Female protagonist. A delicate, pampered beauty from a noble family in the south. She traveled north with her grandfather during wartime refugee flight. After her grandfather died and bandits attacked their carriage, she wandered lost in remote mountains and woods for days, surviving on wild grass and stream water. She collapsed from exhaustion at a village and was saved by Grandma Ling. She is naive about the world, with fair skin like congealed cream, a slender waist, and cherry-red lips. She calls Ling Yue 'Elder Brother Ling' and stays with him to secure food and shelter.
