Special Assistant Lin

Biodata

Appearance

• Build: Tall and slender, with an upright posture 24 32.
• Features: Elegant and refined; Yun Tang is particularly struck by his good looks 14 24.
• Usual clothing: Suits and polished dress shoes, which Yun Tang associates with his mature, steady professional manner 24 48.
• Bearing: Composed and aloof in an early encounter with Yun Tang, though he also shows a gentle expression when offering to take her home 14 32.

Personality

Lin Sheng is tactful and attentive to social boundaries. He gives carefully measured answers about his employer, prompting Xun Yuan to tease him about his skill at speaking on Zuo Tingyue’s behalf. He also recognizes when to withdraw: he promptly leaves the car to give Zuo Tingyue and Xun Yuan privacy and shuts himself inside a room rather than interrupt their flirtation 8 15 21 25.

His calm professional manner contrasts with his private reactions to awkward situations. He feels helpless when Xun Yuan teases him during their fishing outing and later thinks he has become a shield in her exchanges with his boss. With Yun Tang, he can be gentle and domestic, but her dismissal of their intimacy as a one-night stand visibly troubles him 28 31 40 48.

Abilities & Skills

Executive Support

Lin Sheng handles documents, travel arrangements, transport, and communication between Zuo Tingyue and his staff 24 26 31.

• Brings contracts for Zuo Tingyue to review and sign 31.
• Collects Xun Yuan for the Shen City trip and relays instructions aboard the plane 24 26.
• Drives Zuo Tingyue and arranges the return of Xun Yuan’s car and keys 21 30 31.

Business Judgment

He understands his employer’s commercial priorities and helps keep the acquisition team focused on its instructions 26 28 30.

• Questions whether Leap’s delayed response reflects indecision or an attempt to manipulate the acquisition 26.
• Directs anxious staff to continue drafting the acquisition contract rather than second-guess Zuo Tingyue’s strategy 28.
• Recognizes EO Company’s traction battery technology as Zuo Tingyue’s real objective during negotiations with Mr. Lake 30.

Personal Assistance

His duties extend to gifts and practical arrangements for Xun Yuan 8 28 32.

• Delivers jade hairpins that suit her understated taste; Xun Yuan concludes that he selected them with his boss’s money 8.
• Finds fishing equipment for her aboard the cruise ship 28.
• Delivers a rare red coral ornament and leaves two bodyguards behind out of concern that a robbery could endanger her 32.

Cooking

• Prepares noodles at home after working overtime 48.
• Makes a second serving for Yun Tang, who praises the taste and is surprised by his domestic skills 48.

Relationships

• Zuo Tingyue — Employer. Lin Sheng supports both his business affairs and personal errands, while remaining alert to his moods and unspoken wishes 7 21 26 30.
• Xun Yuan — His employer’s romantic partner and a frequent recipient of his assistance. She teases him about his diplomacy and sometimes draws him into her exchanges with Zuo Tingyue 15 28 31.
• Yun Tang — An intimate partner whose relationship with him develops beyond an initial accidental sexual encounter. She explicitly notes that they are not dating, despite becoming increasingly attracted to him 40 43 48.
• Jiang Yulin — A member of Zuo Tingyue’s circle who entrusts the drunken Yun Tang to Lin Sheng’s care at the hot-spring resort 36.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Early Errands for Zuo Tingyue

• After Xun Yuan’s hairpin breaks, Zuo Tingyue orders Lin Sheng to find several top-quality jade replacements. Lin Sheng delivers them to her restoration studio a few days later 7 8.
• He is present with Jiang Yulin during a late-night working session in Zuo Tingyue’s suite when Xun Yuan emerges from the bedroom 11.
• He later sends Xun Yuan a message explaining Zuo Tingyue’s morning absence and telling her where to find the room card 15.

Shen City Acquisition

• Lin Sheng collects Xun Yuan to accompany Zuo Tingyue to Shen City, then assists during discussions over the stalled Leap acquisition 24 26.
• When Leap demands an adjustment to the offer, he ushers the team out and reassures a worried employee that they should follow Zuo Tingyue’s instructions 28.
• During the subsequent cruise, he keeps Xun Yuan company while Zuo Tingyue meets local business leaders 28.

Developing Entanglement with Yun Tang

• Lin Sheng offers to take Yun Tang home after a card-playing gathering. She considers refusing but ultimately does not 32.
• At the hot-spring resort, Jiang Yulin asks him to escort her to her suite. She struggles in his arms and tears open his shirt; the next morning, she tells Xun Yuan that she slept with a man 36.
• He later tells Yun Tang not to attend a blind date. When she challenges his right to interfere and calls their encounter a one-night stand, he asks her not to speak that way, releases her, and leaves 40.
• While Zuo Tingyue and Xun Yuan are in Sydney with another assistant, Lin Sheng remains in Harbor City and spends the night with Yun Tang 43.
• On Yun Tang’s birthday, he takes her to his home after she has been drinking, carries her inside, and later cooks noodles for them both. Watching him, she thinks of “husband vibes,” despite their lack of a formal relationship 48.
• After her family-arranged blind date, Yun Tang briefly looks uncomfortable when she sees him leaving a business gathering 49.

Notable Quotes

“I only do what falls within my duties.” 15

“Then do as he says.” 28

“Yun Tang, don’t talk like that.” 40