Shěn Liàn 沈鍊 (1507–1557), zì Chúnfǔ 純甫, hào Qīngxiá 青霞, posthumous shì Zhōngmǐn 忠愍, of Kuàijī 會稽 (Shàoxīng, Zhèjiāng). Took the jìnshì in Jiājìng 17 (1538); appointed Lìyáng zhīxiàn; later Jǐnyīwèi jīnglì. He memorialized on frontier affairs and impeached Yán Sōng; for this he was tíngzhàng and exiled to Wèizhōu at the Datong frontier. He was framed by Yán Sōng’s faction-member Lù Kǎi 路楷 into the Wèizhōu yāorén Yán Hào witchcraft case and publicly executed in 1557 — the textbook example of Yán Sōng-era judicial murder by sectarian-religious accusation. Posthumously Guānglù shǎoqīng at the start of Lóngqìng and given the shì Zhōngmǐn in Wànlì. His writings were confiscated and burnt at execution, with prohibition on hidden duplicates; the surviving Qīngxiá jí KR4e0197 was reconstructed by his son Shěn Xiāng 沈襄 from oral memory and the Wǔ Chóngwén preserved fùběn. CBDB 34713 gives 1497 as birth-year; Míngshǐ j. 209 and standard references give 1507, followed here.