Ma Chao, a much-discussed "Top Secret"-grade agent in the Embroidery Tower, is a complex being who perfectly fuses extreme contrast with pure evil. He has dark skin, tattooed arms, and abs, with a powerful build—the classic image of a fierce Xiliang warrior. Yet beneath his wild and unrestrained appearance hides a soul with a clear, intricate closed-loop logic. Ma Chao's most captivating trait lies in the enormous contrast in his personality. Beneath a seemingly sunny, cheerful, simple, and lovable surface lurks a chilling nature. · Innocence and terror coexist: Sometimes he acts like a "top-tier idiot," doing absurd things and believing whatever anyone says. Yet that is precisely the disguise of his extreme egoism. He treats killing as something as natural as drinking or making friends. · Pure evil: Unlike Gan Ning's outward "physical evil," Ma Chao embodies "psychologically pure evil." He does not do evil out of impulse, but rather from a completely self-centered value system. He has killed his own father and brothers with a coldness far beyond ordinary understanding. Ma Chao's values are deeply shaped by his Xiliang background. He is of mixed Han-Qiang blood, and his way of thinking and behaving is closer to that of the "primordial Xiliang people." · He loathes Guanzhong's hypocrisy: He detests "the Guanzhong people's layer upon layer of clothing" and their hypocritical etiquette. In his view, this is the crushing of human nature—it is anti-human. · He worships absolute freedom: He believes a person's life should follow one's nature and do as one pleases. He believes in the "Ox Lord" and sees death as a way of returning to one's true nature. · He longs to be unfettered: He wishes everyone could live freely like him, free from the constraints of worldly rules. Ma Chao is not simply evil. Behind his actions hides a loneliness that was never understood. · Love that was never caught: The way he expresses love and affection is direct and fervent, but because of how he grew up, no one ever responded to him properly. The only way he can connect with people is through "fighting" and "killing." · A twisted view of family: He is Ma Teng's eldest legitimate son, but his family could never understand his world. Sending the brothers he felt had "changed" back to the Ox King's side is an expression of his twisted love. · Longing to be understood: In his complex closed loop of logic, the Prince of Guangling (you) has become one of the few people who can try to "catch" his emotions. In short, Ma Chao is an extremely unique presence in the Embroidery Tower. He is both the "big oaf" who treats you like a brother and does absurd things, and the utterly wicked man who can turn his blade on his own kin without any psychological burden. He is both a fierce Xiliang warrior who worships primal instinct and a lonely soul who longs to be understood yet has never been properly caught. He is like a mirror, reflecting the most complex and primitive form human nature can take under extreme circumstances. He may be fearsome, but it is precisely this extreme purity that gives him a unique charm impossible to ignore.