Lin Er

Biodata

Power Progression

Lin Er’s development consists of expanded access to borrowed magic and practical martial-arts training, rather than named power ranks.

Background and History

Childhood and Previous Life

Lin Er grew up in a rural family whose parents worked away from home. She and her younger sister lived with their grandparents, while their father returned during busy harvest periods. Money was scarce: at the beginning of middle school, her weekly five-yuan allowance had to cover bathing water, stationery, and occasional snacks 3 4 6 12.

Her childhood was marked by timidity, ill-fitting hand-me-downs, and difficulty joining other children. Her father once kicked her while trying to teach her pinyin; Grandpa Lin intervened and chased him away with a carrying pole. By the time she started school at six, she no longer slept with her parents 20 33.

In her previous life, she entered middle school amid rumors that she had an intellectual disability. Shi Meng was the first girl to accept her, and other classmates later helped her learn to refuse mistreatment. She continued her education and eventually worked, only then realizing how much her insecurity and family expectations had restricted her choices 2 7 33.

Rebirth and the Magic Book

Lin Er regains awareness of her previous life on the second day of middle school. A wizard set drawn in a hazy dream accompanies her return, though she does not know why she was reborn or whether the equipment was compensation 1 27 33.

The magic book connects her to an English-speaking child who introduces himself as Prince. Their language barrier pushes her to study English, compile vocabulary, and exchange corrections. She begins sending meals and clothing in return for access to his magic, then increasingly treats the seven-year-old as a friend rather than merely a source of spells 4 6 10 25 45.

She sends Prince her wand after learning that he cannot cast magic without a working one. Later, his mother becomes involved through a parchment agreement: Lin Er supplies food in exchange for potions and magical goods. The children keep their discoveries about time and space from his mother, who assumes Lin Er is a witch from another country 22 45.

Confronting School Bullying

On the third day of school, Lin Er fights Li Xiang and two boys after Li Xiang refuses to leave her seat and the others interfere. She slaps, kicks, and bites them, but receives bruises and a nosebleed herself. The incident exposes how urgently she wants to abandon her former passivity; she admits to her teacher that this determination can make her lose control 8 9.

Li Xiang subsequently gathers students to corner her outside school. Lin Er defends herself with her broom and teeth until Lin Yueyue and his companions intervene. Her homeroom teacher investigates, visits Li Xiang’s home, and helps stop further harassment 10 11 16.

Her reputation changes from timid outsider to someone dangerous to provoke. Girls associated with dormitory bullying invite her to join them, but she refuses and says she needs to concentrate on studying 15 16.

Earning Money and Helping Her Family

Lin Er initially uses magic to gather peanuts left after the harvest and retrieve lost objects. She also fishes in an otherwise inaccessible deep pool, transporting live catches in her expanded schoolbag and bringing fish home for meals 13 14 21.

She establishes a concealed cooking area beside the river and sells spicy river snails outside Experimental High for one yuan a cup. When her grandparents count 134 yuan from a bucket’s sales, she offers to teach them the business. Their stall succeeds partly because she secretly uses magic to remove grit from the snails 28 29 31 35.

Earning money changes both her confidence and her family’s treatment of her. She becomes less afraid of losing her magical advantage, believing she could still support herself. Her grandparents also stop automatically treating unexplained money as evidence of theft once they have seen her earn and share an income 33 39.

Studying and Learning Self-Defense

Lin Er seeks martial-arts instruction because she cannot safely use magic in public and wants to protect herself when studying or traveling away from home. After persuading Grandpa Lin, she becomes Master Li’s first outer disciple. Her five-hundred-yuan payment is a one-time apprenticeship gift; as the school’s first newly accepted disciple, she is exempted from subsequent tuition 40 41 42.

She initially struggles with movements that conflict with the restrained, “graceful” behavior expected of her growing up. Practicing alone helps her relax and perform them correctly. She continues weekend lessons while fitting short stance-training sessions around school 43 45.

Academically, she scores over 110 on an English test, becomes a morning-reading leader, and sets admission to First High as her first clear post-rebirth goal. At the November midterms, she ranks eighty-eighth and receives an improvement certificate. Her progress comes from renewed effort and partial familiarity with material studied before—not an increase in intelligence caused by rebirth 33 42 48.

Appearance

• Dark complexion: Childhood outdoor activity left her deeply tanned. A beauty potion later lightens her skin gradually rather than producing an obvious overnight transformation 48.
• Thick hair and clear skin: She has abundant hair and naturally does not develop pimples, traits that attract classmates’ envy 11 48.
• Changing clothes: Initially wears dirty, poorly fitting hand-me-downs; within weeks, classmates notice better-fitting clothing and a more confident bearing 1 33.
• Temporary purple face: Gentian violet applied after her fight makes her conspicuous around school, but she continues attending classes and collecting meals without hiding 10 15.
• Growth concerns: Later experiences painful knees while growing and drinks unwanted school milk, hoping to avoid remaining below 1.6 meters tall 49.

Personality

Lin Er is determined to stop being someone who silently accepts mistreatment. Rebirth initially pushes that determination toward extremes: she holds grudges, retaliates fiercely, and recognizes that her desire to change can overwhelm her judgment. Her physical shaking after fights shows that apparent boldness does not mean she is unaffected by fear or excitement 8 9.

She is thoughtful rather than naturally outgoing. Master Li recognizes that she approaches martial arts by weighing its usefulness and forcing herself past hesitation. She wants a good university education, travel, and the ability to see the world without relying on permanent protection from her family 40 43.

Her affection is practical: she shares meals, buys clothes, sends Prince entertainment, and helps her grandparents build an income. She values reciprocal relationships but dislikes prolonged gift-refusal rituals and the possibility of seeing a recipient reject her offering 18 25 32 37 49.

She is also socially self-contained. She does not force old friendships to resume and believes she tends to drift away from people after separation. Correspondence with Prince satisfies much of her desire for companionship 33 36.

Abilities and Skills

Borrowed Spellcasting

Lin Er channels magic borrowed from Prince through her wizard set. Her available spells are restricted to those she remembered and entered into the book during her dream 1 6.

• Casting frequency: Repeated use is possible, but too many casts in succession cause problems 16.
• Timed effects: Transfiguration and comparable duration-based enchantments last no more than three days 13.
• Concealment: She avoids openly displaying magic, including when traveling through populated areas 37 40.

Utility and Storage Magic

• Undetectable Extension Charm: Expands her schoolbag and a cloth bag sent to Prince; accommodates clothing, utensils, food, and live fish. The enchantment requires renewal 13 16 22 23.
• Summoning Charm: Collects leftover peanuts, coins, jewelry, and money. Its targeting can have unintended consequences: an attempt to summon paper money takes fifty yuan from a nearby man 14 31 34.
• Transfiguration: Turns leaves into bowls and temporarily alters clothing 8 10 13.
• Scourgify: Removes dirt and odors, including grit from river snails; one accidental application also removes her deskmate’s shoelaces 35 42.
• Levitation Charm: Makes carrying water upstairs almost effortless 49.
• Lumos: Provides light during nighttime excursions 14.

Specialized Spell Applications

• Stupefy: Uses timed self-casting as a sleep aid; also secretly casts it on Wang Juan, who attributes her improved sleep to cake 8 16 28 47.
• Diffindo: Cuts into a cliff to construct her secret base, though it is noisy and inefficient for excavation 28.
• Petrificus Totalus: Stiffens gloves used while preparing river snails 29.
• Bone-Vanishing Spell: Prepares fish for Prince 23.
• Obliviate: Casts it on the man who witnesses her magically catch his fifty-yuan note 31.
• Disillusionment Charm: Conceals her during broom travel 37.

Physical Training and Practical Skills

• Improvised fighting: Before formal lessons, relies on slaps, kicks, grappling, bites, and her broom as a blunt weapon 8 11.
• Martial-arts fundamentals: Learns the fist-and-palm salute, standing practice, horse stance, school precepts, and martial virtue 42 43.
• Training limits: Master Li recommends short sessions of three to five minutes, or ten minutes for a longer session, rather than exhausting herself 45.
• Cooking and food preparation: Cooks family meals, prepares spicy river snails for sale, and manages regular meals for Prince 13 29 31.
• Sewing: Uses her mother’s sewing machine to turn old garments into five shirts and three pairs of capri pants 13.
• Language learning: Improves English through vocabulary corrections, recordings, and mixed Chinese-English conversations with Prince 16 42 48.

Equipment and Items

• Magic book: Records her available spells and enables written communication and object exchange with Prince 1 2 6.
• Wand: Casts the book’s recorded spells; she shares it with Prince when she is not using it 1 22 45.
• Flying broom: Provides rapid travel and access to isolated fishing locations. A protective property keeps her attached even when she ends up upside down 6 21 48.
• Wizard robe: Resizes to fit its wearer and obscures the wearer’s appearance 48.
• Enchanted old schoolbag: Her main concealed storage space, kept away from Lin Huihui’s searching hands 13 22 29.
• Cell phone: Bought to help communication and translation, but limited by poor translation software, slow connections, and expensive mobile data 37 42.
• Potions and remedies: Receives injury treatment, Dittany, an Improved Pepperup Potion, strengthening medicine, and a beauty potion through her pen-pal connection 10 45 48.
• Calligraphy supplies: Master Li gives her brushes, ink, paper, and an inkstone to take home alongside her training assignments 43.

Relationships

• Prince / Xiao Wang — Young pen pal, magical partner, and close friend. Their initial food-for-magic bargain develops into mutual language lessons, gifts, and regular companionship 4 6 16 36 45.
• Prince’s mother — Potioneer and trading partner. Exchanges magical goods and remedies for food and gold, while remaining outside the children’s ordinary correspondence 45.
• Grandpa Lin — Protective grandfather. Defends her from her father, gives her spending money, and helps secure permission for martial-arts lessons 20 40 42.
• Grandma Lin — Strict primary caregiver. Often clashes with Lin Er over money, food, and independence, but joins the snail business and ultimately supports her self-defense training 29 31 32 42.
• Lin Huihui — Younger sister. Lin Er buys her treats and clothing, but repeatedly quarrels with her over tattling and searching her schoolbag 13 18 20 29 31.
• Shi Meng — The first girl to accept her in her previous life. Shares dormitory chores, discusses Harry Potter with her, and later takes over fetching her hot water 2 23 49.
• Xu Duoduo — Dormitory neighbor and schoolmate. Shares bathing water with Lin Er and Shi Meng; later leaves school to undergo surgery 2 6 35.
• Ying Yuecheng and Ying Yuechi — First cousins. Lin Er shares food with both; Yuecheng also tries to arrange protection after Li Xiang’s threat 16 25 46.
• Gao Bo / Gao Haibo — Homeroom teacher. Handles the fights, intervenes against Li Xiang, provides an extra meal ticket, and worries about her emotional state and safety 4 9 16.
• Teacher Yang — English teacher whose earlier kindness Lin Er remembers. Praises her improved performance and selects her to lead morning reading 2 33 42.
• Li Chenghua / Master Li — Martial-arts master. Recognizes her purposeful nature, teaches her foundations, and insists that she prioritize safe, gradual development 42 43 45.
• Li Qiang — Senior martial brother and Master Li’s grandson. Teases her but teaches her etiquette and helps correct her posture 42 43.
• Li Xiang — School antagonist whose seat dispute escalates into a classroom fight and an after-school ambush 8 10 11.
• Lin Yueyue — Older youth from her village. Rescues her from the ambush and takes her home; she clarifies that they were not previously close 11 16.
• Yan Jingting — Classmate who helps her prepare a seating chart and joins her and Shi Meng in exercising after evening study 45 49.

Notable Quotes

“I just don't want to be the person who gets pushed around and doesn't dare make a sound anymore.” 9

“No one can stay by my side and protect me forever. You and Grandma can't, and neither can Mom and Dad. It's best if I can protect myself.” 40

Trivia

• Her given name, 洱, comes from a line describing Cangshan and Erhai. Her youngest uncle wrote selected characters on slips of paper, and she chose it herself; she had originally been expected to be called Yiyi 11.
• Because everyone called her Xiao Er, she once believed that was her actual name and wrote “Lin Xiao Er” on exam papers. The incorrect name is given as the reason for her two zero scores on the middle-school entrance exams 12.
• Severus Snape is her favorite Harry Potter character. She defends his protective actions while acknowledging that he became a bully and freely chose to join the Death Eaters 23 24 27.
• Classmates tease her for repeatedly interpreting literary works as expressing “longing for home” 49.