Li Family
I Accidentally Became the Ultimate Villain!
- Original Name:
- 李家 (lǐ jiā)
- Gender:
- Neutral
- Kind:
- Organization
- Scope:
- Novel-specific
- Status:
- Active
- Source:
- AI
- Occurrences:
- 94
- Chapters:
- 12
- Context Up To:
- Ch. 50
- Wiki Model:
- GPT-6.1 Sol
- Updated:
Biodata
| Feature | Details |
|---|---|
| Name | Li Family (李家) |
| Organization Type | Prominent merchant family 19 |
| Location | Western Tianfu City, Great Yan 31 38 |
| Leader | Unnamed Li Family head 23 24 |
| Affiliation | An unnamed high-ranking official in the Capital; protected by the Eighth Prince 23 31 |
| Occupation/Role | Merchant household serving as a financial backer for its court patron 23 |
| Status | Destroyed; its household was massacred and its residence burned 39 40 |
| First Appearance | Chapter 18, through its household servants 18 |
Background / History
Merchant Wealth and Court Protection
The Li Family was a prominent Tianfu merchant household with a hundred-year foundation. Its connection to a high-ranking official in the Capital allowed it to intimidate ordinary people with little fear of consequences. The family served as that official’s “purse,” making its survival politically valuable to the Eighth Prince, who hoped to secure the official’s support in the struggle for the throne 19 23.
The family head knowingly tolerated his second son’s abductions. He considered powerless victims manageable so long as the aftermath was concealed, and preferred overlooking his son’s crimes to disrupting harmony within the household 23.
Exposure and the Banquet Settlement
Jun Jingyi and Sikong Ye first encountered the family’s servants beating a bloodied woman who was protecting her dead infant. A Li young master had coveted her, used his family’s connections to cause her relatives’ deaths, and taken her by force. Sikong Ye’s investigation identified the culprit as the family’s sixteen-year-old second son, who had already driven no fewer than ten ordinary families to their deaths 18 19.
Jun Jingyi publicized the woman’s story and enlisted merchants to act against the family. Scholars wrote denunciations, women publicly condemned the household, authorities arrived at its residence, and crowds surrounded its shops. The Liu Family, a longstanding supplier, also cut off business dealings 23.
The Eighth Prince intervened through a banquet rather than openly confront the Jun Family. The Li patriarch apologized for his son having offended Jun Jingyi, and Jun accepted the apology. The prince declared the dispute settled, saving the second son without obtaining justice for the victims 24.
Renewed Abduction and Official Collusion
The second young master subsequently pursued another girl in broad daylight while Li guards dragged away the bodies of her apparent parents. Jun Jingyi ordered his guards to intervene, forced the young master to withdraw, and directed the girl to file a complaint at the county yamen 30 31.
Her complaint was dismissed as false, and county officials delivered her to the Li Family instead. At the Eighth Prince’s residence, a guard confirmed the delivery and conveyed the patriarch’s gratitude. The prince then ordered the woman’s family buried in a mass grave 31.
Destruction
Jun Jingyi chose the second young master as his first target and used rumors of the Dragon-Slaying Precious Saber and Heaven-Reliant Sword to draw martial factions into Tianfu City. He delayed acting until a major force—the Snow Mountain Sect—arrived, despite Sikong Ye’s assessment that the forces already present could destroy the Li household 33 34 37.
Following Jun Jingyi’s instructions, Sikong Ye delivered a saber to the Li Family gates. Its ability to break ordinary weapons convinced witnesses that it was the legendary Dragon-Slaying Precious Saber. Martial artists and the Eighth Prince’s guards converged on the estate, turning western Tianfu into a battlefield 38.
The patriarch survived the initial slaughter by hiding in a cellar. When he emerged, corpses filled the estate, his children’s remains could not be found, and only his nineteenth concubine remained alive among his wives. Jun Jingyi arrived with Sikong Ye, who seized the fleeing patriarch. Jun ordered him killed, rejecting his insistence that there was no reason to execute him 39.
Jun Jingyi had the residence burned rather than leave the household’s corpses to be buried alongside its victims in a mass grave. By the following day, the estate was a heap of ruins 40.
Members and Household
| Member / Group | Position | Known Details |
|---|---|---|
| Li Family head | Patriarch | Protected his second son and admitted overlooking the forced seizure of women. Captured by Sikong Ye and ordered executed by Jun Jingyi 23 39. |
| Second Young Master Li | Second of three sons | Sixteen years old when investigated; responsible for repeated abductions and the destruction of ordinary families 19. |
| Other sons | Family heirs | The patriarch had three sons; the other two are not individually identified 19. |
| Nineteenth concubine | Patriarch’s concubine | Was with the patriarch when disaster struck and remained alive when he emerged after the massacre 39. |
| Household servants and guards | Retainers | Beat victims, assisted the second young master’s abductions, and removed bodies from the streets 18 30. |
Resources and Influence
- Commercial holdings — Operated multiple shops and relied on established supply relationships, including one with the Liu Family 23.
- Court patronage — Financial ties to an influential Capital official gave the household protection beyond its standing as a merchant family 19 23.
- Armed retainers — Maintained guards who accompanied the second young master and enforced his demands 30.
- Official assistance — Benefited from the county yamen’s dismissal of a victim’s complaint and delivery of that victim into its custody 31.
Relationships
- Unnamed Capital official — Political patron whose finances were closely tied to the family. He belonged to the neutral faction the Eighth Prince sought to win over 23 31.
- Eighth Prince — Protector who saved the second young master through mediation and later facilitated another victim’s delivery to the household 24 31.
- Jun Jingyi — Principal enemy; organized public and commercial pressure before engineering the circumstances of the family’s destruction 23 37 38 39.
- Sikong Ye — Investigated the household’s crimes, delivered the saber used as bait, and captured the patriarch 19 38 39.
- Liu Family — Longstanding supplier that severed business ties during the public backlash 23.
Notable Quotes
“The law? My Li Family is the law. Heaven’s justice? My Li Family is heaven!”
— The patriarch’s remembered response to a woman demanding justice 39
Namesakes
- A historical Li Family appears in accounts of the martial world two hundred years earlier. That family rose alongside the Zhang Family before both were destroyed; the circulating weapon story associates it with the Heaven-Reliant Sword. No connection to the Tianfu merchant household is established in the provided account 34.