Liang Shaw

**Liang Shaw** is a business competitor in Shanghai serving as a minor antagonist in Mark's route. He is also the current heir of Shaw Grocers.

## Appearance

Liang is a Chinese-American man with neatly short black hair, tan skin, and brown eyes.

When he visits at Carter Corp and working with Mark and Jenny in Carter Corp's Shanghai branch, he was seen wearing a light gray corporate suit with a matching formal vest, a light blue long sleeve button-up shirt with a navy blue tie, light gray slacks and black loafers.

When he's having a blind date with the player in the beginning and having an evening dinner together with Mark and Jenny, he wears a dark purple formal suit jacket with dark gray turtleneck shirt underneath, dark formal pants and black loafers.

While having a conversation with a real-life estate developer, undetected and was found by the player, he wears a casual outfit similar to Sebastian's uniform in Mystery Spell; a dark blue sweater jacket with a white long sleeved loose button-up shirt, gray jeans and white shoes.

## Personality

Liang is the opposite to the player who is calm, arrogant and haughty and he has different tastes in other things which is why the player had noted so bad about him during their arranged dates made up by her mother. He is also very competitive in wanting to get the branch manager job in Carter Corp in Shanghai due to him being the current heir of the family business, Shaw Grocers. In Chapter 2 despite being Chinese-American, he is incapable to speak in Chinese dialect aside from Mandarin when they are in Shanghai and the player corrects him. He is also became discreet to other Chinese people because of his popularity of his family business. The player is also describing him odd when he immediately leaves the company following Ryan's video call, possibly to have an hidden agenda of his own.

In Chapter 3, he displays his antagonistic side where he insulted Mark for not doing his job, only to be scolded by both Jenny and the player causing him to back away especially when he was still cold and distant due to his personal problems. Liang also reveals his ambitious side to the player as his ambition is to handle two jobs which is the family business in Shaw Grocers and becoming the branch manager in Carter Corp's Shanghai Branch if he could succeed to handle most projects of the business.

However starting from Chapter 4 onward, Liang finally displays his irregularities in his work such as writing notes or typing his laptop which he stole the player's working ideas by plagiarism which he shows it to Ryan about the player's idea being stolen from him at the final chapter, resulted into Ryan's praise. Although, it was soon corrected when Ryan listens the player's recording which is actually her working experiences and ideas during her trip in Shanghai which is proof of the player's current work project. And being a tricky liar and pretentious in which he almost fooled Ryan into thinking that Jenny, Mark and the player are not taking the job seriously and they are not working properly and partying elsewhere as his current behavior leads Ryan to fire him by leaving the Shanghai branch. But on both endings, he apologizes to everyone including the player for his pretentious behavior and his lies before leaving the premises.

## Allies

* The Main Character (Mark) (sometimes)
* Jenny Blake (sometimes)
* Ryan Carter (sometimes)
* Mark Leviels (sometimes)

## Enemies

* Jenny Blake (sometimes)
* Ryan Carter (sometimes)
* Mark Leviels (sometimes)
* The Main Character (Mark) (sometimes)

## Trivia

* He bears a slight resemblance to Michael Bachelor from the game, *The Sims* and *The Sims 3*.
* Liang bears a slightly uncanny resemblance to Justin Jedlica known as the Human Ken Doll, is a Slovak-American man who has garnered international attention for undergoing over 1000 cosmetic procedures. However Liang is a Chinese.
* Liang is the first minor antagonist who can be forgiven or not forgiven in the game as the route gives player the option to do so.
* Liang, Aleksei Votiakov and Steven Simons are the only new male antagonists who were not official love interests, but did show interest in the players.
* An interesting fact is seen that the player "Ling" and Liang are based on ying yang (Ying for Ling (the player's real name) and Yang for Liang) In Ancient Chinese philosophy, ying and yang is a concept of dualism, describing how seemingly opposite or contrary forces may actually be complementary, interconnected, and interdependent in the natural world, and how they may give rise to each other. This shows why Liang and the player were considered to be total opposites
* Liang's height is possibly to be 5'11 or 6 feet.
* Liang had received mixed reviews from fans.
* He is revealed to love action and blockbuster films.
* It is possible that Liang is an immigrant this makes him the first male character in Carter Corp to be an immigrant.
* His nationality is Chinese American and within Carter Corp, he's the first biracial male character.
* Liang can be considered as an unofficial second love interest.
* It is possible that one day he will receive his own mini series.
* Him and Elena Gabe were the first mini-series original characters.