The protagonist, a young girl born to a father who remarried after her birth mother died. She was the only laborer in her stepmother's family besides her father, worked as a firewood chopper, and was sold by her stepmother Lü Erniang after her father's death. She was purchased by Steward Xu and assigned to work as a fire-tending maid in the main kitchen courtyard of a grand mansion. She is resilient, hardworking, and has learned to endure hardship without crying.
