Ye Yunshang

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Pearl of Diancang

"It's not that I like you. I just want to see you heartbroken, all on my own account."

Miss Ye Yunshang of the Diancang Sect is a mischievous little demon who loves to stir up trouble and act spoiled, and has no sense of propriety. Not a soul in the Diancang Sect is spared her antics.

If you want to get close to her, you still have to get past .

Biographies

The old biographies reflect the setting before 1.0.5000 and are obsolete. The biggest difference is that the treasure is gone.

Ye Yunzhou's younger sister, a sickly beauty who stirs pity at a glance.

Frail from birth, she is often feverish and bedridden,
but by nature she is cheerful and pays it no mind.

Fond of acting spoiled, she is doted on by everyone in Diancang,
and can summon wind and rain as she pleases.

Though she trains in the Diancang martial arts and Internal Method under her brother's urging, her constitution limits her. Even with the whole thing memorized backward and forward, she makes little progress; walking a little too fast leaves her short of breath, let alone dancing with a blade.

She has no particular hobbies, but is full of curiosity about the world below the mountain.

She hates hardship and hates medicine. Force it down her and she will vomit,
and after vomiting she will mock you with a look of gloating.

For some reason she came down the mountain with her brother,
only to be hunted by the Diancang Sect.

Many in the Jianghu covet what she carries,
so she has no choice but to hide her tracks.

She could have lived a carefree life, yet she would rather roam the world as she pleases. The hardships of travel make her fevers come more often. Whenever her mind grows hazy, she need only clutch her brother's hem to sleep soundly.

"As long as my brother is here, I don't want anything else,
just the two of us leaning on each other like this, the same as before..."

She carries a grave secret.

The Ye siblings' great-grandfather was one of the trusted generals under Yue Yun, son of King Wumu, the famous general who fought the Jin.

Legend says Emperor Gaozong sent twelve golden plaques in succession. Yue Fei, for the sake of loyalty and righteousness, went willingly to his death, but lamented that the great cause of resisting the Jin was unfinished. Should military power fall into the hands of traitors, the Great Song would be beyond saving. So the main force of the Yue Family Army was scattered, treasure was hidden in the mountains, and an iron military token was forged and entrusted to his eldest son Yue Yun, so that in the future the token might command the old troops and carry on the will to protect the nation.

But Yue Yun died before his father. In his peril he entrusted the token to a subordinate, bidding him hide in the Jianghu and wait for the descendants of Wumu to come for it.

That subordinate hid his name, took to the mountains and forests, and posed as a bandit, while in truth three generations guarded the token unto death.

The secret was kept for nearly a hundred years, but in the end it became known. The treasure and the token brought down destruction on the whole family. Fearing the token would fall into wicked hands and bring ruin to the people, their parents branded the token onto their beloved daughter's back and then destroyed it.

She carries a grave secret.

The Ye siblings' great-grandfather was one of the trusted generals under Yue Yun, son of King Wumu, the famous general who fought the Jin.

Legend says Emperor Gaozong sent twelve golden plaques in succession. Yue Fei, for the sake of loyalty and righteousness, went willingly to his death, but lamented that the great cause of resisting the Jin was unfinished. Should military power fall into the hands of traitors, the Great Song would be beyond saving. So the main force of the Yue Family Army was scattered, treasure was hidden in the mountains, and an iron military token was forged and entrusted to his eldest son Yue Yun, so that in the future the token might command the old troops and carry on the will to protect the nation.

But Yue Yun died before his father. In his peril he entrusted the token to a subordinate, bidding him hide in the Jianghu and wait for the descendants of Wumu to come for it.

That subordinate hid his name and withdrew from the world into the mountains and forests, while generation after generation guarded the token unto death.

At the time of the Baifeng Cave Uprising, the Ye Family was charged with a crime for their words and fell afoul of the reigning emperor. The whole family was wiped out, and the Ye siblings became orphans.

On the day her family was destroyed, the young Yunshang took a palm strike from a martial arts expert hired by the Imperial Court. Her Meridians were severed, half her body paralyzed, and she seemed unlikely to live.

Fortunately, an expert of the Diancang Sect happened to be roaming down the mountain at the time. He drove off the enemy at once, shielded her Heart Meridian with deep Internal Force, and emptied his pouch of Spirit Pills and wonder drugs to barely save her life.

After that, she and her brother naturally joined the Diancang Sect.

She always knew that those who flattered her were only after the secret she carried. Even the Master who saved her life had only acted because her brother lured him with the treasure. Apart from her brother, there was probably not a soul in the whole sect with good intentions.

For all her innocent, artless look, she was wary every moment, having grown up amid hatred.

Until you appeared. You are not much to look at, but the way you would not even spare a glance for the treasure for the sake of the Junior Martial Sister puts her at ease, and at the same time she feels an inexplicable jealousy toward that Junior Martial Sister she has never met.

On the day her family was destroyed, the young Yunshang took a palm strike from a martial arts expert sent by the Imperial Court. Her dantian was shattered, her Meridians severed, and she seemed unlikely to live.

Only after countless perils did she barely cling to life and join the Diancang Sect.

She seems innocent and artless, but in truth she is always on her guard, and does not lightly trust even the Beloved Master who saved her life.

Until you and Moling appeared.

Her only regret is that she was born a woman, so there is no hope of marrying Moling in this life. Fortunately she can settle for the next best thing and marry you.

Ugly as you are, she would have sooner died than give herself to you, but who knew you would be so utterly devoted, chasing her all the way to hell and refusing to let go.

Having been doted on like that, who under heaven could keep from falling for you?

Certainly not her.

Bonding Process

See Ye Yunshang Bonding Guide

Bonding Keepsake

Ye Yunshang's Comb

The first treasure Ye Yunshang ever collected: an ivory comb.

Its pattern is clouds and leaves. She gives it to you as a token of joined hair.

Personality

• On the surface she treats life and death lightly; in truth she has literally given up on treatment, and wants to spend her time on pleasure and on the company of family and friends.
• She believes that as long as someone remembers her, she can live on in their heart, and this may be why she is always stirring up trouble.
• She says outright that she does as she pleases because she is cute.
• If she is not playing a prank, she is on her way to play one, treating every day as her last and raising hell.
  • If Zhao Huo copied her behavior, his Morality would go extinct at high speed.
• Sometimes she quite enjoys watching her brothers clean up the mess after her.
• Most of the secret manuals she writes or adapts cost Morality.

Physique

• Though only about fifteen, her bust far surpasses that of the other girls her age in the story.
  • When she pretends to hang herself, the rope catches on her chest and she cannot breathe.
  • Even Xie Wuchen, who keeps away from women and is a bit of a simpleton, says outright that if not for the beard, he would have taken the big bundle on the chest for a woman's.
  • Her own brother teases her that she would be seen through at once if she dressed as a man.
    • Yet when Ye Yunzhou meets Ye Yunjiu, he does not notice at all that it is his own sister before him. There is definitely something wrong with her brother.

Frailty

• She took a fatal wound when her family fell. Her clan uncle Li Yuanqi prolonged her life with the Nine Springs Pill, and afterward the Diancang Twin Venerables, Duan Zhixiu, Nangong Yuan, and Zou Bo lent their palms to aid her. But because her dantian is damaged, she cannot refine it herself, so the evil waxes and the upright wanes.
  • An ordinary doctor can hardly diagnose this condition. Only doctors who are both martial artists and physicians, such as , Liang Youshi, and , can treat it.
• She looks lively as can be, but the hidden trouble runs deep; it is only dormant for the moment. Her condition is enough to kill her three times over.
• She still has a little room to grow in height, but she must first nurse her health back. ^[1] Though gravely ill, she does not vomit blood every day. ^[2]
• She is heavier than , though the specifics are hard to say; her health is complicated, and she could waste away at any moment. ^[3]
• Even after recovering she still gets seasick. Without , Brother Ye has no choice but to carry her off the boat and walk.

Cleverness

• She is naturally gifted, with astonishing powers of observation.
• Having learned from childhood how treacherous people's hearts can be, she has grown skilled at reading and deducing them.
  • She picks her targets for pranks and never provokes the stern and serious.
    • The list of those she has never pranked: Tang Zhongling, Tang Sheng, Tang Zheng, Shentu Long
  • She knows who will fall for her acting spoiled and who will not.
  • She knows what bait suits whom when buying people's favor.
  • She can size up a person's true nature in a short time.
• She is eloquent, with extremely high Mouth Power. She not only knows how to fish for information, but can twist right and wrong with her words alone.
• Her acting is superb, utterly convincing, especially her fake crying. A child star who can cry on cue in ten seconds.
• When needed, she can devise reliable tactics in a short time.
  • She planned the bold scheme to snatch from the convoy with only four people, Ye Yunzhou and Duan Zhixiu among them.
  • She planned the escape that got herself, Zhao Huo, Tang Fang, and the others out of Qingcheng unscathed.
  • At the Wulin Assembly, seeing the Tang Clan detained on false rumors, she used a single baozi and a few hints to set the Assembly quarreling among themselves and free the Tang Clan.
    • In the end she left the rumor-monger Chao He dead in misery and Shi Ming stripped of all dignity.

Gift for Learning

• Her memory is astonishing. Not quite word for word, but she recalls countless details of past events in exhaustive detail.
• Were she not frail, she would likely have more talent for martial arts than her brother Ye Yunzhou.
• She memorized Pangu's Heaven-Opening Strike and the Heaven-Slaying Black Wing Twin Dragon Sword just from watching, and wrote them up into secret manuals.
• Secret manuals of her own creation: the Snowball Combat Manual and the Cloud Garment Sword Technique.
• Secret manuals she adapted: the Diancang Staff Technique, adapted from the Diancang Sword Manual.
• The moment she recovered, she challenged her brother, Diancang's Fastest Swordsman, to a Duel and won, partly to prove that hard work is worthless before talent.
  • Ye Yunzhou, who believes in bitter practice, lost until he doubted his whole life, and Zhao Huo, a fellow believer in bitter practice who witnessed it, was utterly broken inside.
  • Perhaps this was the very chance that led to the development of Thunder Shakes the Nine Heavens.
• If she goes to Jinxiang Palace with Zhao Huo, she learns the qin with no musical background at all, in the short time she stays there.
  • She not only passes the examination piece, Midnight Letter to You, but adapts it herself into a lively version: "Fain would I match my virtue to yours, and walk hand in hand with you."
  • When Lady Wen learns of this she is delighted, and gifts her a qin and sheet music that can help warm a husband and wife's affection.
  • At the Wulin Assembly, hearing Lady Wen play Midnight Letter to You with her own ears, she weeps bitterly that her own playing was so childish.
• Her painting is excellent; the cards and portraits she draws all resemble their subjects.
• As a child she slipped into the Diancang Sword Hall for a moment and grasped three Ultimate techniques, and even had the chance to create .
  • From memory she restored Zhao Huo's old room in the Outer Fort into the hut of the Sword Saint of Diancang, so that Zhao Huo could grasp sword techniques inside it.

Relationships

• Popularity with the opposite sex: excellent. If her own brother betrothed her to Zhao Huo, she would be stunned to be refused.
• She holds extremely high sway in the Tang Clan, confirmed to be at least more influential than .
  • She is the darling of the Women's Quarters, and has won several beds off people at cards.
  • If bullies Zhao Huo and Tang Zheng does not step in to stop him, Yunshang will step forward and teach a lesson.
  • During the Tang Clan's internal strife she can command many Disciples in battle, a feat none of the other Tang Clan Senior Brothers and Sisters can manage.
  • During the Wulin Alliance war, if Zhao Huo takes the post of Acting Sect Leader, she will lead a great many Tang Clan Disciples to the mountain road and set a great many Traps.

Tang Sheng

• She takes it upon herself to call "Grandpa." He usually retorts, "I am not your grandpa," but when his emotions run high he still blurts out, "Who dares lay a hand on my granddaughter?"
• and Tang Zhongling never think Yunshang makes trouble. In fact, Yunshang truly does not dare make trouble for those two old gentlemen.
• When saying farewell to the Tang Clan, she makes a point of running to and weeping.
• During the Wulin Alliance war, if she stays at the Tang Clan, she disguises herself as Ye Yunjiu and guards with a sword.

Ye Yunzhou

• When she cannot be reined in, you can complain to Ye Yunzhou, and he will tan her hide.
• She feels her is dragged down by her. praised him as having a swordsman's bone that comes once in a century; her brother ought to be a hero revered by all, yet for her sake he bows to others and toils half his life away.
• When she plays pranks she fears dragging down 's name, so she cheerfully decides to push Zhao Huo out as the sacrifice, with Zhao Huo bearing half of every crime, which is how Zhao Huo inexplicably ends up blacklisted by the inns.
  • But most of the time the pranks never let up, and 's name is dragged down all the same.
• Of all the people in the world, the one she worries about most is . From childhood he has put her first in everything, never once thinking about his own likes and dislikes, as if he had no life of his own.
• She worries that after she is gone will lose his anchor, and since he is a handsome man who keeps away from women, she actively scouts for a Sister-in-law for him.
  • Her requirements for a sister-in-law: spoil her. Not too clever; must be the type to be fooled by appearances. And no big butt.
• After Yunshang recovers, she sends a challenge letter for a Duel, disguises herself as Ye Yunjiu to show off her martial talent, and uses it to urge her brother to set down his sword and do what he truly wants.
• If she dies of illness, Ye Yunzhou falls to the malice of the Jianghu and becomes the Diancang Sword Ghost.

Tang Fang

• She rather dotes on Yunshang, and goes along with most of Yunshang's requests so long as they do not harm her health.
• Yunshang is well behaved toward Tang Fang and has never pranked her. After all, just taking medicine is bitter enough.
  • The one exception was sneaking off to buy a gift for Tang Fang.
• She knows Tang Fang likes handsome men, but has never thought to recruit her as a Sister-in-law.
  • Perhaps she is too clever, and does not meet the sister-in-law requirements.

Liang Youshi

• She takes her own life and death lightly. Her core motive for being willing to go to the Jin Kingdom for treatment is that the other party (Liang Youshi) is a woman doctor and might become a Sister-in-law.
• Before going to the Jin Kingdom, she forces to admit that he covets Liang Youshi's beauty and wants to marry her.
  • Ye Yunzhou, under duress, has no choice but to swear it against his conscience.
• Apart from her cleverness, Liang Youshi does meet the sister-in-law requirements.
• In the Western Wulin victory ending where Yunshang lives, she says outright that she means to snatch Liang Youshi as a Sister-in-law, making her blush scarlet.

Junior Martial Sister

• She is about the same age as , estimated at fifteen, and is drawn to her the moment they meet, wanting to grow close.
  • The two seem to have no other playmates their age, and become fast friends and confidantes, very close indeed.
• In principle she does not prank much, at most needling her a little, and luckily Moling does not mind.
  • But in the case of the Hero's Flying Wrist Ghost Hand, she not only pinned the blame on as the mastermind, but got her caught in a Trap and hung up in a tree. Moling was angry for three days and three nights and would not speak to Yunshang.
• At 's martial contest for a husband, she eagerly helps filter out unsuitable candidates.
• In Yunshang's eyes, no man under heaven is worthy of Moling. She fears that Moling, pure of soul and innocent, thinks everyone seems fine, and so will give her heart to the wrong person for life.
• Ignoring the wishes of those concerned, she wants to match with , so her good friend can become her Sister-in-law.
  • Seeing that urging gets nowhere, she simply disguises herself as Ye Yunjiu and enters the martial contest for a husband, only to be seen through by Zhao Huo and carried off.
• She can see the feelings hides, and draws her out to say what she thinks.

The Love Triangle with Tang Moling and Zhao Huo

• The pepper cake incident: she begs a pepper cake off Zhao Huo, but finds it too spicy, takes one bite and stops, and runs off outside to peek.
  • If a high-affection Zhao Huo cuts off the bite mark Yunshang left on the pepper cake, Yunshang flies into a shamefaced rage, tackles Zhao Huo to the ground, and bites Zhao Huo for real, leaving pain all over.
    • Seeing this, a high-affection makes Yunshang flee in embarrassment, and is stirred to jealousy, nibbling little bites over the marks Yunshang left.
• The martial contest for a husband: she declares Tang Moling is her wife, and that beating the heroes who come to the contest is no wrong.
  • Her only regret is not being born a man; otherwise she would have carried this girl off long ago, and would not have to worry herself sick over her.
  • She declares she will marry Moling Tang Moling, and take three thousand beauties for her rear palace along with Zhao Huo.
• After Tang Buyi dies in battle, if has high affection for Zhao Huo, Yunshang pulls along to leave the two of them alone, to comfort Zhao Huo.
  • But at the same time her own love pains her, and her illness worsens.
• In the old, unimplemented datamined story, Zhao Huo could bond with Tang Moling and Yunshang separately, and Yunshang would bow out of her own will for her friend's sake.
  • Apart from , she has no intention of sharing a husband with anyone.
  • But even if Zhao Huo really married both of them, he would get no peace; the two sisters would be so sweet and inseparable that Zhao Huo would have no part in it.
• She mutters to herself: if Zhao Huo were to be shared, the upper half goes to , and she takes the lower half.

Pranks

• She is skilled at tormenting people, the torment-them-to-death kind. She has no sense of how far is too far, and when she makes someone cry she feels guilty: a half-baked prankster. ^[4][5]
• It is said that nearly every Diancang Disciple has been pranked.
• Her pranks include but are not limited to:
  • Setting a Trap in the back mountain that caught Li Fugui hunting on the mountain, so that a live deer fell from the sky and knocked him unconscious.
  • Using the Hero's Flying Wrist to play ghost and spirit, until caught her and got beaten along with her.
  • Plucking the chickens of Meizhen town and weaving their feathers into a Feather Robe to wear, and wrapping a dog's four feet in banana peel. Any living, moving creature is bound to fall victim to her.
  • Poking holes in the inn's window paper and blowing incense through, so the guests took it for knockout smoke and suspected the inn of murder for profit, nearly dragging the authorities into it.
  • Forming a Demon King's Army in the Outer Fort, alarming the authorities. The Demon King's Army grew so mighty that even Shangguan Ying was conscripted into it.
  • Stuffing bamboo shoots into the cushions of . Her record is so bad that she has been ordered to stop at the gates of Shangqing Palace.
  • Apparently fond of the passion of Longyang. Catching Zhao Huo undressing to apply medicine patches, her first reaction: Oh... how exciting. She then sets to spreading rumors.
  • She calls "Fourth Fatty" and "Fatty Uncle Zou." She also gives Tang Clan Disciples nicknames like "Fatty" and "Whatshisname."
  • Putting Firecrackers in 's trunk, so that it explodes behind him as he walks.
  • When is bathing, she steals his clothes. When her blackmail fails, she throws the clothes off the cliff and lets the female Disciples gawk at him.
  • Exploiting Yu Zhu's nearsightedness, she puts a dead fish on her hammer, so the hammer bursts a corpse.
  • After her marriage, adding urine to the wine served to guests.

Dress & Property

• She loves to look pretty, and spends a great deal of time every day carefully dressing and making up.
• She likes collecting shiny things. ^[6]
• Though there is no treasure, the jewels on her person are frighteningly expensive. Her hoard of jewels would fetch ninety-four thousand eight hundred taels of silver if sold. The little flower on her hairpin is red coral, costlier than red chalcedony, along with pearls and silver leaves: treasures from the Dali royal house.
  • Yunshang manages her own money, and Ye Yunzhou has no right to interfere. She thinks that since she cannot be cured anyway, buying medicine is a waste. She will not let her brother touch a single coin on her person, and swears to carry it all into her grave.
  • She carries almost no cash. When she truly must pay a bill or buy someone off, she will part with a jewel to pay instead.
  • In the Western Wulin victory ending, she sells her jewels to travel with Zhao Huo, and to look for her quack of a brother.
• Her Demon King battle dress (the fox-fur cloak she wears) is precious, hood included, a spoil of war from the Dali royal palace.

Cards of Her Own Making

• She invented a paper-card game much like Duel Monsters, drawing portraits of famous heroes on the cards.

  The Ye Yunzhou card: seven stars, every ability maxed out, invincible; its special move is attacking three times in one Round.
  
  The Zhao Huo card: pure fodder, only one star, and there are especially many of them; usable as a meat shield, a sacrifice, or Equipment, and surprisingly versatile.
  
  The dog card: three stars, two more than Zhao Huo.
  
  The Ye Yunshang card: its special move is forcibly confiscating Enemy cards.
  
  The Tang Moling card: its special move is protecting itself from Zhao Huo's predations, splitting into three to murder every Zhao Huo, and the rules apply to the real Zhao Huo.

Notes

• Bird Bear's FB introduction: Link
• Her route opened in v1.0.5000; update preview video: Link
• Ye Yunshang's true nature: Link
• Original surname "Hua." ^[7]
• The official reading of the shang in Yunshang is the neutral tone, though Bear's pronunciation in interviews is closer to the first tone. ^[8][9] The name Yunshang means she is to be Lord Yun's garment, shielding him from wind and rain.
• Zhao Huo's little sister, Zhao A'Mao
• Watch my Diancang Staff Technique! Listening Cloud Staff!
• She loves sweets, especially candied hawthorn. Buy it, buy it! Any food Zhao Huo obtains is intercepted by her.
• She is a jealous one; she will only marry a man who is utterly devoted, and will not let anyone come share his favor.
• Lewd snow ferret "The sheep is Moling, and I am the snow ferret. Snow ferrets like to burrow into your sleeve, coil around your neck, and bite you..."
• She likes ghost stories, the kind that do not scare her at all. ^[3:1]
• Ending 15, one of the true meanings of Midnight Letter to You.
• The culprit who spread the Jianghu rumor that a treasure map was tattooed on her back is not Duan Zhixiu, but Lin Zhiheng.

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7. Plurk anonymous post: Link ↩︎

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