Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-50.133.235.14-20130813232618

Since at the end of episode 4, they wrote Yang Xiao Long instead of Xiaolong Yang, I guess they are abiding by Chinese convention where you put last name before first name.

However, is this the same case as Lie Ren? The current speculation is that Lie Ren may refer to Huntsman in Chinese--which makes sense to me but I'm more inclined to the explanation that Ren refers to Lotus in Japanese. And if it's so, Lie might also be his last name since by Japanese convention, you also write last name before first.

Is it possible that things would turn out to be the other way around? So Ren would be his last name and Lie his first name? 