism, but Master Chunmian insisted on forcing him to practice martial arts. Only much later did Wang Chunxiao learn that his Master was the Martial Overlord of the Eastern Thirteen States, the legendary Red Canopy King.

The Siege of Jiangling

• In truth, the Dharma King of the Beast Path of the Mud Cult.
• To unite the Wulin and bring officials and common folk together as one, he staged the Siege of Jiangling. He had the Beggar Sect surround Jiangling, drawing heroes from every quarter to its rescue. On the other hand, it was also to probe .
• At the decisive battle of Jiangling he stood alone before the foe, fighting dozens of Jianghu experts at once, and none could best him.
• He had mastered the Vajra Divine Spear Finger, and at the decisive battle of Jiangling he drove Rui Sheng back with a single finger.
• He even called out Nangong Yuan to face him, and only then did the two meet again.
• In the end he died by Li Fugui's blade in the back. Yet this too was part of his plan: he meant to gather all hatred upon himself and have his adopted son put righteousness above family, so that the Beggar Sect would never again be ruled by the Mud Cult.

Nangong Yuan

• In his youth he was Nangong Yuan's closest friend. The two agreed to follow the example of the Red Canopy King and Zeng Wen, to support each other, rescue the endangered, and uphold the realm.
• In his youth he wagered with Nangong Yuan over who could win a smile from ; the loser would carry the winner on his back. Yingxiang favored Nangong Yuan, so every time it was he who carried Nangong Yuan.
• To let his good friend have his way, he went far away to another land, only for Nangong Yuan to fail . Unable to swallow it, he did not see Nangong Yuan for a full twenty years.
• Twenty years late, this Wang, Commandant Dingyuan, finally made good on the boast he had sworn to his in his youth: "One day I will gather a thousand troops and ten thousand horses beneath your banner, to hear your commands, just like your great-great-great-grandfather, the Wulin Alliance Leader Nangong Zhi. You must train your martial arts well, and be stronger than me! When we're both grown... "

Notes

• In the first version his name was Mao Erzhuang, but because it stepped on some players' landmine, his surname was changed to Wang.
• The old biography gave his name as Wang Chunlin; as of v1.0.5000 it was unified to Wang Chunxiao.
• The Lightning Hero of the Brothel can be rolled in the Two Men in Black event. Not my words, it's Nangong Yuan's big mouth
• A lay disciple of Songshan, and Master Chunmian's successor.
• He meets Lady Wen regularly, and the two became sworn siblings.
• Beggar's Chicken is super fragrant; he is the culprit who got Long Xiang hooked on chicken legs. And the sibling bond between Wang Erzhuang and Lady Wen is also one of the reasons she later wanted to become sworn brother and sister with Zhao Huo.^[1]
• Before the decisive battle of Jiangling, he used the Marrow Cleansing Skill to open Nangong Qian's Eight Extraordinary Meridians.
• When Ye Yunzhou and his sister were being trailed by people coveting the treasure map, he ordered the beggars of the Dayi Branch to watch them in secret, rarely striking, only sowing discord with cold words while the treasure hunters conferred, so that each harbored his own schemes and they could not unite.
• He owes Tang Buyi the favor of a jug of wine.
• The fishing rod in his hand may not be much good for fishing, but it has never once failed at hooking people. Zhao Huo must be skilled enough in martial arts to avoid it.

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