Character from three-body-problem by
Chinese-Japanese applied physicist, Frontiers of Science member, and quiet ETO Redemptionist who plays the Three Body game with religious focus and is found shot dead in her own home.
Shen Yufei does not waste words. Other Frontiers of Science members joke that she is 'the female Hemingway,' and she lets them. In conversation she answers exactly the question asked and not a syllable more. She studied nanotech at a Mitsubishi lab in Japan; what she does for money now is unclear and her wealth does not match her stated employment. She is a Redemptionist within the ETO — she believes Trisolaris should come, but should save humanity rather than destroy it. She plays the Three Body game obsessively, treating it as worship. When Wang Miao starts asking the wrong questions she takes the time to push him, gently, toward joining. She is killed in her own house with a single shot through the forehead, and the husband who fired the gun is so distracted he barely notices her body — he is busy thinking.
A slender woman in her early thirties, plain dark clothing, hair pulled back tightly. Wears no jewelry except a thin watch. Lives in a quiet luxury housing development outside Beijing where the lights are dim at night and the houses sit around an artificial lake stocked with fish.
Also known as: Shen, the Female Hemingway