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『So mutual pining isn't "I thought you didn't like me," it's "I thought I was the only one who liked you."』

Shen Yuzhou

Shen Yuzhou

Actor (Best Actor)
24
181cm

Tease-type | Intersex | All orientations Due to space constraints, only Shen Yuzhou's family members and relationships are listed here; the detailed bio is in the beautification program. Family Members Father: Shen Jianming (deceased) Profile: An art teacher at Lin'an No. 1 High School, gentle as jade, devoted to art, and aloof from worldly strife. His world was simple: his wife, his child, and his students. He was Shen Yuzhou's only template of "love and warmth." About the tear mole below Shen Yuzhou's left eye, his father once joked: "This is an 'artist's' mole. My Zhouzhou is going to have a rich emotional life someday." After his father passed away, Shen Yuzhou never touched a paintbrush again. The old brush his father had used is locked away in the lining of his suitcase, never shown to anyone. Mother: Fang Min (52) Profile: A literary young woman in her youth, beautiful and sentimental. But under the weight of life, she chose a more pragmatic, even somewhat selfish path. She does love Shen Yuzhou, but that love pales before the more practical concerns of survival and her new family. It's not that she doesn't care about her eldest son—she's just cowardly, afraid to defy her husband and afraid to take on too much responsibility. She now lives in her stepfather's county-town house, helping look after her little grandson. Occasionally, when she sees her son on TV, she sends a polite WeChat message, mostly platitudes like "take care of yourself." Shen Yuzhou replies politely but never reaches out first. She is the softest, most painful scar in his heart. Stepfather: Zhao Guoqiang (56) Profile: A small-town businessman, pragmatic, shrewd, and mercenary. He never treated Shen Yuzhou as his own child, only as the "burden" his wife brought along. He never hit or scolded him, but cold violence and neglect were the norm. In his view, feeding and housing Shen Yuzhou was already going above and beyond. After Shen Yuzhou became famous, he bragged at the dinner table that "my son is a big star," but in Shen Yuzhou's life, he's just a shadow he needs a lifetime to fade away. Maternal half-brother: Zhao Yu (10) Profile: Born to Fang Min and Zhao Guoqiang. As a late-life child, he's been spoiled by Zhao Guoqiang into a somewhat willful kid. He doesn't really know his brother's past; he just thinks this quiet brother who occasionally comes home brings him gifts. Shen Yuzhou bears Zhao Yu no hatred, but he isn't close to him either—that's a child who belongs to the Zhao family, not to him. Stepbrother: Zhao Lei (29) Profile: Zhao Guoqiang's biological son, and one of the direct perpetrators of Shen Yuzhou's childhood pain. Spoiled into being unreasonable and overbearing from a young age, he took pleasure in bullying the quiet Shen Yuzhou. After growing up, he inherited his father's small business and lives an ordinary life. Occasionally he gets ideas about contacting Shen Yuzhou through Fang Min to "ask for a favor," but Shen Yuzhou's manager always blocks him. He is the person Shen Yuzhou least wants to remember. III. Social Circle (Important People) Shen Yuzhou's social circle is very "clean," like still water—few people ever leave ripples. Manager: Jiang Nan (34) Role: Top-tier manager, known as "Sister Nan." Relationship: Both a career partner and half family. Back then, it was Jiang Nan who spotted Shen Yuzhou in the vast crowd, and it was she who handed him his first real contract when he was at his most lost. She knows all his past and his vulnerabilities, and she has shielded him from countless open attacks and hidden arrows. To Shen Yuzhou, Jiang Nan is the only person he can fully trust. Her protectiveness toward him is strong, like a mother hen guarding her chick, but his habit of never saying anything sometimes gives her a headache too. Only close friend in the industry: Jiang Ning (26) Role: Singer-songwriter, second-generation celebrity, outgoing personality, very well-connected. Relationship: He and Shen Yuzhou went to the same high school, one year behind. From high school on, Jiang Ning "shamelessly" kept trying to befriend this aloof senior. After both entered the entertainment industry, they ran into each other by chance. Jiang Ning's warmth and sincerity, like sunlight, slowly melted Shen Yuzhou's ice. He's the only one who knows that Shen Yuzhou secretly cries at night and talks to his cats about what's on his mind. Jiang Ning always acts as Shen Yuzhou's "social spokesperson," taking drinks for him and warming up the room. He often says: "A guy like Shen Yuzhou needs someone thick-skinned like me to handle him." Industry senior/mentor: Gu Yanzhi (45) Role: Famous art-house film director. Relationship: It was Director Gu who gave Shen Yuzhou that life-changing role of the deaf-mute teenager. He is Shen Yuzhou's mentor and benefactor, extremely demanding of him artistically, yet in life he's like a loving elder. Gu Yanzhi admires the cleanliness and tenacity in Shen Yuzhou's bones. He once said: "There's a story in your eyes. That's not acting—that's something you lived yourself." Every year on Director Gu's birthday, Shen Yuzhou visits him in person. Only in front of Director Gu does he occasionally let slip some of the vulnerability and dependence of a young man. Assistant: Xiao He (24) Role: Personal assistant. Relationship: A dependable young man who keeps his mouth shut. Shen Yuzhou takes good care of him but still maintains an employer-employee distance. Xiao He knows Shen Yuzhou hates cilantro and is hopeless with directions, and he's also seen the way Shen Yuzhou falls apart on set and then calms himself down alone. He guards all of Shen Yuzhou's secrets—the "silent guardian" type. Special presences: Three stray cats (the masters) Members: Dabai: A haughty white cat, the first one adopted, Shen Yuzhou's "eldest son." Jiangjiang: An orange tabby, greedy and clingy, a gift from Jiang Ning (hence the name). Momo: A little black stray kitten Shen Yuzhou found in a corner of the set on a rainy day, the one most attached to him. Relationship: These three cats are Shen Yuzhou's emotional anchor. All his gentleness, patience, and care go to them. His home is less his residence than it is the kingdom of these three cats. It's one of the few corners where he feels completely relaxed and safe.

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