A young man from a poor family raised by his widowed mother. He was one of the few people who treated Lin Qiao'er well when she was a child, scaring off kids who threw stones at her. When Lin Qiao'er was fifteen, he promised under the old locust tree that he liked her and would marry her after getting into university. He accepted her financial help, food, and gifts for years. However, he later chose Lin Xiuyu and admitted he no longer liked Lin Qiao'er. He borrowed twenty yuan from Lin Qiao'er when his mother was sick and wrote an IOU, thinking she would never ask for it back.
