Qi'ra is a human female from Corellia, introduced in Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) and played by Emilia Clarke. She and Han Solo are street thieves together as teenagers; he escapes the planet and she does not, and everything that follows comes out of that difference.
Not a love interest
The film's structure invites you to read her as Han's romance and then declines to resolve it that way. By the time they meet again she is a lieutenant in the Crimson Dawn syndicate, and she has made choices — real, costly, irreversible ones — that he has no access to and does not get explained. The shape is pure noir: the person who came back changed. (The Kasdans have described the film itself as a Western crossed with a crime movie, which is close enough to the same instinct.)
Her second career in comics
Marvel's Crimson Reign and Hidden Empire events (2022–2023) took her considerably further than the film did, placing her at the head of Crimson Dawn and running a galaxy-spanning campaign against the Sith of the Imperial era. It is one of the clearest cases of the comics line rescuing a character the box office had abandoned.
Canon only
Qi'ra postdates the 2014 reset and has no Legends counterpart. The Legends account of Han's youth — A. C. Crispin's Han Solo trilogy — has a different first love and a different Corellia entirely.
Reading note
Watch how consistently the material refuses to tell you what she actually wants. That withholding is the character; the moment it resolves, she stops being interesting.