Li Huiyuan

Biodata

Power Progression

Appearance

Li Huiyuan has a petite build, large expressive eyes, and a youthful appearance. She initially presents herself as a pink-haired cosplayer, later switching to school uniform and eventually the blue-and-white Athlete Student uniform 117 281 430.

• Initial outfit: Pink lolita-style clothing, carefully applied makeup, and a deliberately cutesy presentation 117.
• Athlete uniform: Reversible clothing whose blue-and-white striped side identifies her as an Athlete Student 727.
• Golden eyes: Golden flames or radiance appear when her supernatural perception activates 130 157 614.
• Back injury: A Green Apron Chef scratches her back; a fine, later faintly glowing crack appears at the same location 135 722 727.
• Altered body: Under Lin Yi’s perception, her body resembles translucent jade. Wei Liang sees it take on a stone-sculpture appearance while she is unconscious 722 727.
• Awakened manifestation: During her final outburst, her eyes turn scarlet and shed ink-black tears 764.

Personality

Initially frightened and desperate to escape, Li Huiyuan avoids investigating the Campus because she fears learning something that will destroy her mental stability. Her cutesy persona is consciously adopted from online trends rather than an unchanging part of her character 117.

Despite her fear, she accepts personal risk to obtain information for Lin Yi. She explicitly acknowledges their “cannon fodder” arrangement and volunteers to hear potentially devastating information because it may help him keep her alive 135 136 142.

After becoming an Athlete Student, she grows livelier, more teasing, and more assertive. She complains theatrically during demanding exercise, becomes fiercely competitive when Lin Yi repeatedly evades her, and quickly incorporates feints and deception into sparring. She nevertheless worries about his injuries even when Boss assures her that he can recover 281 288 291 293.

Her attachment to Lin Yi is openly affectionate and frequently jealous, but it does not prevent her from recognizing Boss’s care for him. When Lin Yi becomes unreachable in the Time Stream, she rejects assurances that his continued existence makes the separation acceptable and demands his return 727 750 764.

Abilities & Skills

Contamination Assimilation and Sky-Blue Energy

As an Athlete Student, Li Huiyuan absorbs airborne supernatural contamination and converts it into sky-blue vapor, retaining some within her body 283.

• Enhances her strength and endurance enough to carry two training bags while overtaking an exhausted Lin Yi 281.
• Channels sky-blue energy through her body and concentrates it in her legs for kicks 292 293.
• Requires gradual adaptation: during the Feast, she can process only a tiny thread of the available red aura 324.
• Her initiation-stage status is distinct from first stage, which requires proficient use of an Athlete Student ID 281.

Recovery

Her transformed body can recover from severe skeletal injuries, including a shattered foot and broken legs 291 293.

• Her earlier right-foot injury is fully healed by the time Lin Yi sees her training in the Gymnasium 280.
• Her recovery is slower than Lin Yi’s 294.
• Certain supernatural wounds can still cause permanent damage without timely Gymnasium treatment 449.

Golden-Eyed Perception and Mystical Knowledge

Li Huiyuan’s golden-eyed vision allows her to magnify distant details. Her studies in Mystical Genealogy also give her a working understanding of other mystical disciplines 157 611.

• Reads streetlamp numbers through the fog to help navigate back to the Teaching Building 157.
• Recognizes Lin Yi’s proposed future summons as a possible application of Dream Boundary Studies 611.
• Detects the golden rune on Lin Yi’s arm as her perception strengthens 614.
• Senses that Lin Yi’s Memo Pad is dangerous and urges him to destroy it 430.
• Her perception remains layer-dependent: she cannot see a Gymnasium Basement staircase visible to Lin Yi 616.

Combat and Adaptation

Under Boss’s supervision, Li Huiyuan rapidly learns to combine physical attacks with sky-blue energy 290 292 293.

• Uses flying kicks, axe kicks, whipping kicks, and an uppercut dubbed the Hui Ascending Dragon Fist 290 291 293.
• Tricks Lin Yi with feints, feigned distress, and a false leg cramp 291 293.
• Initially lacks the strength to threaten Lin Yi once he adapts to her attacks 293.
• Later catches and overpowers Wrathful Angels while apparently acting on survival instinct 731 732.

Connection to Lin Yi

As Lin Yi’s Fog-Shrouded Light Chaser, Li Huiyuan improves more quickly near her Source. Boss deliberately uses the aura released during Lin Yi’s training to accelerate her growth 614.

• Bears his Ashes while retaining Athlete Student traits 616.
• Can adapt to his unusual adaptation trait because she was contaminated before he began his own “long stairway of contamination” 742.
• Can be overwhelmed by excessive exposure: in the Swimming Pool, Lin Yi must remove most of the Ashes inside her, then return some when she nearly collapses 625.
• Her connection eventually provides an anchor of Lin Yi’s aura for the attempt to summon him from the Time Stream 764.

Dreambuilding and Layer Contact

Li Huiyuan repeatedly experiences involuntary layer shifts, initially losing awareness or becoming dangerously entranced 134 142 452.

• While present in the Bookshelf Area through consciousness alone, cannot summon her Mini Baseball Bat or condense Sky Blue Aura; her Supernatural Trait has not accompanied her 452.
• Later recounts following Lin Yi’s call through a star-like vortex, distorted surroundings, fog, and an ocean before freeing him from a black, cotton-like mass 721.
• Lin Yi initially interprets this episode as Dreambuilding. Wei Liang’s later account of her sculpturized body leads him to conclude that her will had left it; the exact mechanism remains uncertain 721 727.
• After awakening her original body, sends her will into the layers in search of Lin Yi 764.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Student ID — Taken by a Green Apron Chef, which later uses her name and identity. Lin Yi suspects losing the ID also removes an Experience Student’s safe state 121 123 146.
• Mini Baseball Bat — A summonable Athlete Student weapon. She initially refuses to show it to Lin Yi out of embarrassment 281 452.
• Mystical Rune Steel Saw — A miniature version of Lin Yi’s rune weapon, manifested from a golden mark on her left arm. Boss attributes its transfer to his contamination 616.
• Athlete Student Rules and appendix — Carries rule booklets, including copies of differing thickness. Consults them with Lin Yi about Gray Fog Invasion procedures 312 314.
• Makeup mirror — Keeps a small mirror in the concealed pocket of her pleated skirt and lends it to Lin Yi during their elevator investigation 132.

History

Experience Program and Lost Identity

Li Huiyuan joins S City University’s seven-day experience program, which promises thirty thousand in payment. After classmates disappear or seem to become different people overnight, she decides the money is not worth the danger and seeks to leave 117.

She approaches Lin Yi and Wei Liang for protection. Lin Yi initially refuses a conventional team arrangement, later allowing her to accompany him under explicit limits: he will not risk himself to save her from an overwhelmingly dangerous situation 117 118.

A Green Apron Chef takes her Student ID and scratches her back. Head Teacher 040 instructs her to obtain a Student Commemorative Coin from the Cafeteria’s hidden Convenience Store. Before she can resolve the loss, a double destabilizes her sense of identity; Lin Yi restores it by repeatedly supplying her name and Student Number while presenting a folded notebook page as a replacement ID 121 126 130 135.

She accompanies him through the elevator, Stairwell, Cafeteria, and Convenience Store investigations. Their attempt to obtain the coin fails, and they narrowly escape the fog and humanoid sculptures by following numbered streetlamps back to the Teaching Building 131 142 157 158.

Transformation into an Athlete Student

On the night of May 8, Head Teacher 040 explains that Li Huiyuan is severely contaminated and probably cannot leave Campus by normal means. The Security Guard escorts her to the Gymnasium, where the School Doctor examines her before a Gym Teacher takes her into the Basement through a passage near the Swimming Hall 294 295.

During the ordeal, she nearly loses her name. Boss offers “Huihuizi” as an initial mental anchor, allowing her to regain enough awareness to remember “Li Huiyuan.” She completes her transformation that night and begins training under Boss 293 295.

Companion in Campus Investigations

Li Huiyuan shares Gymnasium information with Lin Yi, helps him consult the Athlete Student Rules, and watches over him during dangerous training and recovery. She comes to understand that his repeated references to her as “cannon fodder” do not reflect how he actually treats her 281 312 331.

Lin Yi eventually explicitly ends their old arrangement and invites her to explore as a friend. Together, they cross the unstable Stairwell layers to the forbidden fifth floor and encounter the Weird Art Female Teacher, Fanatics, and Broken Sculptures 440 441 442 446 452.

Injury and the Hidden Carapace

Li Huiyuan later leaves the Gymnasium at night after hearing what she believes is Lin Yi calling. Boss brings her back badly injured, and treatment at the School Doctor’s Office saves her life. Lin Yi considers whether a future version of himself could have summoned her through the dream boundary, but cannot establish the cause 610 611.

Her increasingly unusual body draws his attention: a crack appears over her old back wound, and perception directed through it encounters darkness rather than recognizable internal structures. Lin Yi briefly suspects that she might be Difa, but this remains a conjecture 722 723.

Boss subsequently reveals that she fashioned Li Huiyuan’s current carapace from the Gymnasium’s supernatural substance and guided her will into it. Her original body and main will remain in the Basement. Boss expects their eventual union to create a true Mourner without the need to merge a Mist Demon Hunter’s will into a Mourner carapace 738.

Search for Lin Yi

After Lin Yi enters the Time Stream to contain the Root, Li Huiyuan refuses to accept that an eternal but unreachable existence counts as survival. Her grief awakens her original body and manifests her immense “Between the Sins” incarnation over the Gray Fog Sea 764.

She searches through the layers, followed by Boss. The Little Girl identifies Li Huiyuan’s retained aura of Lin Yi as an anchor, but explains that additional power is needed to call him back. Wei Liang’s subsequent attempt reaches Lin Yi, yet the Time Stream shatters it; his return remains unresolved 764.

Relationships

• Lin Yi — Protector, exploration partner, Source, and object of her romantic attachment. Their initially transactional arrangement develops into an explicitly acknowledged friendship, though no formal romantic relationship is established 136 331 440 721.
• Boss — Teacher, identity anchor, and caretaker. Oversees her training, constructs her current carapace, and supports her developing transformation 281 295 738.
• Wei Liang — Bantering companion whom she calls “great” or “mighty Liang Liangzi.” Watches over her body during her unexplained nocturnal experience and later helps attempt to retrieve Lin Yi 284 721 764.
• Head Teacher 040 — Handles her lost-ID report and arranges medical assistance when her contamination becomes severe 123 294.
• Xia Lian — Senior Athlete Student whom she eagerly approaches for conversation; also listens to her explanation of Lin Yi’s importance to her 315 331.
• Xu Shunkang — Senior who explains contamination to her and Lin Yi, later expressing concern over her injuries 135 591.
• Zhao Lingxiao — Li Huiyuan initially knows her as a strange girl singing contaminating folk songs. Both acquire the Broken Sculpture’s aura through Lin Yi, creating a causal entanglement 727.

Notable Quotes

“Of course I’m scared of hearing something that’ll make me despair, but... I also hope I can get enough information for you this way.”
— Explaining why she volunteers as an example during the discussion of contamination 136.

“He’s always going on about cannon fodder, but when it really matters, he doesn’t act that way...”
— On Lin Yi 331.

“Everyone who cares about him, and everyone he cares about, is here, while he’s alive somewhere else, never to see us again. For us, isn’t that the same as being dead?”
— Rejecting Lin Yi’s permanent separation from his companions 764.