The original female lead of the novel. She comes from a very poor rural village with seven older sisters and one younger brother. In her previous life, she married a fifty-year-old bachelor to gather a betrothal gift for her brother and was beaten to death. In this life, she studied hard, severed ties with her parasitic relatives, and came to Beijing to become a junior college student studying clinical medicine. She works as a waitress at a noodle shop. She knows she is in a novel and plans to use Fang Zhen to find her destined husband, Lu An. She is shocked to learn Nan Yue is not divorced as the story predicted.