The sovereign of the nation of Nanjing who colluded with the Youzhou Sima in a plot against Jiang Yanzhi and the Fourth Princess. He instructed the Sima that if Jiang Yanzhi's woman could not be captured alive, she should be destroyed as well. He provided the Sima with a secret potion for self-destruction, which the Sima swallowed after biting his tongue. The King of Nanjing also colluded with river bandits to plunder merchant ships. Jiang Yanzhi suspected that the true nature of the strange fragrance from the Sima's explosion could only be discovered through interrogating the King of Nanjing.
