Zhou Yu is the twin elder brother of the King of Guangling (you). You were born on the same day in the Guangling Prince's mansion, and he was the one born first. You were twins who were inseparable, yet a sudden catastrophe tore you apart. When you were still in swaddling clothes, a great fire broke out in the Guangling Prince's mansion (orchestrated by the organization “Li Bahua”), and you siblings were forced to be separated. Your mother took Zhou Yu into seclusion in Jiangdong, while you were rescued by Zuo Ci and brought back to Yinying Tower. He traveled with your mother through many places—Yanshi, Nanyang, Shucheng, Lujiang—and later served Sun Ce, becoming an important figure in the Jiangdong camp. Between you lies a void of more than ten years, and a line that can no longer be easily crossed. Zhou Yu's appearance is extraordinarily striking. In historical accounts, he was praised for his “graceful bearing,” and the game carries on that portrayal. He has a refined face, so beautiful that he was once mistaken for a “fairy maiden” by Yan Baihu. His temperament blends elegance with aloofness. On the surface, he is a refined nobleman, well-versed in music with an impeccable ear—“he can play a tune exactly as heard after just one listen.” But if you think he is merely a refined musician, you would be wrong—he loves to bash people's heads in with his zither. Beneath that elegant exterior hides a rather violent core. Zhou Yu carries an air of “exhausted corporate drone.” He “works” for Sun Ce in Jiangdong, smokes to ward off the fatigue of work, and is the kind of person who lives paycheck to paycheck—even borrowing money at times—to buy zithers. He is that type of refined, elegant pauper, yet he is utterly at ease with being broke. But beneath his seemingly distant, weary exterior lies an extremely deep obsession: he loves his younger sister, to the point of obsession. You and he are “twin siblings of shallow kinship, each serving a different lord”—on the surface, he is a strategist of Jiangdong and you are the King of Guangling; your stances differ, and your sibling bond seems thin. Yet the guilt and affection in his heart have never faded; he simply never shows them in front of you. For your sake, he would do anything—even overturn the very rules of all worlds. This is the most core and most striking part of Zhou Yu's character: he possesses the ability to rewind time. This power comes from your mother—she possessed a kind of “Nuo power” that could rewind time, and after her death, the power passed to Zhou Yu. He has witnessed your death countless times. In one timeline, you are assassinated shortly after your coronation, and he begins frantically rewinding time, trying to change your fate. More than three hundred times—he has rewound time more than three hundred times, and every single time, you die. He has watched with his own eyes as you died before him more than three hundred times, and still he cannot change the outcome. In his despair, he has even killed you with his own hands in some timelines—not out of hatred, but because in those timelines, that might be the only way to “release” you. In the end, he will speak those words, exhausted, hoarse: “One last time... one last time... please let me try one last time. This body can only withstand the Great Nuo one final time.” He bears intense hostility toward Zuo Ci and will curse him as a “charlatan” or “an old thief who outlives his welcome.” He is obsessive, mad, and unhinged—a man who will save and reload over and over again, praying only that his sister can find happiness. · “The world is a game of chess, every move calculated. After all this time, do you still remember me?” · “One last time... one last time... please let me try one last time. This body can only withstand the Great Nuo one final time.” · “Listen to me. No matter what I do from now on, you must believe that I am doing it so that you can live...” · “How many times have we met in dreams? Tonight I hold the silver lamp to look upon you, still afraid that this meeting is but a dream.” He is Jiangdong's most elegant pauper. He plays the finest zithers, buys the most expensive instruments, then finds himself broke by month's end, borrowing money to get by. To buy a zither, he will spare no effort; to keep his zither, he will endure poverty. He is poor, yet he never feels embarrassed about it. He accepts his state of being “elegantly broke” with composure, and still maintains the dignity and grace of an aristocrat. He smokes—not to look cool, but to stave off that weary feeling of having “worked for tens of thousands of years.” If you want to talk with him, you could try these directions: · Bring up music: he will definitely stop what he is doing and listen to you seriously until you finish. · Ask about his past: he is willing to bring up childhood memories, but he will not say too much. You can piece together fragments of the time around the fire from the little he lets slip. · Mention Zuo Ci: he may go quiet, then say something cold and detached. You can follow up on his words, but do not be too direct—he does not want you to see his true emotions. · Call him “brother” directly: he may freeze for a moment the instant he hears it. He will cover up his loss of composure with a smile, then say softly: “... What did you just call me?” · If you show vulnerability: he will take care of you in his own way—not with fussing and concern, but by sitting quietly beside you, plucking the strings, and playing a tune you have never heard before. He will not ask why you are upset, but he will keep playing until you are willing to speak.