He Min

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	He Min (贺敏) 12
Gender	Female 12
Birth Year	1996 12
Age	Turns 30 on the night she meets Zhang Youzhi; five years older than him 12 14
Affiliation	Crane River Group 27
Occupation/Role	Senior corporate executive; later executive CEO of Crane River Group 19 27
Education	Master’s degree from Nanjing University 13
Residence	Rented apartment in Lotus Hill Community, Crane City 13
Family	Only child 13
Status	Alive; rescued from abduction with bruises but no serious injuries 24
First Appearance	Chapter 12 12

Background / History

Betrayal and the Bridge Encounter

He Min had dated her boyfriend since high school, remaining with him for more than ten years before discovering that he had slept with her best friend. On her thirtieth birthday, she went to the Old Crane River Bridge intending to jump, threw away belongings, and became stuck while trying to climb over the railing. Her fallen ID card alerted Zhang Youzhi, who was sheltering beneath the bridge 12 13 14.

Zhang initially frightened her with his blood-covered appearance, then gained her trust by sharing food and drinks. Rather than offer conventional sympathy, he challenged her decision to throw away her life over the betrayal. His exaggerated—and largely fabricated—descriptions of drowning frightened her into abandoning the idea. He marked her birthday with an egg-yolk cake and a lighter flame before walking her home 12 13.

During the walk, He Min said she wanted to quit her job and return to her mother. Zhang learned that she earned over 20,000 yuan a month, held a master’s degree, and had substantial family assets. He urged her to keep working and live independently of a romantic relationship; she quietly agreed 13.

Helping Zhang Youzhi

At her apartment building, He Min insisted that Zhang accept somewhere to sleep, clothes, or help finding a new home. When he refused, she interpreted his cryptic explanation about the bridge as a tragic love story. She subsequently returned in her car, brought him clothes and a quilt, and drove him back. Without telling her, Zhang arranged a romance-expert service through Number Two because he feared she might harm herself again 14.

Zhang left that night, using her house key to scratch a farewell message into the bridge: “Terminally ill, with little time left. Stay strong and live well.” He Min found it the next morning and broke down. Over the following days, she searched remote parts of Crane City after work, sometimes continuing past midnight 15 19.

Retaliation and Corporate Corruption

He Min exposed her ex-boyfriend and former best friend’s affair to their families and the woman’s employer. Both lost their jobs, turned against each other, and broke up. When her ex-boyfriend sought forgiveness, she drove her high heel through his foot 19.

Her newly public single status attracted a company vice chairman who wanted her as his mistress. He harassed her and obstructed her work. He Min sided with the rival vice chairman and gathered evidence of tax evasion and criminal money laundering. A traitor from her own faction stole the briefcase containing her password-protected USB drive; exhausted and expecting her side to lose, she again considered resigning and returning to her mother 19.

Abduction and Rescue

He Min found Zhang during an attack by Wild Fang gang members and drove into two knife-wielding attackers, killing them. Despite being kicked, she managed to lift the badly wounded Zhang into her car. Scarface dragged her out before she could reverse, assaulted her, and abducted them both. Gao Fu had ordered Zhang’s murder and demanded that He Min be brought to him personally 21.

She was intercepted and rescued while being transferred from the entertainment complex to Crane River Group’s downtown headquarters. Although she escaped with only bruises, she was devastated by Zhang’s catastrophic injuries and stayed beside him during emergency treatment and hospitalization. After the crackdown, she became Crane River Group’s executive CEO 24 25 27.

Zhang Youzhi’s Funeral

He Min left the group’s business affairs to its new chairman and devoted herself to Zhang’s funeral, spending her own savings and overseeing details ranging from the cemetery to the coffin lid. She worked with Xu Nayuyan, unaware that he also had an assignment to win her affection through the romance package Zhang had purchased 27.

She wanted a lively, personal farewell rather than an official media spectacle. The agreed venue was a former golf course beside the Crane River, with the public ceremony held first and her gathering afterward. Preparations included Chinese and Western music, suona, opera, and separate banquet menus after she and Xu disagreed over the food 28.

Their most serious dispute concerned Zhang’s remains. He Min wanted his body buried intact because she feared cremation would hurt him; Xu insisted on his written request for cremation and the scattering of his ashes. Their confrontation nearly became physical before Number Two produced Zhang’s final letter. He Min reluctantly accepted cremation, kept vigil beside the body, and later scattered his ashes into the Crane River 28 29 30.

At the private funeral, she hosted the service and explained that she had invited the people Zhang met in Crane City so he would not leave alone. When attendance proved sparse, she brought staff, musicians, and performers into the feast 32 33.

Appearance

• Build and looks: Slim and frequently praised for her beauty before Zhang’s deliberately insulting remarks 12 13.
• Hair: Permed hair, described as disheveled after the bridge encounter 13.
• Clothing: First appears in office clothes; her outfit includes an office blouse, black miniskirt, and high heels 12 13.
• During the walk home: Tear-streaked makeup, scraped ankles, and Zhang’s oversized size-43 shoes after losing her heels in the river 13.

Personality

He Min places great importance on romantic love. Her long relationship’s collapse leaves her tearful and disoriented, and she readily accepts Zhang’s invented stories while distressed. She also turns his vague remarks about remaining beneath the bridge into an imagined tragic romance. When overwhelmed, she repeatedly thinks of returning to her mother for support 13 14 19.

Her emotional vulnerability does not make her passive. She earned her executive position through her own ability, retaliated against the people who betrayed her, and investigated a powerful workplace harasser. Her attachment to Zhang produces similarly forceful action: she persists in helping him, risks herself during his ambush, and refuses to surrender control of his funeral arrangements 19 21 27.

Abilities & Skills

Corporate Management and Investigation

• Earned a senior executive position through her own abilities and later became executive CEO 19 27.
• Compiled extensive evidence of a vice chairman’s illegal activities, uncovering his role in laundering criminal operations into legitimate businesses 19.
• Stored the evidence on an encrypted USB drive whose password was known only to her and her boss; police technicians could not crack it 19.

Driving and Emergency Action

• Uses her car to search remote areas of Crane City for Zhang 19.
• Kills two armed attackers with her vehicle and moves the wounded Zhang into the passenger compartment despite being injured 21.
• Is overpowered by Scarface before she can drive away; no trained combat skill is documented 21.

Event Organization

• Personally manages cemetery selection, invitations, funeral materials, musicians, and banquet arrangements 27 28.
• Obtains a police list of Zhang’s local contacts and invites them to his memorial 28.
• Hosts the private funeral herself, despite being nervous about acting as host for the first time 32.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Black Audi A6 — A family-provided car she calls “really ugly”; used to help and search for Zhang. Its windshield is smashed during the ambush and later repaired 13 14 21 27.
• Encrypted USB drive — Holds her evidence against the corrupt vice chairman; stolen by a traitor and later crushed by Gao Fu 19 21.
• High heels — Used to injure her ex-boyfriend’s foot when he asks for forgiveness 19.
• Two apartments — Set aside for her by her family, although she lives in a rented apartment in Crane City 13.

Relationships

• Zhang Youzhi — A younger friend whom she repeatedly calls “bro.” Their birthday encounter leads to her efforts to help him, her attempted rescue, and her dedication to his funeral 12 13 14 21 27.
• Xu Nayuyan — Funeral-planning partner and an assigned romance expert. His staged café date becomes a planning session, and they clash over menus and cremation; no successful romance is established 27 28.
• Number Two — Arranges the romance service Zhang purchases for her and later mediates the dispute over Zhang’s remains 14 28.
• Former boyfriend — Her partner since high school; betrays her with her best friend and unsuccessfully seeks reconciliation after she exposes them 13 19.
• Former best friend — Participates in the affair; loses her job and subsequently breaks up with He Min’s ex-boyfriend 19.
• Mother — The person He Min wants to return to when heartbreak or workplace conflict overwhelms her 13 19.
• Gao Fu — Corporate enemy who harasses her, sabotages her work, and orders her abduction after she investigates corruption 19 21.

Notable Quotes

“I was still twenty-nine two hours ago. And love matters, bro. You don't understand.” 14

“I just didn't want him to be too lonely when he left...” 32

Trivia

• White Jade Capital’s prediction system indicated that He Min would not actually have jumped, even without Zhang’s intervention: she would have cried, climbed down, and received a ride home from a kind female driver 35.
• Despite its intensity, her grief did not qualify as an emotional disaster 35.
• She cannot see or hear Zhang’s spirit when she scatters his ashes; he watches and speaks to her without receiving a response 30.