Carlton Bao

Carlton Bao is one of the main characters and a secondary protagonist in China Rich Girlfriend and Rich People Problems, the second and third books respectively of the Crazy Rich Asians series by Kevin Kwan.

He is the son of businessman Bao Gaoling and his wife Bao Shaoyen, as well as the paternal half-brother of Rachel Chu.

Appearance
Carlton is described as the looking very similar to Rachel, with Colette even noting that they looked like "long-lost twins."

Biographical Information
Carlton has a great love for sport cars and underground racing. He was gravely injured after a race ended up killing a girl who was in the car he was driving, and almost cost him his own life. After that, he decided to stay on the sidelines.

Personality
Carlton is described by Nick Young as being very "down-to-earth," despite Eleanor Young having claimed he was "terribly spoiled." He is considerate about others and cares deeply about his relationship with his family, especially Rachel.

Carlton also has a competitive streak to him and can be quite naive, agreeing to a car race with Richie Yang despite having already almost been killed by one before. However, he does not go through with it, and by the end of China Rich Girlfriend, Carlton has matured significantly.

Rachel Chu
Carlton has a close relationship with half-sister Rachel Chu, welcoming her into his family despite his mother's hatred of her.

Bao Shaoyen
Carlton has a close relationship with his mother Bao Shaoyen, who is very protective of him and covered up his near-fatal car crash from his father. However, they clashed over her treatment of his half-sister Rachel, who he was also close to. He even went so far to accuse her of poisoning Rachel, even though it was actually Roxanne, the assistant of his then-girlfriend Colette Bing.

Colette Bing
Through China Rich Girlfriend, he keeps an open relationship with Colette Bing. She was the one that convinces him to get to know his half-sister Rachel. After Colette's assistant Roxanne poisoned Rachel in an attempt to kill her, Carlton broke off his relationship with her.

In Rich People Problems, Colette has since moved on from Carlton and married a wealthy European nobleman, becoming the Countess of Palliser. Colette maliciously tells the parents of Carlton's new love interest Scheherazade Shang about how he had killed a girl in his car accident in an attempt to destroy his growing relationship with Scheherazade.

Scheherazade Shang
In Rich People Problems, he meets Nick’s eurasian cousin Scheherazade Shang, and he immediately starts trying to win her affection; although all the family assures him that it may be an impossible mission.

His relationship with her is almost ruined when Colette tell's Scheherezade's extremely protective parents about his car accident, however he manages to win her back through a "wildly romantic move"; serenading her while standing on top of a car.

In the epilogue of the book, it is hinted that he may propose to her soon, as Scheherazade caught the ceremonial bouquet of flowers at the end of the wedding of Goh Peik Lin and Alistair Cheng.