Gong Nian

**Gong Nian** is one of the minor characters in *Immortal Swordsman In The Reverse World*.

Nian is the mother figure of Gong Yue and birth mother of Gong Shu. She is a member and Head of the Gong Family and main leader of the Supervision Department.

## Background

During the time when Yue's birth parents died, Nian took Yue in and raised her as one of her daughters with love and caring. However, until Yue turn eight, Nian personally took Yue's talent tranfering it to her daughter, Shu. Because of this, Yue was never approached afterwards by anyone in the family giving Yue pity looks.

Later on in a war, Nian got injured with her talent being destroyed. Her mother personally tranfered Gong Pan's talent to her without Nian even noticing it.

## Appearance

* Young Nian in her Jianwu uniform.
1/1Nian has short blonde hair and eyes. She wears a black long sleeve polo dress shirt, short black skirt, and high heel shoes. She also wears golden earrings and a ruby necklace.

During her youth, Nian's blonde har was very long and still wore the same attire to what she's wearing in the present. When being in the Supervision Department at the time she wore a yellow robe, black long sleeve shirt, gray belt, dark gray pants, and high heel shoes.

## Personality

So far, Nian is shown to be calm but can get a bit angry at sometimes. She can also be regretful for what she did to Yue in the past.

## Synopsis

### Imperial Capital Arc

During night at the Gong family's house, Nian is informed by her daughter, Gong Shu that Chu An Lan has been defeated and killed by Chu Qing. Nian believes if Shu cooperates with the Chu family, Chu Qing Rou will stand by their side. Shu states to her mother about drawing Qing over due to his rare talent, but Nian assumes that Qing is not worthy. Shu says she wants to cancel the her marriage contract with him since he has someone he likes, but Nian says that marriage is the best method of wooing. Nian asks Shu if there is any contact with Gong Yue but no luck.

Some days later, Nian comes to "The Land of Exile" and sees that Gong Pan is hopeless as ever. Nian came for Yue and busts in her apartment to see her kissing a man. She tries to bring Yue home but her daughter refuses. Nian is introduced to the man Chu Qing who happens to be Yue's fiancee. Nian holds Yue responsible for the case of talent transfer forbidden technique and not only has the black market been repeatedly banned, it will be auctioned at Sejin Auction House next day. Yue says she'll responsible for the matter to end and leaves with Qing leaving Nian in silence.

Next day at Shi Zhen Auction House, Nian is seen with her daughters Yue and Shu and bids twenty million of the Transfer Talent technique winning the bid and destroying the remnant in front of everyone. Unexpectedly, Gong Pan arrives and reveals that the forbidden technique is property of the Gong family much to everyone's shock. Pan also reveals she's responsible for putting the technique in the Black Market and Shi Zhen Auction House, wanting everyone to see the true face of the Gong family. As Nian threatens Pan, Yue steps in to let her mother know that twenty years ago, Nian was injured and her talent was destroyed, but Nian's mother personally took Pan's talent to transfer into Nian. Nian checks Pan's talent to discover it's true. Pan pulls out a pistol and tries to commit suicide as she has nothing to hate about. Qing comes into the scene catching Pan from falling down saying she only passed out. Qing tells Nian that the Transfer Talent should stop now, but Shu steps in saying that her mother can't make this decision on her own and both she and Nian take their leave.

The next morning, Nian along with Shu comes to the Land of Exile but refuse to go see Yue. She decides to go back to find someone to renovate the place.

Some nights later, Nian is helping with Shu's training for the next day's material arts tournament.

On the second day of the Material Arts Competition, Nian appears as one of the three judges with Wu Su and Ji Min during the semi-finals. During Qing's match against Li Le, the judges are asked by Ji Lian to put a time out due to Le hiding her true strength. However, the women lets the match continue seeing how Qing survived Le's forceful attack believing they underestimated him. When Qing and Le power up for a final strike, Nian and the Material Artists summon barriers to protect everyone in the arena and as the dust settles, Qing and Le are lying on their backs. However, Qing manages to stand up thus winning the match. He's taken by the medical team for treatment and transmitted to the Imperial Hospital.

The next day, Nian and the judges watch the last match of the first part in the semi-finals with Ji Lian and Ji Mu facing off. Lian shocks Mu when she blocks her sister's attack by summoning her spear. Lian reveals her true self showing her true talent as a Material Artist being in the Transformation Realm. Lian overpowers Mu by pushing her hard out of the ring and pinning her down. However, since both sisters are outside, they're eliminated. Lian announces to the crowds starting as of now, her name is changed to Jiang Lian who will formally set up her own business and disassociate from the Ji Family.

Six days later, the final stage of the Material Arts Competition has begun. Nian along with Min, Su, 6 King, and the Empress make their appearances as the judges. In the final round, one will be a defender while the four will be challengers to defeat the defender. Di Cai is chosen as the defender while Qing, Ye Chen Xi, Shu, and Bai Jing Feng are the challengers. The judges watch as Cai easily defeats Chen Xi and Jing Feng in the first two founds. In the third round, Cai summons the "Cold Moon Blade" to battle Shu and both seem to be evenly matched. Shu overpowers Cai and defeats her thus becomes the defender. This ends the morning matches.

In the afternoon, Nian along with the judges watch the fourth battle between Qing and Shu. Qing defeats Shu and wins becoming the first male champion of the Material Arts Competition in history.

In the Empress' Lounge, Nian and Shu are with Qing and requests the Empress to ban the Talent Transfer. However, it's not easy for the Empress to decide and she'll have to think about this matter and dismisses them. As the three walk in the hallway, Nian gives Qing information about the Ministry of Military affairs is important to the Empire and the Gong family and the Empress have establish trust and possibly there are traitors in the Military. Shu points out to Qing that there will be a celebration feast at the Royal Palace by the Empress. Soon, a man approaches them having a gift for Qing by the Empress which was made by her. Qing opens the gift to find a white clothing having the Peony Totem symbol of the royal family on it. Nian states that only those from the Royal Family can were it. Nian and Shu believe that the Empress has taking a liking to Qing wanting him to be her second love. As an angry Qing was about to destroy the gift, he is stopped by the Gongs saying the gift from the Empress cannot be destroyed and Nian will break the contract of his engagement with Yue if he becomes the Emperor.

Three days later at the Suburdan Royal Hunting Grounds, Nian along with other Material Artists participate in a hunting conference which is hosted by the Empress to catch the Spirit Beast Fei Lian. Soon, she sees the Empress' Peony symbol in the sky knowing she's in danger. Nian orders Shu to transfer the military quickly.

Sometime later, Nian attends the Empress's birthday party in the royal palace, but was not seen. At night, she is seen standing next to Ji Min outside as they both can feel an endless power flowing through the air.

Two days later, Nian is in the Empress's office with Qian Shan, Min, Di Si, and Qing. By the Empress's orders, Nian, Min, and Shan are to have their armies to be prepared for the attack of the Xuan Nu Palace, and the canonization ceremony will not leak a single piece of paper. Nian is to deployed the military envoy inside.

### Empire Versus Xuan Nu Palace Arc

Over a month later, Nian contacts the Empress, Shan, Qing, and Si to inform them that Jing Men was attacked by Xuan Nu Palace, and the whole city was bombed. The local military department and the defense army both lost contact and Qing's parents are also missing. Under Xing Lie's request, Nian is ordered to mobilize the military envoys around Jing men to support immediately, and let Ji Min also issue the mobilization order.

Two days later, Nian is seen with Su, Min, and Shan in the Empress's office. The women inform the Empress that Si and Qing's signals were lost when the two arrived in Jing Men. Shan says not only Jing Men, but Yunjiang and Yunshan have disappeared and the rescue teams they sent were intercepted. The Empress orders to send reinforcements sending all their hiders and enchantresses to Jing Men. Su says they've sent enough reinforcements to Tian Jin not only that as Su pulls out a map showing the Xuan Nu Palace has caused riots in many places knowing it's a warrior war. They need to appease the emotions pf the civilians as soon as possible and activate the wartime state and let the civilians retreat into the demilitarized zone. Su states Si and Qing to be both extraordinary and also that Xing Lie is the most powerful hidden teacher in the Empire. The Empress agrees with Su and starts the third plan. The Empress orders Min and Nian to ask the local army and military department to give priority to escorting civilians into the demilitarized and hold a press conference to announce the Empire's entry into a state of war.

Some days after, Nian is seen with the Empress, Qing, Si, Shu, and Min while more protesters gather outside the palace due to a rumor being spread by the Xuan Nu Palace. Shu explains that the Palace Master broadcast live for a day first complaining about her tragic experience, and the traveling on Wu Jiao saying she's the real dragon girl as well stating that the White Dragon God didn't choose the Empress and was killed by the Empress showing a tablet of pictures to Si, the Empress, and Qing. The three notice a formation on Xi's chest wondering what the Palace Master did to her daughter. The Empress feels guilty for letting Xi to leave the palace believing she owes her. Min states that they need to solve the problem of public opinion and they need to invite the Dragon God. Nian agrees with Min as people can no longer be caught, otherwise the consequences will only be more serious. Qing eventually has a plan which leads him to summon Dragon God outside to the protesters shocking them all that Dragon God is still alive. He tells them about the flooding of the Yunjiang River which was caused when the Palace Master kidnapped Jiao which caused the disaster and if it wasn't for Dragon God pulling off her own scales and transforming into a dragon guarding Yunjiang River, hundreds of towns would've suffer. The Empress appears on a big monitor revealing the truth that the Palace Master is her younger sister and during the rebellion, the Palace Master studied magic to control Dragon God in order to seize the throne and as a result, Dragon God lost her sanity and suffered serious injuries which she didn't recover until now and the Palace Master was sure Dragon God was serious injured and died by telling a big lie and the war between the Empire and Xuan Nu Palace is imminent and the enemies want to shake their army's morale and doesn't want anyone to be fooled.

## Weapon

### Sword

During her youth, Nian was shown to have a big sword during battle.

## Trivia

* In Chapter - 257, Nian is revealed to be the fourth Head of the Gong family.