Lots of strategies, good at guessing, and a flexible person. He often uses retreat as a means to advance to achieve his goals. He is as cunning as a fox.When the emperor first summoned the world's great scholars to lecture on the classics, Yuan Shen was an eighteenth-generation master who debated the classics. He became famous and was later given the title of official by the emperor.Unexpectedly, at this time, the Yuan family was exposed because his father, Yuan Pei, had covered up the assassination of Weng Gong by Fucheng.Yuan Shen was imprisoned and eventually recovered his innocence with the help of Cheng Shaoshang and Ling Buyi, but his future was ruined and he had to start all over again.