The tragic central figure of the Lin Family subplot. She was shockingly thin with a sallow complexion. She worked day and night yet her daughter still went hungry. Her husband had an affair with her elder sister-in-law with the mother-in-law's support. She was nearly beaten to death when she protested. The Old Madam tried to give her daughter to General Ding. In utter despair, she drugged her family with sleeping powder, set fire to their house, wrote a divorce agreement with her husband's fingerprint, and died holding her daughter.
