Meng Zimu

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Meng Zimu (孟子慕)
Alias(es)	Eldest Young Master Meng; Young Master Meng 1 2 26
Gender	Male 1
Affiliation	Meng family; Meng Group; Meng Zhixiong’s illicit business network 2 6 56
Occupation/Role	Meng Group manager; protagonist “top” of the in-universe novel My White Moonlight 1 6
Status	Alive at his last documented appearance; shot in the leg by Shen Yun 88
First Appearance	His birthday gathering at the Meng family home 1

Background / History

Meng Zimu grew up in the shadow of his powerful second uncle, Meng Zhiyuan. Although he outwardly respected him, he resented the comparisons and the limits placed on his authority. Zhiyuan appointed him only as a manager, citing his lack of experience and need for training 1 6.

Shen Yun was Zimu’s cherished first love from childhood. During Shen Yun’s absence overseas, Zimu kept the original Jiang Ze close for two years as a substitute. Jiang Ze tried to imitate Shen Yun’s clothing and makeup to gain his attention, but Zimu disliked the imitation and sought to discard him when Shen Yun returned 1 3 15.

Original Novel and Previous Timeline

In My White Moonlight, Meng Zimu and Shen Yun are the central romantic pairing. Jiang Ze remembers them bringing about Meng Zhiyuan’s ruin and death in a car crash. The text also implies that they arranged the crash and framed Feng, Zhiyuan’s trusted butler, to make Zhiyuan believe he had been betrayed by someone close to him 1 5.

Shen Yun’s memories of his previous life reveal that their victory did not secure the Meng family’s wealth. Zhiyuan had secretly protected the company’s shares and assets before his death; the Meng Group subsequently collapsed, leaving Shen Yun and Zimu disgraced. Zhiyuan later recalls Zimu gloating over him at the wreck, even though his precautions had prevented the company from falling into their hands 6 94.

Appearance

• Has a handsome face 34.
• Bears a slight facial resemblance to Meng Zhiyuan, which Jiang Ze uses to support his claim that Zimu was merely his substitute for Zhiyuan 1 3.

Personality

Meng Zimu is proud of his family position but deeply insecure about Meng Zhiyuan’s superiority. He performs the role of a respectful nephew in public while privately nursing jealousy and resentment. His treatment of Jiang Ze contrasts with his submission to Zhiyuan: he readily threatens or insults someone he considers beneath him, yet becomes visibly frightened when his uncle intervenes 1 2 26.

His attachment to Shen Yun repeatedly overrides his judgment. Shen Yun’s tears and declarations of exclusive love persuade him to abandon suspicion and redirect his anger toward Jiang Ze. Even anonymous photographs and audio fail to sustain his doubts once Shen Yun appeals to their shared history 9 25 45.

Zimu’s possessiveness becomes openly violent as his relationship and ambitions deteriorate. He humiliates Jiang Ze while Jiang is captive, vows revenge against his uncle, and later grips Shen Yun’s throat until he struggles to breathe before threatening him over the success of their plan 27 56 80 86.

Abilities & Resources

Wealth and Corporate Access

• Holds a managerial position within the Meng Group, but resents being denied greater authority 6.
• Has savings amounting to a few tens of millions; nevertheless, Cheng Feng’s requested ten-million payment is substantial to him 9.
• Depends partly on family-controlled allowances and credit cards. Meng Zhiyuan has his supplementary cards suspended and imposes a spending limit on his main card 9 25.

Criminal Connections

• Participates in his father’s network of dealings with tomb robbers, linking stolen artifacts to the funding behind their ambitions against Meng Zhiyuan 56.
• Helps control Professor Lü’s captivity, making the students’ safety conditional on restoring the stolen artifacts 57.
• Receives support from a group resembling mercenaries when his partnership with the tomb robbers breaks down 57.

Protagonist Fortune

• Shares the world’s favored protagonist status with Shen Yun. The system warns that escaping Zimu once does not free Jiang Ze from the original story’s deadly trajectory 6.
• That advantage is not absolute: Jiang Ze’s interventions expose the pair’s conduct, disrupt their relationship, and help undermine Zimu’s criminal resources 49 50 63.

Relationships

• Shen Yun — Childhood first love, romantic partner, and recurring ally. Shen Yun claims they will soon be engaged, but their relationship breaks down after public evidence of his involvement with other men. They later resume cooperation without a confirmed romantic reconciliation; Shen Yun eventually shoots Zimu in the leg 15 49 50 70 88.
• Jiang Ze — Former substitute for Shen Yun and later an enemy. Zimu reacts bitterly to Jiang Ze’s rejection and closeness with Meng Zhiyuan, participates in retaliation against him, and taunts him during his captivity 1 26 34 56.
• Meng Zhiyuan — Second uncle and corporate superior. Zimu fears his authority but covets his position. Their conflict culminates in Zhiyuan barring him from the villa and rejecting his right to call him “Second Uncle” 26 45 63 80.
• Meng Zhixiong — Father and partner in the struggle against Zhiyuan. Zhixiong warns him to conceal a secret involving his grandmother and to stop provoking his uncle. His later arrest prompts Zimu to vow revenge 27 56 80.
• Ye Rong — Mother; arrested alongside Meng Zhixiong after their poisoning conspiracy is exposed 76 80.
• Meng Ziyao — Younger sister. She supports Shen Yun and attacks Jiang Ze as someone supposedly still pursuing her brother 15.
• Meng Qingshan — Family patriarch, addressed as Grandpa or Old Master Meng. He restricts the younger generation’s allowances and ultimately entrusts the Meng Corporation to Zhiyuan rather than Zimu’s branch of the family 9 80.
• Zhou Zhen / Scarface — Tomb-robbing associate. Their profit-based partnership collapses when Jiang Ze makes Zhou Zhen suspect Zimu of stealing the artifacts 57.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Birthday Confrontation

• Zimu defends Shen Yun and attempts to have Jiang Ze removed by guards. Jiang Ze publicly exposes his role as a substitute, then humiliates Zimu by claiming that he himself was only a substitute for Meng Zhiyuan 1.
• Meng Zhiyuan reprimands Zimu for mistreating a guest. Unable to retaliate in front of his uncle, Zimu withdraws with Shen Yun 2.
• Jiang Ze’s thoughts raise the possibility that Zimu and his parents were involved in Zhiyuan’s mother’s death. This initially remains an allegation from Jiang Ze’s foreknowledge; Zimu later reveals that he knows of a concealed secret concerning his grandmother 3 27.

Financial Restrictions and Retaliation

• After his cards are restricted, Zimu visits Zhiyuan’s villa but becomes distracted by insulting Jiang Ze. Zhiyuan forces him to his knees and injures his leg, then sends him to hospital before he can explain his visit 25 26.
• Although gossip describes the injury as a broken leg, Zhixiong explicitly tells Zimu that Zhiyuan did not break it 27.
• Zimu and Shen Yun discuss a scheme accepted by Jiang Ze’s parents. Jiang Ze is subsequently lured with his mother’s property deed, drugged by his father, and threatened with exploitation before Zhiyuan rescues him 34.
• Zimu later boasts that his father has planted someone in Zhiyuan’s villa to displace Jiang Ze and damage Zhiyuan’s reputation. He declares that the Meng Corporation will eventually belong to him 45.

Public Scandal and Estrangement

• Footage from the birthday confrontation helps portray Jiang Ze as a shameless pursuer while rehabilitating Shen Yun’s image. Jiang Ze suspects Zimu released it 49.
• Zhiyuan counters with evidence exposing Shen Yun’s false accusations and intimacy with other men, along with material about Zimu’s behavior. Public opinion turns against both men 49.
• The scandal produces a serious falling-out between Zimu and Shen Yun 50.

Tomb-Robbing Operation

• Zimu appears among the armed men who abduct Professor Lü’s university group. He mocks Jiang Ze’s helplessness while the gang seeks to profit from stolen artifacts 56.
• Jiang Ze makes the artifacts disappear and pretends to have overheard Zimu speaking to someone. Zhou Zhen accuses Zimu of theft, and their argument escalates into fighting involving Zimu’s mercenary-like supporters 57.
• After the operation is dismantled, Zhiyuan investigates Zhixiong’s businesses and causes father and son heavy losses. He also prohibits both from entering his villa 63 67.

Renewed Alliance and Family Downfall

• Shen Yun’s new faction reconnects with Zimu to oppose the Meng Group. The system cannot confirm whether they have reconciled romantically or are merely cooperating 70.
• When Zhixiong and Ye Rong are arrested, Zimu vows retaliation. Zhiyuan rejects his appeal to their family relationship. Grandpa Meng also reveals that Zhixiong was adopted, making Zimu’s connection to this branch of the family adoptive rather than biological 80.
• Zimu subsequently threatens Shen Yun over their plan, but loses control of the confrontation at the factory when Shen Yun shoots him in the leg and turns his gun on the accompanying thugs 86 88.

Notable Quotes

“The Meng Corporation will be mine sooner or later!” 45

“Don't worry. As long as you restore these artifacts, your students will remain unharmed.” 57