Shi Jiujiu

Shi Jiujiu, routinely addressed as Director Shi, is Lir University’s teaching director and a senior administrator in its exchange with National Eastern University. He manages the visiting delegation, directs its competitive preparations and publicity, and serves as one of the referees when the matches move beyond DreamNet.

Biography

Directing Lir’s exchange

Shi arrives at NEU with Lir’s teachers and students, restrains Xiao Han before a confrontation escalates, and privately demands decisive victories in both the martial and academic events. He prepares press coverage designed to turn an Lir win into reputational damage for NEU, then adjusts the delegation’s response as the student team loses its apparent advantage. During the instructor bouts he referees alongside Wu Junyi and pulls Su He from a destroyed mecha. His final direct appearance in Chapter 197 leaves him alive with the Lir party; no later fate is supplied. (Chapters 164–197)

Appearance and personality

Shi is about Wu Junyi’s age but noticeably taller. He wears a fitted turquoise suit, has a sleek, forceful haircut, speaks in a deep voice, and often displays a wily smile. His easy public laughter can vanish briefly when an insult gets through his composure. (Chapters 164–178)

He is competitive, image-conscious, calculating, and outwardly genial. Shi understands an exchange as a contest for enrollment, institutional standing, and press narrative as much as student development. He tolerates strong personalities such as Su He and curbs Xiao Han’s conduct mainly when it threatens the delegation’s objectives. (Chapters 164–185)

Disciplines and abilities

Administration and officiating

Shi coordinates personnel and equipment, plans competitive strategy, manages publicity, and acts as an on-field referee. He is physically able to extract Su He from the destroyed training mecha after the match, but the scene does not establish a special rescue power. (Chapters 170–197)

No demonstrated Discipline

The supplied corpus does not identify Shi as an Adept, name a Discipline or cultivation rank, or show him piloting in competition. His authority is institutional, and his referee duties do not by themselves prove a combat classification. (Chapters 164–197)

Relationships

• Wu Junyi: Shi’s NEU counterpart and co-referee. Their polite welcome conceals a sharp institutional rivalry.
• Su He: Lir’s instructor competitor, whom Shi treats with unusual respect and later removes from his wrecked mecha.
• Xu Renjian: NEU’s dean and target of Lir’s planned reputational victory, although Shi primarily works through the exchange officials beneath him.
• Hua Qianhu: One of the Lir student pilots whose performance Shi’s delegation intends to use to demonstrate the school’s superiority.

Items

No separately cataloged notable items are associated with Shi Jiujiu.