Wei Ju

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Mystic Skill Gate Leader

The Direct Disciple of the late leader of the Kongtong Sect's Mystic Skill Gate.

A quiet and strikingly beautiful young woman. She speaks softly and never raises a hand against anyone, yet is deeply respected by everyone in the sect, high and low.

She now serves as the Kongtong Sect's librarian, in charge of the profound texts above and of all household records, livestock, and income and expenses below.

The hand furnace she always carries is a clever device forged by Yu Zhu. It has many uses, and it even breathes fire.

She holds the legendary in deep reverence.

Biographies

Before the former Sect Leader passed away, she was specially summoned from the Gengyang Reading Studio as a distant relative, her old name changed to Ju, to succeed as Mystic Skill Gate Leader and serve as the Direct Disciple.

Do not be fooled by how soft and boneless she seems, always wearing a smile; in truth she knows how to manage her subordinates. She now serves as the Kongtong Sect's librarian, in charge of the profound texts above and of all household records, livestock, and income and expenses below. With her in the Kongtong Sect, everything is kept in perfect order.

She never raises a hand against anyone, yet is deeply respected by everyone in the sect, high and low. They say her martial arts are so high they startle the world, and that even the Flying Heaven Gate Leader, the Fire Dragon Immortal Monarch, who holds sole sway over the mountain, regards this Young Lady with a measure of caution.

In her woman's body she once took first place outright—the great Talented Woman of her day. In Jinling City, there is no one who does not know the name of Talented Woman Wei.

Every day gifts worth a thousand taels arrive, and there is no counting the scholars who vie for a single meeting with her. This Talented Woman has read too many books, and her pride has grown with them; she often stumps callers with couplets and declines to see them.

Like many literati, she thought highly of herself and held the world in her heart. So she bound up her hair and sat the imperial examination, placed first in the provincial round, then went to the Imperial Palace to become a student of the Son of Heaven, and shook the court with three thousand words of flowing prose, taking the Top Scholar's place.

She had thought that even if she could not be granted office like Lin Youyu, she might at least leave her name in the histories like Wu Zhiduan, and prove the astonishing learning of Wei Zhaodi.

Little did she expect that the great ministers of the court had long since had their fill of these women with a hen crowing at dawn, each one far too capable, which only made the ministers look useless. So they spent their eloquence urging the Emperor to issue an edict: "This woman is talented and beautiful in equal measure, and fit to be wed to Commandant De"—that is, to be given to a man as his wife, and a military officer of the upper eighth rank at that.

The man admired her fame, but because of his reputation for beating his wife to death, Talented Woman Wei had shut him out. Now he spent a fortune bribing those above him, and only then took her into his household.

On their wedding night, Talented Woman Wei wept and wept. Wanting to preserve her honor, she could not even find three feet of white silk. After crying a while, she noticed the Commandant's Residence was strangely quiet. She pushed open the door and found all thirty members of the household hanged and dead.

Beneath the swaying forest of corpses, the Apricot Blossom Immortal smiled as if she were not smiling, and beckoned her to come along.

The Apricot Blossom Immortal led her into Wende Hall to observe the court from the side, and only then did she learn that the court she had admired so long was as foul and muddy as a swamp.

These pampered dignitaries, perched above the clouds and untouched by the smoke and fire of the mortal world, were born without a care, with leisure to cultivate elegance. Every one of them was stuffed with learning and spoke in finished prose, yet the hardships of the people and the miseries of the frontier were nothing but material for their brush and ink.

The principles in books had, for the literati of this age, sunk to the surface. They prided themselves on their talent and looked down on all others, chanting of wind and moon while despising the common folk, too weak to truss a chicken, empty of so-called integrity, and smug about it besides.

Every soldier who died on the frontier—which of them lacked integrity? All men die. So why do the history books record only the names of you great ministers? Because the historians are literati too.

Wei Ju traveled from Xiangyang to Lin'an Prefecture and wept bitterly. She gave up all thought of entering court as an official, and swore:
"In times of peace I can sing and dance; in times of chaos I will not write poetry.
　Better to be a useless one in a well-governed age than a useful minister in a benighted court."

Even so, she often cannot resist the itch to show her skill and speaks in finished prose. At least she can mend the fold after the sheep is lost—she manages to ruin it in time just as it leaves her lips, so it does not count as breaking her vow not to write poetry.

She will gladly go down to the fields and farm alongside honest, illiterate villagers, but she has nothing but contempt for literati who read a few books and fancy themselves talents. That she can keep from losing her temper at all is proof of Wei Ju's exceptional cultivation.

Talented Woman

• says that Talented Woman Wei is a thunderclap in the ears of scholars, no less than Layman Yi'an, Li Qingzhao.
• Wei Ju's poems and paintings are all lost, and now cannot be bought for a thousand taels. If you accept the Selected Lyrics of the Song Dynasty, Shangguan Ying will go mad and pelt you with money.
• She was once Meng Xianyao's tutor, and even recommended her for entry to the Gengyang Reading Studio. Meng Xianyao respects her greatly.
• At 's request, she teaches her to read and write, and even sets her homework.
• The last few pages of the Selection of Contemporary Ci Poetry have been deliberately smeared and ruined and can no longer be read; the author's surname Wei can faintly be made out.
• The author of Legend of Mortal. Wei Ju knows everything!
• Thanks to the flourishing of fan works, she is gradually drifting toward the Longyang Reading Studio
• Rites and music in ruins, no sense of shame. Into the pig cage! Into the pig cage! Into the pig cage!

The Kongtong Divine Might

Notes

• Introduction by Bird Bear on Facebook
• Her forehead is rather high; a full forehead is the mark of good fortune. Lewd forehead^[1]
• Her deep Internal Force comes entirely from the Iron Pipa Skill passed down by the former Sect Leader; apart from that she has never practiced any martial arts.
• In the Battle of Jiangling, if the dice land on "a bad person", it is Wei Ju who fights , which shows her courage. She invites Gang Leader Wang to exchange three palms with her and compare Internal Force. But though her Internal Force is profound, she does not know how to use it, and after a single palm she is clearly losing; fortunately Rui Sheng arrives in time and takes over for her.
• She is a classmate and close friend of Shangguan Ying and Nangong Shen from the Gengyang Reading Studio.
• Though they were classmates, she can find little to praise in Nangong Shen and keeps her distance; even when reminiscing she brings along skilled hands from her gate. The Legend text describes him with particular venom, and one suspects she is taking a jab at him.
• She once skipped class with Shangguan Ying to plant vegetables, and even now uses her authority as Gate Leader to secretly grow vegetables and watermelons in a spot in the Mystic Skill Cave where sunlight and rain reach.
• A village girl robbed by a local tyrant, by Xiahou Lan
• According to the dialogue in Ending 11, if she forms no bond, she will eventually hand over the post of Gate Leader and return to the Gengyang Reading Studio as a female tutor.
• In Ending 23 she dies of melancholy, but the author of that ending is still her. The dead are writing. Terrifying!
• Her birthday is 9/10. The birthday clue Bird Bear gave is "After dusk I drink wine by the eastern fence; a hidden fragrance fills my sleeves."^[2][3]
• Her original name is Wei Zhaodi; Wei Ju is the name she took when she entered the Kongtong Sect. But Shangguan Ying still greets her out of habit as Zhaodi.
• "Zhaodi" is a lowly name for a girl; it means "hoping a boy will come next".
• The one who smeared her name back then and got her married off was Chen Jue of the Lingnan Sect.
• Not implemented:

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1. Bahamut—RE: [Information] Bird Bear Q&A Collection (Updated 11/2, Second Wave + Private Questions) ↩︎

2. Facebook—Original Bird Bear 2025/9/10 ↩︎

3. Facebook—Original Bird Bear 2025/9/9 ↩︎