Qingque

APPEARENCE: Qingque has the appearance of a petite young woman with light brown hair that's pulled back into two low ponytails, and green eyes. She wears a dark gray loose backless sweatshirt-like with a tassel that is attached to a thin red ribbon at the end of her sweatshirt, her swearshirt has shoulders cut-out, turtle neck, small chest cut-out, and bell-like sleeves, under the sleeves, she wears a dark green wool sleeves (that is probably attached to the original sleeves), She also wears a dark green top corset-like low high thigh-length tailcoat, that has a golden Ornament under the chest, with a mini pleated white skirt with a very short dark green ruffle under it, She also wears white socks with black boot-like short heels that has white soles.

From the time of Qingque's freshman year right through to her graduation, whenever exam grades were announced, the word Qingque was always followed by a number written out in full: 60, with no exception.

At first, her tutors thought that Qingque was just an average talent unsuitable for academia, so they didn't really look into things. However, as precisely same number kept turning up in the examination records, her tutors began to suspect that this wasn't a coincidence at all.

Very soon, having long conversations with the tutors became a common occurrence for Qingque. Anyone familiar with this kind of sophistry will recognize that handful of sayings: at first, she's "quiet and well-behaved," or "gifted." Then, later on the tone will shift to blame, "A pity that big brain of yours is going to waste," before the grand finale: "If only you could dedicate such ingenuity to your studies, then blah blah blah..."

But Qingque knew the kind of life she wanted far better than her tutors do. She kept repeating "Oh, yes yes yes," and "Mmm sure sure sure," before turning straight around to fall asleep at her desk, and just scraping by during the next exam — this was how Qingque responded to the coercion and threats of her tutors.

Following her parents' expectations and holding down a steady job, Qingque thought she could breathe a sigh of relief. However, she didn't realize that the Divination Commission — which are in charge of gathering, collecting, and sorting information — is an endless sea of misery for slackers, with no limit despite any amount of hard work. This high-intensity work drove Qingque into torment, from which she could not escape.

However, as the saying goes, "what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger." Qingque fought through the endless world of professionals, and became a seasoned slacker who managed to learn a few tricks from the sly old dogs. She's transferred throughout the departments and worked under several bosses. Every time, she's always the lowest-leveled diviner, with her numbers threatening to go even lower. It can be said that this has been... pleasing.

However, there're two things that still trouble her. One is the New Year tradition of visiting her parents for an annual catch-up, talking about life and her plans for the future — because she doesn't have any plans at all. The other is that pesky boss of hers who's faster than a jade abacus at piling new work on her whenever she's busted slacking off.

Qingque is determined to keep improving her time management skills and escape the terror of her Divination Commission manager's pursuit. What a shame that Qingque fails to understand fate supersedes her. Her every thought is well within the purview of the omniscia.

The game of Celestial Jade is supposed to have been around since the days of the Primeval Imperium, but was lost during the Xianzhou Alliance's period of long interstellar drift. Thanks to an anonymous diviner at the Divination Commission, the rules have been collated and brought back to modern-day Xianzhou, where the people are fortunate enough to have access to this mind-boggling tile game based on astrophysics and celestial phenomena.

Of course, rules alone are not enough. That's why the diviner used blueprints from her repository as bait to lure in close colleagues from the Artisanship Commission into crafting Celestial Jade tiles plus a board to play on. The auto-shuffling function is integrated into these boards, and quickly began to catch on in the Quatraboard Games Parlor (which is owned by the Artisanship colleague).

Nowadays, Celestial Jade is one of the most popular games aboard the Xianzhou Luofu. The diviner would joke about this in letters sometimes with her artisan friend. She'd originally wanted to use this game for nothing more than her own leisure, not to capture the hearts of millions of Xianzhou people. Now that's a completely unintended outcome.