The elderly patriarch of the Cui family. He has two sons from his first wife—the eldest died on the battlefield and the second, Cui Pingzhou, was crippled in battle. His first wife died from grief. He remarried Mei Baoying who brought a stepson. He is stubborn and prideful, refusing to break an old promise to marry Gu Qingchuan to Duoduo. He had Duoduo's art troupe documents retracted.
