Uncle He

Uncle He is the formally dressed butler at the center of Shen Tang’s domestic life, but his role extends well beyond arranging cars and serving a wealthy household. He is a quiet stabilizing presence who converts service into protection and, eventually, into genuine personal loyalty. Through his measured responses, practical competence, and hidden enthusiasm for Shen Tang’s public career, he helps transform a cold residence into a lively home and gives Shen Tang a form of dependable support that the entertainment industry rarely offers.

Identity and Position

Uncle He first appears as the household’s disciplined butler, addressing Shen Tang as Madam and responding to her requests with immediate efficiency. When she decides to leave the house despite her irritation with the year remaining on her exploitative contract, he does not question her decision or burden her with unnecessary advice. He simply asks which car she wants and, after she admits that any car will do, promises to arrange it. The exchange establishes his characteristic method: he handles practical details without demanding attention for himself.

His composure also includes social tact. When Shen Tang worries that she has gained weight after spending much of her time eating and sleeping, Uncle He recognizes that a blunt answer would hurt her. Instead, he tells her that she had been too thin before and that her current appearance is just right. The reply is not merely flattery; it is a small act of emotional care, preserving her dignity while acknowledging the change indirectly. His service therefore operates on two levels, managing the household’s routines while carefully managing the emotional atmosphere around Shen Tang.

Care Within the Household

Shen Tang’s arrival changes the emotional temperature of the residence. Uncle He observes that the household’s former coldness has disappeared and been replaced by liveliness. The change is significant because he is not presented as an outsider merely performing assigned duties. He notices the household’s atmosphere, registers Shen Tang’s effect on it, and appears pleased when her presence brings warmth into daily life.

That investment becomes visible whenever Shen Tang returns. On one occasion, Uncle He and Tao Sister are chatting in the living room when Shen Tang appears; Tao Sister immediately helps her sit down, while the household’s attention turns toward her exhaustion and need for nourishment. On another return, Uncle He stands at the entrance as Shen Tang and Gu Huaian arrive one after another, feeling gratified at the sight. His private hope that a Young Master or Young Miss might soon appear reveals how fully he has emotionally entered the couple’s domestic future, even though he expresses that hope only inwardly.

His relationship with Tao Sister further defines this household network. They are not simply co-workers carrying out instructions; they share conversation, coordinate care, and participate in a collective concern for Shen Tang. Tao Sister knows Shen Tang’s friends and circumstances, and Uncle He is part of the same intimate circle of household knowledge. When Shen Tang asks whether Tao Sister knows Lan Sister, the question confirms that Uncle He’s household is socially connected to the wider network surrounding Gu Huaian and Shen Tang rather than sealed off from it.

Protection and Practical Action

Uncle He’s most consequential service appears during the crisis on the island. When Shen Tang becomes frightened and the situation requires outside help, he steps forward and states that he has already instructed people to contact rescue personnel. He also expects the program team to send someone. His response is immediate, organized, and focused on restoring safety rather than dramatizing the danger. While Gu Huaian reacts by calling Assistant Cen (Contract Affairs), Uncle He has already begun mobilizing the practical resources available to the household.

This moment clarifies the difference between his reserve and passivity. He rarely competes for the narrative’s attention, yet he acts decisively when Shen Tang’s safety is at stake. His authority is logistical rather than spectacular: he knows whom to contact, what arrangements to make, and how to keep a crisis from becoming more chaotic. The same pattern appears in smaller domestic scenes, where he shields Shen Tang from embarrassment, arranges transport, and maintains the household’s readiness around her unpredictable work and public life.

His actions also contrast with the entertainment industry’s treatment of Shen Tang. Her company’s public-relations team exploits her notoriety by pairing her with every male celebrity she has worked with, while online rumors continually attack her. Wang Brother argues that even bad publicity is still publicity and reminds her that she wants money for a house and better living conditions for her siblings. Against this instrumental world, Uncle He’s care is not designed to produce attention, contractual value, or a profitable scandal. It is directed toward Shen Tang as a person.

Hidden Fandom and Collective Loyalty

The later revelation that Uncle He is a hardcore fan of Shen Tang adds an unexpected comic dimension to his restrained image. Tao Sister tells Shen Tang that she and Uncle He both follow her super topic every day. Shen Tang is stunned because Uncle He’s public manner suggests an impeccably refined and self-contained servant, not an active participant in celebrity fandom.

His fandom is not passive. Tao Sister explains that Uncle He’s son, Little He, works as a programmer and has written a small program that automatically answers Shen Tang’s antis on Weibo. Uncle He therefore belongs to a three-person support group consisting of Tao Sister, Uncle He, and Little He, all organized around defending Shen Tang online. The household’s care has expanded from physical and emotional protection into digital counterattack, using Little He’s technical skill to resist the hostility surrounding her.

This disclosure reinterprets Uncle He’s earlier professionalism. His constant composure is not emotional distance but controlled devotion. Shen Tang’s professional smile during a hostile livestream likewise shows how public performance conceals private pressures: the stream attracts black fans and sharply increases popularity, yet she continues smiling because the agricultural-product sales will generate income. Uncle He’s household support provides the opposite side of that performance economy. Where the company converts abuse into publicity and revenue, his family converts technical ability, time, and argumentative energy into defense.

Narrative Function and Significance

Uncle He is a comparatively restrained, recognizable character built around competence and loyalty, but the revelation of his fandom gives that apparently fixed role a convincing surprise. The formal butler who calmly arranges a car is also the man whose household follows Shen Tang’s online community and helps rebut her attackers. That contrast prevents him from becoming a merely decorative servant figure.

His significance lies in the alternative family structure he helps create around Shen Tang. The Gu family’s acceptance of Shen Tang is shaped by the attitudes of Old Madam Gu and Old Master Gu, whose warmth influences other relatives to take notice of her. Uncle He represents a different route into belonging: not blood, status, or formal family recognition, but repeated acts of care. He makes space for Shen Tang in the household before the wider family fully defines her place within it.

By the time the story reaches questions about whether Shen Tang and Gu Huaian will hold a wedding, Uncle He’s importance is best understood through the domestic future he has quietly supported. He is the person who sees arrivals, prepares for possible children, coordinates emergencies, softens humiliations, and treats Shen Tang’s online battles as matters worth fighting. His service gives the household continuity, while his concealed fandom gives it warmth and humor. In a story crowded with contracts, scandals, publicity strategies, and unstable public identities, Uncle He embodies loyalty that is practical, sustained, and not dependent on applause.