User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 05-08-'14 – Assassin's Creed: Rogue announced/@comment-24760042-20140805212225/@comment-5174994-20140805224732

It would just be a cheap way to link them together. The fact that he's likely the one that kills Ade & will probably be working for Haytham is already very coincidental.