LI XIU JING

Li Xiu Jing

Role: The Linguist / Daughter of the Moon Mission
Age: 31
Background: Daughter of a Chinese scientist who uncovered alien symbols in moon samples before mysteriously falling ill. Li inherited his research and has spent years decoding the Watchers’ language.
Skills: Cryptolinguistics, ancient script analysis, alien cognition modeling
Personality: Reserved, meticulous, quietly intense
Motivation: To understand the Watchers and possibly find out what really happened to her father
Arc: Li’s obsession may either save the group by unlocking the Watchers’ intent—or tempt her toward forbidden knowledge that unravels her sanity.

Backstory

Li Xiu Jing was born in Beijing beneath a sky her father rarely looked at.

To the world, Professor Li Wei was a decorated astrophysicist involved in China’s lunar exploration program—publicly associated with data analysis from the Chang'e 5 mission. Official statements spoke of regolith composition, isotope ratios, and geological dating. But in private, his research had diverged into something far stranger.

When Li was eight years old, she found her father asleep at his desk, a magnified image of a moon rock sample glowing on the screen. Embedded in the dust were geometric anomalies—angles too precise, striations too deliberate. They were not natural fractures. They were patterned.

He told her it was “just mathematics hiding in stone.”

It was the first lie he ever told her.