Lin Zhe

Biodata

Background / History

Taking Over the Family Inn

Lin Zhe took over the Fortunate Inn after his parents, Lin Guodong and Han Li, were injured in a car accident during the Qingming Festival. The responsible driver used cloned license plates and fled. With his parents hospitalized, Lin Zhe had to manage both their medical expenses and the family business 1.

He initially ran the inn with an inexperienced receptionist. Understaffing, poor cleanliness, and mounting complaints drove away customers. With only five months to raise the 310,000-yuan rent payment, the inn’s previous monthly profit of barely over 10,000 yuan was far from sufficient. Although Dan Teng and Li Muchan could lend him money, he wanted to exhaust his own options before asking 1.

Restoring the Inn’s Reputation

A strange coin found in the courtyard dissolved into golden lettering and bound Lin Zhe to the Check-In Panel. His first reward, thirty Cleansing Talismans, allowed him to clean the entire inn with a single activation 1 2 3.

When scenic-area inspectors arrived in response to earlier sanitation complaints, they found no hygiene problems. Lin Zhe attributed the transformation to professional deep cleaning. Dan Teng subsequently promoted the restored inn through a livestream that generated roughly forty room bookings 4 7.

Building Good Fortune Canteen

The panel’s next weekly reward supplied chickens whose eggs carried enhanced Flavor and Nutrition attributes. Recognizing their commercial potential, Lin Zhe worked with Lin Xiaomeng to develop an egg-fried-rice business. They offered free samples to guests, while Lin Zhe also recruited Dan Teng to introduce the dish to the Taoist priests at Three Pure Ones Palace 9 10 13 17.

A recruitment mission accelerated his staffing plans. Its initial requirement of five hires and 150,000-yuan reward increased to six hires and 200,000 yuan. Lin Zhe hired Hu Ting and five village women, then assigned them to reception, housekeeping, and kitchen work 19 20 21.

He transferred the entire 200,000-yuan reward to his father for the family’s bank loan and separately paid 20,000 yuan toward hospital bills. To conceal the reward’s origin, he presented the money as coming through a management-committee financial arrangement 26 29.

Lin Xiaomeng gradually became canteen manager, proposing additional dishes and considering staffing and profitability. Lin Zhe supported expanding beyond Soul-Stirring Egg Fried Rice into rice noodles, egg-fried noodles, and dumplings 33 38 40 41.

Expanding into Fruit Sales

As tourism increased, all thirty-two rooms filled and the inn’s total daily revenue reached 19,756 yuan. Lin Zhe estimated that continued business at that level could cover the following year’s rent within a month 43.

He then began reselling peaches supplied by Li Ying, receiving orders for more than two hundred jin in one day. His next check-in reward, Little Peach Peach, opened a separate opportunity: converting ordinary peaches into high-quality Fortune-Blessed Peach Plums 45 47 48.

To keep the conversion hidden, he rented warehouse F4 in Hongrun Wholesale Market for 12,000 yuan per year. He chose a location away from Li Ying’s shop and ordered five hundred jin of peaches for delivery there 50.

Appearance

Lin Zhe resembles his mother, Han Li, and is repeatedly described as handsome. His features combine a wholesome appearance with a roguish charm 13 23 28.

• Build: Tall and somewhat lean, with slim limbs and soft skin 13 23.
• Face: Softly contoured and oval 23.
• Features: Large eyes, a high nose bridge, and thin lips 23.
• Distinguishing mark: A brilliant golden character meaning “Sign” on his right palm, left after binding the Check-In Panel 2.

Personality

Lin Zhe is competitive and proud, particularly reluctant to ask close friends or relatives for financial help. His preference is to think through a problem and make a genuine effort before borrowing money. Even after business improves, he prioritizes rent and family debts over cosmetic improvements to the inn or an expensive vehicle 1 29 31.

He is playful and openly self-flattering, joking about his good looks and approachable smile. His friendship with Dan Teng revolves around insults, mock father-and-son language, and mutual teasing 6 17 39 42.

His generosity is practical rather than ceremonial. He gives Lin Xiaomeng food for her grandmother, escorts her home after late work, lets kitchen staff take unused ingredients home, and shares stat-enhanced egg dishes with employees 16 30 33 36 42.

He also protects the secrecy of his rewards. He invents an emigrated farming friend to explain the chickens and arranges off-site fruit conversion rather than letting others witness it. In romantic matters, he is skeptical of love at first sight and repeatedly rejects Dan Teng’s attempts to match him with Li Muchan 7 12 28 39 48.

Abilities & Skills

Check-In Panel

The panel gives Lin Zhe one opportunity each week to receive a random reward at a designated location. Information about the panel and its rewards can enter his mind directly 2.

• Opens and closes through silent commands 2.
• Stores rewards that he can retrieve through thought 2 9 38.
• Refreshes the weekly location at midnight when a new week begins 7 45.
• Can issue additional missions, including a time-limited recruitment task 19 20 21.
• Has no reward pattern Lin Zhe has successfully identified 9.
• Successful check-ins are not immediate: the documented visits to Three Pure Ones Palace and Penguin Offering a Peach took approximately thirty and thirty-eight minutes respectively 2 47.

Cleansing Talismans

Lin Zhe can activate these consumable talismans with a thought, without incantations or rituals. One talisman cleaned the entire Fortunate Inn in under three seconds 3.

• Cleans rooms, fixtures, clothing, bedding, and shared facilities 2 3.
• Removes dust, cobwebs, stains, and kitchen grease 38.
• Leaves bedding faintly fragrant and brings damp rooms to a comfortable humidity 3.
• Does not replace ordinary maintenance; Lin Zhe still repairs furnishings, changes bulbs, and tends the courtyard 7.
• He conserves the supply through routine cleaning, initially estimating that weekly use would make thirty talismans last 210 days 3 7.

Attribute-Enhanced Chickens and Eggs

The rewarded flock consists of one rooster and ninety-nine hens. Every chicken has special attributes; some also possess Intelligence and understand Lin Zhe’s commands 9.

• Intelligent hens can gather and lay eggs on command; chickens without Intelligence behave much like ordinary birds 9.
• Each rewarded hen can lay only one egg per day 10.
• Eggs inherit Flavor and Nutrition attributes from their hens 9.
• Higher Flavor attributes produce noticeably better-tasting food even with Lin Zhe’s ordinary cooking skills 10.

Lin Zhe sorts the eggs by their highest attribute value 10:

Return Plum for Peach

Little Peach Peach converts peaches into an equal weight of Fortune-Blessed Peach Plums. The transformation is an item ability, not an immortality or cultivation power 48.

• Daily capacity: 250 kilograms of peaches 48.
• Quality effect: Converted plums gain three quality levels; his first test produced plums labeled “quality +3” 48.
• Activation: Place the item beside the peaches and cover both with opaque cloth. Lin Zhe’s first conversion succeeded after a ten-second countdown 48.
• Price restriction: The plums must sell for at least 40 yuan per kilogram; lower prices reduce their quality 48.
• Durability: Resistant to water, fire, impacts, and falls; theoretically unbreakable 48.
• Owner return: Wherever it is left, it returns to the “Sign” mark on his palm at seven the following morning 48.

Innkeeping and Local Knowledge

Lin Zhe develops practical operating skills alongside his supernatural advantages 4 7.

• Handles reservations, guest registration, room payments, and deposits 4.
• Performs minor repairs and collects guests who cannot find the inn 7.
• Recruits and trains staff, including teaching Hu Ting front-desk computer work 20.
• Knows Mount Sanqing’s attractions and routes well enough that he considers a guide’s license his main missing qualification 2.
• Uses that route knowledge while accompanying Jiang Yining on a morning run, though he acknowledges that his running ability is poor 46 47.
• Can prepare simple dishes such as scrambled eggs, but credits Lin Xiaomeng rather than claiming to be a skilled chef 10 17.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Cleansing Talismans ×30 — First check-in reward, obtained at Three Pure Ones Palace 2.
• Rooster ×1 and Hens ×99 — Reward obtained at Fox Nibbling Chicken; kept in the inn’s backyard bamboo grove 9.
• Little Peach Peach — A fingernail-sized pink peach-like item with an unknown, glass-marble-like material; obtained at Penguin Offering a Peach 47 48.
• Electric scooter — Used for market errands, luggage collection, and taking Lin Xiaomeng home 13 31 42.
• Garmin sports watch — Used to check the time during work and outings 10 46.
• Warehouse F4 lease and three keys — Secured for discreet storage and planned fruit conversion at Hongrun Wholesale Market 50.

Relationships

• Lin Guodong — Father and previous operator of the family inn. Lin Zhe helps cover his treatment and transfers 200,000 yuan to him for the family’s loan 25 26 29.
• Han Li — Mother and previous innkeeper. Lin Zhe brings her high-grade eggs and canteen food, reassures her about finances, and urges both parents to focus on recovery 23 25 27.
• Dan Teng — Best friend from university and Taoist priest at Three Pure Ones Palace. Promotes the inn, offers financial help, and regularly trades barbs with Lin Zhe; saved in his phone under joking “son” contact names 1 6 7 23.
• Li Muchan — Dan Teng’s mother, also called Auntie Li. Interested in Lin Zhe, but he resists the proposed relationship because of her age and the awkward implications for their families 1 7 39.
• Lin Xiaomeng — Employee, distant relative by marriage, and developing canteen manager. Lin Zhe values her work, supports her menu ideas, and shows concern for her and her grandmother. Dan Teng repeatedly misreads their closeness as romantic intimacy 3 16 33 38 41.
• Grandma Wu — Lin Xiaomeng’s grandmother. Lin Zhe sends her food and offers to escort her and Xiaomeng home after a late evening 16 33.
• Hu Ting — Newly hired receptionist who later manages guest-room operations. Lin Zhe trains her and accepts her request to have a cousin apply for canteen work 20 38 49.
• Li Ying — Supplier at Old Li’s Grain and Oil Shop, addressed as Sister Li. Supplies staples and peaches, provides delivery, and begins calling him “Boss Lin” as his business grows 13 43 50.
• Jiang Yining — Guest and travel content creator. Reviews the inn’s food, offers promotional help, and accompanies him on the outing that leads to his Little Peach Peach reward 30 36 46 47.
• Li Li — Guest who becomes a friend and joins the hospital visit to his parents. She has a favorable impression of him, and they later discuss love at first sight 23 25 39.
• Du Huan (Huanhuan) — Guest and friend who accompanies the hospital visit and becomes romantically involved with Dan Teng 23 25 38 39.

Notable Quotes

“I treat you like a buddy, and you want to make me your stepdad? That’s not how this works.” 7

“Do what you want to do. Be bold and give it a try. I’ll always support you!” 40