Lu Yan (Wang Yu's wife) / 吕嫣

Overview

Lu Yan / 吕嫣 enters the wiki through Hanji 616 as 王宇’s pregnant wife, whose imprisonment and condemned postpartum death show the household reach of the 狗血案.

Current Profile

The source gives Lu Yan little agency but high evidentiary weight. After Wang Yu is implicated and forced to die, Lu Yan is imprisoned while pregnant. Wang Mang orders that she be executed after childbirth, making her fate part of the case’s cruelty and a precursor to the later Hanji 634 memory that Wang Yu’s wife died miserably in prison.

Key Characteristics

• Wife of Wang Yu and sister of Lu Kuan.
• Pregnant prisoner after the dog-blood case is exposed.
• Condemned to die after childbirth.
• Household victim whose fate links Wang Yu’s death to broader family destruction.

Evidence

• Pregnant imprisonment: Hanji 616 says Lu Yan is pregnant when imprisoned after Wang Yu’s punishment.
• Postpartum execution order: Hanji 616 says Wang Mang orders her death after childbirth.
• Later memory link: Hanji 634 later remembers Wang Yu’s wife as having died miserably in prison.

Qualifications

This page is bounded to Hanji 616 with a later cross-reference to Hanji 634. It does not reconstruct Lu Yan’s family background beyond Lu Kuan, the child’s identity, or the precise prison chronology.

What Changed

• Created Lu Yan as the imprisoned pregnant wife whose fate clarifies Hanji 634’s later household-disaster reference.

Relationships

• 王宇 - husband whose case causes Lu Yan’s imprisonment.
• 吕宽 - brother and dog-blood executor.
• 王莽 - father-in-law and ruler who orders the postpartum punishment.
• 狗血案 - event that determines Lu Yan’s fate.