Cheng Lixue

**Cheng Lixue** is a secondary character of Second Eruption. She was an A-Rank Valkyrie of Schicksal and one of Fu Hua's last disciples.

## Appearance

In the manga, Lixue has dark blue hair and gray eyes. She wears a dark blue coat with yellow shoulder pads and a white shirt inside, along with black fingerless gloves and dark blue high boots.

In her past, Lixue used to wear black gloves, a blue belt and shorts, black and white thigh highs and black and yellow shoes along with some of her current clothes.

## Personality

Lixue tends to have a serious personality and is also loyal to her master Fu Hua. She often worries about her, and gladly risks her life for Fu Hua, even when she didn't remember her.

## History

Lixue lost her family when she was 5 years old. She was saved by Fu Hua and was practically raised by her. Fu Hua taught her how to read and write, along with basic self defense. Eventually, Lixue asked her to be her master, and Fu Hua agreed with a sad smile on her face.

Lixue wanted to make her master proud. Even if they hardly saw each other, Lixue loved Fu Hua's cooking and her affection. She wanted to stay by her master's side for longer and make her know that she's the most important person Lixue has.

By the time Fu Hua had left after she had promised to be Lixue's master, Lixue had become a Schicksal Valkyrie and met Fu Hua again. However, she still asks herself as to why her master left that day.

## Manga Story

#### Second Eruption

Lixue is first introduced killing a Honkai Beast in one slash with her Key of Domination, "Water's Edge", to save Shub-Niggurath and ordering her to mobilize and bring the survivors away to the Schicksal HQ. She later calls Cecilia Schariac through the phone to inform her about Niggurath's safety which is assured. Afterwards, Lixue is seen in the Schicksal HQ reciting a poem and meet her master Fu Hua looking at a painting of Fuxi and Nuwa. Lixue then suggests her master a cup of tea, in which she is answered that her master will leave soon.

Later, during Otto Apocalypse's speech in Schicksal HQ, Lixue is introduced along with Cecilia next to her claiming that she will lead Schicksal Forces in the Southern Seas and that her Water's Edge shall defend every inch of human land.

Soon, the war begins, and Lixue departs in the Banks of Aral Sea to fight Agata, the Seraphim Prince of Fire. Before fighting, Lixue remembers her past and concentrates while Agata destroys tank units. As Lixue finishes concentrating, she orders every units to withdraw and gets ready to fight Agata, hoping to win the fight in order to make her master proud and smile at her again.

The fight then begins. Lixue unleashes Water's Edge's "Raging Riptide" to attack Agata, but Agata blocks and cancels the attack with her flames, breaks Water's Edge, and shoots a plasma beam in Lixue's stomach. Lixue is then stunned, hurt by Agata's flames, hardly able to stand. As Lixue is about to get damaged from the back by Agata, Lixue throws one of the "Stances of the Six Fists"' counter-attack, "Dark Sparrow's Counter", and catches Agata's wrist to throw her and kick her back.

Agata gets mad, and throws an explosion on Lixue's location, but Lixue is saved by Fu Hua who managed to protect her in time and incapacitate Agata with Fenghuang Down. As Fu Hua then heals her wound, Lixue tells her to worry about the enemy instead, in which Fu Hua answers that Agata can't be saved anymore due to her mind being under control.

Afterwards, Lixue is seen arriving on Sirin's location at the Tower of Babylon along with Fu Hua and Otto. Lixue and Otto stay away from Fu Hua as she gets ready to fight Sirin, and as Lixue worries about her master fighting alone, Otto answers that Fu Hua can take on Sirin alone. During the middle of the fight in which Fu Hua overwhelms Sirin, Fu Hua asks Lixue to lend her Water's Edge to her master for a while, as Fu Hua then manages to take on Sirin further.

Later on, as Otto screams due to his overwhelm in front of God to whom he asked about reviving a dead being, Lixue worries about him.

Soon after Fu Hua uses "Edge of Taixuan" to Sirin, in which she failed to damage her due to the Will of the Honkai's intervention and further broke Water's Edge, Lixue worried about her master, in which she is answered by Fu Hua that she should go away because she is important even though she doesn't remember her student before fainting, but Lixue still decides to stay by her side and protect her gladly nonetheless.

After Hua passed out due to her use of "Blade Eminence" to injure Sirin and cut her connection with the Will of the Honkai, Lixue decided to take on Sirin by herself on the Tower of Babylon, and counted on Otto to take Fu Hua away and protect her, but she was soon pierced from the back by Sirin's Subspace Lance and died, lamenting in her final moments that she could only be with her master for so long. Sirin even acknowledged Lixue's abilities as she never thought a human could keep her engaged in combat for as long as Lixue did.

Although she was unconscious, Hua's mind witnessed Lixue's demise, but the backlash of overusing Fenghuang Down damaged her memories of her to the point she was unable to properly remember her name.

## Game Story

#### Chapter 20

In Hua(?)'s first encounter with Otto, her Ego recalled Lixue's death and Otto's role in it. While she was unable to remember her name, the pain her death caused to Hua was still there and hadn't been forgotten, despite Otto's belief of the contrary. The memory was the final catalyst that drove her to kill Otto.

#### Chapter 22

At the end of the chapter, while Kiana was saving Hua from her attempt to sacrifice herself, Lixue is shown in one of her memories, with her dying and uttering her last words after being impaled by Sirin's Subspace Lance. Hua's thoughts voiced her guilt, feeling that those who trusted her ended up being hurt because of her.

## Trivia

* Cheng Lixue's name (程立雪) may be associated with a Chengyu "程门立雪", which is a story about deep reverence for one's master.
* The ELF (Equipment: Living Form) Water's Edge takes on the appearance of a small Cheng Lixue sitting on the Water's Edge sword. In the ELF description and story, the ELF knows that there is someone who looks identical to it and requests the player to find the person who looks identical and show them to her.
* Lixue had near perfect coordination with Patricia Highsmith and Cecilia Schariac in battle and were commended by Welt Yang for this.
* When Cecilia Schariac was taken back to Schicksal HQ, torn away from Siegfried in Austria, the latter made a deal with Otto Apocalypse to train till he became as strong as A-Rank Valkyries. Apparently Cheng Lixue and other A-Rankers including Patricia Highsmith trained him instead of testing him, just breaking his ribs instead of injuring him more severely.