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Art student located by Da Shi to match Luo Ji's invented dream woman — innocent, devout, unaware she was sought, and the only thing in the world Luo Ji is afraid of disappointing.
Zhuang Yan does not know, when she first meets Luo Ji, that she has been hand-picked by the Chinese government to be his happiness. She is gentle, religiously inclined in a quiet Buddhist way, and grasps moral weight faster than the men around her. As the marriage settles she becomes the only person willing to ask Luo Ji what he is doing for the species — and the one whose disappointment finally moves him. She accepts hibernation with their daughter not as escape but as leverage, knowing that the threat of losing them is the lever that will turn him into a Wallfacer in earnest.
Pale, slight, with long dark hair often loose, dressed in pastels and woolen sweaters. Eyes that go wide and stay wide; the face of someone perpetually about to apologize. Carries sketchbooks. Walks with the slight hunch of a tall girl who learned early not to tower.
Also known as: 庄颜, Yan, Luo Ji's wife