Ye Fei

Biodata

Background / History

Ye Fei was an established matrimonial lawyer at Nanyuan Law Firm, one of the Southern Capital’s leading firms. Her online profile advertised years of experience, more than a hundred marital lawsuits handled, and some knowledge of marriage-related criminal law. She had passed the Judicial Examination and was well known among local marriage-law practitioners 20 21 33.

Alongside her legal practice, she ran short-video accounts and exclusive fan groups to attract divorce clients. Followers publicly credited her with securing substantial shares of their husbands’ property. During Xie Jing’s case, Ye Fei acknowledged privately that some of her conduct was illegal: increasing profits and repeated success at skirting legal boundaries had made her progressively bolder 20 23 29.

Appearance

• Black-framed glasses — she adjusts them while attempting to reassure Xie Jing during the hearing 28.

Personality

Ye Fei combines a reassuring manner toward prospective clients with a strong interest in lucrative cases. She promises Xie Jing a ninety-nine percent chance of victory, then emphasizes that defending a fraud charge will require high legal fees. She also pursues “Snow,” believing that a divorce involving thirty million in assets could earn her at least a million in fees 21 23.

Her confidence rests heavily on her matrimonial litigation record. She dismisses Su Bai as a lawyer from a limited solo practice and repeatedly assumes that an established marriage makes the fraud allegation untenable. Once her own conduct becomes part of the case, that confidence gives way to anger and fear; Su Bai’s deliberate provocations further undermine her composure 23 25 26.

After the verdict, Ye Fei protests and suspects a backroom deal. She initially insists that she can overturn the judgment, but abandons an appeal when a trusted criminal-law specialist warns that it could expose her to more serious charges 31 32 33.

Abilities & Skills

Matrimonial Litigation

Ye Fei’s principal specialty is marriage law, not criminal defense 20 23.

• Seeks divorce, division of marital assets, shared responsibility for marital debts, and compensation for her client 24.
• Uses depression diagnoses and supporting documents as an established tactic in divorce disputes 27 28.
• Knows how to request judicial recusal, successfully securing Xu Meng’s replacement after receiving a photograph suggesting contact with opposing counsel 22.
• Limitation: Her superficial criminal-law knowledge leaves her unable to answer Su Bai’s distinction between an allegedly fraudulent marriage and fraud targeting premarital property 27 28.

Property-Transfer Advice

Ye Fei advises followers to obtain written guarantees or gift declarations from their husbands. Xie Jing relies on such a guarantee to claim Zhang Tongwei’s premarital property 27.

• Her advice, fan-group messages, and video content become evidence against her 25 27.
• The court ultimately finds that her instructions induced Xie Jing’s fraud and constituted criminal instigation 31.

Online Client Recruitment

Ye Fei uses short videos, private messages, and fan-group announcements to recruit clients 20 23.

• Requires proof of assets before granting access to her exclusive group 20.
• Advertises Xie Jing’s pending case as another imminent success to encourage followers to retain her 23.
• Vulnerability: Li Xuezhen enters the group as a prospective wealthy divorce client and preserves its contents for Su Bai 20 23 26.

Relationships

• Xie Jing — Client and recipient of her property-related advice. After both receive prison sentences, Xie Jing blames Ye Fei for the lost assets and demands compensation 21 31 32.
• Su Bai — Opposing counsel. He exposes her advice and online activities, challenges her defense, and argues that she instigated Xie Jing’s fraud 25 26 27 30.
• Li Xuezhen — Su Bai’s trainee lawyer, whom Ye Fei mistakes for the wealthy prospective client “Snow.” Li collects screenshots and messages that are used against her in court 20 23 26.
• Zhang Tongwei — Plaintiff and Xie Jing’s husband. His premarital property is the target of the conduct for which Ye Fei is convicted 27 31.
• Jiang Min — Friend and criminal lawyer at Nanyuan Law Firm. Advises her against appealing because additional witnesses or cases could expose broader wrongdoing 33.
• Yang Yu — Presiding judge. Rejects her depression-based argument, sentences her to one year in prison, and revokes her license 28 31.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Recruitment and Failed Mediation

• Evidence-gathering operation: Su Bai has Li Xuezhen pose as a housewife whose husband owns approximately thirty million in assets. Ye Fei responds quickly and admits her to the exclusive group, allowing Li to preserve evidence 20 21.
• Taking Xie Jing’s case: Ye Fei treats Zhang Tongwei’s fraud suit as an opportunity to secure a divorce and a substantial property share for Xie Jing 21.
• Judge replacement: Acting on a photograph deliberately circulated by Su Bai’s side, she requests Xu Meng’s recusal—unwittingly achieving Su Bai’s intended change of judge 22.
• Mediation breakdown: She rejects demands that Xie Jing leave without assets, compensate Zhang Tongwei for three years of lost youth, apologize, and pay litigation costs 22.

Fraud Hearing

• Her own conduct enters the case: Su Bai submits fan-group chat logs, videos, and comments, accusing Ye Fei of colluding with Xie Jing 25.
• Evidence challenge fails: Ye Fei questions how the group material was obtained. Su Bai reveals Li Xuezhen’s membership and counters that Ye Fei herself invited the trainee into the group 26.
• Defense loses its foundation: Su Bai identifies the disputed assets as Zhang Tongwei’s premarital property. Yang Yu subsequently rules that Xie Jing’s depression is unrelated to the fraud allegation 27 28.
• Closing statement: Unable to rebut the accusation effectively, Ye Fei appeals to marital harmony and describes her actions as protecting women’s rights 30.

Conviction and Aftermath

Yang Yu finds that Ye Fei instructed and induced Xie Jing to defraud Zhang Tongwei. He imposes one year’s imprisonment, revokes her law license, and states that the Procuratorate will be notified to initiate public prosecution proceedings. Even Su Bai considers the ruling stronger than he expected 31.

Ye Fei announces an appeal, but Jiang Min warns that new testimony could expand the case from instigating an individual to instigating a group. She abandons the attempt, and news of her imprisonment spreads through the Southern Capital legal community, raising Su Bai and White Jun Law Firm’s profile 32 33.

Fourteen days after the hearing, her sentence is finalized. Her fan groups and short-video accounts are banned, while men who believe their premarital property was wrongfully divided begin seeking lawyers to pursue recovery from their ex-wives 35.

Notable Quotes

“Hire me to represent you, and there’s a ninety-nine percent chance we’ll win. But if you hire someone else... there’s no telling.” 21

“Because I am protecting women’s rights within marriage!” 30

“I’ll definitely overturn the judgment you got in the first trial!” 32