Bai Yaxin

Biodata

Background / History

Bai Yaxin is Feng Chao’s only daughter and has three brothers. Her eldest brother, Bai Weijian, helped their mother look after and discipline the younger siblings after reaching adulthood. Bai Yaxin has also been close friends with Zhao Ru since they were five and came to regard Zhao Ru’s younger sister, Zhao Qi, as her own sister 8 9 60 61.

She married Lin Rusong and raised two sons, Lin Yuhuan and Lin Shengyan. Their biological daughter, Lin Xiawan, was deliberately abandoned outside a hospital by an enemy of Lin Rusong. While searching for her, Lin Rusong found Lin Tingyue and mistakenly brought her home as their daughter 8 20.

After discovering the mistake years later, Bai Yaxin and Lin Rusong placed numerous missing-daughter advertisements. Lin Xiawan was eventually identified through a matching DNA test. By then, Bai Yaxin had raised Lin Tingyue for twenty years and regarded her as her own child; she welcomed Xiawan without withdrawing her love for Tingyue 1 20.

Personality

Bai Yaxin is affectionate and attentive, expressing love through small acts such as wiping Tingyue’s forehead, decorating both daughters’ graduation caps, and arranging Xiawan’s farewell dinner before her overseas trip. She worries about Xiawan’s initial emotional distance and gradually learns how her abusive upbringing made accepting affection difficult 1 18 21 56.

Although usually composed and elegant before her children, she is outspoken when others belittle them or her friends. She rejects the idea that Tingyue’s lack of blood ties diminishes their relationship and directly challenges Zhang Liyuan’s habit of measuring women’s worth through their husbands. She also insists that marrying well reflects her own merits, not merely Lin Rusong’s 2 32 61.

She values personal choice in marriage and family life. She refuses to impose an old marriage joke on her daughters, supports Lin Jiasi’s right to remain unmarried, and encourages Xu Yinan to consider her own wishes rather than submit to pressure from either husband or daughter 52 94 137.

Her warmth comes with a teasing, sometimes sharp tongue. She jokes with her children, punctures Lin Rusong’s attempts to appear impressive, and reprimands him for hitting someone even when the victim had been harassing her 48 57 77 87.

Abilities & Skills

Hearing Lin Tingyue’s Inner Voice

Bai Yaxin can hear Lin Tingyue’s unspoken thoughts, including revelations about concealed relationships, crimes, and impending schemes 2 8 16.

• Early concern: Initially worries that the phenomenon could indicate an illness and wants Tingyue examined at a hospital 2.
• Investigating its rules: Discusses the ability with Fan Qing and other family members. After learning that Cheng Xuan apparently cannot hear Tingyue, she proposes that people Tingyue hates might be excluded; this remains a hypothesis 4.
• Acting on warnings: Uses the information to confront Yun Yongchang, help prevent Fu Jingtian’s assault on Lin Jiasi, and recognize the danger behind Bai Weiye’s supposed business opportunity 8 9 16 60 61.
• Keeping it secret: Deliberately avoids letting Tingyue discover that her thoughts are audible, disguising her knowledge as a guess when discussing Hao Xiu’s hospitalization 60.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Welcoming Both Daughters

• Equal treatment: When asking Lin Rusong to increase Tingyue’s pocket money, Bai Yaxin insists that Xiawan receive money too. She acknowledges the twenty years they missed with Xiawan while affirming that both girls are her children 2.
• Breaking with the Cheng family: Publicly announces the termination of all cooperation with the Cheng family at Xiawan and Cheng Xuan’s engagement banquet, then praises Tingyue for her actions 3.
• Graduation celebration: Requires both sons to attend their sisters’ graduation and works with Mama Zhang to decorate the girls’ gowns and caps with flowers 18 20.

Protecting Zhao Ru

• Discovering Yun Yongchang’s schemes: Hears that Zhao Ru’s husband replaced their newborn daughter with a relative’s son and plans to kill Zhao Ru for her inheritance. Bai Yaxin had helped during Zhao Ru’s difficult delivery and realizes the substitution occurred while she briefly left to collect soup 8.
• Confrontation at the Ming residence: Immediately leaves to support Zhao Ru and shoves Yun Yongchang to the floor on arrival. She then pointedly mentions having attended Zhao Ru’s childbirth while watching his reaction 8 9.

Helping Xiawan Accept the Lin Family

• Learning about her abuse: Tingyue’s thoughts expose the cruelty of Ling Zhen and Song Zhuang, whom Bai Yaxin had assumed loved Xiawan as sincerely as she loved Tingyue. Bai Yaxin is devastated that she had been giving them money 20 21.
• Understanding her insecurity: Initially asks whether Xiawan ever intended to become part of the family, then hears Tingyue explain that Xiawan lacks security rather than affection 21.
• Growing closeness: Treasures a bouquet Xiawan secretly ordered for her and later arranges a family meal to support Xiawan before she travels abroad with her team 22 56.

Defending Her Daughters’ Futures

• Rejecting an unwanted match: Refuses Che Xiuqi’s attempt to turn an old joke into a marriage arrangement. She states that either daughter’s future spouse must have good character and be someone she genuinely loves 52.
• Supporting family time: Proposes a two-day family trip after discussing how well the siblings are getting along; the family subsequently visits a water park 45.
• Supporting Tingyue’s career: Encourages Lin Rusong not to criticize Tingyue when she starts working at the company. Later, she and Lin Yuhuan surprise Tingyue by collecting her after her first day as a subsidiary president 24 129.

Intervening in Family Troubles

• Hao Xiu’s hospitalization: Confronts Hao Xiu over a folk remedy intended to obtain a grandson, rebukes Feng De for shifting responsibility, and urges Hao Xiu to stop endangering herself and others 60.
• Bai Weiye’s “business opportunity”: Warns her second brother and asks Bai Weijian to watch him despite their strained relationship. She later accompanies the family when they intervene before his supposed business associates exploit him 61 62.
• Xu Yinan’s marital crisis: Helps Xu Yinan move into her home after Lin Hong announces his intention to divorce her. When Lin Jiasi presses her mother for a decision, Bai Yaxin reminds them that changing a lifelong way of living takes courage and promises support regardless of Xu Yinan’s choice 93 94.
• Seeking protection for her children: After learning that an apparent mother-and-child suicide was actually murder by the husband, she loses sleep over the case and decides to visit a temple for “scum-repelling talismans” for all four children 97 98.

Later Family Life

• New Year’s Eve: Shares an affectionate moment with both daughters in the snow and becomes emotional while looking at her four children during the family dinner 115.
• Zhang Liyuan’s return: Receives her former friend, who thanks her for advising her to preserve evidence of her husband’s infidelity 127.
• Challenging Lin Hong: Deflects his criticism of the younger generation’s marriage choices, arguing that different choices simply lead to different lives and that the children’s well-being matters most 137.

Relationships

• Lin Rusong — Husband. Their marriage is openly affectionate, though she readily challenges his decisions, especially his excessive indulgence of Lin Hong 8 45 86 105.
• Lin Tingyue — Adoptive daughter, raised for twenty years. Bai Yaxin refuses to let the label “fake heiress” erase their bond and affectionately calls her the family’s “lucky mascot” 1 61.
• Lin Xiawan — Biological daughter. Bai Yaxin works to make her feel secure, welcomes her growing affection, and supports her design work and overseas activities 21 22 56 87.
• Lin Yuhuan — Eldest son. Shares her concern for the family’s safety; he arranges bodyguards for the confrontation with Yun Yongchang and shields her during the intervention involving Bai Weiye 9 62.
• Lin Shengyan — Second son. Frequently receives her scolding and teasing, particularly over his pursuit of Cheng Jinshuang, but she remains openly affectionate toward him 4 5 8 77.
• Zhao Ru and Zhao Qi — Childhood best friend and sister-like friend respectively. Bai Yaxin fiercely defends Zhao Ru and rejects the claim that either sister needs a man to live well 8 9 32.
• Feng Chao, Bai Weijian, and Bai Weiye — Mother, eldest brother, and second brother. She trusts Bai Weijian’s judgment and remains concerned for Bai Weiye’s safety despite disapproving of his behavior 60 61.
• Lin Jiasi — Younger sister-in-law. Bai Yaxin keeps a room ready for her, helps foil Fu Jingtian’s drugging scheme, and supports her opposition to forced matchmaking 16 87 93.
• Zhang Liyuan — Former close high-school friend. Their friendship ended over Zhang’s constant put-downs; years later, Bai Yaxin nevertheless warns her about her husband’s infidelity and receives her thanks 32 127.
• Suo Haoguang — Rejected former suitor. His attempt to pressure her by threatening to kneel indefinitely only strengthened her refusal; she remains uninterested when he reappears years later 56 57.

Notable Quotes

“Your father and I already owe you twenty years. You and Tingyue are both my children. Of course I'll treat you equally.” 2

“And another thing—I married well because I'm a good person myself. Why don't you say Old Lin married well?” 32

“Once you choose to become a parent, you have to take responsibility for your child.” 120