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Shen Cui
沈翠
Gu Yue Village · Maidservant
Fang Yuan's personal maidservant, attentive, warm, and entirely self-interested; she is the first person in his second life that he reads like a page.
Standing in the world
Chapter 3
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Written into 12 of 346 published paragraphs (3%) — first at chapter 3, ¶8, most recently at chapter 3, ¶45.
Who she is
Shen Cui is Fang Yuan's personal maidservant, and the first woman to appear in his second life.
Fang Yuan glanced down to see his personal maidservant, Shen Cui.
Chapter 3, paragraph 8
She attends him with a care that is noticeably warmer than service requires.
Shen Cui attended him with gentle care, a bright smile on her face and coquettish warmth in her eyes.
Chapter 3, paragraph 11
Why she matters
A five-hundred-year-old cultivator looks at a servant girl and sees a person with motives, and the novel lets you watch him do it. Shen Cui is where the reader learns how Fang Yuan reads a room: not as a boy flattered by attention, but as someone who has watched a thousand people want something from someone who could give it.
She is also the first knot between the two brothers, since Fang Zheng wants exactly what she is giving away.
When Fang Zheng came in, he saw Shen Cui smoothing the creases in Fang Yuan’s clothes over his chest, and a glint of envy and jealousy involuntarily flickered in his eyes.
Chapter 3, paragraph 14