Ye Lingling

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Ye Lingling is Ye Cixin’s daughter and a member of the Ye Family, whose generations of plant and medical research sought to compensate for the Nine-Hearted Begonia’s shortcomings. Her mother serves as the Heaven Dou imperial family’s chief physician and holds the title of marquis, providing the noble standing needed for Lingling’s admission to Heaven Dou Royal Academy 23 32.

She first meets Meng Chen while traveling with her mother. Initially irritated that Ye Cixin wants to share her pastries with him, she fiercely defends her mother when he questions whether she intends to kidnap him. Ye Cixin considers adopting Meng Chen so that he can protect Lingling in the future, but the adoption never takes place 9.

Six years later, Lingling is studying at Heaven Dou Royal Academy. Hearing Meng Chen’s name among the new special recruits breaks her usual detachment: his age and Innate Full Soul Power convince her that he is probably the boy she remembers 21.

Appearance

• Silver-gray hair, already distinctive when she first meets Meng Chen 9.
• Cool, frequently expressionless features and a clear, detached voice 21 84.
• By their later reunion, her hair has grown longer and her features closely resemble Ye Cixin’s, though her manner remains more withdrawn 180.
• Wears a light cyan long dress during Meng Chen’s return to the Ye Residence 180.

Personality

Lingling is quiet, solitary, and emotionally reserved. Even her teammates rarely see strong feelings on her face. She prefers attentive companionship to lively conversation, usually discussing medicinal herbs, cultivation, or academy happenings with Meng Chen 64 73.

Her restraint does not prevent her from asserting herself. She rejects Ning Yunxiao’s gifts and invitations repeatedly, recognizes his ulterior motives, and firmly supports Dugu Yan when he tries to dismiss her friend’s objections 54.

With Meng Chen, her affection appears through practical care: preparing notes, advising him about meals, bringing useful gifts, and quietly spending time beside him. She can also act unexpectedly boldly, including kissing him before the tournament final, although she becomes shy and uncertain again after their later reunion 64 83 84 142 181.

Her devotion becomes self-endangering during the Sixth Destruction Trial. Even after exhausting her Soul Power and suffering internal injuries, she tries to continue healing him until Zhu Zhuqing restrains her 202.

Abilities & Skills

Nine-Hearted Begonia

A healing Martial Soul capable of treating groups across a wide area. Despite its strength, it possesses only one soul skill, and Lingling remains vulnerable as a support-type Soul Master 9 54.

• Individual treatment: A pink begonia petal helps Yu Tianheng recover after his defeat by Meng Chen 33.
• Group healing: Envelops both Shi brothers in gentle white light after they are badly scorched during a training battle 65.
• Sustained support: Repeatedly treats Dugu Yan’s burns while she fights Ning Yunxiao, preventing her from being defeated much earlier 55.
• Severe injury treatment: Heals Meng Chen during his struggles with divine artifacts and steadies his condition after the Eighth Trial 207 209.

Limitations

• Higher-order destructive energy: During the Sixth Trial, her healing only slows Meng Chen’s bleeding and cannot close his wounds. Even Ning Rongrong’s enhancement and the Lake of Life are insufficient against the annihilation energy 202.
• Soul Power exhaustion: Excessive healing causes internal injuries and makes her cough blood. Life energy later heals her bodily injuries but does not restore her depleted Soul Power 202 203.
• Cannot immediately replenish Soul Power: Meng Chen’s physical condition improves under her treatment after the Eighth Trial, but his Soul Power still requires recovery 209.

Botanical and Medicinal Knowledge

Lingling draws on the Ye Family’s accumulated research into plants and medicine 32 84.

• Recognizes the Thunder Hell Vine and understands why Yu Tianheng cannot escape it. Her knowledge comes from family records tracing back to an ancestor’s encounter with the plant more than a century earlier 32.
• Supplies Meng Chen with handwritten herb annotations and information he previously requested 83.
• Personally compiles notes on the mutually reinforcing and conflicting properties of uncommon medicinal ingredients after consulting several books 84.
• Delivers the corrected Medical Stone Prescription on Ye Cixin’s behalf. Although Meng Chen praises her pharmacological knowledge, most of her annotations were actually dictated by her mother 84.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Academy Reunion and Growing Closeness

• Corrects the assumption that Meng Chen’s Martial Soul is merely mutated and recognizes Yu Tianheng’s defeat as inevitable once the Thunder Hell Vine binds him 31 32.
• Invites Meng Chen to the Ye Residence on her mother’s behalf after he reaches Soul Ancestor 49.
• Begins regularly joining him for meals while Xiao Wu studies at Moonlight Pavilion. Her visits also draw Meng Chen into closer friendship with her teammates 64 65.
• Questions his relationship with Zhu Zhuqing and later stays awake worrying about his absence during the dangerous disturbances in Suotuo City 73 78.
• Continues bringing medical materials and gifts despite Xiao Wu’s increasingly watchful presence 83 84 85.

Ning Yunxiao’s Harassment

Ning Fengzhi seeks a marriage alliance involving Lingling as a means of absorbing the Ye Family. Ye Cixin refuses and emphasizes her daughter’s wishes, but Ning Fengzhi subsequently orders Ning Yunxiao to win her by any means 22 23 56.

Ning Yunxiao corners Lingling and Dugu Yan in Heaven Dou City, offering a Nine-Hearted Begonia-shaped jade hairpin before escalating to threats and surrounding them with servants. Lingling heals Dugu Yan throughout the ensuing fight. Meng Chen and Xiao Wu’s intervention brings them to safety, after which Lingling recounts the incident to her furious mother 54 55.

Continental Tournament

• Watches Xiao Wu embrace Meng Chen after a victory and feels painfully aware of the difference between her own supporting role and Xiao Wu’s combat strength 139.
• Kisses Meng Chen before leaving the arena for the final, asking him to win 142.
• Becomes part of the championship-winning Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team. She thanks Meng Chen for helping bring recognition to the Ye Family’s Martial Soul 143.
• Attempts another kiss during the celebration, only for Xiao Wu to intercept it 143.
• Remains behind when Meng Chen leaves to travel with Xiao Wu, despite wanting to accompany him 146.

Reunion and Joining Meng Chen

After more than two years since Meng Chen’s last visit to the Ye Residence, Lingling rushes into his arms and cries upon seeing him again. Ning Rongrong interrupts their near-kiss 180.

Ye Cixin later explains that Lingling has rejected every suitor because she loves Meng Chen and asks him to give her a chance. He agrees and personally invites Lingling to travel with him; she immediately accepts and tearfully bids her mother farewell 183.

Destruction Trials

• Accompanies Meng Chen during his northern journey and remains with his companions through the divine trials 187 191.
• Exhausts her healing power during the Sixth Trial, then joins Hu Liena, Shui Bing’er, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing in sharing the annihilation energy attacking him 202.
• Faints from depleted Soul Power and exhaustion once Meng Chen is safe. He dries her clothes, lays her on soft grass, and builds a fire beside her 203.
• Treats his injuries during the Seventh and Eighth Trials and receives increased Soul Ring ages as a companionship reward 207 209.
• Supports his decision to accompany Ye Xishui back to her original timeline 215.

Relationships

• Ye Cixin — Mother and medical mentor. Protects Lingling’s right to refuse marriage, helps her approach Meng Chen, and eventually asks him to take her along 9 22 84 183.
• Meng Chen — Childhood acquaintance and romantic interest. Her early irritation develops into persistent affection; she kisses him, waits through his absence, and later becomes his traveling companion 9 142 180 183.
• Dugu Yan — Closest friend and teammate. Defends Lingling against Ning Yunxiao while Lingling sustains her with healing 31 54 55.
• Xiao Wu — Romantic rival who repeatedly interrupts her attempts at closeness with Meng Chen. Their rivalry includes guarded visits, pointedly polite exchanges, and an intercepted kiss 84 85 143.
• Ning Rongrong — Companion and romantic rival. Interrupts Lingling’s reunion with Meng Chen, but later strengthens her healing during the Sixth Trial 180 202.
• Zhu Zhuqing — Traveling companion who supports Lingling when her healing effort injures her and prevents her from exhausting herself further 202.
• Ning Yunxiao — Rejected suitor and aggressor whose pursuit serves Ning Fengzhi’s plans for the Ye Family 23 54 56.

Notable Quotes

“Young Master Ning, we have no relationship. I will not accept your things, nor do I wish to understand your feelings. Please return.” 54

“Meng Chen, thank you for letting me become part of a champion team too. From now on, I believe the Nine-Hearted Begonia Martial Soul of my Ye Family will surely become renowned throughout the world and will not suddenly disappear.” 143

Trivia

• Signs her medicinal notes with a small, carefully drawn begonia flower rather than her name 83.
• Meng Chen calls her “Sister Ling Ling,” an address she accepts despite the childhood adoption plan never being completed 49.