Yunjian

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Yunjian (云间), also rendered as Yun Jian
Alias(es)	Little Lord Yun; Lord Yun; fifth young lady of the Yun Residence 33 48 85
Species/Race	Human; transmigrator from an apocalyptic modern world 14 15
Gender	Female 18 29
Affiliation	Yun family; Li Kingdom’s Ministry of Revenue 18 29
Occupation/Role	Agricultural researcher and female official; formerly a researcher at an official institute during the apocalypse 18 37
Status	Alive; engaged to Sui Yun. She will not consider marriage before turning eighteen 201 205
First Appearance	Chapter 14 14

Background / History

Modern life

Yunjian came from a wealthy modern family, with substantial resources from her father’s business and her maternal grandfather’s family. Despite that privilege, she remembered a painful childhood and spoke contemptuously of her father. Her experiences with her stepsister and other relatives also made her familiar with manipulation within wealthy households 31 32 136 159.

She attended university with Wenren Luoshui and Sun Aidi. After Yunjian caught Sun secretly using her roommates’ sunscreen, she offered to let her keep it rather than argue. Sun subsequently circulated misleading photographs and anonymous claims portraying Yunjian as a married man’s mistress. Yunjian gathered evidence and pursued legal action; the university’s student council traced the posts to Sun 157.

Sun later encouraged her boyfriend to retaliate against the roommates. He broke into their dormitory, stabbed their beds, and stole valuable belongings. Zhao Xueqi’s hidden camera recorded the burglary, and Yunjian refused a private settlement. Her stolen possessions included a bracelet worth over one hundred thousand and five watches worth more than one million in total, contributing to the thief’s lengthy prison sentence 159.

Apocalypse and death

During the apocalypse, Yunjian bonded with the Taobao System. She and Luoshui reproduced medicinal wine for their own use and sale, and much of the grain Yunjian exchanged was supplied to the authorities. Although their resources could have supported them without fighting monsters, both joined official organizations: Yunjian entered a research institute, while Luoshui joined a rescue team 14 37.

Yunjian led a team that developed waterless cultivation technology and researched an improved potato variety suited to the apocalypse’s abnormal environment. The potatoes had a shorter growing cycle and could yield three times as much as ordinary potatoes 18 21.

While Luoshui was away on a mission, Yunjian was assigned to transport supplies to Lotus City with several teams. A zombie horde attacked on the return journey, killing everyone in her squad. She next awoke in a horse-drawn carriage in another era 15.

Transmigration into the Yun family

Yunjian entered the body of Minister Yun’s youngest daughter and retained her Taobao System. Bandits attacked her while she was traveling toward Jingxin Nunnery, but she escaped using a stun baton and chili powder. Luoshui found her near the foot of a mountain, immobilized her pursuers with leaves, and reunited with her 14.

During their conversation afterward, Yunjian absorbed the original owner’s memories. She was puzzled that Luoshui had been reborn as an infant more than ten years earlier, despite their apparently dying around the same time in the apocalypse. The original Yunjian had rarely left home, leaving her inherited memories of people outside the immediate household unusually limited 15 46.

Appearance

Yunjian has round, dark eyes, described both as clear black-and-white eyes and as resembling grapes 15 66 136.

• Complexion: Originally fair; her cheeks became darker after repeated visits to rice fields 19.
• Voice: Soft and sweet, compared to maltose and a lark’s song 46 136.
• Fieldwear: Uses a lotus leaf as a sunshade while working with crops 66.
• Sixties-era appearance: After Luoshui magically altered her age and others’ memories, she appeared about fifteen or sixteen, with a long braid and fashionable polyester clothing 189.

Personality

Yunjian is cheerful, candid, and affectionate with people she trusts. Her reunion with Luoshui brings an exuberant embrace, and their friendship retains the teasing familiarity of their previous life. She enjoys gossip and public spectacles, often exchanging irreverent commentary with Luoshui through their thoughts 14 15 74 80.

Her easygoing manner does not prevent confrontation. Having lived through the apocalypse, she shares Luoshui’s tendency to use her fists rather than argue when necessary. She bluntly challenges manipulative relatives, biased officials, and people who mistreat her friends 23 85 90 143 195.

She is especially protective of vulnerable children. Yun Fei’s rejection by her mother recalls Yunjian’s own childhood, prompting her to offer both reassurance and practical support. The murder of a five-year-old girl brings out cold, fierce anger rather than her usual playful disposition 31 48.

As a researcher, Yunjian sets demanding standards. Even a potato harvest of ten thousand jin per mu disappoints her because it reaches only twice the ordinary yield rather than the threefold increase she expected. She suspects the soil or cultivation management and remains determined to improve the result 33.

Her confidence becomes bashfulness around Sui Yun. She openly admits finding him attractive and privately entertains bold fantasies, yet panics after accidentally confessing her feelings to him. As their relationship matures, she remains affectionate while setting her own timetable for marriage 46 47 48 151 201.

Abilities & Skills

Agricultural Research

Yunjian combines previous-life scientific experience with field observation and system-provided crops 18 19 21.

• Waterless cultivation: Led the team that developed this technology during the apocalypse 18.
• Rice research: Studies high-yield rice despite lacking laboratory equipment, personally examining field conditions and water quality 18 19.
• Crop improvement: Develops productive vegetables with her system, including tomatoes and eggplants 66 164.
• Public guidance: Agrees to write cultivation instructions and warnings against eating potatoes that have sprouted or turned green 33.
• Research leave: Receives the emperor’s permission to skip morning court while researching new crops 73 89.

Improved potato characteristic	Documented result
Expected yield	Three times the yield of ordinary potatoes 21
Growing cycle	Shorter than ordinary potatoes; the trial planting had sprouted by the following day 21 27
Trial area	Six mu 33
Total harvest	60,000 jin, gathered over three days 33
Yield per mu	10,000 jin; Yunjian judges this to be only twice the yield of ordinary seeds 33
Adoption	Officials approve cultivation around the capital; later inspections find successful promotion in nearby farmland 33 85

Taobao System

The Taobao System accompanies Yunjian through transmigration and lets her exchange for goods through its marketplace 14 21.

• Emergency supplies: Provides a high-powered stun baton and chili powder during the bandit attack 14.
• Food purchases: Supplies beef for Luoshui’s tigress and two cubs 15.
• Crops category: An update adds access to the improved potato variety Yunjian developed in her previous life 21.
• Documented unlocked crops: Improved potatoes, tomatoes, and eggplants 164.
• Limitations: Marketplace access depends on unlocked categories. She cannot obtain ice cream when its food category remains unavailable 97.

Thought Communication

Yunjian communicates mentally with Luoshui and participates in conversations with Luoshui’s Salty Fish System 24 29 31.

• Awareness of listeners: Recognizes that the emperor, princesses, and many officials can hear Luoshui’s thoughts 24 26.
• Disclosure restriction: Cannot tell Luoshui about the eavesdropping, either aloud or through thought; the words become impossible to express 24.
• Publicly audible exchanges: Yun relatives hear part of her warning about Wenren Shuang, and Sui Yun and the princes hear her romantic fantasies 31 47.
• Sixties-era effect: After the curse transports the women to another setting, everyone nearby can hear their thoughts 162.

Self-Defense and Accountability

Yunjian relies on quick judgment, improvised tools, and evidence rather than a documented cultivation technique 14 157 159.

• Incapacitates a captor with a stun baton, blinds other bandits with chili powder, and runs rather than attempting to defeat the entire group 14.
• Pursues legal consequences for slander and burglary in her modern life 157 159.
• Challenges Magistrate Jiang’s unsupported accusations against Wang Xiaohong 85.
• Slaps Xu Miaomiao for publicly insulting and threatening Sui Yun, then warns that she will summon the brigade leader over the slander 195.

Cooking and Commercial Work

• Prepares a variety of potato dishes with Luoshui to celebrate the trial harvest 33.
• Makes cold tomato salad from her newly grown tomatoes 66.
• Sells inexpensive, generously seasoned fried skewers with Sui Yun during a disguised outing 157.
• Makes mung bean soup and brings it chilled in an insulated container to Sui Yun in the fields 195.
• Helps Luoshui promote the Blind Box Shop and later participates in their Begonia Garden venture 15 40.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• High-powered stun baton — Obtained through the Taobao System to knock a bandit unconscious 14.
• Chili powder — Used to obstruct the bandits while escaping 14.
• Wall-passing talisman — Given by Luoshui; lets Yunjian pass through the Anyi Marquis Residence’s outer wall while carrying two watermelons 48.
• Ink-jade pendant — A birthday gift from Madam Yun that Yunjian passes to Yun Fei as reassurance of her family’s love 31.
• Lotus-leaf sunshade — Worn while harvesting vegetables; Sui Yun adjusts it after it slips over her eyes 66.
• Healing pills — Used to recover from injuries after arriving in the sixties-era setting 162.

Relationships

• Wenren Luoshui — Best friend across two lifetimes, fellow transmigrator, and collaborator in agriculture and commerce. Luoshui rescues her from bandits, encourages her pursuit of Sui Yun, and supplies talismans and information 14 15 21 47 48.
• Sui Yun — Fiancé, Young Marquis of Anyi, and commander of the Embroidered Guards. Her immediate attraction develops into mutual affection; he protects her, welcomes her closeness with his mother, and accepts her decision not to consider marriage before eighteen 46 47 66 136 201.
• Minister Yun — Father in her current life. Yunjian is his youngest child and rejects the idea that he would recklessly surrender a military tiger tally under Wenren Shuang’s influence 29 31.
• Madam Yun — Mother in her current life. Their relationship includes affectionate teasing; Madam Yun worries about proper reciprocation when Yunjian returns with lavish gifts from the Anyi household 31 136.
• Consort Yun — Elder sister, living in the imperial palace 29.
• Yun Zheng — Second brother and a civil official. Yunjian initially knows him from the original owner’s memories as a gentle, refined gentleman 29.
• Yun Fei — Niece whom Yunjian protects from maternal rejection. She supports Fei’s schooling and later respects her decision to study medicine under Xu Lingzhi 31 74 145.
• Marchioness of Anyi — Future mother-in-law. Yunjian wins her affection through warmth and generous gifts; the Marchioness explicitly defends her as the daughter-in-law she has chosen 136 143.
• Anyi Marquis — Future father-in-law. His enduring devotion to his wife gives Yunjian a model of the affectionate marriage she hopes for 136.
• Eldest Princess — Recognizes Yunjian’s agricultural talent and recommends her to the emperor, leading to her Ministry of Revenue appointment 18.
• Emperor Lang Ling — Supports her crop experiments, protects the potato garden, and grants research leave. Yunjian accompanies him on inspections and disguised outings 27 73 80 153.
• Tu Hua — Friend whose ambition to join the Embroidered Guards Yunjian supports. Through Sui Yun, she secures two retired guards to train Tu Hua 133.
• Wang Ermazi and Chen Fuyu — Parents of her assumed identity in the sixties-era household. Yunjian and Luoshui share their extraordinary supplies with them 164.
• Sun Aidi / Zhao Aidi — Hostile former college roommate who resumes targeting Yunjian in the historical setting. Her fatal hairpin attack is followed by a supernatural revenge pact 157 159 160 162.
• Xu Miaomiao — Rival in the sixties-era storyline who claims Sui Yun’s affection. Yunjian confronts her when she humiliates and threatens him 188 195.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Arc	Chapters	Yunjian’s involvement
Reunion and Blind Box Shop opening	14 15	Escapes the bandits, reunites with Luoshui, and helps bring the tigers into the city for the shop’s promotional procession.
Appointment and potato trials	18 21 22 27 33	Enters the Ministry of Revenue, presents improved potatoes to the emperor, and helps establish a successful trial that leads to wider cultivation.
Yun family’s real-and-fake heiress dispute	29 31 32 74 145	Defends Yun Fei, learns that Yun Shuang is Wenren Shuang, and helps Fei build a new life through education and medical training.
Child-murder investigation	47 48	Follows Sui Yun’s investigation and demands punishment for Zhao Junsheng after learning that he buried a five-year-old girl alive.
Testing false claims of expertise	70	Challenges An Qiuyue to draw usable designs for the technology she claims to understand, exposing the gap between boasting and practical knowledge.
Incognito agricultural inspection	80 85	Accompanies the emperor outside the capital, challenges Magistrate Jiang’s treatment of Wang Xiaohong, and inspects nearby potato cultivation.
Acceptance by the Anyi household	136 143	Bonds with Sui Yun’s parents and counters Luo Chuyan’s efforts to exploit the household and undermine her relationship with the Marchioness.
Zhao Aidi’s curse and the sixties	162 164 168 188 189 195	Awakens in another era, supplies the Wang household, helps Lang Ling and his grandfather, reunites with Sui Yun, and opposes Xu Miaomiao’s possessive behavior.
Engagement and women’s education	201 205	Becomes engaged while retaining control over when she will marry. When Wenren Ruoshui condemns women’s schooling, Yunjian maintains that talent has no gender and examinations allow people to demonstrate their abilities.

Notable Quotes

“Fei'fei, your auntie is telling you this: some people are born with shallow ties to their parents, but you must believe that this has nothing to do with you. It's simply that they lack the fortune for it, so we'll just live our own lives well!” 31

“Our household has the means. What matters most now is whether you want to learn, not whether you're qualified!” 74

“Don't flatter yourself. More than half of these things are for our mother.” 136

“No. How could a man be more important than my best friend?” 188