Wang Yan

Biodata

Feature	Information
Name	Wang Yan (王言)
Alias(es)	Brother Yan; General Wang; Wang Cannon; Commander Wang 11 193 937 941
Species/Race	Human
Gender	Male 73
Affiliation	The wish system; Dragon Ascending/Longteng in several modern-world incarnations; various military and governmental organizations depending on the world 1 14 212
Occupation/Role	Wish-system traveler; entrepreneur, martial artist, physician, investigator, military commander, and government official 1 72 1167 1368
Status	Active 1768
First Appearance	I Am Not the God of Medicine — Chapter 1 1

Power Progression

Attributes are listed as Strength / Agility / Constitution / Spirit.

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Initial system user	1	Began with 6 / 7 / 7 / 10, three unassigned points, and 1 m³ of storage space.
Early physical development	3	Reached 7 / 7 / 8 / 13 through study, exercise, and attribute allocation; acquired English LV1 and Fighting LV0.
Introductory professional skills	5	Reached 8 / 8 / 9 / 13; English advanced to LV2, while Fighting and Management reached LV1.
First completed-world growth	7	Reached 12 / 12 / 13 / 13 with four unallocated points; English LV3, Fighting LV2, Management LV2, Sales LV2, and Japanese LV1.
Prison training breakthrough	11	Reached 17 / 16 / 18 / 14 through extreme training; Fighting advanced to LV3.
Physical limit exceeded	11	Allocated two points to Physique, becoming 18 / 17 / 20 / 14; natural training had reached its practical limit.
Consolidated professional level	20	Reached 20 / 20 / 20 / 18. Fighting, Management, and Sales were all LV3; storage expanded to 2 m³.
Martial arts prominence	62	Combat advanced to LV4 after extensive challenges and study across martial arts schools.
Martial master level	72	Reached 25 / 25 / 25 / 22. Fighting, Calligraphy, and Computer skills reached LV5; Traditional Chinese Medicine, Sinology, Philosophy, Shooting, and Japanese reached LV3.
Scholarly accumulation	101	Spirit rose to 31 after a lifetime devoted to Chinese language and literature; his professional field reached LV4.
Research-world return	117	Spirit reached 35; he retained introductory carving and a range of developing natural-science skills.
Imperial-world return	179	Spirit reached 43, with four new points held in reserve.
Continued spiritual growth	234	Spirit reached 52 after completing the mission to keep Xin Yi alive.
Continued spiritual growth	264	Spirit reached 56, with four new points banked.
Continued spiritual growth	294	Spirit reached 60, again retaining four unassigned points.
High-level mental development	383	Spirit reached 73; five newly rewarded points remained unassigned.
Physical enhancement milestone	504	Reached 30 / 30 / 30 / 83. Architecture reached LV5 after more than twenty years of design and construction.
Continued spiritual growth	540	Spirit reached 87, with four unassigned points.
Japanese mastery	562	Spirit reached 91; Japanese advanced from LV3 to LV5 through years of speaking and reading the language.
Perfect recall	715	Spirit reached 100, granting genuine perfect recall: anything seen once could be remembered permanently.
Genetic-research enhancement	770	Reached 34 / 34 / 34 / 105 after allocating prior points to Constitution; obtained major genetic-project data and enhancement-drug research.
Heightened perception	835	Spirit reached 110. His thought and reaction speed exceeded his body’s movements, producing an effect akin to enhanced dynamic vision.
Continued spiritual growth	912	Spirit reached 114, with five unallocated points.
Continued spiritual growth	982	Spirit reached 124, with four unassigned points.
Century-long Song-world return	1104	Reached 35 / 35 / 35 / 131 after a 124-year life; determined his bodily lifespan limit was 142 years.
Continued spiritual growth	1138	Spirit reached 136, with four unassigned points.
Military-world return	1217	Spirit reached 145, with five unassigned points.
Continued spiritual growth	1328	Spirit reached 154, with five unallocated points.

Background / History

Wang Yan began as an ordinary real-estate salesman before receiving a wish-granting system designed to fulfill the wishes of film and television characters. The system gave him attributes, skills, storage space, and rewards for completed missions, while allowing him to enter successive worlds and accumulate decades or centuries of experience. 1 5

His first major experience in Dying to Survive transformed him from a physically subhealthy man into a wealthy medicine seller with an industrial supply chain, professional management and sales skills, and a sustained habit of self-improvement. He treated each new world as preparation for future danger, deliberately studying practical skills rather than relying only on system rewards. 3 5 7

Repeated lives profoundly changed his temperament. Wang Yan recognizes that earlier periods of power—particularly when he controlled criminal organizations and commanded immense influence—made him more extreme. Later experiences with ordinary work, debt, family, scholarship, and long lives in government gradually gave him greater calm and self-awareness. 20 234

Appearance

Wang Yan is repeatedly described as tall, sturdily built, and increasingly imposing after physical training. At 183 cm, his body developed dense, lean musculature rather than a bodybuilder’s bulk; when his physical attributes reached 25, he grew to 184 cm and approximately 200 jin. 7 72

• Tall and solidly built, with a physique shaped by constant martial and military training. 11 932
• His muscles are lean and compressed rather than visibly oversized. 7 11
• His bearing changes noticeably with experience, wealth, authority, and confidence. 8
• He is regarded as increasingly attractive the longer people know him, aided by his humor, composure, and competence. 932

Personality

Wang Yan is intensely pragmatic and committed to self-improvement. He studies broadly—martial arts, philosophy, medicine, business, science, languages, and governance—because he considers every additional skill a safeguard against an uncertain future. 5 20

He is confident, socially perceptive, and capable of presenting different faces to different people. He can be generous and approachable toward subordinates, friends, students, and ordinary people, but is also willing to manipulate opponents, intimidate corrupt officials, or use violence when he believes it necessary. 73 367 1102

His governance consistently combines harsh enforcement with material improvement. He confiscates assets, suppresses entrenched interests, and punishes resistance severely, yet redirects resources toward infrastructure, education, wages, medicine, and the welfare of common people. 1074 1102 1548

Despite his age and accumulated authority, Wang Yan remains reflective about power. Having ruled criminal organizations, armies, and an empire, he considers supreme authority seductive but ultimately dangerous. 1095

Abilities & Skills

Wish System

Wang Yan’s system assigns wishes connected to film and television characters. Completing a mission grants attribute points, skills, equipment, or other rewards. 1 60 212

• Possesses four core attributes: Strength, Agility, Constitution, and Spirit. 1
• Can hold unassigned attribute points for later allocation. 7 179
• Maintains personal storage space; only system-rewarded items can be transferred between worlds. 1
• Reached 2 m³ of storage capacity after an early mission reward. 20
• At Spirit 100, gained permanent perfect recall. 715

Martial Arts and Combat

Wang Yan studies multiple traditional martial arts, constantly tests himself against skilled opponents, and eventually reaches Fighting LV5. His martial understanding is later described as approaching “Wuji,” a state in which techniques and force application become fluid rather than fixed. 16 72 671

• Could defeat five or six Red Poles at once after his prison training. 11
• Became a recognized leading figure in the martial arts world and a nominal disciple of Gong Baosen. 60 62
• Defeated elite special-forces soldiers in sparring after winning every event in a military-region competition. 1194
• Can overpower multiple armed attackers; in one Ming-world assassination attempt, he defeated more than twenty armored soldiers alone. 1548
• His physical limits remain relevant: even at a high martial realm, prolonged combat against many strong opponents can exhaust him. 671

Medicine and Health

Wang Yan possesses advanced traditional Chinese medical knowledge, developed through long-term study, practical treatment, and research into affordable remedies. 72 211

• Traditional Chinese Medicine reached LV3 by Chapter 72 and LV5 during his imperial lifetime. 72 211
• Helped develop Body Strengthening Exercises and pursued their missing secret formula with martial and medical masters. 70
• Treated Bao Yi’s illness and taught him a cultivation method. 1044
• Won Emperor Jiajing’s favor by examining his pulse, prescribing medicine, and recommending body-nourishing exercises. 1534
• Established businesses around Body Strengthening Pills and traditional Chinese medicine products. 212 226

Investigation and Forensics

Wang Yan applies medical knowledge, psychology, observation, and specialized technical skills to criminal investigation. 1162 1167

• Became Liaoning Province’s foremost footprint-analysis authority through speed and accuracy in solving cold cases. 1163
• Uses autopsies, composite sketching, fingerprint comparison, and criminal psychology in active investigations. 1167
• Solved hundreds of backlogged cases and helped apprehend more than a thousand suspects across thirteen cities. 1167
• Earned a reputation among thieves and pickpockets after catching more than three hundred criminals in a month. 1151

Military Leadership

Wang Yan combines individual combat ability with operational planning, training expertise, and organizational discipline. 1213 1368

• Learned foreign languages, disguise, infiltration, vehicle operation, aircraft operation, demolition, parachuting, and emergency medical care during special-forces training. 1212 1213
• Obtained helicopter and fighter-jet pilot licenses. 1213
• Led Ninth Squad in capturing combat vehicles and destroying an enemy regimental headquarters during an exercise. 1213
• Was appointed Grand Marshal of All Armies under Heaven, with Shi Wansui and He Ruobi as deputy marshals. 1368
• Uses training, morale-building, tactical provocation, and unconventional methods to build combat-effective forces. 1084

Business, Governance, and Technical Expertise

Wang Yan’s professional skills include management, sales, computing, architecture, finance, manufacturing, and organizational reform. 20 504 770

• Management and Sales reached professional LV3 early in his travels. 20
• Built medicine, technology, manufacturing, construction, finance, and health-supplement ventures across different worlds. 14 212 226 1104
• Developed VCD technology through Dragon Ascending Technology and sold more than one million units in a month. 16
• Reached Architecture LV5 after decades of designing and constructing buildings. 504
• Agreed to develop facial-recognition software for law-enforcement cooperation, estimating the work would take half a day. 770
• Reformed taxation, education, land administration, troop organization, wages, and infrastructure while governing Kaifeng Prefecture. 1096 1102

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Personal Storage Space — Began at 1 m³ and later expanded to 2 m³; cross-world transfer is restricted to system-rewarded items. 1 20
• Brotherhood of Blades saber — A newly acquired saber reviewed after returning to modern life. 212
• Leather armor and long saber — Issued through a local guard post during a Ming-world anti-Japanese operation. 1528
• Long spear — Used during the armored-soldier assassination attempt, including as a thrown weapon against matchlock users. 1549

Relationships

• Gong Baosen — Nominal master who accepted Wang Yan as a disciple after Wang Yan expressed his vision of strengthening the nation through martial arts. 60
• Wei Lan — Partner and business associate; supports his traditional Chinese medicine company plans and shares family responsibilities with him. 212 770 1217
• Ouyang Xiu — Master and mentor in scholarship and officialdom; recognizes Wang Yan’s exceptional talent. 1036 1038
• Sheng Hualan — Fiancée and later wife in the Song-world arc; gave birth to Wang Yan’s eldest son. 1036 1074
• Yang Tao — Wife in a modern-world incarnation; their relationship develops rapidly from romance to marriage and cohabitation. 317 318
• Zhou Xiaobai — Romantic partner during the Northern Shaanxi arc; they begin a relationship after their first date and maintain it through letters while apart. 1478 1488
• Liu Feng — Trusted military comrade who remains loyal to Wang Yan and follows his advice. 937
• Xu Sanduo — Fellow recruit and mentee; Wang Yan encourages him to gain confidence and helps raise his performance. 1175 1177 1186
• Yuan Lang — Special-forces commander who recognizes Wang Yan’s ability and entrusts him with key operational tasks. 1194 1213
• Yang Guang — Imperial patron who rewards Wang Yan’s martial ability and later appoints him Grand Marshal. 1331 1368
• Shi Wansui — Military ally and deputy marshal who supports Wang Yan’s reform plans. 1347 1368

Story Role / Major Arcs

Early System Missions and Drug Trade

Wang Yan enters the system through the Dying to Survive world, using medicine sales to build wealth while improving his body, English, management, sales, and combat skills. 1 3 5 7

Hong Kong Underworld

In the Infernal Affairs-related arc, Wang Yan becomes known as Brother Yan, develops Dragon Ascending/Longteng, recruits large numbers of subordinates, expands into technology and labor-intensive industries, and becomes a major underworld power. 11 14 16 17

Martial Arts Revival

After receiving Gong Baosen’s wish to shake the martial arts world, Wang Yan challenges schools, becomes Gong Baosen’s nominal disciple, promotes martial arts, and supports development of the Body Strengthening Exercise. 60 62 70

Imperial Rule

After unifying the country in eight months, Wang Yan ascends the throne, names both his era and state “China,” and later oversees global territorial expansion, market liberalization, infrastructure building, population policy, and traditional Chinese medicine research. 210 211

Soldier, Special Operator, and Investigator

Across military and police-world arcs, Wang Yan becomes a decorated soldier, special-forces operative, railway police investigator, and renowned forensic specialist. His work combines extraordinary combat ability with practical case-solving and mentorship. 954 1151 1167 1194 1213

Song-Dynasty Reformer

As a scholar-official, Wang Yan becomes Ouyang Xiu’s disciple, earns top-scholar prestige, builds political alliances, suppresses powerful families, reforms patrol institutions and education, governs Kaifeng, and rises to Associate Administrator of State Affairs. 1036 1049 1074 1096 1102

Sui-Dynasty Commander

Wang Yan wins Yang Guang’s confidence through martial prowess, administration, anti-bandit campaigns, and suppression of powerful clans. He is ultimately appointed Grand Marshal of All Armies under Heaven. 1331 1347 1368

Ming-Dynasty Political Power

Wang Yan gains Emperor Jiajing’s favor through medicine and political maneuvering, carries out land redistribution despite assassination attempts, builds alliances with Yu Dayou and Qi Jiguang, and becomes the leader of a major political faction. 1534 1548 1558 1575

Notable Quotes

“Until I am defeated, I am innocent.” 1084

“Confident that I’d live two hundred years, I’d strike the water for three thousand li.” 922