Gu Jiangfeng

Biodata

Background / History

Early Life and Family

Gu Jiangfeng attended the same high school and university as Zhao Wanling, Lin Xiang, and Bai Qinglan. The four had known one another for more than twenty years by the time Gu Zhiyue returned home. Jiangfeng later recalled that he persistently courted Wanling before she accepted his confession 3 37.

During a dangerous business conflict, Jiangfeng and Wanling entrusted their youngest son, Gu Zhiyue, to Lin Xiang and Bai Qinglan. They sent their second and third sons abroad for safety, while their eldest, Gu Tingchuan, refused to leave and wanted to help them. The conflict nearly killed Jiangfeng and Wanling, and the families lost contact, separating them from Zhiyue for approximately fourteen years 1.

Jiangfeng’s elder brother, Gu Jiangli, had contributed substantial financial support when Jiangfeng and Wanling started their business. Afterward, Jiangfeng, Wanling, and Tingchuan built the family’s much larger fortune through their own work 2 5 13.

Reunion with Gu Zhiyue

Jiangfeng and Wanling never stopped searching for Zhiyue. When they finally found him, Jiangfeng carried his luggage and asked him to try living with them for one month, promising not to stop him from returning to the parents who had raised him 1.

After Zhiyue fell down the estate’s stairs, Jiangfeng accompanied the family to the hospital. He subsequently instructed Qian the Butler to keep the house’s night-lights on around the clock 3 4.

Appearance

Gu Jiangfeng is introduced with an authoritative expression and an immaculate suit. Online viewers later describe him as handsome after seeing the family at Gu Shen Ci’s concert 1 25.

• Hair: Slicked back and streaked with gray 1.
• Nose: Straight with an upturned tip—a feature he proudly identifies in Gu Zhiyue 1.

Personality

Jiangfeng is patient with Zhiyue’s adjustment to the family. He accepts that rebuilding their relationship will take time and reassures Wanling that they can gradually learn their son’s preferences. His care also takes practical forms, including household safety changes and reminders not to stay up gaming 1 2 4 18.

At work, he is demanding of himself and willing to work through the night. Once warned of a threat, he favors preparation over confrontation: rather than immediately arresting a company mole, he uses the employee to pass a rejected proposal to his enemies 5 6 7.

His trust in his elder brother changes sharply after learning of Jiangli’s betrayal. He can maintain a courteous facade while deliberately withholding useful information, and later tells Gu Shen Ci to regard Jiangli as the family’s lifelong enemy 8 18.

Abilities & Skills

Hearing Gu Zhiyue’s Thoughts

Jiangfeng can hear Gu Zhiyue’s unspoken thoughts and his exchanges with System No. 9, also called Xiao Jiu. He first realizes this while overhearing a warning about the company’s upcoming bid 5 6.

• Learns about concealed betrayals and predicted disasters through Zhiyue’s conversations with the system 5 13 28.
• Coordinates responses through a private family group chat 13 18.
• Keeps the ability secret from Zhiyue, who instead credits his father with extraordinary foresight 6 7 14.
• Receives advance information rather than independently predicting the future 7 14.

Business Management and Countermeasures

Jiangfeng runs a large corporation and personally handles sensitive proposals, contracts, and construction oversight 5 10 14.

• Information control: Keeps the genuine bid document sealed and gives Jiangli only dispensable details 5 8.
• Counterintelligence: Plants a discarded proposal, disables the archive’s motion alarm, preserves surveillance, and spreads a false report that the surveillance system has malfunctioned 7.
• Risk prevention: Personally visits a construction site daily and oversees material approvals after learning of a planned negligence scandal 13 14.
• Investment assessment: Recognizes the potential of Xing Yisheng’s Disaster-Relief Robots project and commits to investing after discussing it 11 12 13.

Assets & Share Distribution

• Family holdings: The Gu family collectively owns estates, villas, five tracts of mountain land, four islands with exclusive rights to surrounding waters, and numerous shops. These are not identified as Jiangfeng’s sole property 2.
• Shares for Gu Zhiyue: Proposes transferring five percent of the group’s shares to his eighteen-year-old youngest son, allowing him to manage the assets independently 28.
• Equal treatment of his sons: Gu Shen Ci and Gu Shuoyan had already received shares upon reaching adulthood; Gu Tingchuan had declined his allocation 28.
• Conditions on their use: Tells Zhiyue that the assets will be his to use freely, provided he neither breaks the law nor harms others 28.

Relationships

• Zhao Wanling — Wife and longtime partner. They built the family’s wealth together and cooperate closely when responding to threats revealed through Zhiyue’s thoughts 2 6 13.
• Gu Zhiyue — Youngest son, reunited with him after approximately fourteen years. Jiangfeng respects his attachment to his adoptive parents and quietly acts on the warnings he overhears 1 6 7.
• Gu Tingchuan — Eldest son. Refused to leave his parents during the earlier business conflict and later helped build the family fortune; now runs his own company outside the province 1 2.
• Gu Shen Ci — Second son, an actor. Jiangfeng hired bodyguards to protect him and patrol the estate when obsessive fans began disrupting the family’s life 2 7.
• Gu Shuoyan — Third son. Jiangfeng expects him to attend family business events and orders a thorough investigation when he learns Tong Ziyi plans to sabotage Shuoyan’s race car 7 28.
• Gu Jiangli — Elder brother and former financial supporter, exposed as a conspirator seeking to seize the family’s assets. Jiangfeng turns his attempted bid theft against him 5 7 10 18.
• Lin Xiang and Bai Qinglan — Longtime school friends who raised Zhiyue during the separation. Jiangfeng expresses relief that both they and his son survived 1 3.
• Gu Jinghuan — Jiangli’s son in the family’s eyes. Jiangfeng offers him a position at his company and continued help, despite knowing of Jiangli’s hostility 8.
• Xing Yisheng — Business associate from a family with prior ties to the Gus. Jiangfeng introduces him to Zhiyue and agrees to invest in his robotics project 11 13.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Reversing the Bid Sabotage

• Overhears that Jiangli has bribed an employee to switch the company’s bid document, threatening a loss of five hundred million yuan 5.
• Uses a discarded proposal as bait instead of immediately exposing the mole 6 7.
• Feeds Jiangli apparently useful but expendable information during his family visit 8.
• Watches calmly as Jiangli presents the rejected proposal and its errors are exposed. Jiangfeng’s own company then delivers a successful presentation 10.

Defending the Corporation

• Learns that Jiangli is conspiring with the Ye, Bei, and Sima families, whose planning began two years earlier 13.
• Discovers that Jiangli was responsible for a previously leaked research report, prompting him to reconsider earlier company setbacks 13.
• Begins intensive construction-site supervision to counter a predicted accusation that the Gu family caused deaths by cutting corners 13 14.

A Cui’s Dismissal

• Returns from the company after Gu Shuoyan calls him about a household incident 30.
• Learns that the maid A Cui has been stealing his underwear; Xiao Jiu reveals that she is infatuated with him and hopes to become his second wife 29 30.
• Supports her dismissal and warns that refusing to leave will result in police involvement 30.

Tong Ziyi’s Sabotage Plot

• Orders an investigation into Tong Ziyi’s intended timing and accomplices after learning that Shuoyan’s brakes will be sabotaged 28.
• Is informed of Shuoyan’s plan to show the recorded evidence on the circuit’s large screen 40.
• After the arrests, prepares to notify the Tong family head and wait for him at home. The Gu family subsequently refuses to issue a letter of forgiveness 42.

Predicted Fate

• Xiao Jiu predicts that rival companies and disloyal senior employees will pressure Jiangfeng until he suffers a stroke, leaving him bedridden and paralyzed 4.
• This remains a threatened future rather than his present condition; the family uses the warnings to intervene before the predicted disasters occur 6 13 28 42.

Notable Quotes

“He's back now. We can get to know him slowly. We have plenty of time.” 2

“For now, just remember one thing: your uncle has become our family's lifelong enemy.” 18

“Once this money is yours, how you use it will be entirely up to you. But don't break the law or do anything that harms others.” 28