Liu Yan

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Liu Yan (柳颜)
Alias(es)	Yanyan, an affectionate name used by Chen Hao; President Liu 124 127
Species/Race	Human; explicitly described as an ordinary person rather than a Qi Refiner 192
Gender	Female 33
Affiliation	Liu family; Blue Light Pharmaceuticals; Dihao Group 33 200 279
Occupation/Role	General manager of Blue Light Pharmaceuticals; later leads Dihao Group’s operations 131 279 280
Family	Liu Shan, her father; Liu Qi, her older brother 41
Partner	Chen Hao, her boyfriend and intended marriage partner 131 201
Status	Alive; remains involved in Chen Hao’s care 342
First Appearance	Chapter 24, “Liu Yan” 24

Background / History

Family business and marriage pressure

Liu Yan comes from a once-prominent Zhonghai family. Blue Light Pharmaceuticals, founded by her grandfather’s generation, had been renowned throughout China before poor management under her father and older brother caused a severe decline. Its market share dwindled over three years, and Liu Shan considered bankruptcy or a business marriage for his daughter 33 41.

Refusing to accept an arranged future, Liu Yan promised to restore the company’s profitability within one year. Failure would mean accepting her father’s decisions. When she confided in Chen Hao, only two months remained, and the company had shown no meaningful recovery. The proposed marriage involved the heir to Dihao Group, Zhang Wei 33 41 62.

Meeting Chen Hao

Liu Yan meets Chen Hao following a traffic accident, when Lou Haocheng harasses her and attempts to grab her. Chen intervenes, drawing Lou’s anger onto himself. Although Liu Yan could leave safely, she stays and offers to help settle the dispute because Chen became involved on her behalf. She later calls to check whether he is safe 24 29.

Their next meeting takes place during her negotiations with Wang Xuemin, chairman of Kang’ai Technology. Chen challenges Wang’s bullying and summons Mayor Jia Zhengyi, exposing Wang’s threats through a recording. He also introduces Liu Yan to the mayor, giving her a valuable connection that her declining company had lacked 32 33.

Blue Light Pharmaceuticals’ recovery

Liu Yan sells her Bentley to cover the company’s cash-flow problems. After witnessing the extraordinary wound-healing effect of Chen Hao’s furnace ash, she supports selling him a 10% stake for ten million yuan. She and Chen then sign a performance-based wager with Uncle Ming before the board, risking the Liu family’s remaining position on the new product’s success 37 38 39 41.

The plan faces immediate resistance. Liu Shan and Liu Qi condemn her decisions, while suppliers collectively halt deliveries. Liu Yan identifies Wang Xuemin and Uncle Ming as collaborators seeking to force Blue Light’s collapse and seize its assets. Despite being hurt by her father’s indifference, she resumes work and backs Chen’s proposal to accelerate the product launch 41.

The Blue Light Potion launch earns more than thirty million yuan in half an hour and attracts nearly one hundred million yuan in domestic orders, alongside international demand. Uncle Ming eventually concedes the wager and transfers his holding of over 30% to Liu Yan. The Liu family’s stake rises above 70%; together with Chen’s 10%, this restores their control of the company 51 104.

Relationship with Chen Hao

Liu Yan’s gratitude develops into attraction through their business partnership and repeated moments of mutual support. She rushes to his hospital bedside, worries during his absences, and becomes frustrated when his flirtation does not lead to a clear romantic commitment. Zhang Jing advises her on pursuing him, despite Liu Yan’s insistence that she does not like him 43 55 56 77 127.

She publicly identifies herself as Chen Hao’s girlfriend when meeting Qin Yumo. Later, she tells Chen that he is the only man she will marry, while insisting that marriage requires both families’ approval. She also admits to Su Xiaoxiao that she has gradually fallen in love with him and wants to spend her life with him 131 201 204.

Their relationship remains affected by jealousy over Xiang Wencun, Qin Yumo, and references to Chu Mengling. When Chen goes half a month without contacting her from the mountains, Liu Yan becomes so distracted that she signs his name on contracts. His eventual call makes her cry before his explanation reassures her 124 153 206 279.

Attacks and Dihao’s acquisition

During the clash with the Lu Association, Lü Liangwei holds an unconscious Liu Yan at knifepoint. Her husky, CC, prevents him from stabbing her, while Sen Tai later intercepts a dagger thrown at her by Lodi. Liu Yan subsequently gives Sen Ning employment and accommodation, and Chen arranges for Sen Tai to protect her 98 99 103.

Masked attackers later abduct Liu Yan and take her to Dihao Group. Zhang Wei and Zhang Guotao demand the Blue Light Potion formula, but she refuses even after an accomplice stabs through her palm. She also resists Zhang Wei’s forced kiss by biting his lip and warns him not to hurt Chen when he arrives to rescue her 187 188.

After her rescue, Liu Yan leads the effort to absorb Dihao. She mobilizes her contacts and resources after raising another hundred billion yuan, with support from Long Guangsheng and Haizi’s Dragon Sea International. Chen leaves the business campaign in her hands; the Qin family also makes a twenty-billion-yuan investment in Blue Light Pharmaceuticals 192 200 201 279.

Family ties and later corporate conflict

Liu Yan accompanies Chen to his mountain hometown for New Year. She greets his parents politely, offers to help his mother prepare lunch, and visits his injured third uncle. When the crisis involving the Qin and Chu families interrupts the holiday, she agrees to return to Zhonghai and look after Chen’s parents while he travels to Capital City 211 212 225.

At Dihao, Liu Yan faces resistance from founding board elder Uncle Fu and competition from Xunteng Technology. Fu uses a hostile press conference to promote a partnership she opposes, then admits that he wants Dihao to fall so he can take control with help from rival conglomerates. His public accusations leave her in tears 279 280 283.

Chen’s Electric Crystal Source provides a new commercial opportunity. Liu Yan promptly arranges testing, and preliminary results suggest batteries using it could last over one hundred times longer than conventional batteries. The announcement brings a surge of attention and business demands that overwhelms her and Zhang Jing 290.

Appearance

Liu Yan is described as having long hair, fair skin, a delicate face, and an eye-catching figure. Her appearance and bearing frequently make her the center of attention at social and business gatherings 32 33 57.

• Pink lips — noted during her first encounter with Chen Hao 24.
• Fitted black blouse — worn during the dinner with Wang Xuemin 32.
• Red dress — worn before attending the business summit with Chen and Su Xiaoxiao 61.
• Polished clothing and bearing — immediately distinguish her from the locals when she visits Chen’s hometown 211.

Personality

Liu Yan is proud, stubborn, and unwilling to let others decide her future. She assumes responsibility for the failing family company rather than accept a business marriage, publicly rejects her father’s unauthorized agreement with Dihao, and defies captors attempting to extract her product formula 33 68 188.

Her professional discipline does not make her emotionally unaffected. She is deeply wounded by her father’s lack of support, but regains her composure before returning to work. She also accepts practical sacrifices, including selling her car, and insists that protecting a sensitive production line takes precedence over accommodating Chen’s friend 37 41 103.

With Chen, she is playful, easily embarrassed, and often reluctant to admit her feelings. Her jealousy can turn into angry confrontations, particularly when Xiang Wencun is involved. Nevertheless, she shows loyalty through action: staying beside Chen after their first encounter, watching over him in hospital, and caring for his parents during a crisis 24 55 124 225.

Abilities & Skills

Business management and strategy

• Company leadership — directs Blue Light’s recovery and later manages Dihao’s acquisition and operations 39 200 206.
• Strategic patience — withholds medicinal powder supplies and accepts contract penalties so Kang’ai Technology can exhaust its stolen stock and lose its advantage 78 95.
• Security oversight — tightens workshop access so that even Chen needs her authorization to enter 95.
• Staff accountability — dismisses a security guard whose snobbery damages the company’s public-facing conduct 37.

Product commercialization

• Development and marketing — takes charge of product planning, marketing, and launch preparations for Chen’s furnace ash 39.
• Testing coordination — commissions analysis that identifies highly active repair factors and establishes that further processing destroys their effect, requiring pressurized-canister packaging 41.
• Technology rollout — arranges trusted testing of Electric Crystal Source and handles the resulting commercial demand 290.

Networking and public relations

• Business networking — attracts leading Zhonghai business figures after Blue Light’s resurgence and impresses executives during discussions in Dongchuan 62 65 222.
• Press handling — manages the reporters surrounding Dihao’s arrival more effectively than Chen does 279.
• Limits — an organized barrage of hostile questions and Uncle Fu’s accusations can overwhelm her composure 280 283.

Combat limitations

• Ordinary human — no cultivation advancement or personal supernatural combat technique is documented for Liu Yan 192.
• Personal protection — relies on Chen, Sen Tai, and CC against Qi Refiner threats; she asks that Sen Tai serve openly as her bodyguard rather than protect her secretly 187 188 200.

Equipment / Items

• Bentley — her favored car. She sells the original to support Blue Light’s finances; after Chen recovers it and it is destroyed in an attack, he arranges a nearly identical replacement 37 95 103 127.
• Jade Guanyin pendant — an expensive pendant she wants returned. Chen takes responsibility for handling it but secretly keeps it to absorb its spiritual energy 68 75.

Relationships

• Chen Hao — boyfriend, intended husband, investor, and product supplier. Their partnership develops into an intimate relationship, though his closeness with other women repeatedly causes friction 38 131 192 201.
• Liu Shan — father and former company manager. His marriage plans and interference provoke major disputes with her; his attitude toward Chen improves after Chen saves his life 33 41 68 130.
• Liu Qi — older brother and shareholder. Resents losing his management role and repeatedly mocks her leadership, though he later welcomes Chen as his “brother-in-law” 41 202.
• Zhang Jing — assistant and confidante. Supports her at work, mediates disputes with Chen, and gives her candid romantic advice 38 124 127 290.
• Su Xiaoxiao — childhood friend. Teases Liu Yan about Chen, comforts her after the dispute with her father, and hears her admission that she wants a lifelong future with him 65 68 204.
• CC — her husky. Liu Yan is devastated when he is critically wounded; after his revival, he remains fiercely protective of her and helps track her abductors 99 187 188.
• Sen Tai — rescuer and bodyguard. Takes a dagger meant for her and later protects her under Chen’s arrangements 99 103 200.
• Sen Ning — Sen Tai’s younger sister. Liu Yan offers her a document-organizing job, salary, and accommodation 103.
• Xiang Wencun — Blue Light employee and Chen’s first love. Her history and physical closeness with Chen make her a recurring source of jealousy; the two later argue over their respective claims to him 103 124 342.
• Qin Yumo — business partner and romantic rival. Supports the Qin–Blue Light partnership while competing with Liu Yan for Chen’s attention 131 206 342.
• Zhang Wei — proposed arranged-marriage partner who becomes her captor. Attempts to force both the Blue Light Potion formula and unwanted intimacy from her 62 188.
• Uncle Fu — internal opponent at Dihao. Seeks to undermine her leadership and install himself as the group’s new leader 280 283.

Notable Quotes

“This started because of me. I can't just stand by.” 24

“Whatever agreement you privately signed with the Dihao Group was your own personal decision. It has absolutely nothing to do with Blue Light Pharmaceuticals.” 68

“I've already decided to be with you, and you're the only man I'll ever marry. But marriage is a big deal. At the very least, we need both our parents' approval.” 201

Trivia

• Chen initially wonders whether Liu Yan is the wife foretold by the Matchmaker because she appears on the predicted day and has a two-character name. This is his interpretation, not confirmation of their marriage 24.
• She offers Chen a business-division manager position with a starting salary of thirty thousand, partly to keep him nearby. He refuses both the job and public identification with Blue Light’s products 39.
• After Chen accidentally crashes through a wall while she is meeting clients, Liu Yan covers for him by claiming he is her younger brother with longstanding mental problems 277.