Male character, Sheng An's biological father. He is a dark, thin, slightly hunched middle-aged man. He was an orphan raised on charity who married into the Sheng Family as a live-in son-in-law. After marriage he became lazy and gluttonous. His wife (Sheng An's birth mother) died in difficult childbirth. He had an affair with Widow Liu, remarried into the Liu Family, and became stepfather to Liu Huazhi. He abandoned his nursing daughter and dotes excessively on his stepdaughter while ignoring his biological daughter.
