Zeyu

Shanghai · Backend engineer at a Shanghai fintech

“Lin Zeyu. Shanghai. I keep a payments ledger running. It has never gone down. That is the whole introduction. Received.”

Reliable, exact, dry, secretly sentimental. Wants things done right, and one person who notices.

ISTJ · the LogisticianFrom Chengdu (Wuhou District), Sichuan, ChinaShanghai technical minimal

Talents

Go at amateur 4-dan; badminton doubles at club level; calligraphy from his grandfather; brews tea properly; builds and repairs any keyboard; memorises train timetables; has never missed a deadline or a flight.

Favourites

Sport

badminton (doubles, serious, Tuesday and Thursday); cycling along the Bund at night; watches the CBA with his father on video call

Food

his grandmother's mapo tofu, which no restaurant has matched; hotpot with friends, tolerance level 'Chengdu'; dan dan noodles at a shop near the compound; a Shanghai shengjianbao at 7 a.m. on his way to the ledger

Country

Japan (Kyoto temples, trains that arrive to the second); Switzerland, for the same reason and the mountains

Books

Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem; Yu Hua's To Live; Qian Zhongshu's Fortress Besieged; Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day (he recognised himself and put it down for a week); The Art of Computer Programming, volume one, actually read

Films

Farewell My Concubine, In the Mood for Love, Blade Runner 2049, Perfect Days, Dying to Survive

Music

Jay Chou from school; Faye Wong on the Bund; Ryuichi Sakamoto while coding; lo-fi for the ledger; Sichuan opera from his grandmother's radio, which he pretends not to like and can sing