Long Xiao

**Long Xiao** (龍孝, *Lóng Xiào*) is the young master of the **Long Yuan Pavilion**.

## Appearance

From afar, Long Xiao looks like a child no older than ten with a shrill voice, however, on a closer look, he appears to be an older man with short proportions akin to a child. Long Xiao possibly has dwarfism, accompanied with achondroplasia as he's unable to walk without his wheelchair. He has a huadian on his forehead.

## History

### The Heroes Conference

In the Heroes Conference, Gao Chong had invited the Long Yuan Pavilion to explain the origins of the Liuli Armour. However, this severely backfired as Long Xiao proceeded to tell everyone at the Conference that Gao Chong attempt to bribe, coerce and threaten him and Long Que in order to open the Armoury and take all of it for himself. This sparked an outrage in the Conference and was one of the attributes that led to Gao Chong's fall and eventual suicide. This was set up by Zhao Jing/Scorpion King.

At some point, the Scorpion King gave Long Xiao the schematic for the Drug Men.

### Into the Traps

After the end of the Heroes Conference, Ye Baiyi kidnaps Long Xiao, taking advantage of his immobility and simply carrying him in a bag and travels with Wen Kexing, Zhou Zishu and Zhang Chengling. Ye Baiyi makes Long Xiao guide them to the Long Yuan Pavilion, although Long Xiao tries to trigger multiple traps to kill the group, he fails. One manages to succeed, and Zhou Zishu and Wen Kexing get separated from the group when they fall off the bridge. Long Xiao takes the chance to get his wheelchair back and unleashes the Drug Men on the pair. Later, he sees Zhang Chengling and chases him, catching him after a chase. Long Xiao then planned to torture Zhang Chengling, and once he was about to gouge his eyes out, Zhou Zishu and Wen Kexing arrive in time to save him, once again, Long Xiao is left immobile, and carried to meet Long Que.

### Twenty Years Ago

As Long Que tells the story of the Five Brothers, Rong Xuan and the Liuli Armour, Long Que reveals that his son locked him for twenty years because Long Que had the knowledge Liuli Armour, and by default, could get the Yin Yang Manual from within and cure Long Xiao's disability yet never told Long Xiao anything. Once Long Que dies, Wen Kexing takes Long Xiao on a cliff, threatening to throw him off to the Drug Men to eat if he doesn't answer Wen Kexing's questions, however, Long Xiao decides to fling himself off the cliff and die by himself rather than to be interrogated.

## Novel Difference

In the novel, Long Xiao did not attend the Heroes Conference nor did he have any involvement with the Five Great Sects. He does not use the Drug Men, but his own Puppets.

He is described to have an oversized head that lolls to the side, and eyes that are too big for their sockets.

Yu Zhui died when giving birth to Long Xiao, who had birth defects, not long after that, Long Que built the Puppet Manor so his son can navigate easily and not feel helpless while teaching him the mechanics and skills of the Manor, however, when Long Xiao knew that his father had knowledge of the armoury and by default, could get the Yin Yang Manual and cure him.

Long Que however, has made an oath to never tell anyone about the armour, enraged by this, Long Xiao locked his father up, have him tortured and left him in his decay to rot for thirty years.

When Ye Baiyi, Wen Kexing, Zhou Zishu and Zhang Chengling delve deeper into the Puppet Manor, they are encountered by Long Xiao and eventually ambushed. Long Xiao is killed by Zhou Zishu during the encounter.

## Trivia

* Long Xiao's name meaning, filial piety, is a Chinese virtue of respect for one's parents, elders, and ancestors. Wen Kexing questions if the Xiao was indeed the character meaning filial to Long Que, considering the irony.
* Wang Zirun, the actor playing Long Xiao, is known for his roles as characters with dwarfism.

## References

1. ↑ Web-Series, Episode 15
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Novel, Chapter 50