hello ♡ i'm still slowly making my way through the novel (there are 1500+ chapters and is still ongoing!) so this will be an incomplete description of his character, but let's go!

xz plays the main protagonist, qi xia, in his upcoming drama the infinite 10 days! as you've heard, he is a professional swindler/conman — he's super intelligent, great at strategy and using his brain to get out of sticky situations, and can be a little cold/reserved/blunt with others. yes, lying is second nature to him, but he's not the type to lie compulsively or just for the fun of it? he just doesn't reveal the whole truth because he keeps his cards close to his chest, and he has a lot of confidence in himself but distrusts people around him by default :')

⛔️‼️ OBLIGATORY "YOUR LAST CHANCE TO TURN BACK" SPOILER WARNING ‼️⛔️

he wakes up after an earthquake to find himself transported to a strange place with people he doesn't know, and they are told they have to play a series of dangerous life-and-death games to survive, collect "currency", and use that currency to buy their way to escape. this is where he uses his intellect to play the games correctly and try to make it back to reality c:

we learn a little later in the novel that qi xia and the rest are actually trapped in a time loop which resets every 10 days (hence the title, infinite 10 days). his memory is wiped each time he is reincarnated, but he eventually starts strategising ways to retain bits and pieces of his memory across the time loops (hence the very interesting character poster we got when he was announced as the lead).

as the characters go through each reincarnation, they also have chances to gain abilities called echoes! qi xia's echo has to do with creating projections (kind of?) of people based on his own subconscious.

that's the tldr! i'm so excited to see how xz brings qi xia to life; he seems so cerebral and complex ;v;