Yun Zhaozhao

Biodata

Background / History

Early Life

Yun Zhaozhao was raised by her maternal grandmother. Her parents divorced when she was very young, moved to different cities, and started new families. Neither maintained much contact with her. Her grandmother died before she entered university 160.

Her family was not well-off, and she spent much of university worrying about employment. After graduating with a philosophy degree, she spent more than six months looking for suitable work. During this period, she lived with a distant elderly relative whom she called Granny 1 3 140.

Inheriting Clear Breeze Temple

After Granny died following a fall, her will arranged for her house to be donated and left Yun Zhaozhao the dilapidated Clear Breeze Temple. With nowhere else to go, Yun moved in, cleaned the grounds and rooms, registered herself as the temple’s heir with the Taoist Association, and installed an internet connection 1.

The inheritance came with debts and a separate million-yuan reward conditional on making the temple “bigger and stronger.” Approximately 100,000 yuan in startup funding could also be released in installments as she met development goals. Unable to perform Taoist services, Yun initially decided to do nothing, but impending hunger drove her to post a recruitment advertisement three days later 1.

Temple Development

Appearance

Yun Zhaozhao looks young enough to be mistaken for a university student, surprising visiting Daoists who expect an older temple master 71 72.

• Complexion: Naturally cool-toned, pale skin, described as particularly luminous in sunlight 56.
• Features: Lovely facial features and a healthy, increasingly radiant appearance after settling into temple life 51.
• Build: A blue-green dress emphasizes her slim waist during Gu Kai’s visit 51.
• Public image: Her appearance contributes to the affectionate “mascot” nickname; livestream viewers recognize her and request photographs 48 56 86.

Personality

Yun Zhaozhao initially wants little more than free accommodation and a life without worries about food or clothing. She enjoys reclining in her lounge chair, reading, watching videos, chatting with visitors, and sampling Chang Kong’s food. Her attachment to the temple nevertheless deepens until it becomes the first place in City A that genuinely feels like home 13 20.

She is commercially inventive, frugal, and eager to turn available talent into income. However, she distinguishes making money from exploiting her own people: she pays taxes, rewards employees, and refuses to charge Wen Xu twice for timber used in furniture she intends to sell him 20 95 153. Business remains her main focus, and she values the independence of earning and spending her own money 108 125 155.

Her kindness is practical rather than ceremonial. She provides accommodation for interns, supports village children and elderly residents, and insists that the orphaned child disciples should receive the same New Year clothes, gifts, fireworks, and lucky money as other children 20 60 122. Chairman Jiang particularly appreciates that she remembers personal kindnesses after her immediate need for help has passed 123.

She also has a mischievous, sharp-tongued side. After telling Tang Li that disputes should be handled gently, she calls Cloud Peach Temple’s master and openly mocks his jealousy over Clear Breeze Temple’s award 141. In romance, she can be guarded and difficult to fluster; Wen Xu becomes embarrassed during an intimate confrontation while she remains calm 130 152.

Abilities & Skills

Management and Delegation

Yun Zhaozhao’s main strength is organizing specialists rather than personally performing their work 98 108.

• Matches responsibilities to employees’ interests, including Lin Banxia’s medical ambitions and Xiaojiu’s sales talent 91 98.
• Encourages Zhang Lu to implement her own detailed activity plan with the team’s support 54.
• Uses bonuses, benefits, and shared prize money to motivate staff 20 60 143.
• Combines experienced villagers’ practical knowledge with agricultural students’ technical training 82.
• Brings in outside instructors and professional video creators when the temple needs expertise it does not possess 155 171.

Business Development and Financial Oversight

She develops Clear Breeze Temple beyond dining into merchandise, agriculture, medicine, accommodation, and educational activities 13 37 54 99 133.

• Checks ledgers personally and verifies income claims; she discovers that Jingting has substantially exaggerated cafeteria earnings to Gu Kai 51.
• Seeks agricultural subsidies and later purchases a truck using subsidy funds 129 155.
• Creates new uses for existing resources, such as allowing visitors to adopt pond fish through donations 56.
• Registers product trademarks as the temple’s commercial operations grow 183.
• Recognizes the importance of legal compliance, including taxation and formal paperwork 64 95.

Networking and Public Relations

Yun builds connections through cooperation, useful gifts, and continued personal contact 103 123.

• Maintains relationships with lawyers, university staff, agricultural experts, business partners, and other temples 79 84 98 111.
• Uses temple-made pastries as practical goodwill gifts 103.
• Promotes the temple through interviews, prize draws, educational accounts, and livestream-related projects 50 123 171.
• Requests assistance directly from officials, eventually obtaining a guardian treasure for the temple 177 178.

Handwriting and Child Education

Her handwriting is considered second only to Chang Kong’s at Clear Breeze Temple 108.

• Teaches the older child disciples handwriting because Chang Kong is too busy 108.
• Arranges school enrollment, martial-arts lessons, and opportunities to learn practical daily-life skills 91 99.
• Views early medical training as a potential livelihood for children without family support 99.

Taoist and Physical Limitations

Her position as abbot does not mean she possesses the temple’s specialists’ abilities 1 72.

• Initially cannot catch ghosts, tell fortunes, draw talismans, or assess feng shui 1.
• Reads A Crash Course in Fortune-Telling in 30 Days, but her impressive prediction about demolition compensation comes from recognizing information she already knows—not demonstrated divination 6 26.
• Is explicitly unfamiliar with martial arts and cannot identify techniques during a sparring match 72.
• Still does not know how to prepare talisman water when Qingxin suggests it for the clinic 145.
• Has limited stamina on uphill walks and a childhood history of killing plants, including cacti 46 48.

Equipment / Items / Property

• Clear Breeze Temple — Her inherited residence and principal undertaking; initially rundown and burdened with debt 1.
• Lounge chair — Her customary place for reading, watching videos, observing visitors, and thinking through business ideas 12 13.
• Ancient bronze mirror — Found in a neglected corner of the temple. She likes its craftsmanship and softly hazy reflection and sees no need to replace it 45.
• Fortune-telling and management books — Early attempts to compensate for her lack of professional experience 6 15.
• Gold pixiu — An auspicious business-opening gift from Daoist Qingxin 133.
• Two-bedroom apartment — Purchased after she becomes financially established 144.
• Truck — Bought with agricultural subsidy funds and used to deliver furniture to Wen Xu 155.
• Heaven-Overturning Seal — A collectible donated by Wen Xu’s father and placed in the temple’s exhibition collection; no use of it as a personal weapon is documented 171.

Relationships

• Maternal grandmother — Raised Yun Zhaozhao and knitted clothes for her from reused yarn. Yun later returns to her hometown specifically to visit her grave 160 161.
• Parents — Divorced and largely absent from her upbringing; each established a separate family, and contact remains infrequent 160.
• Granny — Distant relative who housed her during unemployment and arranged her inheritance of Clear Breeze Temple 1.
• Daoist Chang Kong — First recruit, chef, and versatile craftsman. Yun repeatedly develops businesses around his cooking and handiwork, while he looks after her daily needs 2 4 13 15 153.
• Jingting — Young Daoist whom she shelters after the loss of his temple. He becomes a close companion and contributor to the temple’s livestreaming and merchandise activities 8 20 23.
• Lawyer Wang — Funding administrator, adviser, and legal contact. Yun trusts his practical assistance and continues visiting him after the temple becomes successful 20 64 106 123.
• Daoist Qingxin — Friend and specialist adviser who helps with recruitment, agricultural contacts, feng shui, and instruction. He later supplies teaching books and agrees to paid online lessons 64 84 133 155.
• Lin Banxia — Resident herbalist and aspiring physician. Yun supports her interests, entrusts medicinal planting to her, and creates opportunities for her medical development 23 98 105.
• Grandpa Lin — Agricultural manager and trusted collaborator. Yun funds his work, supports his house-building plans, and personally covers the agricultural base during his absence 60 82 136 144.
• Xiao Yao — Student gardener and intern who affectionately regards Yun as the temple’s beautiful mascot. Yun supports her work and arranges student accommodation 47 48 60.
• Martial Uncle Chuli — Centenarian elder sent by True Yang Temple. He supports Yun with advice, gifts, money, and institutional standing while also teasing her about Wen Xu 89 117 122 152.
• Ten child disciples — Orphaned children placed at the temple. Yun oversees their schooling, living arrangements, practical education, and holiday celebrations 91 99 122.
• Daoist Qiuting — Physician recruited to the temple’s clinic. Her own upbringing as a temple-adopted child helps connect her to Yun’s plans for the young disciples 99.
• Xu Ping — University classmate and early supporter whose colleagues provide the cafeteria’s first income. Their friendship remains mutually helpful despite infrequent contact 4 125.
• Chairman Jiang — Taoist Association supporter who assists the guesthouse project and values Yun’s sincerity and gratitude 123.
• Wen Xu — Business associate, suitor, and increasingly close companion. He provides contacts, helps with accounts, supports community screenings, and temporarily works at the guesthouse front desk. The later narrative places him among the people central to her happiness 155 157 164 168 186.
• Song Qinglan — Wen Xu’s mother. Her handmade gifts remind Yun of her grandmother’s care, prompting a heartfelt call of thanks 161.
• Yunlai — Pet rooster named by Yun to express her wish that visitors would flock to the temple “like clouds” 48.

Notable Quotes

“Sometimes, it wasn't that I chose the temple, but that the temple chose me.” 32

“I think Clear Breeze Temple is like me, a university graduate who has only just left campus.” 50

“So fight if you can win. If you can't, lie down and pretend to be unconscious or dead. There's no need to get anyone killed over a little competition.” 146