Lin Qianqian

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Lin Qianqian (林茜茜)
Alias(es)	Xixi; Tianhai No. 1 High School’s “Campus Belle”; White Tiger, her organizational code name 45 273 344
Gender	Female
Affiliation	Tianhai No. 1 High School; later Xinghai University; Evening Bell; later a member of Dawn 67 79 83 301
Occupation/Role	Student and Esper 60 79
Innate Superpower	S-rank Divine Paper Technique, also called Divine Paper Art 59 83
Highest Documented Cultivation	Fourth Tier, 5-Star 487
First Appearance	Watches Zhou Fan defeat Liu Kun alongside Li Mengyao 4

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
First Tier, 3-Star	12	Advances during school Crystal Core absorption training alongside Zhou Fan. Their combined absorption drains half the room’s cores; both are excused from further school training sessions.
First Tier, 4-Star	31	Confirmed by Li Mengyao while Lin effortlessly defeats First Tier, 4- and 5-Star mutant beasts. The breakthrough itself is not shown.
Second Tier, 1-Star	35	Absorbs more than thirty Crystal Cores in under half an hour, reaching Second Tier only half a month after awakening. Unlocks Paper Transformation.
Second Tier, 3-Star	50	Absorbs two Mid-Grade Spirit Stones earned from her punishment task. Unlocks Paper-Style Clone.
Second Tier, 4-Star	80	Confirmed at the second system comparison; Zhou Fan has the same cultivation.
Second Tier, 5-Star	91	Breaks through after enduring half an hour of seven-times-gravity training with Zhou Fan.
Third Tier, 1-Star	115	Confirmed after the Illusory Forest expedition, during which Zhou Fan shares the collected Crystal Cores with her.
Third Tier, 2-Star	156	Her current cultivation when she receives the Origin Gem; the advancement method is not stated.
Third Tier, 3-Star	163	Confirms that she and Zhou Fan are at the same level.
Third Tier, 4-Star	164	Absorbs two Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones from her Gold and Diamond Chests. Begins the third comparison one star above Zhou Fan.
Third Tier, 5-Star	243	Confirmed as her regular cultivation while she fights four Fourth Tier, 5-Star Vampire guards simultaneously.
Fourth Tier, 5-Star	487	Confirmed during her battle with William; the intervening breakthroughs are not shown.

Background / History

Lin Qianqian awakens her S-rank Divine Paper Technique on her own. This gives her exceptionally precise spiritual-energy control, allowing her to manipulate numerous sheets of paper simultaneously. At Tianhai No. 1 High School, Principal Wang Daochuan regards her and Zhou Fan as standout students and personally oversees their practical cultivation training 10 103.

Her interest in Zhou begins after she witnesses his victory over the A-rank Liu Kun. His ability to compete with her despite possessing a nominally C-rank superpower challenges her confidence in her own talent. Her system binds him as her comparison target, making his strength the benchmark for both her training and her rewards 4 12.

After entering Xinghai University, she receives special instruction from Xia Qingran and shares a villa with Zhou Fan. Initially, they choose bedrooms at opposite ends of the upstairs hallway and keep their daily lives largely separate. Training, missions, and repeated rescues gradually turn this restrained arrangement into a close friendship with increasingly apparent romantic feelings 79 113 376 405.

Appearance

Lin Qianqian is known for her natural beauty, fair skin, and graceful figure. Her combat clothing is practical, while her crescent-moon earrings become a personally treasured accessory 36 218 398.

• Usual wilderness attire: A short cloak, white shirt, black pleated skirt, and boots 36.
• Sparring attire: A white T-shirt and combat-suitable trousers, with her silky hair tied into a high ponytail 41.
• Crescent-moon earrings: A gift from Zhou Fan, who personally puts them on her. She treasures them and initially wears them continuously 398.
• Paper manifestations: Often surrounded by hovering sheets or shards; her angel techniques create enormous white paper wings 16 184 487.

Personality

Lin is proud, disciplined, and intensely competitive. She initially expects her S-rank talent and system to guarantee victory over Zhou Fan, often interpreting setbacks as carelessness or an unresolved countermeasure rather than a decisive difference in strength. Repeated losses gradually make her more strategic, though they never extinguish her determination 12 35 48 156.

Her effort is genuine. She trains on rest days, conceals additional practice from Zhou, and deliberately restricts herself to ordinary paper attacks to deepen her understanding of her power. She also resents dependence on humiliating system quests and tries to prove that she can improve without their help 115 118 184.

Her cool exterior conceals embarrassment, affection, and a desire for recognition. She wants Zhou to acknowledge her achievements, becomes jealous of his attention to other girls, and expresses care through food and carefully chosen gifts rather than direct declarations. Even after they grow close, she remains reluctant to let others define them as a couple 181 224 337 399 400.

She strongly values her autonomy. When Tenshiki treats her as his possession, she refuses to submit and combines techniques and saved items to fight back despite being badly outmatched 369 373.

Abilities & Skills

Divine Paper Technique

Her innate S-rank superpower creates and controls paper for offense, defense, restraint, and utility 16 83 164.

• Cutting attacks: Shapes paper into shuriken, flying swords, wheels, and other blades. Named techniques include Paper Blizzard: Sword, Moon Wheel, Swallow Dance, and Three Moon Wheels 16 31 67 184.
• Binding and suffocation: Wraps targets in paper and seals their mouths and noses; also binds opponents before throwing them out of an arena 16 60.
• Large constructs: Forms a paper dragon capable of swallowing and cutting apart an ambushing mutant beast 16.
• Precision assassination: Eliminates enemies quietly with finely controlled paper scraps, impressing both Zhou Fan and Luo Luodong 187.
• Utility: Carries her luggage with her paper art 79.

Paper Explosion Techniques

Lin converts paper into Explosive Tags, combining restraint and cutting attacks with detonations 105.

• Paper Explosion Technique: Mastered in one day; at Second Tier, 1-Star, it can instantly kill mutant beasts of the same rank 34 35.
• Mutually Multiplying Paper Bomb Technique: Multiplies existing explosive tags into much larger barrages 80 166.
• Resource-assisted bombardment: Uses the Spirit Spring Gem to create ten thousand tags without energy cost, then multiplies them into one hundred thousand 166.
• Close-range deception: Lets an enemy cut through her transformed body, then turns the surrounding paper into explosive tags 243.
• Thousand Consecutive Explosions: Releases more than a thousand tags against William’s Blood Source barrier 487.

Paper Transformation and Substitution

Paper Transformation turns her body into sheets of paper that disperse and reform, negating physical damage while she can maintain the technique 35 36.

• Reformation consumes spiritual energy, though ordinary use has a relatively modest cost 36.
• It does not inherently protect against Genjutsu or other mental attacks 35 36.
• Spiritual-energy depletion can force her out of the transformed state; Zhou Fan’s Wood Release exploits this during their second comparison 80.
• Paper-Style Substitute, an A-rank defensive ability, provides another escape option and lets her evade an attack during the third comparison 156 165.

Paper-Style Guard

An autonomous paper defense intercepts attacks without requiring Lin to respond manually 105.

• Blocks approaching mutant beasts and supports an unusually controlled, graceful fighting style 105.
• Stops Gu Ning’s initial attack before she overwhelms him with ranged paper techniques 329.
• Later combines with Spatial Paper Shards, retaining the guard’s response speed while greatly increasing its defensive strength 432.

Paper-Style Clones

Creates up to three independently conscious clones 50.

• Clones remain active if the original is caught in Genjutsu or similar effects, providing a partial counter rather than full immunity 50.
• Enables coordinated attacks from four directions 68.
• Supplies training partners for gravity-room sparring and sealing experiments 101 117.

Sealing Jutsu and Paper-Style Barrier

Lin combines sealing techniques with her precise paper control to intercept attacks and restrict opponents 117 373.

• Attack sealing: Tracks a moving projectile, intercepts it with paper, and seals it inside the sheet. She masters this against attacks from her own clone 117.
• Stored-energy enhancement: Seals spiritual energy into paper, increasing each sheet’s power two- or threefold 117.
• Physical augmentation: Attaches stored-energy paper to her body to improve speed, strength, and attack power beyond her normal physical limits 119.
• Paper-Style Barrier: An S-rank barrier ability that suppresses opponents within it 164.
• Sealing Jutsu: Paper-Style Barrier: Forms a rune-covered paper cube that slows Tenshiki’s spiritual-energy circulation, although he breaks its restrictions 373.
• Sealing enormous techniques such as Susanoo is initially a theory, not an established success 117.

Paper Creation and Elemental Powers

Ability	Rank	Function
Thousand-Paper Transformation	A-rank	Turns paper into functional objects and weapons, such as an umbrella that keeps off rain or a blade that can kill 132.
Elemental Paper Transformation	S-rank	Creates paper from ambient spiritual energy instead of relying entirely on her internal reserves, improving efficiency across her paper techniques 164 243.
Paper Element	S-rank	Infuses paper with wind, fire, water, lightning, or earth damage; paper carrying different elements can combine their effects 219.

• Alternating elemental attacks makes her next move difficult to predict 243.
• Elemental Paper Transformation supplies paper; Paper Element determines its elemental damage. They are separate abilities 243.

Paper Angel Manifestations

Lin develops large-scale angel-shaped paper techniques to challenge Zhou Fan’s Susanoo 184 487.

• Paper Style God: Creates a towering paper angel over ten meters tall 184.
• Shikigami Paper Angel: Descent: Manifests enormous paper wings over five meters long and is used against William’s Vampire True Form 487.
• The latter was designed as an anti-Susanoo technique, but had not yet played a decisive role against Zhou Fan 487.

Spatial Paper Techniques

Lin develops spatial power after suffering against the Shikigami’s spatial abilities in the Void Rift 400.

• Space Shikigami Paper: Cuts through the remaining Tailed Beast Bombs and Zhou Fan’s Wood Release during the fourth comparison 402.
• Spatial Paper Shards: Slice through Auge’s blood spears and shield, severing both his hands 425.
• Spatial defense: Combines spatially infused paper with Paper-Style Guard 432.
• Paper Shikigami Spatial Return: An S-rank teleportation skill that uses space shikigami paper as destination anchors within 1,000 meters 445.
• Spatial cutting is not absolute: Zhou Fan’s overwhelming attacks can still destroy her spatial paper 403.

Mental Resistance

Lin turns an early fear of Genjutsu into substantial mental resilience through difficult illusion training 146 425.

• Clears the Nightmare Illusion Realm after repeated attempts 143 146.
• After enduring the Nightmare Lord’s Heart Demon Trial, resists nearly all Genjutsu; Zhou Fan’s Sharingan Genjutsu remains an exception 425.
• Auge’s Blood Eye Genjutsu cannot affect her 425.
• Resists Su Mei’s memory-reading and forcibly expels her consciousness when the invasion reaches information about someone Lin deeply cares for 425.
• Later receives the Mind Pearl to further enhance psychic power and resistance 445.

Physical Combat and Support

• Early limitations: Describes herself as strong in offense and defense but lacking speed, with average Taijutsu 83.
• Taijutsu training: Practices with Zhou Fan, who restrains his superior speed, reflexes, and strength to make their sparring useful 45.
• Gravity conditioning: Progresses through Xia Qingran’s gravity program and trains for an entire day at ninefold gravity 91 101.
• Healing Talismans: Seals medicinal substances into paper for emergency treatment; this is preparation-based support, not innate healing magic 304.
• Sexy Jutsu: Studies the book given by Xia Qingran and eventually considers it as another comparison tactic; the supplied passages do not establish a successful application 143 166.

System

Lin’s unnamed system binds Zhou Fan as a comparison target and rewards her through contests, punishment quests, and additional challenges 12 48 156.

• Provides a stated 150% cultivation-speed boost 93.
• Retrieves both fighters’ strength data and runs simulated battles; Lin can choose to control her simulated actions herself 80 165.
• Offers postponement before comparisons, which she repeatedly refuses 80 165 402.
• Awards Spirit Stones, superpower books, treasure chests, and powerful items 132 156 164 445.
• Requires secrecy, preventing her from fully explaining her visits to Zhou Fan to Li Mengyao 49.
• Increasingly personal tasks create tension between her pursuit of strength, embarrassment, and feelings for Zhou 86 156 445.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Sea Jade Pearl — A cultivation treasure given by Xia Qingran, valued at approximately eight or nine million. Refines spiritual energy and improves the fine control required by Divine Paper Art 102 103.
• Spirit Spring Gem — Single-use item that removes skill spiritual-energy costs for ten seconds 132.
• Origin Gem — Single-use item that raises cultivation by 30% for ten minutes. In the third simulation, it temporarily raises her from Third Tier, 4-Star to Third Tier, 5-Star 156 166.
• Sealing Gem — Temporarily prevents an opponent from using superpowers; duration depends on the target’s strength. It cannot seal Taijutsu-type powers. Used in simulations and later against Tenshiki 164 165 373.
• Protection Gem, single-use version — Completely blocks one instance of damage 164.
• Protection Gem, permanent version — Blocks one instance of damage, with a 72-hour cooldown 445.
• Permanent Angel Shield — Provides protection equal to twice her strength, usable once every 24 hours; its defense grows with her 219.
• Mind Pearl — Calms the mind and greatly enhances psychic power 445.
• Red Cloud Black Robe and White Tiger ring — Organizational clothing and coded ring supplied by Zhou Fan; she initially mistakes both gifts for romantic gestures 272 273.
• Porcelain figurines — Gifts from Zhou Fan. Her favorites are a pink-and-blue embracing couple set, displayed at the center of her collection 398.

Relationships

• Zhou Fan — Classmate, system-bound comparison target, training partner, villa-mate, and later organizational leader. Their rivalry develops into trust and unspoken affection; he rescues her from danger, while she treasures his gifts and undertakes a demanding temple ritual for his safety. No formal dating relationship is established in the supplied context 12 79 301 376 400 478.
• Li Mengyao — Best friend and baking teacher. Repeatedly interprets Lin’s visits and homemade treats as evidence of a secret romance with Zhou Fan 4 45 49.
• Xia Qingran — Senior schoolmate, mentor, and Evening Bell leader. Arranges her shared villa, directs special training, and supplies tailored cultivation equipment 79 83 102.
• Zhao Qiu — Friend, classmate, and fellow Dawn member. Teams up with her during assessments, recognizes her feelings for Zhou, and risks his life to give Zhou time to pursue Tenshiki 224 328 373.
• Wang Daochuan — High-school principal who recognizes her talent and uses Zhou Fan’s achievements to pressure her toward improvement 9 10.
• Luo Luodong — Praises her assassination aptitude and invites her to consider the Execution Department; she declines 187.
• Duan Fei — Organizational teammate who praises her while watching her handle the Vampire guards 243.
• Tenshiki — Shikigami Family heir who attempts to abduct her for his family’s bloodline plans. She rejects him and fights to regain her freedom 369 373.
• Gu Ning — National Competition opponent. Underestimates her paper techniques and aggravates her by comparing her to Zhou Fan 329.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Early Rivalry and College Entrance Exam

• Matches Zhou Fan’s spiritual-energy absorption during school training, beginning their direct competition 12.
• Uses livestream recordings to measure his progress against her own hunting achievements 16 34.
• Completes nine eliminations alone in approximately four minutes during the entrance exam’s free-for-all—the first candidate to clear an arena this way 60.
• Reaches the top-scorer final against Zhou Fan and demands that he take her seriously. Her sustained barrage reveals strength she had not displayed in earlier rounds 67 68.

System Comparisons

Comparison	Documented Events	Result Supported by the Context
First	Its aftermath requires her to seek Zhou Fan’s Taijutsu guidance for at least three days. Completion earns a C grade and two Mid-Grade Spirit Stones 42 48.	Lin loses; she attributes the defeat to carelessness and focuses on countering Genjutsu 48.
Second	Both are Second Tier, 4-Star. Zhou wins all ten initial simulations; Lin then takes control and loses to Deep Forest Emergence in thirty seconds 80 81.	Her paper defenses fail when Wood Release restrains her and drains the energy maintaining Paper Transformation 80.
Third	Begins at Third Tier, 4-Star against Zhou’s 3-Star cultivation. Uses sealing, clones, barriers, gems, and a hundred-thousand-tag bombardment 165 166.	Two losses are documented before she demands another round and considers Sexy Jutsu; that subsequent result is not supplied 166.
Fourth	Uses newly mastered spatial paper against tailed-beast attacks, Wood Release, and Susanoo-enhanced constructs 402 403.	The first simulated battle ends in Zhou’s victory after five minutes and twenty seconds. She later completes a “Loser’s Punishment” quest 403 445.

After the later punishment quest, the system schedules the next comparison for one year later. Lin recognizes that the gap remains large even with her new rewards 445.

University Training and Forbidden Zones

• Trains under Xia Qingran to address weak physical conditioning and Taijutsu rather than relying solely on paper offense and defense 83 91.
• Helps Zhou Fan clear Forbidden Zone No. 91, the Illusory Forest, the hardest Beginner Forbidden Zone. Poison leaves her temporarily paralyzed, and Zhou carries her out before Xia treats her 113 114.
• Later clears a Beginner Forbidden Zone alone, returning exhausted and hoping for Zhou’s admiration 181.
• Develops Paper Style God through independent forest training, deliberately testing herself without relying on system rewards 184.

Dawn and the National Competition

• Establishes her combat value by taking on four Fourth Tier, 5-Star Vampire guards at once while she is only Third Tier, 5-Star 243.
• Ranks second in the National Competition’s first two rounds 329.
• In the hunting assessment, she and Zhou are the final two contestants remaining, with 110 and 170 points respectively 334.
• After the competition, explores the Imperial Capital with Zhou; her interest in snacks and porcelain animals reveals a less guarded side 337.

Void Rift and Spatial Development

• Initially travels alone in the Void Rift before joining Zhou Fan and Zhao Qiu 361.
• Agrees to test Deidara’s combat strength at Zhou’s request 366.
• Escapes Tenshiki’s spatial cage and retaliates with sealing techniques, saved gems, and one hundred thousand explosive tags 373.
• After Zhou intervenes, responds to his protection with unusual tenderness 376.
• Develops her own spatial power from the experience, expanding both her offensive and defensive paper techniques 400 402 432.

Growing Affection and Later Missions

• Gives Zhou a protective jade pendant engraved with “peace and safety.” Obtaining it requires seven days of twice-daily worship at Anfo Temple; each person may receive only one, for themselves or someone they truly care about 400.
• Becomes noticeably gentler after a later intimate encounter, while Zhou shields her from embarrassment when Zhao notices a bite mark 447.
• Offers to accompany Zhou when he learns something has happened to Xia Qingran, then agrees to remain behind until he knows more 453.
• Joins Zhou on the Southern District Super Meteorite investigation. During the journey, both express the ambition to become the strongest Esper; Lin privately clarifies that her intended rival is the simulated Zhou Fan, not the real one 478.
• Faces William independently and deploys Shikigami Paper Angel: Descent while Zhou fights Charles 487.

Notable Quotes

“Because I have an S-rank superpower. Fighting above my level is perfectly normal.” 31

“I’ll be giving it everything I’ve got, so you’d better do the same.” 67

“There’s someone I have to defeat. I’m willing to pay any price, as long as I can beat him!” 478