Shen Yi

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Shen Yi (沈弋)
Alias(es)	Secretary Shen; Special Assistant Shen; Head Secretary 1 6 22
Gender	Male 17 102
Secondary Gender	Originally Beta; later differentiates into an S-class Omega 7 23 24
Age	Over thirty at the time of his second differentiation; exact age unspecified 13 102
Height	183 cm 33
Affiliation	Akit Pharmaceuticals; Secretary Department 3 8
Occupation/Role	Yuan Chen’s special assistant and head of the Secretary Department; formerly a social affairs reporter and publicity-team employee 3 8
Pheromone Scent	Jasmine 23
Residence	Owns a home in an upscale townhouse neighborhood in City A; later lives with Yuan Chen 6 93
Partner	Yuan Chen; their initially casual relationship becomes a committed romance 69 88
First Appearance	Chapter 1 1

Power Progression

Shen Yi’s documented changes concern secondary-gender differentiation and pheromone classification, rather than combat cultivation.

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Beta	7	Cannot sense pheromones; nevertheless recognizes Yuan Chen’s rut symptoms and manages his medication.
Omega — second differentiation	22 23	Receives an Omega diagnosis after prolonged fever, weakness, and abdominal pain. A Pheromone Activator injection relieves his lingering symptoms.
S-class Omega — confirmed classification	24	Professor Hu confirms excellent pheromone control and strong resistance to Alpha pheromones. This is an assessment of his differentiated condition, not a separate transformation.

Background / History

Shen Yi grew up in a city neighboring City A. His parents are Betas and retired civil servants who live on their pensions. He has an older sister who lives abroad with her husband, whose work keeps him stationed overseas. Shen Yi has lived independently since he was twenty 102.

After winning a competitive recruitment process, he became a social affairs reporter at one of the country’s leading media outlets. He resigned after six months upon deciding that the profession did not suit him, then joined Akit Pharmaceuticals’ publicity team. His intelligence, tact, and perceptiveness earned him a reputation as an all-rounder 3.

Yuan Chen personally recruited him as his special assistant. Shen Yi deliberated for a week before accepting and had served as Yuan Chen’s right-hand man for six years when the story began. Although a permanent employee, he renewed the special-assistant contract every two years. His substantial salary and department-head benefits enabled him to purchase a home and car in City A 1 3 6.

Appearance

Shen Yi is tall and lean, with fair skin, an upright posture, and refined features combining handsomeness with beauty. His smile is particularly captivating, and his well-proportioned figure makes even an ordinary ready-to-wear suit look expensive 8 11 33.

• Height and build: Stands 183 cm tall; his legs become slimmer after differentiation, and he complains about losing muscle 33.
• Work attire: Favors neat, understated suits rather than conspicuously expensive clothing 8.
• Casual appearance: A sky-blue shirt makes him look youthful enough to resemble a university student, though his posture and table manners remain formal 26.
• After resignation: Appears noticeably more relaxed and radiant; Chen Ciyi observes an added gentleness in his appearance 35.

Personality

Shen Yi is meticulous, perceptive, and professionally discreet. He considers confidentiality a basic requirement of secretarial work and avoids revealing either Yuan Chen’s private affairs or too much about himself to strangers. He notices subtle changes in Yuan Chen’s expression and understands the effort behind his polished public image 1 5 16 17.

As a department head, he favors mutual respect over rigid hierarchy. He encourages questions, accepts that newcomers will make mistakes, and builds a team culture in which colleagues can communicate freely. Even while preparing to leave his position, he cannot ignore the department’s disorganized workload 8 28.

His calm professional manner conceals a dry sense of humor and a strong desire for personal time. Rare early departures delight him, while interruptions from Yuan Chen provoke exasperated private commentary. On days off, the decisive, efficient department head happily becomes inactive and reluctant to leave bed 6 15 93.

Shen Yi’s loyalty does not erase his self-respect. He refuses to continue working under conditions he finds exhausting, rejects pressure to move away from his home, and eventually demands that Yuan Chen either acknowledge their relationship or let him go. When seeking redress for the duke’s misconduct, he prioritizes public accountability over a lucrative confidentiality deal 26 73 81 88.

Abilities & Skills

Executive Assistance and Team Leadership

Shen Yi manages Yuan Chen’s complete schedule, accompanies him on trips, and coordinates the Secretary Department 8.

• Oversees recruitment, candidate evaluation, onboarding, and departmental meetings 2 8.
• Anticipates Yuan Chen’s needs and reads his mood from small changes in expression 1.
• Coordinates both business obligations and sensitive private arrangements, including the staged relationship with Ouyang Keke 10.
• Identifies disrupted workflows and restores coordination when individual secretaries are overwhelmed 28.

Networking and Media Relations

His reporting background and six years of executive-assistant work give him an extensive professional contact network 3 6.

• Uses a private group of executive assistants to obtain a difficult restaurant reservation through Chen Ciyi 4 5.
• Supplies information about Yuan Hao to his university senior, prompting a news investigation into Yuan Hao’s misconduct 44.
• Searches through personal contacts and headhunters to assemble three qualified replacement candidates 30.
• Drafts an official clarification after reporters misrepresent Yuan Chen’s outing with Dai Ciling as a romance 83.

Medical Assistance

Shen Yi has practical experience supporting Yuan Chen during pheromone instability and rut episodes, but is not identified as a medical professional 7 17.

• Measures pheromone levels with a portable testing device and monitors temperature 7 14.
• Administers intravenous suppressants with technique described as nearly professional 7.
• Screens contracted rut partners and checks their pheromone readings 16.
• Consults Professor Hu during emergencies; in Boston, the professor specifically warns him not to use suppressants during the active rut 17.

S-class Omega Pheromones

Professor Hu classifies Shen Yi as an S-class Omega because of his strong control over his own pheromones and resistance to Alpha pheromones 24.

• Can deliberately release or restrain his jasmine-scented pheromones 23 29 83.
• Gains additional practice by reining in his scent around colleagues 31.
• Shares pheromones with Yuan Chen to help calm him 73.
• Limits: Constant restraint is exhausting, and powerful Alpha exposure can still overwhelm him despite his classification 40 41.
• Compatibility: Yuan Chen gradually tolerates his scent, while Yuan Chen’s bergamot pheromones soothe Shen Yi after exposure to other Alphas 29 30 41.

Driving

• Drives Yuan Chen to business appointments and adjusts his driving to let him rest comfortably 5.
• Reacts to a sudden traffic collision by braking and shielding Ouyang Keke with his arm 10.
• Avoids alcohol when responsible for driving and takes intoxicated secretaries home after a department gathering 73.

Equipment / Items

• Portable pheromone testing device: Used to monitor Yuan Chen, screen rut partners, and repeatedly check Shen Yi’s own readings after differentiation 7 16 23.
• Medical supplies: Handles injection kits, disinfectant, suppressants, and automatic injectors when managing Yuan Chen’s condition 7 15.
• Desk “survival supplies”: Keeps fatigue-recovery agents, concentrated vitamins, stimulants, and high-caffeine drinks for demanding shifts 13.
• Personal car: Purchased with his earnings; used for work-related driving 6 10.
• Ultrasound photograph: Brings it to Yuan Chen’s office when explaining his decision to let the pregnancy-related imprint integration continue 100.

Relationships

• Yuan Chen — Employer, trusted confidant, and eventual romantic partner. Yuan Chen relies on Shen Yi more completely than on family or friends, while Shen Yi insists that their romance respect his dignity and professional boundaries 11 69 88.
• Professor Hu — Attending physician and medical adviser. Confirms Shen Yi’s S-class Omega classification, monitors his adjustment, and warns against relying on suppressants 24 41 50.
• Lin Xiaofeng — Close friend of the same age. Introduces him to potential dates and discusses his differentiation, retirement plans, and relationship with Yuan Chen 20 33.
• Secretary Department — His subordinates and colleagues. They trust him to support them, worry about his health, and welcome his return; he maintains an egalitarian working culture 8 22 27 73.
• Chen Ciyi — Fellow executive assistant and professional contact. Helps secure the Dan Yan reservation and later tells Shen Yi that Yuan Chen defended him against degrading remarks about Omegas 4 5 35.
• University senior — A broadcaster who helped him obtain his first job. Their renewed contact becomes a route for investigating and exposing Yuan Hao’s misconduct 5 44.
• Yuan Hao — Yuan Chen’s rival and an unwanted recruiter. Offers to double Shen Yi’s salary; Shen Yi later blocks his invitation and helps publicize evidence against him 12 33 44.
• Ouyang Keke — Actor whose contracted publicity romance with Yuan Chen is brokered by Shen Yi. Prefers communicating through him and is protected by him during the traffic incident 10.
• Gu Qingheng — Celebrity neighbor. His interactions with Shen Yi provoke Yuan Chen’s jealousy, but Shen Yi refuses Yuan Chen’s demand that he move away 51 73.
• Duke von Heinrich — Harasses Shen Yi and pressures him through the companies’ partnership. Shen Yi later demands a personal public apology and acknowledgment of the facts 58 81.
• Parents and older sister — His immediate family. His parents struggle to comprehend his late differentiation and merging mental imprints; his sister lives abroad 102.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Yuan Chen’s Indispensable Assistant

• Manages difficult visitors, packed schedules, and Yuan Chen’s private medical needs alongside his ordinary office duties 2 5 7.
• Brokers Yuan Chen’s one-month publicity relationship with Ouyang Keke to counter Yuan Hao’s advances; Ouyang Keke’s friendliness toward Shen Yi exposes Yuan Chen’s jealousy 10.
• Abandons a possible encounter with a New York lawyer after Yuan Chen calls during the Boston trip. The ensuing rut emergency leads to unwanted physical restraint and an intimate encounter in which Shen Yi attempts to establish limits 17 18.
• In the skiing extra, Peter reveals that he never used Omega pheromones during the Boston arrangement and that Yuan Chen instructed him to claim otherwise 107.

Differentiation, Resignation, and Return

• Works through weeks of illness until collapsing during a research-institute inspection; subsequent medical testing leads to his Omega diagnosis 21 22.
• Accepts his second differentiation and resigns because of the risks posed by Yuan Chen’s intolerance of Omega pheromones 23 26.
• Returns for a handover, intervenes in departmental disorder, and unsuccessfully presents three replacement candidates 27 28 30.
• After resigning, plans a year away from work. Yuan Chen later asks him to return and offers the Wanhua Building, valued at around thirty billion, in exchange for staying beside him; the offer is not evidence of completed ownership transfer 33 35 36.
• Resumes work but finds that maintaining pheromone control and enduring Alpha-heavy events impose new physical demands 40 41.

Harassment and Accountability

• During the pharmaceutical signing trip, the duke visits Shen Yi’s room and demands that he release his pheromones. Shen Yi identifies the request as sexual harassment but worries that refusal could jeopardize the partnership 58.
• Yuan Chen finds him in severe distress during his first heat period; the two subsequently become physically intimate 60 62.
• In later negotiations, Shen Yi confronts the duke’s attendant about a sedative and refuses a patent transfer offered in exchange for confidentiality 81.
• Accepts Karl von Heinrich’s apology without dropping his demand for the old duke’s personal acknowledgment. The duke subsequently apologizes publicly and faces an investigation 81 83.

From Casual Arrangement to Commitment

Milestone	Development
Mutual attraction	A records-room kiss forces both men to admit that their agreement to avoid reacting to one another may be impossible to keep 68.
Casual relationship	Shen Yi accepts a physical arrangement on the condition that work remain separate and neither become emotionally entangled 69.
Emotional conflict	He develops feelings despite those terms and considers ending the relationship before accepting a blind date 77 86.
Confession	After Yuan Chen interrupts the date, Shen Yi admits his feelings and demands an acknowledged relationship. Yuan Chen agrees to be with him 88.
Cohabitation	By Chapter 93, they have lived together for a month 93.
Marriage proposal	While caring for Shen Yi during pregnancy-related recovery, Yuan Chen declares his love and asks him to consider marriage 99.

Pregnancy and Family Plans

• The pregnancy is discussed through the integration of their mental imprints. Shen Yi initially reacts with fear, guilt, and uncertainty; Yuan Chen promises to respect his decision 96 99.
• After minor bleeding, a doctor prescribes a week of bed rest and monitoring 99.
• Shen Yi decides to let integration continue and brings Yuan Chen an ultrasound photograph to explain his choice 100.
• They begin discussing their shared future and inform their families. At Shen Yi’s family home, Yuan Chen says that he was the one who insisted on marriage 101 102.
• Shen Yi returns to work with reduced outside duties, concentrating on Yuan Chen’s schedule and commute while Secretary Li takes over external engagements 104.
• Two years after Yuan Chen’s promise, they vacation in St. Moritz. Shen Yi struggles with beginner skiing, enjoys their time together, and suggests a warm seaside trip; Yuan Chen promises a future trip with Shi An 107.

Notable Quotes

“Maybe being Yuan Chen's secretary is what I was born to do.” 3

“I don't want to live like that. It's exhausting.” 26

“I won't accept a relationship that has to be hidden away. I have my self-respect too.” 88

“So, be with me. Yuan Chen.” 88

Trivia

• His usual coffee order is a hot Americano with milk 1.
• Before differentiation, prolonged exposure to Yuan Chen’s scent causes others to mistake him for an Alpha 5 17.
• His first extended vacation in six years is tied to arrangements for Yuan Chen’s rut—and is interrupted by the same emergency 15 17.
• A koala represents the life he fears losing in his dream before he decides to continue the imprint integration 100.