Ye Jin

Biodata

Background

Previous Life and Transmigration

In her previous life, Ye Jin worked behind the scenes on film sets. After months of surviving on three or four hours of sleep a day, she died from overwork. Shortly before her consciousness disappeared, a system offered her transmigration into a novel and lasting wealth in exchange for completing a mission. She accepted because refusing meant death 1 15.

The system became dormant after her transmigration because it lacked energy. Ye Jin grew up for twenty-five years without knowing about the mission, raised by middle-class parents who deliberately prepared her to marry into wealth through elite schooling and expensive hobbies 1.

Marriage and Original Fate

Lin Xiwen arranged for Ye Jin to meet her workaholic son, Su Chengjing. Their marriage initially rested on practical compatibility rather than love: he appreciated her respect for his boundaries, while she liked his wealth, appearance, and frequent absence from home 1 2.

When the system reactivated, Ye Jin learned that she lived inside Revenge CEO’s Deep Love. The novel cast her as Xie Haoyu’s vicious ex-girlfriend who supposedly abandoned him for money. In reality, she had broken up with him because of his controlling, chauvinistic behavior, half a month before his family’s bankruptcy. Her original ending involved depression, repeated humiliation by Xie Haoyu, and suicide after the Su Group collapsed 1 2.

Appearance

• Features and bearing: Refined, strikingly beautiful features and an elegant manner; Huo Yun recruited her after being impressed by her appearance at a dinner party 1 15.
• Formal clothing: Introduced wearing a white haute couture gown at the Su Family’s banquet 1.
• Screen appearance: Her white gauze costume and flowing-cloud bun in Kunlun Duel give her a fairy-like appearance, drawing admiration even from people accustomed to seeing her 16.

Personality

Ye Jin’s gentle, well-behaved public image conceals a profane, sarcastic inner monologue. Early on, she carefully maintains the persona expected of a wealthy family’s daughter-in-law, even withholding useful warnings when speaking would seem out of character. As she becomes more secure, she grows willing to confront people openly 2 11 71.

She values comfort, money, food, and leisure more than celebrity status. Her previous death makes an easier life especially appealing, but she eventually rejects dependence on marriage alone and builds an investment career. She remains firm about leaving acting even when international brands offer lucrative endorsements 15 58 60 88.

Gossip is her greatest weakness: she stays awake reading scandals, posts anonymous revelations, and listens through a guesthouse wall hoping to witness an affair’s exposure. Nevertheless, her mockery often accompanies genuine sympathy for betrayed women and admiration for women who succeed at work 3 8 16 32 52.

Her generosity is tempered by financial caution. She supports Jiang Ye’s return to acting but initially worries about risking investors’ money on an unreliable filming schedule. She also recognizes that her knowledge of a novel is not infallible, eventually apologizing for treating Su Chengjing’s supposed romantic encounter as established fact 78 81 88.

Abilities & Skills

Novel Library and Plot Knowledge

The system leaves Ye Jin access to a library of novels, allowing her to identify stories involving people she encounters and read their original outcomes 2 48.

• Reveals hidden affairs, betrayals, family connections, and future schemes, including Su Yang’s mistress and Hou Yuanwu’s existing family 3 36.
• Contains more than the Su Family’s story; she finds Evening Rain Falls Steadily when investigating Yan Xuelan and Yan Yulan 48.
• Provides an original storyline, not a guaranteed future. Her assumptions about Su Chengjing’s “true love” become a prolonged misunderstanding after events diverge 65 72 88.

Involuntary Inner-Voice Broadcast

A system bug accidentally links Ye Jin’s brainwaves to characters designated as villains, enabling them to hear her thoughts. Their access to her plot knowledge lets them investigate betrayals and change their endings 97.

• Unconscious operation: Ye Jin does not knowingly transmit warnings and remains unaware of the broadcast until the system explains it 35 97.
• Range: Lin Xiwen tests an approximate range of one hundred meters; the thoughts become clearer at closer distances 8.
• Speech restriction: Listeners initially cannot directly explain the phenomenon to Ye Jin. Lin Xiwen and Su Chenglan also deliberately protect the secret for her safety 35 43.
• End of the effect: After the system’s repair and the plane incident, Lin Xiwen and Su Chenglan can no longer hear her thoughts. They later discover they can discuss the former broadcasts openly 89 91 97.

System Assistance

The system is frequently unavailable, leaving Ye Jin to navigate most of the mission without active support 2 89.

• Returns during a dangerous flight after spending nearly a year repairing its bug 89.
• Infiltrates the world’s network to search for evidence of Xie Haoyu’s crimes at her request 91.
• Supplies private celebrity gossip, which quickly becomes another shared interest between host and system 91.
• Receives enough energy from the completed mission to unlock all permissions 96.

Entertainment Investment and Production

Ye Jin combines her previous-life production experience, plot knowledge, and assessment of the industry with Huo Yun’s professional connections 15 21.

• Refuses to invest in Kunlun Duel unless He Cheng is replaced, treating his continued involvement as a financial risk 29.
• Selects variety shows partly for their smaller investment requirements, shorter production cycles, and faster returns 47.
• Pursues a drama she and Huo Yun can control rather than remaining dependent on acting offers 60.
• Seeks the original author’s participation and intends to respect the source material rather than arbitrarily adding romance 64 71 72.

Acting

Huo Yun considers Ye Jin exceptionally promising, but Ye Jin regards her own acting as ordinary and has little interest in making it her long-term profession 15 16 21.

• Her senior-sister role in Kunlun Duel becomes more popular than the drama’s leads 60.
• She declines the endorsements generated by that success and follows through on leaving acting 60 61.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Protecting the Su Family

With Su Chengjing kidnapped abroad, Ye Jin learns that a family banquet is a turning point toward the Su Group’s bankruptcy. Her silent criticism exposes Su Yang’s affair with Chen Ruxue to Zhou Wanqing and alerts Lin Xiwen to the threat against the family. Ye Jin also posts anonymously about Su Yang’s pursuit of Zhou Wanqing for power 2 3 8.

Her thoughts subsequently identify Xu You as Xie Haoyu’s agent and encourage Lin Xiwen to manage the Su Group herself. They also reveal Su Chengjing’s location, prompting Lin Xiwen to contact security personnel and police, although he escapes before they reach him 9 10 11 35.

When Su Chenglan introduces Hou Yuanwu, Ye Jin’s recollection of his original betrayals exposes his pursuit of wealthy women, child bride, and two children. Lin Xiwen investigates, and Su Chenglan ultimately ends the relationship and turns toward her career 36 43 46.

Moving Behind the Camera

Ye Jin returns to Kunlun Duel but tells Huo Yun that it will be her final acting production. She proposes establishing a film and television investment company instead, appealing to Huo Yun’s dissatisfaction with short-term talent management 15 21.

Her involvement in entertainment brings her into contact with women whose original endings are also disastrous. Yang Manhui recognizes He Cheng’s betrayal, while Xu Yan investigates Fu Ruiming and secures compensation in their divorce. Both later support Ye Jin’s business activities 19 24 34 39.

Su Chengjing’s Return and Courtship

Su Chengjing returns after nearly six months to find his family thriving, with Lin Xiwen crediting Ye Jin for helping stabilize its situation. He also discovers that he can hear her thoughts 66.

Ye Jin assumes his original-story romantic encounter must have occurred and interprets his gifts as preparations for divorce or an affair. During an island holiday, he explicitly denies having another woman. She accepts his explanation and acknowledges that she has mistaken her imagination for the truth 67 72 87 88.

Xie Haoyu’s Retaliation and Mission Completion

As Xie Haoyu’s schemes repeatedly fail around people connected to Ye Jin, he identifies her as an obstacle and begins watching her. Su Chengjing discovers the surveillance and assigns four bodyguards, with at least two accompanying her at a time 46 64 85.

During severe turbulence on their return flight from the island, the repaired system reconnects and Su Chengjing begins confessing his feelings. Both survive the ensuing plane incident. Afterward, Ye Jin directs the system to search for evidence against Xie Haoyu 89 91.

The system later confirms that the mission is complete and reveals the accidental thought broadcast. Mortified by everything others have heard, Ye Jin nevertheless returns home and faces her family. They reassure her that they welcome her honest personality 96 97 98.

On her birthday, Ye Jin takes the initiative with Su Chengjing. After frankly listing his shortcomings, she tells him that she feels comfortable with him and wants them to support each other for life. He accepts, and they embrace 98.

Relationships

• Su Chengjing — Husband. Their practical arranged match develops into mutual affection after his return, despite her persistent suspicion that he has another woman 1 66 88 98.
• Lin Xiwen — Mother-in-law and close companion. Arranges the marriage, acts on Ye Jin’s unwitting warnings, rewards her assistance, and ultimately encourages her to speak as freely as she thinks 2 11 14 98.
• Su Chenglan — Sister-in-law. Initially defends Hou Yuanwu against Ye Jin’s revelations, then accepts the truth and thanks Ye Jin with a necklace she designed 36 46 47.
• Huo Yun — Manager and business partner. Recruits Ye Jin into acting, urges financial independence, and joins her transition into entertainment investment 15 21 47.
• Zhou Wanqing — Initially hostile relative by marriage. After learning of Su Yang’s betrayal, recognizes her debt to Ye Jin and gives her an extravagant belated wedding gift 3 13.
• Yang Manhui — Fellow actress and industry ally. Ye Jin’s thoughts expose He Cheng’s behavior; Yang Manhui later asks to be considered for her future projects 19 34 35.
• Xu Yan — Fruit Video executive and business collaborator. Uses Ye Jin’s warning to investigate Fu Ruiming, then introduces her to projects, directors, and producers 30 39.
• Yan Xuelan — Fellow Let’s Travel Together guest. Hears Ye Jin’s thoughts, confirms the betrayal by Yan Yulan and Chu Xiao, and plans her own exposure of them 52.
• Song Miao — Author and screenwriting collaborator. Agrees to join Ye Jin’s production after Ye Jin defends her against Wan Shiliu 71 72.
• Jiang Ye — Lead actress selected for The Phoenix First Rises. Earns Ye Jin’s confidence by committing to reliable childcare, attendance, and compensation for any delays she causes 81.
• Xie Haoyu — Former boyfriend and enemy. Blames their breakup on her supposed materialism, targets the Su Family, and eventually regards her as responsible for his failed plans 2 42 64 85.
• System — Transmigration guide and mission provider. Ye Jin repeatedly calls it unreliable, but its library enables her plot knowledge and its later network access assists her investigations 2 89 91 97.

Possessions & Resources

• Pink diamond: Zhou Wanqing’s belated wedding gift, estimated by Ye Jin to be worth at least fifty million at auction 13.
• Family trust allowance: Lin Xiwen doubles her monthly allowance from five hundred thousand to one million 14.
• Shares: Receives a fractional shareholding valued at several hundred million 14.
• Sapphire necklace: Su Chenglan’s original design, featuring a sapphire of nearly ten carats surrounded by smaller diamonds 47.
• Gifts from Su Chengjing: Limited-edition handbags, valuable jewelry, and several islands 72.
• Personal security: Four bodyguards assigned after Xie Haoyu places her under surveillance 85.

Notable Quotes

“Ugh, how annoying. I just want to lie flat and live my own life!” 2

“Yun-jie, I know very well that I don't have much talent for acting. More importantly, I'm not particularly interested in it either.” 21

“Most importantly, I feel comfortable when I'm with you.” 98

“Then here's to a happy partnership.” 98