Ji Miao 吉邈

In Chapter 69 of the Romance, when Guan Lu says that there will surely be a fire in Xudu the following spring, Cao Cao stays in Ye Commandery, has Xiahou Dun patrol back and forth through Xudu, and gives the Chief Clerk Wang Bi overall command of the troops and horses of the Imperial Guard. In the 1st month of spring in the 23rd year of Jian'an, the Palace Attendant and Privy Treasurer Geng Ji, displeased that Cao Cao has been raised to the rank of king and uses the Son of Heaven's carriages and robes when he goes out and comes in, consults secretly with the Director of Rectitude Wei Huang, and Jin Yi, Wei Huang's trusted confidant, puts forward a plan to act together from inside and outside, kill Wang Bi, seize his command and uphold the Son of Heaven's carriage. Romance, Ch. 69 §23–26 · 29

Proposing to use as their wings two trusted men whose father was killed by Cao Cao, Jin Yi names the sons of the Imperial Physician Ji Ping: the elder, Ji Miao (courtesy name Wenran), and the younger, Ji Mu (courtesy name Siran). Cao Cao had earlier killed their father over Dong Cheng's affair of the edict in the sash, and the two sons had fled to a distant village and escaped the disaster, and had already returned to Xudu in secret. When Jin Yi secretly summons them and tells them of the affair in detail, the two, moved and indignant, shed tears and swear to kill the traitor of the state. Romance, Ch. 69 §30–31

In Jin Yi's plan, Geng Ji and Wei Huang are to lead their household servants and storm the front of Wang Bi's camp, while Ji Wenran and his brother are to attack from outside the city, setting fires as the signal, raise their voices calling on the people to kill the traitor of the state, and hold off any relief troops within the city. The five men swear an oath to Heaven and seal their covenant by drinking blood, agreeing to rise at the second watch of the appointed night, and Ji Miao and his brother gather three hundred men on the pretext of a hunt and complete their preparations. Romance, Ch. 69 §31–33

On the night of the fifteenth of the 1st month, after the second watch, fire breaks out behind Wang Bi's camp, and Wang Bi, going out through the south gate, runs into Geng Ji and flees with an arrow in his shoulder. Having knocked at Jin Yi's gate and realized that Jin Yi too is one of the plotters, Wang Bi alerts Cao Xiu, and Xiahou Dun, who has been encamped five li outside the city, also comes with a large army, surrounds Xudu and supports Cao Xiu. While the confused fighting goes on until daybreak, word comes that Jin Yi and the two Ji brothers have all been killed, and Geng Ji and Wei Huang are surrounded by Xiahou Dun's main army and captured. Romance, Ch. 69 §34–37

Cao Cao orders Geng Ji and Wei Huang, together with the kin of the five households, old and young, all to be beheaded in the marketplace, and Xiahou Dun puts to death all the kin of the five households, old and young. Cao Cao then has those who fought the fire stand under the red flag and those who did not stand under the white flag, and, saying that the officials under the red flag had really meant to help the rebels, he has more than three hundred of them beheaded on the bank of the Zhang River. Romance, Ch. 69 §38 · 41–42