Ji Xie

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Ji Xie (季斜) 5
Alias(es)	Teacher Ji; teasingly called “Uncle Ji” by Li Xian 114 132
Species/Race	Weird; described as an evil god 100 386
Gender	Male 5
Age	Displayed as ??? 5
Affiliation	Li Xian’s partner; explicitly states that he belongs to no guild 120 369
Occupation/Role	Investigates the system and searches for the Source Instance; assumes a teacher role at Mingyan University 122 132 386
Rank	Claims to be the highest-ranked supernatural entity; Li Xian initially reserves judgment 122
Health Points	Displayed as ???; his health pool gives Li Xian a practically infinite health bar through their Marriage Bond 5
Status	Alive; reunites with Li Xian in the human world after sacrificing considerable power to preserve his memories 386 387
First Appearance	Earliest documented appearance in the supplied material: Chapter 5 5

Background / History

Ji Xie belongs to the world of the Weird. His exceptional abilities allow him to notice abnormalities in the system and attempt to infiltrate it. That attempt coincides with Li Yuanqing and Song Zhi importing their son’s data into the system. Ji Xie’s information becomes intertwined with Li Xian’s, affecting Li Xian’s skill and unexpectedly placing Ji Xie in his first instance, Stone River Village 386.

Initially unaware of the full cause of their meeting, Ji Xie searches for an unknown location he calls the Source Instance. He senses that it exists and suspects it is connected to the fundamental power linking all instances. Li Xian’s unusually authoritative skill appears to offer a possible route inside 122.

Appearance

• Human form: Tall and strikingly handsome, with beautiful eyes, upturned lips, and long legs. Li Xian can recognize him despite an altered appearance at Mingyan University 118 132 237.
• Compact disguise: A small, translucent purple tentacle that can hide in Li Xian’s pocket or cling to his shoulder. Ji Xie claims to have designed it around human aesthetic preferences 121 124.
• Manifested tentacles: Black-purple tentacles appear when he threatens intruders in the Toy Factory instance; a pale-purple version serves as his “toy” disguise 186 187.
• Instance disguises: Appears as a formally dressed teacher at Mingyan University and a handsome, friendly older boy in the Toy Factory town 132 185.
• Illusory appearance: The ship instance’s distorted perception makes him appear fish-headed, with a human body and dangling organs. This is an illusion, not a revealed natural form 257 259.

Personality

Ji Xie initially treats humans with arrogance and emotional distance. When Li Xian is severely wounded, he offers to nullify their bond so that Li Xian can die quickly, presenting this as a considerate solution. His early instinct is to solve danger through violence rather than account for human limitations 22 100.

He enjoys teasing, intimidation, and theatrical cruelty. On Death Train, he turns rock-paper-scissors into a wager involving mutilation and helps frighten a childlike passenger into opening the next carriage. He also deliberately embarrasses Li Xian through exaggerated affection in front of other players 113 114 186.

His attachment to Li Xian gradually changes his behavior. He becomes attentive to injuries, exhaustion, insomnia, and emotional distress, although he often disguises concern with sarcasm. By the time Li Xian confides his past, Ji Xie can listen quietly and provide comfort without demanding explanations 105 178 195 197.

His protectiveness can become possessive or controlling. He resents Deng Hanyu’s attention, reacts jealously when Li Xian praises Lin Shiming, and conceals information that he thinks will hurt or frighten Li Xian. Their relationship repeatedly exposes a conflict between his desire to protect Li Xian and Li Xian’s right to make his own decisions 123 145 240 246.

After their reunion, Ji Xie’s strongest interests center on Li Xian’s life rather than conventional entertainment. He studies childhood photographs, explores household keepsakes, and wants to visit the places where Li Xian grew up 387 388.

Abilities & Skills

Tentacle Manipulation

• Uses tentacles to seize and throw an uncooperative player out of his house 186.
• Supports Li Xian in midair, embraces him, and feeds him cake 145 149 300.
• Performs precise domestic work, rapidly tidying a cluttered room under Li Xian’s direction 195.
• Uses tentacles in combat against the Captain and fishmen; Ke Yi witnesses him tear off the Captain’s wrist 295.
• Manifests tentacles from his back in the mirror maze, exposing his unusual nature to watching players 372.

Shapeshifting and Concealment

• Switches between human form and a compact tentacle form 121.
• Alters his human appearance to maintain an instance role while remaining recognizable to Li Xian 132 185.
• Suppresses his power in tentacle form to avoid tracking during teleportation into the Player Center 121.
• Explains that returning to human form inside Li Xian’s room produces fluctuations comparable to retrieving an inventory item 121.
• Passes himself off as a toy while accompanying Li Xian through the Toy Factory town 187.

Supernatural Strength and Speed

• Holds off an entire carriage of Death Train passengers while the players move ahead 118 120.
• Kicks a massive fish off the ship, changing its trajectory with a single blow 243.
• Moves fast enough to retrieve a knife and sever a transparent controlling thread almost before Li Xian can follow the action 273.
• Kills three fishmen while searching for Li Xian 293.
• Intercepts a mirror-born arm and tears it free from the ceiling 371.
• Limit: He can still be injured. The mirror arm leaves deep grip marks on his forearm, which he conceals beneath his sleeve 371.

Health and Healing

• Possesses an immense, unquantified health pool that Li Xian can draw on through their shared-HP bond 5 21.
• Receives health-loss notifications when Li Xian is injured, prompting him to check on Li Xian after the stabbing in Stone River Village 21.
• Apparently heals Li Xian’s injured hand through contact while pulling him to safety on Death Train 108.
• Limit: Shared health does not eliminate physical pain; Li Xian remains in severe agony after surviving a chest wound 21.

Rank-Based Resistance

• States that ordinary human skills generally cannot affect him because of the rank gap between their users and supernatural entities 22 122.
• Identifies Guo Yuanmiao’s skill as effective against train passengers but ineffective against him 122.
• Exception: Li Xian’s Marriage Bond works on him despite its unusual target and priority. Ji Xie must obtain a special item to attempt to nullify it 22.

Energy Perception and System Knowledge

• Detects an unusual fluctuation from the Veil of Eternal Night as Mingyan University closes 175.
• Helps determine that the system blocks the Veil’s function except under its activation conditions 177.
• Senses strange energy inside the mirror maze’s mirrors before the first attack 371.
• Explains that the system can build NPCs from real people’s data, with copied personalities and instance-adapted memories 187.
• Limit: He cannot identify anything special about the Veil while its function is blocked 177.

Memory Preservation

• Preserves all his memories through the system’s collapse by expending considerable power 387.
• Uses the faint connection remaining in the old Marriage Certificate to locate Li Xian in the human world 387.
• Cost: The power expenditure delays his return; his precise remaining strength is not stated 386 387.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Marriage Certificate — Records Ji Xie and Li Xian’s identities and photograph, establishes shared HP, and prevents them from harming one another. Their two certificates must both be damaged for the bond to end 5 240.
• Skill-nullifying document — A difficult-to-obtain item that Ji Xie asks Li Xian to sign to deactivate the Marriage Bond 22.
• Employee ID — Slips it into Li Xian’s pocket in anticipation of his needing it during the asylum instance 78.
• Jacket — Repeatedly gives it to Li Xian for warmth or uses it to make an improvised resting place 141 149 250.
• Old Marriage Certificate — Preserved by the system after its collapse. Its skill no longer functions, but its residual connection allows Ji Xie to find Li Xian 387.
• Phone and linked bank card — Provided by Li Xian to help him adjust to human society 388.
• Identity card — Approved during the post-story arrangements concerning the Weird 391.

Relationships

• Li Xian — Initially an unwanted contractual spouse, later his lover and boyfriend. Their relationship develops through shared survival, a rejected confession, renewed commitment, and eventual life together outside the system 5 240 300 301 386.
• Li Yuanqing — Opposes the simulated father’s demand that Li Xian personally confront the Toy Factory’s parent-child sacrifice. Ji Xie wants to spare Li Xian another traumatic ordeal 229 240.
• Lin Shiming — Cooperates with the White Night Guild leader through Li Xian’s investigations, but reacts jealously to Li Xian’s praise of him. Later relocates Lin and other people awakened from a dream 123 365.
• Jiang Qiuyue — Fellow participant in Death Train. She repeatedly speculates about his relationship with Li Xian and offers him guild membership without knowing his true nature 113 114 120.
• Song Qingzhang — Li Xian’s teammate, initially wary of Ji Xie’s disguised invitation in Toy Factory. Ji Xie later playfully distracts him while posing as a shoulder-mounted toy 185 201.
• Deng Hanyu — Rival for Li Xian’s attention during Mingyan University. Ji Xie competes to escort Li Xian and warns that Deng has bad intentions 143 145.
• Ke Yi — Helps fight the ship’s fishmen but warns Li Xian that Ji Xie is a dangerous monster. Ji Xie treats his interest in Li Xian with hostility 250 293 295.
• The system — Target of Ji Xie’s infiltration and investigation. It considers both him and Li Xian potential threats to control or eliminate 384 386.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Stone River Village

Li Xian uses his red Marriage Certificate after Ji Xie removes his bridal makeup and discovers that he is male. The resulting bond constrains Ji Xie, links their health, and forces him to remain in the instance. Ji Xie later tries unsuccessfully to persuade the wounded Li Xian to dissolve it 5 22.

During the final river crossing, a boy pushes Li Xian into Ji Xie’s arms. Ji Xie could have avoided the encounter but hesitates; their contact triggers a hidden condition extending the bond through the next instance 29.

Asylum and Death Train

Ji Xie assists Li Xian in the asylum by anticipating his need for an employee ID. His interference in a fight also inadvertently helps Cheng Xin survive longer than expected 78 123.

On Death Train, Li Xian promises to warn him before attempting another suicidal clearing strategy. Ji Xie protects his wounded hand, rescues him from a pursuing passenger, and cooperates with him to force open a carriage through a rigged, threatening game. Afterward, he accompanies Li Xian into the Player Center in concealed tentacle form 95 105 108 113 114 120 121.

Mingyan University

Disguised as a teacher, Ji Xie maintains private contact with Li Xian through attendance notes and office meetings. He dismisses a class early during the Green-Dressed Girl’s attempt to trick Li Xian, provides cake and clothing, and obtains Teacher Shang’s contact information 132 133 141 152.

His jealousy toward Deng Hanyu becomes increasingly obvious. Despite this, he supports Li Xian’s investigation, participates in an intimate performance intended for Deng to witness, and stays with Li Xian during a dangerous overnight hiding period 143 145 149 153.

Toy Factory and Rejection

Ji Xie poses as a town resident before accompanying Li Xian as a “toy.” He explains how the simulated parents may reproduce real people and listens as Li Xian reveals his parents’ deaths and the suicide that preceded his entry into the instances 185 187 195 197.

He secretly disputes Li Yuanqing’s plan for Li Xian to face the parent-child sacrifice. Ji Xie later admits that he intended to kill the simulated parents after the children escaped, hoping to spare Li Xian the truth 229 240.

When Ji Xie asks permission to pursue him romantically, Li Xian refuses and tears his certificate. Li Xian subsequently explains that he wants to protect Ji Xie from the danger surrounding his agreement with the system, but Ji Xie refuses to accept separation 240 241.

Ship Instance and Mutual Confession

With Li Xian’s memories reverted to high school and his items and skills disabled, Ji Xie becomes his principal protector. He claims they are lovers, conceals frightening information, and helps them recognize one another despite the ship’s illusions 243 250 257.

Ke Yi’s revelation of his tentacles does not turn Li Xian against him. Instead, Li Xian seeks him out and refuses to let him face the approaching danger alone 295.

After the instance, Li Xian recognizes his own feelings, agrees that Ji Xie can stay with him, and replaces the damaged Marriage Certificate. He explicitly confesses his love in their next conversation 300 301.

Final Conflict with the System

Ji Xie supports Li Xian through the Honey Shadow’s emotional influence and protects him in the mirror maze. Li Xian publicly introduces him to the guild as his boyfriend before their final confrontation with the system 345 369 371.

The two face the system together as Li Xian begins the data overwrite. The system admits that its hostility arose from viewing both of them as threats 384.

Life in the Human World

Following the system’s collapse, Ji Xie spends considerable power preserving his memories and uses their old certificate to track Li Xian down. They reunite after Li Xian has waited a month 386 387.

Ji Xie adapts to ordinary life, studies Li Xian’s childhood album, and suggests filling its remaining pages together. Their first described human-world date takes them to Li Xian’s high school, where Li Xian again introduces him as his boyfriend. Ji Xie later receives an approved identity card 387 388 391.

Notable Quotes

“The highest, of course.” — His answer when Li Xian asks his rank 122.

“We're lovers.” — His declaration to Ke Yi during the ship instance, before Li Xian’s later explicit acceptance 250.

“Let's fill the rest together.” — His proposal for the empty pages of Li Xian’s photo album 387.