Shen Anbai

Biodata

Background

Shen Anbai grows up in a financially struggling household. On his fifth birthday, his father suffers a construction-site accident that crushes both legs, leaving him paralyzed and bedridden. His mother, previously a housewife, supports the family through supermarket work, food stalls, and eventually airport cleaning 158.

He becomes deeply ashamed of their poverty. In high school, classmates mock his background after seeing his mother selling fried food outside the school; an Alpha who had shown interest in him instinctively releases his hand when she approaches 158.

Despite their limited income, his parents give him the best room, a desk bought with two months of his father’s extra earnings, and a heater in their otherwise unheated home. They indulge him throughout childhood, but he measures their care against the opportunities and possessions wealthier parents could provide 181 191.

By age twenty, he has spent roughly two years in entertainment. Internationally renowned director Mo Cixuan personally mentors him, protecting him from producers and celebrities seeking casting-couch arrangements 71.

Original-Novel Counterpart

The embedded novel gives Shen Anbai a different background and outcome from the unfolding story:

• He is presented as an orphanage-raised celebrity who is subsequently acknowledged by the Jiang family 23.
• He first meets Fu Jinchuan at a bar abroad, where Fu falls for him almost immediately 50.
• After someone drugs his food on a film set, an award-winning actor attempts to assault him. Fu Jinchuan intervenes, and Jiang Qingye publicly acknowledges Shen Anbai through his company’s official Weibo account 23.

Appearance

• Build and features: Very thin, with soft, beautiful features, cherry lips, and peach-blossom eyes 18.
• Hair: Jet-black 62.
• Posture: His dance training gives him a recognizable upright bearing, with his head held high and chest out 62.
• Signature clothing: Hanfu and mamian, or horse-face, skirts form his traditional Chinese-style public image. His black and navy satin skirts are described as shimmering like rippling water 18 92.
• Later appearance: After months without work, he becomes unshaven and greasy-haired, replacing his elaborate outfits with a hoodie and sweatpants 194.

Personality

Shen Anbai maintains an elegant, restrained public persona. Even when angry on camera, he attempts to preserve a polite smile. He also consciously uses a tearful, wronged expression because he knows it usually attracts sympathy 18 38 49.

His ambition is closely tied to wealth and social standing. He believes his greater effort, popularity, and fanbase should place him above Jiang Nan, and resents being told to accommodate him. Fu Jinchuan’s expensive possessions and wealthy-family bearing strongly attract him; he regards the relationship as validation of his own worth 54 71.

His competitiveness extends to deliberate sabotage. When he and an industry friend audition for the same role, Shen Anbai puts laxatives in the other man’s drink. The resulting disruption damages the friend’s audition, and Shen Anbai receives the part 145 146.

He repeatedly interprets other people’s actions through jealousy and status competition. Even after his career collapses, he assumes Jiang Nan still wants Fu Jinchuan. His humiliation at discovering Fu’s deception turns into violence against Jiang Nan 197.

His dependence on his parents does not entirely erase his resentment. Although he tearfully accepts his mother’s protection at the airport, he later accuses her of favoring Jiang Nan. Her savings for his legal defense produce a rare moment of guilt and gratitude 203 205.

Abilities & Skills

Dance Training

Shen Anbai has studied dance, and Jiang Nan watches videos of his performances 16 62.

• His training contributes to his distinctive posture.
• That recognizable bearing helps netizens identify him in paparazzi footage despite his baseball cap 62.

Omega Physiology

His pheromones carry a peach-blossom scent 59.

• He experiences a sudden heat-like episode around Fu Jinchuan despite saying his heat has already ended 59.
• Fu Jinchuan marks him; Shen later proposes having the mark removed during their breakup 185 186.
• He is ordinarily unable to overpower Jiang Nan physically; his later attack succeeds initially because Jiang Nan is unprepared 197.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Celebrity Rivalry and Variety Shows

At the production dinner, Shen Anbai is the center of attention, having enjoyed nearly half a year of popularity. He attends to visit his senior, Chen Ting, and exchanges polite smiles with Jiang Nan 18.

Their relationship becomes openly strained when Jiang Nan refuses his attempts at familiarity. On Boundless Dreamscape, Shen Anbai calculates the combination 44102 for a locked case. Jiang Nan challenges him and opens it with 19438, overturning Shen’s expectation that he will fail 38 44 45.

Before Let’s Travel Together, Sister Sen warns Shen Anbai against antagonizing Jiang Nan, citing the Fu Group’s refusal to fund productions involving Chen Ting. Shen outwardly agrees but privately dismisses Jiang Nan’s possible backing as something obtained through sexual favors 54.

Relationship Exposure

A paparazzo mistakes Shen Anbai for Liang Su and films him leaving a bar with hickeys. Viewers identify him through his build, clothing, and footage from Jiang Nan’s livestream. His fans deny the identification, but the exposure costs him followers and contributes to the travel show’s suspension 62 72.

He later appears with Fu Jinchuan on a dating show. Their public affection includes Shen kissing Fu on camera, while Shen’s jealousy repeatedly brings him into conflict with Jiang Nan 92 95 97 109.

Defamation Scandal and Career Collapse

Shen Anbai secretly photographs Jiang Nan with Fu Jingzhou and supplies information to gossip blogger Zhen Xiaosi. He enjoys the resulting attacks on Jiang Nan and reassures the blogger that his information is reliable 145 147.

Jiang Nan publishes surveillance footage exposing Shen’s photography and threatens legal action. His marriage certificate then disproves the claim that he is being kept by a wealthy man. Shen deletes his Weibo posts and avoids Zhen Xiaosi’s calls as the backlash grows 147 149.

Sister Sen orders him to come to the company to terminate his contract. By the time he approaches Lin Cheng for help spreading another claim about Jiang Nan, he is struggling to obtain work; Lin rejects him and blocks his number 148 181.

False Claim to the Jiang Family

After discovering his mother’s diary entries about Jiang Nan, Shen Anbai concludes that he must be the Jiang family’s displaced son. A gold lock in his possession reinforces that belief. Jiang Qingye recognizes the lock as a Jiang-family item but promises only to investigate 184 185 186.

Believing a wealthy future is assured, Shen breaks up with Fu Jinchuan and pursues Fu Jingzhou instead. He publicly calls Jiang Nan a thief who stole his life and tells Fu Jingzhou he will accept being his second spouse 185 187 189 190.

Mother Shen disproves his claim. She explains that Jiang Nan was the unrelated child she had cared for, while Shen Anbai was her biological son. The Jiang family had already confirmed the distinction through DNA testing years earlier 192. Shen refuses to accept her account, and she finally acknowledges that she and her husband spoiled him excessively 192 193.

Reunion, Assault, and Imprisonment

With no work for months and little money remaining, Shen eagerly reconciles with Fu Jinchuan, hoping for a comeback. Fu conceals his bankruptcy and debts while persuading Shen to support their living expenses 194 197.

When Jiang Nan reveals the truth, Shen interprets the disclosure as mockery. He attacks Jiang Nan and strikes his head with a rock, leaving him hospitalized 197.

Fu later throttles Shen and forces him to purchase a flight abroad. At the airport, Mother Shen intervenes when Fu grabs him, and Shen agrees to go home with her. Police arrest Fu as he attempts to flee 203.

Mother Shen gives Shen a little over ten thousand yuan—nearly half a year of savings—to hire a lawyer. At the late-June trial, his rock attack, secret photography, and defamation are addressed, and he receives a two-year prison sentence 205.

Relationships

• Jiang Nan — Fellow celebrity and principal rival. Shen’s envy develops into rumor-spreading, a false identity accusation, and physical assault 54 147 189 197.
• Fu Jinchuan — Boyfriend and marking partner. Their relationship includes public affection, a status-driven breakup, reconciliation, financial deception, and ultimately coercion and abuse 95 185 194 203.
• Mother Shen — Biological mother. Shen resents her poverty and work, but she protects him from Fu Jinchuan and funds his legal defense 158 192 203 205.
• Father Shen — Biological father, disabled in a workplace accident. He helps provide a sheltered childhood despite the family’s limited means 158 181.
• Sister Sen — Manager who recognizes his manipulative behavior, repeatedly warns him, and eventually orders his contract terminated 54 145 146 148.
• Mo Cixuan — Internationally renowned director and personal mentor whose backing protects him from sexual exploitation within the industry 71.
• Fu Jingzhou — Target of Shen’s aspirations after he learns who actually controls the Fu Group. Shen believes his supposed Jiang-family identity entitles him to replace Jiang Nan as Fu’s spouse 146 190.
• Zhen Xiaosi — Gossip blogger to whom Shen has supplied information over the years; collaborates with him in the scandal targeting Jiang Nan 147.