Jiang Haoyi

Haoyi's Appearance in Anime

**Jiang Haoyi** is the main character in Cupid's Chocolates. He is a normal university college student who is extremely scared of getting into trouble and suddenly becomes the Harem King when some girls that he's associated with confess and have feelings for him after they ate a chocolate cake that he found and soon learns that the cake was made by Mei Tata, a cupid god girl who used magic on the cake. This made the girls he shared it with have fantasies of being with Haoyi since he was the first to eat the cake and those that ate it after him will fall in love.

## Appearance

Haoyi has black hair and blue eyes. He wears a white shirt and black pants to which looks like some kind of a school uniform. In the web manga, he wears the standard school uniform. Though he is at times referred to as plain, closer inspection of his face reveals it is rather cute. He has been forced to cross dress a few times and was shown to be very attractive. He also has a surprisingly lean muscular physique beneath his clothes.

## Background

Haoyi is an only child who lives with his mom and dad. He's the top student in his classes though he prefers to be a loner. His childhood sweetheart is Ouyang Xueli. They've known each other from the moment they were born and happy to spend time and play together. They went to school together and both were top students though he seems to dread Xueli because she can be a bit rough on him at times especially when he scores higher than her. Xueli's harassment stopped when she went to the US to study. He seemed to be a bit neglected by his parents as when his teacher, Ji Ran, asked if he was afraid of his parents after getting bad grades though he replied that they didn't have the time to care. Because of this, he also has a long relationship with his teacher who took care of him when his parents weren't at home. He would go over to cook for her, have supplementary lessons, and sleep over. In the web manga, Haoyi's parents background were never mentioned. It is shown in Season 1 that his father is a salary man and his mother is a housewife. However, in Season 2, changes have been made where both his parents were police officers who were very dedicated to their duties and that they've never had any time for him. Haoyi's childhood dream was to be a police officer. However, at age 11, he gave up on that dream when Xiao Yan rescued him from kidnappers instead of his dad rescuing him to which Haoyi hoped for. Because of this, Haoyi's belief is that police officers are the worst people.

## Personality

The Cupid chocolates he ate (not knowing what they were and that they would attract several women to him). He cares for his friends greatly and will do anything to make them happy and protect them. However, he has a more strained relation with his parents as they were more preoccupied with their work as policemen than him to the point of neglecting him. Even when he was kidnapped, they did not come save him, causing him to develop hatred for police. He is shown to be stressed by the chaos surrounding him and tends to be negative and over dramatic of the consequences. Despite this, when he notices the people around him have troubles, he always does anything to help them overcome their troubles even at the expense of his own life. When his teacher began taking care of him, in order not to worry her, he pretended to have a good relation with his parents.

Due to the neglect he has suffered most of his life, he is mature and independent, managing to take care of himself and being good at household chores. He seems to be a loner, having very few friends at the start of the series (only having Ye Zhengdong as childhood friends and Ouyang Xueli- who was a childhood friend but they developed a strained relationship when her personality changed). He tends to keep his own problems to himself and rarely divulges anything about himself or complain about his situation as he does not want to bother anyone with his problems. Even when others actively ask him and express their worry for him, he is reluctant implying difficulties in opening himself up to others. However, he has a strong sense of justice and defends his friends when they are emotionally or physically attacked. He also seeks to help his friends' emotional problems (most of whom become his love interests).

He is rather intelligent, managing to find clever solutions to the problems he faces and being emotionally intelligent enough to understand the emotional problems surrounding the girls who ate the Cupid Chocolates and finding ways of helping them move forward from their past traumas and cleverly manipulating the people around him. For example, he manages to manipulate Tang Xuan into a bet which he wins to force her to cosplay as part of losing the bet so she would be more comfortable in showing off her cosplay hobby in public. Similarly, he tricked Du Yuze into beating him up, exposing his crimes and managed to get him arrested (understanding that his crime of kidnapping Ouyang Xueli would not be taken seriously enough by the police to lock him up more than a few years and tricking him into worsening his crime as he understood with Du Yuze's personality he would only come back for revenge and possibly kill him and Ouyang Xueli the next time they met). His intelligence also applies to academics, but due to his rocky past with Oyang Xueli he stopped applying himself so his grades aren't an accurate reflection of his true intelligence.

He is a gentleman but unfortunately gets caught in situations that make him look like a pervert and at times the girls refuse to hear his side of the story. He is also rather patient with the chaos surrounding him along with listening to the problems of the girls he encounters and actively finds ways of solving their problems slowly. He can be impulsive especially when angered. However, he only truly gets angered when those he cares for are hurt (whether emotionally or physically). He also believes that parents have responsibilities to take care of their children regardless of their circumstance, most likely due to his neglectful lonely childhood along with friends being responsible and loyal.

Though he is an excellent fighter, he rarely uses his abilities to defend himself unless he feels the other person is actively threatening his life. For example, in episode 1 he defends himself against jealous classmates chasing him. However, when he went to Xia Zitong's house and her bodyguards attacked him, he did not fight back despite having the ability (possibly understanding they were only attacking him to protect Zitong from him). Similarly he did not attack Tang Xuan's friends who attacked him when they believed he was going out with her and cheating on her (whether because they were women or because they were simply concerned with Tang Xuan's well being remains unknown). In addition, when the girls are angry at him, he never fights them but tries to explain patiently the circumstance, though usually fails. However, he did use his abilities to defend Xia Zitong when they were surrounded by a dangerous group punks.

## Skills

#### Kung-Fu

Haoyi is extremely good in hand to hand combat shown when he fought off some thugs and were able to defeat them in battle. He will only show his true strength if necessary. An example is shown in Episode 1 when his classmates were chasing him through the entire school leaving him no choice but to fight them all.

#### Cooking

Haoyi cooks really well at a young age especially when it's home made. Even his teacher, Ji Ran, became impressed with the food and how it was so delicious in taste.

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## Weapons

#### Floor Mop

In Episode 1, Haoyi temporary used a floor mop battling his male classmates as they were chasing him in the school buildings defeating them with ease.

#### Water Hose

In Episode 4, Haoyi temporary used a water hose when he sprayed Tang Xuan by accident after he took it away from her to stop spraying the boys in her club due to them making a bet with her and lost. Even though it wasn't Haoyi's attempt to spray her, this made Tang Xuan walk away in defeat and saving the boys.

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## Trivia

* Haoyi has been kissed by some of the girls in the series:
	+ The first being Xueli.
	+ The second being Zitong.
	+ The third being Yushan.
* Haoyi is quite smart in Academic
* Still unknown the contents of the gift box President Royce gave Haoyi
* Haoyi has a tenuous relationship with his father
* There is a slight difference between Anime and Manhwa about who first kissed Haoyi