Yun Manman

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Previous Life and Transmigration

Yun Manman originally led the Yun family, an ancient martial arts clan in the twenty-eighth century. While cultivating the Lotus Heart Art in seclusion, she was betrayed by clan elders and trusted followers. She subsequently awakens in the body of another Yun Manman, a village girl attacked by three hired men in the northwestern countryside. Unable to summon true qi, she nevertheless overpowers the attackers using lethal close-combat techniques 1.

The original girl had been quiet, timid, and unfamiliar with martial arts. Yun Manman later identifies the girl's grandfather, grandmother, and second uncle as the relatives who arranged to ruin her chastity. After escaping the attackers, she suffers an overwhelming heat, encounters a white-robed man in a cave, and becomes intimate with him before leaving. She resolves not to marry and to pursue the freedom denied to her previous life 1 2 5.

Becoming Part of the Yun Family

Returning to the village, Yun Manman protects Old Father Yun from Beilin soldiers, suffering a shoulder wound before killing the attackers. She openly tells him that she is not the daughter he previously knew and that the original Yun Manman cannot return. He accepts her as his daughter regardless, and she promises to protect his family 3 4.

She helps her parents sever ties with the abusive older Yun household, rescues her younger brothers from Master Shen and his wife, and uses memory-erasing pills to prevent the couple from remembering the Yun family. Hunting and selling game provide funds for clothing, food, books, and improved living conditions 6 8 9 21.

Her relatives repeatedly attempt to exploit the family's improving circumstances. When they sell her to Zhang Gouzi for ten taels, she forces him to surrender the contract, cuts a finger from Old Madam Yun and Yun Wang, and directs him to take Yun Wang's daughter as repayment instead. Later, she expels the older household from her housewarming feast. She also secretly acts against Old Woman Yun, whose subsequent death she regards as retribution for the original girl's suffering 15 35 36 39.

Building an Independent Household

After seeing Master Wang torture women, Yun Manman raids his estate, taking its wealth, grain, weapons, furnishings, and horses. During this period, she rescues Yuanwei and negotiates a one-year arrangement with the Ten Cold Gate: she will accept difficult missions, but kill only people guilty of unforgivable evils 24 25 27.

She subsequently feeds twenty-eight starving children and offers them food, shelter, and training in exchange for lifelong loyalty. After they agree, she gives them the surname Yun and names drawn from a twenty-eight-character poem. She promises to make them strong enough to establish a path that even imperial authority will hesitate to threaten 29 30 31.

Back in Red Star Village, she designs a four-courtyard residence and a separate compound for the children. Construction also provides a schoolroom and training ground. She begins cultivating fields under Old Father Yun's guidance, gathers oxen, and obtains wild potatoes for trial planting 33.

Pregnancy and Motherhood

Yun Manman does not initially connect her missing periods and changing figure to the cave encounter. A doctor eventually confirms that she is more than three months pregnant with twins. She tells her family that their father died saving her from Beilin soldiers, although he is actually Mo Beiyuan and remains alive 36 37.

Accepting the pregnancy, she ends her cooperation with the Ten Cold Gate and stops strenuous exercise while continuing the Lotus Heart Art and supervising her household. She gives birth without pain and names the elder twin Yun Rui and the younger Yun Xiao. After Guagua detects powerful resentment directed at the newborns, she restricts outsiders' access to them and appoints dedicated protectors 37 41 42.

After her postpartum confinement, she resumes intensive training for her followers. Her methods include controlled encounters with wolves and a raid on Longevity Stronghold, where captured bandits become live sparring opponents. Over the following four years, her space expands, her followers develop specialist skills, and her Nine Lotus Pavilion assists Magistrate Yang with cases 42 43 45 46 48.

Reunion with Mo Beiyuan

Four years later, Yun Manman confronts Mo Beiyuan after Yun Rui leaves to find him. Their fight lasts dozens of exchanges, with observers believing she may be gaining the upper hand. After confirming that Yun Rui is unharmed, she attempts to take him home 49.

She eventually permits Mo Beiyuan to visit both boys, but forbids him from taking them away. Rather than accepting a romantic reunion, she privately envisions an arrangement like divorced parents sharing responsibility while living separately. On their return to Red Star Village, she senses danger and flies toward an attack on the household, urging Yun Xiao to focus his heart into a lotus 50.

Appearance

• Eyes: Pale purple after transmigration, replacing the original girl's black eyes. Their color is subtle under ordinary conditions but deepens when she uses the Heart-Devouring Lotus 1 2 4 17.
• Distinguishing mark: A small mole at the corner of one eye, which Old Father Yun recognizes 4.
• Complexion and bearing: Described with jade-like, translucent skin and an aloof, imposing presence 16.
• Clothing: Initially wears plain hemp clothing; later appears in white dresses, fitted white martial outfits, and black clothing with a face covering for nighttime raids 4 22 24 36.
• Male disguise: Uses men's clothing, cosmetics, and a lowered voice to appear as the refined “Young Master Man” during her dealings with Shopkeeper Chen 19 20.

Personality

Yun Manman values independence over marriage, clan obligations, or affairs of state. After transmigrating, she wants a life centered on farming, ordinary comforts, and the people she chooses to protect. Even after meeting Mo Beiyuan again, she insists that his relationship with their children does not give him control over her life 2 37 50.

She is calm and blunt, but initially unfamiliar with familial affection. Old Father Yun's willingness to protect her surprises her, and she often struggles to comfort others verbally. Instead, she expresses care through practical action: carrying her mother, buying food, rescuing her brothers, and providing training so her family can defend themselves 3 7 8 13 31.

Her protectiveness can be ruthless. She retaliates against abuse with mutilation, drugs, humiliation, and threats, and deliberately uses fear to discourage village gossip. Nevertheless, she rejects Guagua's suggestion that she simply kill people for resentment and limits her proposed assassination work to offenders she considers deserving of death 3 5 15 27.

As a teacher, she demands discipline without encouraging submission. She tells Tongtong not to kneel readily, urges the children to live boldly, and offers trust in exchange for loyalty. Her instruction emphasizes self-reliance, decisive action, and teamwork 13 27 30 31.

Abilities & Skills

Lotus Heart Art

Her inherited cultivation method develops internal energy, perception, and mental power 13.

• Heart-Devouring Lotus: Forms lotus-shaped energy attacks capable of rupturing a target's heart 17.
• Early limitation: Using the second-level technique before mastering it drains both internal and mental energy 17.
• Later combat use: Launches a lotus attack during her confrontation with Mo Beiyuan 49.
• Instruction: Teaches the art to Yun Rui and guides Yun Xiao in forming a lotus strike 47 50.

Martial Arts and True Qi

Her previous life's training remains useful even before she recovers usable true qi 1.

• Uses joint-breaking techniques, kicks, grappling, knife-hand strikes, sabers, and daggers 1 4 25.
• Seals mute acupoints to prevent opponents from crying out 15.
• Projects true qi to destroy roofs, blast through walls, and break or melt locks 12 25 28 44.
• Uses aerial movement to traverse terrain and reach threatened allies quickly 33 44 50.
• Exchanges dozens of moves with Mo Beiyuan without being quickly overpowered 49.

Perception

Her cultivation sharpens her ability to detect danger and assess opponents 13.

• Senses hidden observers, guards, and the presence of powerful martial artists 20 25 27.
• Detects a poisoned needle aimed at Yun Mo and intercepts it with a dagger 44.
• Recognizes danger as her carriage enters Red Star Village 50.

Resentment Space and Guagua

Yun Manman possesses a space associated with Guagua, a sentient mass of resentment energy. Resentment generated by killing, beating, or insulting others can support upgrades and item exchanges 3.

• Storage: An upgrade allows the space to hold belongings and people; she also stores live animals, harvests, weapons, and large quantities of loot 9 16 25 50.
• Shelter: Enters the space to evade attacks, change clothes, and conceal herself while hunting 15 17 19.
• Item exchange: Obtains pills, cosmetics, and modern medical books through points 8 20 46.
• Resource limits: Repeatedly runs low on points, preventing unrestricted purchases 17 20 24.
• Continuing growth: The space becomes larger and accumulates points over four years 46.
• Unfulfilled feature: Guagua promises an arsenal, but says it will activate only when the time is right; it has not appeared by the four-year time skip 46.

Teaching and Technical Knowledge

Yun Manman trains her household in martial arts and literacy, then encourages individual specialties 13 42.

• Designs five simple concealed weapons for Yun Chuan to construct 42.
• Supplies Yun Lin with modern traditional Chinese medicine books and Western surgical knowledge she compiled 46.
• Coaches followers during combat, correcting their speed, decisiveness, and tactics 27 45.
• Designs residential compounds and organizes farming, construction, and employment for villagers 33.

Disguise and Infiltration

• Alters her appearance and voice to conduct business without revealing her identity 20 21.
• Uses silver needles to incapacitate guards quietly 24 28.
• Memorizes estate layouts, locates concealed rooms, and navigates secret passages 24 25.
• Disguises her group as vulnerable women to gain entry to a bandit stronghold 44.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Sabers and knives — Keeps seven blades in her space during her early mountain expeditions, retrieving or switching them as needed 15 17.
• Silver needles — Ordered from a blacksmith and later used for precision attacks and incapacitating guards 9 19 24 27.
• Returning Lotus Fruit — Space-grown fruit that restores health, cleanses marrow, and tempers sinews. She shares it with family, followers, animals, and her children 13 17 29 42.
• Memory-erasing pills — Permanently remove Master Shen and his wife's memories involving the Yun family 8.
• Nightmare pill — Used during her retaliation against the older Yun household 12.
• Wild horse — Obtained as a mount and persuaded with Returning Lotus Fruit; its unfortunate haircut becomes a source of amusement among the children 16 20 30.
• Disguise supplies — Men's clothing, cosmetics, masks, and dark fitted clothing support her concealed identities and raids 19 20 24.

Relationships

• Old Father Yun / Yun Zhen — Father of the original body. Accepts Yun Manman despite her confession, becoming the first person whose protection makes her recognize familial love 3 4.
• Madam Zhou / Xiuniang — Mother of the original body. Her affection helps Yun Manman settle into the family; Yun Manman supports her recovery and teaches her self-defense 5 7 13.
• Yun Zewu and Yun Zeren — Younger brothers. She rescues them from abuse, funds their education, and teaches them martial arts 8 9 13.
• Mo Beiyuan — The white-robed man from the cave and father of her twins. She initially claims he is dead; after their reunion, she permits visits but refuses to let him take the children away 2 37 49 50.
• Yun Rui / Dabao — Elder son, who shares her purple eyes and learns the Lotus Heart Art. Fiercely protective of her, he declares that she is everything to him 41 42 47 48.
• Yun Xiao / Xiaobao / Erbao — Younger, blue-eyed son. She protects him closely and later guides him toward a lotus strike during the attack on their home 41 42 47 50.
• Guagua — Companion associated with the resentment space. Offers guidance, exchanges items, monitors resentment, and frequently argues with her over spending points 15 17 20 42.
• Yuanwei — Rescued companion and pupil. Tries to dissuade her from dangerous assassination work, then assists with the household and the recruitment and education of beggar children 27 28 39.
• Yun Mo / Tongtong and the twenty-eight children — Rescued followers and pupils. Receive her surname, new names, shelter, and training, pledging lifelong loyalty in return 29 30 31.
• Han Yu — Ten Cold Gate representative with whom she negotiates a temporary mission-taking partnership 27.
• Shopkeeper Chen — Buyer of her game. Agrees to keep her business confidential and seeks an ongoing supply arrangement 21.
• Wolf king and wolf queen — Animal allies she heals with Returning Lotus Fruit and explicitly treats as friends 17 18 19.
• Older Yun household — Hostile relatives responsible for repeated schemes against her and her family. She rejects their authority after the families sever ties 5 6 15 35 39.
• Yang Muwen — Magistrate Yang's son, whom she saves from pursuers. His attempts to repay her develop into a friendly association 48.

Notable Quotes

“In this lifetime, family missions and affairs of state have nothing to do with me. In this lifetime, I, Yun Manman, will experience the smoke and fire of mortal life!” 2

“Remember, at any time, only by being strong yourselves can you live the lives you want and protect the people you want to protect.” 13

“Good. I'll give you trust in return and make you strong.” 31