About the author
Yu Yan is a Chinese-language author of online fiction. Publicly available information is limited: their nationality, dates of birth and death, and personal background are not clearly documented, and what can currently be confirmed is that six works are listed under this name in the database. The best-known of these is the representative work "The Extraordinary Family Servant" (Jipin Jiading), which appears in the database in multiple editions, alongside another title, "Good People in the City" (Dushi Liangren Xing). Judging by the common categories, Yu Yan's writing falls mainly into alternate-history and urban fiction, and is often grouped with male-oriented novels, quality web fiction and fine popular fiction. "The Extraordinary Family Servant" is set in a historical costume backdrop, written in a light tone with a clear popular-entertainment flavor, while "Good People in the City" turns to a modern urban subject. Taken together, the two show an author moving between historical imagination and urban narrative, with a style oriented toward highly readable genre fiction that has gained some influence among readers of Chinese web novels.
Written (6)
Rating 3.9★ The Extraordinary Servant Yu Yan Guangxi People's Publishing House · 2008 This book tells the story of Lin Wanrong, a sales manager in the modern world, who falls off a cliff while traveling to Mount Tai with his female boss… The Top Servant Yu Yan Guangxi People's Publishing House · 2008 The Top Servant is a representative work by web novelist Yu Yan. It was serialized online starting in 2007, and in 2008 Guangxi People's Publishing Ho… The Peerless Servant Yu Yan Guangxi People's Publishing House · 2008 The Peerless Servant is an alternate-history novel by the web writer Yu Yan, serialized on Qidian.com from 2007 and completed in November 2008, runnin… The Extraordinary Handyman Yu Yan Guangxi People's Publishing House · 2008 The Extraordinary Handyman is a long alternate-history novel by web author Yu Yan, serialized from March 2007 to November 2008, totaling over three mi… The Peerless Servant Yu Yan Qidian · 2008 Modern sales manager Lin Wanrong accidentally falls off a cliff while hiking Mount Tai with his female boss and transmigrates into the fictional Great… Good Men of the City Yu Yan Qidian · 2006 During a cross-border ambush mission, Yu Yan, a special forces operative of the Falcon Brigade, is caught in a mercenary trap. His comrades fall, and …Publishers
Guangxi People's Publishing HouseQidian