Wu Jie

Biodata

Power Progression

No named cultivation realm is established for Wu Jie in the provided chapters.

Background / History

Wu Jie came from a large family in which she held low standing and endured bullying and humiliation. After Granny Chen defeated her family in a wagered contest, she entered the Chen household as Chen Ying’s child bride 17.

Raised at home, she assisted Granny Chen and learned her secret arts. Granny’s oath prohibited her from teaching family members, while Wu Jie described herself as an outsider despite her intended marriage to Chen Ying 2.

By nineteen, Wu Jie was managing the Chen family’s businesses alongside Uncle Qing. Their responsibilities included Granny Chen’s two rice shops in Hong Kong-Kowloon City 17.

Appearance

• Features: A beautiful young woman with bright eyes, fair skin, and a curvaceous figure 1 2 5.
• Clothing: Appears in a pale-white dress, a gauzy nightdress, and a long white dress 1 2 38.
• After defending the Little Building: Becomes pale, exhausted, and frighteningly cold following her confrontation with a captive evil entity 45 46.

Personality

Wu Jie is affectionate and attentive toward Chen Ying, helping him dress, preparing his meals, and massaging his head during his recovery. She initially views caring for him as a duty through which she can repay the Chen family’s kindness, regardless of his former coldness or misconduct. His changed behavior after returning from death leaves her both unsettled and experiencing unfamiliar feelings 1 2 4 18.

Her caution extends to both business and personal safety. She worries that carrying a gun will bring legal trouble and deepen the household’s obligations to the White Lotus Sect. She also rejects expanding the rice trade without adequate storage or distribution channels, particularly when drought threatens their existing supply 8 18.

Although knowledgeable about occult matters, she is less adept at navigating social implications. During Wen Ruzhi’s negotiations, Chen Ying must explain why the physician cannot openly acknowledge helping him at Granny’s request. Wu Jie also shows a playful, jealous streak when teasing Chen Ying about the girls he protected at school 7 28.

Abilities & Skills

Wind Gu Art

Wu Jie practices the Chen household’s inherited Wind Gu Art, a discipline associated with feng shui, raising gu, and visualization. She explains its name through the Gu hexagram: mountain above, wind below 17 28.

• Has learned most of the household’s inherited secret arts, including techniques originating from the White Lotus Sect 17.
• Understands that Wind Gu training begins with visualization to clarify the mind and strengthen the soul toward forming a Yin Spirit; her own attainment of a Yin Spirit is not established 47.
• Refuses to teach Chen Ying visualization because his injured soul makes cultivation deviation—and becoming permanently lost in a dream—a serious risk 28.
• Recognizes the subtleties of Tongwen Academy’s Crow Repays Its Parents feng shui formation and its connection to the Zou family’s fortunes 28.

Evil-Entity Restraint

Wu Jie can handle supernatural entities directly, though the stronger captives of the Little Building can overwhelm her 27 46 47.

• Controls several White Lanterns and brings them into the Little Building after the Tongwen Academy incident 27.
• Temporarily blinds a powerful red-clothed girl entity by sewing its eyes shut with thread made from dead people’s eyebrows 46.
• Attempts to prevent the building’s captives from reaching the fourth floor when Granny’s control weakens, but is left severely exhausted 46.
• Believes Granny’s preparations and her own Wind Gu training may allow her to hold the building; Chen Ying challenges that confidence after seeing her condition 47.

Incense-Ash Preparation

• Prepares incense ash for Granny Chen, who praises it as fresh, fragrant, and nurtured with sincerity 2.

Business Management

• Co-manages two rice shops with Uncle Qing 17.
• Explains local currency and exchange rates to Chen Ying, including the substantial cost of Wen Ruzhi’s proposed treatment 8.
• Evaluates grain purchases in terms of supply, storage, transport, and sales channels rather than rising prices alone 18.

Life-Binding Pact

Wu Jie bears a Life-Binding Pact tied to Chen Ying 46 47.

• If Chen Ying dies, she dies as well 46 47.
• The connection is one-way: her death would not harm him 47.
• The circumstances under which the pact was established are not explained in the provided chapters.

Equipment / Items

• Bronze Oil Lamp — A protective lamp whose light frightens the Little Building’s captive entities. Wu Jie carries it during Granny’s absence and urges Chen Ying to take it when she believes he must escape 38 45 46.
• Thread made from dead people’s eyebrows — Used to sew shut the red-clothed girl entity’s eyes, temporarily preventing it from seeing 46.

Relationships

• Chen Ying — Her intended husband, whom she already addresses as “husband.” She cares for him through his recovery and notices how sharply his temperament differs from before. During the Little Building crisis, he refuses her request to leave her and Granny behind 1 18 47.
• Granny Chen — Her benefactor, teacher, and household elder. Wu Jie feels deeply indebted to the Chen family, defends Granny when Wen Ruzhi raises the possibility of her becoming a monster, and tries to maintain the Little Building during her absence 6 17 18 46.
• Uncle Qing — A trusted household servant and her partner in managing the rice shops 4 17.
• Wen Ruzhi — Granny’s old acquaintance and Chen Ying’s physician and martial instructor. Wu Jie is grateful for his treatment but concerned about the White Lotus Sect obligations his help may create 7 8.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Chen Ying’s Return and Recovery

• Welcomes the revived Chen Ying, introduces herself as his wife-to-be, and supplies information about his identity, schooling, and household 1 2.
• Accompanies him to Wen Ruzhi and explains why Granny’s visualization arts are unsuitable for his damaged soul 4 5.
• Accepts Wen’s conditional consultation fee of three hundred pounds if his treatment extends Chen Ying’s life 7.
• Supports Chen Ying’s intensive martial training after initially urging him not to overwork himself 16.

Tongwen Academy Incident

• Gives Chen Ying money to appease the troublemakers around the academy, hoping he can avoid attracting attention 18 19.
• Is seen controlling White Lanterns outside their home after the academy’s supernatural incident 27.
• Explains that the school’s scholarly energy should normally deter evil entities. She proposes deliberate interference or damage to its feng shui formation as possible causes 28.
• Directs Chen Ying back toward Wen Ruzhi when he asks for a supernatural means of self-defense 28.

Plot Against Granny Chen

• Tells Chen Ying that Granny has departed to help the Lingnan Jiedu Office locate the Drought Demon 38.
• Agrees to seek a way to warn Granny after Chen Ying concludes that the attacks on him may be intended to draw her into danger 38.
• Later confirms that Granny received the warning and told them to be careful 46.

Little Building Crisis

• Tries to stop the captive entities from ascending after Granny’s absence destabilizes the building, temporarily blinding the red-clothed girl before Chen Ying returns 45 46.
• Reveals that the Little Building is itself an evil entity that feeds on its prisoners, rather than merely a prison maintained through Granny’s arts 46.
• Explains Granny’s failing condition, the separation of her Yin Spirit from her body, and the balance that had allowed her to continue living 46 47.
• Repeatedly urges Chen Ying to seek safety while she stays behind. He refuses to abandon them and instead seeks Su Xiong’s help 47.
• Remains at the building as its surroundings change, agreeing with Chen Ying that they must prepare for the worst 49.

Notable Quotes

“I'm not really sure. All I know is that you're my husband.” 18

“I have a Life-Binding Pact with you, husband. If you die, I won't survive either. If something happens to me, you'll be unharmed.” 47