Chu Yu

Biodata

Background

Chu Yu grew up in a wealthy family and received a strict elite education alongside her younger brother, Chu Chen. Their upbringing included practical life skills as well as academic study. She went abroad during high school, leaving the siblings in different countries with little contact until she returned after graduation 18 27.

After returning, Chu Yu entered the entertainment industry and signed with Starry Sky Entertainment. Her appearance attracted attention, but her exaggerated acting brought widespread ridicule despite daily lessons with a respected acting coach. The company consequently sought to move her into variety shows 1 2.

Her entertainment career was also connected to her responsibilities toward the Chu Group. While minor shareholders lost confidence in its apparently unsuitable future heir, Chu Yu secretly bought the shares they sold. As the older sibling, she was expected to shoulder succession responsibilities before Chu Chen 46 49 72.

Appearance

• Face: Almond-shaped eyes, a high nose bridge, and slightly upturned lips. Her looks were her agency’s principal selling point during her early career 1 2 157.
• Hair and complexion: Long black hair and fair, smooth skin, maintained through daily skincare, sun protection, and weekly treatments 112 126.
• Styling: Usually wears light makeup. For the GI Magazine campus shoot, her blazer, bow, short skirt, and tall boots convincingly recreated a schoolgirl image 55 157.
• Period costume: Her appearance in an ornate red phoenix-patterned gown and phoenix crown stunned a film crew, even among those skeptical of her acting 113.

Personality

Chu Yu is sharp-tongued, competitive, and openly accustomed to luxury. She argues with Chu Chen over everything from household help to camera attention, frequently using teasing, exaggerated distress, and reverse psychology to get him moving. Their quarrels remain part of their public appeal rather than disappearing as their relationship improves 3 20 52 56.

Beneath that abrasive manner, she is protective of her family. She intervenes when interviewers threaten to provoke Chu Chen, worries intensely about her father’s health, and initially keeps the family’s difficulties from her brother to protect his schooling. Later, she tells Chu Chen to choose his school subjects according to his own interests rather than the group’s needs 6 49 90 144.

She is also independent and strategically minded. She refuses to let her family simply finance her rise to stardom, rejects an unwanted childhood marriage arrangement, and can cooperate with a former rival when she respects that person’s boundaries 58 115 133.

Abilities & Skills

Foreknowledge Through Dreams

Chu Yu experiences a vivid dream depicting the variety show, her family’s downfall, and the success of Wen Zhixin and Meng Fuyu. Discovering that the show’s contract matches the dream prompts her to act on its warnings 1 3 105.

• Records the dream’s events in a notebook because she can recall them in unusual detail 3.
• Uses its account of maliciously edited footage to prevent conflict between Chu Chen and the production crew 6 7.
• Recognizes threats involving the Meng family and the exposure of her father’s illness 105 125.
• Later suspects that the dream may have changed reality, particularly her breakup with Gu Jinhuai. This remains her conjecture rather than an established ability 173.

Extreme Sports and Aquatic Skills

Chu Yu pursued extreme sports after reaching adulthood while studying abroad. Her experience explains why amusement-park rides that terrify the other guests barely trouble her 27 28.

• Skydiving: Completed more than 200 solo jumps and tried freestyle skydiving, canopy formation skydiving, and skysurfing 28.
• Surfing: Performs difficult tricks without a tow rope, relying on her balance, core strength, and experience. Even Coach Xu finds the maneuvers demanding 95.
• Swimming and diving: Finishes the wakesurfing challenge with a controlled dive, then swims back to shore without assistance 96.
• Other interests: Has experience with skiing as well as surfing 31.

Cooking

Her practical education contradicts viewers’ assumption that a pampered heiress cannot cook 18.

• Can prepare Western, Italian, and Chinese dishes, though the narration distinguishes her ability from that of Michelin-level master chefs 18.
• Identifies genuine faults in Wen Zhixin’s cooking; An Ya independently finds her criticism accurate 19.
• Prepares Buddha Jumps Over the Wall for breakfast and earns Zhao Qirui’s praise for her cooking 20 51.

Business and Financial Judgment

Alongside her art and design degree, Chu Yu studied business management and traded with real money in the stock market 102.

• Quietly accumulates Chu Group shares sold by distrustful investors 72.
• Uses evidence of two shareholders’ dealings to secure their support during the attempt to remove Chu Tingnian 129.
• Looks beyond celebrity-driven sales when considering whether the show’s bookstore can remain viable after filming ends 166.
• Helps coordinate efforts to preserve evidence of Huang Yinian’s suspected tampering at a Chu Group processing plant 187.

Languages and Arts

• Had mastered English, French, and Spanish by high school 31.
• Studied art and design at university and explored classical instruments among her hobbies 31 102.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Joining *Sisters and Brothers Charge Ahead*

• After matching her dream to the show’s contract, Chu Yu accepts the opportunity and resolves to prevent the siblings’ predicted ruin 3.
• An overnight study session on adolescent behavior leads her to adopt reverse psychology. Through coaxing and trickery, she gets Chu Chen to sign up with her 3 5.
• During the initial interview, she blocks the camera from pressing Chu Chen and answers the hostile questions herself, interrupting the sequence that had triggered backlash in her dream 6 7.

Reversing Her Public Reputation

• Her cooking, fearless amusement-park appearances, and combative sibling banter begin drawing favorable attention. Viewers uncover her extensive skydiving experience and other accomplishments 20 25 27 28 31.
• By the end of the early recording, her follower count reaches 990,000, up from a little over 800,000 before the show—roughly half of those earlier followers having been purchased by her company 50.
• She secures a GI Magazine cover shoot with Chu Chen. Their fight over the photographer’s attention produces candid images the photographer enthusiastically praises 52 56.
• For the island episode, she buys enough supplies for twenty or thirty people, allowing her team to decline the crew’s survival-supply task. Her extravagant preparations also prompt viewers to investigate her family background 66 77.
• Her first independent Hi Jump livestream attracts more than 300,000 viewers, although her excessive beauty-filter adjustments horrify both the audience and herself 103.

Revealing Her Identity

• After transitioning toward variety work, Chu Yu initially refuses a small acting role as a beautiful mother. She eventually films it, completing the two principal shots in under ten minutes and making Director Jiang Luwen question her poor reputation 110 114.
• Meng Fuyu exposes her identity as the Chu Group heiress on set. Chu Yu responds by suggesting that he is retaliating over their dissolved engagement 115.
• Even her agency’s executives initially disbelieve her background, forcing her to ask Fang Lanzhi to verify publicly that she is her daughter 120.
• Confirmation of her identity undermines rumors that she is supported by a sugar daddy and changes how brands, agents, directors, and producers regard her 121.

Defending the Chu Group

• News of Chu Tingnian’s apparent serious illness reaches home, forcing Chu Yu to explain the situation to Chu Chen before attending an emergency shareholders’ meeting 125.
• She secures additional shareholder support against the effort to remove her father. Her handling of the crisis establishes her reputation beyond entertainment circles 129 132 138.
• During the later processing-plant crisis, she sends Chu Chen to stall Huang Yinian, fearing that he will destroy evidence 183 187.
• When Huang objects to executive suspensions, Chu Tingnian intervenes by phone and announces his return. Chu Yu then learns that the apparent health crisis was part of a protective plan begun two years earlier 194.

Entrepreneurship and Reconciliation

• Chu Yu welcomes the final variety-show episode’s shop-running theme as a chance for Chu Chen to gain experience. She chooses the bookstore despite its apparent disadvantages, and her team takes first place in the selection-stage competition 138 154.
• She and Gu Jinhuai discover that each believes the other initiated their breakup. They begin investigating their old communications rather than immediately resuming the relationship 166 173.
• At the hospital, she identifies herself as Gu Jinhuai’s fiancée when his relatives question her right to visit him 187.
• The two later openly rekindle their relationship, while Fang Lanzhi begins discussing engagement dates with Chu Tingnian 209.
• At Gu Jinhuai’s banquet, Chu Yu calmly rebuffs Wen Zhixin’s attempt to embarrass her over online rumors 211.

Relationships

• Chu Chen — Younger brother and variety-show partner. Years apart leave them initially unfamiliar with one another, but their constant bickering develops alongside mutual protection. She shields him from hostile questioning and supports his freedom to choose his academic direction 6 27 144.
• Gu Jinhuai — Former boyfriend and later reconciled romantic partner. Their conflicting memories of the breakup lead them to investigate a possible misunderstanding; she subsequently presents herself as his fiancée during his hospitalization 166 173 187 209.
• Chu Tingnian — Father and Chu Group chairman. Chu Yu protects his position during the shareholder crisis and later discovers the longer plan behind his apparent illness 120 129 194.
• Fang Lanzhi — Mother. Supports Chu Yu’s rejection of the Meng family engagement, verifies her identity publicly, and later welcomes her relationship with Gu Jinhuai 115 120 209.
• Zhang Yue — Manager at Starry Sky Entertainment. Fights for Chu Yu’s variety-show and magazine opportunities, overseeing her transition away from her disastrous acting reputation 1 2 52.
• Xu Mengying — Admirer and fellow guest who first became her fan at an elite banquet. Supports Chu Yu during filming and shares the vacation reward with her 68 87 103.
• An Ya — Fellow variety-show guest. Recognizes the accuracy of Chu Yu’s cooking criticism and offers practical help with meal preparation 19.
• Zhao Qirui — Trusted elder who once helped look after the siblings and regards them as family. Defends them against online slander and warns Chu Yu about unrest among the group’s shareholders 45 49.
• Lin Qian — Former professional rival turned ally. Chu Yu considers their earlier competition fair and agrees to cooperate against Meng Fuyu; she later urges Lin Qian to release surveillance footage of his meeting with Wen Zhixin 133 134 183.
• Meng Fuyu — Former childhood fiancé. Chu Yu rejects the verbally arranged marriage, resents his attempts at familiarity, and opposes the threat he and Wen Zhixin pose to her family 105 115 165.
• Wen Zhixin — Fellow guest and adversary whose success contrasts with Chu Yu’s downfall in the dream. Their conflict includes attempts to portray Chu Yu as spoiled, interference during surfing, and insinuations at Gu Jinhuai’s banquet 18 95 105 211.
• Huang Yinian — Corporate opponent involved in the challenge to Chu Tingnian’s leadership. Chu Yu later suspects him of destroying evidence connected to the processing-plant disaster 129 187 194.

Trivia

• Her favorite flowers are Blue Enchantress roses, which she recognizes when Gu Jinhuai presents her with a bouquet 154.
• The full historical costume for her beautiful-mother role weighs at least ten jin, including its phoenix crown and ornaments 113.
• Her family’s group chat mobilizes relatives to support the GI Magazine cover, despite her longstanding refusal to let them buy her way to stardom 58.