Jiang YuDuo

Jiang YuDuo is one of the main characters in the Jie Yao (Antidote) light novel and anime. He is a gang leader who comes across Cheng Ke.

Background

A gang member at 27 years and 183cm high. He suffers from insomnia and finds it difficult to establish close relationships with others. Graduated from Xin Xi Fang and works at a restaurant as well as a rent collector and decides to help him after learning of his background.

Story

Episode 1

Jiang is preparing vegetables in a restaurant before being ordered to take the trash out, all he feels he does is cleaning. By evening he sees Cheng knock over the trash can near a kitten, and he runs up and strikes him. Engaging in a fight, he tells his friend Chen enough when he arrives and to give the bat to him. He uses that to check the trash for the cat hiding within.

Throwing a diary to Cheng, he asks if this is what he was looking for and then says that he does not think he has seen him around here before. Jiang writes his own number on some paper and presents it as his card, that if he needs help he can call him.

Sending Chen just to follow him but not to rob only monitor, he later answers his call then asks if something happened to Cheng. He shouts not to reveal that they are discussing him when Cheng is right next to him.

Meeting him in person, he says Cheng being here is suspicious before offering his phone to use. As he leaves, Jiang asks if one little thank you enough then catches the watch Cheng throws to him.

Receiving a call from estate agent Xiao, he arrives at a property to be rented to find Cheng is the one who would like it.

Episode 2

Denying that he knows Cheng, Jiang enquires if Xiao told him all the requirements. These are that only Cheng can use the apartment with no animals, and no other people allowed. If he wants to change anything, Cheng should ask him first, and finally Jiang says for him not to change the locks.

Wondering if he signs his name or the owners, he then asks Cheng if he has his number. Thanking Xiao for his work, once he leaves he addresses Cheng to tell him that he does not know his motive, but if he wants to back out he can.

Driven to the supermarket, he finds Cheng there and tells Chen not to call him "Ji Jia", a reference to the expensive watch he had, anymore. He sees Cheng is buying a large amount of shower gel before suggesting they go take a look, and wonders why he did not use the shopping trolley right at the entrance.

With his cat at home, he is called by Cheng and guides him in how to turn the water heater on. When the elevator opens in Cheng's apartment complex, possessing a head injury Jiang asks to use his first aid kit he placed in the TV cabinet. Jiang says sorry after it was implied he would have entered the property if Cheng were out, it is just that here was nearest but it will not happen again.

Walking through the streets, he approaches Cheng who is speaking to other then asks whether he is eating and does he want to go together. Jiang pushes one of Yi's accomplices out the way as he heads into the restaurant. Stating it is not allowed for Cheng to leave since he already accepted the invitation, Jiang says for him to bring the friend he is meeting here. Spotting him enter as well, Jiang asks if that was Cheng's older brother at the entrance.

After Xu joins them to eat then leaves, Jiang hears from Da Bing that Shou Hou has been captured by his employer, Ba Pie and he orders Cheng to go home, then for his gang to head to the garage where the hostages are. With members captured, he offers the terms to fight one on one and if Ba Pie wins he can be the gang leader of this turf, if he wins he has to pay the wages he owes.

Episode 3

Being driven by Chen, he answers Cheng's call that he can buy a new water faucet and that he will come and install it later. After doing that, Jiang asks whether the 580 Benz at the entrance has anything to do with Cheng. Hazarding a guess that Cheng cannot answer out of guilt, he then advises Cheng to stay away from his brother, that he has seen more bad guys than he can imagine. Although he returns Cheng's watch to him, he is told to keep or sell it.

Meeting with his sister, he hands her the rent accounts for the month before they eat together. After falling asleep, he is contacted by Cheng who has forgotten his keys to which Jiang tells him he can come over. Awaiting him, he prepares the sofa for himself and tells Cheng he can use the bed. On his phone and with his cat keeping him company, Jiang hears Cheng crying. Joining him, Jiang suggests they talk since they both cannot sleep.

He asks him to tell the truth of who he was speaking to outside the apartment, and then what sand painting is. Providing salt, he asks Cheng to demonstrate it. Deeply impressed, he shows it before telling Cheng not to listen to his father's words that sand painting is not honest work. Artistry like Cheng's cannot just be thrown away before he raises the time Xu wanted Cheng's work to be part of an art exhibition to which Jiang says Cheng has to go.

In the morning, Jiang runs across the road and calls back for Chen to take Cheng and not follow no matter what. Walking through an alleyway, he is found with blood trickling down his right arm.

Personality

Although quick to engage in fights, it is often done to defend others. He is fond of cats, using his coat to keep one warm when recovering it. He thinks to check for an identify card inside a wallet, before handing it back, and offers his protection to Cheng that he just met. His attention to detail extends to noticing a wristwatch and being knowledgable of what make it is, to also noting the registration plate of a car and aware what kind it is. Having young master Cheng call him third bro makes Jiang feel uncomfortable. He expresses the view that men willing to bet are willing to lose.

Appearance

The sides and back of his hair are shaved, with the length on top short yet longer in comparison. Jiang has a vertical scar on the outward end on his left eyebrow and a horizontal one underneath.

Relationships

Cheng Ke

He says he does not look like a homeless person, more like the young master of some family. Aware of his background, Jiang takes an interest in him out of concern for his wellbeing. After helping him activate the water heater, Jiang praises Cheng as being way more competent than his neighbour's three year old. He asks if Cheng's identity card is real since he cannot believe that he is twenty seven, then if there was someone who would help change his clothes before he went to sleep. Helping Cheng from an interaction with his brother, Jiang tells him to not address him as third brother. He addresses Cheng as young master and speaks until he is at ease after he was crying, but insisting he was not.

Chen Qing

His driver and guard of sorts, Jiang speaks his mind around him and does not hesitate to shout, such as when he demanded that he just drive the car in peace. In one instance of trying to silence him, Jiang accuses him of being a spraying machine stating that there is rice all over the table. With Chen failing to keep Cheng back like he ordered, Jiang states he will deal with him later.

Qian

He manages his sister's properties, and tells her that Cheng lives like he is disabled.

Xu Ding

Cheng's friend who he invites to eat with them.

Xiao Zhang

A real estate agent who rents the apartment he is managing to Cheng.

Ah-Liang

One of his little brothers, who he states Xu would probably not remember even if he introduced him.

Da Bing

He instructs this member of his gang to tell the truth when he gives an alibi for having to depart.

Cheng Yi

Guessing he is Ke's younger brother due to their similar appearance, Jiang assumed Yi was the older brother. Further that he succeeded over Ke as Jiang considered there are some rich families who have children in secret to snatch the family fortune. He considers him untrustworthy.