The boy who was raised as the eldest son of the Gu family but was actually switched at birth. He was named by Gu Tongsheng, meaning Wind Sleep, with the hope he would inherit his father's ambition. He received all the family's resources and sacrifices for his education while his sisters Gu Wangqing and Gu Shuyan had to work in the fields. When he learned the truth about being switched, he returned to the Li family in the capital but callously sold the ancestral home before leaving, leaving his two younger sisters with nothing. Gu Qingyan held deep resentment toward him for his heartless actions.
