The wife of Lin Mingyuan. She is intelligent and observant, correctly deducing the romantic history between Liu Ling and Lin Lusheng. She devised the detailed plan for Liu Ling to pretend to go insane at the Zhang household as a strategy to force a divorce. She helped Liu Ling return home and pretended to have coincidentally saved her from the river. She is described as smart and well-read, drawing inspiration from stories about useless husbands and evil mothers-in-law.