Beijing

Biodata

Notable Locations

Su Jin’s Residences

The courtyard house combines traditional architecture with restored and adapted interiors:

• Entrance: A vermilion guangliang gate with carved brickwork, bronze door knockers, and two old scholar trees outside 11.
• Restored spaces: Gray-brick paving, painted covered walkways, golden-thread nanmu pillars, a tea room with rush mats and paper windows, and a bedroom incorporating an old canopy-bed frame 15.
• Garden and meeting room: Stone lanterns, green bamboo, an old pomegranate tree, and a long black walnut table shipped from Milan 15 30.

Business, Fashion, and Entertainment

Motorsport Venues

Story Role / Major Arcs

Early Spending and Team Building

Beijing is the setting for Su Jin’s first documented luxury purchases. At SKP, her system-issued black card gives her priority access to a Himalaya bag, turning Wang Siyu’s argument with Hermès staff into a public defeat. The encounter also attracts Lu Shen’s attention 2.

Her activities soon extend beyond shopping. At a Beijing café, she hires Shen Mingwei to organize her scattered properties into a boutique guesthouse business. She subsequently hires Cheng Yan as her art adviser, while Zhou Ye assembles a five-person veteran security team in Beijing 5 6 9 11.

Auctions, Fashion, and New Connections

Su Jin’s forty-second check-in grants her 35% of Beijing Poly Auction and exclusive Chinese agency rights for The Star. She inspects the Wangfujing boutique, attends her first Poly board meeting, and purchases the Shichahai courtyard house 10 11.

Lu Shen’s cocktail party connects her with investors, collectors, and Vogue China editor-in-chief Zhao Yu. Her subsequent Beijing Vogue shoot brings widespread online attention. During Chen Shen’s visit to the city, the Beijing Racing Club also becomes the setting for her introduction to Ji Yunshen and the arrangements for her MIT visiting-scholar opportunity 12 13.

Before leaving for Boston, Su Jin completes the courtyard house’s restoration and attends The Star’s Wangfujing opening 14 15.

Business Base During Her Overseas Career

Beijing remains an operational base after Su Jin moves abroad. She participates remotely in Huace Starlight’s talent selection, then returns during the filming of Winter Harbor to interview Lin Xiaozhou and approve her contract 18 19.

On another return, she selects Windbreaking Pictures as an acquisition target and sets a one-month due-diligence deadline. Later, she gathers representatives of her businesses at the courtyard house for SJ Group’s first strategic meeting, outlining plans for ME stores, international game distribution, and the recreation of peachbloom glaze 20 30.

Later Creative and Racing Projects

After returning from her family reunion in Italy, Su Jin goes to Huace Starlight to review the game team’s selected Liaozhai stories and its fear- and emotion-based combat concepts. Another return brings her directly from Jingdezhen to the Nüwa costume fitting, where she offers to fire a real five-colored brick for the production 36 42.

Following the Poetry Across China press conference, she reunites with Chen Shen at Ruisi Racing Circuit. There, she proposes a team built around Chinese cars, engines, and drivers; Chen Shen agrees to race with her 48.

Cityscape and Local Life

• CBD skyline: Guomao Bridge’s continuous traffic, China Zun’s illuminated tower, and the orange streetlights of East Third Ring Road recur in the views from Su Jin’s apartment 13 19 20.
• Historic streets: Su Jin travels through hutongs and along Chang’an Avenue, passing Tiananmen Square at night. She also meets Chen Shen at a secluded restaurant in Dongcheng’s Mao’er Hutong 11 13.
• Traditional hot pot: Meng Qi takes Su Jin to a restaurant operating for more than twenty years, serving charcoal-heated copper pots, hand-cut lamb, homemade sesame sauce, and Beibingyang drinks 11.
• Breakfast: Fang Ying brings xiaolongbao, fermented mung bean milk, fried dough rings, and pickles. Su Jin enjoys the dumplings but finds the fermented drink difficult to acquire a taste for 13.
• Seasonal details: The city has cold winters and dry autumn winds. Spring scenes feature Yuyuantan cherry blossoms and drifting poplar fluff 15 16 30 36.

Transport

• Capital Airport: Su Jin repeatedly uses it for private-jet arrivals, with Zhou Ye and Fang Ying meeting her for transfers into the city 19 20 30.
• Tianjin departure: Although described as her journey from Beijing to Dali, Su Jin’s first documented Gulfstream G650ER departure actually takes place at Tianjin Binhai International Airport 7.
• Road travel: East Third Ring Road, the airport expressway, Chang’an Avenue, and Guomao Bridge connect several recurring residential and business settings 11 19 30 36.

Notable Quotes

“The pace there is so fast it leaves you breathless, but stay long enough and you get addicted to it.”
— Xu Yanqiu, recalling six months spent working on a project in Wudaokou 9