Tao Xuan

Tao Xuan was the CEO of Excellent Era. He drove Ye Xiu to retirement and gave his account, One Autumn Leaf, to Sun Xiang. He was a friend of Ye Xiu's since the creation of the club. But with time, their opinions clashed and plotted to remove Ye Xiu. After Excellent Era was relegated, losing against Ye Xiu's new team, Happy, he decided to sell the club and used the money to move to the USA and open a shop.

Personality
Tao Xuan is confident and thinks that he is always right. In the past, he cared more for the club and its members, but after the Glory Professional Alliance changed, he saw all the money it could generate. Greed caused his personality to change.

Tao Xuan is a patient plotter. When he realizes that Ye Xiu will not help with the commercial side of Excellent Era, Tao Xuan waits for years to find a successor to Ye Xiu. Tao Xuan conspires to find enough players to turn against Ye Xiu. In Season 8, Tao Xuan finds Sun Xiang, a young high potential player from Conquering Clouds, to replace Ye Xiu. Tao Xuan gets the majority of Excellent Era’s players to play poorly with Ye Xiu in Glory Pro Alliance matches to create a proper situation to ruin Ye Xiu’s reputation as a winner and to create a situation to force Ye Xiu’s retirement.undefined

History
At first, he was a boss of an internet café and a player of Glory. Then, when he met Ye Xiu and Su Muqiu, he asked them to join his guild. When the formation of the Glory Professional Alliance was announced, he decided to form a team. He invited Ye Xiu and Su Muqiu to sign on with him, and bought Dancing Rain for RMB 450,000. But not long after, Su Muqiu died. To avoid hurting Ye Xiu and Su Mucheng, he avoided talking about Su Muqiu in front of them. However, they were okay talking about him.undefined

After winning so often, he saw the profit that he could make. Over time, he became greedy and wanted Ye Xiu to star in advertisements, but he refused. After Su Mucheng became profitable, he was frustrated to know that he could never benefit from Ye Xiu's fame as well. Tao Xuan began concocting a plan to remove him from the team, but first needed to find a replacement for One Autumn Leaf. Then, Sun Xiang debuted. Seeing the rookie's potential, he decided to transfer Sun Xiang to Excellent Era and kick out Ye Xiu.

Plot
Despite his meticulous plans, the team is ultimately relegated in Season 8. Participating in the Challengers League, they shockingly lost to Happy in the finals. Excellent Era loses everything and is forced to disband. With the players transferred and the team sold, Tao Xuan moves to the USA and opens a shop.

Volume 6: Mainstream Tank
Tao Xuan goes to Happy Internet cafe, where Chen Guo walks him over to Ye Xiu. Tao Xuan offers Ye Xiu a temporary coaching position for Excellent Era. Tao Xuan argues that Ye Xiu needs to focus on entertaining the fans to help Excellent Era grow instead of Ye Xiu’s intense focus on victory through practicality and intricate strategy. Tao Xuan declares that Ye Xiu’s dream to win another championship will not happen. Tao Xuan walks to the door and offers the One Autumn Leaf account for a high price to Ye Xiu as a friendly gesture. Tao Xuan is surprised that Ye Xiu wants Dancing Rain instead of One Autumn Leaf. Tao Xuan promises to sell Dancing Rain to Ye Xiu in principle. Tao Xuan leaves the room and walks back to Excellent Era headquarters.undefined

Volume 7: New Champions
With Cui Li, Tao Xuan visits in a snack shop. Tao Xuan sits down at his usual spot.undefined Tao Xuan sees Cui Li’s signal and turns around to see Ye Xiu enter the snack shop. Tao Xuan listens to Bao Rongxing’s question of what role Cui Li plays as Excellent Era’s director. Tao Xuan hears Rongxing console Cui Li, who is annoyed. Tao Xuan eyes the angry Cui Li to stop reacting to Rongxing’s mind games. Afterward, Tao Xuan gets up and coldly says goodbye to Ye Xiu’s group. Tao Xuan and Cui Li leave the shop. At Excellent Era’s headquarters, Tao Xuan opens a bottle of wine and pours two cups. He hands one cup to Cui Li. Tao Xuan orders Cui Li to bench Sun Xiang. Tao Xuan hears Cui Li mention the likelihood of meeting Ye Xiu’s new team in Challengers League. Tao Xuan smiles and proclaims that they will crush Ye Xiu.undefined

On QQ, Tao Xuan gets a message from Ye Xiu about the possibility of being opponents in the Challengers League in the first round. Tao Xuan asks if Ye Xiu is scared.undefined Tao Xuan laughs at the computer because his Excellent Era is the favorite to win Challengers League. He knows that Ye Xiu’s team lacks the professional caliber players and Silver equipment to fight head-to-head against Excellent Era. Tao Xuan recalls his struggle to expand his business side of Excellent Era with Ye Xiu’s refusal to help with the commercial side of the Glory Pro Alliance. Tao Xuan tolerates Ye Xiu’s stance against commercialization for many years and searches for a successor for the One Autumn Leaf account. Tao Xuan is thrilled to find Sun Xiang, a worthy successor to One Autumn Leaf and plots to win over Excellent Era’s players. When Tao Xuan forces Ye Xiu to retire and Sun Xiang to take over, Tao Xuan expects Excellent Era to decline in performance. Tao Xuan fails to recognize the ultimate decline and is horrified when Excellent Era is relegated.undefined

Tao Xuan is angry that Ye Xiu thinks Excellent Era is afraid of their former ace. Tao Xuan asks why he should be afraid of Ye Xiu’s new team. Tao Xuan sees Ye Xiu claim that the Tenth Server and Heavenly Domain players fear him. Tao Xuan does not follow the news on the Heavenly Domain, so he does not know if Ye Xiu is telling the truth. On QQ, Tao Xuan replies that he will talk when Excellent Era fights against Ye Xiu’s team on stage and finishes the QQ chat.undefined