Si Yehan

Biodata

Power Progression

Background

Si Yehan grew up in a wealthy, powerful family. As a child, he took pleasure in witnessing violent deaths and persuaded his parents to find him a kung fu master. He later strangled a classmate; his parents used their influence to settle the matter and transferred him to another school 11 17 24 26.

On his eighteenth birthday, Si Yehan killed his biological parents, Si Xuanye and Murong Yu. Their deaths were ruled accidents, and he inherited the family’s wealth 25 60.

At twenty-one, he lived alone in Cangyun City. After a recurring dream of burning people and vicious ghosts, he received an invitation to the Weird Game, which promised rebirth for clearing an instance and death for failure 1 25.

Appearance

Si Yehan is tall and slender, with a handsome, aloof face and a typically languid bearing 2 35.

• Eyes: Black, often described as cold or indifferent 1 51.
• Clothing: Frequently wears a black trench coat; he has also worn a long white shirt and black trousers beneath it 4 20.
• Ghostly markings: Bluish-black markings appeared on his arms when he pushed his ghost power during the slaughter of Cangyun City 30.

Personality

Si Yehan regards other living beings as prey and derives pleasure from killing and witnessing suffering. Wealth and conventional power hold little appeal for him; he values the amusement a victim’s death can provide instead 11 25 42.

Despite his appetite for slaughter, he is patient and calculating. He postpones attacks when potential victims could help him test a ghost’s killing rule, and he can remain composed while confronting supernatural threats 4 16 99. He also dislikes being bound by rules and refuses to join an organization 64.

Abilities & Skills

Martial Arts and Weapons

Si Yehan trained for more than ten years and reached the limits of ordinary human combat ability 17 20.

• Defeated Zhang Kui, disarming his iron rod and using a dagger against him 9.
• Fought the village chief, Wang Zhou, and Wang Niu together, using feints, kicks, a dagger, and a seized sickle 20.
• Killed ten armed attackers aboard the cruise ship by exploiting the cabin’s confined entrance and furniture 37.
• Remains physically vulnerable inside instances: without armor, he cannot safely withstand a knife wound or a heavy blow 37.

Ghost Traits

After his first instance, Si Yehan gained four traits derived from the ghosts of Soul-Shaking Ancient Village. Unlike the ghosts’ original rules, the traits let him actively select targets 25.

• Black fog: Kills ordinary people on contact and can corrode buildings.
• Bluish-black hands: Can tear targets apart.
• Lethal gaze: Kills people who look directly at him.
• Sleep: Puts people into a deep sleep and kills them. 25

His use of ghost power produced sounds of a child crying and heavy footsteps. After clearing Cruise Ship Carnival, he also gained the use of water and the ability to create more complex killing rules 25 64.

• Instance limit: His ghostly powers are sealed inside instances. The seal was somewhat looser upon his third entry, but he still could not use the power there 2 31 69.
• Resurgence risk: Clearing an instance can suppress a Vengeful Ghost’s resurgence 27.

Ghost Domain and Movement

Si Yehan can spread ghostly mist over a wide area, fly, and pass through solid glass. He estimated that he could travel the 500 kilometers from Cangyun City to North Yuan City in half an hour after clearing his first instance 25 30.

• Enclosed Cangyun City in mist, disrupting power, communications, and transport while he and Ghost Slaves killed its population 30.
• Used a Ghost Domain to crush and distort North Yuan City, then absorbed its concentrated resentment to make creating Ghost Slaves easier 66.
• Gained mirror travel after his second instance; supernatural power can block a destination 64.

Observation and Rule Testing

Si Yehan investigates ghostly killing rules by observing victims and deliberately exposing others to danger.

• Made Chen Yong take heavy steps before a ghostly figure, confirming a fatal rule; he also identified screaming before the little ghost as fatal 16.
• Forced Su Wei to break eye contact with a black-clad ghost, then proposed that breaking its gaze was part of its killing rule 89.
• Recognized that a ghost’s photograph was influencing him to smash coffins and looked away 95.

Equipment and Items

• Dagger: A favored concealed weapon, used throughout his first two instances 9 35.
• Doll: Carried in Soul-Shaking Ancient Village; it released bloody light that drove away Ghost Slaves and apparently helped awaken him from a dream. It was gone when he woke 22 24.
• Long black blade and submachine gun: Taken from the cruise ship’s stored weapons 57.
• Collapsible baton: Taken from the security office at Renshou Funeral Home and later used to kill Xia Yuanhou 73 92.

Relationships

• Si Xuanye — His biological father and head of the Si family. He doted on Si Yehan, who killed him on his eighteenth birthday 60.
• Murong Yu — His biological mother. She doted on him and confessed her love before dying in the fire he set 60.
• Zhang Kui — A veteran participant who distrusted Si Yehan because he had killed before entering the game. Si Yehan defeated and questioned him before his death 2 9.
• Yan Jingxing — A cruise-ship power broker who tested Si Yehan by sending ten men to kill him. Si Yehan later killed Yan and the other bosses 37 53 55.
• Ning Qian and Xia Yuanhou — Si Yehan tortured and killed Ning Qian, staged her body to provoke Xia Yuanhou, and later lured and killed him 81 91 92.
• Qianjing Youhui — A fellow funeral-home participant who grew suspicious of Si Yehan after Su Wei’s death and Su Qing’s disappearance 89 91.

Story Role and Major Arcs

Soul-Shaking Ancient Village

Si Yehan entered his first instance at midnight and treated the other participants as potential prey or test subjects 2 4. He extracted information about the Elder Care Tower from a farming family before killing them, then defeated Zhang Kui and questioned him about Ghost Tamers 8 9.

After killing villagers and testing the ghosts’ rules on fellow participants, he survived the final night in room 205. The instance collapsed when his countdown ended 16 20 24.

Between Instances

After returning home with ghost traits, Si Yehan sealed his residential complex and killed roughly a thousand residents 25. Before his next dungeon opened, he enveloped Cangyun City in mist and killed nearly its entire population of ten million 30.

Cruise Ship Carnival

Si Yehan killed participants Chen Guang and Xia Ruifei during a banquet, survived Yan Jingxing’s test, and lured Cheng Zhuiyu into the Mirror Corridor 35 37 46. He later killed the ship’s four bosses, triggered deadly mist in the entertainment hall, and damaged the engine as the instance neared its end. The ship sank and the instance cleared 53 55 63.

North Yuan City and Night Watch

After gaining further ghost abilities, Si Yehan massacred North Yuan City, absorbed its resentment, and left Great Xia through a mirror 64 66. He entered his third instance early as a powerful attack approached him 69.

At Renshou Funeral Home, he killed staff and participants while investigating the ghosts’ rules. He used Su Wei to test a rule, killed Xia Yuanhou, and followed Song Xia home, where he killed her and her daughter 73 89 92 102.