Sun Liang

Biodata

Appearance

• Height: Claims to be 185 cm tall, describing his height as an inconvenience when entering planes or his Ferrari. A later livestream exposes thick height-increasing insoles in his shoes; his actual height is not established 54 56.
• Hairline: Admits that his hairline is “a little high” after Yin Zhengchuan teases him about going bald 166.
• Public impression: Viewers contrast his “bad-boy look” with Sun Zhe’s outwardly restrained appearance 73.

Personality

Sun Liang is proud, status-conscious, and highly concerned with saving face. After Wei Zisu beats him, he conceals what happened and claims that his injuries came from a fall. His reluctance to admit mistakes also leads him to defend Yuan Zizhen to his mother even while privately questioning their relationship 2 7.

He treats romantic relationships with considerable entitlement. When Wei Zisu seeks to end their engagement, Sun Liang threatens him with the stigma attached to a supposedly “used” omega. He later resents Wei Zisu for marrying someone else and asks him to divorce his husband and become his lover 2 25 26.

Despite believing himself clever, Sun Liang is easily manipulated through flattery, tears, and appeals to his pride. Yuan Zizhen exploits his preference for a gentle, obedient partner, while Yin Zhengchuan repeatedly tricks him with straight-faced insults and extravagant praise. His competitiveness can nevertheless push him to endure unfamiliar work rather than concede defeat 7 67 83 104 178.

His affection for his grandmother is genuine: he cries privately over her illness and visits whenever he can. He also proves capable of gratitude, acknowledging that Wei Zisu saved his life and refusing to repay that kindness with further harm. These qualities soften his relationship with Wei Zisu without curing his vanity or misplaced romantic confidence 165 170 215.

History

Family background and engagement

Sun Liang grows up as the Sun family’s pampered second son. His older paternal half-brother, Sun Zhe, is frequently praised as the more capable and dependable sibling. Sun Liang deeply resents him, recalling occasions when Sun Zhe appeared to plead on his behalf before covertly exposing his misbehavior to their father 20 86 94.

Sun Liang pursues Wei Zisu and becomes engaged to him with Wei Zisu’s agreement. Although Wei Zisu does not love him, he accepts because Sun Liang initially treats him well, his mother approves, and Sun Liang promises to use his connections to find Wei Zisu’s abducted younger brother 3 89.

The engagement lasts three years. Sun Liang’s early efforts to locate the missing brother become increasingly perfunctory, and disagreements produce long periods of silence. During one visit to a luxury van he rented for Wei Zisu, he pushes for unwanted physical intimacy; the resulting quarrel lasts more than a month 3 20.

Broken engagement and Yuan Zizhen

After discovering Sun Liang’s affair with Yuan Zizhen, Wei Zisu insists on ending the engagement. Sun Liang attempts to retain him by offering to father a child with inheritance rights. Privately, he and his mother also hope that marrying Wei Zisu will win his grandmother’s favor in the inheritance struggle against Sun Zhe 1 3.

They dissolve the engagement at the Civil Affairs Bureau. Sun Liang then threatens to withdraw orders from Wei Zisu’s parents’ factory and insults his missing brother. Wei Zisu punches him and follows with a beating that leaves him recovering at Yuan Zizhen’s home 3 4 7.

Initially reluctant to marry Yuan Zizhen, Sun Liang continues to idealize him as innocent and devoted. After their affair becomes public, Sun Liang and his mother devise a publicity strategy: insist that the relationship began after the breakup, hire favorable commenters, and cast suspicion on Wei Zisu 7 17.

An infertility-clinic call to Yuan Zizhen’s phone later makes Sun Liang doubt whether Yuan can have children. He leaves to seek out Wei Zisu and proposes that Wei Zisu divorce his husband and become his lover. Wei Zisu rejects him, kicks him out, and sends Yuan Zizhen a recording of the encounter. After test results resolve Sun Liang’s suspicions, he feels guilty toward Yuan Zizhen and marries him 25 26 52.

*Still in Love*

Sun Liang joins the couples’ reality show Still in Love with Yuan Zizhen. He presents himself as a devoted newlywed and publicly denies that their relationship involved cheating, but his appearances repeatedly undermine the image he wants to project 41 42 53.

During filming, Sun Liang begins questioning Yuan Zizhen’s sincerity after learning that his compassionate and helpless public persona is deliberately performed. Their marriage becomes increasingly argumentative, although Sun Liang continues comforting him and asserting his love 82 114.

Exposing Sun Zhe

After Yin Zhengchuan reveals that Sun Zhe is keeping another omega despite being engaged, Sun Liang hires people to investigate. His aim is to disgrace his brother before their grandmother and the Xu family, rather than protect the concealed lover 86 94 115.

Shortly after Yuan Zizhen’s pregnancy is confirmed, Sun Liang intercepts Sun Zhe’s car. He opens the passenger door, initially mistakes Gu Ziran for Wei Zisu, and then recognizes that he may be Wei Zisu’s missing younger brother. Sun Zhe punches and kicks him before driving away; Sun Liang responds by calling his grandmother and Wei Zisu with the address 128 130.

Wei Zisu later thanks him for helping recover his brother. Sun Liang openly admits that he had been trying to bring Sun Zhe down, not acting out of altruism 170.

Taking over the family businesses

Following Sun Zhe’s exposure and his grandmother’s declining health, responsibility for the Sun family businesses falls to Sun Liang. Former supporters of Sun Zhe begin courting him through business dinners and drinking engagements 154.

His grandmother warns him not to let Yuan Zizhen interfere in company affairs. Sun Liang promises to manage the business properly, and later restrictions on Yuan’s involvement become a grievance that Sun Zhe exploits 165 167.

Sun Liang’s relationship with Wei Zisu becomes calmer. He tells Wei Zisu that he reprimanded Yuan Zizhen and made him cancel orders connected to an attempt to cause trouble. Citing the surfing rescue, he proposes that they remain friends—then immediately spoils the moment by asking whether Wei Zisu still has feelings for him 170.

When the family food factory needs vegetables for prepared meals, Sun Liang travels to Shandong to discuss cooperation with Yin Zhengchuan. During the visit, Yin recruits him for a school anti-violence drill. Sun Liang enthusiastically takes notes, but gets stuck in the retractable gate, tears his trousers while being pulled free, and is promptly pinned by a security guard 177 178 179.

Grandmother’s death and the food-factory crisis

Sun Liang informs Wei Zisu of Grandma Wang’s death. At her funeral, he privately gives Wei Zisu the jade bangle she had returned to him and a letter she personally sealed, while acknowledging how much she loved Wei Zisu 184.

The Sun family subsequently faces a major crisis when prepared meals exported to Japan cause several deaths. The company comes under investigation and its stock price falls. Overwhelmed without his grandmother’s support, Sun Liang nearly accepts Yuan Zizhen’s offer to take over his shares and director position, believing Yuan will return them after the investigation 188.

Yin Zhengchuan warns him that the transfer would leave Yuan Zizhen legally entitled to retain the assets and authority. Wei Zisu also sends Sun Liang a video revealing the truth behind his father’s death. Sun Liang confronts Yuan about his contact with Sun Zhe and finally recognizes how thoroughly Yuan has deceived him 188 189 190.

In a later account, Sun Liang says Yuan Zizhen’s collusion with Sun Zhe cost the family more than ten million. He also reports that Yuan subsequently lost their unborn child, became intensely suspicious of him, and slapped his mother. Sun Liang is visibly saddened when discussing the child 215.

Later appearances

Sun Liang continues interacting with Wei Zisu and Yin Zhengchuan in the extras. He calls Yin his friend and declares that a friend’s spouse is off-limits, yet still offers to consider taking Wei Zisu back if the couple ever divorce 215.

He later persistently tries to sign Yin Zhengchuan as an artist. After following him to Film and Television City, he pays his way into the extras to gain access to him. His lack of acting experience leads to chaotic swordplay, and an offended actor retaliates by stepping on his inflamed toenail 250 251 253.

Relationships

• Wei Zisu — Former fiancé. Their hostile breakup eventually gives way to a more civil relationship, aided by Wei Zisu’s rescue of Sun Liang and Sun Liang’s role in locating Gu Ziran 3 122 130 170.
• Yuan Zizhen — Affair partner and later spouse. Sun Liang initially believes in his innocence, but gradually discovers the gap between Yuan’s obedient persona and his ambitions for control of the family business 7 52 82 190.
• Yin Zhengchuan — Romantic rival who becomes a business contact and someone Sun Liang considers a friend. Their interactions remain dominated by Yin’s teasing and Sun Liang’s unsuccessful attempts to outargue him 86 98 177 215.
• Sun Zhe — Older paternal half-brother and inheritance rival. Sun Liang despises his hypocrisy, actively investigates him, and later fears retaliation for helping expose him 86 94 130 166.
• Grandma Wang — Grandmother and family authority figure. Sun Liang fears her discipline but genuinely loves her, grieves over her illness, and carries out her instructions concerning Wei Zisu’s keepsakes 7 165 184.
• His mother — Encourages the match with Wei Zisu for its inheritance advantages and helps formulate the public denial of Sun Liang’s affair. During the food-factory crisis, she repeatedly calls him in distress about the family’s future 3 17 188.
• Gu Ziran — Wei Zisu’s missing younger brother. Sun Liang’s discovery of him in Sun Zhe’s car helps bring his whereabouts to Wei Zisu’s attention 130 170.

Notable Quotes

“We've had some unpleasant history, but we can still be friends from now on, right? You even saved my life when we went surfing in Qingdao. I won't forget that, much less repay your kindness with harm.” 170

“Oh, it was nothing. I was trying to bring Sun Zhe down. I'm not used to you suddenly being so polite to me.” 170

“If you and Yin Zhengchuan get divorced someday too, I could consider taking you back.” 215