Supervising Censor Chen Wenkang, an elderly official known for his integrity and clean governance. He has an annual salary of just over eighty taels and donated forty taels making him the lowest donor. He is upright and unyielding fearless in the face of authority. In the original novel The Power Minister he was allied with the protagonist Shen Yuan to uncover the Second Prince crimes but his entire family was mysteriously killed overnight. He was initially defiant when his name was called as the lowest donor but was later moved by Xie Chengze act of donating even less to save him from the six-month salary penalty.
