Di Xi

**Di Xi** is one of the minor characters in *Immortal Swordsman In The Reverse World*.

Xi, also known as **An An** is the daughter to Di Can, the Palace Master of Xuan Nu Palace. After her mother's betrayal to the Empire, Xi lived in the Royal Palace, but being a prisoner. She and the Empress had a cold relationship, but after her cousin, Di Si returns, Xi is free to live her own life being a former member of the royal Di Family.

During little time of her freedom, Xi is kidnapped and transported to the Xuan Nu Palace. She meets her mother after fifteen years and being forced to become a Material Artist and a killing puppet against her own will. After the final battle when Xuan Palace came to an end, it is presumed that Xi now lives the life she always dreamed of wanting as a normal person.

## Background

As a child, Xi loved to go out in the garden in the palace to pick flowers for the Empress with the two caring for each other. However, Xi's mother, Can betrays the Empress by killing her uncle and cousin and this made Xi to be hated by the Empress keeping her as a prisoner in the palace having her named change and getting into the Empress' harem. She would get punished if she ever disobeyed the Empress and suffer greatly.

According to Bai Jing Feng, it is heard that Xi has been sick and weak since her birth. Because of her illness, she could not succeed to the Empress thrown and not being able to learn or do any Material Arts to cure it. She was always stuck in her bedroom in bed most of her life to recover and get plenty of sleep. However, Xi being sick was later revealed to be a lie.

While growing up in disgrace for the past fifteen years, Xi desires to be freed from the Empress so she can one day live as an ordinary person and be happy with all around her.

## Appearance

* Xi in her normal dress.
* Xi as a child.
* Xi as a puppet.
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Xi is a very young beautiful woman. She has long brown hair and blue eyes. She wears a long light purple dress, neck collar, half armed gloves, and high heels.

In her normal attire, Xi wears a light purple long sleeve dress.

During her childhood, Xi wore an orange shirt.

After being freed, Xi later wears a white scoop shirt, short blue long sleeve open shirt, purple skirt, and shoes. When she was made in to a puppet by her mother, her eyes become solid purple all inside.

## Personality

Xi is shown to be calm and well manner when given orders by the Empress. However, she can be depressed at sometimes. Chu Qing notes that she can be too girly when scared or frightened. She did show a bit of happiness when Qing comment on how her cup of soup she made for the Empress is delicious. She shows to have a bit of a slight crush on Qing since he's the first person to ever been so kind to her.

## Synopsis

### Imperial Capital Arc

Xi first appears alongside the Empress at the celebration feast in the Royal Palace after the Material Arts Competition had ended. The Empress soon sends her away since she's not feeling so good. She glances at Chu Qing before leaving.

Outside, Xi is seen on top of the Palace jumping off attempting to commit suicide, but gets saved by Qing who came out for a walk. She did not thank him but said he was kind. Before going back into the Palace, she advises Qing that even if he enters into the Empress' harem, he should not trust her completely and to leave away out for himself.

Xi appears again right after Qing had joined the Dark Guard. She comes into the Empress's office and sees that Qing is also present. However, the Empress was not pleased with Xi being present angrily asking why she came. Xi heard she was injured and made her soup. The Empress orders Xi to leave.

At night, Xi comes to her room and finds Qing who had sneaked in and waiting for her. Qing guesses that the palace is a prison for her and also that she's not the real wife to the Empress. Xi angrily orders Qing to leave her room, but he responses by ripping the top of her dress revealing her body to have scars. She asks once again for Qing to leave. Seeing how scared Xi was, Qing apologizes to her knowing he had no ill intentions and just felt pity to see her in such a state. He comments to her that her soup she made is delicious. Upon hearing this, Xi is very happy to know that someone for the first time has ate her soup. He says she looks good when she smiles and if she likes, she can make him her soup everyday. Xi comments to him how proud he is of himself and he will definitely not get involved with her in the future stating she's already dead. Qing asks what she meant by that, but Xi asks him to leave.

Days later, Xi is seen outside of the Royal Palace Dormitory and Qing bumps into her surprising her. Qing gives her crystal like bird saying he was thinking of her and wished for her to search and find her own wings one day. Xi is grateful to Qing accepting his gift with happiness and enters in the dormitory.

As she walks in her room being happy with the gift Qing gave her, Xi sees the Empress looking angry at along with a male servant. Xi quickly hides the gift behind her back. The servant whips her shoulder and takes the gift out of her hands giving it to the Empress stating Xi is seducing Qing. The Empress recalls how Xi's mother forced her late husband to swallow a highly poison green snake lotus and how her late daughter was dismembered and hanged at the Palace Gate and now Xi still wants to be freed. Xi tearfully apologizes to her, but the Empress comments how Xi's hypocritical face is disgusting and punishes Xi even more. After her punishment, the third elder of Xuan Nu Palace, Nuan Yu who secretly enters the dormitory tends to her wounds. Yu states Xi can endure the pain for a while and wait for the return of the three kings, and will be the real princess to take back the empire. Xi states many years have passed as she is just an outcast. Yu says the three kings are not close to men, there is only one woman under Xi's knees and not to give up on herself. Xi has put up with fear and pain for fifteen years and just wants to live as an ordinary person. Yu apologizes to Xi knowing she can't help her.

Three days later, Xi attends the Empress's birthday in the royal palace and walks up to her with a tray. The Empress tells her she is in poor health should take good care of herself and do not have to come in person, but Xi refuses stating she's healthy and the time has come for the lies to stop calling the Empress her aunt which surprises everyone. Xi reveals the truth on her real name and being the daughter of the three kings and the three kings rebelled and lived to this day only because of the Empress's mercy. Xi pulls out a dagger and Qian Shan goes to the Empress's side believing Xi came to kill the Empress. Xi knew she was powerless when she couldn't save her uncle and cousin from her mother, but today she asks for relief and wants her aunt to let go and start a new life. Xi grips the dagger tight causing her hands to bleed, but soon blood comes out from her eyes and mouth and collapse. Qing runs to Xi to discover the knife has poison on it and Shang confirms it's the green snake lotus. The Empress states to Xi in anger that she thinks she can be freed by dying and will arrest everyone who's related to her now and kill them. Qing says right now Xi needs to be saved. Xiao Qing can't save her, but Qing says he can save her and goes to the recovery room.

In the recovery room, Qing successfully gets all the poison out of Xi and reports to the Empress and Shang that Xi needs rest.

Two days later right after her cousin, Di Si who is her aunt's daughter and rightful heir to the throne returns being alive this whole time, Xi is finally freed from the Empress being truly happy for it. At the dormitory, Xi bids farewell to Qing and Si who came to see her off. Qing gives Xi the present he gave to her which was taken by the Empress. Si mentions to her that her mother didn't forget her. Xi states she doesn't care anymore as she doesn't love her mother, but doesn't hate her. All Xi wants is to live an ordinary life and leave the Capital so no one knows who she is and with this, she takes her leave.

As Xi walks to her destination to where she has to go, she is suddenly kidnapped by an unknown person leaving her suitcase behind.

Xi finds herself at the beach near the Capital by teleportation. Xi is confronted by her mother Di Can, the master of the Girls Palace who is happy to see her. Her mother traps her in a force field and brings out a woman's corpse to make Xi a material artist since the Empress didn't make her one. Her mother transfers the corpse's talent into Xi and the girl falls into a coma.

### Empire Versus Xuan Nu Palace Arc

Over a month later, Xi is brought by her mother Can to Cloud Mountain above Yunjiang River in a cave. Her mother pulls out the guardian dragon Wu Jiao's pearl from within the body and absorbs it into Xi and awakens. Xi asks her mother if she still wants to take the throne to which her mother says she does believing the throne should be past down to a talented Queen and not a wasted one who inherited the dragon blood. Xi's father passed away early and have always regarded the rulers has her parents and never forgotten how cruel her mother was to torture Yang Yang. Xi states she doesn't want to see someone die again by pulling out a dagger stabbing herself wanting to die. Shock by this, her mother wonders how she had a daughter like Xi and will not allow her to die. As Xi is being healed, her mother states how kind Xi is and will make her to be a puppet for killing believing Xi should follow in her mother's footsteps. Her mother uses "Human Puppet Sorcery" placing a seal on Xi's chest and passes out. Xi was shown in an image of her mother's plan to spread a false rumor, but the plan soon failed.

Three days later as Qing defeats Xi's mother and is about to be killed by the Holy Stone, Xi unexpectedly binds Qing with a chain giving him to Tang Zi Yan who's in butterfly mode and both Qing and Zi Yan escape. The stone wants to crush Xi for her interference, but her mother begs the stone not to. The stone tells her mother it want kill Xi, but Can should exchange her daughter's life for the golden dragon. Can orders Feng Xi and Bai Ling to search and find Qing and bring him to her.

The next day when Qing successfully destroyed the holy stone, Xi arrives to see her mother attempting to take Qing's life and prepares to kill her mother only for her attack to be blocked by Feng Xi who dies for her mother. Xi tries to strike again, but Qing stops her saying the battle is over and brings her back to her normal self breaking the formation.

## Strength

Though Xi was not a Material Artist, her mother secretly placed a formation in her and soon transfer material arts to Xi. After being made in to puppet, Xi's powers have increased dramatically. She can summon power chains for defense or when she attacks.

## Weapon

### Dagger

Xi will carry a dagger with for uses like attacking or defending herself.

## Trivia

* At first, Xi was implied to the the Empress's daughter. However, it turns out she is actually the Palace Master's daughter.