Sikong Ye

Biodata

Background / History

Sikong Ye comes from Northern Wei but initially conceals his origins while traveling through Great Yan. He has battlefield experience and has killed dozens, possibly hundreds, of people before accompanying Jun Jingyi. Despite this experience, the number of recent civilian deaths outside prosperous Tianfu City disturbs him 21 35.

After arriving in Great Yan, he is ambushed and gravely wounded. Jun Jingyi discovers him bleeding in an alley, carries him to the Jun residence, and quietly arranges medical treatment. Bai Ruoli recognizes Sikong Ye as an exceptionally skilled wanderer whom the Eighth Prince rescued in her previous life; Jun Jingyi’s intervention therefore departs from the events she remembers 9 10 36.

Sikong Ye later admits that he is from Northern Wei but refuses to disclose his full identity, saying that doing so would not benefit Jun Jingyi. Jun connects his surname to Northern Wei’s imperial clan and suggests that he may be the escaped child of Sikong Baixing, a border general whose family was executed for treason five years earlier. Sikong Ye neither confirms nor denies the connection and insists that Northern Wei has nothing to do with him 35.

Appearance

• Hair and face: Long hair and a tough-looking face; his hair is disheveled when Jun Jingyi first brings him home 10.
• Clothing: Initially wears blue clothes soaked so thoroughly in blood that they appear black. Later appearances describe him in black clothing 10 16.
• Covert attire: Wears black night clothes while delivering the Dragon-Slaying Precious Saber to the Li Family’s gates 38.

Personality

Sikong Ye is quick to confront injustice. He attacks servants beating a defenseless woman and is furious when he learns how the Li Family’s second son destroyed ordinary families. He wants to kill the culprit immediately but restrains himself because he does not want to implicate Jun Jingyi. His concern for the poor also becomes more personal: he admits that he once would have ignored a beggar’s death, but knowing and helping the man makes the loss painful 18 19.

His compassion does not prevent him from accepting lethal retaliation. He comes to support the destruction of the Li Family after considering its victims, captures its surviving patriarch, and later reports that the remaining business has been dealt with. He also accepts the possibility that Jun Jingyi intends to rebel, having lost sympathy for Great Yan’s authorities and imperial family 36 37 39 40.

Away from violence, he is teasing, food-loving, and increasingly comfortable around Jun Jingyi. He mocks Jun’s vanity and excessive profits, guards his osmanthus cakes against imagined confiscation, and repeatedly marvels at his inventions and poetry. By the mooncake campaign, he has earned enough through helping Jun to consider himself modestly wealthy—a change Jun jokingly regards as the loss of his formerly innocent helper 16 27 28 38 49.

Abilities & Skills

Martial Arts

An accomplished martial artist whose protection gives Jun Jingyi confidence when traveling outside the residence 9 30.

• Defeats the servants attacking a woman in only a few moves 18.
• Seizes the Li Family head when he attempts to flee 39.
• Moves across rooftops during the saber-delivery operation and quickly disappears into the night 38.
• Has no named martial realm or documented breakthrough in the supplied chapters.

Intelligence Gathering and Organization

Entrusted with establishing the Beggar Sect using Jun Jingyi’s funding 30.

• Quickly investigates the Li Family’s political backing, household, and second son’s crimes 19.
• Repeatedly reports the arrival of jianghu organizations, including the Water God Gang and Snow Mountain Sect 37.
• Receives detailed reports on incoming experts and identifies a murdered beggar as one of their people 43.
• States that all beggars in Tianfu City belong to their organization by this point 43.
• His network remains insufficient for Jun Jingyi’s wider ambitions, prompting plans for a separate restaurant-based intelligence organization 50.

Martial Knowledge and Physical Conditioning

• Gives Jun Jingyi advice on exercise and medicinal support, explaining that continued effort can make his weak body stronger than an ordinary person’s without guaranteeing martial attainment 16.
• Describes the jianghu in terms of territorial wars, treasure disputes, revenge, and clan extermination rather than romantic chivalry 28.
• Knows details about the weapons of Great Yan’s founding ruler and recognizes weapon quality through handling and testing 35 36.
• Draws on battlefield experience to judge that the bodies at the mass grave have been dead for no more than three days 21.

Commercial Assistance

• Is tasked with hiring workers, spreading the Chang’e and Da Yi story, and distributing one hundred daily samples for Jun Jingyi’s mooncake campaign 49.
• Is sent to purchase the Four Seas Inn as part of Jun Jingyi’s retaliation against two Upright Heart School disciples 43.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Treasured longsword — Carries a sword at his waist that he has treasured for years. It breaks when he tests it against a newly forged Dragon-Slaying Precious Saber 36.
• Dragon-Slaying Precious Saber — Tests one of Jun Jingyi’s mass-produced weapons and later delivers a saber to the Li Family gates to set the competing factions in motion 36 38.
• Iron-cone megaphone — Uses Jun Jingyi’s simple voice-amplifying device to announce the saber’s delivery across western Tianfu City 38.
• Transparent crystal — Brings the crystal Jun Jingyi uses with bronze mirrors to manufacture the supposed heavenly omen 41.

Relationships

• Jun Jingyi — Rescuer, host, employer, and close companion. Sikong Ye provides protection and carries out intelligence, commercial, and covert assignments. He chooses to remain with Jun even after concluding that his preparations resemble rebellion 9 30 36 49.
• Sikong Baixing — Possible family connection. Jun Jingyi suspects Sikong Ye is the child who escaped the execution of the general’s household; Sikong Ye leaves the suggestion unanswered 35.
• Bai Ruoli — Recognizes him from her previous life. His rescue by Jun Jingyi, rather than the Eighth Prince, contributes to her suspicion that Jun may also have been reborn 9.
• Eighth Prince — His rescuer in Bai Ruoli’s previous life, but a source of anger in the present timeline. Sikong Ye rejects the prince’s settlement protecting the Li Family’s second son 9 24.
• Beggar Sect members — Organizes their recruitment and handles reports concerning them. The torture and death of one member lead to retaliation against the responsible disciples 30 43.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Seeking Justice Against the Li Family

• Intervenes when Li Family servants beat a woman whose infant has died, then investigates the second young master’s record of abduction and ruined families 18 19.
• Searches through a mass grave for the woman’s body and helps Jun Jingyi give her a proper burial 21.
• Leaves the Eighth Prince’s conciliatory banquet furious that the culprit has escaped punishment 24.
• Monitors arriving martial factions, plants the saber at the Li Family gates, and captures the patriarch after the household’s destruction 37 38 39.
• Reports that matters have been settled as he and Jun Jingyi leave the burning residence 40.

The Divine Weapons Scheme

• Discovers that Jun Jingyi can mass-produce weapons capable of breaking his treasured sword. Recognizing their military implications, he suspects rebellion but commits to following Jun 36.
• Accompanies Jun to observe the confrontation between the Eighth Prince and jianghu fighters, then witnesses how the supposedly supernatural omen is created 41.
• Watches the flying Kongming lanterns used to further manipulate the prince. When fighting resumes, he follows Jun’s instruction to take no further action 44.

Beggar Sect Retaliation

• Reports that two Upright Heart School disciples have tortured and killed one of their beggars 43.
• Receives instructions to buy the disciples’ inn and reserve it for them. Their deaths in a fire that night expose the Beggar Sect’s hidden reach and make other factions more cautious about causing trouble in Tianfu City 43.

Commercial Expansion

• Takes on promotional and staffing work for the profitable mooncake campaign 49.
• Remains beside Jun Jingyi as Jun plans restaurant expansion across the three kingdoms and turns his attention toward strengthening his military power 50.

Notable Quotes

“The jianghu comes down to one word: slaughter!” 28

“Northern Wei has nothing to do with me. I'm only telling you so you'll understand that I won't inform the Great Yan court.” 35

“Of course. Are there any beggars in Tianfu City who aren't one of ours?” 43