Mei Xiaolong is one of the female protagonists of Devil's Rising. She is a Human/Dragon Hybrid, who is the daughter of Tannin, the Purple Dragon and a former Dragon King, known as the Blaze Meteor Dragon and a famous human mercenary who was renowned as prominent martial art fighter and healer in China. After she met Nicholas and his peerage during their travels in the Oustergraht, under both Nicholas's persuasion (in this case, flirting) and twist of fate, she became a Reincarnated Devil under his peerage and joined the Varia Criminale.