Character glossary of Spring Once More
Ma Xiaodong 馬小東 – protagonist from the present time who dies in a freak accident and
gets his soul transferred into the body of Prince Tai, Chai Rong, of the Daxing
Dynasty
Yan Ni
燕妮 – ex-girlfriend of Ma Xiaodong from the present time
Royal family:
Chai
Rong 柴容 (Prince
Tai 泰王) – youngest prince of the Daxing Dynasty; blood brother of the emperor, Chai Yu; son of the empress dowager and the previous emperor; infamous for his
large harem of beautiful men
Chai
Yu 柴昱 (Emperor of Daxing大興皇帝) – older brother of
Chai Rong, eldest son of the empress dowager and the antepenulimate emperor.
Chai
Xin 柴欣 (Prince
Ren 仁王) – third oldest among the seven living princes;
half-brother of the emperor and Chai Rong; close with Chai Rong; avid lover of
cockfighting; highly skilled in martial arts
Prince
Fu 福王 – eldest among the seven living princes; half-brother of the emperor
and Chai Rong; stationed permanently in the frontiers
Prince
Ning 寧王 –
second oldest among the seven living princes; half-brother of the emperor and
Chai Rong
Prince
Kang 康王 –
fourth oldest among the seven living princes; half-brother of the emperor and
Chai Rong; full brother of Princess Yong’an; son of Consort Dowager Lu
Prince
Duan 端王 –
fifth oldest among the seven living princes; half-brother of the emperor and
Chai Rong
Prince
An 安王 – sixth oldest among the seven living princes; half-brother of the
emperor and Chai Rong; gifted Prince Ren a fighter cock
Empress
Dowager 皇太后 – wife
of the previous and antepenultimate emperor; mother of the
current emperor and Chai Rong
Empress
Zhou 周皇后 – wife
of the emperor; cousin of Fu Qingshu
Princess
Yongshou 永壽公主 – wrongly
named Yong’an 永安 a few
times in the story; full sister of Prince Kang; daughter of Consort Dowager Lu
Concubines in Prince Tai’s
manor:
Su
Yanzhi 蘇衍之 (the
first master 大公子) – youngest son of the Su merchant house from
Jiangnan; offered to Chai Rong as library attendant and counsellor by his
second brother, Su Xingzhi, in order to obtain the royal textile warrant
Pei Qixuan 裴其宣 (the second master 二公子) – named Pei
Ruoshui 裴若水 by Chai Rong; was the first to be drawn to serve Ma
Xiaodong in bed; attempted to drown himself in Wangxing Lake after Ma Xiaodong
told them to exit the manor
Xichu 惜楚 (the
third master 三公子) – ingested poison after Ma Xiaodong told them
to exit the manor
Yueqing
月清 (the
fourth master 四公子) – ingested poison after Ma Xiaodong told them
to exit the manor and due to the severity had to be punched by Liu-shen
Mu Qin
暮秦 (the eighth master 八公子) –
slit his throat after Ma Xiaodong told them to exit the manor
Sijin 思晉 (the
ninth master 九公子)
Liuyun
流雲 (the
eleventh master 十一公子) – hanged himself after Ma Xiaodong told them
to exit the manor
The fifteenth master 十五公子 – slit his throat after Ma Xiaodong told them
to exit the manor
Hua
Yingxiong 華英雄 (the
sixteenth master 十六公子) – born as Hua Tianbao 華天寶, named Lianwo 憐我 by Chai Rong; listens to stories told by Ma Xiaodong
before bed each night; sent to train in martial arts
Chenfeng
晨風 (the
nineteenth master 十九公子) – rammed his head into a wall after Ma
Xiaodong told them to exit the manor
Wang
Rui 汪瑞 (the tanhua 探花) – the
newest addition to Chai Rong’s male concubine collection; strangled Chai Rong
to death with the help of Su Yanzhi
Staff in the Prince Tai’s
manor:
Xiao-Shun 小順 – Ma Xiaodong’s favourite
and closest manservant
Zhong-shu 忠叔 – the butler of the manor
Liu-shen 劉嬸 – wife of Zhong-shu, appear to be very skilled in martial
arts and stomach washing
Cui-niang 翠娘 – daughter-in-law of Zhong-shu and Liu-shen; a poison junkie
Doctor
大夫 – extremely skilled doctor; was able to make Su Yanzhi’s facial scars disappear
Others:
Fu
Qingshu 符卿書 (the
young Marquess Anguo 安國小侯爺) – the son of Marquess
Anguo, cousin of the empress; highly skilled in martial arts; a.k.a Li'l Marquess, Batwing
Moyu 墨予 - personal servant of Fu Qingshu
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