Lin Zhen

is a minor character in Link Click.
== Appearance ==
Lin Zhen has long black hair and dark reddish-brown eyes. During her college years, she put her hair up into two braids that fell down her shoulders, and wore a blue headband with a small, rectangular yellow hair clip. Her clothing consisted of a white, gray, and pink-striped tank top and a pair of high-waisted jean shorts. As a young adult, she kept the hairclip, but wore a yellow v-neck and a long blue skirt. She can also be seen wearing the same shirt in a green colour in one of the photographs that flash by the screen. In her scenes as a full-grown adult, she wears a long, cream-colored down jacket with a coral turtleneck and blue jeans underneath. 
== Story ==
Lin Zhen and Yu Xia were roommates in college and have had a close relationship since then. After college, they opened together, with their signature becoming a hit with the public overnight. The dish contained a unique ingredient that made it stand out, which Lin Zhen had kept a secret even from Yu Xia.
The pair continued to run the restaurant for many years. However, gradually their visions for the restaurant began to differ. Yu Xia wanted to align the restaurant with contemporary commercial trends, implementing the latest technologies, continuously expanding the business, and rebranding the restaurant to XGM (小干妈). Lin Zhen however, disagreed with her visions, cherishing the the restaurant's humble and down-to-earth roots. She eventually decided to leave the restaurant, and return to her rural hometown to open a new Xialin Noodle House, more akin to its original form.
Left in charge of the business alone, Yu Xia approached Time Photo Studio with a request to enter photos taken in their past. After a few failed attempts, Cheng Xiaoshi and Lu Guang discovered that Lin Zhen had frequently traveled to Xiang Zhuang, a place known for a plant known as , which the locals would dry and grind into a powder to use as a spice. They arrived at the conclusion that this had been the secret ingredient of Lin Zhen's signature dish.
The discovery however, carried a much greater significance to Yu Xia: Xiang Zhuang is her hometown, and she was the one who introduced Lin Zhen to the spice back when they first had the idea of opening a noodle restaurant in college. Touched by the revelation, Yu Xia traveled to find Lin Zhen at the new Xialin Noodle House, finally reconciling with Lin Zhen.
== Personality ==
Lin Zhen comes off as a soft-spoken and well-mannered lady who keeps to her ideals, and enjoys cooking. In college she is shown to be a bit more playful, teasing Yu Xia about her seasonings, belting karaoke, and laughing when Yu Xia gets scared from horror movies. As a young adult, she retains some of that mischief, as shown when joking with Yu Xia about sleeping together. Due to her love of cooking, she is stubborn, refusing to think about pleasing the public in a different way, preferring to satisfy her customers with her own homemade cooking and not Yu Xia's newly branded chain restaurants.
== Relationships ==
=== Yu Xia ===
Yu Xia was Lin Zhen's closest friend, as well as – in the beginning – her business partner. However, as years passed, their opinions on how their business should be managed began to severely differ, driving up a wedge between them. While Lin Zhen wished to keep the business simple, Yu Xia wanted to expand and keep up with the latest trends. Since neither would budge in their respective views, Lin Zhen concluded that it was better if they went their separate ways.
Yu Xia then became restless that Lin Zhen would exploit the secret recipe that had made their noodle shop successful to kick-start her own business. She sought out help from Time Photo Studio, and upon hearing that the secret ingredient was the fragnant flower powder, realized that it was essentially her who came up with the recipe in the first place. This triggered a change of heart in Yu Xia, causing her to immediately hop on a train back to her hometown Xiang Zhuang, and reconcile with Lin Zhen.
== Quotes ==
*(To Yu Xia) "My happiness is watching the expression on your face as you eat the noodles."
*(To Yu Xia) "You've got intelligent management, precise cooking line, perfect commercial packing. It's really out of place for a person like me who cooks with passion."
*(To Yu Xia) "Welcome back."
== Episode Appearances ==
== Etymology ==
* 林 (Lín) is a common Chinese character, the 18th most common surname in mainland China. It means "forest" or "woods" and is made up of the radical/character 木 (Mù) duplicated.
* 贞 (Zhēn) is the simplified character for 貞. Possible meanings include virtuous; chaste; pure, or loyal & steadfast.
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