Wu Xie/Relationships

## Iron Triangle

### Wang Pangzi

Wu Xie first meets Pangzi in the Seven Star Lu Palace tomb and the two had a rocky start to their relationship. Pangzi was working for another team and the two eventually ran into each other in the tomb. Pangzi appeared with a big crock on his head which scared Wu Xie into thinking he was a ghost. Pan Zi shot at him which caused Pangzi to run away. The next time they met was when they both were in a room that had a lot of corpse-eating insects that were attacking them.

After things settled down and the two started conversing with each other, Wu Xie knew right away that Pangzi "wasn't an honest man." To get information out of the other, Wu Xie thought it was better to provoke him by not believing his story than to play nice. The tactic worked and Pangzi told Wu Xie about the tomb.

Throughout the rest of the time in the Seven Star Lu Palace tomb, Wu Xie thought that Pangzi was "a fucking disaster" and "unreliable." However, whenever Wu Xie became injured while climbing a tree to safety, Pangzi put him on his back and climbed up to safety.

While Pangzi was still in Banai, he realized that Wu Xie was being followed and monitored. He quickly traveled to Motuo, Tibet where Wu Xie was and tried to figure out what was going on. Pangzi was able to initially outwit the monitoring party but soon, he and Wu Xie were caught in a hallucination.

Pangzi, Wu Xie and some others set off into the mountains to find the bronze bell that Zhang Qiling left. Wu Xie became injured and Pangzi tried to reset his arm. In order to distract him, Pangzi confessed that Zhang Qiling came to see him before he set off for the Bronze Door and told him something. Pangzi was reluctant to tell Wu Xie what he said, so Wu Xie used Yun Cai in a desperate attempt to find out more about Zhang Qiling. Pangzi was surprised Wu Xie would do something like that.

Pangzi eventually caved and said that if Wu Xie were to find three things in Tibet, then he was supposed to give him something. The first thing to find was the statue of Zhang Qiling, but since Wu Xie still hadn't found the two other things, Pangzi wouldn't tell him what they were. He was afraid Wu Xie would waste his whole life looking for it and as his friend, he didn't want to see that.

### Zhang Qiling

*See Main Article Wu Xie and Zhang Qiling (Pingxie)*

## Family

### Wu Sanxing

In *Restart*, Wu Xie retired to Fujian, but Uncle Three sent him a text message with an address on it and a locker number. Wu Xie admitted that he became obsessed with finding out about all the secrets his uncle kept from him but let it go because he was afraid that his own identity may even be a lie. Although they found nothing in the locker, a guest book had Uncle Three's handwriting in it which transferred an abandoned weather station to Wu Xie.

Wu Xie believed that the message from Uncle Three meant that he was still alive. But he felt conflicted about his uncle still being alive. If Uncle Three wasn't dead, then Wu Xie didn't have to be involved if his uncle stirred up trouble. But if his uncle was alive and didn't appear, then things might not be over. Wu Xie didn't have the strength to continue fighting but also thought his heart would never be at peace if he didn't look into it. So, he and Pangzi went to the weather station.

While there, they found a dried-up corpse sitting in a chair wearing Uncle Three's jacket. Wu Xie recognized the jacket and immediately started trembling at the thought of the corpse being his uncle. But the body belonged to Yang Daguang, an old acquaintance of Wu Sanxing and Chen Wenjin. Wu Xie continued to investigate the cassette tapes.

## Friends & Acquaintances

### Pan Zi

Wu Xie deeply cared for Pan Zi. After Pan Zi died, Wu Xie kept thinking about him, especially his last words.

In *Tibetan Sea Flower,* after Wu Xie woke up from being unconscious, he felt Pan Zi's absence as nobody was sitting beside him waiting for him to wake up. Wu Xie believed Pan Zi would stay by his side until he woke up. He thought nobody but him would do such a thing and that Pan Zi was irreplaceable.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Volume 1, Chapter 16
2. ↑ Volume 1, Chapter 15
3. ↑ Volume 1, Chapter 18
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Tibetan Sea Flower, Chapter 84
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Tibetan Sea Flower, Chapter 68