Ye Yizhou

Biodata

Background / History

Ye Yizhou is the youngest son of Ye Chongli and Lu Qingwan, and Ye Jing'an’s younger brother. His family remembers him as a soft, doll-like child who later became a formidable troublemaker. Although he initially dismisses questions about childhood bullying, he eventually admits that other children once tried to bully him and an older boy drove them away. His childhood encounter with Yan Qingdu later became the reason he wanted to know him better 13 112 124 136.

In high school, Ye Yizhou had a fierce, aloof reputation but protected others from bullying. He rescued Jiang Zhengze from abuse in a restroom and prevented his attackers from continuing to target him. After graduation, he founded the Anti-Bullying Fund Association, which provides victims with legal assistance, counseling, and support to continue their education. Many of its members are people he previously helped 114 117 123.

Ye Yizhou entered the entertainment industry two years before the opening chapter. His family allowed him to pursue show business partly because they expected its hardships to send him home to inherit the family business. Instead, he deliberately adopted a sweet, airheaded public persona after researching audience preferences online. The persona earned him extensive recognition, much of it negative, without paid marketing or reputation management 1 16 45 46.

Appearance

Ye Yizhou has a delicate, porcelain-white face, long, narrow eyes, and a sweet, alluring smile. His expressions are frequently compared to those of a sly fox or a proud little cat 1 3 7 11.

• Pointed canines: He deliberately displays them while joking that he is a vampire 25.
• Slender hands: His fingers receive particular attention during conference scenes and his bandaged escape-room appearance 33 56.
• Relaxed formalwear: Even in a suit, a loose tie and an undone collar button give him a defiant rather than strictly formal appearance 38.

Personality

Ye Yizhou is mischievous, theatrical, and skilled at presenting himself as harmless. He switches easily between teasing arrogance, exaggerated innocence, and convincing distress. At home, he uses these performances to provoke his father or enlist his mother’s sympathy; even relatives who recognize the act sometimes indulge him 2 6 20.

His apparent laziness coexists with clear ambition. He jokes freely about living off his father or brother and prefers paying capable people to do work rather than doing everything himself. However, he is financially independent, has a strong investment record, and states that he knows what he wants and intends to obtain it. By Chapter 163, he explicitly promises not to abandon the company when difficulties arise 1 31 57 144 154 163.

He openly acknowledges being vindictive. Rather than retaliating immediately, he may let opponents overextend themselves before responding, combining revenge with financial or publicity benefits. That ruthlessness has a protective side: he objects to innocent people being used as stepping stones and becomes unusually angry when Zhou Niansheng is attacked 43 48 98 108.

In romance, Ye Yizhou is affectionate, persistent, and more vulnerable than his banter suggests. Yan Qingdu’s description of their marriage as a partnership hurts him, although he initially hides it. He insists on absolute fidelity and later makes clear that Yan Qingdu is the only person he has ever loved 7 66 136.

Abilities & Skills

Acting and Persona Management

Ye Yizhou can change expression and emotional tone almost instantly, a skill Yan Qingdu explicitly praises 12.

• Maintains a convincing sweet, innocent celebrity persona for two years despite having a very different private temperament 45 46 112.
• Uses feigned tears, wounded innocence, and exaggerated helplessness in personal interactions 2 20 30.
• Performs staged injuries and convincing physical distress during the reunion counteroperation 123.
• Receives renewed recognition for his acting once viewers understand that his earlier public behavior was a sustained performance 30 46.

Combat and Acrobatics

Ye Yizhou is an accomplished fighter whose school-era footage shows clean, decisive movements and wall-assisted acrobatics 109.

• Vaults onto a stage and forcibly removes Jiang Shouyi before the latter’s companions can intervene 115.
• Evades Jiang Zhengze’s fire-extinguisher attack, kicks the weapon from his hands, and throws him onto the stairs 120.
• Uses a flexible whip to disarm and restrain a martial arts coordinator in a continuous demonstration 154.
• Claims a verifiable record without a single defeat; this is his own description of his fighting history 101.

Investment and Business Management

Lingyao Group’s directors investigate Ye Yizhou’s investment history before accepting him as successor. Their confidence rests on a record in which essentially everything he invests in makes money 144.

• Acts as the principal financial backer of the joint film project and participates remotely in audition evaluations 138.
• Supports open auditions based on acting ability rather than personal recommendations 89.
• Recruits Wen Ningcheng to work for him 140.
• Rejects acquiring Yunduan Technology after judging its underlying problems likely to make the purchase a bad investment 154.
• Develops a management approach that keeps the company functioning despite his dislike of tedious business 163.

Publicity and Countermeasures

Ye Yizhou understands how to redirect the attention generated by controversy 35 46.

• Uses his existing visibility to make rebuttals trend without paying for promotion 35.
• Publishes family-chat records and his marriage certificate to challenge claims that he married an elderly man for money 36.
• Employs lawyers to collect evidence and pursue rumor-spreaders 36 108.
• Takes control of hostile interviews by withholding answers until reporters stop interrupting and ask questions in order 149.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Marriage to Yan Qingdu

• Announces his intention to marry Yan Qingdu before the two are properly acquainted, initially leaving his father speechless 1 2.
• Discovers that Ye Chongli arranged the document-delivery errand to bring him into contact with Yan Qingdu 4 6.
• Proposes marriage while emphasizing their financial independence and making fidelity his sole nonnegotiable requirement 7.
• Hurries Yan Qingdu to register their marriage, moves into his apartment immediately, and initiates their wedding-day kiss 8.
• Keeps the registration from his father at first; Ye Chongli later scolds him for marrying without informing his parents 8 19.

Dating Show and Public Reinvention

• Abandons his compliant public image and openly retaliates against mockery. He says viewers who tried to spoil his enjoyment should not expect him to let them enjoy themselves unchallenged 24.
• Treats the dating show partly as entertainment for himself, carrying sunflower seeds and asking Director Ji to continue a dramatic story 27.
• Exposes Zhong Xi’s behavior and warns the guests against advancing their careers by trampling on him or other innocent people 41 43.
• Reveals the research behind his former airheaded persona and declares that he has achieved his purpose in entering show business, so he is finished pretending 45 46.
• Defends Zhou Niansheng from online abuse and pressures the agency to issue a legal warning 48.
• Appears as a bandaged mummy NPC during an escape-room segment. After fleeing a masked, scythe-carrying Yan Qingdu through a prepared balcony escape route, he returns to embrace him and identifies him as his husband 56.

Taking Over the Family Business

• Agrees to succeed his father after Ye Chongli appeals to his mother’s wish to travel with him 31.
• Appears at the joint project’s conference as an authority figure rather than merely an agency artist, surprising employees who know him only as a controversial celebrity 38.
• Tells his manager that he has already returned to inherit the family business and is not competing for a small foothold in entertainment 39.
• Oversees the film project while leaving specialized work to others and supporting merit-based casting 57 89 92.

Marital Conflict and Reconciliation

• Feels rejected when Yan Qingdu characterizes their marriage as a partnership, then leaves early the next morning without telling him 66.
• Saves Yan Qingdu’s number as “Business Partner” and confronts him over his hurtful wording. Yan Qingdu apologizes and explains that he had hoped Ye Yizhou would admit his feelings 68.
• Enlists company elders in his reconciliation tactics by warning that a divorce could jeopardize the joint project 77 78.
• Sells Yan Qingdu a two-hundred-yuan “canary care manual,” using the joke to spell out his wishes for comfort, companionship, and attention 78.
• Later confirms that his childhood meeting with Yan Qingdu inspired his pursuit and that he has never loved anyone else 136.

Bullying Allegations and Class Reunion

• Responds to circulating fight videos by joking that enough footage could establish him as a martial arts actor 109.
• Receives support from former classmates who remember him opposing bullies rather than victimizing others 113 114.
• Reveals himself at the reunion and confronts Jiang Shouyi, then drags him away from the stage 114 115.
• Faces Jiang Zhengze, a former student he rescued who has developed an obsessive attachment to him. After Ye Yizhou refuses to engage with his selective interpretation of their relationship, Jiang Zhengze attacks him with a fire extinguisher 117 120.
• Clears his name through the counteroperation and livestream. The resulting attention also reveals his continuing anti-bullying work and the association he founded after graduation 123.

Lingyao Group and Yunduan Technology

• Helps Ye Chongli handle Xu Yifeng’s interference in Lingyao Group and discusses recovering the shares under Xu’s control 130.
• Is overheard discussing whether to bring down or acquire Yunduan Technology. He later admits that his conference-room behavior was a paid performance for his father, but the subsequent phone conversation was genuine 130 131.
• Becomes publicly identified as Lingyao Group’s young master, prompting widespread surprise at the scale of his family background 147.
• Denies any inheritance battle within the family and accuses Yunduan Technology of using recordings and public opinion to interfere in their affairs 151.
• Declines a troubled acquisition and leaves Ye Chongli to handle the remaining opposition while he turns to other projects 154.
• Reassures his father that the company has reached a workable balance and that he will continue running it 163.

Public Acknowledgment of the Marriage

• Initially considers it too soon to announce their relationship, while Yan Qingdu posts a photograph of their intertwined hands 124.
• Agrees to a full announcement as the film nears completion, then posts it himself before Yan Qingdu can organize a grand reveal 156.
• Rebuts subsequent divorce rumors by stating that neither man needed a marriage alliance and that their companies had already cooperated closely before they married 161.

Relationships

• Yan Qingdu — Husband and only love. Their relationship develops from a negotiated marriage into openly affectionate commitment, despite early misunderstandings about what the marriage means 7 66 136 156.
• Ye Chongli — Father. Their affectionate antagonism includes pranks, mock fights, and mutual scheming; they also cooperate against threats to Lingyao Group 2 14 131 154.
• Lu Qingwan — Mother. She indulges his affectionate behavior and protects him even when she recognizes that he is acting 2 20.
• Ye Jing'an — Older brother. Ye Yizhou jokes about depending on him financially, while Jing'an remains fond of his mischievous younger brother 1 124 149.
• Wei Zhao — Manager for two years. Frequently exasperated by Ye Yizhou’s evasions, but protective of him and eager to help counter Song Jincheng’s attacks 11 35.
• Director Ji — Dating-show director. Their antagonistic banter repeatedly disrupts production, although Ji still looks after practical matters such as Ye Yizhou’s transport 27 30 48.
• Zhou Niansheng — Friend whom Ye Yizhou praises publicly and defends against slander 48 71.
• Liu Jiangzhou — Director of the joint film project. Works with Ye Yizhou on casting and confirms his insistence on acting-based auditions 89 138.
• Wen Ningcheng — Recruited employee. Accepts Ye Yizhou’s offer through WeChat after their dinner discussion 140.
• Song Jincheng — Entertainment-industry adversary who spent two years using Ye Yizhou’s popularity while disparaging him. Ye Yizhou eventually retaliates while pursuing returns on his investment 35 98.
• Jiang Zhengze — Former bullying victim rescued by Ye Yizhou. His gratitude becomes possessive obsession, culminating in a violent attack 113 117 120.

Notable Quotes

“I have only one requirement: absolute fidelity for the duration of the marriage.” 7

“I'm a businessman. Since I invested money, naturally I wanted to maximize my returns. Getting revenge and making money aren't mutually exclusive.” 98

“My goals have always been clear, too. Start a family, build a career. Whatever I want, I'll get it, and I know I can.” 154