Lu Yan

Biodata

Power Progression

Descriptive milestones are listed alongside the one explicit combat classification given to him.

Background / History

Childhood and isolation

Lu Yan grew up in H City. As a child, he preferred staying indoors because he did not know how to join other children or talk to them. Fear of saying something wrong gradually led him to speak only when addressed. This continued through middle school, until Old Xu and several easygoing high-school dormmates drew him into their circle 66 74.

After his mother died, Lu Yan became increasingly detached from his hometown. He avoided returning for several years and spent most New Years alone. His grandmother later compared him to “a kite with its string cut” after his mother’s death 44 67.

Aemeath’s arrival and their new home

At the beginning of the story, Lu Yan discovers that his computer wallpaper has reverted to its default. Later that morning, he finds Aemeath crouched outside his apartment door, exhausted and surrounded by flickering blue data. She recognizes him and calls his name 1.

While continuing his illustration work, he begins caring for her. He refuses Sister Lin’s invitation to move into her apartment, reassures Aemeath about his loyalty, and completes a commissioned drawing while Aemeath sits with him and directs its details 7.

A client using the name Venus offers him a courtyard studio for 1,000 yuan per month. Lu Yan accepts, leaving the apartment where he has lived for three years. Although he believes the move will help him earn a better life for Aemeath, she has secretly arranged the house to create a home centered on their relationship 15 18 20.

Accepting their relationship

Lu Yan initially feels unworthy of Aemeath’s love because he is an ordinary person rather than a world-saving hero. Aemeath rejects that comparison, telling him that his unconditional care is what she loves. Recognizing that his withdrawal also hurts her, he promises to stop running from his feelings 28 29 30.

He later connects Venus’s name with Aemeath’s weapon, the Eternal Morning Star, and uncovers her identity as his client. Aemeath admits that she used stock-trading profits to commission him and discourage him from drawing other women. Lu Yan asks her not to lie again, explains that he draws her out of love rather than financial need, and accepts her support 36 37.

Lu Yan formally asks Aemeath to become his girlfriend, then publicly posts a drawing of her captioned “My love.” He subsequently declines a new commission despite Sister Lin offering thirty percent more pay, choosing a break from commercial work 41 42 55.

Returning to his family

With Aemeath beside him, Lu Yan overcomes his reluctance to visit home. He introduces her to his hometown neighbors as his girlfriend and invents an ethnic-minority family background to explain her golden eyes 44 66.

The visit reunites him with his grandmother and other relatives. At night, he tells Aemeath about his withdrawn childhood, and she promises to share both his conversation and his silence in the years ahead 67 74.

Dreams of Aemeath’s past

As his body begins changing, Lu Yan experiences dreams of Aemeath’s loneliness. One episode coincides with a sudden 42°C fever that disappears while Aemeath is carrying him toward a hospital. His eyes subsequently turn gold, and his strength increases beyond his initial ability to control it 84 85 86 89.

He later enters the Royan Frostlands in a pure-Frequency body and meets Rover. Together, they rescue the child Aemeath from the water, and Lu Yan becomes a source of comfort and security for her. Before disappearing, he leaves his frequency inside her amulet 101 102 106 108.

These visits do not follow ordinary time. One day spent with adult Aemeath in the real world corresponds to more than sixty days at the lodge. Later, Lu Yan’s disappearance leads directly into another time jump rather than waking him, leaving him unable to control when he returns 111 118.

Across his visits, he watches Little Aemeath become more confident, learns swordsmanship under Rover’s guidance, and meets Camellya. Eventually, he reappears years later in Aemeath’s dormitory at Star Torch Academy, where she greets him after a long separation 111 113 118 120.

Overclocking crisis and recovery

Realizing that his matching frequency might let him bear Aemeath’s Overclocking backlash, Lu Yan secretly enters her training pod. When the assessment becomes a real disaster, he absorbs most of the backlash as she draws on greater power. His Frequency body develops cracks and begins breaking into golden fragments 122 124 125.

Lu Yan had assumed that only a projection of his consciousness was at risk. Instead, the damage appears on his real body. Aemeath stabilizes him with her own frequency, and he awakens in a hospital with extensive wounds 128 129 130.

Their conversation confirms that Aemeath remembers his appearances in her past and had searched for him using the frequency preserved in her amulet. After discharge, her frequency continues repairing and strengthening him until the injuries vanish without scars 130 132 133 137.

Engagement and marriage

After recovering, Lu Yan accompanies Aemeath on a seaside resort holiday. When he dreams of the lonely years she spent searching for him, he wakes in tears and blames himself; she reassures him that their reunion made the search worthwhile 139 151.

During the trip, he promises that she will no longer watch fireworks or sunsets alone and proposes obtaining their marriage certificate after returning to the city. He later has rings made from his design and infuses Aemeath’s ring with golden frequency before she accepts his proposal 160 165 168.

They choose July tenth as the nearest auspicious date for registration. Lu Yan helps prepare their matching appearance, learns to care for Aemeath’s hair, and organizes the necessary documents. At the Civil Affairs Bureau, they sign their declarations, receive their certificates, and exchange vows as husband and wife 174 191 202.

Appearance

• Face: Handsome, refined features, with a straight nose, defined jawline, and thin lips 66 110 189.
• Eyes: Originally deep black; become golden and remain so through his marriage registration 70 86 202.
• Build: Tall, with broad shoulders and a muscular chest; his physique becomes more powerful after enhancement and recovery 67 137 147.
• Complexion: Fair-skinned and visibly prone to blushing when embarrassed 20 63.
• Clothing: Often wears casual clothes, including gray T-shirts, black sweatpants, and loungewear 79 89.

Personality

Lu Yan is reserved and socially awkward, but not indifferent. Others initially regard him as aloof and reclusive, while his neighbors consider him dependable and unlikely to quarrel. His childhood silence comes from uncertainty about how to interact and fear of troubling his family 17 43 74.

His strongest insecurity is the fear of losing the person he loves. Early in his relationship with Aemeath, he doubts whether an ordinary illustrator deserves her devotion and worries that their life together might disappear like a dream. What he wants most is someone who will stay and a relationship of absolute loyalty 20 28.

He expresses affection through practical care: bringing breakfast, giving Aemeath his coat, drying her hair, and learning unfamiliar routines for her sake. His willingness to eat fish he dislikes simply because she cooked it illustrates how strongly he prioritizes her feelings 44 50 70 191.

His protectiveness can become self-sacrificial. He secretly bears Aemeath’s Overclocking damage despite not understanding its real-world consequences. As their relationship stabilizes, he also becomes more confident and openly affectionate, eventually teasing and kissing her in public rather than retreating in embarrassment 124 130 178 180.

Abilities & Skills

Illustration and design

Lu Yan works with digital drawing software, a professional pen display, and a pressure-sensitive stylus 90.

• Produces commissioned character illustrations, including traditional-style and qipao artwork 7.
• Draws Aemeath both deliberately and during quiet domestic moments, including while she sleeps 42.
• Designs the forget-me-not ornamentation reproduced on their engagement rings 165.

Enhanced physique and senses

Aemeath’s frequency increases his strength, vitality, perception, and reaction speed 78 89 97 186.

• Breaks hardened soil with little effort and initially crushes a toothpaste tube by accident 79 89.
• Uses enhanced eyesight to distinguish a distant figure through a blizzard 100.
• Can detect Aemeath’s familiar frequency when she alters a table-tennis ball’s path 157.
• Sharper hearing also makes horror-film sound effects more intense; enhancement does not remove his fear of horror 97.

Golden-eye insight and swordsmanship

His awakened eyes let him analyze physical movement and frequency flow in exceptional detail 112.

• Reproduces Rover’s technique after watching it once, including its force application and frequency resonance 112 113.
• Adapts rapidly during sparring, progressing from awkward defense to instinctive counters 113.
• Receives an assessment of at least Calamity Class combat strength, but lacks systematic training and remains inferior to Rover 113.

Frequency resonance and manipulation

Lu Yan shares a compatible frequency with Aemeath, enabling direct interaction between their powers 122 128.

• Transfers most of her Overclocking backlash onto himself 124.
• Leaves his frequency within Little Aemeath’s amulet 108.
• Infuses golden frequency into her engagement ring 165.
• Limit: Absorbing excessive backlash nearly destroys him; injuries to his dream body are reproduced on his real body 125 130.

Dream-mediated travel

Lu Yan enters Aemeath’s past in a body made of pure Frequency 101.

• Appears at different stages of her life, from childhood in the Frostlands to her academy years 102 120.
• Cannot freely explain his origins, and is told that he is not advanced enough to understand Rover’s true name 101.
• Concludes that visibility depends on strong resonance with him 122.
• Does not control the time jumps, duration of absence, or whether disappearing returns him to reality 111 118.

Regeneration

Aemeath’s frequency repairs Lu Yan’s severe tissue damage at a speed his doctor has never encountered 130 131.

• Restores deeply torn tissue and replaces damaged skin 133 135.
• Leaves no scars after his recovery 137.
• His survival depends on Aemeath first stabilizing his breaking frequency; it is not presented as invulnerability 128.

Everyday skills

• Cooking: Offers to prepare Aemeath’s requested meals and cooks noodles she chooses over other dinner options 32 162.
• Gaming: Has prior fighting-game experience, defeats Camellya in their match, and later practices to take advantage of his enhanced reactions 31 119 186.
• Computer repair: Previously fixes Auntie Chen’s computer 1.
• Hair care: Learns to comb, wash, condition, dry, and oil Aemeath’s long hair under her guidance 191.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Digital art workstation — Computer, professional pen display, and pressure-sensitive stylus used in his upstairs studio 90.
• Stress ball — Used to train fine control over his increased strength 90.
• Training sword — An unsharpened standard-issue weapon Rover lends him for their sparring match 113.
• Aemeath’s amulet — Holds a portion of his frequency after his departure from the lodge; later helps Aemeath search for him 108 130.
• Cross-dimensional paper airplane — A keepsake he places in the central compartment of a locked display cabinet 94.
• Engagement rings — Platinum rings incorporating his design. Aemeath’s ring features rose-gold forget-me-not vines, an openwork heart, the engraving “Lu Yan & Aemeath,” and his infused golden frequency 165 168 174.

Relationships

• Aemeath — Wife and central companion. He provides the warmth she seeks, while she gives him security, a shared home, and the frequency that strengthens and heals him. His visits to her past also make him part of the childhood she remembers 29 108 130 202.
• Rover — Protector and swordsmanship mentor during his dream visits. Shelters him at Glimmering Lakeside Lodge, cares for Little Aemeath, and evaluates his combat talent 101 111 113.
• Camellya — Meets him while secretly visiting the lodge. Initially mistakes him for a Fractsidus intruder, then becomes his gaming opponent 118 119.
• Sister Lin — Commissioning client with romantic interest in him. He refuses her invitation to live together and later declines further paid work 7 43 55.
• Lu Shuyao — Younger sister; trades gaming-related teasing with him and warmly embraces Aemeath as her sister-in-law 71 75 95.
• Grandmother — Welcomes him home emotionally after his prolonged absence following his mother’s death 67.
• Old Xu — High-school friend whose easygoing circle helped him become less isolated 74.
• Uncle Wang and Auntie Chen — Neighbors who look after him during his apartment years. Auntie Chen also tries to introduce him to prospective partners 1 17.

Notable Quotes

“Saving the world and all that is too far beyond me. I just want to protect the people I love and the people important to me. That’s enough.” 28

“I won’t run away anymore, whether from you or from my own feelings.” 30

“My heart is small. There’s only room for one person. It was you before, it’s you now, and it’ll only ever be you.” 179