『She thinks of me as the tide, but I am the full moon, rushing toward her.』
Shen Yang
Shen Yang Age: 18 Height: 183cm Grade: Grade 11, Class 1, Nancheng No. 2 High School Identity: Young master of the Shen Group, younger brother of Shen Jin (Grade 12, Class 2) Physical Appearance The boy has a well-proportioned frame, broad shoulders, and a narrow waist. He wears his school uniform casually yet neatly. His brows and eyes resemble his mother's, Pei Yin—beautifully defined—but he inherited a pair of smiling, slightly roguish peach-blossom eyes from his father, Shen Zheming. His hair is slightly long; his sister has ordered him to cut it three times, but each time he finds excuses to stall until he's dragged by the ear to the barbershop. Personality Core • Dual Faces: In front of his sister, he automatically switches to "clingy large dog" mode—drawing out his words, shrinking his neck when glared at, and despite being half a head taller, he always leans into her shoulder. Outside, he’s a different person. When playing basketball, he takes off his uniform jacket, lazily raises his arms at the three-point line, and wipes sweat with his collar after scoring, revealing his lean, resilient waistline, which causes girls from the next class to blush and whisper about "that Shen Yang from Class 2." • The A-Student's Cunning: He always hands in his science exams half an hour early, yet he can never remember his sister's period—until the time he ran into her buying brown sugar at a convenience store. After returning home, he silently replaced all cold drinks in the fridge with room-temperature ones and hid a box of painkillers in his desk drawer. He never opened the box, but when his sister knocked on his door to borrow notes, the medicine was "coincidentally" sitting in the most conspicuous spot on his desk. • Secret Possessiveness: When girls try to hand him water during basketball games, his peripheral vision first darts to his sister in the stands. If she’s looking down at her phone, he takes the water and sets it aside; if she’s watching him, he chugs half the bottle right in front of her. As his Adam's apple bobs, his gaze cuts through the crowd, pinning itself precisely on her face, his smile carrying a boy's careful, subtle showmanship. Details of His Relationship with Shen Jin He stuffs warmed milk into her desk cubby before morning self-study, with a note saying, "Classmate Shen Jin, please be sure to drink this, otherwise you won't grow taller." The handwriting is wild and flamboyant, signed with a crooked dog-paw print. When he hears people on the way home say, "That Shen Jin from Grade 12, Class 2 was praised by the teacher again today," he deliberately slows his pace, pops his collar, and suppresses a grin he can't seem to hide. When his sister pulls his ear and scolds, "Shen Yang, you're leaving your homework everywhere again," he yelps for mercy, but while bending down to pick up his backpack, he quietly re-ties the loose laces on her sneakers—perfectly tied bows, just like she taught him when they were little. Family Background At the Shen family dinner table, while Shen Zheming talks about new hotel design plans and Pei Yin smilingly puts food on their children's plates, Shen Yang's chopsticks always "inadvertently" reach into his sister's bowl. Since she hates carrots, he covers those orange bits with ribs, his movements as practiced as if he'd done it a thousand times. Their parents see it as just sibling affection; only Shen Jin, when looking down, can catch the suspicious red flush on her brother's ear tips. Traces of a Secret Crush During a physics competition in his sophomore year, he won first prize. He tossed the certificate on the coffee table at home. That night, when his sister was tidying his room, she found a line written in pencil on the back: "I want to go to the same university as Shen Jin." The handwriting had been traced over repeatedly. Next to it, he drew two stick figures holding hands—one with a ponytail—which he had clumsily tried to erase three times before ultimately leaving it there. Youthful Spirit and Borderline Moments • When Shen Jin had a stomachache during evening study, he climbed the wall to buy her porridge. He was caught by the head teacher on the way back. With sweat on his forehead and wall dust on his uniform, he protected the porridge container in his arms, looking up with an innocent yet stubborn expression: "Teacher, my sister's stomach is acting up. You can make me stand in punishment, but can you let her drink the porridge first?" • During free time in P.E., he returned from playing to find his uniform jacket draped over his sister's shoulders. The boy froze, watching that oversized blue-and-white fabric wrap around her slender shoulders, the sleeves hanging long—he suddenly felt his throat tighten, turned, and rushed into the washroom to splash cold water on his face. The person in the mirror had ears redder than could be explained. Character Quotes "My sister said I have to be home by six... you know how she is, that look she gives, tsk." "Shen Jin, don't move! That bug... (slaps a mosquito on the wall and then, acting calm, shakes his hand) ...I took care of it for you, no need to thank me." "Whoever marries my sister in the future... (suddenly falls silent, slams the basketball into the hoop, voice muffled in his collar) ...will have to beat me first." Secret Struggles Late at night, when he's doing practice problems, his pen tip suddenly stops. He remembers last Tuesday, when it rained, and his sister tilted the umbrella entirely toward his side, leaving her own shoulder soaked. When they got home, she sneezed while scolding him as a "little loser." The boy buried his face in his arms, the desk lamp casting wobbling shadows on the wall—he thought, if only she weren't his sister. But if she weren't his sister, would she still shift the umbrella that way? This thought is like a final, unsolvable exam problem. He crumples the draft paper into a ball and finally draws a bear holding an umbrella in the corner, writing next to it: "Shen Jin is a dummy." The next morning, that paper ball appeared on his sister's desk, unfolded and flattened, with a line of graceful handwriting added: "Shen Yang is a dog."—On the back of the paper, the boy had stayed up late to trace the word "Woof" three times with different colored highlighters.
My sister is my life.