Lin Chen

Biodata

Power Progression

Background

Lin Chen comes from an ordinary working-class family. Old Master Yan’s investigation describes his parents as honest and decent, his background as clean, and his university performance as above average rather than exceptional. His affectionate manner when discussing his parents later reinforces the impression that he grew up in a harmonious household 28 29.

Before the opening events, he meets “Little Moon” on a literature forum while discussing a business-war novel. Over three months, they grow close through conversations about literature, business, and life, without exchanging real names or workplace details. Neither initially realizes that their online partner is also their daily colleague 1.

As Yan Qingyue’s assistant, his routine duties include checking her schedule, preparing documents and meeting materials, taking minutes, and making coffee. His online relationship initially distracts him enough to overlook a page while checking an important report 1 4 18.

Appearance

• Video-call attire: Wears a light gray knit sweater and carefully styles his hair before his first video call with Little Moon 2 3.
• Auction attire: Receives an expensive dark gray casual suit from Yan Qingyue, which he identifies as Armani 7.
• Family-visit attire: Wears a crisply ironed dark suit and carefully styled hair when visiting the Yan family residence 29.
• Recurring signs of exhaustion: Develops pronounced dark circles after sleepless nights caused by investment excitement and Yan Qingyue’s teasing 4 14 16 31.

Personality

Lin Chen’s outward deference contrasts sharply with his lively internal commentary. Around Yan Qingyue, he is nervous, eager to appease her, and quick to fear for his job or bonus. Privately, he calls her “Yan Iceberg,” complains about her demands, and imagines becoming wealthy enough to reverse their positions. Online, he is considerably more confident, humorous, and articulate; his business insights help attract Little Moon’s interest 1 2 4 25.

He is affectionate and attentive toward Little Moon, but easily flustered by romantic teasing. His attraction to Yan Qingyue creates guilt because he believes his boss and girlfriend are different women. Even so, his concern for Yan Qingyue extends beyond attraction: he drinks on her behalf at a difficult business dinner and later spends most of his system points to help defend her company’s data 13 18 29 40.

His initial enthusiasm for sudden wealth gradually gives way to greater caution. He conceals the system, avoids sharing confidential company information even with Little Moon, and becomes increasingly alert to the danger surrounding the AI technology 22 36 41 45.

Abilities & Skills

God-Level Investment Decision System

A consciousness-bound system that supplies future investment information and decision-making assistance. Its interface is perceptible only to Lin Chen 2.

• Core functions: Includes Today’s Recommendations, Future News, Wealth Panel, and System Tasks 2.
• Investment guidance: Supplies the recommendation behind his successful Kexiang Technology purchase and subsequent holding decisions 2 4 5.
• Basic Insight Aura: Passively provides a slight enhancement to his intuitive perception of business opportunities 2.
• Financial support: Provides starting capital and later a temporary interest-free loan 2 22.
• System Shop: Offers skills, special items, attribute potions, and paid information consultations; prices restrict what he can afford 39.
• Physical limitation: Provides no apparent immediate protection when two men restrain him during the Macau ambush 23.

Golden Eye

An appraisal skill that reveals concealed qualities of valuable or historically significant objects 7.

• Beginner operation: Triggers passively at close range with a low probability of revealing age, materials, approximate value, or special significance 7.
• Intermediate improvements: Increases the probability, accuracy, and completeness of readings, and adds faint perception of energy fields on special items 9.
• Hidden-object detection: Identifies a concealed compartment in a zitan box and an obscured signature beneath an oil painting’s surface layer 8 21.
• Technology appraisal: Detects unusual properties in the Macau metal box and identifies its chip as a highly advanced storage unit of immeasurable value 22.
• Limits: Readings can remain fragmented, uncertain, or unable to assign a value, even after the upgrade 21 22.

Intermediate Information Insight

A system-granted analytical skill used to assemble and interpret relevant information 39 46.

• Investigation: Helps him analyze the technology leak and examine project-access records 46 47.
• Investment research: Supports his screening of potential AI and new-energy-vehicle investments 50.
• Cooldown: Requires 72 hours between uses 39 46.

Cybersecurity

Knowledge instantly acquired through the Hacking Basics Skill Scroll 40.

• Identifies the methods and target of the attack on Alpha’s core data 40.
• Directs technicians to divert the intrusion into a data trap, trace a proxy, and strengthen encryption 40.
• Helps deploy a countermeasure that crashes the attackers’ main server 40.
• Conceals the skill’s origin by claiming that he studied cybersecurity independently in college 40.

Business Analysis and Administration

His professional contributions extend beyond system-generated investment tips 41 44.

• Screens investment institutions’ backgrounds and prepares financing-meeting materials 41.
• Researches intelligent driving, automotive-grade chips, and high-energy-density batteries 44.
• Produces a detailed proposal connecting the company’s AI technology to smart driving and connected vehicles; Yan Qingyue recognizes its value as a second growth market and negotiating asset 44 45.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Dark blue storage chip — Found inside a blackened metal box purchased near Macau’s Ruins of St. Paul’s for 300 patacas. The system identifies it as a prototype high-density quantum information storage unit 22 33.
  • Contains approximately 7.3% of an incomplete strong-AI algorithm framework and underlying architecture code 33.
  • Its technology is estimated to be 10–15 years ahead of the current era 33.
  • Ordinary attempts to photograph it or connect it to a computer initially produce no response 24.
• Encrypted AI document and USB drive — Gives Yan Qingyue futuristic AI concepts while initially claiming they came from an online friend 34.
• Clue Magnifying Glass — Single Use — Consumed during the leak investigation to conduct an in-depth examination of Engineer Zhang, exposing communications and an archive connected to Genesis 47.
• Hacking Basics Skill Scroll — Purchased for 800 system points and consumed during the attack on Alpha’s data 40.
• System loan — Borrows 500,000 yuan, bringing his available Macau funds to approximately 700,000 yuan. Repayment is due within 30 days; default incurs substantial late fees and affects later tasks and rewards 22.

Relationships

• Yan Qingyue / Little Moon — His employer and online girlfriend are the same woman, a fact he remains unaware of in the supplied chapters. She discovers his online identity early and can hear his thoughts, allowing her to alternate between a demanding boss and an affectionate, teasing girlfriend. Their relationship deepens through the auction, business dinner, Macau ambush, and company crises 1 18 20 23 41 45.
• Old Master Yan — Yan Qingyue’s grandfather. Investigates Lin Chen’s background, then approves of his sincerity and consideration during a family dinner; openly encourages Yan Qingyue to keep him by her side 28 29.
• Zhang Weiming — Hostile marketing director who resents Lin Chen’s closeness to Yan Qingyue. Belittles him at dinner and is strongly implicated in the Macau ambush, though Lin Chen’s suspicion is not presented as conclusive proof 9 23.
• Director Li — Technical executive who works with Lin Chen during the cyberattack and enthusiastically credits him with saving the company’s data 40.
• Zhang Ming — Deputy technical director implicated by Lin Chen’s leak investigation. Lin Chen’s findings lead Yan Qingyue to order his detention and secure his workstation and devices 47.
• Parents — Honest working-class parents whom Lin Chen discusses naturally and affectionately during Old Master Yan’s questioning 28 29.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Mistaken Message and First Investment

Lin Chen accidentally sends Yan Qingyue a flirtatious message intended for Little Moon. Combined with her newly discovered ability to hear his thoughts, the mistake allows her to recognize him as her online boyfriend. She arranges their first video call while concealing her face and identity 1 3.

That evening, Lin Chen receives the investment system. He combines its starting capital with his savings and buys 85,000 Kexiang Technology shares at HK$0.84. The stock’s rise validates the system’s guidance while drawing Yan Qingyue’s attention to his unusual certainty and unexplained funds 2 3 4 5.

Auction Success and Growing Trust

Invited to a private auction for his supposed intuition, Lin Chen uses Golden Eye to assess the lots. Its discovery of a concealed compartment in a zitan box helps Yan Qingyue acquire a jeweled flower ornament and completes his Auction Trial 6 7 8 9.

His information later helps expose suspicious dealings involving Wang Kun and Xinghai Technology, prompting Yan Qingyue to halt an acquisition. His role at her side also becomes more personal when he drinks excessively to shield her from repeated business toasts, and she takes him home and cares for him 12 18 20.

Macau Discovery and Family Approval

In Macau, Lin Chen independently searches for bargains and finds the advanced storage chip. During the private collectors’ meeting, a waiter lures him into a secluded room, where two men threaten him over his closeness to Yan Qingyue. She rescues him with hotel security 22 23.

Back home, Old Master Yan’s interest leads to a family visit. Lin Chen earns his approval through sincere answers and attentive behavior toward Yan Qingyue, completing a system mission with an excellent rating 28 29.

AI Breakthrough and Security Crisis

The system’s analysis reveals the chip’s extraordinary AI content. After encouragement from Little Moon, Lin Chen shares technical concepts with Yan Qingyue, who recognizes their potential to overcome major research bottlenecks. Suspicious surveillance soon follows, and the system issues a Crisis Survival quest warning of mortal danger 33 34 36.

Lin Chen invests 700,000 yuan in Xinghai Technology at an average price of approximately 8.5 yuan per share. Subsequent gains take him beyond his million-yuan profit target, and he receives his system reward while continuing to hold the shares 38 39 41.

When hackers attack Alpha’s core data, he purchases cybersecurity expertise and helps repel the intrusion. The success earns recognition from the technical department and a solemn expression of thanks from Yan Qingyue 40.

Technology Leak and Future Investments

Lin Chen proposes smart driving as a new commercial direction before Genesis Technology publishes a white paper sharing over 70% of Alpha’s core concepts and algorithms. Given a 72-hour system mission to trace the leak, he combines Information Insight, access-log analysis, and the Clue Magnifying Glass to identify evidence against Zhang Ming 44 45 46 47.

His next mission, “Seize the Future Track,” gives him six months to invest in a promising AI or new-vehicle technology project, with rewards tied to returns or strategic control. He begins screening companies and research teams while Yan Qingyue continues her concealed romantic teasing 49 50.