Ning Xi's childhood sweetheart from the original story. The original Ning Xi reconnected with him after marrying Jiang Chengbei, fell madly in love, and attempted suicide to get a divorce. After divorcing Jiang Chengbei, she married Gu Mingze immediately. He later used the Ning family's capital to bribe his way up the ranks and treated Ning Xi as a means of bribery, demanding she sleep with different men. He had her tortured to death and refused to let her be buried in his family's ancestral grave.
