Xue Baochai

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“	Because I'm simply too charming and adorable to kill outright, of course.	”
–Xue Baochai, Canto VIII: The Surrendered Witnessing

Xue Baochai is a member of the Xue Family and Hong Lu's betrothed, as well as a candidate in the Family Hierarch Evaluations. She is a supporting character in Canto VIII: The Surrendered Witnessing.

Appearance

Xue Baochai is a woman of pale complexion, with droopy orange eyes and long, curly brown hair that reaches to her lower back. Her hair is partially worn in princess curls, tied up with orange flower ribbons, and she has blunt bangs. Baochai dons a qixiong ruqun, a high-waisted hanfu, composed of a pink top with orange detailing, and a skirt in peach tones, all sporting colorful flower decorations.

Around her neck, Baochai wears a jade pendant, that she began wearing after her betrothed Jia Baoyu's departure from Hongyuan, as a way to remember him.

Personality

Xue Baochai is a cheery and unbothered woman, unworried about the brutal practices of events such as the Family Hierarchal Evaluations, going as far as to participate herself. Despite her outward appearance of an energetic and kind lady, she has a vested interest in the dark and macabre, such as urban legends or the bloody stories of the Sinners' past encounters. She cares deeply for Hong Lu, willing to risk her life to alert him of dangers as well as protect him.

Story

Sometime in the past, she would be put into an arranged marriage with Jia Baoyu. This was to her mother and grandmother's disapproval due to thinking lowly of the boy.

Xue Baochai had a great fondness for expensive perfumes and fragrances, upkeeping her scent on the daily through a rigorous routine. However, on a day where she hadn't the time to use these perfumes, Jia Baoyu commented on her fragrance, stating he quite enjoyed it. This stuck with Baochai until her adulthood, frequently citing it in her love for Baoyu.

Canto VIII: The Surrendered Witnessing

Upon the return of Hong Lu to Daguanyuan, Xue Baochai quickly arrived to meet with her betrothed. Catching up with her absent fiancé, she drew his attention to the creation of her necklace, inspired by his jade eye. She was an exceptionally friendly face for the Sinners to encounter, and expressed curiosity over the tales of Hong Lu's adventure, particularly the bloody parts. After briefly discussing the situation regarding Jia Xichun, she checked with Hong Lu if he had encountered Jia Qiu during his travels, reaffirming the one-sided allyship he had held with Shi Yihua. Reminding Hong Lu she would always reside at Hongyuan, she departed from the dining hall.

Xue Baochai would participate in the Family Hierarch Evaluations, where she passed the first round—having been one of the many candidates shocked by Hong Lu's participation—and progressed towards the second round. She also made sure to congratulate Hong Lu for passing.

During the second round, she traveled with her clan only to stumble upon the Sinners; her bodyguard Lin Daiyu having traveled with the group due to getting lost. The group was soon forced into combat against a revived Shi Yihua, alongside the candidate Wang Dawei. Baochai, in an act of hoping to save Hong Lu and allow him to continue through the round, told him to leave as she would handle the enemy candidates. While her bodyguard accompanied her betrothed, her faction battled their foes until their collective eliminations, trapped by the closing walls nearby.

During the ceremony for Jia Xichun becoming hierarch, Baochai sheepishly approached the Sinners, skirting around a topic as she attempted to speak with them. Hurriedly, as Jia Qiu and his faction arrive, she explained the possible coup forming in the power vacuum before Xichun takes the throne. Her mother, the Xue and Wang families, lead by Jia Yuanchun, all internally looked to overthrow the ceremony; this was still not accounting for outside factions looking to enter the Wing. Fearing her mother would find out if she delayed any longer, she shortly departed.

Following the events of Canto VIII, Baochai is abducted by Yuanchun, who threatens her with the exposure of her insubordination to her mother. Xue Baochai, fearfully, accepts the threat, planning to assist Yuanchun in unknown matters if her help given to Hong Lu is not exposed.

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Trivia

• Xue Baochai is based on the character by the same name, Xue Baochai (薛寶釵; 薛宝钗，Pinyin: Xuē Bǎochāi), from Cao Xueqin's novel Dream of the Red Chamber.
  • In Dream of the Red Chamber, Xue Baochai is Jia Baoyu's maternal cousin, and is described as a beautiful and tactful woman, well-liked by all the servants all the house, and whose qualities compliment her cousin Lin Daiyu's. Through the course of the novel, Xue Baochai weds Jia Baoyu, although their matrimony is an unhappy one, as Jia Baoyu's affections still lay with the late Lin Daiyu.