Su Jinyu

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Su Jinyu (苏瑾喻)
Alias(es)	Jinyu; Little Yu 29 53
Gender	Male 43 57
Affiliation	Initially works for Bai Hai; later joins Ning Shile and his allies against him 51 59
Occupation/Role	Paid informant; guest on Back to the ’80s; protagonist shou of the original novel, I Love You More Than Him 3 51 60
First Appearance	Named in Ning Shile’s recollection 3; first appears directly as an injured scooter rider 43

Background / History

Su Jinyu grew up in an unhappy family. His father’s wife was initially unable to have children, so his father arranged for Su’s mother to bear him a child. After Su was born, the wife also became pregnant. His father chose to remain with his wife and leave Su’s mother, who later found another partner. Without a healthy example of care during childhood, Su came to regard human nature as fundamentally selfish 71.

Su and Bai Qiongyu attended the same class from approximately fourth or fifth grade and became close childhood friends. They lost contact after Bai went abroad as an adult 51.

According to Ning Shile’s recollection of the original novel, Zheng Ye once rescued Su from a group of ten bullies. Su gave him a hand-folded paper star and promised to marry him someday—a promise Ning believes only Zheng took seriously 8.

Appearance

• Build: Tall and slender 57.
• Complexion: Fair, luminous skin 51.
• Face: Delicate, finely sculpted features, repeatedly described as strikingly beautiful 51 55 63.
• Eyes: Narrow, phoenix-shaped eyes; his gaze can shift from tearful vulnerability to cold calculation 51 55.
• Hair: By his meeting with Ning outside Bai Hai’s private gathering, soft curls fall beside his ears 57.

Personality

Su is calculating, observant, and comfortable using vulnerability as a performance. He can switch from sobbing helplessness to composed authority once an audience leaves, and he regards manipulating someone’s affection as a matter of employing a few effective tricks 51 52.

His cruelty is especially apparent during the nightclub fire. After learning that the impending blaze will kill people and seriously injure Bai Qiongyu, he treats the prospect as entertaining. He subsequently protects the would-be arsonist from discovery and displays her burned face to Ning with satisfaction 55 56.

Su distrusts kindness because he assumes warmth and consideration conceal ulterior motives. Ning’s concern unsettles him precisely because it produces feelings he considers soft, addictive, and dangerous. When Ning recognizes his self-serving motives but refuses to hate him, Su begins to reconsider the person he thought Ning was 71.

Despite his cynicism, Su develops genuine admiration for Ning’s intelligence, integrity, and ability to give others hope. He ultimately argues that Ning, rather than himself, deserves to be the world’s protagonist 87.

Abilities & Skills

Hearing Ning Shile’s Thoughts

Su can hear Ning’s internal monologue without Ning speaking aloud 55.

• Recognizes the discrepancy between Ning’s silent mouth and the voice he hears, then conceals his discovery while investigating 55.
• Learns private information and predictions about future events through Ning’s thoughts 55.
• Realizes that Bai Qiongyu and Chu Ran also appear able to hear Ning, and eventually tells Ning directly 87.
• Cannot hear the mechanical repair announcements that Ning hears during the world restart 87.

Acting and Social Manipulation

Su uses tears, flirtation, and apparent concern to influence how others interpret a situation 51 53 71.

• Stages a scene of being forcibly made to drink to attract Bai Qiongyu’s attention 51 55.
• Uses the presence of other informants to pressure Bai into publicly acknowledging their friendship 53.
• Turns a minor wrist scrape into a convincing on-camera accusation against Yi Chen 71.
• Offers to accompany Yi to a doctor, making Yi’s false claim of a hand injury difficult to maintain 71.

Surveillance and Situational Analysis

Su works as a paid informant and quickly notices inconsistencies in other people’s behavior 51 52.

• Receives 200,000 yuan from Bai Hai to approach Bai Qiongyu as a reunited childhood friend and uncover his true character 51.
• Notices that Bai’s cold reception contradicts their previously pleasant telephone conversations 52.
• Challenges the original novel’s characterization by comparing its supposed romances and betrayals with the personalities he actually knows 87.

Relationships

• Ning Shile — Initially interests Su because of his leaked thoughts. Su later helps him confront Bai Hai, becomes uneasy at the possibility of losing his goodwill, and comes to admire his kindness and integrity 55 59 71 87.
• Bai Qiongyu — Childhood friend and surveillance target. Bai distances himself after learning about Su’s payment from Bai Hai; later interactions include familiar teasing 51 53 84.
• Zheng Ye — Injures Su in a car–scooter collision and takes him to the hospital. Ning interprets Zheng’s reaction as attraction, but Zheng identifies it as anguish and helplessness rather than love; their next meeting produces no such reaction 43 44 45 52.
• Chu Ran — Su’s cherished first love in Ning’s recollection of the original novel. In the current storyline, Su says he has never spoken to Chu and later rejects the idea that he could fall for him 3 55 87.
• Bai Hai — Initially Su’s employer. Su later intervenes in his private gathering and stands with the group exposing him 51 58 59.
• Yi Chen — Fellow variety-show guest and adversary. Su distrusts his friendliness, scorns his attempts at manipulation, and outmaneuvers him during their televised dispute 62 63 71.
• Director Li — Acquaintance through whom Su’s participation in Back to the ’80s is arranged 60.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Role in the Original Novel

The following events belong to Ning Shile’s recollections or visions of I Love You More Than Him, rather than established events in the current storyline.

Event	Su Jinyu’s role
Zheng Ye’s accident	Zheng suffers the accident that leaves him bedridden for three years while saving Su 3.
Romantic conflict	Zheng becomes obsessively attached to Su, while Su loves Chu Ran. Zheng’s obsession leads to confinement and abuse 3 8.
Corporate betrayal	Initially a pawn of Bai Hai, Su becomes Zheng’s secretary, steals his work, and defects to Chu Ran, helping bring down the Zheng and Bai families 8 44.
Zheng Ye’s death	In Ning’s vision, Su briefly hesitates before stepping over the mortally wounded Zheng and leaving with Chu 65.

Collision and Hospital Visit

• Su enters the current storyline when Zheng’s car collides with his scooter on a remote road. Despite his injured leg, he apologizes and says he was riding too fast 43.
• Zheng supports him at the hospital because walking is difficult. Ning’s discomfort at this attention exposes feelings he has been trying to dismiss 44.
• Zheng later concludes that his intense response to Su was not love at first sight. At Bai’s birthday gathering, he feels none of the earlier distress 45 52.

Bai Qiongyu’s Birthday and the Nightclub Fire

• Su’s staged drinking scene fails to draw Bai’s intervention after Ning’s thoughts expose the surveillance assignment. Su then brings drinks to the private room and approaches Bai directly 51 52.
• He secures an invitation to stay by warning that denying their acquaintance would alert Bai Hai’s other informants. During the King’s Game, he orders a blindfolded player to feed another player a drink 53.
• A colleague’s jealous partner mistakes the staged scene for an affair, slaps Su, and scratches his cheek. Su hears Ning predict her arson and decides to make the fire worse 55.
• Su conceals the woman from discovery in an alcohol-soaked room. After the blaze begins, he drags her unconscious body outside and deliberately shows Ning the severe burn on the same side of her face that she struck on his 56.

Alliance Against Bai Hai

• Su warns Ning against entering Bai Hai’s private gathering and offers to go in his place. His concern is expressed through cynical accusations that Ning is pretending to be a savior 57.
• He nevertheless enters at a crucial moment, interrupting before Ning must continue stripping as part of his act. Su draws Bai Hai into discussing a drug supposedly capable of making people obedient 58 59.
• When Zheng, Bai Qiongyu, and Chu arrive, Su stands beside Ning. His intervention forms part of the five-person effort to expose Bai Hai through a livestream 59.

*Back to the ’80s*

• Su joins the rural-life variety show filmed in Min Village. He remains skeptical of Yi Chen’s helpful persona and later openly belittles his manipulative skills 60 62 63.
• He puts little effort into selling crafts at the market, then uses a televised dispute to turn audience sympathy against Yi 68 71.
• Ning’s offer to wash vegetables while Su’s wrist heals prompts their first sustained discussion about kindness, distrust, and Su’s motives for helping against Bai Hai 71.
• Su joins the companions welcoming Ning outside the police station after the confrontation over Yi’s animal abuse 83.

Revealing the Thought Leakage

• Su tells Ning that he, Bai Qiongyu, and Chu can hear his thoughts. He proposes that either Ning is a flaw awaiting repair or the original world is flawed and Ning is correcting it 87.
• He favors the second explanation: loving Chu, stealing for him, and being Bai’s romantic ideal all contradict the personalities he knows. He also rejects the portrayal of Zheng as a villain 87.
• Their discussion is followed by mechanical repair announcements audible only to Ning. As the repair advances, Ning panics and calls Zheng 87.

Notable Quotes

“I don't believe there are any good people in this world.” 71

“With skills like that, I could play you to death.” 63

Trivia

• Su Jinyu and Su Jin are separate characters. Su Jin is Zheng Ye’s intended fiancé at the opening engagement banquet; Su Jinyu appears directly later as the scooter rider 1 43.
• Su’s conclusion about the world rests partly on his rejection of his own assigned role: he considers himself selfish and dark-hearted, while viewing Ning as the person a story ought to center 87.