Ye Family

Biodata

Background

The Ye Family’s history stretches back several centuries. Its ancestors were wealthy merchants during the Qing dynasty and local nobility in Q Province approximately two hundred years before Ye Mo’s return. The family retained its financial foundations through national turmoil, then multiplied its assets after seizing opportunities during reform and opening-up 2 5 116.

By the beginning of the story, Ye Corporation ranks among the world’s top hundred major companies. Its accumulated wealth and connections exceed those of Qi Corporation, while its name carries substantial weight among business families and in the entertainment industry 2 38 134.

Organization and Members

Main Household

Before Ye Mo’s return, Ye Zhipeng’s household consisted of two parents, three sons, and Ye Baozhu. Although Baozhu was subsequently revealed not to be their biological daughter, the family chose to retain her as their daughter 4 117.

Extended Family

Ye Zhipeng is the eldest of four siblings, with two younger brothers and one younger sister. His branch is the clan’s main branch 116.

Wealth, Property, and Influence

Corporate Holdings

• Ye Corporation / Tianheng Industries — The family’s principal corporate base. Under Ye Lin’s leadership, it reaches greater heights than before 2 91 216.
• Ye Mo’s five-percent stake — Transferred by Ye Zhipeng and accepted after she has 888 check the agreement. None of her three brothers objects to the allocation 116 200.
• Ye Mo’s agency — Acquired by the family, allowing her substantial freedom over her work schedule 210.

Residences and Household Resources

• City B home — A mountain residence with household staff and security. Ye Mo receives a second-floor room exceeding three hundred square metres, prepared by Ruan Xianyue and Ye Baozhu 5 9 10.
• Q Province ancestral residence — A centuries-old mansion with expansive courtyards, carved beams, painted rafters, and underfloor heating in its main areas. Grandma Ye prefers living there 116 117.
• Household staff — Includes Butler Zhou, security guards, and two pastry chefs specializing in Chinese and Western pastries respectively 9 10.

Use of Family Influence

• Entertainment backing — Ye Lin intervenes when Qi Yuwen tries to take Ye Mo’s desired role in Chase. Qi Yuheng subsequently orders Qi Yuwen to return the role and yield the film’s investment opportunity to Ye Lin 38 42.
• Legal assistance — After news of Ye Mo’s arrest appears online, Ye Lin contacts Lawyer Li and arranges for Secretary Huang to take her home 79.
• Deterrence — During He Zhen’s rescue, Ye Lin identifies the families of the men obstructing them and asks whether they intend to make an enemy of Ye Corporation 135.
• Privacy protection — The family turns away people seeking Ye Mo’s fortune-telling services, including those invoking personal connections and old friendships 209 210.

History

The Switched Daughter

Twenty-three years before Ye Mo learns her identity, she is deliberately switched at birth and abandoned in a train-station trash can in Province A, far from City B. Ye Baozhu grows up in her place as the family’s cherished only daughter 2 4.

Ye Sen later notices Ye Mo’s resemblance to Ruan Xianyue, has his manager investigate her background, and arranges to obtain her hair for testing. He presses for a paternity test with his parents, leading to the discovery of Ye Mo’s identity 88 89.

Ye Mo’s Return

The family initially sends Secretary Chen rather than collecting Ye Mo personally because Ye Baozhu supposedly suffers a heart-condition flare-up. According to 888, Baozhu’s condition has already been cured; she feigns illness to keep the family’s attention on herself. Ye Mo nevertheless agrees to acknowledge the family, openly valuing its resources and connections 3.

Her first days bring both conflict and tentative warmth. Ye Miao is openly hostile, while Ruan Xianyue is initially stiff but appears to want to treat her well. Ye Zhipeng supports Ye Mo when household employee Wu Xiuxiu targets her, and Wu is removed after talismans concealed in his clothing are discovered 7 8 9 10.

Ye Lin becomes Ye Mo’s closest family ally. When she refers to the household as “your family,” he corrects her to “our family” and promises that her identity and his support will protect her from further media smears 22 91.

Exposure of the Baby Switch

Ye Mo publicly exposes Yuan Yongkang’s involvement in concealing the switch. Ye Baozhu objects that this threatens the Ye and Yuan families’ longstanding friendship, prompting Ye Mo to contrast Baozhu’s privileged upbringing with her own childhood of bullying, fieldwork, and unaffordable schooling 91.

The confrontation forces the family to reconsider its response. Ye Zhipeng acknowledges that he should have investigated Yuan Yongkang’s involvement earlier, while Ye Sen rejects Baozhu’s defense of him. Ye Zhipeng later pressures Yuan Yongkang out of medical employment, and the Yuan Family removes him from its genealogy to protect its remaining interests 91 95.

Clan Recognition and Welcome Banquet

Ye Zhipeng transfers five percent of Tianheng Industries’ shares to Ye Mo and apologizes for her years of suffering. The household then takes her to Q Province to meet her grandmother, uncles, aunts, cousins, and representatives of the collateral branches 116 122.

At the welcome banquet in City B, Ye Zhipeng publicly introduces Ye Mo as his daughter without disclosing that she and Ye Baozhu were switched. When He Ruilin subsequently disparages her over the families’ marriage agreement, Ye Zhipeng and Ye Lin defend her, and Ye Mo rejects the engagement 125 130.

Later Family Life

The family gathers at the ancestral residence for Spring Festival, where Ye Mo studies her next script and joins the New Year’s Eve mahjong games. Relations among the younger siblings also shift: Ye Miao and Ye Baozhu become involved in a bar fight, and Ye Mo helps them. Ye Lin teasingly treats their cooperation as evidence that they have become closer 140 147 204 205.

When Ye Mo considers resuming her education and taking university entrance examinations, Ruan Xianyue, Ye Zhipeng, and Ye Lin offer their support. The family eventually hires a private tutor while shielding her from unwanted visitors 208 210.

Relationships with Other Families

• Yuan Family — Friends for nearly a century. Yuan elders repeatedly saved members of the Ye Family through their medical work, but Yuan Yongkang’s role in the baby switch severely damages the relationship 92 95.
• He Family — A century-old family friendship reinforced when the He patriarch saved Ye Mo’s grandfather. The families agreed to a marriage between a boy and girl of Ye Mo’s generation; the baby switch complicates the intended match, and later discussions shift toward He Mingzhang 127 130 184.
• Qi Family — A less wealthy and less powerful business family. Ye Lin’s intervention ends Qi Yuwen’s attempt to displace Ye Mo from Chase, while Ye Mo later warns Qi Yuwen that antagonizing the Ye Family could endanger his position within his own household 42 48 49.
• Zheng Family — Long received corporate assistance from the Ye Family. After learning what Zheng Lingyin did, Ye Lin targets its business and argues that any old debt owed by his parents has already been repaid. Ye Zhipeng ultimately orders the Zheng visitors removed from his home 214 216.