Qu Ling's maternal grandfather, a Tanhua (third-place imperial examination graduate). He was charming and elegant, and a classmate of the Princess's father. He married Qu Ling's maternal grandmother against everyone's objections. He had no interest in official career and focused solely on raising his daughter. He liquidated all family estates over eight years into Qu Ling's mother's dowry before dying when Xu Zhaoyue was thirteen.
