Yu Wan

Biodata

Background / History

Education and Life at Sea

Yu Wan was an outstanding graduate who placed first in her school’s swimming examination. Around ten years before the story, Luo Yu’s parents hired her shortly after graduation to teach him swimming. She also attempted the entrance examination for Canglan Ocean University after high school, but failed because her strength was insufficient 1 30 38.

Her family spent heavily to obtain a Star Shell for her. Its stellar abilities complemented her mental strength, helping her study astronomy and learn astrology. She subsequently served as a navigator in the Mirror Moon Armed Fleet 2 30.

Her squad suffered a maritime disaster despite her efforts to navigate them to safety. She attributed the fleet’s heavy losses to an inadequate ship and a helmsman unable to reverse the situation. Her Star Shell died in an accident, leaving her without a contracted pet beast; afterward, she concentrated on developing her own psychic combat abilities 30 31.

Beast Management Bureau

Yu Wan became a clerk and secretary under her paternal uncle, Director Yu Lei. She first appears delivering notice that the Luo Shui Research Institute’s right of use will be reclaimed following the deaths of Luo Yu’s parents. When Luo Yu asks to continue their research, she reports his request and explains the beast-taming and breeding qualifications required to retain the institute 1 2.

She later acts as the bureau’s liaison with Luo Yu. Her duties include introducing the Ancient Grotto research project, conveying funding arrangements, and gathering his requests. After his medical Ink Fish attract official support, she helps plan an expansion capable of housing ten thousand Ink Fish and arranges the transfer of more than two thousand specimens from Wang Defa’s seized farms 13 20 21.

Joining the Luo Yu Research Institute

While presenting security candidates, Yu Wan reveals that she wants the job herself. She argues that her fleet experience, telekinetic surveillance, and independent fighting ability make her particularly suitable. Luo Yu agrees, provided Yu Lei approves her resignation 30.

Yu Lei initially objects, but relents after she threatens to expose his secret smoking to his wife. Yu Wan moves into the institute that day. Alongside security work, Luo Yu asks her to feed the Ink Fish using telekinesis 31.

Although her parents urge her to obtain another pet beast and resume her career, she prefers the institute’s relaxed, interesting environment. She finds working with Luo Yu, Lin Li, and Chen Bo restorative after the strain of bureau work 70.

Water Devil Beast Research

Yu Wan witnesses Luo Yu’s first successful Water Devil Beast evolution and suppresses the newly formed monarch-species beast with psychic power. She immediately wants to contract it, but accepts Luo Yu’s advice to wait for a specimen with better aptitude 73 75.

The evolved beast recognizes her as the caretaker who fed its constituent Ink Fish. This familiarity becomes important as she takes charge of the institute’s Water Devil Beasts, including their use as July’s training partners 76 95 112.

She later helps trigger the evolution of a healing Water Devil Beast by frightening the Ink Fish with controlled telekinetic disturbances. Its Healing Bubble completely repairs an old sailing injury on her arm. She then helps persuade Shui Wuyue to test its treatment on his own longstanding injuries 110 111.

Voyages and Future Plans

Yu Wan helps contact the missing archaeologist An Yao and invites her to investigate Mirror Moon Island’s Ancient Grotto. She also accompanies the Thousand Rock Island expedition, where she and Shui Wuyue plan to assess Rock Goats through their mental states 47 52.

On Dragon Boat Island, she assists with Luo Yu’s custom warship order, pays the deposit, and signs the contract with Director Xia Ying. She also takes an enthusiastic interest in helping Shui Wuyue pursue Xia Ying romantically 116 118 120 121.

By Chapter 139, Luo Yu is breeding a mental-type Water Devil Beast specifically for her. He offers it free on the condition that she work for him for at least another five years. Yu Wan readily agrees and promises to serve as his chief navigator on his future voyages. The beast has not yet evolved or been contracted at this point 139.

Appearance

• Hair: Black, worn in a low bun during her bureau employment 30.
• Clothing: A smart dark-gray business suit with a fitted skirt and black stockings 30.
• Bearing: Professional and capable, with the weathered air of an experienced seafarer 30.
• Features: Smooth, delicate skin, graceful facial contours, and a naturally mysterious air. Shui Wuyue considers her beautiful even without makeup 118.
• Beauty Cucumber: Produces only a slight visible change when she tries it, as she is already young-looking and attractive 120.

Personality

Yu Wan is playful, blunt, and comfortable teasing people she knows. She initially greets Luo Yu with a deliberately misleading joke about him not recognizing her “with [her] clothes on,” referring to their swimming lessons. Her determination to escape secretarial work is equally direct: she curses the job and pressures her uncle into accepting her resignation 1 30 31.

She values independence and an enjoyable working environment over family expectations. Even after her parents return, she prefers staying at the institute to living with her elders. She openly admits that its relaxed work and younger staff help her recover from the unhappiness of bureau employment 70 73.

Despite wanting an easier job, she is protective of the institute and its interests. She handles practical arrangements, watches over dangerous research subjects, and refuses Shi Ning access to Luo Yu because she fears the merchant will exploit his increasingly casual attitude toward money 101 121 131.

She is also an enthusiastic gossip, especially about Shui Wuyue’s love life. After learning about his longstanding feelings for Xia Ying, she presses for details, helps plan a thoughtful gift, and eagerly seeks a place on the Dragon Boat Island trip 111 112 116.

Abilities & Skills

Telekinesis

Yu Wan has awakened Telekinesis through her Mental innate talent. She describes her independently cultivated psychic power as comparable to a mutated beast’s, allowing her to fight without a contracted pet 30.

• Restraint: Pins the newly evolved, level 6 Water Devil Beast to the bottom of its pond 73.
• Barriers: Blocks a current during the Water Devil Beast’s combat demonstration 76.
• Mental attack: Knocks an injured, berserk level 11 Poison King Water Devil Beast unconscious 109.
• Research assistance: Churns and explodes pond water to frighten Ink Fish into fusion evolution without deliberately injuring them 110.
• Remote handling: Moves feed and transports unconscious Water Devil Beasts 31 110.
• Limit: Sustained suppression consumes mental power; she expects the first Water Devil Beast could eventually escape if her reserves run out 75.

Psychic Perception

Her psychic perception is unusually powerful even among Mental-talented beast tamers 50.

• Surveillance: Its considerable range makes her suitable for institute security, potentially replacing two ordinary guards 30.
• Interrogation: Reads mental fluctuations to judge whether a captive is lying 50.
• Livestock assessment: Helps evaluate Rock Goats by observing their mental condition 52.

Telepathy

Yu Wan can communicate mentally with mutated beasts, but her volatile mental power makes her messages feel provocative or profane. This impairs normal communication while strengthening her potential for forceful psychic abilities 48 76.

• Compatibility: The ill-tempered Water Devil Beasts respond surprisingly well to her abrasive mental communication 109.
• Limit: Familiarity does not guarantee obedience. She warns that the Poison King Water Devil Beast may ignore instructions or lose control during a spar 109.

Navigation and Astrology

Yu Wan specializes in astronomy and astrology, having repeatedly used the stars to guide her former fleet 2.

• Celestial navigation: Identifies sailing routes through stellar observation 2.
• Divination: Uses the pearl left by her Star Shell to produce visions, including a dairy cow, an orca, and an Ink Fish wielding eight ice blades 2.
• Possible foresight: Luo Yu later notices that his planned ice-element Eight-Sword Style Ink Fish resembles her earlier vision and reconsiders her divination ability 46.
• Interference: She attributes unreliable readings to chaotic magnetic fields that her current mental strength cannot filter out 2.
• Reliability: Her mother questions whether any pearl-based divination since the Star Shell’s death has been accurate 70.

Swimming and Beast Care

• Swimming instruction: Taught Luo Yu as a private tutor after ranking first in her school’s swimming examination 1.
• Husbandry: Claims substantial practical breeding knowledge despite never taking the breeder qualification examination 31.
• Water Devil Beast care: Raises their constituent Ink Fish and retains their recognition after fusion, making her particularly important to their daily management 76 112.

Pet Beasts

Planned Mental-Type Water Devil Beast

• Psychic synergy: Intended to resonate with Yu Wan’s mental strength and enhance both partners’ psychic abilities 139.
• Navigational support: Danger Sense is intended to complement her astrology and improve the fleet’s ability to avoid hazards 139.
• Unconfirmed potential: Luo Yu speculates that the combined talents might produce foresight or an association with the time attribute; neither result has been demonstrated 139.
• Employment agreement: Offered free in exchange for at least five more years of service, rather than sold at the employee discount previously discussed 139.

Equipment / Items

• Star Shell pearl — A large pearl left after her former pet’s death. It can communicate with the starry sky and serves as her divination medium 2 30.
• Backpack — Carries the pearl during her early visit to Luo Yu’s institute 2.

Relationships

• Luo Yu — Former swimming student, later employer. She helps him retain and expand his institute, becomes his bodyguard, and pledges to navigate his future fleet 1 21 31 139.
• Yu Lei — Paternal uncle and former bureau chief. He assigns her to support Luo Yu and eventually approves her resignation 21 31 48.
• Yu Zhou — Father and a high-ranking Mirror Moon Armed Fleet officer. He questions her decision to trust Luo Yu’s promised Ink Fish evolution research 48 70.
• Shui Wu — Mother, Shui Wuyue’s younger sister, and a high-ranking fleet officer. She encourages Yu Wan to obtain a new pet beast and restart her career 48 70.
• Shui Wuyue — Maternal uncle. Yu Wan grew up aboard his ghost ship, and he treats her like a daughter. She later helps with his medical treatment and romantic pursuit of Xia Ying 48 111 116.
• Lin Li — Fellow outstanding graduate and institute colleague. Yu Wan welcomes her warmly and immediately looks forward to her cooking 38.
• Yu Xiang — Younger male clan relative. She recruits him and his Gale Eagle as sparring partners for Luo Yu’s Bee Empress 81 83.

Notable Quotes

“Rather than contract an unsuitable pet beast, she would prefer not to contract one at all.” 30

“Like I said, forget just sailing around Earth a few times. Even if you head out into the sea of stars one day, as long as I’m alive, I’ll see the navigator’s job through to the end.” 139