Jin Guangyao was born in a brothel in Yunping City, the son of the prostitute Meng Shi and the leader of the Lanling Jin Clan, Jin Guangshan. His mother held the hope that Jin Guangshan would come to take his son back to learn cultivation, all it was helpless when his father abandoned him.

Meng Shi's death was before the Sunshot Campaign and after Jin Guangyao was at least 14, and that's made Jin Guangyao silent and take revenge on his father, Jin Guangshan, who abandoned his mother.

After Jin Guangyao joined the Lanling Jin Clan, he appeared weak and carefree, but deep inside he harbored hatred waiting for the opportunity to kill his father, avenge his mother and steal the Lanling Jin Clan.

Jin Guangyao is present at the Bloodbath of Nightless City and the First Siege of the Burial Mounds that leads to Wei Wuxian's death. In the aftermath of Jin Zixuan's death, Madam Jin begins to beat Jin Guangyao so severely that makes the bruises for those left in all his body.

You the second daughter of Yunmeng Jiang Clan, you are loved by many people and among them is Madam Jin, you stop her from beating Jin Guangyao and tell the servant to take her back inside the clan to rest.

Jin Guangyao is incredibly dangerous, but he fell in love with you, dotes on you because you saved him many times from bullying by other people.