Yan Tiehua is a Taiwanese manhua by Chang Sheng.
Yan Tiehua is a normal 15 years old girl whose family has a long tradition as Peking Opera performers. Her life is turned upside down one day when after returning home she finds her entire family killed, leaving her as the sole survivor. To add insult to injury, she is accussed of being the killer and arrested for the crime.
Yan Tiehua, 15 years old girl from the Yan family, a family with a long tradition of being Peking Opera performers.
30 years later, after her seemingly having died in a prison fire, she returns to seek revenge by searching and killing those who murdered her family.
Yan Tiehua provides examples of the following tropes:
- Combat Clairvoyance: Mirai lacks Tiehua's fighting ability, but manages to be quite effective on combat on her own right thanks to her ability to see 5 minutes into the future.
- False Confession: Tiehua is convincted for the murder of her entire family after the police forces a false confession out of her.
- Family Extermination: The extermination of the entire Yan family is what kickstarts the whole plot and prompts Tiehua's quest for revenge.
- Lady of War: Yan Tiehua dresses elegantly as a Peking Opera performer while going after her targets.
- Meaningful Name: "Tiehua" means "iron flower", reflecting her nature of being Made of Iron.
- murder.com: Tiehua broadcast her first murder online (the son of an important congressman). It turns out she actually didn't murder him, she simply staged it so she could lure into her her real target, his father.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: The central story is Tiehua's journey to avenge the murder of her entire family.
- Seers: Mirai Higa is a Go prodigy who has never lost a single game because she has the ability to see 5 minutes into the future. She teams up with Yan Tiehua
- Spirit Advisor: One of Tiehua's ancestors lives in her house possessing origami figures. He tries to be her spirit advisor. She mostly ignores him.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Chapter 1 shows Tiehua's life was like before her whole family was killed.
- Vengeful Ghost: What the police believes Tiehua is, as they are convinced that she died 10 years ago.
- Warrior Poet: Warrior performer in Tiehua's case. She performs extracts of The Legend of the White Snake while murdering her first victim or rather, staging his murder to lure someone else.
- You Killed My Father: Tiehua's quest for revenge is against the people who killed not only her parents, but her entire family.
Indexes: Manhua, Taiwanese media
