Yan Huan

Biodata

Power Progression

Yan Huan gains abilities through Meow-chan’s evolving Modifier and its reward system. Reward levels, individual technique levels, and the Modifier’s overall level are distinct 15 451 563.

Background / History

Previous Life and Rebirth

Yan Huan was an academically successful but physically unhealthy person in his previous life. He died suddenly and began another life, becoming the world’s only transmigrator and the only person Meow-chan could communicate with at their initial meeting. Determined not to repeat his earlier health problems, he began exercising while young 2.

He later describes his former self as an ordinary person from three generations of farmers, without wealth, exceptional looks, or extraordinary talent. His lingering regrets matter to him because they establish that his previous life was real rather than an illusory dream 187.

Childhood in Linmen

In his initial account of his childhood, Yan Huan’s parents moved from the Dragon Nation to Linmen for their careers and died in a plane crash while he was an infant. Distant relatives took their property before his transmigrated consciousness fully awakened, leaving him to grow up in an orphanage 3.

He lived in the South District and became close to An Le. He remembered her as a considerate child who struggled to refuse others or risk disappointing them. A later childhood dream shows him approaching the lonely An Le and offering to play house 51 328.

Yan Huan pursued several ways to improve his circumstances. One was a paid trial-training opportunity at Yasaka, which he initially considered a way to cover summer living expenses and tuition. The company instead immediately pressed to sign him 31.

Connection to the Ye Family

Ye Lan found Yan Huan after coming to Linmen and recognized his resemblance to his mother, her former best friend Wang Yulu. She offered him a home and hoped he would also help her socially isolated daughter, Ye Shiyu 3 4 5.

Although touched by Ye Lan’s affection, Yan Huan resisted permanently moving in. Her sincerity made refusing difficult, but he eventually told her that he could not stay. Later passages identify him as the Ye Family’s adopted son 13 304.

Appearance

• Face: Exceptionally handsome; his looks attract talent scouts and contribute to his popularity at school 2 31 61.
• Build: Maintains his health through regular exercise. His initially modest muscle definition develops into a visibly muscular physique 2 60 314.
• Family resemblance: Closely resembles Wang Yulu, enough to move Ye Lan to tears when they meet 3.
• Grooming: Usually casual about his appearance, treating washing his face and brushing his teeth as sufficient preparation unless attending an important occasion or a date 7.
• Dream-cat form: A small white cat with golden eyes, smaller than Meow-chan’s plump black-cat avatar 450.

Personality

Yan Huan is disciplined, academically capable, and socially adaptable. He smiles readily and adjusts his conversation to suit different people, allowing him to get along with students despite his impoverished background. His internal commentary is considerably more sarcastic than his polished outward behavior 2 8 61.

He initially approaches Modifier-related crises through calculation, acting, and concealed emotions. These methods solve immediate problems but create lasting misunderstandings: Ye Shiyu increasingly treats him as her possession, while Bai Yi’s rejected affection becomes more difficult to manage. He eventually questions whether he has unfairly conflated the Hosts with the Modifiers controlling their circumstances 56 191.

His kindness coexists with anger, fear, and exhaustion. Repeated hypnosis, unwanted interference, and the burden of saving the world accumulate into significant emotional strain. Nevertheless, he continues helping the people involved, even when escape would be easier; Elvira recognizes both his unusual willpower and what she considers his excessive romantic greed 238 554.

Yan Huan also exercises restraint when he believes intimacy would worsen a situation. He stops an encounter with An Le while concerned about her condition and later avoids giving Ye Shiyu signals that might encourage further coercion 328 580.

Abilities & Skills

Perfect Facial Expression Control

Allows Yan Huan to turn his facial expressions into deliberate masks rather than involuntary reflections of emotion 2.

• Conceals irritation and resentment during difficult interactions 8.
• Supports the acting he uses to navigate early crises involving Ye Shiyu and Bai Yi 191.
• Remains part of his defensive behavior much later, activating reflexively during a tense encounter with Ye Shiyu 565.

Learning Conqueror

Improves learning through sustained concentration 15.

• Gains one stack for every 30 minutes of concentrated learning, up to ten stacks.
• Each stack adds 15% learning efficiency; maximum stacks provide 250% of his original efficiency and a substantial intelligence bonus.
• Requires five hours to reach maximum stacks.
• All stacks disappear after ten minutes without concentration.
• Its acquisition carries a five-day curse of mild drowsiness when unfocused 15.

Demon’s Mind Reading

A supernatural reward Yan Huan deliberately selects as Meow-chan’s available abilities become more powerful 111 113.

• Acquisition affects his eyes, causing temporary stabbing pain and tears.
• The supplied passages do not establish its precise activation requirements or reading limits 111 113.

Kiss God

An intimacy-related ability that also provides a substantial physical enhancement 188 294.

• Its kissing effects surprise Tong Yingying and briefly help Yan Huan reverse their positions when she pins him down 276.
• Combines with Bare Clothing to greatly increase his combat strength 294 314.
• After its level-eight enhancement, a Host who kisses him has a greatly increased chance of dropping fragments for the next half hour.
• Each such kiss also slightly reduces the Host’s Modifier side effects 563.

Bare Clothing and Enhanced Physique

Bare Clothing increases Yan Huan’s physical capabilities as more of his body is exposed 314 319.

• In combination with Kiss God, lets him overpower two muscular men 294 299.
• Supports fast reactions, a powerful grip, and heavy strikes against a dagger-wielding assassin.
• One punch gouges a large crater in a tree trunk 318 323.
• Does not make him untouchable: the assassin still lands a kick to his chest 318.

One Hand of God

A level-six massage technique that grants advanced practical skill immediately 451.

• Continuous massage builds stacks that progressively increase comfort.
• Reaches maximum stacks after 40 minutes.
• At maximum stacks, induces sleep and improves the recipient’s constitution 451.

Brain Communication

Transmits information directly into the brain of a target visible to Yan Huan’s naked eye 608.

• Sends both messages and images from his mind.
• Operates without speech and is one-way.
• He selects it partly for its potential to pass information under Leaf AI’s surveillance 608 621.

Sparkling Fireworks

An offensive ability Yan Huan considers sufficient for his lethal-force needs when choosing later rewards 608 621.

• Can be planted in a target: he embeds it in Ye Shiyu’s neck after restraining her 613.
• Its full damage, range, and activation mechanics are not established in the supplied passages.

Defeat CGs and Modifier Resistance

Meow-chan’s powers show Yan Huan immersive defeat scenarios, giving him information before a crucial decision 96 613.

• An early CG restores his senses while he is affected by an aphrodisiac 96.
• Ending F: Unhuman depicts Ye Shiyu erasing his independent consciousness and keeping him as a humanoid pet. The vision then returns him to the moment before his decision; it is not an event he permanently undergoes 613.
• His resistance is not absolute. Ye Shiyu’s evolving hypnosis repeatedly suppresses his perceptions and desires 544 573.
• His mutual promise with Hitomi Sakuramiya breaks the hypnosis preventing him from responding to her feelings 560 573.

Dream Entry and Divine Cat Form

Yan Huan enters Sakura Palace’s Barrier through sleep after failing to reach its inhabitants with the Camera 450.

• Appears as a white cat in the dream and discovers he can return to human form by willing it 450.
• Separately becomes a white cat through fusion with Meow-chan, gaining the bodily properties required for time travel 676.
• Uses the identity Yan Ye while speaking with Bai Yi in this form 680 695.
• His ordinary constitution cannot safely withstand the journey without Meow-chan’s assistance 676.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Invisibility Potion — Half a dose grants 15 minutes of absolute invisibility, including clothing. Modifier effects cannot detect the user, but their collision volume remains. Yan Huan later gives a potion to Cool Sakura Palace 380 386 450.
• Intangible Translocation — A toad-shaped talisman formed from Ring Finger’s authority fragments. Slightly increases Modifier resistance and permits one teleport of up to 15 meters per day, with unlimited uses during the minute beginning at 4:44 p.m. It transports Yan Huan alone, not companions 621 622.
• Universal Key — A single-use golden feather that becomes a key capable of opening a lock he cannot otherwise open 563.
• Pocket Watch — A translucent green time-related item formed when a power encounters the mirror he is holding. Remains with him after leaving the future and drives the personal acceleration involved in restoring his body 638 651.
• Host-silencing ring — An earlier weekly free reward described as capable of silencing Hosts 212.
• Bai Yi’s USB drive — Contains songs she gives him while apologizing and asking to become friends. The drive and backing track later become central to attempts to disrupt the past 56 726.
• Mikimoto Pearl Necklace — A gift claimed and received by Tong Yingying in Osaka 276.
• Crab Medicine and Crab Coins — Finds a stockpile in the future; returns carrying four crystalline medicines and several coins 628 638.

Relationships

• Meow-chan — Supernatural partner, reward provider, and frequent target of his complaints. Despite their teasing, she monitors threats, accompanies him into dreams, and merges with him to enable time travel 2 450 676.
• An Le — Childhood friend and romantic partner. He comforts her while worrying about her worsening side effects and later learns how important their childhood promises remain to her 51 298 328. They subsequently reconcile after conflict 398.
• Hitomi Sakuramiya / Hitomi — Student Council colleague and romantic partner. He opposes the Sakura Palace Main House’s plans for her, rescues her from Perfect Sakura Palace’s Barrier, and promises to stay with her forever 304 532 573.
• Aria Spencer — Initially an antagonist who photographs and threatens him. Their relationship develops through his care during her confused state, their Universal Studios outing, his support during the Club War, and periods of living together. By the hospital rooftop incident, he says their relationship is not yet official 20 100 170 182 239 246.
• Bai Yi — A troubled Modifier Host whose apology and music prompt him to reconsider his view of Hosts. Her intrusive behavior later strains their relationship, but they eventually confess mutual affection 56 110 756.
• Ye Shiyu — Adoptive older sister whose possessiveness repeatedly leads her to hypnotize him. He fears her but continues trying to understand her and separate her from Index Finger’s influence. Their Truth or Dare conversation brings an apology and an admission of jealousy 471 608 610.
• Tong Yingying — His part-time boss and a romantic interest. He admits that, without the Modifier’s interference, they might have ended up together; she recognizes his indirect rejections and calls the situation unfair 398 476.
• Ye Lan — His mother’s best friend and adoptive maternal figure. Offers him a home, protects him from Ye Shiyu’s misconduct, and later struggles between supporting his freedom and helping her daughter pursue him 3 5 85 462.
• Wang Yulu and Yan Shuhan — His parents. Initially remembered as having died during his infancy; later memories and encounters instead present them as living, frequently absent parents who concealed their wealth. Yan Huan feels both warmth and dissonance toward this changed account 3 656 669 671.
• Sakura Palace Yuri — Hitomi Sakuramiya’s mother. Supports his intervention in her daughter’s family conflict but also arranges circumstances that pressure him to clarify his romantic loyalties 304 305.
• Elvira — Spencer’s mother. Recognizes his ability to help difficult Hosts, considers him a prospective partner for her daughter, and criticizes his romantic greed 462 554.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Confronting the Modifier Hosts

• Spencer’s photograph: Tricks Spencer into deleting a compromising photograph of him and Hitomi Sakuramiya after recognizing the mental influence of her Modifier 20.
• Reconsidering his mission: Bai Yi’s apology and An Le’s old social-media posts lead him to question whether he has mistaken the Hosts for the Modifiers themselves 56.
• Spencer’s vulnerability: Discovers her loneliness and childhood bullying, then openly fights for her during the Club War 100 170 182.
• Sakura Palace family conflict: Identifies the Main House–Branch Family dispute as the central issue rather than treating the entire family as his enemy. Uses Sakura Palace Yuri’s support to strengthen his position 304 309.

Tokyo Skytree Invasion

• Witnesses expelled Modifiers strengthen An Le’s Modifier as the Evil God invades through Tokyo Skytree 370.
• Deduces that all five girls must relinquish their Modifiers simultaneously to remove the Evil God’s foothold.
• Reaches An Le on floor 450, where she wakes and kisses him 370.

Perfect Sakura Palace’s Barrier

• Enters the Barrier through a dream and learns that Perfect Sakura Palace has attacked other Personas 450.
• Becomes trapped with Tong Yingying in a room where the Barrier alters the passage of time 476.
• Persuades Perfect Sakura Palace to return the real Hitomi and discovers that the vast Barrier conceals a wardrobe door 532.
• Frees Hitomi from the wardrobe, comforts her, and asks her to share their missed dance as the Barrier collapses 532.

Breaking Ye Shiyu’s Control

• Hitomi Sakuramiya’s confession and their mutual promise break hypnosis that has been suppressing his response to her 560 573.
• Attempts to build trust with Ye Shiyu by discussing their fears and motives through Truth or Dare 610.
• After witnessing the Unhuman defeat scenario, refuses her demand, physically restrains her, and plants Sparkling Fireworks in her neck 613.
• Teleports beside Bai Yi and Ye Lan to push them out of danger, despite being unable to carry them through the teleport 622.

Future, Restoration, and Changed Memories

• Wakes in a luxurious future home where he is married to Ye Shiyu and five other women. There, the group has relinquished the Modifier, while Meow-chan has become an ordinary cat 628.
• Returns with medicines, coins, and the Pocket Watch, then undergoes agonizing personal Time Acceleration that reconstructs his body 638 651.
• Finds his childhood memories shifting toward a life with living parents who maintained regular contact. Their apparent warmth does not dispel his sense that something is wrong 656 671.
• Fears Ring Finger has made the other Hosts disappear, only to discover that their silence conceals a surprise nineteenth-birthday party 672 687.

Returning to the Past with Bai Yi

• Fuses with Meow-chan to survive time travel and accompanies Bai Yi as a white cat 676 695.
• Explains that stopping the old backing track may disrupt the stable Worldline. Attempts to prevent its playback meet resistance that forces the original events toward repetition 726.
• As Yan Ye, removes the USB drive but suffers severe backlash, developing bodily cracks and bleeding golden blood 726.
• Later reciprocates Bai Yi’s confession after a rooftop dinner and riverside walk 756.

Notable Quotes

“Of course there’s nothing wrong with considering others. But you also need to understand that sometimes, considering others inevitably means going against your own wishes.” 51

“But Meow-chan, it’s precisely those lingering regrets buried in my heart that make the previous life I experienced real, rather than some illusory dream.” 187

“I don’t agree!!” 613

Trivia

• A fan website created around his Student Council campaign reveals his fondness for black cats. He recognizes An Le’s artwork on the site 298.
• He rejects the Druid reward despite its unrestricted animal transformations because returning to human form would permanently retain an animal trait 608.
• The future he visits contains seven wedding photographs, although the account identifies six wives 628.