Ye Chu

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Ye Chu (叶初)
Alias(es)	Star; Chu-Chu/Chuchu; Chu Chuzi 15 32 94
Gender	Male 1
Age	21 at his introduction 1
Affiliation	Peking University, Guanghua; survival-player group 12789 1 45 61
Occupation/Role	Third-year finance student at introduction; participant in the survival show No One Survives; later recognized as his group’s leader 1 2 7 20 45
Game Identity	Player Seven; Witch in the opening Werewolf instance 2 97
Family	Ye Mo, his older brother; unnamed parents 99 100
Partner	Pei Yanchuan 84 91
Status	Alive; returns to reality and reunites with his friends and boyfriend 130 136
First Appearance	Chapter 1, “Night falls, close your eyes (I)” 1

Power Progression

The documented changes concern role-derived skills and temporary instance privileges rather than numbered cultivation realms.

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Witch role	2 3	Receives poison and antidote options during Werewolf. Uses the antidote to save Player Eight, Pei Yanchuan, on the first night.
Retained Witch abilities	9	Following a system bug, receives permission to keep poison and antidote abilities in subsequent instances.
Poison Swamp demonstrated	43	Uses a large-area corrosive attack to obliterate the Dormitory Matron. Its heavy blood and stamina cost exposes the Witch skills’ backlash.
Temporary Dormitory Warden authority	43 44	After killing the matron and entering her office, gains a new badge and authority to impose dormitory rules. Uses this position to restrain the school boss.
Temporary removal of skill side effects	78	Negotiates backlash-free skills for Ghost Opera Singer. The agreement applies to that instance and excludes the Hunter’s skill.

Background / History

Ye Chu grew up under parents who treated academic achievement as the measure of their children’s worth. They criticized and physically punished him for results below perfection, and rejected a small cake he bought for his mother’s birthday because they considered studying more important. His later need for praise is directly linked to this childhood 99 100.

His older brother, Ye Mo, secretly watched over him. Once the boys discovered one another’s company, they began meeting to share snacks and play. Their parents blamed their closeness for a disappointing exam result and restricted their contact further. Ye Chu did not want to compete with his brother; he wanted affection and recognition 100.

As a schoolboy, Ye Chu cared for an injured Pei Yanchuan over three days, bringing food, medicine, a strawberry lollipop, and a borrowed novel. They parted without exchanging names. The Pei Family planned to erase Ye Chu’s memories of the encounter with an injection, while Pei retained the meeting as an emotional anchor throughout his upbringing 115 116 117.

After Ye Mo entered Tsinghua, he disappeared from Ye Chu’s life. Ye Chu searched for him and felt abandoned when the telephone number his brother had left stopped working. Their reunion in the Amnesia Maze reveals that Ye Mo cannot remember what caused the separation 100.

Ye Chu entered Peking University through his academic ability and studied finance at Guanghua. Before the survival games, he had also met Wu You as an older student and disciplinary-committee member, and had written an encouraging online comment that helped Lu Rui resolve to make a change in her life 4 45 65.

Appearance

• Eyes: Beautiful peach-blossom eyes, with long eyelashes 1 5.
• Build: Tall and lean, with a narrow waist, long straight legs, fair skin, and visible but not pronounced musculature 27 32.
• Facial features: Thin lips; his height and voice make him recognizably male even when an instance assigns him girls’ clothing 10 27.
• Hair: Soft hair with bangs that grow long enough to brush his eyes 47 76.
• Public recognition: An online photograph briefly goes viral, and his looks contribute to his popularity at Peking University 136.

Temporary Forms and Costumes

Form / Costume	Context	Details
Girls’ school uniform	Rules of the Strange Tales	Registration replaces his clothes with a white shirt and plaid skirt. The school treats him as a girl, and revealing his gender risks punishment 24 27.
Half-human, half-fish body	Murder Mystery	A scripted character transformation, not his ordinary identity. The body requires frequent hydration and develops webbed fingers 66 67 68.
Black sleeveless short qipao	Children’s Day bonus chapter	Voluntarily buys and wears it as a surprise for Pei Yanchuan 96.
Toddler	After the final instance	A temporary system side effect. He returns to his adult form the following morning 129.

Personality

Ye Chu is cautious, analytical, and strongly motivated to survive. He conceals his Witch identity, checks other players’ claims, and refuses to spend poison before understanding the situation. He is also willing to revise his reasoning when Pei points out that a lethal Werewolf game cannot be judged exactly like an ordinary one 2 4.

His caution does not prevent decisive—or reckless—action. He attacks threats quickly, confronts oppressive systems, and sometimes conceals dangerous plans because he expects his friends to object. His solo operation against the school boss earns a reprimand from the group and leads Su Fengzi to call him more reckless than Pei 20 43 45 49.

Beneath his composed manner, Ye Chu is gentle and attentive. He notices Lu Rui’s distress, reassures Pei after his uncontrolled transformation, and cares for vulnerable children. His concern extends to NPCs: Xiao Chuan’s death affects him deeply, and he rejects a rebellion’s attempt to replace one birth-based hierarchy with another 15 23 49 62 94.

He tends to keep his own pain private. Childhood neglect leaves him hungry for affirmation, while the expectation that admirers will eventually leave makes him distrust romantic commitment. Choosing Pei is therefore a deliberate emotional risk, which he later describes to himself as the greatest gamble in his cautious life 23 47 84 94.

In safer surroundings, he becomes playful, teasing, and affectionate. Amnesia brings out a noticeably talkative side; alcohol makes him unusually emotional and openly needy 10 46 47 76 98.

Abilities & Skills

Witch’s Poison

Produces poison through his retained Witch ability and adjusts its dosage and area of effect 9 43.

• Can kill targets or incapacitate them; he disables guards during Su Fengzi’s rescue 9 91.
• Can materialize poison directly into his hand 53.
• Has a cooldown and normally covers only a small area, making it inefficient against sustained monster pursuit 14.
• Is created by extracting and converting his blood. Larger doses and wider effects increase the backlash 43.

Antidote

The Witch’s complementary saving ability, retained alongside poison 3 9.

• Saves Pei Yanchuan during the opening Werewolf night 3.
• Uses antidote when tending Pei’s wound in the school instance 34.
• Shares poison’s blood-conversion mechanism and scaling backlash 43.

Poison Swamp

A powerful corrosive application of his poison skill 43.

• Opens a large black hole in the floor and completely consumes the Dormitory Matron.
• The affected floor returns to normal after he withdraws the skill.
• Heavy expenditure leaves him pale and nearly unable to stand.

Deduction and Illusion Detection

Identifies threats through contradictions in behavior, speech, and established information 6 16 20.

• Infers Werewolf alliances from glances, reactions, and the strategic purpose of players’ speeches 6 7.
• Recognizes an imitation of Pei because it uses the wrong forms of address 16.
• Detects another impostor when it tries to send him into an unfamiliar room first—behavior unlike the real Pei 20.
• In the Amnesia Maze, discovers that some fragments function as usable items rather than memories 105.

Rule Exploitation and Negotiation

Treats supernatural rules as mechanisms that can be studied, seized, or turned against their creators 24 43 44.

• Uses an unreadable registration name to disrupt the teacher’s normal confirmation procedure 24.
• Acquires Dormitory Warden authority and forces the boss into student status, preventing it from attacking him 43 44.
• Negotiates the temporary removal of skill side effects 78.
• Offers to trade his skill to bring Qi Yu into the Rest House; ultimately accepts a bargain requiring one more instance 118.

Dormitory Warden limits: His rules must comply with the school’s code, and leaving the office for more than fifteen minutes carries consequences. This authority belongs to the school instance rather than his permanent Witch skill set 43.

Leadership and Academic Ability

Combines risk analysis, information sharing, and task delegation 2 20 41.

• His finance training informs his attempt to calculate the minimum losses needed to end Werewolf 2 8.
• The group comes to follow his instructions during the hospital investigation 20.
• Scores 655, placing second in the school-instance exam; helps Wu You achieve 550 35 37.
• Is stronger in the sciences than the humanities and finds political philosophy particularly difficult 42.
• Has already passed CET-6 when he returns to reality 130.

Practical Combat and Caregiving

Relies on improvised weapons, quick reactions, and basic treatment rather than poison alone 2 14 20 34.

• Throws sticks at people approaching without warning 2 4.
• Fights monsters with a baseball bat and thorny branch while riding Pei’s wolf form 14.
• Kills an impostor with a scalpel 20.
• Applies medicine, carries injured companions, and brings food and other necessities 34 83 115 136.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Improvised sticks and branches — Early defensive weapons; later uses a thorny branch against monsters and to redirect an uncontrolled Pei 2 4 14.
• Baseball bat — Found before the journey to the hospital 14.
• Scalpel — Given to him by Pei after a search through the hospital; used to kill a Pei impostor 20.
• Backpack — Carries antidote, task rewards, and Memory Fragments across the relevant instances 34 59 97 105.
• Soul-Summoning Bell — Task reward that sends a targeted Person-Eater in the opposite direction after three rings; usable once 59.
• Student/Dormitory Warden badge — Changes with his position in the school instance and marks his acquired authority 24 43.
• Memory Fragments — Maze objects that recover personal traits or memories; his own include “I’m very smart,” “I Need Praise,” and “I hate Mom and Dad” 97 99.

Relationships

• Pei Yanchuan — Boyfriend. Their apparent first meeting in Werewolf is later revealed to be a reunion following Ye Chu’s forgotten childhood care for him. Ye Chu accepts Pei’s love in Ghost Opera Singer, and their relationship continues after returning to reality 84 115 116 117 130 136.
• Ye Mo — Older brother. Their secret childhood companionship was interrupted by parental restrictions and Ye Mo’s disappearance. They reunite in the maze, where Ye Chu confronts him over the separation but also comforts him through painful recovered memories 100 101 102.
• Su Fengzi — Friend, teammate, and romantic confidant. Initial mistrust becomes close cooperation and teasing familiarity. Su encourages Ye Chu to consider Pei’s feelings, and Ye Chu later rescues him from the Town Chief’s forced marriage 2 12 76 91.
• Lu Rui — Friend and teammate. Ye Chu supports her when the hospital story revives painful childhood memories. An online comment he wrote had already encouraged her before the games, though he does not recognize the connection 23 45.
• Wu You — Friend, teammate, and former school junior. He helps her pass the instance exam and had previously advised her to seek help from the disciplinary committee 35 37 65.
• Xiao Chuan — Child NPC he shelters with and promises to help. Ye Chu assists with his brother’s burial and promises not to die; Xiao Chuan’s later death causes him profound distress 49 62 94.
• Qi Yu — Initially a threatening captor who targets Ye Chu because of his resemblance to Ye Mo. Ye Chu later learns of Qi Yu’s connection to his brother and negotiates for the self-aware NPC to join them, despite remaining wary of him 53 112 113 118.
• Parents — Sources of intense academic pressure, physical punishment, and emotional neglect. Their treatment shapes Ye Chu’s insecurity and desire for praise 47 99 100.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Arc	Ye Chu’s Role and Major Events
Opening Werewolf	Hides his Witch identity, saves Pei, and deduces the wolf team’s strategy. Deliberately helps the werewolves eliminate the remaining Villagers, explaining afterward that this route minimizes deaths rather than securing his faction’s victory 2 3 6 7 8.
Illusion Paradox	Reconnects with Su through a livestream, travels with Pei to the hospital, and investigates Wang Chunhua’s final wish. Detects companion impersonations and returns with Tian Yatou when Pei is endangered by the child’s mother’s ghost 12 14 15 16 20 21.
Rules of the Strange Tales	Navigates the girls’ school assignment and deadly academic requirements. Secretly kills the Dormitory Matron, takes her authority, summons the boss, and traps it under its own rules. His friends confront him afterward for taking the risk alone 24 27 35 43 44 45.
Run for Time / Everyone on the Run	Helps Xiao Chuan and joins an uprising against Person-Eater oppression. Participates in the armory raid while attempting to avoid unnecessary killing, then condemns the rebels’ turn toward collective punishment and a reversed hierarchy 49 60 61 62 63.
Murder Mystery	Plays a half-fish leather buyer investigating his father’s death and Huang He’s factory. Organizes evidence sharing while separating the role’s absurd romantic history from the players’ real identities 66 68 70 72 73.
Ghost Opera Singer	Negotiates safer skill use, investigates the village’s haunting, and accepts Pei’s confession. Helps rescue Su from the Town Chief and investigates the chief’s crimes and supposed pursuit of longevity 78 81 83 84 89 91.
Amnesia Maze	Recovers memories of parental abuse, reunites with Ye Mo, and learns the truth of his childhood meeting with Pei. After clearing the maze, bargains with the system to reunite Ye Mo and Qi Yu 99 100 115 116 117 118.
Final “No One Survives” instance	Watches companions sacrifice themselves for his survival. Tries to save Pei by sacrificing himself, but Pei sends him toward the exit instead. Ye Chu rejects the diary’s destructive response to grief, smashes its poison bottle, and completes the instance 126 127.
Return to reality	Recovers from a temporary toddler transformation and returns to his university dorm with obscured memories. Pei’s exam interview restores them, allowing the friends to reunite after his entrance exams 129 130.
University extras	Supports Pei’s choice of university without pressuring him. Pei chooses Peking University, and Ye Chu continues looking after him during military training 131 136.

Scripted Romance in *Murder Mystery*

• His assigned fish character has past relationships with both Pei’s catnip-spirit character and Su’s white-lotus character 70 72.
• The system repeatedly imposes “love at first sight” reactions on him 66 68.
• The role’s poor memory and sleeping with open eyes complicate the apparent breakup with Pei’s character 70 71.
• These relationships belong to the mystery script; they are not evidence of real-life relationships with both teammates 70 72.

Notable Quotes

“It’s not that I want to win. I don’t want to die.” 4

“What gives you the right to wear his face?” 20

“They gave everything to keep me alive. Why should I die just because you tell me to?” 127

Trivia

• Extremely low alcohol tolerance: Even a small amount leaves him impaired. He chooses Sprite for later gatherings, though he still accidentally drinks alcohol on occasion 46 94 95 130.
• Considers himself unlucky: He credits his university admission to ability, not luck, and remains conscious of his poor luck even during amnesia 4 97.
• Dislikes horror games: Jump scares and frightening chases bother him; he chooses Fight the Landlord when the others consider a horror game 10 12.
• Unexpected haircutting success: Despite pointing out that Peking University does not teach hairdressing, he gives Pei a haircut the others praise 66.
• Campus reputation: Known for his looks, gentleness, and competence in both academic and personal matters. Before Pei, he had not accepted any admirer’s confession 136.