Female protagonist, a widow who has lived in the countryside for five years. She has had trouble remembering people's faces since childhood. She works as a laborer at a construction site in town to pay back a fifty-yuan debt. She found and raised Zhaozhao, who she considers her closest family. She has a thunderous temper and is fiercely protective of her son. She married Qin Huai five winters ago to save his life, but he left the morning after their wedding, leaving her to endure years of gossip and insults.
