Chunyu

Chunyu (full name: Ao Chunyu, Chinese: 傲春雨 “Spring Rain”) is a high school student at Dongzheng Middle School and the elder sister of Leiting the Spirit Loong.

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Personality

As a high school student, Chunyu feels anxious about the National College Entrance Examination. To cope, she adopts a cynical, rebellious persona and pretends to be “cool.” She finds comfort in handicrafts like sewing. Despite her facade, she was more mischievous than Leiting as a child and occasionally reveals her true self. Although she seems indifferent towards Leiting, she actually cares deeply for her.

Chunyu loves animals, but due to her mom’s objections, she can’t have pets at home. After Leiting transforms into a spirit loong, Chunyu, who always found her sister adorable, treats her as a pet substitute.

Specialties

Chunyu is skilled in sewing and crafting trinkets. She creates costumes, including clothes, shoes, and hats for herself and Leiting as a hobby. As a member of the school’s anime club, she also makes costumes for their cosplayers. After becoming familiar with the spirit animals, she learns sewing skills after Yangmei the Spirit Goat, and makes spirit costumes for Leiting and other spirit animals.

Life

Chunyu and Leiting share a room, and she is the only one who knows her little sister’s spirit animal secret. She often teases Leiting about it, but also does her best to care and cover for her.

Ever since Leiting became a spirit animal, Chunyu often found herself involved in spirit animal businesses and grew familiar with them. She soon discovered that her longtime classmate and good friend Yanhua is also a spirit animal.

As a senior 2 student, Chunyu feels increasingly pressured with the National College Entrance Examination approaching. Due to the demolition of her school’s old classroom building for reconstruction, the students have been relocated to temporary board houses on the soccer field, making them the most “miserable” generation in the school’s history.

Chunyu is a member of the school’s anime club, responsible for making costumes for their cosplayers. During vacations, she attends anime conventions in neighboring cities and encourages Leiting and other spirit animals to cosplay as anthro characters from animes.

Relationships

Chunyu is the only human aware of Leiting’s spirit animal secret. Although she appears indifferent, Chunyu genuinely cares for her sister and has always provided her with cover. However, she also exploits this secret to make Leiting run errands or act as a pillow in her animal form. Meanwhile, Leiting often plays pranks on Chunyu using her spells.

At home, Dad and Leiting often forms a “united front”, while Mom teams up with Chunyu. Dad supports Chunyu’s hobbies by buying her tools and materials. Mom, on the other hand, views the hobby as a waste of time and space but tolerates it since it’s “better than other nonsense.” However, she can’t stand Chunyu’s “cool” facade and always scolds her to “put away the dead face.”

Chunyu and Yanhua the Spirit Wolf have been good friends since primary school. Chunyu was unaware of Yanhua’s spirit animal identity until Leiting became a spirit dragon and teamed up with Yanhua’s sister, Qiuye. After that revelation, Yanhua began visiting Leiting more often, transforming into her animal form to beg for pets or to be walked like a dog.