Female protagonist, a woman from Northeast China who was abandoned by her parents since childhood and raised by her grandmother. She became the child bride of Lin Shuping and married him at nineteen under family pressure. After giving birth to their daughter Lin Xiao, she was driven out by her harsh mother-in-law. She traveled to Shencheng with her daughter to find her husband, who had left for the city after being admitted to university. She experienced a premonitory vision of a tragic future and resolved to change her fate. She is stubborn, strong-willed, and fiercely protective of her daughter.
