Lin Wanyi

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Lin Wanyi belongs to an imperial-physician clan whose main household is in Luojing. The family head serves as Vice Director of the Imperial Medical Academy. She grows up near Jingzhao Prefecture, studying medical books from childhood 11 12 13.

When her father contracts a terrible illness, she joins the Witch Cult while searching desperately for a cure. She becomes a core disciple of the Gu Poison Sect and studies under Bu Yuehua of Missing Moon Manor. Despite this affiliation, she has not committed the atrocities associated with the Corpse Witch Sect and insists that she has never harmed anyone 13 185.

After the Lin Residence adopts the alchemically gifted Lin Zisu from relatives, Wanyi accompanies her to Danyang Academy as her guardian and manages the family’s local business. She gains a reputation for treating poor neighbors free of charge and sponsoring disadvantaged students at the academy and Purple Emblem Mountain. Her sponsorship also serves a concealed purpose: cultivating connections that might obtain the Martial Dao Divine Canon and help repay her debt to the Witch Cult 11 12 13.

Appearance

• Build: Tall, with a slender waist and a notably full, curvaceous figure 5 12.
• Face: Distant-mountain brows, almond-shaped eyes, and cherry-red lips; her beauty is repeatedly compared to a peony 5 12 19.
• Hair and accessories: Ink-black hair, often pinned up, and distinctive gold-rimmed spectacles 54.
• Usual clothing: Refined blue-green or dark-green ruqun and long dresses, reinforcing her scholarly, graceful appearance 12 54 343.
• Concealed identity: Uses a black wide-sleeved dress and veiled hat when visiting Witch Cult contacts 100.

Personality

Wanyi is courteous, approachable, and attentive to others. Her charitable medical work earns genuine local respect, while her dealings with officials’ wives give her a broad social network and a practiced understanding of people. She is also financially careful: extensive sponsorship strains her funds, and she insists on showing Xie Jinhuan ingredient costs so he cannot accuse her of overcharging 11 12 13.

Her refined public manner contrasts with her shyness in courtship and her sharp tongue during household disputes. She initially denies romantic rumors and becomes flustered by Xie’s gifts, but openly resists attempts to subordinate her to Linghu Qingmo. Although jealous of rivals, she also defends other companions when she believes Xie has mistreated them 83 96 137 500.

She admires Xie’s courage but fears its cost. She identifies his solitary charge toward Huai River Bay as the moment she liked him most, then warns him never to disregard his life that way again. Her concern for his safety often outweighs enthusiasm for his public heroics 138 273 275.

Abilities & Skills

Medicine and Alchemy

A renowned physician from an imperial medical family, Wanyi specializes in gynecology, poisoning, and ailments affecting women and children 12 65 337.

• Treats poor patients without charge and maintains a clientele among wealthy households 11 12.
• Prepares medicines, checks pulses, examines injuries, and assists Lin Zisu during Xie Jinhuan’s emergency treatment 65 127 188.
• Refines pills and obtains rare medicinal ingredients through family and sect connections 13 36 105 157.
• Recognizes the limits of her specialty; during Xie’s severe surgical emergency, Zisu operates while Wanyi mixes medicines and assists 65.

Gu Arts and Poisoncraft

As a core Gu Poison Sect disciple, Wanyi knows the full range of gu-rearing methods and can identify techniques unfamiliar to ordinary investigators 27.

• Gu identification: Explains that seventeen artificially cultivated gu-flower varieties belong to the major sects’ core arts 27.
• Poisonous mist: Deploys a large green miasma against Lu Ming and offers to use it to draw away hostile puppets 30 31.
• Tracking: Follows the escaped Ghost Witch through the lingering trace of poison on him 32.
• Poison refinement: Circulates her power to neutralize Blood-Clotting Powder within her body 16 17.
• Traps and antidotes: Her Soft-Bone Powder trap incapacitates Bu Yuehua; she revives her with the antidote 185.
• Love Gu knowledge: Knows how to administer Love Gu, though the account emphasizes her reluctance to plant gu in people 27.

Cultivation and Its Drawbacks

Her Witch Cult technique accumulates cold yin energy, causing chest pain on new-moon nights and damaging her eyesight. Concealing the cause is important enough that she initially refuses to let the clinic’s physicians examine her 12.

• Assisted Inner Vision reveals that continued cultivation could eventually produce a supreme yin physique, making her an ideal vessel for powerful evil entities 97.
• She identifies supreme yang energy as a means of counteracting the accumulated cold 97.
• Witch Cult dual cultivation could accelerate her growth by draining Xie Jinhuan’s cultivation, but he seeks alternative opportunities for her 72 225.
• Her business and household responsibilities leave little time for meditation or practical experience 225 290.

Combat Limitations

• Specializes in concealed poison and gu rather than head-on fighting; Lu Ming’s expanding nets capture her despite her attempt to take cover 31.
• Avoids openly using Witch Cult methods in the city because doing so would expose her affiliation 16.
• At Ironthorn Ridge, lacks the fire techniques or Gang Qi needed to withstand penetrating cold and falls unconscious after an attack 136.

Business and Household Management

• Manages the Lin family’s Danyang medicinal business while raising Zisu 11.
• Maintains extensive connections among officials’ wives and wealthy patients 11 12.
• Supplies Xie Jinhuan with medicines, ingredients, credit, and business support; she later reminds him that she lent him ten thousand taels during his early difficulties 72 691.
• Xie praises her ability to organize food, clothing, expenses, festivals, and family care, considering her indispensable to their eventual settled household 652.

Equipment / Items

• Gold-rimmed spectacles — Her signature accessory, used to compensate for impaired eyesight associated with her cultivation 12 68.
• Ice-soul silk undergarments / Soft Armor — Qi-responsive garments with lotus-shaped embroidery. Initially embarrassed by their intimate design, she later wears them and appreciates their support and comfort 16 25 32 65.
• Pearl-inlaid Peony Hairpin — A courtship gift from Xie Jinhuan; she initially protests the expense but later wears it 96 98 273.
• Elder Wife Bracelet — Worn alongside Xie’s hairpin during her appearance in Yanjing 273 340.
• Medicines and antidotes — Keeps antidotes close at hand, including remedies for Lin Zisu’s troublesome pills 54 137.
• Magical glasses — A gift from Ye Hongshang during discussions of the household wedding arrangements; Lin Zisu recognizes their extraordinary powers 698.

Relationships

• Xie Jinhuan — Lover and privately pledged partner. Their relationship begins with a rescue and an exchange of pills for access to the Martial Dao Divine Canon. Xie later confirms that she was his first woman and praises her household-management abilities. She asks to have a child with him, but no pregnancy is confirmed 5 13 475 652 691.
• Lin Zisu — Adopted niece and ward, raised by Wanyi from childhood. Their affectionate relationship includes frequent scolding, medicinal pranks, and disputes over Zisu’s attraction to Xie. They later share a body, hear each other’s thoughts, and switch control through a mark 11 127 651 671.
• Bu Yuehua — Master and leader of Missing Moon Manor. Wanyi helps undo her Seven-Star Nails seals. After becoming involved with Xie, Bu Yuehua offers Wanyi higher sect standing and support in household disputes 185 290.
• Linghu Qingmo — Romantic rival and fellow household companion. Their competition repeatedly produces arguments and scuffles, though they also cooperate in caring for Xie and confronting him over his behavior 137 482 500 550.
• Ye Hongshang — Secret benefactor and manipulator of her early relationship with Xie. Hongshang assists her dream cultivation, later raises her to First Grade, and eventually reveals that she arranged their first meeting 97 691 698.
• Bu Hanying — Martial uncle and sect contact in Luojing. Handles communication, payments, and negotiations over rare ingredients and sought-after cultivation arts 100 131 157.
• Qinwen — Personal maid who accompanies her, assists with daily business, and comments on the expense of her student sponsorship 12 83 709.
• Ye Yunchi — A later companion whom Wanyi receives hospitably and defends when she believes Xie has bullied her. Wanyi also commissions a Phoenix Immortal Gown as a gift for her 475 500 532.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Meeting Xie Jinhuan and Seeking the Divine Canon

• Xie rescues Wanyi during a carriage accident near the Chongming River. She invites him to the Lin Family Clinic, initially assuming that his bearing indicates noble origins 5 698.
• During his clinic visit, Ye Hongshang secretly destabilizes Wanyi’s cold yin energy. Xie suppresses it with precisely placed silver needles, convincing Wanyi that he may be the talented intermediary she needs 12.
• She agrees to provide foundation-strengthening pills in return for his learning and teaching her the Martial Dao Divine Canon 13.

Investigating Witch Cult Crimes

• Wanyi accompanies Xie to investigate gu-related deaths, supplying expertise in gu flowers and Witch Cult methods 27.
• At the corpse pit, she helps oppose the destruction of evidence, attacks with poisonous mist, and is captured by an expanding net. After Xie frees her, she tracks the fleeing Ghost Witch 30 31 32.
• When forbidden materials are planted beneath Xie’s bed, exposure threatens both his secrets and her Witch Cult identity. She cooperates with his counterplan by posing as his intimate companion 45.

Dream Lessons and Courtship

• Learning that the Divine Canon normally requires First Grade cultivation initially destroys her hopes of obtaining it. Ye Hongshang supplies an alternative through Dream Transmission of the Dao 71 72.
• The dream lessons grant assisted Inner Vision and reveal the dangerous long-term consequences of her cultivation method 97.
• Her relationship with Xie progresses through his hairpin gift, private meals, and mutual care after injuries. She explicitly admits loving him during her confrontation with Qingmo 96 105 127 137.

Sect Standing and Household Position

• Bu Yuehua proposes making her Guanzhong Branch leader and a third-generation disciple, then offers the positions of Holy Maiden and successor after admitting her involvement with Xie. Wanyi questions leaving her Luojing home to become manor lord in the Southern Border 290.
• Despite being treated as a principal wife within the household, she remains formally unmarried. Her mother later presses her to produce a grandchild 343 475 692.
• Ye Hongshang resolves a dispute over seniority by raising her to First Grade. Wanyi then accepts addressing the household’s women as sisters without formally ranking them 691.
• After learning that Hongshang engineered the original horse accident and secretly assisted her, Wanyi supports holding Qingmo’s Dual Cultivation Ceremony before the household’s joint worldly wedding 698.

Notable Quotes

“I merely find it inconvenient to fight, not that I don't know how.” 27

“When I liked you most was when you charged off to Huai River Bay alone. Mm... you were just so manly! But you're not allowed to do that again.” 138

Trivia

• Wanyi docked carriage driver Jia Zheng several days’ wages for the horse accident that introduced her to Xie. Upon learning that Ye Hongshang caused it, she realizes she blamed him unfairly 698.
• Before refining pills, she bows to the furnace and circles it three times in each direction, explaining that even unusual rituals taught by an alchemy master should be respected 36.
• The baby clothes she sews at Missing Moon Manor are a gift for Liu Qingzhi’s pregnant wife, not evidence of a pregnancy of her own 559.