Bei Qinghuan's father, a factory director who was in his thirties when he married Yan Guifang. He had been a widower for two years with two children from his first marriage. He was very fond of Yan Guifang and withstood family pressure to allow her to keep her pregnancy despite his eldest son Bei Qingming's opposition. He passed away, and after his death, the two families stopped visiting each other.
