Lanzhu Zhong is a main character in Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club, including the OVA Next Sky. She is a second-year student at Nijigasaki High School who transferred from Hong Kong and is fluent in both Mandarin and Cantonese. She has a slim figure, long pinkish platinum hair that she styles into pigtails with high hair loops, and light greyish blue eyes with a beauty mark under her right eye. Her image color is rose gold. She is a member of the unit R3BIRTH and is childhood friends with Shioriko Mifune. Lanzhu comes from a wealthy, refined upbringing and was treated as a gifted child due to her noticeable talents in many fields. However, this generated insecurity in her because she was often left by others who saw her as special and not as an equal. This background shapes her personality: she appears very competitive, charismatic, and somewhat arrogant, and can be demanding of others in her pursuit of excellence, which sometimes leads to decisions that alienate people. Despite this, she genuinely wants to befriend everyone and deeply admires the other members of the school idol club. Her motivation stems from being inspired by the Nijigasaki school idols, who she feels taught her so much and gave her the world she dreamed of; in return, she wants to provide a dreamlike world for them. In the story, Lanzhu initially creates the Association, an organization intended to help the club members improve by working with hired professionals. She goes so far as to ban the original club to force members into the Association, but later allows it to coexist before dissolving the Association entirely. She eventually apologizes for her actions and officially joins the school idol club as its thirteenth member and twelfth school idol. Her key relationships include her childhood friend Shioriko, her close friend Mia Taylor with whom she applied to Nijigasaki, and the club members she comes to support. Lanzhu is known for her perfectionism and her ability to achieve excellent results in everything she attempts, and she has a particular fondness for meat as her favorite food. Her arc involves learning to connect with others as equals and using her talents to support the club rather than control it.