Chu Yu

Biodata

Feature	Information
Name	Chu Yu (初鱼)
Alias(es)	Fishy; Yu Yu
Gender	Female
Affiliation	Fishy Team; Kindling Tribe; Kindling City
Occupation/Role	Player; former captain and resource coordinator of the Fishy Team; city lord of Kindling City; co-manager of Kindling Tribe affairs
Status	Active as a core member of the Kindling Tribe following its entry into the Love in Heavenly Gate Village nightmare dungeon 136 161
First Appearance	Home 40

Appearance

Chu Yu is described as fair-skinned and athletic, with long legs and broad shoulders; Ding Shi initially reads her as a sporty person. 47

• Usually takes a practical, active role in the team’s travel and field decisions.
• Has received ten years of Jeet Kune Do training. 47

Personality

Chu Yu leads by rules rather than personal influence. When forming the Fishy Team, she rejects contribution-based privilege: even a member who invested less retains an equal claim to shared necessities, provided they treat teammates as allies rather than competitors. 40

She is cautious but willing to act under pressure. She weighs the risks of no-signal-zone shortcuts, questions whether the team is morally prepared to rob or harm NPCs for resources, and ultimately chooses to take the route after hearing everyone’s views. 44 She also takes responsibility for the team’s mistakes, immediately paying Brother Kai’s fine rather than abandoning him. 42

Although she demands equality and rules within a survival team, Chu Yu believes broader society cannot operate through absolute equality. She favors systems that promote outstanding individuals while preserving room for less capable people to survive, and supports policies that disperse entrenched elite wealth and power across successive generations. 58 59

Chu Yu is strongly principled in her treatment of companions. Even when the rest of the Fishy Team wishes to leave the dangerous Ding Shi behind, she refuses to abandon someone she recruited, holding that she may remove a member from the team but cannot simply discard him. 51 Her resolve is tempered by empathy: she grieves intensely for Mu Mu and Brother Kai after their deaths, while continuing to make difficult decisions for the surviving team. 55 59

Abilities & Skills

Team Leadership

Chu Yu recruits members according to their strengths, manages pooled funds, assigns travel roles, and coordinates the group’s decisions. 40 42 44

• Prevents the team from becoming a zero-sum hierarchy based on investment. 40
• Names the group the Fishy Team and purchases shared essentials, including food, water, and flashlights. 42
• Calculates daily travel requirements and remaining fuel budget. 44
• Organizes split teams to search for Yingying’s parents while protecting the vehicle and Yingying. 45
• Refuses to abandon Ding Shi after the gas-station attack despite opposition from Brother Kai and Mu Mu. 51
• Coordinates with Ding Shi during the Blackwater Gully Road expedition, including sending him to retrieve needed rope and scouting routes with him. 53 54
• Later assists Yu Yuan in administering Yong’an County and helps plan Kindling Tribe operations. 138 153

Resource Management

Chu Yu gained a financial advantage early in the Home instance by exchanging $20 for 400 instance coins before the exchange rate worsened. 40

• Buys up instance coins from players who only need to travel short distances. 40
• Coordinates the Fishy Team’s shared pool of 1,500 instance coins. 40
• Funds the team’s fines, supplies, and medical kits. 42 50
• Obtained $300 in Peach Haven Village after capturing a wanted criminal identified through a newspaper left on the minibus. 41
• Receives a City Lord Card from a Facility Scratch Card, allowing her to establish a city on purchased land and set its laws and tax rates. 85
• Becomes the city lord of Kindling City and, with Yu Yuan, shifts part of her focus from dungeon exploration to the city’s construction, production, and logistics. 136 161
• Handles county finances, public works, local disputes, and military-planning costs during the Yong’an County instance. 138 140 147

Jeet Kune Do

Chu Yu has trained in Jeet Kune Do for ten years. 47

• Subdues the male dwarf after he attacks her at the abandoned farmstead. 47
• Remains alert to threats even after learning from Mu Mu that Yingying is a disguised dwarf. 47

Emergency Medicine

Chu Yu can perform emergency field treatment under intense pressure. 52

• Removes the throwing axe embedded in Sun Heaven’s chest, then stitches his wound while remaining calm despite being covered in blood. 52
• Continues operating after suffering an arm wound herself, allowing Mu Mu to crudely stitch and bandage it. 53
• Purchases and preserves medical kits for the Fishy Team after the self-service gas-station attack. 50

Combat and Tactical Action

Although not initially presented as the Fishy Team’s principal combatant, Chu Yu becomes increasingly capable in direct confrontations. 47 56 59

• Avoids a second throwing axe by releasing her seatbelt and dropping out of the front passenger seat when the team is ambushed. 52
• Helps Ding Shi secure a seventy-meter cotton rope from an abandoned elementary school by taking an indirect route through fields, a river, and private homes. 54
• Uses a flashbang during the confrontation with Feilang, then kills him by repeatedly striking him in the head with a stone. 56
• Gains confidence with firearms and shoots down Stupid Dagger’s pursuing car during the later chase. 59
• Identifies rooftop archers during the assault on Yong’an County and later undertakes evidence destruction at the morgue after the failed attempt on Princess Yong’an. 141 143

History

Peach Haven Village

Chu Yu completed a version of the Peach Haven Village instance with a B rating. 48 During that instance, she identified and captured a wanted criminal by noticing the criminal’s portrait in a newspaper on the minibus; this earned her a $300 reward. 41

Home

Chu Yu meets Ding Shi while organizing transportation toward Far North Province. She invites him into her group despite his comparatively small contribution, explaining that the team must cooperate against outside threats rather than compete internally. 40

As captain, she recruits and directs Wang Ritian, Wang Kai, Mu Mu, and Ding Shi. When Ding Shi proves skilled at map-reading, she assigns him as the team’s navigator; after Brother Kai is caught driving without a license, she pays the 300-yuan fine and the team obtains C1 licenses. 42 44

Chu Yu leads the group onto Nameless Road, where they investigate a stranded red sedan and the apparent child Yingying. She supports splitting the team to investigate Yingying’s claimed emergency, though Mu Mu later exposes Yingying as a disguised dwarf. 45 46

At the farmstead, Chu Yu restrains Yingying’s male-dwarf accomplice after he attacks her. 47 When Ding Shi reveals that he accepted the dangerous Rapid Delivery mission, she facilitates the group’s discussion and helps arrange the team around the members’ differing choices. 48 49

After Stupid Dagger attacks the Fishy Team at a self-service gas station, Chu Yu takes charge of the withdrawal, purchases three medical kits, and orders the team to leave before AI agents or war police arrive. 50

When Brother Kai and Mu Mu argue that Ding Shi should be left behind after the attack, Chu Yu refuses to abandon him on principle. 51 Soon afterward, she performs emergency surgery on Sun Heaven after an axe ambush leaves him unable to walk. 52

Chu Yu and Ding Shi enter Whitewater Gully Village to locate rope needed to clear the blocked road. They retrieve a seventy-meter cotton rope from an abandoned elementary school, though they are unable to recover a possible playing card from the top of its flagpole. 53 54

During Stupid Dagger’s ambush on Blackwater Gully Road, Mu Mu is fatally shot after helping Ding Shi kill Stupid Dagger. Chu Yu is devastated by Mu Mu’s death but assumes responsibility for deciding how to dispose of her body and protect the surviving members. 55

Chu Yu subsequently helps dismantle the black car, destroy the fish truck, and fight Feilang. After killing Feilang with a stone, she is overwhelmed by the experience of killing someone for the first time. 56 Ding Shi later secretly destroys Feilang’s card to increase the team’s completion rating rather than claim its bounty or safehouse reward. 56

During the final pursuit by Stupid Dagger, Chu Yu shoots down his car, but Brother Kai is killed in the process. 59 She remains with Ding Shi as he escorts the injured Sun Heaven toward North Shang County and then takes her toward Far North County. 59 60

Chu Yu and Ding Shi ultimately complete their respective objectives and part on good terms. Ding Shi later acknowledges her as the first companion in Ita World whose character and abilities he truly recognizes. 61

Post-*Home* Activities

After the instance, Chu Yu arrives at Ding Shi’s island residence and becomes his friend through the newly available friend system. 63 She receives an A-rank evaluation for the Return Home instance. 64

Ding Shi later tells her that he destroyed the Feilang Card without consulting her and offers $50 as compensation for her presumed half-share. Chu Yu criticizes his failure to communicate as captain but accepts that his decision benefited the entire team; she also learns that Mu Mu has entered a revival instance and been revived. 64

Chu Yu clears a Hard-difficulty ocean-raft survival instance after being pursued by a great white shark for a day and a night. She then invites Ding Shi to join her in a Nightmare instance and gives him the City Lord Card she obtained from a Facility Scratch Card. 85

She becomes the city lord of Kindling City, joins the Kindling Tribe, and marries its chieftain, Yu Yuan. 136 As Kindling City develops, Chu Yu and Yu Yuan reduce their dungeon participation to focus on municipal construction, production, and logistics. 161

Feudal Age in Miniature

In the Yong’an County instance, Chu Yu serves as Yu Yuan’s assistant magistrate. Together they audit accounts, receive local gentry, prepare flood-control work, manage labor and finances, and navigate the hidden importance of Princess Yong’an’s favor. 138 139

Chu Yu argues that Su Su should show tactical flexibility regarding the county examination, even though Su Su rejects any form of cheating on moral grounds. 138 She later handles a looming conflict between pottery workshops in Little Pottery Town and assists with the county’s financial and military planning. 140 147

During Princess Yong’an’s first assassination attempt, Chu Yu warns the group that archers are stationed on the roof. She is seriously wounded during the subsequent night raid but survives after receiving treatment. 141 Following the failed assassination, she is assigned to destroy crossbow-wound evidence on the decoy princess’s corpse. 143

Chu Yu works with Yu Yuan and Hong Yi on the successful Yong’an Pass defense simulation. 153

Role-Playing

For the final no-death-penalty round of the Feudal Age in Miniature instance, Chu Yu is assigned the role of Empress and director of the Office of Prudent Punishment. 154 Her authority includes administering the imperial harem, selecting the emperor’s nightly companions, protecting pregnant consorts, and exercising absolute authority over the Office of Prudent Punishment. 154

Chu Yu is overwhelmed by repeated miscarriages caused by poisoned medicinal powder and seeks Ding Shi’s help investigating its origin. 155 156 After Wang Meng’s death, Yu Yuan appoints her commander of the Imperial City Office as well, adding responsibility for the capital’s security to her existing harem duties. 158

Princess Su Su ultimately poisons Chu Yu to maximize her own reward, causing Chu Yu’s death within the role-playing round. 158 As the round carries no death penalty, this does not end Chu Yu’s continued participation in the Kindling Tribe. 154 161

Relationships

• Ding Shi — Former teammate and navigator. Chu Yu recruits him despite his small investment, later relying on his map-reading and driving-license preparation. 40 42 44 Although the Fishy Team repeatedly questions his danger to the group, she refuses to abandon him and eventually develops mutual trust and respect with him. 51 61 After the instance, the two discuss his destruction of the Feilang Card as equal stakeholders, and he recognizes her as a companion whose character and ability he genuinely acknowledges. 64
• Mu Mu — Teammate and trusted confidante. The two share private exchanges and coordinate decisions during the Yingying incident. 42 45 Chu Yu mourns Mu Mu after her death during Stupid Dagger’s ambush and is delighted to learn that Mu Mu has been revived. 55 64
• Wang Kai / Brother Kai — Teammate and driver. Chu Yu values his information-gathering skills and pays his driving fine to keep the team together. 40 42 Though he opposes her decision to retain Ding Shi, his death during Stupid Dagger’s final car pursuit affects her deeply. 51 59
• Wang Ritian / Sun Heaven — Teammate recruited for his build and honest nature. Chu Yu later groups with him during the Rapid Delivery mission decision. 40 48 She performs emergency surgery after he is struck in the chest by a throwing axe and continues helping transport him toward North Shang County. 52 59
• Yingying — Initially treated as a possible victim whose parents need help; later revealed to be a disguised dwarf and threat to the team. 45 46
• Yu Yuan — Husband, Kindling Tribe chieftain, and fellow administrator of Kindling City. The two jointly manage civic development and cooperate closely in the Yong’an County and Feudal Age in Miniature instances. 136 138 153
• Hong Yi — Fellow core member of the Kindling Tribe. Chu Yu works with Hong Yi and Yu Yuan on the Yong’an Pass simulation and later serves as Empress while Hong Yi plays the Crown Prince during the role-playing round. 153 154
• Su Su — Kindling Tribe teammate and temporary political rival during the role-playing round. Su Su ultimately poisons Chu Yu to obtain a greater instance reward. 138 158

Trivia

• Chu Yu chose the name Fishy Team, and her teammates subsequently address her as “Fishy.” 42 48
• She cannot reliably drive a manual-transmission car; her stalling rate during practice reaches ninety percent. 44
• Her decision to recruit Ding Shi proves crucial when the team needs map navigation and driver’s-license guidance. 42 44
• Ding Shi jokingly describes her as “Goldfish” when she is overwhelmed by Yong’an County’s financial demands. 140
• She is interested in Truth Playing Cards after Ding Shi tells her about the Seven of Spades he recovered in Peach Haven Village. 54