Huan Yue was twelve years old when she learned that she could move things just by thinking about them moving. Being a member in good standing of the Young Pioneers, she brought this to the attention of the one of the adults who led the group - this one being the Party representative. Seeing an oppurtunity to rise in the party, Mr. Xiang, brought Huan Yue to his superior, who brought her to his superior. Eventually, the young girl found herself standing in a poorly lit room surrounded by several men and two women who sat in the dark in large chairs.

Huan Yue spent the rest of her childhood and teenage years being firmly indoctrinated and, at the same time learning to use her powers. By the time she was twice as old as when she discovered her powers, she was a different person. The bright, eager student who enjoyed being part of a group had learned well from the direct and indirect teachings of the inner council of the Party. She was now an ambitious woman who knew that, although in communism everyone was deemed equal, there were priveleges that the powerful granted to themselves. Power was taken by individuals in the name of the people. And Huan Yue had innate abilities that would allow her to acrue power quickly.

Huan Yue became part of the Communist Party's strong arm. The Gang of Five were akin to the Secret Police, but with the additional role of taking care of threats to the Party that were of superhuman nature. She has also infiltrated the premier public-face team sponsored by the People's Republic, the Immortals, as Peng Li Rong she is known by the superhero code name Snake.

Red Censor is an ambitious uber who sees her rightful place as being in the highest council of the Communist Party that controls the People's Republic of China. It was she that found that the former Snake was making close political ties with the West and Red Censor was tasked with the purge, both to make an example of the former Snake for the rest of the Immortals and to put one among the Gang of Five in the Immortals. She arranged for herself to have that prestigious task. The others among the Immortals have not shown any suspicion that one of the Gang of Five is among them and Red Censor - the new Snake - plays the role of an integral part of the team. Her natural suspicion of others has been translated by the others into her trying to determine if one of the other Immortals is a member of the Gang of Five.

"In the name of the People, surrender your mind." (as Red Censor)

"You can not withstand the force of my mind." (as Snake)

Snake is known to be a powerful psychokinetic mentalist able to attack both the bodies and the minds of enemies with assaults of psychokinetic force. Using her Mind-to-Mind abilities as Red Censor, she is much more powerful. Not only can she enhance her psychokinetics, but she can also locate and read minds as well as lock them or even attack them with her deadly Mental Razor.

As a member of the Immortals, Snake wears her own version of the red shirt/black pants theme that the team uses. In this guise she also wears a blonde wig, hair cropped to shoulder length. On the few hours that she is off duty as Li Rong, she will still wear fashionable clothing of the modern, trendy sort. She plays up to her public image as a fun-loving fashion-conscious superheroine. In her real guise, that of Red Censor, Huan Yue wears a far less revealing voluminous and loose-fitting outfit that includes a large cloak. The overall color of the Red Censor costume is black, but with a red mask over her eyes, nose and the top of her head (but not covering her mouth or most of her tightly cropped black hair) as well as red gloves and the flag of the People's Republic of China across her torso.