She preserves her daughter Yang Dong's room after her death. After she learns the truth about Trisolaran civilization, she essentially stops speaking, and she walks to the Red Coast Base alone.ĭespite periods of radical hatred of humanity, Ye Wenjie displays a fondness for children: she cares for the neighborhood kids, talking to them kindly on their level, and she helps the children around Red Coast Base to prepare for their exams. She tends to side with the Redemptionists, considering Trisolarans the Lord. She then murders Commissar Lei and her husband, Yang Weining, to cover up the messages she exchanged with the alien planet Trisolaris.Īround 40 years later, in the present-day sections of the novel, Ye Wenjie is a retired astrophysics professor and the spiritual leader of the ETO. She becomes disenchanted with humanity, and she secretly sends a message to aliens so that they can locate Earth and destroy humans. She witnesses her father, Ye Zhetai, being beaten to death by the Red Guard, then is sent to labor in a deforestation project and on a radar base. In 1967, as an astrophysics student and daughter of intellectuals, she is considered an enemy during the Cultural Revolution. Her backstory constitutes a significant portion of the text, and it is told in various stages and forms throughout. Ye Wenjie is one of the protagonists of the novel.
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