Lin Shuyang

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Lin Shuyang (林书杨)
Alias(es)	Second Young Master Lin; Young Master Lin 1 19
Gender	Male 19
Affiliation	Lin Family; Lin Group; Ji Huaijin’s circle of friends 18 104
Occupation/Role	Wealthy heir; handles personal errands for Ji Huaijin without holding a regular job 76
Family	Younger brother of Lin Yi; husband of Xue Baoyi 11 104 126
Status	Married; expecting a daughter with Xue Baoyi 126 130
First Appearance	Chapter 1, “Catching a cheater” 1

Background / History

Family and childhood

The Lin Family’s connection to the Ji Family began with a friendship formed by Lin Shuyang’s great-grandfather. His grandfather maintained that relationship through courteous holiday visits and gifts. With the Ji Family’s backing, the Lins developed from a small real estate company into a major business enterprise; the Lin Group is later described as Capital City’s largest real estate company 18 104.

Lin Shuyang accompanied his father on yearly visits to Sucheng. At seven, he charmed Grandma Ji and openly announced that he wanted the handsome Ji Huaijin to replace his actual older brother. Grandma Ji arranged for him to spend every summer vacation with the family. He became Ji Huaijin’s constant shadow, playing beside him while he studied and even waiting outside the bathroom 18.

Early relationships

Since his teens, Lin Shuyang had exclusively dated women older than himself. During his sophomore year, he pursued a senior for three months and began planning to marry her after graduation. Before he could introduce her to his parents, she left him for another wealthy heir. She later discovered Lin Shuyang’s higher standing at a banquet and tried to return, but he refused 19.

The betrayal prompted him to test subsequent girlfriends by hiring someone to offer them five million to leave him. After repeated failures, he invented a poor-boy identity with a paralyzed father and an intellectually disabled brother. Maintaining the story meant pretending to search for work while actually spending his days gaming in Lin Yi’s office, sleeping in his father’s office, or accompanying his mother to mahjong gatherings 19.

Appearance

• Large, striking eyes — repeatedly compared to eyes in mascara advertisements and described as “Carslan eyes” 1 126.
• Expensive casual clothing — his clothes have no obvious labels, but their fabric and overall presentation reveal his wealth 1.
• Fashion-conscious — a longtime fashion enthusiast who nevertheless feels outclassed by Cheng Yue’s styling 46.
• Disguise wardrobe — wears inexpensive clothes bought through Pinduoduo when presenting himself to his girlfriend as poor 19.

Personality

Lin Shuyang is energetic, blunt, mischievous, and intensely curious about other people’s romances. He eagerly joins Cheng Yue’s attempt to catch a cheating boyfriend and repeatedly tries to uncover Ji Huaijin’s private life. His teasing often continues until Ji Huaijin threatens to involve Lin Yi or make him study 1 11 37 47.

Despite his privileged upbringing, he does not regard wealth as proof of superior character. His father taught him to enjoy his money without becoming arrogant and to recognize how hard ordinary people work for their livelihoods. He readily befriends Cheng Yue despite the difference in their circumstances 47.

In romance, he is affectionate but insecure. He insists that true love should be free of material considerations, yet his fear of abandonment leads him to deceive and test his partners. Ji Huaijin explicitly condemns his treatment of unsuspecting girlfriends as test subjects 18 19. After hurting Xue Baoyi, Lin Shuyang accepts responsibility and promises never to lie to her again 104.

Abilities & Skills

Social Connections and Logistics

• Uses his standing as the Lin Family’s second young master to obtain immediate assistance from a hotel manager and locate Fang Zhiyou’s room 1.
• Responds to Ji Huaijin’s urgent request to arrange a house-call doctor for Cheng Yue 8.
• Handles clothing deliveries and is asked to arrange villa options and the removal of Ji Huaijin’s study belongings 62.
• Contacts property management and obtains security footage that reveals Su Xingchen’s unauthorized entry into Ji Huaijin’s apartment 63.

Investment

• Following Lin Yi’s guidance, invests the spending money Xue Baoyi gives him in stocks under her own name. By his account, its value increases dozens of times over 104.

Impersonation and Entertainment

• Performs a convincing imitation of Ji Huaijin turning wedding games into a Civil Code lecture, making Cheng Yue laugh 126.
• Designs an elaborate bridal-bouquet competition involving a low bar, foam pool, narrow beam, and candle-blowing challenge 126.

Equipment / Items

• Maybach — the car Cheng Yue mistakenly enters while looking for his rideshare 1.
• Cigarettes — smokes during his first appearance and while explaining Chu Jiye and Su Xingchen’s history 1 78.
• Private wedding plane — the Lin Family arranges a plane marked “Happy wedding” to collect Xue Baoyi from Haicheng 126.

Relationships

• Ji Huaijin — Childhood companion and older-brother figure. Lin Shuyang jokes that he is Ji’s “brother in public” and “lackey in private,” while Ji genuinely cherishes him as a younger brother and defends him against Chu Jiye 18 46 77.
• Lin Yi — Actual older brother and his strongest source of discipline. Threats to tell Lin Yi reliably restrain him; Lin Yi also guides his investing and helps address the harm done to Xue Baoyi 11 57 103 104.
• Xue Baoyi — Older girlfriend, later wife. She accepts his apology for concealing his identity after he promises honesty; they marry and expect a daughter 104 126 130.
• Cheng Yue — Friend whom he initially nicknames the “little unlucky duck.” He welcomes Cheng Yue into the group, apologizes for his part in the apartment misunderstanding, and chooses him as a groomsman 46 58 75 126.
• Xi Ming — Friend and frequent teasing partner. Lin Shuyang invites Ji Huaijin and Cheng Yue to Xi Ming’s Winery opening 18 55 75.
• Tang Jiaran — Member of his social circle who challenges his idealized view of love and joins in teasing him 18.
• Su Xingchen — Childhood acquaintance. Lin Shuyang once hoped Su and Ji Huaijin would become a couple, but later condemns Su’s unauthorized apartment entry and treatment of Cheng Yue 59 76 78.
• Chu Jiye — Hostile acquaintance who threatens him for confronting Su Xingchen. Lin Shuyang later explains Chu’s family influence and romantic entanglement to Cheng Yue 76 78.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Cheng Yue’s Breakup and Ji Huaijin’s Romance

• Accidental meeting: Cheng Yue enters his Maybach by mistake. Rather than simply turning him away, Lin Shuyang helps him and Qi Su reach the hotel room where Fang Zhiyou’s infidelity is exposed 1.
• Early connection: He tells Ji Huaijin about Cheng Yue at the bar, allowing Ji to recognize Cheng Yue during their subsequent hotel encounter 2 3.
• Hospitalization: Ji Huaijin calls him while deathly pale and bleeding from the mouth. Lin Shuyang later reveals the hospitalization to Cheng Yue, prompting Cheng Yue’s concern 37 40.
• Discovering the relationship: During a hospital visit, he finds Ji checking Cheng Yue’s mouth and misreads the scene as intimate. Their conversation confirms that Cheng Yue has been bringing Ji meals 46 47.
• Social introduction: He invites the couple to the Winery opening, introduces Cheng Yue to the group, and agrees to watch over him while Ji Huaijin steps away 55 58.

Su Xingchen’s Return

• Apartment breach: Su Xingchen claims Lin Shuyang allowed him into Ji Huaijin’s home. Lin recalls giving the access code to a clothing delivery; security footage later shows Su deceiving the delivery employee to gain entry 62 63.
• Urgent warning: A second video reveals that Cheng Yue saw Su inside the apartment wearing Ji’s clothes. Lin Shuyang immediately calls Ji Huaijin to warn him 63.
• Making amends: Blaming his oversight for the resulting crisis, he loses interest in partying and hosts an apology dinner after the couple returns. Cheng Yue tells him the misunderstanding was not his fault 74 75 76.
• Taking a side: He confronts Su Xingchen at the dinner and later explains Su’s history with Ji Huaijin and Chu Jiye to Cheng Yue 76 78.

Reconciliation, Marriage, and Parenthood

• Identity revealed: Xue Baoyi faints after learning that he is the Lin Group’s second son, and the distress endangers her pregnancy. Lin Yi disciplines him and brings him to apologize; Ji Huaijin offers Xue independent legal support 103 104.
• Reconciliation: After further punishment from his father and a family apology, Lin Shuyang makes a sincere confession and promises not to deceive Xue again. Their parents agree to the marriage 104.
• Wedding: Cheng Yue serves as his groomsman, while Ji Huaijin takes the older-brother role. Lin’s bouquet competition becomes the occasion for Cheng Yue’s proposal, which Ji accepts 126.
• Expecting a daughter: A prenatal appointment suggests the baby is a girl. With only boys born into the Lin Family for three generations, his mother enthusiastically monopolizes Xue Baoyi’s company, leaving Lin Shuyang jokingly “cast aside” 130.

Notable Quotes

“Hi, I'm Lin Shuyang. His brother in public, his lackey in private.” 46

“I own up to what I did wrong.” 104

“But I like you so much, sweetheart.” 104