The Prime Minister's wife, mother of Xue Run. She is impatient and scornful of Ling Zhenli's courtesan background but also weeps for her deceased daughter. She guided Ling Zhenli through training to impersonate Xue Run and instructed her to pretend to be pure and untainted at the Eastern Palace. She hired teachers to train Ling Zhenli in the arts Xue Run had learned.
