Lin Jia

Biodata

Feature	Information
Name	Lin Jia (林甲)
Alias(es)	Jia Jia
Gender	Female
Nationality	Chinese 89
Education	Bachelor's degree in Economics from Jiang University; later earned a master's degree from Columbia University 89 344
Affiliation	Guangjia Technology; Guangjia Aerospace; Guangjia Automobile
Occupation/Role	Co-founder and original shareholder of Guangjia Technology; President of Guangjia Aerospace; CEO of Guangjia Automobile 54 341 483
Status	Active
First Appearance	Chapter 1 (associated with Chen Yuanguang's birthday gift, the Matrix helmet) 1

Background / History

Lin Jia comes from a wealthy business family whose holdings expanded through real estate. Her father, Lin Qinghua, has an illegitimate son whom he intends to place and eventually cultivate within the family business; Lin Jia refuses to recognize him as her brother and has no intention of returning to inherit the family group. 20 265

Growing up around business shaped her goal-oriented approach. She learned how to identify what others wanted from her father’s real-estate dealings, and she treated studying abroad as a goal to be broken into concrete requirements and completed step by step. 435

She met Chen Yuanguang at Jiang University, when he was still an unknown and financially struggling student. She supported him through expensive birthday gifts and later helped secure the startup capital that enabled his first company. 59 354 Her birthday gift to Chen—the matte-black Matrix helmet—becomes the catalyst for his contact with the future. 1

Before Guangjia Technology, Lin Jia used her family connections and industry knowledge to negotiate with Goose Factory over the adaptation of Chen’s novel Kuala Lumpur Affairs. She argued that Chen could be developed into a high-profile writer-scientist and secured an eight-million-yuan investment quota for the film adaptation. 21 23

When Chen founded Guangjia Technology, its name was formed from one character each from “Yuanguang” and “Jia.” Although Lin Jia disliked the name, she accepted Chen’s decision and took responsibility for registration, recruitment, budgeting, and early corporate operations. 53 91 Chen later granted her 5% of the company’s original shares; she transferred their voting rights to him to protect his control against later investor dilution. 54 59

By the eve of Guangjia Technology’s listing, the public identified her as its 23-year-old co-founder holding 5% of the original shares, with estimates placing the stake’s value around ten billion RMB. 89

Appearance

Lin Jia is usually presented in professional or polished public attire. At a family gathering, she wore a dark-blue dress described as emphasizing a ladylike bearing; Chen contrasts this public image with the softer demeanor she shows at home without makeup. 77 115

• Frequently appears in formal business settings, interviews, and product launches. 91 483
• Chen describes her public temperament as “cold” and strong, with a gentler side visible in private. 115
• Her face became widely recognizable after Guangjia Technology’s listing and her Bilibili appearance, leading her to wear a mask when visiting Jiang University. 107

Personality

Lin Jia is pragmatic, ambitious, and highly conscious of control. She values material security and stability over emotional uncertainty, arguing that emotional value cannot be controlled and therefore should not be the foundation of a relationship. 353

Her business instincts often contrast with Chen Yuanguang’s principles. Lin Jia is willing to use flexible tactics to reach a goal, while Chen maintains a stricter bottom line even when compromise would be more profitable or convenient. 128 Chen considers her unusually enthusiastic about wealth not merely as comfort or status, but as the ability to mobilize resources and achieve larger goals. 297

Despite her calculating image, she separates work from personal emotions and values candid dissent from subordinates. She listens to Li Xiande’s objections over using the Guangjia brand for an automobile rather than punishing him for disagreeing. 427 428

Abilities & Skills

Business Negotiation and Investment

Lin Jia is an experienced negotiator who identifies leverage, publicity value, and long-term commercial positioning.

• Negotiated improved adaptation terms for Kuala Lumpur Affairs and obtained an eight-million-yuan investment quota. 23
• Assessed Guangjia Technology’s hiring budget, explaining that an employee’s total annual cost extended far beyond salary. 54
• Proposed financing tactics when Guangjia Aerospace fell short of its target, though Chen rejected methods he considered unacceptable. 128
• Considered convertible bonds as an opportunity-driven tool but did not view them as a lasting growth strategy. 103

Corporate Management

Lin Jia developed from an early operational partner into Guangjia Aerospace’s principal executive figure.

• Handled Guangjia Technology’s registration, recruitment, and early organizational groundwork. 53
• Personally recruited Li Haide for Guangjia Aerospace’s Achievement Transformation Department, which commercializes research results and seeks suitable industry partners. 96
• Holds high expectations for employees, favoring training and advancement for those who meet standards and gradual marginalization for those who do not. 266
• Designed a management philosophy intended to reduce individual discretionary power rather than rely on fixed voting weights or one-person-one-vote systems. 353
• Advocates using AI in administration and distributing power more equally through results-oriented processes. 354

Public Relations and Branding

Lin Jia is more publicly visible than Chen and frequently serves as Guangjia’s external representative.

• Offered to build Chen into a prominent scientist and writer, provided he cooperated with interviews and publicity. 21
• Addressed online speculation over Guangjia Technology’s name through a Bilibili interview, confirming that “Guang” and “Jia” came from Chen and her own names. 91
• Believes Chen should communicate publicly despite his preference for a low profile, persuading him to begin a lecture series. 343
• Led the Guangjia A1 launch event and presented the amphibious electric vehicle’s transformation capability, AquaDrive propulsion, and underwater range exceeding 300 nautical miles. 483
• Supported renaming Space as “Guangjia Automobile” because of the Guangjia brand’s recognition, while weighing internal concerns that the name could create impossible consumer expectations. 426 427

Relationships

• Chen Yuanguang — College partner, business co-founder, and later husband. Lin Jia helped finance his early career, received 5% of Guangjia Technology’s original shares from him, and became one of his closest business and personal confidants. 27 59 265
• Lin Qinghua — Father. Their relationship is strained by his infidelity, his illegitimate son, and his expectation that she might return to the family business; she nevertheless learns management principles from him. 20 145 265
• Li Xiyin — Best friend and frequent confidante. Lin Jia helped Li develop her self-media career, arranged opportunities and resources for her, and advises her on business and relationships. 91 144 353
• Lin Xinrui — Guangjia Aerospace colleague who reports personnel matters to Lin Jia and assists with internal management issues. 341
• Lei Jun — Business associate. He sought to recruit Lin Jia as Xiaomi’s vice president for marketing and strategic investment, but she declined in favor of her own plans. 206

Story Role / Major Arcs

Early Partnership with Chen Yuanguang

• Gives Chen the Matrix helmet on his birthday, unknowingly initiating the event that connects him to the future. 1
• Supports Chen’s writing career, negotiations, publicity, and early entrepreneurship. 21 23
• Publicly answers “yes” when asked whether Chen has a girlfriend, intending to block unwanted attention directed at him. 27

Founding of Guangjia Technology

• Helps establish Guangjia Technology despite doubts over its human-hibernation focus and its name. 53
• Accepts a 5% co-founder stake, then assigns its voting rights to Chen to preserve his control of the company. 54 59
• Becomes a subject of major public attention once the company’s listing prospectus reveals her age, shareholding, and wealth. 89

Guangjia Aerospace Leadership

• Arranges key recruitment and commercializes technologies including perovskite batteries through negotiations with photovoltaic and automotive companies. 96 97
• Represents Guangjia Aerospace in business discussions, recruitment broadcasts, employee-retention decisions, and public communications. 103 267 341
• Encourages Chen to adopt a more public-facing role and supports the launch of the free Fuxi Academic Platform. 343 344

Marriage and Later Corporate Expansion

• Initially agreed with Chen to remain unmarried, but the two later marry; by then, she is openly identified as his wife. 208 265
• Takes charge of Guangjia Automobile’s branding and launch strategy, including the decision to consider using the Guangjia name for the company’s first car. 426 427
• Leads the Guangjia A1 press conference as CEO, presenting the company’s first amphibious electric vehicle. 483

Notable Quotes

“If you want to wear a crown, you must bear its weight.” 452

“Life's gifts are all marked with a price.” 452

Trivia

• Lin Jia’s original 5% Guangjia Technology stake became a major source of public speculation about her relationship with Chen Yuanguang. 89 91
• Online observers often attribute her success to “luck,” a perception that frustrates those who point to her education, family background, and business ability. 344
• She bought a thousand-year-old Bodhi tree root as a coffee table partly to provoke online anti-fans who mocked her. 427