Qin Yan

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Qin Yan was born prematurely after her mother, Fu Qinghuan, suffered an emotional shock. During the confusion surrounding the birth, she was exchanged for a stillborn baby. Believing her daughter dead, the already frail Qinghuan lost the will to live and died within a month. Qin Yan’s father was later cleared of wrongdoing in the incident, although Old Master Fu continued to resent him 2 3.

The Chen Family took Qin Yan in after hearing that adopting a child could help them conceive. Once they had a biological child, they neglected and abused her, repeatedly driving her into freezing weather. Village animals helped her survive: a nursing dog fed her when she was an infant, and cats and dogs later brought her fruit. Blind Granny gave her food, protection, and the name Qin Yan, which she had originally chosen for her own granddaughter 7 14 27.

After Blind Granny died, Qin Yan buried her ashes in a pickle jar and left the village under Meimei’s guidance. Old Master Fu recognized her resemblance to his daughter and brought her home before receiving the DNA results. A doctor diagnosed severe malnutrition, frostbite, and injuries from beatings; a subsequent DNA test confirmed her identity 1 2.

Old Master Fu later offered to change her surname to Fu, but accepted her wish to retain the name Blind Granny had given her. Her adoptive parents were arrested, while the Fu Family continued investigating the circumstances of her birth and disappearance 7 27.

Appearance

• Facial features: Fair skin, large dark eyes with slightly downturned outer corners, thick curled eyelashes, pink lips, and a small dimple when she smiles. She strongly resembles her mother as a child 1 5 13 27 47.
• Recovery: Initially scrawny and visibly malnourished, she develops rounded cheeks and plump limbs under the Fu Family’s care and the crystal’s healing influence. Her old injuries are gone by Chapter 50 1 5 50.
• Hair: Her dry, yellowish hair is initially cut into a short bob. It later grows unusually quickly to below her shoulder blades, with naturally curly ends 4 36.
• Clothing: Frequently wears animal-themed onesies before the weather warms, then changes to dresses. Her outfits include bunny, kitten, panda, and hamster designs, as well as a blue princess dress 5 12 26 29 36.
• Living accessories: Tuantuan often rides on her head, while the Dreamweaving Butterfly sometimes rests in her hair like an ornament 13 36.

Personality

Qin Yan is quiet, shy, and easily frightened, particularly around strangers or sudden noise. Her early abuse leaves her afraid of abandonment, hunger, and punishment for ordinary mishaps. She initially worries that dirty clothes will earn her a scolding and asks whether keeping her fish is causing trouble 2 3 5 16 21.

She becomes deeply attached to relatives who make her feel safe. Old Master Fu holds a special place as the first family member to bring her home and care for her at her most vulnerable. During his absence, she quickly grows dependent on Fu Yunting and chooses to accompany him to work rather than remain at home 10 12 26.

Her gentleness is paired with practical consideration for others. She dresses herself, attempts to fold her bedding, brings refreshments to her uncles, and thanks people sincerely for gifts. Despite her timidity, she tries to defend Fu Nanshan when she thinks Xiao Zhen is bullying him, then gives Xiao Zhen medicine and bandages before he leaves 5 11 22 35 48.

Animals bring out her confidence and patience. She willingly handles injured or dirty cats and dogs, and enjoys gardening enough to preserve displaced flowers for replanting rather than discard them. As she settles into her new home, she becomes livelier and more talkative 26 31 35 47.

Abilities & Skills

Know All Things

A skill obtained from Meimei’s blind box that supplies information about creatures and objects 3 4 5 9.

• Displays explanatory text when she encounters or touches subjects such as Tuantuan, its soap, and the Butterfly Koi 4 5 9.
• The displayed words can speak inside her mind, allowing her to understand them despite not yet being able to read 4 12.
• Identifies the koi’s struggle against pollutants and the possibility of transformation, but does not initially tell her how to help it 9.

Life Tree Energy

The Life Tree’s Core Energy Crystal repairs Qin Yan’s body and eventually becomes one with her 4 43.

• Self-healing: Repairs the damage caused by starvation and abuse; the process initially increases her need for sleep 4 5 50.
• Life-energy transfer: Helps revive the dying Butterfly Koi through contact with her finger. Prolonged feeding leaves her dizzy 9 10.
• Passive influence: Releases life-filled light into nearby plants and the fish tank while she sleeps 12.
• Purification: Can cleanse Weird Qi contamination. Meimei identifies this as exceptionally valuable because the world lacks a side-effect-free purification method 43.
• Limits: Her energy is initially uncontrolled, and Meimei still considers her a vulnerable “little sapling” after the Nightmare attack 9 43.

Animal Affinity

Animals perceive a warm, clean light from Qin Yan’s soul that encourages them to approach her. Jinbao experiences her presence as comforting rather than scorching, despite being a Anomaly 31.

• Stray cats gather at her call, and animals that resist other people become cooperative in her hands 15 35.
• She can sense the calico cat’s fear of Jinbao 25.
• Her sincere affection helps explain Jinbao’s attachment, but Fu Nanshan does not know precisely why the S-rank anomaly chooses to remain with her 31 35.
• She befriends the dangerous Dreamweaving Butterfly and persuades the Golden-Winged Bee Queen to behave 33 49.

Gardening and Plant Sensing

Qin Yan learned to grow sunflowers and vegetables in Blind Granny’s courtyard before joining the Fu household 11.

• Senses individual seedlings’ needs for water and fertilizer 26.
• Instinctively knows how to plant the unidentified white-jade root Fu Nanshan gives her 28.
• Cultivates unusually vigorous seedlings and thriving strawberry plants 28.
• According to Meimei, she can grow spirit plants despite the world’s sparse spiritual energy and Weird Qi contamination; she subsequently plants spirit-fruit seeds with Fu Nanshan 45 47.

Equipment / Items

• Gold neck ring — An engraved gift from Old Master Fu, made light enough for her to wear comfortably 5.
• Gold gifts — Receives gold from Fu Yunting, including a small gold sheep 6 29.
• Protective jade pendant — Fu Nanshan tells her to keep it on. It later blocks most of the Nightmare Qi attempting to possess her 29 41 43.
• Spirit stones — Brought back by Meimei; she places one beside her pillow so she can absorb energy while sleeping 43 45.
• Spirit marrow — Meimei instructs her to keep it close and asks that it be made into a necklace 43.
• Secret-realm treasures — Receives spirit-plant seeds, artifacts, and alchemy, Sword Dao, and Talisman Dao inheritances. She suggests giving suitable inheritances to her uncles so they can become stronger 43.
• Tuantuan’s soap — Collects scented bars made by her Slime and sells surplus bars to Fu Yunting’s secretaries, initially for one thousand yuan each 25 38.

Relationships

Family and Caregivers

• Old Master Fu — Maternal grandfather and her first source of security after leaving the village. He confirms her identity, nurses her back to health, and honors her attachment to her given name 1 2 26 27.
• Fu Qinghuan — Deceased mother. Qin Yan grieves upon learning that her mother wanted and loved her rather than abandoning her 3.
• Fu Yunting — Eldest maternal uncle. Becomes her principal caregiver while Old Master Fu is away, takes her to work, and reassures her that she will not be punished for dirtying her clothes 10 12 16.
• Fu Nanshan — Fifth and youngest maternal uncle. Gives her protective gifts, explains anomalies to her, and becomes another trusted source of comfort 28 29 33 39.
• Blind Granny — Deceased protector who fed and named her. Qin Yan retains her name in remembrance of Granny and continues growing sunflowers, Granny’s favorite flowers 1 11 27.
• Meimei — System companion who guides her to her family. Later returns as a Treasure-Seeking Mouse, rescues her from Nightmare’s illusion, and supplies treasures and advice 1 2 42 43 46.
• Lin Mi / Secretary Lin — Befriends and watches over her at the company, introduces her to the local cats, and accompanies her on animal-related outings 14 16 21.
• Xiao Zhen — Fu Nanshan’s acquaintance. Decides that Qin Yan’s connection to Jinbao must remain secret to protect her 35.

Animal and Anomaly Companions

• Tuantuan — Pale-green baby Slime found emerging from a bathroom faucet. Qin Yan feeds it fruit, names it, and treasures its scented-soap gifts 4 5.
• Fubao — Butterfly Koi she insists on rescuing from a shop. Her life energy helps it survive, and she later feeds it spirit fruit as its scales improve 9 10 25 46.
• Jinbao — Black puppy she adopts, actually an S-rank Hellhound formed from the grievances of cats and dogs. They promise to protect each other, and Jinbao defends her from the Blood Wedding Dress 24 31 33 35 38.
• Zhaocai — Abused male calico cat she takes to Song Huai’s hospital. Fu Yunting offers it a home at the company because it fears Jinbao 16 25 36.
• Sangbiao Number One — Stray tabby near Fu Yunting’s company that eagerly seeks her affection and leads her to the injured calico 14 15 16.
• Dreamweaving Butterfly — B-class anomaly whose scales can induce lethal dreams. It behaves meekly around Qin Yan and rests on her shoulder or in her hair 33 36.
• Golden-Winged Bee Queen — Brought back by Meimei. Qin Yan offers it honey-royal jelly and persuades it to behave; it subsequently settles on her hand and eats a spirit stone 48 49.
• Kongsang Silkworms and earth dragons — Cultivation-realm creatures supplied by Meimei. The silkworms can produce silk for protective clothing, while the four earth dragons are released to loosen the garden soil 48 49.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Animal Rescue and the Fu Household

• Rescues a severely abused calico cat and offers her pocket money for its treatment 16.
• Helps feed, clean, and comfort injured cats and dogs housed at the Fu residence 31 35.
• Her ability to live peacefully with Jinbao draws Xiao Zhen’s attention; he and Fu Nanshan agree to conceal the connection 35.

Blood Wedding Dress and Nightmare

• Is attacked while feeding cats outside Fu Yunting’s company. The cats intervene before Jinbao overpowers the B-rank Blood Wedding Dress 38 39.
• Later becomes the target of Nightmare Qi. Although her jade pendant prevents outright possession, she is drawn into the Blood Wedding Dress’s Resentment Illusion and witnesses Gao Wanniang’s loss and Zhao Xiaocui’s forced ghost marriage 41 43.
• Meimei rescues her and erases the traumatic memory. Jinbao destroys only a fragment of Nightmare’s incarnation, leaving the larger threat unresolved 42 43.

Spirit Garden

• Uses Meimei’s returned treasures to begin planting spirit-fruit seeds with Fu Nanshan, carefully transplanting the ordinary flowers displaced by the new garden 43 45 47.
• Adds Kongsang Silkworms, earth dragons, and the Golden-Winged Bee Queen to her growing collection of unusual companions 48 49.