Hua Ran

* LN
* LN(as Ran)
* Manhwa(as Hua)

## Appearance

### Ren

* She was like an elegant orchid blooming with a bright light. The atmosphere around her gave off the feeling that she was so fragile that an accidental touch might snap her.
* It was definitely the same face and body as before and… the only difference was probably that her red eyes and the inside of her hair had both turned blue.

## Description

She was a living Jiangshi – a being closer to a demonic beast that was created from a living human.

The strongest tanker of ❰Heroic Legends of Arhan❱.

At the same time, she was the worst time bomb of Merkarva Academy.

Her ‘Unbreakable Vajra Body’ and her ability to use demonic aura easily placed her among the top strongest characters of ❰Heroic Legends of Arhan❱.

Hua Ran had the Unbreakable Vajra Body. It was the best defensive specialty of ❰Heroic Legends of Arhan❱ that increased the defense in relation to the Aura Rank and the Aura Capacity. You might think she would be useless once all her aura was depleted, but even with the restriction in place, Hua Ran’s Aura Rank was at Very High and her capacity was above 20,000.

## Ren History

There was once a girl called Ran. She was an unlucky girl who couldn’t even walk outside on her two feet due to a long illness of hers.

Ran had a family that loved her. She had friends and neighbors.

If not for her incurable disease… or in fact, if not for her father never giving up on elongating her life and if he instead stayed with her… Ran’s life would have had a happy ending.

Over time, the illness restricting her started to rapidly crush the happiness surrounding the girl.

Ice Yin Constitution.

It was a body constitution type that was only spoken of in the legends. An infinite source of Yin was suppressing the Yang energy inside her body, and was thus creating an imbalance and disharmony.

Ran’s father, Kang Yu, looked for all sorts of ways to cure his daughter. However, all the methods known to cure Ice Yin Constitution were close to being impossible, and Ran’s early death seemed unavoidable.

Sacrificing the time he should have spent with his daughter, Kang Yu went around searching everywhere. He went to the mountain peak of a mountain range and requested the help of the lord of the mountains, the Heavenly Tiger, and even gained an elixir after helping the hermits of Mount Tai.

Crossing to other continents, he looked for his old friends and received their help to look at regional spells that could cure his daughter.

14 years.

Ever since the birth of his daughter, he wandered all around the world looking for ways to cure her body, but none of those were effective on Ran.

Slowly, the end was approaching them. His desperate attempts were almost about to come to an end.

She had a happy and affectionate family but there were two pieces of misfortune in her life.

One was that Ran was born with an incurable disease,

And two was the prodigal talent of Kang Yu, who was known as the best spiritualist of the time.

He searched everywhere to look for a strong source of Yang that could put a stop to the infinite source of Yin in her body.

However, the legendary body constitution that had been told down from times immemorial was too much for a mere human to resolve so… he had to change his line of thought.

If he couldn’t find enough Yang to suppress the Yin, maybe he could instead look for ways to consume all that Yin energy in her body.

That was why he relied on the organism that was born from Yin. They were beings that he was very familiar with as a spiritualist, whose job was to send poor souls of those who died on a foreign land back home.

Kang Yu turned his alive daughter into a Jiangshi.

That was the birth of the living Jiangshi, Hua.

## Hua History

『Ahh, my daughter. My daughter… Finally… You finally woke up.』

When she first opened her eyes, what Hua witnessed first was her ‘master’ tearing up while looking at her.

Kang Yu called her his daughter, and called her Ran. The newly born jiangshi thought that was the name given to her.

『Dad?』

Even though she just repeated that word like a parrot without knowing the meaning of it, her master was incredibly happy and gave her a tight hug.

That was probably the moment when Hua realized that she had to act like Ran.

She had a feeling that her ‘dad’ would throw her away after noticing that she was different. She was scared that he would try to retrieve Ran, and because she imagined a future without the ability to control her body, Hua had to act like Ran.

What was fortunate was that the memories of the original body slowly started to come back to her.

Although imperfect, she managed to act like Ran and just like that, she stole Ran’s family and her life.

Living as Ran was a sweet experience. She was the beloved daughter of the renowned Kang family, and the health of the unfortunate girl who couldn’t even leave the house due to her illness until 14 years of age was something the entire city was interested in.

But Hua knew that they were happy and glad for the recovery of Ran, and not herself.

That deceitful life crumbled down to pieces due to a small catalyst.

『You… are not my daughter.』

…

The first time she saw blood was when she had to save the city from a sea monster that suddenly attacked the city. Because of the request of the castle lord, her ‘dad’ had to order her to kill the monster and after that, she was visited by her ‘dad’s’ brother who came to ‘heal’ her.

『Hua. Well done.』

The name, ‘Hua’ was also the one he gave her. His scorching gaze of greed pervaded into her body.

That was the first time she realized she could be ‘useful’. Added to that was the neglect of her ‘dad’ who realized she wasn’t his daughter.

Her massacre began. The castle lord, the imperial family and the sages gave her requests. Demonic beasts, demonic spirits and… humans. Regardless of the opponent, she killed as they wanted and as they commanded.

That was how the Heavenly Yaksha was born.

## Game

The boss of the 3rd Arc of ❰Heroic Legends of Arhan❱, Heavenly Yaksha, had a slightly different background to all the bosses that appeared before it.

Based on the affection meter with the character and the choices leading to the 3rd Arc, the player was forced to choose between 2 choices.

Would you save Hua, or would you save Ran?

Because of these turning points and choices inside the game, there were multiple users who played the game several times.

In one of the forums of ❰Heroic Legends of Arhan❱ that only had veteran gamers, there were oftentimes several discussions of ‘what ifs’ and how the player could have overcome those options to lead the story into the happiest ending possible.

That was a discussion about the background setting of the story, which was thus impossible to prove in the game.