Dramatis Personae (novel edition)

[extrapenguin]

I read the novel, but not the extras. No hanzi, sorry. (See also the drama dramatis personae.)

Zhao Yunlan – professional cigarette smoker, Kunlun reincarnation
Shen Wei – Ghost Slayer, ghost but hates being one

Special Investigations Unit:
Guo Changcheng – useless nepotism benefactor who uses all his money on charity
Wang Zheng – can only work night shifts; ghost from the Hanga tribe in Tibet (born Gelan – Wang Zheng is the name of the girl she possessed)
Old Wu – can only work night shifts; body made by Zhu Hong
Chu Shuzhi – skinny dumb unfashionable zombie
Lin Jing – 30something Shaolin Buddhist monk and selfie addict
Zhu Hong – snake lady who is a very pushy flirt and has rage issues; tech person
Da Qing – spherical cat
Sang Zan – Hanga ex-slave chief who killed his wife and child and tribe
headless ghost – brings people food
Old Li – Old Wu's daytime counterpart; enjoys carving bones

Ghost Face – main villain

Li Qian – 1st year foreign languages postgrad
Yang – senior policeman in charge of ch2 investigation
Lu Ruomei – mathemathics postgrad who dies in sundial case
Wang Yufen – Li Qian's grandmother
Manager Song – buttered up by Zhao Yunlan so as to get the SIU a nice new location
Lang – person who comes to greet Zhao Yunlan at the airport; old fat guy
Xie Yuanming – mutual friend of Lang and Zhao Yunlan
little Wang – cop who leads Chu Shuzhi and Guo Changcheng inside in ch 47
Officer Li – cop guarding the victims' ICU room in ch 51
Wang Xiangyang – malevolent ghost of an orange seller who died in a car accident at 62
Fourth Uncle – snake fairy leader
Yingchun – junior flower fairy who looks about 15 in human form; winter jasmine
Old Yang – head of the residence registry
Cui Xiuyun – Guo Changcheng's missing teenage ex-student
Mr. Li – Quan Shui Wan resort town resident in 10A who received a bag
Feng Dawei – express deliveryman from the resort town
Sanqing Daozong – turns up in Hell to yell at King Qinguang in ch 102
shopkeeper – keeps watch of boundary between yin and yang
Zhao Yunlan's father – unnamed
Zhao Yunlan's mother – unnamed
Shennong's medicine bowl – possessed Zhao Yunlan's father

Hell:
10 Kings of Hell – in charge of Hell, on 100-year terms, dressed in flowery greens
King Qinguang – one of the 10 Kings of Hell
Judge – plump middle-aged man
Ox-Head – Hell Guard
Horse-Face – Hell Guard
White Ghost – Hell Guard
Black Ghost – Hell Guard

Gods:
Pangu – primordial creator who ended Chaos
Gonggong – God of Water; knocked down Mount Buzhou; descendant of Shennong
Zhuanxu – battled Gonggong; descendant of the Yellow Emperor
Kunlun – God of the Mountains; first to rebel
Qiren – worried about skies collapsing
Kuafu – halted at Yuyuan/twilight
Houtu – made from the body of Nüwa
Nüwa – repaired the Pillar of the Sky, separated yin and yang
Chiyou – battled Flame Emperor; God of War
Huangtian – Houtu's counterpart?
Houyi – descendant of Chiyou; acquired great bow Fuxi left behind and united the Eastern tribes
Fuxi – created Great Seal with Nüwa
Shennong – became the wheel of reincarnation

Comments

[china_shop]

Ooh, interesting. Thanks for this! (Is there no Ya Qing in the novel?)

[trobadora]

This is very useful, thank you!

[plingo_kat]

SPHERICAL CAT is when I lost it lskdfjaklgjadg

(can I suggest, csz is a supernatural geek in addition to being a skinny unfashionable zombie)

[reshiel]

Thank you! This is super useful, esp how you separated them out into factions.

[nnozomi]

This is very entertaining (although it doesn't inspire me to read the novel), thank you. At least Da Qing's characterization is consistent between novel and drama?
(Also, I can't help a little glee at novel!Li Qian being on the humanities side, even though it wouldn't work at all in the drama...)

[lannamichaels]

Do you know who Shen San is? I'm seeing that name pop up on AO3 with bookverse fics.