The female protagonist, 15 years old, who has just reached her hair-pinning ceremony. She is beautiful with fair complexion and willow-leaf eyebrows, described as fresh and radiant. Her parents have died, leaving her to live alone in Jiang Family Village. She is not particularly skilled at farm work but manages her two-acre plot. She saved about one tael from embroidery work and has another eight to nine taels in savings and jewelry left by her parents. She is determined, smart, and refuses to be bullied by her greedy relatives. She decides to buy a man to live with as protection against her uncle's family.
