Wen Zhixin

Biodata

Background

Wen Zhixin comes from an impoverished household living in a dilapidated residential building. She and her younger brother, Wen Tianqi, share a father but have different mothers and belong to a remarried family. Their relationship is strained rather than naturally affectionate 7 9.

She persuades Tianqi to join a sibling variety show as a way to make money and escape poverty. Before filming, she instructs him to conceal their disagreements and present them as disadvantaged but resilient siblings who support one another 8.

Appearance

• Overall impression: Understated and gentle rather than immediately striking; Meng Fuyu finds her appearance increasingly appealing and comforting 11 113.
• Complexion: Fair-skinned 78.
• Debut clothing: A white shirt and jeans 7.
• Banquet clothing: A pale blue mermaid gown emphasizing her slender waist, paired with an elegant updo that exposes her collarbones 210.

Personality

Wen Zhixin carefully maintains a gentle, considerate public image. She gives polished interview answers, performs affection toward her brother, and watches the cameras before moderating her behavior. Her stated reason for joining the show—preserving memories of growing up with Tianqi—conceals her private emphasis on money and social advancement 8 16.

Her ambitions are closely tied to resentment of class differences. Despite publicly claiming not to envy wealthy families, she privately envies Chu Yu and An Ya and vows to surpass them. She interprets Chu Chen’s luxury gifts as deliberate humiliation rather than generosity 7 8 14 15.

She is persistent and able to recover her confidence after setbacks, but competition with Chu Yu repeatedly undermines her judgment. She continues selling accessories until she develops heatstroke and attempts to pull Chu Yu into the sea when her own surfing attempt fails 70 95 149 152.

Her relationship with Meng Fuyu also reflects her pursuit of security. Although she presents herself as unconcerned with anyone but him, the narration identifies the Meng family’s wealth and influence as her principal reasons for staying with him despite public condemnation. Their tax troubles leave her visibly dissatisfied and increasingly regretful 205 217.

Abilities & Skills

Public Image Management

• Gives composed answers to provocative questions about poverty, money, and her relationship with Tianqi 7 8.
• Coordinates affectionate on-camera performances with her brother, including his overnight gift-making effort and their haunted-house scenes 9 40.
• Times her public apology to follow a magazine announcement, allowing renewed attention and sympathetic fan explanations to soften the earlier scandal 55.
• Her performance is not consistently convincing: staff become suspicious after the gift dispute, while later viewers question the siblings’ exaggerated closeness 15 47.

Networking and Persuasion

• Seeks connections with influential guests and approaches director Jiang Luwen in hopes of entering acting 29 160 161.
• Engineers her first meeting with Meng Fuyu by injuring her knee and inventing a story about an unscrupulous taxi driver 124.
• Gradually overcomes Meng Fuyu’s parents’ hostility through sustained attention and care 196.
• Misjudges potential allies: Xu Mengying rejects her friendliness, and she dismisses National Library director Zhao Yiping before learning his identity 71 179.

Practical Skills and Limitations

Relationships

• Wen Tianqi — Younger paternal half-brother and variety-show teammate. Their loving public image conceals mutual irritation and a partnership motivated by money. After the haunted-house scandal, he accuses her of shifting all responsibility onto him and threatens to stop filming 8 9 22 51.
• Chu Yu — Principal rival. Wen Zhixin repeatedly tries to undermine her reputation and later blames her for disrupting the successful life promised in her dream 18 23 95 124.
• Chu Chen — Fellow contestant and Chu Yu’s younger brother. She regards his luxury gifts as an insult; he openly dislikes her behavior toward his sister 14 18.
• An Ya — Fellow contestant whom Wen Zhixin envies for her wealthy background. An Ya becomes wary of her provocations and increasingly supports Chu Yu 8 18 19.
• Meng Fuyu — Romantic partner and intended husband. She deliberately seeks him out after dreaming that he is the novel’s male lead. He supports her career and marriage plans, initially trusting her fabricated account of their meeting 124 135 181 212.
• Lin Qian — Meng Fuyu’s girlfriend when Wen Zhixin approaches him. Lin Qian investigates their relationship and seeks to expose the infidelity 124 135 176.
• Meng Fuyu’s parents — Initially oppose her joining the family but eventually accept her after repeated attentive visits. His father nevertheless continues to regard Chu Yu as the stronger daughter-in-law candidate 196.
• Xu Mengying — Rejects Wen Zhixin’s attempt to befriend her because she knows the Wen siblings helped falsely accuse Chu Yu 71.
• The show’s director — Gives her an opportunity as a civilian contestant, but loses his goodwill after the haunted-house dispute and her early withdrawal 45 182.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Variety-Show Debut

Wen Zhixin enters the show as one of three older sisters accompanied by younger brothers. Her poor background and carefully cultivated gentleness initially make her a sympathetic contrast to Chu Yu, whose livestream attracts extensive criticism 7 8.

The gift task strengthens that image. Tianqi stays before the cameras all night making a handicraft, while she plays the concerned sister and thanks him with a speech about overcoming financial hardship together. Marketing accounts circulate their footage, and her Weibo account gains 50,000 followers within two days 9 12.

Her hostility toward the Chu siblings emerges during the gift exchange and meal preparations. She returns Chu Chen’s expensive gifts, insinuates that Chu Yu is pampered, and plans to discredit her cooking. The breakfast scheme fails when Tianqi enjoys Chu Yu’s food too much to cooperate 15 18 23.

Haunted-House Scandal

After struggling through the puzzle route, Wen Zhixin expects to win but discovers that her team has placed second. She assumes Gu Jinhuai gave Chu Yu’s team an advantage, then becomes aggrieved when she learns their route involved chases rather than puzzles 37 40 41.

She defends Tianqi’s inflammatory remarks as youthful hotheadedness. Their fans escalate accusations of unfair treatment against the production team, prompting the director to release planning documents and footage demonstrating that Chu Yu’s route was not easy 43 45 46 47.

The siblings apologize, but recordings of the dispute damage their reputation. Wen Zhixin’s follower count falls sharply before stabilizing at 230,000. A subsequent interview with Trend Love Play Magazine, followed by her carefully timed apology post, helps her regain favorable attention 48 51 54 55 59.

Deserted-Island Competition

Wen Zhixin enters the island episode determined to recover her position. She spends a Wish Coin to rent a speedboat, hoping an early arrival will secure a hidden reward, but struggles with basic camping tasks 70 74 78.

During surfing, she deliberately tips toward Chu Yu after losing her balance, hoping to make them both fail. Chu Yu avoids her, and a lifeguard retrieves Wen Zhixin from the sea 95.

Her later attempts to compete for attention also disappoint. She and Tianqi finish last in the simulated stock-market game with 580,000 in virtual cash. Their sibling dance video attracts little interest even after she spends 500 yuan promoting it, while Chu Yu’s accidental beauty-filter clips go viral 102 104.

Dream and Pursuit of Meng Fuyu

Wen Zhixin dreams that she is the novel world’s sole female lead, destined for fame and a romance with Meng Fuyu. The same dream assigns Chu Yu the role of a villain whose family is destroyed. Convinced that Chu Yu has derailed her intended life, Wen Zhixin seeks out Meng Fuyu herself 124.

She travels to his mansion, cuts her knee with a stone, and claims to have escaped a threatening taxi driver. She discourages him from checking security footage or contacting police, successfully securing his sympathy and entry into his home 124.

Their relationship begins while Meng Fuyu is still involved with Lin Qian. During a later livestream, Chu Yu pressures them into publicly describing themselves as ordinary business partners; Wen Zhixin also claims that she has no immediate dating plans 124 135 136.

Entrepreneurship Tasks and Withdrawal

During the stall challenge, the Wen siblings discover that they paid inflated wholesale prices for accessories. Wen Zhixin refuses to stop selling despite poor returns and eventually collapses with mild heatstroke 148 150 152.

She subsequently approaches Jiang Luwen about acting, receiving advice to take classes rather than an offer of a role. In the shop competition, her team drops from second to last as relationship revelations distract her and livestream selling fails to improve the result 161 180.

Wen Zhixin then accepts Meng Fuyu’s offer to support her and take her to meet his parents. She requests an early withdrawal on health grounds and offers to pay the contractual penalty, angering the director 181 182.

Public Exposure and the Meng Family

Surveillance footage of Wen Zhixin meeting Meng Fuyu before his announced breakup with Lin Qian spreads online. She loses more than 100,000 followers in under an hour and subsequently stops pursuing entertainment work 183 185 196 200.

She concentrates instead on winning over Meng Fuyu’s parents and eventually gains their acceptance. News of the Gu–Chu marriage alliance renews her insecurity, since she had expected marriage into the Meng family to free her from comparison with Chu Yu 196 200.

At a banquet, a mysterious man gives Meng Fuyu a photograph suggesting that her account of their first meeting is false. Meng Fuyu initially accepts her denial. After the Meng company is ordered to suspend operations during a tax investigation, however, he receives dashcam footage showing her calmly telling the taxi driver that she is going to meet her future boyfriend. The recording exposes the deception behind her supposed escape and leaves him furious 212 217 218.

Role in the Novel World

• Original future: In Chu Yu’s earlier dream, Wen Zhixin becomes universally popular through the show, marries Meng Fuyu, and enjoys a celebrated romance. The Meng family subsequently targets the Chu family’s business 105.
• Wen Zhixin’s awareness: Her own dream identifies her as the female lead and Meng Fuyu as the male lead, motivating her to force their meeting rather than wait for the original encounter 124.
• Chu Yu’s interpretation: After another predictive dream, Chu Yu concludes that the world is correcting events around Wen Zhixin and Meng Fuyu’s protagonist roles 181.
• Not a demonstrated personal power: The favorable “halo” around Wen Zhixin is described through audience reactions and the characters’ understanding of the plot; she does not consciously wield it as an ability 72 181.