Jiang Yu

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Jiang Yu is a Jing City native whose parents died five years before her recruitment, leaving her an apartment and a substantial inheritance. At university, her roommate Chen Jiaojiao introduced her to Yu Litian. Jiang Yu believed he was her devoted boyfriend and financially supported both of them throughout college and after graduation, nearly exhausting her inheritance. In reality, Yu Litian and Chen Jiaojiao were already lovers 3 4.

In her previous life, the pair stole her ancestral bracelet, allowing Chen Jiaojiao to use its space and pass herself off as a Space Esper. During the apocalypse, they treated Jiang Yu as a slave, withheld food, subjected her to sexual violence, and beat her whenever she tried to escape. Chen Jiaojiao eventually used her as a shield against mutants; after Jiang Yu escaped the initial attack, they threw her back to the creatures, causing her death 1 3 6.

After rebirth, Jiang Yu exposed their affair, broke up with Yu Litian, and recovered the bracelet he had secretly taken. She initially planned to survive privately and take revenge once the apocalypse destroyed the existing social order 1 3 6.

Appearance

• Ordinary looks: The narration explicitly contrasts her unremarkable appearance with Yu Litian’s attractiveness 3.
• Height: Barely over five feet three inches 3.
• Signs of overwork: Her agricultural training leaves her dusty, exhausted, and sometimes unable to find time to wash her hair; overnight studying also gives her dark circles and a hoarse voice 13 20 30.

Personality

Jiang Yu is emotional, softhearted, indecisive, and easy for trained investigators to read. Although initially focused on her own survival, she is moved by Sheng An’s insistence that her knowledge could save countless lives. She fears becoming a research subject and continues protecting part of her space’s secret even after joining the government 3 4 10 20.

Her hatred of Yu Litian and Chen Jiaojiao is rooted in their exploitation and abuse. She rejects a quick death for them because she considers dying before the apocalypse an easy escape. Sheng An recognizes this desire for revenge as a powerful means of keeping her committed to her work 6 8 13.

Jiang Yu frequently interprets people through romance and “chosen protagonist” tropes. She initially assumes that rebirth makes her uniquely special, speculates that Sheng An and Qiu Yu fell out over a man, and enthusiastically supports Sheng An’s relationship with Qi Lingwu. Nevertheless, she also objects strongly to ability users treating ordinary people as expendable 8 34 49 50.

Abilities & Skills

Bracelet-Derived Pocket Dimension

Jiang Yu’s space comes from her ancestral jade bracelet rather than an awakened spatial ability. The bracelet disappears after becoming integrated with her, and she states that it can no longer simply be stolen 6.

• Storage and retrieval: She stores a heavy iron-bar gate without effort and conceals her supplies inside the dimension 1.
• Cultivable land: The space contains a large expanse of black soil suitable for crops and agricultural experiments 6 20 24.
• Personal entry: Jiang Yu can enter the space, but must leave once every twenty-four hours and reappears at the same external location. It therefore cannot provide indefinite escape from people waiting outside 3.
• Other entrants: Other people can also enter. Jiang Yu falsely claims otherwise because she fears intrusive research or losing control of the space; Sheng An recognizes that she is withholding this capability 6 9 10.
• No preservation effect: Conditions resemble the outside world, so stored food still spoils. Jiang Yu does not know whether the dimension can grow larger 6.
• Unrealized cooperation: Sheng An and Hao Jingye propose using earth, water, and plant espers inside it to create a highly productive shared farm. Jiang Yu’s continued secrecy prevents this arrangement from being established in the supplied chapters 20.

Memories of the Apocalypse

Jiang Yu remembers approximately a year of life after the disaster, making her a more extensive source than Wu Zhi, who died on its first day 2 5.

• Identifies Stone City as the meteorite impact site nearest Jing City and describes the destruction and continuing disasters 5.
• Reports that meteorite fragments can awaken abilities and strengthen existing ability users. This information came from accounts circulating at a temporary base; she never personally saw a fragment 5.
• Warns of Otherkind: beings with human appearances, memories, and intelligence that conceal themselves among people and kill and eat humans 5.
• Recognizes that Li Xin’s ability to become metal is unusually advanced for someone newly awakened, since elemental transformation belonged to high-level ability users in her previous life 30.

Agricultural Training

• Studies crop cultivation, plant identification, diseases, pests, and the specialized requirements of research plants 10 12 13.
• Trains to operate tractors, seeders, and other farming equipment 13 14 30.
• Helps transplant seedlings while researchers plan experimental fields for her space 20.
• Remains inexperienced: she forgets lessons and damages several plants with her shovel 33.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Ancestral jade bracelet — Original vessel of her pocket dimension; recovered from Yu Litian after rebirth and subsequently disappears into her 1 6.
• Personal supply stockpile — Food, water, and other purchases gathered for private survival. One reported purchase consists of 135 fifty-jin bags of rice 1.
• Iron-bar gate — Heavy security gate stored in her dimension. Jiang Yu imagines dropping it onto an attacker, but no such use is shown 1.
• Agricultural materials and machinery — Textbooks, research files, tractors, and seeders supplied for her government-assigned work 10 14 30.

Relationships

• Sheng An — Group B leader, recruiter, and protector. Comforts Jiang Yu over her past abuse and earns her sisterly trust, while also using her revenge motive and concealed entry capability to pressure her into studying 4 6 8 13.
• Hao Jingye — Colleague who deduces the bracelet’s significance and helps coordinate her recruitment. His academic achievements astonish her; they frequently exchange teasing remarks 6 13 50.
• Yu Litian — Former college boyfriend who exploited her inheritance, maintained a relationship with Chen Jiaojiao, and helped abuse her in the previous timeline. Arrested after demanding her bracelet or compensation 3 6 7 8.
• Chen Jiaojiao — Former roommate and false friend who benefited from Jiang Yu’s money and stolen space. Responsible for using her as a shield before her previous death; arrested for involvement in stealing the bracelet 3 6 8.
• Academician Zhou — Principal agricultural instructor. Assigns intensive study and fieldwork, scolds her mistakes, and arranges specially prepared meals for her 10 12 13 33.
• Li Xin — Fellow Group B Aberrant. Each initially admires the other’s supposed “chosen one” credentials, but their first meeting begins with a collision and an argument before they recognize one another 30.
• Qiu Yu — Group A leader who briefly controls Jiang Yu with her Puppet ability after Jiang Yu challenges her dismissal of ordinary teammates. Sheng An intervenes before Jiang Yu can slap herself 34.
• Qi Lingwu — Sheng An’s lover. Jiang Yu is impressed by his appearance and commanding presence and enthusiastically supports their relationship 49 50.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Investigation and Recruitment

• Her reinforced home, bulk purchases, and disappearing iron gate attract residents’ attention. Neighbors report her behavior and even suspect her of being a spy 1.
• Sheng An confronts her with an arrest warrant and a gun, then explains the government’s disaster preparations and offers protection, provisions, and lawful means of dealing with her former abusers 3 4.
• Jiang Yu agrees to cooperate. Her testimony helps officials verify the coming disaster and introduces the threat of Otherkind into their planning 4 5.
• Sheng An has Yu Litian and Chen Jiaojiao detained, removing them from Jiang Yu’s immediate life and preventing them from freely preparing for the apocalypse 7 8.

From Stockpiling to Farming

• Expecting government weapons and supplies, Jiang Yu instead finds agricultural equipment, seeds, seedlings, and researchers waiting for her 9.
• She accepts intensive training rather than admit that specialists could enter her space and share the work 10 13.
• Even the prospect of an esper-assisted farm does not persuade her to reveal the secret; she remains responsible for working the land herself 20.

Group Rivalry and Field Observation

• Jiang Yu defends Group B’s ordinary members against Qiu Yu’s contempt. Qiu Yu’s attempted use of Puppet on her prompts Sheng An to intervene and threaten an official report 34.
• She and Li Xin accompany the operation against Long Tianyu’s supply-stealing group as observers, under threat of doubled classes if they cause trouble 45 46.
• During the operation, she witnesses Qi Lingwu’s arrival and his reunion with Sheng An, quickly abandoning her speculation about Sheng An and Long Tianyu as a romantic pairing 49 50.

Trivia

• Twice encounters national leaders by video while embarrassed about her unwashed hair: first during recruitment, then after returning exhausted from farm training 7 20.
• Sheng An and Hao Jingye compare her circumstances to the fictional protagonist Shi Xiao. This is an analogy about her rebirth-and-stolen-space story, not Jiang Yu’s identity or alias 6.